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Film students dupe Czech public for documentary
A group of students at Prague's FAMU film academy have pulled off one of the most audacious stunts in the country's short history. The hundreds of people who made the journey to the Prague suburb of Letnany for the grand opening of giant new superstore were outraged when they discovered ...
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Prague's Stillking plans English-language Moscow hostage feature
Acclaimed Czech commercials director Ivan Zacharias has signed onto an original English-language feature about last year's Moscow hostage crisis titled Russian Theatre, Prague's Stillking Films has announced.It is the first foray into original production announced by Stillking, a leading Prague production services company. The firm has slated the filming of ...
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Zelezny sacked from Czech broadcaster TV Nova
Czech broadcaster TV Nova sacked it director Vladimir Zelezny on Wednesday. Zelezny is charged with causing the Czech government $355m in damages by breaking Nova's contract with cosmetics heir Ron Lauder's Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in 1999. Hours later, a Swedish court of appeal issued the final verdict in ...
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Paramount's Prince heads for Prague
Paramount is joining the Prague production influx with romantic comedy The Prince and the Freshman starring Julia Stiles and directed by Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Rambling Rose). The film has received the green light and will begin production in the Czech capital in June, Prague sources told Screendaily.Paramount joins a ...
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Oscar winning Czech director returns with Bottles
Oscar-winning director of Kolya,and Dark Blue World and Czech Republic box office record holder, Jan Sverak has announced his return to directing after an absence of nearly two years. Dispelling rumours that his next project would be a horror film, Sverak said his latest project would be Returnable Bottles, a ...
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Gilliam heads to Prague for Grimm shoot
Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm has received the final go-ahead for a shoot in Prague, with the gothic fantasy set to start a 17-week schedule at the end of June and wrap in late October. Producers are currently in negotiation with Nicole Kidman for a small part in the film, sources ...
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Czech comedy laughs all the way to the bank
Pupendo, the new comedy from Czech director Jan Hrebejk is on course to challenge the country's local box-office crown.Czech distributor Falcon and production house Total HelpArt T.H.A. are celebrating the success of Pupendo, the latest effort from Jan Hrebejk (Cosy Dens, Divided We Fall), which appears ready to top Jan ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils first films
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) has unveiled its preliminary programme.Among the slate of films to screen in the main competition will be two of this year's local hits, Jan Hrebejk's Pupendo (pictured) and Juraj Nvota's Czech-Slovak co-production Cruel Joys. The Festival has also announced it will honour ...
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Western productions head to the east
With fully-booked studios in Prague, Cold Mountain in Romania, and Hungary and Russia making steps to woo foreign investment, Eastern Europe is becoming an increasingly desirable location.Foreign filmmaking in Prague is going strong, despite fears of a post-boom hangover following the heady days of 2001, when three US studio shoots ...
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Barrandov to build new stage - even without investor
Barrandov Studios plans to go ahead with a new 4,000 square meter stage for its Prague film complex, despite the news that owner Moravia Steel is no longer seeking an investor.The announcement of the cancelled sale sparked concern in the local film industry, but it's business as usual at Barrandov, ...
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Location Prague attracts two new US productions
Two US studio films, Brothers Grimm and First Daughter are close to confirming a shoot in the Czech Republic, joining a spate of other planned location shoots, according to sources in Prague. MGM and Miramax are expected to give the go-ahead to Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm for a Prague ...
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Barrandov Studios no longer for sale
Prague's Barrandov Studios owner Moravia Steel announced last week that after a drawn out sale process that has stretched on for nearly a half-decade, it is not selling the fabled film complex after all. A spokesperson for the steel maker told weekly Prague Business Journal that Moravia Steel has decided ...
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Dreamworks joins Prague production influx
Dreamworks SKG has gone into pre-production in Prague on an untitled teen comedy, formerly called The Ugly Americans. The European road trip movie represents the first shoot in the Czech capital for DreamWorks, previously the only major studio not to have shot a film in the Czech Republic, which has ...
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Devil wins top prizes at Czech Lions
Petr Zelenka's part-fiction musical documentary Year Of The Devil took top prizes at the Czech Lions, the Czech Film and Television Academy's awards for the best Czech films of 2002, at a ceremony in Prague over the weekend. Zelenka's black comedy won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director ...
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Co-productions boost Czech release slate
Nearly half of all Czech films scheduled for release during 2003 are co-productions with Slovakia, the Republic's erstwhile partner in the former Czechoslovakia.One of the few female Czech directors, Michaela Pavlátová (pictured), makes her debut with Lassitude In Two, a psychological drama based on a novel by Slovak author Tina ...
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Barrandov Studios to be re-nationalised'
Czech Barrandov Studios owner Moravia Steel has brushed off government suggestions that the Prague film complex might be re-nationalised, with Moravia Steel supervisory board chairman Tomas Chrenek saying he had only read about the suggestion in the press and had heard no official word from the government about the proposal. ...
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UK's Midnight Transfer brings post-production investment to Prague
Prague Studios has received financing from the UK's Midnight Transfer to expand the Czech studios to include a post-production facility.According to Prague Studios head Tomas Krejci Midnight Transfer, a post-production house with facilities in London's Soho and Twickenham Film Studios, plans to build editing facilities at the former aircraft ...
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Saturday, The Magdalene Sisters win Ljubljana prizes
Juan Villegas's Saturday and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters garnered top honours at the 13th annual Ljubljana International Film Festival, held in the Slovenian capital.Villegas, an Argentine, won the festival's top award, the Kingfisher Award, worth Euros5,000. The award is given to the most promising first- or second- time director. ...
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Karlovy Vary festival shows interest in buying hotel venue
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is reportedly interested in buying the Czech festival's main venue, the Western Bohemian spa town's communist-era Hotel Thermal.Built in the 1970s as a retreat for Party elites, the imposing socialist edifice has hosted the festival's administrative centre, along with the largest film screenings, for ...
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Van Helsing locates to Prague for winter shoot
Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing has entered pre-production in Prague, with principle photography on the monster thriller set to start in the Czech capital in January.Universal's latest creature feature, following Sommers directed blockbusters The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, is the first large US production to land in ...
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