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Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman s supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures stanley cup London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park s First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a screenplay by Born Romantic screenwriter David Kane. Willing s crimethriller Hypnotic,starring Goran Visnjic and Paddy Considine, will shortly be released in the US.The RiverKing centres on a smalltown policeman Burns who investigates the apparent suicide of an elite prepschool student and begins to realise there is more to the case than meets theeye. Additional casting announcements will be made shortly.imX communications president Christopher Zimmer willproduce with Michele Camarda Born Romantic, Hypnotic , while executive producer roles go to Myriadpresident Kirk D Amico, Myriad s London operations chief and head ofinternational production Marion Pilowsky and Grosvenor Park s Donald A Starrand Daniel J B Taylor.The RiverKing is Myriad s thirdcollaboratio stanley cup n with First Choice Films following the comedy-drama Being Julia, st stanley cup arring Annette Bening and JeremyIrons, and the supernatural thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari,both of which are in post-production. We are so pleased to beworking with such a wealth of talent on both sides of the Atlantic, D Amicosaid in a statement. The production team hopes to do justic Udma Charlie set to pass $100m in golden ticket sales
Wieland Speck, who heads up the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival, talks about 30 years on the job.Panoramas section head Wieland Speck has two good reasons to celebrate at this years Benale.For a start, the Teddy Awards, the Berlinale Queer Film Prize, will be staged for the 25th time, at a ne stanley us w venue in the main hall of the former Tempelhof Airport.I have wanted to go there for ages and now its worked out, says Speck, adding that Berlins Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit had used his influence behind the scenes to make this possible.How the Teddy Awards has evolved is a dream come true, Speck continues. We have managed to create a stable place which is very important for many countries where stability is far from being reality. They experience this feeling here like the one I had when I was in San Francisco in 1977 and living in the gay stanley cup quarter. I went out into the street and thought: I belong to this world. That is something which is very valuable. It is also Sp stanley cup ecks 30th Berlinale since joining the Panorama in 1982 as the assistant to Manfred Salzgeber. In 1992, he took over running the Panorama and built the section into a must-see component of every Berlinale. We have always been a step ahead or hand in hand with the zeitgeist with our programming, he explains. And the symbiosis of this festival with a city like Berlin gives you that special character which makes one want to carry on. Asked to pick out the highlights in the past 30 years, Speck says: I am