All Production articles – Page 632
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NewsThe Flying Guillotine gets new director and start date
The Flying Guillotine, a film produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan and handled by his We Distribution, has changed director from Teddy Chen (Bodyguards and Assassin) to Andrew Lau Wai-keung (Infernal Affairs).
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NewsKaasan Mom’s Life wins Shanghai’s Asian New Talent Award
Syoutarou Kobayasi’s Japanese film tells the story of a cartoonist’s wife; other winners include Return Ticket and Birth Right
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NewsHolliday Grainger cast in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations
Number 9 Films production also stars Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter; starts shooting in the UK on October 10
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NewsJapan launches co-production subsidy scheme
Japan’s first subsidy aimed at boosting foreign co-productions is worth up to $625,000 to overseas projects with Japanese financial and creative involvement
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
France’s Holly Motors, Italy’s Il Rosso E Il Blu and German production Was Weg Is, Is Weg (What’s Gone Is Gone) are among the new projects making it onto Screenbase this week
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NewsBill Duke joins Freaky Deaky for director Charles Matthau
The Elmore Leonard crime caper also stars Sienna Miller, William H Macy, Brendan Fraser and Matt Dillon. Duke will play the role of homicide detective Wendell Robinson.
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FeaturesTaking a risk on doc success
The profile of feature documentaries is higher than ever. But with public funding drying up and broadcasters under commercial pressure, financing them has never been so challenging
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NewsEuropean Commissioner proposes guarantee fund for cultural and creative industries
Androulla Vassiliou wants to work with the European Investment Bank to provide guarantees to banks for loans to cultural and creative industries
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Comment2011: A Golden Awards Season
Who said prestige film-making was dead in Hollywood? After The King’s Speech and Black Swan, studios are racing back into the business of serious stories and ambitious talent. Thank heavens.
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NewsDebra Hayward to launch Monumental Pictures
Working Title’s President of UK Production will officially step down in September; new outfit will have first-look deal with the company
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NewsScreen Directors Guild of Ireland, Irish Film Institute launch Directors in Dialogue
Participants include director Costa Gavras
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NewsTarsem commences shoot on Relativity’s Snow White
FilmNation handled international sales on the film in Cannes, where it was one of a handful of must-have $100m projects in a resurgent marketplace.
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NewsFernando Meirelles’ 360 first English language production to tap Austrian incentive
The €11m project shot in Austria last month
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UTV acquires rights to best-selling novel Chanakya’s Chant
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures has acquired rights to Ashwin Sanghi’s best-selling novel Chanakya’s Chant, which will be adapted into a feature film by the studio.
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NewsRaindance and Direct Line team up to launch 40 Seconds Straight competition
Winner will be screened at the Raindance Film Festival
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NewsMPCA, SPWA play Assassination Games with Van Damme
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions takes worldwide media rights to the hitman story, the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme collaboration with Brad Krevoy and ambitious Los Angeles-based MPCA.
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NewsColin Brown steps down as British Film Commissioner
Division recently moved from UK Film Council to Film London.
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NewsSchumacher, Spielhoff promoted as Haslam leaves HanWay
Following CEO Tim Haslam’s departure from HanWay Films last week, company Chairman Jeremy Thomas has announced two senior appointments at the London-based sales company.
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NewsGood Pitch Europe includes new projects from Woolcock, Anderson
The 2011 Good Pitch Europe has announced the projects selected for its October event dedicated to supporting socially conscious documentaries.
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Matt Taabu developing first feature King Of Flies
UK director Matt Taabu, whose short film Threads won the best film award at the Rob Knox Film Festival in London this weekend, is developing his first feature, King Of Flies (working title).