All articles by Theodore Schwinke – Page 13
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Czech Republic: inward production
Prague has seen significant growth as a production hub in recent years, but it has been the local industry taking the initiative in attracting foreign producers. The Czech Film Commission was established by local producers in 2004 in order to assist foreign film-makers, promote the Czech Republic and lobby government.With ...
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Barrandov in talks about Bond 22
Barrandov Studios says it has met with representatives of MGM, Columbia Pictures and Eon Productions to discuss hosting the 22nd James Bond film in Prague.Barrandov Studio Tomas Zelazko told the Czech daily Hospodarske noviny that no decision on the shooting location had been made yet, but that the producers had ...
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Jan Sverak's Empties fills coffers at Czech box office
Empties (Vratne Lahve), the new film from father-and-son team Jan and Zdenek Sverak (Kolya) drew more than 110,000 viewers its opening weekend. The Sveraks' film just broke the record set earlier this year by Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England.'Young people are going to see it and they ...
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Iska's Journey, Konyec, Opium win top prizes at Hungarian Film Week
Opium - Diary Of A Madwoman, from director Janos Szasz, dominated the awards of the 38th Hungarian Film Week. In total the film, which stars Ulrich Thomsen as an opium-addicted psychiatrist in love with mad patient, collected four awards at the festival's closing ceremonies Feb 6. Szasz was named Best ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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A-List Nutcracker musical marches into Budapest
Pre-production on The Nutcracker is scheduled to begin Mar 5 at Stern Film Studios in Budapest. Russia's Andrei Konchalovsky, who previously made Siberiada, Romance For Lovers, and House Of Fools, will direct the musical, based on the story made famous by Tchaikovsky's ballet, which will feature lyrics by Tim Rice. ...
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Hungarian Film Week kicks off with competition title Noah's Ark
Ulrich Gregor will chair the feature film jury of the 38th Hungarian Film Week (HFW), which begins today. Gregor is a film critic and the co-founder and chairman of Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek. The jury also includes Ellis Driessen, head of Holland Film Meeting and the Netherlands Production Platform; Screen ...
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Bavaria Film picks up Menzel's King
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide rights to Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England, an adaptation from the novel of the same title by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. The film will screen in the main competition at Berlin. 'We are delighted to work cooperate with Jiri Menzel,' ...
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Bavaria takes worldwide rights to Menzel's King Of England
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide rights to Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England, an adaptation from the novel of the same title by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. The film will screen in the main competition at Berlin.'We are delighted to work cooperate with Jiri Menzel,' Bavaria ...
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Poland - Home for the holidays
Seven years after his directorial debut, New Line's horror Lost Souls, Janusz Kaminski has begun filming on Hania - a contemporary Polish-language drama the director is co-producing with Zebra Film Studio, Gremi Film Production and OTO Film Studio.Kaminski is best known for his cinematography on Steven Spielberg's films, having ...
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Czech box office recovers in 2006, set to pass 11m admissions
With statistics in for the first 11 months of the year, Czech box-office admissions look set to surpass 11m for 2006, reversing the poor performance of 2005, when admissions dropped 21% to less than 9.5m. From January 2006 to November 2006, Czech cinemas took in 10.38m admissions, an improvement of ...
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Czechs approve new money for filmmakers
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has signed into law a 2007 budget amendment which adds $4.8m (CZK 100m) to state aid for Czech filmmakers, raising the total value of the State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography to $7.6m for next year.The state fund provides money for the ...
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Kaminski's Christmas tale Hania to wrap in January
Two-time Oscar winner Janusz Kaminski hopes to wrap production on Polish-language Christmas drama Hania in January, for a planned release next year.The director, best known for his work on Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, is in the midst of a 30-day shoot on locations in and around ...
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Romanian director Caranfil wraps epic The Rest Is Silence
Romanian director Nae Caranfil (Philanthropy, Asphalt Tango) has concluded photography on The Rest Is Silence, a $3.2m retelling of the filming of the first Romanian feature in 1911. The production is unusual in its scope both in cost (the most expensive Romanian films in recent years, Philanthropy and Catalin Mitulescu's ...
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Romanian director Caranfil wraps epic The Rest Is Silence
Romanian director Nae Caranfil (Philanthropy, Asphalt Tango) has concluded photography on The Rest Is Silence, a $3.2m retelling of the filming of the first Romanian feature in 1911. The production is unusual in its scope both in cost (the most expensive Romanian films in recent years, Philanthropy and Catalin Mitulescu's ...
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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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New Barrandov facilities open with Babylon
Canal+ sci-fi thriller Babylon A.D. will be the first feature film to shoot at a new 4,000-square-meter soundstage at Barrandov Studios in Prague. Mathieu Kassovitz will direct the film, which will star Vin Diesel and Vincent Cassel.A Peugeot automobile commercial will inaugurate the new soundstage before year's end. Kassovitz's crew ...
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Nu Image to start Cusack's $10m parody thriller
Nu Image Bulgaria will begin filming Oct 22 on Brandhauser, an international intrigue parody starring John Cusack,Joan Cusack, Hilary Duff and Marisa Tomei. Josh Seftel, one of the directorsbehind TV series Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, will direct the $10m project, alsoknown as War Inc. The film will shoot ...
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Investors plan new $4.4m studio in Bulgaria
A consortium of privateinvestors will break ground in January on a new production facility in Sofia for low-cost Hollywood film and television productions.Financed through privateequity and bank capital, the Bulgarian Film and Television Center will offer four sound stages totalling 5,000 square meters, developerand producer Phillip Roth told ScreenDaily.com.With backlot, ...
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Czechs back Lunacy in Oscar race
The Czech Film andTelevision Academy (CFTA) has selected Jan Svankmajer'sLunacy as the Czech Republic's contender for the foreign-language category of theAcademy Awards. The film stars Pavel Liskaand Anna Geislerova as semi-willing residents of a madhouse run by a sadisticdoctor, played by Jan Triska. Svankmajer wrote the script in 1970 inspired ...