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Kathy Morgan reelected to chair of AFMA
Kathy Morgan, the veteran sales agent and head of Kathy Morgan International, was re-elected chairman of AFMA (aka the American Film Marketing Association) yesterday during the group's annual membership meeting. She will serve another two-year term alongside other newly elected vice chairman Robert Meyers of Meyers Film Entertainment and newly ...
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Hamburg's Digi@ward goes to Danish KAT
Filmfest Hamburg's first Digi@ward in recognition of the use of digital technology in film has gone to Henrik Danstrup, producer of Danish filmmaker Martin Schmidt's psycho-thriller KAT. Described as a cross between Cat People and Nightwatch, KAT received the first prize worth $30,652 (DM 65,000) and the promise of additional ...
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Vidocq tops French chart after slow start
After a slow start, UGC high-tech period/fantasy title Vidocq has attracted over 740,000 admissions in its first five days, topping the French charts at Sept 23The $21.4m (Ffr152m) title -- a first film by SFX specialist Pitof, which stars Gerard Depardieu and Guillaume Canet and was entirely digitally produced - ...
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Germany's H5B5 to make Oma Porat biopic
German media group H5B5 Media has acquired the exclusive rights to produce a biopic based on the eventful life of Israeli actress Orna Porat.Born as Irena Kline in Germany, she came to fame on the German stage in the 1930s and was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth. Later, ...
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Premiere World carrying Fox News Channel
In response to the recent tragic events in the US, Germany's digital platform Premiere World has decided to carry the Fox News Channel from September 25 until further notice. "In view of the currently tense political situation, we want to offer our viewers a comfortable and direct access to US ...
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Drought and political conditions halt Indian fest
The 32nd edition of the International Film Festival of India has been cancelled due to a combination of worsening local weather conditions and the international political situation.The itinerant festival had been scheduled this year to be held in Bangalore (10-20 Oct) in Karnataka province. But the region has been struck ...
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Five nods each for three British films at BIFA
Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow and Richard Parry's South West Nine lead the nominations for the fourth British Independent Film Awards held in London on Oct 24. Sexy Beast, one of the highlights of the recent resurrection of the British gangster genre, garnered a total of five ...
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Clouzot commits to Cannes Critics Week reforms
In Claire Clouzot, the Cannes Critics Week has appointed a new head who has vowed to continue the reforms of her predecessor Jose Maria Riba. Riba quit in a storm of dissent and his departure was followed by the exit of other leading members.Clouzot, the niece of Les Diaboliques director ...
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DVD fever spreads across European markets
The Charlie Chaplin classic The Great Dictator will be the closing film on February 17 at this year's Berlinale with members of the Chaplin family in attendance.In addition, a gala screening is being given of the director's cut of Milos Forman's 1984 Oscar-winning film Amadeus in the festival's Official Competition ...
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Moritzen appointed at Danish Film Institute
Marianne Moritzen has been appointed new head of development at the department for Production & Development at the Danish Film Institute following former head Lars Hermann's decision to move on to manage Egmont-owned Nordisk Film's new conglomeration of it's post-production in FilmTeknik A/S. Form Oct.1 she will be responsible for ...
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Hong Kong's largest studio gets greenlight
The largest movie studio to be built in Hong Kong has been given the greenlight to begin construction at the end of the year.Shaw Brothers has been waiting for a permit to jointly develop two pieces of land on which to build the state-of-the-art Movie City. The first piece ...
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Proliferating producer credits weave tangled web
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalEverything about the summer hit Pearl Harbor was big: the scale of the production, the array of special effects, the breadth of the marketing and the cast of thousands who got a producing credit on the film. Pearl Harbor's credit roll includes six ...
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US theatres raise $5m for Sept 11 charities
Tuesday's Victims' Benefit Day at the Movies - on which theatre owners and distributors donated all ticket and concessions sales to Sept 11 charities - raised over $5m for disaster relief.50 percent of the proceeds collected will be donated to the American Red Cross and 50 percent will be donated ...
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Winchester's Last Orders goes to Sony Classics
Winchester Films has closed a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) on Fred Schepisi's Last Orders which had its world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. SPC bought the film for North America, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.The film, which was well-received by critics and ...
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Don't Say A Word
Dir: Gary Fleder. US. 2001. 111mins.As generic as its title suggests, Don't Say A Word is a routine psychological thriller, elevated by Michael Douglas' strong presence and expert acting as an eminent yuppie shrink whose eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped by a British villain. Lacking in-depth characterisation or any feeling for ...
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Zoolander
Dir Ben Stiller. US 2001. 90 min.Profoundly silly but sporadically entertaining, Ben Stiller's Zoolander is an extremely slight and goofy farce of the fashion industry, this time around targeting male rather than female models. Based on the character that Stiller and MTV Movie Awards writer/producer Drake Sather created for the ...
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Berlin Festival launches German section for public
Next February's Berlin film festival (Berlinale) (Feb 6-17, 2002) will boast a new section highlighting German films that have particular flair or unusual and outstanding characteristics. The new section, Perspectives Of German Cinema will screen about ten contemporary films culled from the feature, documentary and experimental branches. The new section ...
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Academy Awards race starts to take shape
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThe warm-up for the race for the Oscars began this week as two UK prestige pictures - Iris and Charlotte Gray - received official US release slots in December, joining what is fast becoming one of the most competitive seasons in years.On Dec ...
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TV commercials break out into feature films
Start-up Danish production outfit, FilmPeople, has begun production on its first independent project, Polle Fiction (pictured), a feature comedy based on a TV commercial. This is only the second feature to be based on a television advertisement concept, although it is the first to go into production; as Rowan Atkinson's ...
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Cannes extends an olive branch to UK
When not one new UK feature was selected for the Cannes Film Festival this year, it caused an outburst of national soul searching. Now the British film industry has been thrown an olive branch by the festival's artistic director Thierry Fremaux.Fremaux says he wants to appoint a British correspondent who ...