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Babylon, Caspian booked into new Barrandov stage
StudioCanal'ssci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. willbe the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage atBarrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which willstar Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.APeugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year'send. Kassovitz's crew are scheduled to begin work on ...
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DarkBlueAlmostBlack takes top prize at Tallinn
The top prizes at this year's Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia went to Spanish and Turkish film-makers. Spanish director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo won the Grand Prix for Best Eurasian Film and $13,000 (Euros 10,000) for his tragi-comedy DarkBlueAlmostBlack.Best Director went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his Turkish-French co-production ...
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Vitus, Grounding and Fraulein up for Swiss awards
Two of this year's localbox-office hits, Michael Steiner and Tobias Fueter's Grounding - The LastDays Of Swissair and Fredi M. Murer'sVitus, and Andrea Staka's GoldenLeopard-winning Das Fraulein areamong the films nominated for the 2007 Swiss Film Prize. A nine-person nominationcommission including Federal Office of Culture's Film Section head NicolasBideau, Locarno ...
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Ferrara halfway through Cinecitta shoot for Go Go Tales
Two dozen principal castmembers including Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, Bob Hoskins, Roy Dotrice andSylvia Miles are at Cinecitta's Studio 14 now half way through four weeks ofthe principal shooting of Go Go Tales, director Abel Ferrara's first foray into comedy which began shootingNov 27. The set - a three-floor NewYork ...
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Lionsgate strikes deal for Filmax's The Backwoods
Lionsgate has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Gary Oldman-starring thriller The Backwoods from Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment. First-time feature directorKoldo Serra premiered the film at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival in September. The mostly English-language film stars Oldman, VirginieLedoyen, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and Lluis Homar in the story oftwo vacationing ...
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Lend Lease takes hit on Fox Studios investment
Lend Lease Corporation, which half-owns Sydney's Fox Studios Australia, has made a provision of $47m (A$80m) after tax to cover its losses from the failure of the 19-month-old Backlot, one of three distinct parts of the studio and entertainment development. It will also make an appropriate write-down of the value ...
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Cage and Connery pledge support for Bahamas festival
The third BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF) wrapped on Dec 10 with local residentsNicolas Cage and Sean Connery lending very vocal support to expanding theevent. Cage, who recently joined Connery as a Bahamian homeowner, was thesubject of the festival's Chopard career achievement award. "I want to bring in people I know ...
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Penguins DP seeks shared director's credit
Controversy is brewing overdirector credit on 2005 French blockbuster March Of The Penguins. Director of photography Laurent Chalet has filed acomplaint in a Paris court demanding shared director's credit on the Oscar-winningnature documentary. Along with Jerome Maison, asecond DP on the film, Chalet spent 13 months shooting the film in ...
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Nordisk on board for White Night
Nordisk has taken on salesfor drama White Night by JannikJohansen.The project is shooting nowwith a cast including Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Anne Sophie Byder, RikkeLouise Andersson, and Morten Grunwald.Birgitte Skov and Morten Kaufmann are producing for NimbusFilm in collaboration with Fine & Mellow. Backers for the $3.2m (Euros 2.4m)film include ...
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Iwo Jima takes top spot at Japanese box office
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima beat strongcompetition to become the number one film at the local box office over theweekend, earning $4.28m (Y500m) on 400 screens for a screen average of $10,700.Distributor Warner BrothersJapan estimates a final gross of $42.8m (Y5bn), far surpassing companion film Flags Of Our Fathers. ...
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The Good Shepherd
Dir: Robert De Niro. US. 2006. 165mins.Robert De Niro's secondfeature The Good Shepherd is afrequently absorbing, fascinating work that achieves its power through itsdeliberate sense of contradiction. Traversing 20th-century American foreignpolicy and Cold War politics, it refracts historical tensions through a singleperspective; the complex, emotionally harsh life of spymaster Edward ...
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Venice sets 2007 dates Aug 29-Sept 8
The 64th Venice FilmFestival will take place Aug 29-Sept 8, 2007 the board of directors of theBiennale announced on Wednesday; the dates were released along with guidelinesto govern the fest's next edition which takes place 75 years after itsinception. Main competition films willbe limited to 20 titles - the 2006 ...
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Cinemavault acquires Chatham with Reynolds, Hopper
Cinemavault Releasing International has picked up internationalrights to the $8m romantic comedy Chatham starring Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper and Martin Landau.Anne Archer and Peter Boyle also star in the story, which takesplace in Cape Cod in 1905 and follows three retired sea captains as they try toseduce an attractive middle-aged ...
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Roberts to produce, may star in Happiness Sold Separately
Julia Roberts will produce and may star in Scott Coffey'sbittersweet drama Happiness Sold Separately.Fox Searchlight is in talks to distribute the film and Roberts will produce throughher company Red Om alongside Team Todd's Suzanne and Jennifer Todd, as well asJoe Roth and Valeska Ramet.Based on Lolly Winston's bestseller, Happiness Sold ...
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Lotte Cinema to sell movie tickets through ATMs
Major Korean exhibitor LotteCinema has announced it will start selling film tickets at automated tellermachines (ATMs) in subway stations and convenience stores starting in March ofnext year. Lotte Cinema signed amemorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nice E-banking Services today regardingthe strategic alliance to sell tickets at the Nice ATMs in ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Sherrybaby
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to the award winning drama Sherrybaby, starring Maggie Gyllenhaaland written and directed by Laurie Collyer. The deal was negotiatedbetween David Jourdan, general manager from US sales agent Katapult and Metrodome's general managertheatrical Sara Frain and acquisitions manager Kate Falconer.Frain said: 'Maggieproves once ...
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Paramount signs two-pic deal with M:I2 star Polson
Paramount Pictures has signed a two-picture deal with Australian actor-director John Polson, who stars alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 2.The first project under the deal is an untitled New York-set dark comedy from scriptwriter William Mapother, which is housed at Cruise's Cruise-Wagner Productions. Polson has a high profile in ...
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German funds back new films by Khrzhanovsky, Madsen
New featurefilms by Doris Doerrie, Esther Gronenborn, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, and Ole ChristianMadsen are among the projects supported with more than $5.3m (Euros 4m) by thethree German regional funds FFF Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg and MDM at their last funding sessions for2006. The largestamount allocated by the Bavarian fund - $663,024 (Euros ...
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Welsh TV producers team with Pact
Pact plans to merge with TeledwyrAnnibynnol Cymru (TAC)/Welsh Independent Producers, which representsindependent TV companies in Wales. The groups have agreed tomove towards a formal merger. The Welsh body will have access to Pact's greaterresources and lobbying power. TAC currentlyrepresents about 70 businesses.TAC said it expected abilingual strategic board to be ...
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Met Film School adds two-year BA in film-making
London-basedMetropolitan Film School has launched a new two-year BA degree in film-making,which will start in October 2007.The schoolsaid this course would offer practical training in digital film production,with an estimated contact time with tutors of 50% compared to the usual 20%.Producer and school director Jonny Persey said: "Creating aprofessional working ...