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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.