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Sir Richard Attenborough, John Boorman and Nic Roeg are all scrambling to get new films into production in Ireland
before the end of the month. On March 31, the tax-friendly UK-Ireland and Canada-Ireland coproduction agreements under
which their films are being made is scheduled to expire, and a renewal of the deals isn't assured. Hey, even fake
royalty like to save a buck when they can.
- Pedro Almodovar's highly anticipated Volver was screened for critics in Madrid this weekend, and has also been submitted for competition at Cannes. While the responses in at the screening were immediate - if someone called my film "a gift", I'd be pretty stoked - the director won't hear from Cannes until next month. The film, which tells the story of two sisters whose mother returns as a ghost to solve the problems among the three of them, is described as being lighter in tone that Almodovar's recent work, as well as a return to his earlier focus on female characters. And, boys, in case you're unsure about seeing a foreign chick flick, Penelope Cruz is "spellbinding as Volver's undeniable protagonist, oozing a mid-century glamour and sex appeal modeled on the young Sophia Loren." Yowzers.
- The lineup for the Sofia meetings portion of the ongoing Sofia International Film Festival has been set, and
includes 10 projects (half of them by women) from countries as diverse as Germany, France, and Kazakhstan. The meetings
will take place this weekend, and are two days during which the 10 "filmmakers...have an opportunity to pitch to
more than 50 international producers and film funds." All of the directors involved this year are seeking funding
for their second features.
The View from Abroad: Screen Daily in 60 Seconds
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Notable among American films debuting in foreign territories this
weekend are The
Pink Panther, bowing on hundreds of screen across France, Germany, and Australia, and The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which is moving on to China after a tremendously successful release in Japan.
Poor Tristan
Isolde, meanwhile, will stagger into Spain and New Zealand, hoping that somewhere on earth, people won't
have heard how bad it is.
- Catalina Sandino Moreno, an Oscar nominee for Maria Full of Grace, will lead an multi-national cast in The Heart Of The Earth, a Spanish-UK-Portugal co-production set to begin shooting in Spain and Portugal later this month. The story is yet another of those inspired-by-real-events, this one about an uprising at a British-owned silver mine in 18th century Spain. Among Moreno's costars will be Brits Sienna Guillory and Hugh Dancy, as well as Cuba's Jorge Perugorría.
- One of the increasingly rare children's book adaptation not being done by Walden Media is Aussie Unjoo Moon's version of The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The Haunted House. Written by Pulitzer-winner Mary Close, the book, aimed at a grade-school audience, is "a suspenseful ghost story cum mystery in moody, atmospheric prose that blends dark magic and a dry wit occasionally reminiscent of Roald Dahl." Moon hopes that the film will be shot by Oscar winning Memoirs of a Geisha lensman Dion Beebe, to whom she happens to be married.
- Canada's own Walk of Fame is exploding with stars: it was announced recently that Pamela
Anderson, Brendan
Fraser, Eugene
Levy and Robert
Goulet are 2006's honorees, and will be inducted at a June ceremony. Surely Eugene Levey never imagined he's be
lucky enough to one day share a stage with both Pam Anderson AND Robert Goulet.
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