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Weinstein considers directing Warsaw ghetto epic
Harvey Weinstein,co-chairman of Miramax Films, says he is now considering himself as the director for Mila 18, an ambitious screen adaptation of Leon Uris' novel about the ghetto uprising in WWII Warsaw in which a small group of Jews held off Nazi forces for 42 days using only handmade weapons.Even ...
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Neighbor's Dog, Made In France win Avignon/NY Fest
How To Kill Your Neighbour's Dog starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright Penn was named Best American Feature and Zakia and Ahmed Boucheala's Made In France was Best French Feature at the seventh annual Avignon/New York Film Festival last week.11 new French and seven new US features were screened at ...
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CTS creates global home entertainment mktg group
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE) has created a worldwide marketing group under president Benjamin S Feingold reinforcing the global nature of the business and reflecting Sony Pictures' unified domestic and international theatrical organisation under Jeff Blake.Three senior executives have been promoted within CTHE. Robin Russell, formerly executive vice president, has ...
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Seattle Film Fest to world premiere
21 feature films will receive their world premieres at this year's Seattle International Film Festival including the controversial O recently sold by Miramax Films to Lions Gate Films because of its scenes of shooting in schools. Also unspooling in Seattle will be new films from Alan Rudolph (Investigating Sex), Terry ...
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Kaaterskill, Jessica Stein win at LA Film Fest
Kaaterskill Falls and Kissing Jessica Stein were the two key prizewinners at yesterdays awards ceremony closing this year's revamped Independent Feature Project/West Los Angeles Film Festival. The event, which kicked off with the world premiere of Ed Burns' Sidewalks Of New York on Friday April 20, screened 51 feature films ...
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Crouching Tiger takes eight at HK Film Awards
Hong Kong was in the mood for action as Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was the big winner at Sunday night's 20th Hong Kong Film Awards with eight statues, including best film and best director.Wong Kar-wai's 1960s love story In The Mood For Love took five awards, nabbing ...
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Cannes Market Comment
Blurring the line between art and commerceIt was exactly forty years ago that the Cannes Film Festival finallyrecognised that cinematic art could not exist in an economic vacuum bydeciding to formalise a trading venue for buying and selling filmdistribution rights across the world.The Marche or Cannes Market, as this rather ...
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Competition and special screenings line-up
2001 CANNES COMPETITIONFeature FilmsOpening film (in competition): Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann (Dist: 20th Fox)Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Mulholland Drive David Lynch (Int'l sales: StudioCanal)The Man Who Wasn't There Joel Cohen (Int'l sales: Good Machine International)Shrek Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (Dist: DreamWorks SKG)L'Eloge De ...
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Directors and Critics comment
Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week Comment: Experimentation and discovery to the foreDirectors' FortnightMarie-Pierre Macia in her second year as chief selector of the Directors' Fortnight (La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) has picked an eclectic mixture with very few well-known directors. The biggest names are Amos Kollek, in Cannes last year with Fast ...
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Directors Fortnight line-up
2001 Directors Fortnight Feature FilmsSlogans Gjergj Xhuvani (Albania/France) (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Pauline & Paulette Lieven Debrauwer (Belgium) (Int'l sales: TF1 International)The Orphan Of Anyang Wang Chao (China) Big Bad Love Arliss Howard (US) Chelsea Walls Ethan Hawke (US) (Int'l sales: Cinetic)The Deep End ...
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Un Certain Regard line-up
UN CERTAIN REGARDOpening film: R' Xmas Abel Ferrara (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)The Chimp (Maimal) Aktan Abdykalykov (Int'l sales: Wild Bunch)La Libertad Lisandro Alonso (Int'l sales: TVOR)Domani Francesca Archibugi (Int'l sales: IntraMovies)Ganhar A Vida Joao Canigo (Int'l sales: Gemini Films)No Such Thing Hal Hartley (Int'l sales: ...
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Critics Week line-up
Critics Week Competitive sections line-upFeature filmsUnder The Moonlight (Zir - E Nour-E Mah) Dir: Reza Mir-Karimi (Iran) (Int; Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation)La Femme Qui Boit Dir: Bernard Emond (Canada) (Int'l sales: Lions Gate)Le Pornographe Dir: Bertrand Bonello (France) (Int'l sales: Mercure)Unloved Dir: Kunitoshi Manda (Japan) (Producer: ...
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Screen contacts @ Cannes 2001
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Universal enters new Era in Hong Kong
Era Home Entertainment has struck an exclusive deal with Universal Pictures to handle all the studio's home video distribution in Hong Kong.The two year agreement strengthens Era's position as the largest video distributor of foreign movies in Hong Kong, with a market share of one third in the territory. The ...
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Amores Perros barks loudest at Mexican awards
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's commercial and critical success Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) has nabbed 15 nominations for the upcoming 43rd annual Ariel Awards, Mexico's Oscars. Nominations for the Altavista Films production include best picture, best director, best actor, best cinematography, best original screenplay and best directorial debut. Gonzalez Inarritu's three-story ...
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Istanbul awards overseas, local titles
Despite Turkey's financial crisis, this year's 20th International Istanbul Film Festival served up an impressive selection of films in its international competition and the strongest line-up of local films in a decade. The international competition was won by the German entry No Place To Go, directed by Oskar Roehler. The ...
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Bob Levin joins Creative Domain with global plans
Bob Levin, former president of worldwide marketing at Sony Pictures Entertainment, has joined LA-based marketing and advertising agency Creative Domain as president of newly formed Creative Domain Enterprises.He will focus on expanding the company's theatrical marketing activities beyond audiovisual, print and interactive marketing services into marketing consultations and planning, promotion, ...
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Millenium teams with Van Damme on The Monk
Jean-Claude Van Damme is to star in The Monk, an actioner to be shot in China, Bulgaria and New York and directed by Ringo Lam (City On Fire). The film marks Van Damme's third venture with Avi Lerner's Millenium Films after The Order and Replicant; Lerner, Danny Dimbort and Danny ...
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Berlin's Kosslick squares up to Cannes selectors
New Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick has warned the Cannes film festival that he will not stand idly by and see films enticed away from his programme. His stand comes hard on the heels of a line-up announcement by Cannes, which includes films by such directors as Michael Haneke, Abel Ferrara, ...
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Pussy Power roars again after Zentropa rethink
A new company Innocent Pictures is to lick Zentropa's porn for women label Pussy Power into commercial shape.Pussy Power will become a label under Innocent Pictures, which will be 50% owned by Zentropa. Innocent's Nicolas Barbano, a journalist and TV-show host, will act as distributor and creative producer, while local ...