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Pusan emerges as production force
South Korean port city Pusan is making a bid to become the production capital of the reviving Korean film industry by constructing state-of-the art facilities and seeking to attract foreign infrastructure investment.Development has begun on Centum City, a high-tech business and production complex half an hour from downtown Pusan. The ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Gale Anne Hurd
Name: Gale Anne Hurd, producerProduction: The Incredible HulkThis loose follow-up to 2003's Hulk shot in Rio de Janeiro in November (10 days in Tavares Bastos, three days in Bhering, one day in Lapa and one day in the Tijuca Forest) after 14 weeks in Canada- Why did you shoot in ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Francis Ford Coppola
Name: Francis Ford Coppola, director and producerProduction: TetroA co-production between Zoetrope Argentina, Zoetrope (US), Tornasol (Spain), Castafiore Films and BIM (Italy), Tetro follows the rivalries within an artistic Italian family living in Argentina. Shooting in Buenos Aires, Calafate, Bariloche in Argentina and Alicante in Spain from April until June with ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Laura Bickford
Name: Laura Bickford, producerProduction: The ArgentineA US-Spanish co-production between Focus Features, Estudios Picasso, Laura Bickford Productions, Morena Films, Section 8 and Telecinco about Che Guevara's involvement in the Cuban revolution. The majority (12 weeks) of the shoot was done in the state of Campeche, Mexico from May to July, the ...
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Latin America - Argentina
Buenos Aires alone hosted 18 feature films last year, of which three were international productions, including James Ivory's The City Of Your Final Destination. And productivity looks to be continuing into 2008 with Francis Ford Coppola in town this month to shoot immigration drama Tetro.The city's attractions are multiple: experienced ...
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Latin America - Mexico
Steven Soderbergh is the latest in a long line of major US film-makers to be lured across the border, shooting his Che Guevara film The Argentine in Mexico. With its low costs, diverse landscapes, professional crews and proximity to Los Angeles, the country has long been a popular production destination ...
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Red-Carpet Reality: the prospects for theatrical docs
It is a big year for documentaries at Cannes. Three are in official selection: Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which premiered at Sundance and is screening at the Croisette out of competition, Israeli director Ari Folman's animated film Waltz With Bashir in the Competition, and James Toback's film ...
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New Zealand - A-list Shines with Kiwi polish
It may be small but New Zealand is one of the world's most popular filming locations. James Cameron has finished shooting the action sci-fi Avatar for Twentieth Century Fox in the territory, while Guillermo Del Toro is set to spend the next four years in New Zealand shooting two Hobbit ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Ralph Winter
Name: Ralph Winter, producerProduction: The main unit of Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, directed by Gavin Hood, filmed for two-and-a-half weeks and the second unit for six weeks in New Zealand, principally in Queenstown and environs, Dunedin and Milford Sound, a fjord. All are in the lower half of ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Jon Landau
Name: Jon Landau, producerProduction: Avatar, directed by James Cameron, spent five months in Stone Street Studios, Wellington. The project also shot on location in Hawaii.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'First and foremost it had the calibre of artisans we were looking for to get the quality ...
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New Zealand - Facilities - Delivering post
"Everybody thinks we went to New Zealand for its exotic locales," says Jon Landau, producer of James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar. "We never left the studio. We did rent a warehouse off-site because we needed more space, but all our filming was studio-based."Landau wanted New Zealand's talent rather than ...
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New Telefilm money to be allocated this year
Hot on the heels of the Canadian government's $67m boost to local film (ScreenDaily, October 6), Telefilm Canada is asking the country's industry for pitches on how best to spend the first gush of new money.Over the next two weeks, Telefilm, the country's principal public sector funding agency, will be ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Richard Wright
Name: Richard Wright, producerProduction: Underworld 3: Rise Of The Lycans shot in and around Auckland for 11 weeks earlier this year.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'We had to shoot January through March because of actors' availability. The film takes place almost completely at night and mainly ...
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International - Kingdom leaps to top
Martial-arts adventure The Forbidden Kingdom came up trumps this weekend with a $16.8m take from 10 territories, making it this weekend's number one international film.The Chinese-US co-production expanded in five territories including Russia and South Korea, for a mammoth second weekend rise of 416%.The film, starring Jet Li and Jackie ...
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The international view - Bringing it all back home
Screen's first-quarter box-office survey indicates a widening gap between international and domestic performance. While US and Canadian revenues ran around 3% off the 2007 pace, the international tally was 30% up year on year. In financial terms that means the international market was responsible for $4.28bn (71%) of the $6.5bn ...
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Odin's Eye sets up sales office in New York
Dave Pederson, a producer on the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, is to represent Australian sales agent Odin's Eye Entertainment (OEE) in New York. His title will be vice president of international sales, but as head of the new office he will also be sourcing product for the fledgling Sydney-based ...
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Warner Bros planning Hindi remake of Wedding Crashers
Warner Bros has enlisted Mukesh Talreja and Nikhil Advani's Orion Pictures to produce a Hindi-language remake of its 2005 hit Wedding Crashers. The production house is currently in discussions with two leading Indian actors to reprise the roles played by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. The director is also yet ...
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Skin to roll out though Shanghai Film Group in September
Hong Kong-based Eastern Mordor has announced that Shanghai Film Group will handle distribution of Gordon Chan's fantasy epic Painted Skin, which is scheduled for release on September 28. One of the main investors in the film, SFG will release it through China 's top ten cinema circuits - including Shanghai ...
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Strand picks Cherry Blossoms for US from Bavaria
Strand Releasing has acquired US rights to Doris Dorrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami which had its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival this year.Bavaria Film International, which is handling sales on the film, also sold it to Sunrise Film Distribution in Denmark and Edko Films in Hong ...
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Sarandon, Pullman and Lucas round out cast of Mandate's Peacock
Susan Sarandon, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas will join Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page in Mandate Pictures' psychological thriller Peacock.Michael Lander will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ryan Roy and Barry Mendel is producing the project, which Mandate International will pre-sell at Cannes.Mandate president Nathan Kahane and senior ...