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Wu and Costo plan adoption drama Shanghai Blue
Chinese actress Vivian Wuand filmmaker Oscar Luis Costo are planning to shoot a drama about adoption in China, Shanghai Blue,from February 2007.The film is a follow-up tothe husband-and-wife team's debut Chinese production, Shanghai Red, which filmed in China last year. Costo will againwrite, direct and produce while Wu will star.The ...
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Match Factory, Emperor to handle The Drummer
Michael Weber's The MatchFactory and Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will handleinternational distribution of Kenneth Bi's The Drummer, set to star Simon Yam and Lee Sinje.EMP will handle distributionto select Asian territories on the drama, which revolves around the art ofChinese zen drumming, while Munich and Cologne-based The Match ...
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Italy's Istituto Luce plans co-production with Pereira
Italian state distributorand co-producer Istituto Luce has set its sights on Argentina as a newco-production partner, and is lining up a new picture by Argentine directorMiguel Pereira, who previously made La Deuda Interna.Entitled La Mula, the film will have a budget of up to $3.8m, and isabout a girl who ...
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Tartan picks up Invisible Waves from Fortissimo
UK distributor Tartan hastaken UK and Irish rights to Pen-ek Ratanaruang's thriller Invisible Waves fromFortissimo Film Sales.Invisible Waves first lappedup in the main competition in Berlin earlier this year. It also opened theBangkok Film Festival.The film is produced byFortissimo Films' Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J Werner and executiveproduced by Miky ...
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Horror film Damned finds several buyers
Pathe Distribution in the UKand RCV in Benelux are two buyers who have already stepped up to buy Damned, a new US horror film from producer Rob Fried (Collateral,Godzilla) which is being sold byPierre Weisbein's Green Room Pictures.Focus in Brazil and Star TVin Asia have also acquired the film, which ...
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Haut Et Court slate includes next film from Assayas
French production anddistribution company Haut Et Court will produce the next film from OlivierAssayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness.The film will be shot in English on a $15m budget and written by DouglasKennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book,the film is set in post-World War II New York with McCarthyism as abackdrop. It's ...
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Bleiberg works with July August for Kirot
US-based production andsales house Bleiberg Entertainment is teaming with July August Productions onthe action project Kirot. Danny Lerner will direct thestory about a female assassin on the run and a battered housewife who joinforces to escape from their oppressors.Ehud Bleiberg is producingand has commenced worldwide sales here. Production will start ...
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Laura Dern signs on for Polson's Tenderness
Laura Dern has joinedRussell Crowe in John Polson's thriller Tenderness, which is set to begin filming in New York onMonday.New York-based GreeneStreetFilms International is reporting a torrent of interest on the story of aviolent teenager who falls for a runaway girl while being investigated by adetective.Sixth Sense editor Andrew Mondshein ...
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Producers Guild of America sets date for January 20 awards
The 2007 Producers Guild of America's awards ceremony will take placein Los Angeles on January 20.The annual event will be staged at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza inCentury City on Jan 20.Nominations will be announced on January 4.
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UK's Brass Hat seals new $200m equity mega-fund
UK production and financing group Brass Hat Films is positioning itselfas a major European player, after securing a $200m equity fund from ahigh-net-worth individual in the middle east in addition to its existingin-house equity funds which are now entering their fifth cycle.London-based Brass Hat, which is run by Nick Hamson, ...
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Match Factory lights up German-Asian Drummer
Michael Weber's The MatchFactory and Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) will handleinternational distribution of Kenneth Bi's TheDrummer, set to star Simon Yam and Lee Sinje. EMP will handle distributionto select Asian territories on the drama, which revolves around the art ofChinese zen drumming, while Munichand Cologne-based The Match Factory ...
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Bangkok changes dates to pre-Berlin slot
The BangkokInternational Film Festival has changed its dates to Jan 26 - Feb 5 after thisyear's new post-Berlin slot proved unsuccessful. According toJuthamas Siriwan, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) whichfunds the festival, next year's event will be jointly managed by US consultingfirm Film Festival Management (FFM) and ...
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Chinese press given warning
China's 50-strong state-owned press contingent has been ordered not to coversensitive subjects at the festival - in particular Lou Ye's controversialcompetition title Summer Palace. Sources say that followingan official communique from Beijing,a number of journalists returned home. Lou's film is creating controversybecause it screened in competition on Thursday at Cannes ...
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Gaga enters Dragon Tiger Gate
Hong Kong's Mandarin Films has sold Wilson Yip's Dragon Tiger Gate to Gaga Communications(Japan), Flashstar (Brazil), Indofilm (India), Italia Film (Middle East), and Cinebox (Vietnam.) A co-production between MandarinFilms and Beijing Polybona Film Publishing, the film is based on a well-knowncomic book, created and designed by Tong Wong, about three ...
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Fortissimo sells Solondz happy return
Fortissimo Filmshas boarded the as-yet-untitled new film from Todd Solondz, a companion pieceto his earlier break-through piece Happiness,and will commence pre-sales immediately in Cannes.The film, knownas The New Todd Solondz Film, will be produced by Ted Hope (21 Grams), Mike Ryan and Derrick Tseng (Chasing Amy) with Fortissimo Films'co-chairmen Michael ...
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Haut Et Court pursues Assayas $15m Happiness
French production and distribution company HautEt Court will produce the next film from Olivier Assayas, The Pursuit Of Happiness. The film will be shot inEnglish on a $15m budget and written by Douglas Kennedy.Based on Kennedy's own book, the film is setin post-Second World War New York with McCarthyism as ...
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News Corp, PBL reportedly to quit Foxtel
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), which together own 50% of Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel, reportedly plan to switch allegiances and sign a significant programming deal with competitor Cable & Wireless Optus (C&W Optus). News Corp-owned newspaper The Australian reported today (June 20) that ...
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Danes and Cubans bed down with Marquez whores
The Danes and the Cubans are getting into bed together on ascreen adaptation of Nobel-prize winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's mostrecent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."The year I turned 90, I wanted to give myselfthe gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin," begins thenovel, which ...
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Match Factory takes global rights to Weingartner satire
The Match Factory has taken world wide sales rights toHans Weingartner (The Edukators)'s new picture with the working title FreeRainer.The film is a contemporary satirical drama with anunconventional love story, about a group of outcasts who undertake acultural revolution.The picture, which will shoot later this year,is produced by Weingartner's own ...
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Weinsteins give fables irreverent twist
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has launched UnstableFables, a new line 'of direct-to-video CG animatedfeatures being produced with The Jim' Henson Company, Flame Ventures andPrana Studios.''The projects will take an irreverent twist on fairytales and the 'first releases will be based on Goldilocks, The ThreeLittle Pigs, and 'Billy Goats Gruff.''Production is ...