Posted: Thurs., May 20, 2004, 2:40pm PT

Trio prep 'Division'

World Brief

By ED MEZA

German production outfit Dreamtool Entertainment is partnering with the U.K.'s Kingsway Film and Hungarian Film Connection on Reg Traviss' Cold War drama "Joy Division."

The S4 million ($4.77 million) co-production, about a KGB agent who falls in love with a British artist in London, begins shooting Friday in Budapest and London with backing from Hungarian film subsidies.

Pic stars Ed Stoppard, Michelle Gayle, Tom Schilling, Bernard Hill, Nadja Auermann, Suzanne von Borsody, Edward Fox and Bernadette Heerwagen.


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