All articles by Adrien Gombeaud
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Alexandria' New York
Dir: Youssef Chahine.Fr-Egypt. 2004. 128minsDuring the past few years, veteran Egyptian directorYoussef Chahine has courted controversy with his comments relating to the 9/11terrorist attacks on America.On-screen, Egypt,his contribution to the 11'09''01 - September 11 project portrayed anArab director being refused entry to New York, facing the ghosts of a dead ...
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Two Brothers (Deux Freres)
Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Fr-UK 2004. 109minsAlong with Roman Polanski and Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Annaud is one of the few France-based directors who can shoot an international production in English that will be screened worldwide.Sixteen years ago his film The Bear, about the life and adventures of its titular hero in ...
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Foreign Oscar submissions 2003
The complete list of Foreign Oscar submissions is as follows: (click on the title to read the Screen International review, where available)Afghanistan Osama(Siddiq Barmak, director)Argentina Valentin(Alejandro Agresti)Austria Free Radicals(Barbara Albert)Belgium Sea Of Silence(Stijn Coninx)Bolivia Sexual Dependency (Rodrigo Bellott)Bosnia & Herzegovina Fuse (Pjer Zalica)Brazil Carandiru(Hector Babenco)Bulgaria Journey To Jerusalem (Ivan Nichev)Canada ...
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Oscar nomination leads to instant business
The Academy Award nomination for the German entry Nowhere In Africa led to immediate business at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin for Bavaria Film International."A couple minutes after the announcement, we closed a deal with the Greek distributor Rosebud," says Bavaria head of sales Thorsten Schaumann, Producer Andreas ...
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Evans to take business role at Film Council
UK funding body the Film Council has recruited Intermedia senior executive Will Evans to be its new head of business affairs. Evans, an entertainment lawyer with 23 years' experience, joins the Film Council on 2 September. He has worked at Intermedia for six years, most recently as co-president of ...
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Rush Hour 2 is biggest indie film of 2001
Rush Hour 2, New Line's action sequel, has emerged as the biggest independent film of 2001 in the US, according to a list compiled by AFMA, the trade body representing the independent film industry worldwide. The film, staring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker grossed $226 million.Films eligible for AFMA's list ...
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UK's Channel 5 acquires Columbia TriStar slate
UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 has struck a multi-million pound deal to acquire Columbia TriStar's 2002/3 slate of films, including Men In Black II, Spider-Man, Terminator 3 and XXX.Reportedly worth $31.1m (£20m), the deal also includes Black Hawk Down, Charlies Angel's 2, Stuart Little 2 and The Panic Room. ...
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$9m large-format Bugs! goes into production
Bugs!, a $9m 3-D giant-screen documentary film, has started principal photography in the jungles of Malaysia.A live-action film about the hidden world of insects, Bugs! will use macro-photography and 3D imagery to convey the tiny dramas of bug life on a grand scale - and will be hoping to repeat ...
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Pinewood-Shepperton appoints sales & marketing director
UK studio group Pinewood-Shepperton has appointed Nick Smith as its new sales and marketing director.Smith joins from Nokia, where he was European head of sales for interactive services. Before that, he worked in the UK broadcast sector with spells at LWT, Granada and United News and Media.Pinewood and Shepperton finalised ...
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ITV programming chief Liddiment resigns
David Liddiment, programming boss at the UK's leading commercial channel ITV1, is to resign after five years in the job. He will leave towards the end of the year once a successor has been appointed.News of his planned departure has shocked colleagues and competitors alike as Liddiment is highly regarded ...
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Mixed results for UK international TV sales
Providing a pertinent barometer on the state of the international television sales market, the British Television Distributors' Association has announced its export statistics for 2001. Sales of British television programmes to the US and Canada rose by 19.2% and 31.5% respectively, compared to 2000, accounting for $199m and $22m. Sales ...
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UK's BBC Films, New Cinema Fund team for Entering Blue Zone
Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey and Peter Mullan are to star in Entering Blue Zone, a UK film jointly commissioned from BBC Films and the Film Council's New Cinema Fund for BBC TWO.Directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Stuart Mackinnon, Entering Blue Zone is the story of a premature ...
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Pathe UK closes raft of sales on Campion's In The Cut
Pathe International UK has closed a raft of sales on forthcoming Jane Campion erotic thriller In The Cut. Deals were closed at Cannes with Senator for Germany, Nexo for Italy, Gaga for Japan, Brandon Young for Korea, AB Svensk for Scandinavia, Interncontinental for Hong Kong, PT Amero for Indonesia, Four ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Cannes title Chihwaseon
Wild Bunch has picked up world sales rights outside Asia to Im Kwon-Taek's Chihwaseon - the Cannes competition title that jointly won the festival's best direction prize.Wild Bunch picked up the film after seeing it at its early screening on Saturday 25 May and closed the deal on Sunday morning.Wild ...
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Vivendi, News Corp Italian pay-TV row intensifies
A row between two of the world's biggest media players has intensified this week, with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp saying it will hold Jean-Marie Messier's Vivendi Universal to an agreement to merge their Italian pay-TV businesses.According to UK paper The Financial Times, News Corp is expected to go to court ...
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News Corp clashes with Vivendi over Italian pay-TV deal
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reacted angrily to moves by rival Jean-Marie Messier of Vivendi to pull out of the planned Italian pay-TV merger of Vivendi's Telepi's with News Corp's Stream.Vivendi said on Wednesday it would seek to pull out of the merger, in light of conditions imposed by the ...
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New UK media laws presented to parliament
Foreign media groups like News Corp and AOL Time Warner could soon own UK terrestrial television stations, thanks to new legislative proposals tabled by the British government on Tuesday.The radical proposals would lift a ban on non-European ownership of terrestrial TV, clearing the way for foreign media groups to buy ...
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Little big guy Dudley Moore dies aged 66
Dudley Moore, the multi-talented comedian and musician who starred In Beyond The Fringe before becoming an unlikely Hollywood film star, died on Wednesday (Mar 27) after a long battle against illness. Sixty six year old Moore died of pneumonia as a complication of supranuclear palsy.A diminutive man, Moore was renowned ...
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42nd Street lit up by Food Of Love
42nd Street Productions, a sales and production offshoot of German mini-conglomerate Das Werk, may have hit paydirt with Berlinale Panorama film Food Of Love. The relationship movie is the first English-language picture by Spanish director Ventura Pons, whose previous credits include Anita Takes A Chance (Anita No Perd El Tren).42nd ...
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BBC appoints Bennett as director of television
Jana Bennett has been appointed director of television at the BBC, one of the most powerful jobs in British television.Bennett joins from Discovery Communications in the USA, where she is currently executive vice-president and general manager. She replaces Mark Thompson, who quit the BBC last year to join rival broadcaster ...