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contact: euroaicn@yahoo.com March 30th 2001 Euro-AICN: Eagle Child; BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLVES; Bridgeman; DOGVILLE; Resident Evil; TRANSMISSION; Reign of Fire
Father Geek reporting in with Edgard's Euro-AICN column for this Monday morning following last night's Oscars. The following bit appeared in an article that can be found in the DOORS section of the Sunday London Times Online: By Clicking Here.
"As Hollywood gears up for the Oscars tonight, Ed Porter judges the best film sites..."
www.aintitcoolnews.com
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"The site that alerted Hollywood to the power of the net is still the place to go for insider news. The movie- mad Harry Knowles delivers unlimited tittle-tattle from the earliest stages of film production, complemented by up-to-the- minute trailers. Drawing on an army of spies, he also provides revelatory reports from the secretive test screenings where the studios show their works-in- progress. Knowles combines a boisterous personality with a good track record for accuracy, and shows no sign of selling out."
COOOOOOL! Well, here's Edgard with this week's report from across the big pond...
EURO AICN
Hello folks... a very very tired Edgard here... just got back from a 4 days trip in Belgium... a little bit for work reasons (boooh) but mainly for party reasons too (yesssss) (and family visits)... so it was fun, intense and now I just want to sleep for the next few days... All this to apologize for Euro AICN's delay... Anyway you probably didn't notice it as you were all watching the Oscar ceremony... All I will say is that I'm glad CHOCOLAT didn't get anything, it was already an insult that it got so many nominations (of course this is my personal opinion)... So here're the Euro news... this week we're very very European with news coming from Hungary, Italy, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway and right here...! Enjoy...
IRELAND
* Avoidance of an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease may now hold up filming on the most expensive movie ever made in Ireland. Disney's Reign of Fire which stars Time to Kill actor Matthew McConaughey and American Psycho star Christian Bale may now have to move keys scenes in the film out of Ireland's Ardmore studios to North Africa due to the threat of the disease.
For the Full Story: Go Here!
UK
* IAN CURTIS, the late frontman of JOY DIVISION, is set to be immortalised on celluoid in a biopic currently in production. The feature, under the working title of 'Tranmission' (taken from the Joy Division track of the same name), is based on the biography 'Touching From A Distance', written by Curtis' widow Deborah. The screenplay is being developed by writer/director Michael Stock. 'Transmission' is the second recent feature to go into production about Manchester in the post-punk years. '24 Hour Party People', charting the rise and fall of the infamous Hacienda club, has just finished filming. It stars popular British comedian Steve Coogan and actor Ralph Little.
God bless,
Dima
GERMANY
* Hi there at Euro-AICN! Just thought to drop this info: I work as a freelance-journalist here in Berlin/Germany and got a good contact to the promotion-company who is handling the Resident Evil Film, which is filmed here in Berlin. I have posted the scoop already to DarkHorizons and ignFilmForce has also picked it up. Here it is...
Resident Evil: Constantin Film has just sent out a fax with the basic details of the production whilst the first shot is out on the official site Just Click Here. 'Gregor' has managed to translate the fax and learned the following: Shooting began March 5th and joining the previously mentioned Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez & Eric Mabius is actor James Purefoy and German actress Heike Makatsch. There's also a synopsis which reads as follows: "Alice (Jovovich) and Rain (Rodriguez) are the leaders of an commando-team, which break into a gene-laboraty called "the hive". There a deadly virus has broken out, killed all personal and then they ressurect as zombies. Alice has just three hours to close the lab, otherwise the whole world will be infected. But soon she realises that the zombies are not the only dangerous species".
You might want to share the info with the AICN reader...
DENMARK
* From Screendaily : Lars von Trier will always be regarded as the exception to any rule, so while there is still some dispute over the Danish Film Institute's reluctance to back Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love with more than $357,000 (DKR3m) on the grounds of it being an English-language project, no one is likely to complain about the Institute's $951,000 backing of Denmark's most prominent director's new film Dogville, regardless of it's language. "It's the most interesting project I have ever been presented," Vinca Wiedemann, the Institute's film consultant told Screen Daily, "even if it means that almost half my budget now goes to English-language projects." Apart from a letter of intent for $951,000 (DKR8m), Wiedemann also put $155,000 (DKR1.3m) into the $297,000 (DKR2.5m) test sequence that Trier shot earlier this year to demonstrate the idea behind his new project and to test the HDTV equipment he wanted to use. Using no exteriors the whole film will be shot on a soundstage at the Trollhattan studios in Sweden, where regional fund Film i Vast and Memfis Film will co-produce with Trier's Zentropa. Other co-producers include Norway's 41/2, Finland's Edith Film, Dutch What Else? and French Liberator2 and Slot Machine. As reported earlier this year in Screen Daily the $9.5m drama is expected to shoot this autumn, but according to producer Vibeke Windeloev all depends the availability of certain actors. So far Trier regulars like Stellan Skarsgaard and Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves) are among the actors likely to star, and since Christmas it has been no secret that Nicole Kidman was the director's first choice for the lead. They are in talks, but nothing is signed yet. Zentropa's Trust Film Sales handles international sales.
ITALY
* Hi Edgard. I received an in interesting report about a scene of Spiderman concerning Peter Parker, Mary Jane and The Green Goblin. You can also see the interview with Anthony LaMolinara, the animation director of Spider-Man,
You can get everything at: Our Site.
Bye
Robert
HUNGARY
* From Screendaily : Bridgeman, at $5m, the biggest-budget Hungarian film of all time, is due to start shooting in the last week of May or the first week of June. The movie tells the life story of István Széchenyi, the 19th century Hungarian revolutionary. The film had a planned budget of $6m (1.8 billion HUF), which was eventually reduced to $5m (1.5 billion HUF). The biggest part of the budget is provided by the Hungarian Cultural Ministry, but the project is also backed by the Hungarian Film Foundation, the Berlin-Brandenburg Film Foundation as well as the Austrian film foundation. (...) Bridgeman will be directed by well-known Hungarian director Géza Bereményi and will star one of the most popular Hungarian actors Károly Eperjes in the role of Széchenyi. The film is expected to be premiered in April 2OO2.
FRANCE
* In May, Isabelle Adjani will start the shooting of LA REPENTIE, the new film directed by Laetitia Masson. It will tell the story of a woman haunted by her past and trying to start a new life by leaving for an unknown destination. Sami Frey and Maria Schneider (from the LAST TANGO IN PARIS butter fame) will co-star.
* BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLVES (now at 5 millions tickets sold in France) will be re-released this summer in a 10 minutes longer version. No details yet on the content of these precious minutes...
NORWAY
* Also from Screendaily : Four new productions: two feature films and two documentaries, have been greenlighted by Norway’s Audiovisual Production Fund. Christiania Film, the company that started in the local film business last year with the suprise box office hit Detector, was granted $1.2m for director Unni Straume’s new project: Music For Weddings And Funerals is a romantic tragedy, starring Lena Endre, Bjorn Floberg and the Yugoslav composer Goran Bregovic, best known for his longtime collaboration with Emir Kusturica. Straume’s other credits include Thrane’s Method and Le Songe which premiered in Cannes in 1994. Shooting of Music will start on location in Oslo and Stockholm in April. Production outfit Norsk Filmproduksjon AS was granted $903.000 for director Trygve Allister Diesen’s (Isle Of Darkness) second feature film The Thief based on his own script, a drama about a divorced father who kidnaps his own daughter. The film will shoot this year to be readied for a February 2002 premiere. Another production outfit, Motlys, was given the green light for two documentary projects by the Fund. Germany’s Fred Kelemen (Abendland) will direct Eagle Child based on the true story about a girl who was kidnapped by an eagle on a remote Norwegian island in 1932. Norway’s leading commercial television channel is co-producing Motlys’ All For Norway, which is to become both a feature length documentary and a ten part television series on national history to coincide with Norway’s 100th anniversary in 2005. The documentaries will be directed by Sigve Endresen, Bent Hamer, Orjan Karlsen and Gunnar Vikene. The Fund will cover $821.000 of the project’s $1.7m budget.
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