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Home entertainment to drive growth of film industry
The global film business,driven by an expanding home entertainment sector, is set for annual growth of7.5% over the next five years. By 2008 it will be worth $108bn, compared with$75bn last year, according to consultancy and research firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PWC) in its annual Global Entertainment & Media Outlook (2004-2008).The growth that ...
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Telespan 2000 readies Other Side Of The Bed sequel
Independent production company Telespan 2000, headed byTomas Cimadevilla, has confirmed it is to go ahead with the sequel to TheOther Side of The Bed (El Otro Lado de La Cama).The original film was the highest-grossing Spanish film of2002, netting $15.1m at the box office and headlining Paz Vega amidst anensemble ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...
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UK Production Listings - June 29
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS PRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATEFACTORY(Warner Bros) Dir: Tim Burton. Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore.Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1932 562 611DIZZY HEIGHTS(Theta Films [South Africa], Samson Films [Eire]) Budget: $6m. Backer/int'lsales: Vine International. Romantic comedy. What do ...
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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Asian CGI producer unveils US production deals
GDC Entertainment, the content development arm of Hong Kongand Singapore-based GDC Holdings, announced three collaborative ventures atFilMart on Friday.The company, which produces CGI content at its studio inShenzhen, China, has signed an agreement with LA-based producer, EnteraktionStudios, to co-produce three original CGI features with a combined budget ofUS$60m.The three features ...
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Greenpoint Media steps in to finance African American family saga Cherrys
Greenpoint Media is to produceand finance the family drama Cherrys,which is being directed by Harry Knapp and will star Eartha Kitt, LynnWhitfield and Jurnee Smollett.The multi-generational story is based on a screenplay by DeborahGoodwin about the coming of age of an African-American teenager and the familysecrets she uncovers in the ...
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Winslet drops out of Woody Allen project
Kate Winslet has dropped out of the new Woody Allen projectwhich is shooting in London, it was confirmed today (June 25).Winslet, who has had a busy schedule recently, reportedlywanted to spend more time with her family.A new female lead is expected to be announced on Monday.Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily ...
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FilMart News: Three...Extremes unites top Asian talent
Hong Kong's ApplausePictures unveiled its mouthwatering contribution to the second instalment ofhorror omnibus Three at Filmart on Thursday. Entitled Dumplings,the horror-thriller brings together some of the territory's top creative talentincluding director Fruit Chan, producer Peter Ho-sun Chan and award-winningcinematographer Christopher Doyle.Scripted by Lilian Lee (FarewellMy Concubine), the film is a ...
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Edukators star signs for World War II feature
Julia Jentsch, lead actress in HansWeingartner's Cannes competition film The Edukators, has been cast asthe German resistance figure Sophie Scholl in Marc Rothemund's World War IIdrama Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl - The Last Days)which began shooting in Munich on June 12.The screenplay for the World War ...
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FilMart News Shanghai Media Group, Jade Dynasty team for animated Monkey
Hong Kong comic book publisher Jade Dynasty Publications isjoining forces with Shanghai Media Group (SMG) to co-produce an animatedfeature, Monkey King, based on one of its best-selling comics.The $2.4m (RMB20m) film will be produced by teams of animatorsin Hong Kong and China with completion scheduled for early 2006. SMG, one ...
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Scottish Screen chief McIntyre quits
Steve McIntyre has quit as chief executive of ScottishScreen, the funding body confirmed on Thursday.McIntyre has said he does not want his contract renewed whenit expires at the end of August. The body, which administers National Lotteryfunding, will start the search for his replacement next week, offeringcandidates a three-year contract.Scottish ...
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Virgo's Lie is hot but Egoyan's Love is cooler
Summer is always the busiest season forfilm production. In Canada, where the summer is as short as it is hot, thatmakes it busier than most. In terms of heat, the hottest production by far isClement Virgo's new film, Lie With Me,which started shooting in Toronto on June 16.Virgo co-wrote the ...
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Russian mega-production moves to Rome
Russian producer Sergey Gribkov is close to completing a bigbudget spy-action blockbuster called Countdown,set to be one of the most ambitious films ever made in Russia.Directed by Evgeniy Lavrentiev (Swindle, Dream On), the multi-million dollar picture has beenshooting for 26 weeks in and around Moscow, the Caucasus and Georgia. Theproduction ...
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Cinema Expo goes medieval over BVI's King Arthur
Buena Vista International's King Arthur was a last-minute addition to thescreening programme at the Cinema Expo exhibition conference in Amsterdam today(Wednesday).The studio only decided to screen the film in Amsterdam on Tuesdaynight, said BVI president Mark Zoradi, and digital files of the film werecarried overnight by hand from Los Angeles. ...
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Mattison to star with Maguire, Assante in The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is to star inand produce the romantic comedy The Third Wish, which is being directed by Shelley Jensen and hasbegun production in Los Angeles and San Francisco.Mattison wrote thescreenplay about a bookstore clerk whose life is transformed when she finds afirst edition copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.Sean ...
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UIP steals show at Cinema Expo
Cinema Expo, the annualtrade show and conference for the exhibition industry in Europe, kicked off onMonday (June 21) with a high profile presence from United InternationalPictures (UIP), and some tentative optimism about the rollout of digital cinema.Yesterday was dubbed"UIP day" by Cinema Expo and Jeffrey Katzenberg's attendancecertainly upped the executive ...
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CANADA Production Listings - June 22 2004
CANADA PRODUCTION LISTINGS - June 22PRE-PRODUCTIONEVE& THE FIREHORSE(Golden Horse Productions) Budget: C$1.5m. Backers:Telefilm Canada, B.C. Film, Harold Greenberg Fund, CanWest Fund. Dist: MongrelMedia (Can). Family Drama. A young Chinese-Canadian girl struggles tounderstand the death of her grandmother and her older sister's conversion toChristianity. Exec prod: Erik Paulsson Prod: Paulsson, Shan ...
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Danish film-makers win multi-million backing
The Danish Film Institute has confirmed backing for sevennew Danish features, several of which are already in post-production.Among the films previously announced are Henrik Ruben Genzand Fine & Mellow's Chinaman, DagurKari and Nimbus Film's Grown Up People (Voksne Mennesker) and veteran Henning Carlsen's Fly BirdieFly (Springet), a co-production between Dagmar ...