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Swiss Film Prize nominations announced
Local box-office hit Ernstfall In Havanna, Locarno competition entry Otre Il Confine and the documentary Forget Baghdad are among the films nominated in five categories for the Swiss Film Prize 2003 whose winners will be announced during the Solothurn Film Days on January 22, 2003.The Film Prizes will be decided ...
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Bond regains control of the UK box office
Die Another Day, 20th Century Fox's James Bond film, triumphed at the UK box office this weekend dropping off just 22% from its launch weekend and stealing the top spot from Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. The Bond title claimed $8.3m (£5.4m) from 431 sites over ...
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MGM wins back German pay-TV rights
MGM has regained further control of its extensive film library by renegotiating a deal with Degeto, the rights trading associate of German public channel ARD. Titles returning to MGM include Raging Bull, Moonstruck and Midnight Cowboy, as well as some Rocky and Pink Panther pictures.The new deal sees MGM able ...
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CineMart unveils 2003 projects
The CineMart project market (Jan 26-30) held under the umbrella of the Rotterdam film festival, unveiled what its organisers claimed is one of its strongest ever line-ups. "We had a terribly difficult time making the final selection," said Ido Abram, Cinemart chief. "That was because we had more projects thatn ...
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Fox takes $31.6m over weekend from 19 countries with Die Another Day
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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James Bond: international hit man
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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Sundance announces 2003 Premieres, World Cinema titles
Sundance 2003'sstar-studded festival programme will officially open in Salt Lake City on Jan16th with Levity, thedirectorial debut of Hollywood screenwriter Ed Solomon that headlines Billy BobThornton as a released murderer on the road to redemption. The festival endsten days later.Other highlights in thePremiere section, which was announced yesterday alongside the ...
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Hero under the hammer
In an unusual move, Chinese video rights to Zhang Yimou's widely-anticipated martial arts epic Hero were sold at an auction last week in Beijing, where they fetched a record-breaking $2.15m (RMB17.8m).Around 18 companies paid a deposit of $36,000 (RMB300,000) to join the bidding, which started at $965,000 (RMB8m). The film ...
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Vivendi to choose between entertainment and telecoms
Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Rene Fourtou yesterday announced that he had approval from the corporation's board for a Euros 4bn bid to take over mobile phones group Cegetel. He also revealed that he is not committed to the group staying in the entertainment business.Vivendi Universal currently owns entertainment properties including ...
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Sundance 2003: the complete programme
PREMIERESLEVITYDir: Ed SolomonAfter serving 19 years for killing a teenager in an attempted robbery, a man (Billy Bob Thornton) encounters a mysterious minister (Morgan Freeman) and two needy women (Dunst and Hunter) in his search for redemption. Sony Pictures Classics will release this Sundance Opening Night film stateside, with StudioCanal ...
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Academy slays Warrior's Oscar ambitions
The Warrior producer Bertrand Faivre has expressed his frustration at the American Academy's decision to bar the acclaimed production from competing as the UK entry for the foreign language Oscars.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences said this week its committee members voted against The Warrior because Hindi was ...
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VIF Distribution launched as successor to German film fund
The Babelsberg-based management company VIF Distribution has been created as a successor to VIF International Films to handle the administration of three German media funds VIF 1, VIF 2 and VIP which co-produced 12 international productions including Michael Moore's box-office success Bowling For Columbine, Renny Bartlett's Eisenstein and Peter Sehr's ...
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New chief appointed at Hamburg Film Festival
Albert Wiederspiel has been appointed successor to Josef Wutz as head of Filmfest Hamburg and will take up his new post from January 1, 2003.With over 17 years experience in the international film industry for such companies as 20th Century Fox, PolyGram/Universal Pictures and most recently as head of distribution ...
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NATPE: Carlton picks up world rights to Wilderness
Carlton America has picked up worldwide distribution rights to Wilderness Love, a TV movie which stars Valerie Bertinelli.The picture to be produced by Grossbart/Barnett Productions in association with Carlton America, will get its US premiere on CBS later this year. The story is about three children who rekindle love between ...
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'Valley-wood' takes a step closer to reality
Maybe it's his infectious sense of enthusiasm; but when Lord Attenborough boards business projects, things seem to happen.As well as winning eight Oscars for Gandhi in 1982, Attenborough was the founding chairman of Capital Radio, London's most successful radio station in 1972 and founding deputy chairman of the UK's Channel ...
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Lilja 4-Ever scoops Gijon top prize
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever walked away the top winner from Spain's 40th annual edition of the Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 21-29).Lilja took home the best film and best actress (Oksana Akinshina) awards as well as the young jury prize for best film. Iain Dilthey took home a best director ...
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New Zealand promotes itself as giant film studio
The Studio New Zealand brand partnership, which promotes the notion that the whole country can be a film studio, was launched today in Wellington. At the event, 11 of the country's local government authorities and regional film offices were presented with certificates confirming that they were meeting the terms of ...
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Walt Disney Japan faces potentially damaging lawsuit
Japanese buyers of the DVD version of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away have filed a potentially damaging suit against distributor Walt Disney Japan, claiming that the colour of the film is "totally different" from that of the theatrical release. The suit, filed by three consumers in Kyoto District Court, asks for ...
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TiVo, Replay uptake threatening broadcaster revenues
Within a few years television viewers will have little problem avoiding advertising thanks to the combination of video-on demand (VoD) and the spread of personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo or Replay. That is clearly a threat to the traditional broadcast model and ultimately for the film and TV productions ...