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Venice fest denies Barbera resignation reports
The Venice Film Festival has denied reports that artistic director Alberto Barbera has already resigned from his position. Rumours about Barbera's resignation and replacement began to emerge at the end of last week, when the Venice Biennale's board of directors stepped down three months before their contract officially expired. ...
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Mickie switches back to sales at Alliance Atlantis
Charlotte Mickie, to manythe international face of Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications, hasbeen promoted to managing director, international motion picture sales, at itsEntertainment Group, returning to a sales role at the company which last monthaxed over 80 staff and dramatically reduced its feature film department.Locatedat the company's head office, Mickie will ...
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Lagaan gets second US release, now through SPC
Sony Pictures Classics willgive Ashutosh Gowariker's Indian epic Lagaan a new theatrical outing in the US in the late springamid buzz that the 223 minute-film received a rapturous reception at itsAcademy Award foreign language film committee screening. The Academy Awardnominations are announced next Tuesday (Feb 12).The film was released on ...
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LAFF and sponsor Target offer top prize of $50,000
The 2002 Los Angeles FilmFestival is to introduce a new prize awarded to the director of the bestdramatic feature in competition worth $50,000. IFP/West executive director DawnHudson unveiled the award yesterday which will be furnished by thefestival's key sponsor Target, one of the biggest retail store circuitsin the US.The prize, ...
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Fox International ups key execs McLaren, Hanneman
20th Century FoxInternational, the recently created division of the studio which combinesinternational theatrical and international home entertainment divisions underStephen Moore, has promoted three of its key executives.Mary McLaren, who waspreviously executive vice president for home entertainment international, hasbeen promoted to executive vice president of business operations for 20thCentury Fox International, ...
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Heaven
Dir: Tom Tykwer. 2001. Germany/US. 97mins.If Run Lola Run was Tom Tykwer's breakthrough film, then the Miramax-backed Heaven is his first big commercial test. The message that we are in very different territory from his smart and stylish 1999 indie hit is made clear in the posters plastering Tykwer's hometown ...
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Winchester boss faces share-selling investigation
Winchester Entertainment chief executive Gary Smith could reportedly face an investigation after selling shares in the UK media concern less than two weeks before it issued a profit warning on revenues.Smith sold 400,000 shares for $837,400 thirteen days before the company warned full-year results would be below those of the ...
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Berlinale 2002 gets under way - Heaven can wait
The stars and the crowds turned out in force for Tom Tykwer's opening night film Heaven. The high security gala ceremony, with 2,500 guests, was attended by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, star Cate Blanchett and Miramax Films' co-chief Harvey Weinstein. Co-producers Maria Köpf and Anthony Minghella, Blanchett and Tykwer also ...
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Thailand's Major Cineplex sets IPO for June
Thai cinema operator Major Cineplex is set to become the country's dominant exhibitor after announcing plans to float shares on the stock exchange of Thailand (SET) in June. The initial public offering (IPO) of 20m shares at a value of five baht each will be used to fuel the circuit's ...
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Spain's Grupo Planeta launches documentary arm
Spain's Grupo Planeta has launched new documentary production-distribution label "Planeta D" to be overseen in the group's Barcelona headquarters by former Media Park executive Jonathon South.Capitalising on the current popularity of documentaries in Spain, Planeta envisions the new division as "the brand of reference of documentaries of prestige in Spain."Planeta ...
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FilmFour, Karlsen team Together on two projects
FilmFour is teaming withElizabeth Karlsen's production outfit Number 9 on two new projects- an English language remake of Lukas Moodysson's Swedish hit Together and a film of the cult novel The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin, to which they have optionedthe rights.The Together remake will be set in the ...
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Beatty gets lifetime nod at San Francisco Fest
Warren Beatty will receivethe Akira Kurosawa Award for lifetime achievement in film directing at the 45thSan Francisco International Film Festival (Apr 18-May 2). The award will bepresented to Beatty on Thursday April 25 at Film Society Awards Night at SanFrancisco's Argent Hotel.The presentation willinclude a compilation of clips from Beatty's ...
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Pinewood Shepperton backs new Toronto studio
A major film and television production facility is set to be built in Toronto with the participation of the UK's Pinewood Shepperton Studios and its partners including Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. If approved for land-use permits, the 1.2m sq. ft. studio will feature as many as 16 sound stages ...
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Cool And Crazy tops Amanda awards at Haugesund
Knut Erik Jensen's documentary Cool and Crazy about a male choir from a remote arctic town took home two Amanda Awards, for best Norwegian film and best documentary at this year's Haugesund Film Festival. With more than half a million admissions, Cool and Crazy has become the second best attended ...
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Eight Women (Huit Femmes)
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 2002. 103mins.Clearly not one to be stuffed into a stylistic straitjacket, the erratic, highly talented Francois Ozon has flamboyant fun with Eight Women (Huit Femmes), an old-fashioned Agatha Christie-ish whodunnit made over as high camp with songs and an all-female cast. Although it will no ...
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Asterix breaks French 5-day opening record
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre drew a phenomenal 2.96 million admissions during its first five days on release in France, breaking the all-time record previously held by another French film (and another sequel) Taxi 2, which saw 2.95 million tickets sold.Pathe Distribution released the Asterix & Obelix sequel on a ...
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Miramax takes on Zhang Yimou's Hero
The ever-voracious Miramax has pounced on Hero, the big-budget historical adventure whose post-production kept director Zhang Yimou away from Berlin this week. The film is getting good word of mouth in Asia where it is being compared with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Miramax grabbed all rights in North America, Latin ...
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Canada enjoys 17% rise in 'runaway productions'
Canadian film and television production increased to $3.3bn in 2000-2001 against $2.84bn in 1999-2000, driven in large part by a 17% increase in foreign location shooting - often referred to as "runaway production" by US film industry lobbyists. According to figures released today (Feb 7) by the Canadian Film and ...
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$25m Rhythm Section to shoot in Berlin this year
The German-UK partners behind zombie video game adaptation Resident Evil are planning to return to Berlin this year to shoot The Rhythm Section, a large-scale thriller that sets a Nikita-style story in the German capital.The $25m-$30m production is being developed through the long-term production partnership between leading German producer Bernd ...
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Nazi image set to fire up Berlin film festival
A crucifix parodied as a Nazi swastika, hung only a few hundred metres from Hitler's famous bunker in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, is certain to spark controversy at the Berlin festival as well as among the city's populace.The gruesome image (pictured) is the poster for Costa-Gavras' Amen, which gets its ...