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stanley cup irl, Windstruck has beencast in the live-action version of Japanese animation house Production IG s Blood:The Last Vampire, which Bill Kong CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon is producingwith France s Pathe. Kong reteams with directorRonny Yu after their hit Fearless,starring Jet Li, grossed over $65m worldwide. Kong also just finished producingZhang Yimou s latest film, Curse Of the Golden Flower.Blood has a planned budget of $25.6
stanley cup m Y3bn and shootingwill commence in January. A worldwide release is slated for spring of 2008.Production I.G. will receive an undisclosed percentage of royalties onworldwide box office and DVD sales. Jun Ji-hyun first came to attention in 1999 s Il Mare laterremade in Hollywood as The Lake House . She shot to stardom after starring in 2001 s My Sassy Girl, which is currently being remade in the US withElisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford. Blood: The Last Vampire, which will be shot in English and a mix of otherlanguages, is her first non-Korean film. In a reversal of the typicalfranchise development, it was director Hiroyuki Kitakubo s 48-minute animatedfeature released in 2000 that spawned the Blood games, manga, novels and a TV series. While theanimated film was set in 1960s Japan, Yu has moved the setting to 1948post-WWII To
stanley cup kyo.Production IG also createdthe animated sequences in Quentin Tarantino s Kill Bill: Vol 1, while Mamoru Oshii s Innocence became the first Japanese animated film to competefor the Palme d O Jzxr Germany s Box! unwraps trio of deals
UKIMAX picture Bugs! has won the Panda Award for Best Large Format Film at theUK s
stanley cup Wildscreen Festival, the Oscars of the wildlife film world.Theaward comes as Bugs! heads towards the $20m worldwide box office grossmark, having completed its run in only 34 of the 104 IMAX theatres that have sofar booked the film. Bugs! is currently playing in 53IMAX theatres around the world.Bugs!, narratedby Judi Dench and directed by UK s Mike Slee, is the first large format 3D feature to have had significant UKfinancing in this case from The Film Consortium in association with UK FilmCouncil, and the UK Film and TV Production Company Plc.The40-minute film, which features at least 40 insects, was shot on location in thejungles of Bor
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stanley cup e-ups.Bugs! is produced by Phil Streather,.CEO of Principal Large Format, and Alexandra Ferguson, with Jonathan Barker, president and CEO of distributor SK Films,Simon Relph, and UKFTV s PeterFudakowski serving as executive producers. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register
