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Lost Boys The Thirst
Film Afrika & Apollo (Germany) have signed to
co-produce the 3rd instalment of the cult title
LOST BOYS. The rights were acquired from Warner
Bros, and the film will be distributed by New
Path Productions. Filming started in November
2009, and the film will be completed in 2010.
Corey Feldman will reprise his character Edgar
Frog and Jamison Newlander will again appear as
his brother Alan Frog.
  
Free Willy South Africa
FREE WILLY SOUTH AFRICA,
a co-production between Film Afrika and Eva
Apollo of Germany, completed post production in
October 2009, and is set for release in March
2010.
Part of the set build at Strandfontein
tidal pool.
The film is set in Cape Town and has a young
orca (Willy) trapped in a tidal pool at a
down-at-the-heel theme park called "Pirates
Lair". The film will be distributed by New
Party Productions and Warner Bros..
Film Afrika
completes two films for German television in
2009.
BUSH STATION. Nova Films for SAT1. This
pilot was shot on Location in the North West Province.
THROUGH AFRICA IN A BRIDAL DRESS.
A German South African Co-Production with RTL
and Film Afrika, shot in and around
Johannesburg, and in Kwa Zulu
Natal.
On Release in 2009
 THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
www.thelasthouseontheleft.com
The film,
which Film Afrika shot in 2008, opened strongly
in the USA on the weekend of 13th of March and
was the 3rd highest
box offices grosses that week. The film is
expected to gross $40m at the US box office.
 THE
NUMBER 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY
Precious
Ramotswe, Botswana's No 1 private investigator,
will be on charming audiences in USA on HBO and
the BBC in the UK in March 2009.
Richard
Curtis, co- writer of the TV Film and Executive Producer of the Series, said "I
believe Anthony would be very pleased indeed with the new series and when I
watch it, with its twists and turns and tricks and passions, I imagine him
sitting beside me, smiling and happy that the last film he made was really the
start of something splendid.”
 END
GAME
This
story based on the covert discussions that
brought down the Apartheid regime in South
Africa was premiered at Sundance in 2009 to
great acclaim.
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