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Boy band impresario sets up US family film company
N SYNC and Backstreet Boysimpresario Louis J Pearlman has teamed up with Steve Austin's TagEntertainment to form Tag Studios, a theatrical film and television productioncompany that will focus on family oriented output with a strong musicalinfluence. Pearlman and Austin each have an equal equity share in theenterprise and plan an ...
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Telefilm Canada tightens funding screws
The number ofCanadian film production companies that can qualify for public box officesubsidies is being dramatically reduced under new guidelines just issued byTelefilm Canada.Canada'sprincipal film funding agency announced yesterday that as many as 15 productioncompanies will be eliminated from next year's roster of those receiving"performance envelope funding" for their English-language ...
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Van Warmerdam begins Grimm shoot
Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam has begun filming Grimm, a fairytale-inspired tale of a young couple who travel to Spain for a fresh start in life. The picture shoots for ten weeks in Spain, Germany and The Netherlands. World sales are by Fortissimo Film Sales.Grimm, which was also written by ...
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Australia set to attract more international productions
Sydney is set to get another major film and TV studio, including the country's biggest single soundstage.A development application has been lodged with the local Sutherland Council for the construction of four film and two television studios within an existing industrial estate in the southern Sydney suburb of Kurnell. "This ...
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UK power-directors Daldry, Winterbottom team with Rudin
Top UK directors Stephen Daldry and Michael Winterbottom have boarded pictures for Scott Rudin, the New York-based producer who is one of Paramount Pictures' chief suppliers as well as a force in US theatre.Daldry, who directed this season's highly touted awards contender The Hours for Rudin, has taken over from ...
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Studio Hamburg World Wide Pictures lines up two new projects
The Studio Hamburg's WorldWide Pictures (WWP) fund has lined up another two potential projects - Colour Me Kubrick and Dudes - to back after its first production, John Irvin's The Great Ceili War, wrapped on the Isle of Man last week on December 4.WWP has optioned the $7m satirical comedy ...
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Miramax Italia increases its involvement in local production
American actor Breckin Meyer will be the voice of Pinocchio in the US version of Roberto Benigni's Italian blockbuster, to be released in North America on December 25th. Meyer - whose credits include Clueless, Rat Race and The Insider - joins Glenn Close, who will dub the Blue Fairy - ...
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Spice Factory buys into Arclight
Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films has confirmed that the UK-based production company Spice Factory has taken an equity stake in the six-month-old company which, until now, has been owned by Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis. This expands on the first-look deal Arclight already had for all Spice Factory's output."I am ...
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Spanish producer duo prepare two new features
Pedro Costa and Enrique Cerezo, the co-producers behind Eduard Cortes' Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) and last year's Spanish nomination to the foreign language Oscar, Mad Love (Juana La Loca), are prepping two new feature films, including Cortes' next project.Cortes and Nobody's Life co-scripter Piti Espanol are currently writing ...
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Italian producers seek their fortunes in the stars
If many upcoming Italian films share one thing in common, it's that a surprising number of them are fronted by international stars.Gianni Amelio's reputation as one of Italy's top directors - he was nominated for an Oscar for Open Doors - may have helped attract the attention of much sought-after ...
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Bollywood braces itself for most expensive Indian film yet
Devdas producer Bharat Shah has joined forces with director Ram Gopal Varma to make a film with acting superstar Amitabh Bachchan that will be the most expensive ever made in Bollywood.The US$13m film is billed as an international political thriller that will be shot in five countries, including India and ...
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Phillip Noyce returns to Australia for Dirt Music
Expatriate Australian Phillip Noyce is planning to do more filmmaking in his home country. Two years after returning from Hollywood to make Rabbit-Proof Fence, Noyce has put together a team to adapt the novel Dirt Music by Tim Winton, with a possible starring role for Nicole Kidman. According to local ...
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CGI-heavy fantasy Sumuru wraps in South Africa
Production has just wrapped on Sumuru, a fantasy boasting the highest use of CGI ever for a feature produced in South Africa, which has been shooting for the past six weeks in and around Johannesburg. The film is produced by Brigid Olen and Marlow De Mardt of DO Productions, Harry ...
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Denmark's Zentropa returns to quality porn
Denmark's mavericks at Zentropa are about to revive their ambitions of making quality porn for women. The new $135,000 (DKK1m) film, All About Anna will, however, be produced through Innocent Pictures, which replaced Zentropa's Puzzy Power label in 2001. Now headed by CEO Claus Sorensen and creative producer Nicolas Barbano, ...
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UK shooting costs come under fire
UK support body the Film Council is aiming to slash production costs under a code of practice for films budgeted at $3.1m - $6.2m (£2m-£4m). Producers body PACT and crews union BECTU are already negotiating an agreement based on the code, which, coupled with other proposals in the Council's report, ...
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Argentinian production levels leap 50% - despite economic crisis
Argentina is producing an astonishing number of films, despite the country experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history. According to Bernardo Bergeret, marketing director of Argentinian film institute (INCAA), so far there have been 156 feature films in various phases of production this year, 50% more than in 2001. ...
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Danish production companies unite for $13m, five-feature slate
Two Danish production outfits Easy Film and ASA Film have joined forces to produce their future projects in collaboration. The companies have secured backing from distributor Scanbox for the development of five new features, of which they aim to produce two a year. Scanbox takes Scandinavian rights and will distribute ...
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Germany's Telepool boards Santa Claus feature
German licence trader Telepool has picked up German rights to the live-action family entertainment film The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus which is set to begin shooting next year. Based on a novel by The Wizard Of Oz writer L Frank Baum, the story tells how Young Claus ...
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Two more low budget features get underway in Ireland
A further two low budget features started shooting in Dublin last week, bringing to seven the total of low budget films shot or shooting in Ireland so far this year. The two latest additions to the low budget reanimation of Ireland's production sector are Fatface Films' Halo Effect and Zanzibar ...
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Danish animation gets French world premiere
Danish animator Jannik Hastrup will give his new feature-length animated film, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), its world premiere in France and Benelux on Dec18 as L'enfant Qui Voulait Etre Un Ours. French distributor Gebeka will release it on 100 screens ...