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22 November 1999 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Kenneth Branagh is forming a film company devoted to making movies based on Shakespearian classics, the London Sunday Express reported. Each film will reportedly be budgeted at about $16 million. The newspaper quoted Branagh as saying: "The Shakespeare Film Company was created to formalize a passionate commitment to producing Shakespeare on film. ... It aims to present movie versions of Shakespeare's plays in the most compelling and exciting ways. It also aims to continue to serve the burgeoning audience for such films by stressing the contemporary relevance of the stories." The first release, Love's Labour's Lost (1999), starring Branagh and Alicia Silverstone, due for release in March, is set in the '30s and features songs by Cole Porter and Irving Berlin

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