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    Delhi calls for Calendar Girls' Cole

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    Nigel Cole is to direct a film based on the Indian call centre phenomenon, which has seen a slew of UK corporations opening customer service operations in Delhi, and then training Indian workers to talk to callers about British weather, cricket and soaps. The film, which has a working title ...

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    Delhi calls for Calendar Girls' Cole

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    Nigel Cole is to direct a film based on the Indian call centre phenomenon, which has seen a slew of UK corporations opening customer service operations in Delhi, and then training Indian workers to talk to callers about British weather, cricket and soaps. The film, which has a working title ...

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    Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...

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    Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...

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    Spice Factory finds Lost partner in US

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    US-based Alchemedia Entertainment and the UK's Spice Factory have partnered on supernatural horror movie Lost.The title is the latest Spice Factory project to be pumped through Darclight Films, the genre label of worldwide sales agent Arclight Films. Produced by Billy Dietrich, Jason Piette, Michael Cowan and Maxime Remillard, the picture ...

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    Top Spanish talent in LaZona

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...

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    Top Spanish talent in LaZona

    2003-05-21T04:05:00Z

    New Spanish production company LaZona Films, launched in January, has unveiled its first slate of films featuring some of the talent behind the biggest Spanish box office hits of recent years.With Or Without Love is to be written and directed by David Serrano, who scripted Spain's top grossing film last ...

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    DeAPlaneta, Mikado and Kramer launch Argentine outfit

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Spain's DeAPlaneta and Italy's Mikado, both backed by Italian publishing giant DeAgostini, have joined with veteran Argentinean producer Oscar Kramer to form new Argentina-based production company KDM films.With Kramer as president and CEO, KDM aims to make two or three Spanish-language films per year on budgets ranging from Euro 1m-4m. ...

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    DeAPlaneta, Mikado and Kramer launch Argentine outfit

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Spain's DeAPlaneta and Italy's Mikado, both backed by Italian publishing giant DeAgostini, have joined with veteran Argentinean producer Oscar Kramer to form new Argentina-based production company KDM films.With Kramer as president and CEO, KDM aims to make two or three Spanish-language films per year on budgets ranging from Euro 1m-4m. ...

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    Firth stars in Beyond's Dead Wait

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Bridget Jones's Diary star Colin Firth is to star in The Dead Wait for Beyond Films.Scheduled to start production early next year on location in South Africa, the project is to be directed by Russian Ark producer Jens Meurer, who directed 1999 Venice Black Panther documentary Public Enemy. The film ...

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    Firth stars in Beyond's Dead Wait

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Bridget Jones's Diary star Colin Firth is to star in The Dead Wait for Beyond Films.Scheduled to start production early next year on location in South Africa, the project is to be directed by Russian Ark producer Jens Meurer, who directed 1999 Venice Black Panther documentary Public Enemy. The film ...

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    Summit dons Maybury's Jacket

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has added The Jacket, a new film from Mandalay Pictures to its sales slate. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the lead role of the drama which is the first US film from the UK's John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).A co-production between Mandalay and Section Eight, ...

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    Summit dons Maybury's Jacket

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has added The Jacket, a new film from Mandalay Pictures to its sales slate. Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in the lead role of the drama which is the first US film from the UK's John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).A co-production between Mandalay and Section Eight, ...

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    Nicole Kidman graces von Trier with two more

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    After some prompting from Lars von Trier, Nicole Kidman confirmed yesterday in Cannes that she will star in his next two films, reprising the role of Grace, the heroine of competition entry Dogville. Von Trier revealed also that the third film in his U.S.A. trilogy - all of which will ...

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    Nicole Kidman graces von Trier with two more

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    After some prompting from Lars von Trier, Nicole Kidman confirmed yesterday in Cannes that she will star in his next two films, reprising the role of Grace, the heroine of competition entry Dogville. Von Trier revealed also that the third film in his U.S.A. trilogy - all of which will ...

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    Walden Media journeys to Verne, Shakespeare

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Cary Granat's Walden Media, the backer of James Cameron's out-of-competition Cannes screener Ghosts Of The Abyss, is to produce a big-budget 3-D movie of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well as a new family film of Shakespeare's As You Like It.Walden will next go into ...

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    Walden Media journeys to Verne, Shakespeare

    2003-05-20T04:05:00Z

    Cary Granat's Walden Media, the backer of James Cameron's out-of-competition Cannes screener Ghosts Of The Abyss, is to produce a big-budget 3-D movie of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth as well as a new family film of Shakespeare's As You Like It.Walden will next go into ...

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    Rainstorm, Uncharted Territory team for Juggernaut

    2003-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Steven Kaplan, Gregg Daniel and Richard Katz's fledgling LA-based production company Rainstorm Entertainment is teaming up with Volker Engel and Marc Weigert's Uncharted Territory on the second world war drama Juggernaut.The film concerns the fate of two brothers and is set in the North African desert as the Allies battle ...

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    Trish Lake getting busy in Australia

    2003-05-19T00:00:00Z

    With buzz building back home on her first credit, the unfinished Gettin' Square, Queensland-based producer Trish Lake is at Cannes with three projects. The most advanced is The Digger, which is being written by the mother/son/stepfather team of Jan Bradnam, Ashley Bradnam and Terry McCann.Babe director and co-writer Chris Noonan ...

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    Icelandic films back on track

    2003-05-19T00:00:00Z

    After almost a year without funding for local films, a restructured Icelandic Film Centre has been put back into business by the new managing director Laufey Gudjonsdottir. The first projects should be getting backing from mid-June. 'We have just appointed the new film commissioners and the first projects arrived just ...