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Columbia Spain prepares first local production shoot
Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, Sony Picture Entertainment's Spanish production unit, has announced its first project to shoot this summer: Tam Tam, a co-production with local outfit Zebra Producciones. Starring Paz Vega (pictured) (Sex And Lucia) and Santi Millan (Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health), principal photography starts August 4 in ...
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Whale Rider wins another audience prize - at Maui
Niki Caro's coming-of-age story Whale Rider won the Audience Award in the dramaticfeature category at the fourth Maui Film Festival at Wailea, which ended onSunday (Jun 15).Dana Brown's paean to surfing Step Into Liquid won the Audience Award for bestdocumentary.Most,Bobby Garabedian's story of a railroad bridge-tender who learns he is ...
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Humantias shortlist includes Pianist and Antwone Fisher
Jim Sheridan (In America) and Niki Caro (Whale Rider) are among 41 writers vying for $105,000in prize money in this year's 29th Humanitas Prize.Overall there are 41 entrants in seven categories encompassingfilm and television, from which seven theatrical screenwriters will contest thefeature film and Sundance feature film categories.Nominations in the ...
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Australian producers body to launch script market
The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) is to launch SPAAMart, an initiative aimed at presenting Australia's best scripts to potential production partners. SPAAMart will be part of the annual SPAA conference, which is being held from November 18 to 21 at Melbourne's new Centre for the Moving Image. ...
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Italian company produces French Crime
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Anna Mouglalis are currently working on the set of an Italian film, A Strange Crime, which is being shot entirely in French and produced by The Hundred Steps producer Fabrizio Mosca. The Euros 6m thriller is directed by acclaimed stage director Roberto Ando, whose first ...
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Odyssey to embark on world sales for Piccadilly Jim
Odyssey Entertainment is to handle worldwide sales on PG Wodehouse adaptation Piccadilly Jim for the UK's Mission Pictures, the companies announced on Wednesday.The period comedy of manners and mistaken identity sees Crush director John McKay directing a cast including Sam Rockwell from a script by Oscar winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. ...
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Blockbuster adds overseas rights to shopping list
Blockbuster Entertainment, which has just added The Opportunists to its haul of Sundance festival pick-ups, now wants to extend its aggressive acquisition policy to include all English-language rights to independent films that can be branded internationally as video store exclusives.The world's most extensive home entertainment rental chain, with approximately 6,900 ...
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South Korea, France re-open co-production treaty talks
South Korea and France have re-entered negotiations to draw up a co-production treaty, following the signing of an informal co-operation agreement at last year's Pusan International Film Festival between the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) and the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC).A full co-production agreement signed on the governmental level ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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Peter Sellers on hold as Rush returns to Australia
HBO Films has reportedly put The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on hold after star Geoffrey Rush was forced to return to Australia for personal reasons.The biopic was shooting at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but, according to UK reports, Rush took an emergency flight to Australia to be ...
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Croatia gets its first multiplex
Blitz-Cinestar, a new joint venture between Croatian distributor, Blitz Film & Video Distribution and German exhibitor, Cinestar/Kieft & Kieft, is to open Croatia's first multiplex this autumn. The multiplex, Cinestar Zagreb will have 13 state-of-the art screens over two floors with a total seating capacity of 2,954. All theatres will ...
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Kidron close to Bridget Jones sequel
After months of speculation, UK director Beeban Kidron is close to a deal to direct Renee Zellweger in Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.Kidron has long been linked to the sequel to the 2001 hit but negotiations have stepped up in the last week. Zellweger, who starred ...
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Cambridge film fest boasts wealth of UK premieres
The 23rd Cambridge Film Festival, which runs July 10-20, has secured a range of UK premieres including Peter Greenaway's Cannes competition entry The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story, Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, Wolfgang Becker's German hit Good-Bye, Lenin! and Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning Spirited Away.Other UK premieres at ...
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New Zealand still examining tax incentives
Despite New Zealand's Economic Development Minister, Jim Anderton, stating that tax incentives are being seriously considered for the film industry, mixed messages are coming from the Government.According to today's issue of the NZ Herald, Anderton said the country was looking at a number of options including a model based on ...
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Antena 3 announces executive appointments
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has announced several new executive appointments following the anti-trust authorities' greenlight to Grupo Planeta's buy-out of a 25.1% stake in the network.Planeta executives Jose Manuel Lara Bosch and Maurizio Carlotti will control Antena 3 as president and CEO, respectively. An Italian Mediaset veteran, Carlotti formerly held ...
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Raindance to host Live! Ammunition! pitching event
Independent UK film organisation Raindance is to host Live! Ammunition!, a pitching event featuring an all-women panel, in London on July 8. The panel includes Leslee Udwin, producer of East Is East; Tracey Scoffield, head of development and executive producer at BBC Films; director Antonia Bird; and writer and actress ...
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Nine films compete for Melbourne's FIPRESCI award
Three films from South Korea, three from Australia, two from Japan and one from China, all by debut directors, are competing for the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival's FIPRESCI Award, director James Hewison announced today. From South Korea comes Byun Young-Joo's Ardor, Park Chanok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name, and ...
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EAVE plans more production forums
MEDIA Plus producer training programme EAVE has announced plans for further Production Forums in Venice, Ghent and Vendome following its first one on 'Responding To New Developments in European Distribution' in Paris from July 4-6.The Venice Forum - 'Getting To Know Asian Markets' - from August 23-26 will bring experts ...
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NonStop signs up with SF Anytime VOD service
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment AB has signed a deal with Video on Demand (VOD) service SF Anytime. The long-term agreement will see a number of NonStop-titles become available by streaming over broadband. SF Anytime earlier this year launched a VOD service allowing for the viewing of films at home through ...