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Rona to spearhead production at ramped up Rogue
Rogue Pictures has hired former Dimension Filmsco-president Andrew Rona (pictured) as president of production as part of an aggressivebid to increase the filmmaking slate at Universal's genre offshoot.Rona will report directly to Rogue Pictures president David Lindeand will oversee production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution on thegenre division's burgeoning slate, which ...
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Sienna Miller signs for Golconda's Camille
Golconda Films, the London-based production and financing company headed by Gregory Mackenzie and Brett Walsh, has recruited rising British actress Sienna Miller to star in its forthcoming dark comedy, Camille. Harvey Keitel is also attached to the project, to be exec-produced by Charles Finch. The UK-Canadian co-production is in advanced ...
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Two Bollywood movies set to shoot in New York
Two Indian projectsfeaturing Bollywood superstars are gearing up for autumn shoots with thefinancial support of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Made In NY tax creditinitiative. Shirish Kunder's romanticcomedy Jaaneman stars megastarSalman Khan with Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar and is being produced byNadiawala Grandson Entertainment, which plans to launch a US ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book cranks up in The Hague
Paul Verhoeven's longawaited WWII thriller Blackbook starts shooting this week (Aug 31)in The Hague in the Netherlands.The Dutch/German/Englishlanguage production will shoot for 76 days in both The Hague and Germany'sStudio Babelsberg. The $20m wartime thriller isthe most expensive pre-dominantly Dutch language production ever made and tellsthe story of a German ...
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Lambert signs on for vampire western Midnight
Mary Lambert has signed onto direct the vampire-western High Midnight for Beverly Hills-based production company TreasureEntertainment.Denis Faye's screenplaycentres on a down-at-heel sheriff who is forced to team up with a vampirehunter to stop an undead force from consuming a frontier town in 1892 NewMexico.Treasure co-chairman andchief operating officer Mark Heidelberger, ...
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Blitz makes fictional debut with Rocket Science
Los Angeles-basedproduction company Duly Noted has begun filming in Baltimore on the romanticcomedy Rocket Science,Jeff Blitz's fictional follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound.Rocket Science chronicles an awkward teenager's efforts to courtthe apple of his eye by joining the high school debating team.The cast ofmostly newcomers includes Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, ...
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California ponders $50m annual incentive scheme
California legislators are preparing to debate a billdesigned to stem the tide of runaway productions and help restore the notional"Hollywood" to its rightful home.The move follows years of vocal agitation by Californian industryworkers troubled by the exodus of productions to more cost-effective shootinglocations such as those in Canada, Eastern Europe ...
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Weinsteins press Panic button
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have added another title to their bulgingWeinstein Company slate, optioning film rights to Jeff Abbott's paranoiathriller novel Panic,which goes out in US bookshops today [18].Abbott's story centres on Evan Casher, a documentaryfilmmaker who returns home to discover his mother's murdered body and quicklylearns that everything he ...
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Butler spearheads sword-and-sandal war epic for Warner
Gerard Butler (pictured) will star in Warner Bros'adaptation of 300, a graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) that recounts one ofancient Greece's best-known military battles. Warner, returning to the sword-and-sandal action-adventure genre thatyielded blockbuster results at the global box office with Troy but more mixed fortunes with Alexander, plans ...
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Flying Scotsman takes off in Glasgow
Shooting has begun onlocation in Glasgow on The Flying Scotsman, the feature debut of TVveteran Douglas Mackinnon.Thierry Wase-Bailey's newsales outfit Celsius has taken on international sales for the film, which starsJohnny Lee Miller (Melinda and Melinda), with Billy Boyd (The Lord ofthe Rings trilogy), Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy) and ...
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London hosts shoot of Pfeiffer/Heckerling project
Principal photography isunderway in London on Amy Heckerling's $27m romantic comedy I Could Never BeYour Woman starring MichellePfeiffer.Paul Rudd and Tracey Ullmanalso star in the story of a successful businesswoman who encounters nothing butstress in her love life.Fred Willard and Mel Smithalso feature in the cast and there are cameos ...
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UK's Tucker to direct New Line's Golden Compass
Anand Tucker is in talks with New Line to direct The GoldenCompass, the firstinstalment of Philip Pullman's children's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.According to sources a formal offer has been sent out to Tucker,however his participation had not been confirmed at time of writing.If the deal goes ahead this will ...
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Grosvenor Films nears thriller Messages wrap
Grosvenor Films wraps itsnew £1.2m supernatural thriller Messageson August 7 in London.Thefilm, directed by David Fairman, tells the tale of pathologist Dr. RichardMurray who receives cryptic messages from his dead wife which enable him totrack down the identity of a serial killer.He eventually becomes a suspect after turning up at ...
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Barclay signs on for Suburban Mayhem
Emily Barclay, who came toattention via the critically acclaimed New Zealand film In My Father's Den,has been cast in the lead role of a conniving single mother with murder on hermind in the Australian black comedy Suburban Mayhem.Playing her besotted boyfriendwill be Michael Dorman, who is named as one of ...
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Gonzo, Fuji TV and Mosaic Media pact for Afrosamurai
Samuel L Jackson will starin a live-action adaptation of Takashi Okazaki's Afrosamurai comic franchise that is being put together byJapanese teen animation company Gonzo KK, Fuji Television Network and LA-basedMosaic Media Group.Mosaic's Charles Roven andAlex Gartner are producing the project and The Firm's Eli Selden and Julie Yornwill serve as ...
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Grosvenor Park weighs in behind Highlander trilogy
The new trilogy of Highlander films being prepared byDavis-Panzer Productions and Sequence Films are to use a "one-stop"financing structure created by Grosvenor Park.Highlander V,budgeted between $12-$14m, is due to start shooting in Lithuania inOctober. Although there will be some Lithuanian backing, Grosvenor Park is effectively fully financing theproject. Bret Leonard ...
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Da Vinci Code set to join Maltese influx
The Malta FilmCommission Act, which came into force on July 15, has already attracted a raftof high-profile international films to the island, led by Steven Spielberg's Munichand now a confirmed one-week shoot for The Da Vinci Code thisNovember.Under the terms of theAct, the Malta Film Commission is empowered to grant ...
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Lions Gate announces second family film Sylvester
Lions GateFamily Entertainment (LGFE) has announced its second feature film project Sylvester, based on the late William Steig'saward-winning children's book "Sylvester And The Magic Pebble".LGFE acquiredthe rights from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and will begindevelopment immediately on the story of a donkey that finds a magic pebble.'To havethis much ...
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UK Film Council boss responds to 'unrealistic' Kuhn speech
UK FilmCouncil chief executive John Woodward has written a strongly worded letter toMichael Kuhn following the ex-Polygram Filmed Entertainment boss' speech to UKproducer's association, PACT. In his Mayspeech, titled 'UK Film Crisis And What Can Be Done', Kuhn argued that Britishproducers currently face the "bleakest prospects" since the mid-1980s.In ...