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Toronto delivers best of the fests
Last year's 25th anniversary smash was such a success, it is hard to imagine how Toronto would keep up the intensity for so under-whelming a figure as 26. And yet far from an anti-climax, Toronto 2001 already has a buzz about it; albeit not one that will necessarily ...
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Monte Carlo launches comedy film festival
Undaunted by the closure of its TV market, Monte Carlo is to launch its first ever film festival. The first edition, dedicated entirely to comedies, will run from November 19-24, 2001.The festival is the brainchild of Ezio Greggio, impressario and head of event organiser WTT Company. While it has yet ...
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Pearl Harbor takes international box office crown
Critically mauled World War II epic Pearl Harbor, the latest from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, had the last laugh when it crossed $430m in worldwide box office gross to win the summer blockbuster war and claim the title of most successful film worldwide for 2001 so far.As US Labor Day weekend, ...
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French TPS and CanalSatellite merger mooted
Following the resignation of TF1's chairman Patrick Le Lay from his position as chairman of French digital satellite service TPS, a potential merger or at least an alliance between TPS and Canal Plus-rival service CanalSatellite no longer seems so far-fetched.Most observers see Le Lay's departure from TPS - where he ...
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Reviews
L.I.E.
Dir Michael Cuesta. US2001. 97minutes One of the most powerful films to hit movie screens this year, L.I.E. (short for Long Island Expressway) is sure to generate controversy and spark heated debate wherever it plays. Slapped with an NC-17 rating, it is a coming-of-age drama about a troubled 15-year old ...
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Berlin Film Festival selects Screen International
Screen International is proud to announce that it has been selected to publish the exclusive festival dailies at the forthcoming Berlin film festival (Berlinale) in February 2002. Festival director Dieter Kosslick said: "For me it is the first time that I am organising the Berlinale and it is the first ...
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Miramax grabs Warrior, Paramount loves Triumph
Attesting to the slow pace of deal-making at the festival, Miramax made the highest profile acquisition during Venice, with a film that is not even screening at the event. And Paramount Classics grabbed competition film The Triumph Of Love.Miramax nabbed large chunks of international rights to Himalayan adventure picture, The ...
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Poland anticipates record year at the box office
The Polish cinema industry is staging a vigorous come-back after disastrous results in 2000, that saw admissions and box office plummet by 29.8%. Three Polish films have already topped the national box office chart this year, and three forthcoming local titles are expected to boost the territory's box office to ...
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Jeremy Thomas and Grosvenor Park go to court
A battle between veteran UK producer Jeremy Thomas and Grosvenor Park, one of the leading corporate players in the upstart UK tax-financing sector, is set to spill over into court.The dispute between Thomas and the UK tax-financing operation headed by Don Starr is to go to court in December, marking ...
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Bollywood hopeful to get unprecedented release
India may have delivered yet another in a growing trend of critical and commercial hits with Asoka, the latest Bollywood film to break onto the festival circuit. Even before the Santosh Sivan-directed epic had its world premiere in Venice, it was gaining commercial momentum in one of its key markets. ...
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French revolution at International box office
Regular scrutinisers of the box office charts will discover that the majority of this week's international territories contain a common feature: French productions. While it is common to see the same US titles grace the charts of every territory, it is less usual to see the films of other countries ...
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French revolution at international box office
Regular scrutinisers of the box office charts will discover that the majority of this week's international territories contain a common feature: French productions. While it is common to see the same US titles grace the charts of every territory, it is less usual to see the films of other countries ...
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Mifed to have US and Asian flavour
Italy's autumn film market, Mifed (Oct 28-Nov 1) is set to be a heavily US and Asian dominated affair, according to the latest registrations. The market's organisers also hit back at suggestions that it is an expensive market to attend. Rassegne, the semi-private company that replaced the Fiera Milano as ...
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Political advocate to head Oz producers' body
Joanne Yates' appointment as executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) suggests that the organisation wants to increase its political influence in Canberra, where many regulatory and funding decisions are made.For the past five years Yates has been an advisor to the Democrats, a political party which ...
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Oz AFI awards return to commercial TV
The Seven Network will both produce and broadcast live the Emirates Australian Film & Television Awards at a date yet to be set but timed to take place alongside the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia, being held in Melbourne from November 14 to 17. It is ...
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Huppert to head Schroeter's next project
Isabelle Huppert, the acclaimed French actress who won the acting Palme at Cannes earlier this year for Austrian film The Piano Teacher, is to head the cast in iconic German director Werner Schroeter's next project. Schroeter's untitled project is the life story, from infancy to 45 years of age, of ...
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Scorsese to present Sokurov's Waterloo
Martin Scorsese is to lend his name to the hugely ambitious new production by Russian auteur Aleksandr Sokurov.Scorsese will "present" Sokurov's Waterloo, a film which will concentrate on Napoleon. The picture is set to be Sokurov's third film in his tetralogy about men in power, after Taurus (which focused on ...
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Thirty film censors gather in Dublin
The Conference of European Classifiers takes place in Dublin 6-8 September after an opening reception hosted by Minister for Justice John O'Donoghue, under whose Government Department film censorship is dealt with in Ireland. Thirty film classifiers - generally known as film censors - are expected to attend from as far ...
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Abel Ferrara's R-X'mas to open Turin
Abel Ferrara's R-X'mas has been set as the opening night film of the next edition of the Turin festival (Nov 15-23). The festival boasts a competition section with a $18,395 (Lira40m) first prize for best feature, a short film competition, an Italian feature competition and the DOC Competition, worth $13,800 ...
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Germany's ProSiebenSat1 and Kirch Media to merge
The executive board of German TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed in principle with Kirch Media to merge the two companies by the end of June 2002. The new entity will be listed on the exchange as Kirch Media, ProSiebenSat.1 according to a statement. Kirch Media is the TV rights trading ...