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Ali takes on international contenders
Michael Mann's Muhammad Ali biopic, simply titled Ali, took on a host of major international territories this week with inconsistent results.The film, for which stars Will Smith and Jon Voight are nominated for acting awards at this month's Academy Awards, came out fighting in France where it took second place ...
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Secretary sold to multiple territories for Alibi
UK-based sales house Alibi Films International has sold a slew of international territories on its US romantic drama Secretary, including deals with Eagle Pictures for Italy and NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia.The film, which stars James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lesley Ann Warren, went to LNK for Portugal, Yehmax Film for ...
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South Korean production steps up activity
A frenzy of activity seems to have taken over South Korea's production sector. After a record 49% market share for 2001 that proved local films can make big money, more and more projects, many from the best known names in the Korean industry, are getting underway. "At the ...
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US statistics offer hope for international markets
The current health of the North American distribution and exhibition market is generally assumed to be an indicator of the aches and pains that can be expected to occur in many international territories. If so, then the industry can allow itself a cautious sigh of relief.Here is a breakdown of ...
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German producer and sales co to release Felsen
Medien & Television Muenchen (MTM), producer of the Berlinale competition film Der Felsen (A Map Of The Heart), and the film's sales agent Bavaria Film International plan to release Dominik Graf's film themselves theatrically in Germany."We are going to try an experiment", explained executive producer Andreas Bareiss of MTM. "Since ...
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Spain gets new travelling filmhouse: Club del Cine
A group of Spanish industry vets have joined to launch an innovative new project to send little-seen films out to all corners of Spain.Launching with an initial first-year budget of around Euros 240,000 largely from the pockets of its six founders, the Club del Cine will work as a kind ...
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Bavaria Film completes Grill Point, Tattoo sales
In spite of an overall quiet AFM, Bavaria Film International (BFI) completed sales on the Jury Grand Prix/Silver Berlin Bear winner Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) and newcomer Robert Schwentke's thriller Tattoo. Only three weeks after the premiere of Andreas Dresen's film in the Berlinale official competition, BFI has already sold ...
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Record number of submissions for Animation fest
A record 1,000 entries from more than 40 countries were submitted for the 11th International Animation Film Festival Stuttgart which will be staged from March 22-27 showing a total of 425 films with enlarged competition sections and a more international slant.This year, four competitive sections - International Competition, Young Animation, ...
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Fribourg fest fetes Latin America, Asia and Africa
Prominent figures of Afro-American cinema such as Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep), Billy Woodberry (Bless Their Little Hearts) and Haile Gerima (Bush Mama), and the South American documentary filmmakers Marta Rodriguez (Colombia), Vladimir Carvalho (Brazil) and Mario Handler (Uruguay) are among 50 directors who will be attending the 16th Fribourg ...
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Spain's Admira plans cash boost for Lolafilms
Spanish production house Lolafilms looks set to receive a much needed capital injection of Euros 21.6m by the end of March. Telefonica media subsidiary Admira, 70% majority owner of Lola, has proposed a refinancing scheme to balance Lola's estimated losses of Euros 11m and carry out a capital amplification with ...
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Vultures circle as Kirch misses debt repayment
Studios and other creditors are poised to pick choice morsels from the body of the Kirch group. The once glorious German media group this week also flirted with insolvency after it missed a loan repayment.According to the heavyweight Suedduetsche Zeitung Kirch is seeking to shed part of the debts accumulated ...
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Judi Dench to star in Fry's Vile Bodies adaptation
Judi Dench is expected to star in Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies that marks UK actor Stephen Fry's directing debut.The story about the fashionable 'it' crowd in 1930s London could mark the Academy Award winning actresses' next production, depending on how financing comes together. ...
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Pusher director Refn shoots English-language debut
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn starts shooting his long-anticipated English-language debut Fear X today, with John Turturro signed up to star and backing from the UK's Moviehouse Entertainment.(March 11).The cast includes US veteran James Remar, Canada's Deborah Kara Unger and Sweden's Jacqueline Ramel. Tom Sizemore signed up last year but ...
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San Sebastian, Toulouse team for Argentina promo
Argentina already has four films heading for September's San Sebastian International Film Festival after the event teamed with Toulouse's Latin American Cinema Screenings to trawl for films from Latin America.Films selected by the two events will screen to professionals in Toulouse in March before heading on to San Sebastian, Spain's ...
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Sogecable to get five more years of Columbia pics
Spanish media group Sogecable has renewed its output TV deal with Columbia Tristar International Television for another five years beginning in January 2003. The original deal, signed in 1997, gave Sogecable exclusive rights to Columbia films for its pay-TV and pay-per-view (PPV) services on platforms Canal Plus and Canal Satelite ...
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MIP-TV market seeks relevance with dates switch
MIP-TV, the Spring TV programmes market in Cannes, is to shift its dates from April to March as of next year.The move is intended to make the festival more relevant to buyers and sellers and will mean a March 24 start in 2003 compared with April 15 this year. Organisers, ...
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Ice Age
Dirs: Chris Wedge, Carlos Sladanha. US. 2002. 81 mins. It may not have the stuff to top - either commercially or creatively - Shrek and Monsters, Inc, but with its impressive computer animation, appealing characters and well-crafted blend of comedy, action and drama Ice Age certainly has the necessary ingredients ...
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ChickFlicks & Bacon & Eggs option Dud Avocado
ChickFlicks, the production company formed last year byformer New Line Cinema production president Sara Risher, has optioned the filmrights to Elaine Dundy's cult 1958 bestseller The Dud Avocado. Risher will produce the film alongside her Englishpartner Leslie Tobin Bacon of Bacon & Eggs Productions.The story of an Americangirl's rite of ...
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Lakeshore co-chairman Tom Tannabaum dies
Ted Tannabaum, theco-chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment Group, died last Thursday at his home inChicago, leaving Lakeshore in the hands of his co-chairman, partner and friendTom Rosenberg.Tannebaum had a backgroundin finance and built Chicago HMO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HMO America,from $7m in revenues in 1984 to $1bn in 1994. He ...
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The Time Machine lands at number one
Box office was up about 35%from the same weekend last year in North America as DreamWorks' lavishadaptation of HG Wells' The Time Machine opened well at number one with an estimated $22.5mat 2,944 sites. Directed by Wells' grandson Simon Wells (Balto), the film stars Guy Pearce as Alexander Hartdegen,the young ...