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Fox takes Hero for a host of Asian territories
Zhang Yimou's $31m martial arts epic Hero is set for a wide release across Asia via Twentieth Century Fox which has acquired a slew of Asian rights to the film outside China and Hong Kong.Territories snapped up by Fox include India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. The ...
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The Santa Clause 2 spreads its reach
The top three chart positions remained unchanged this week in the UK as The Santa Clause 2 took advantage of Harry Potter's 42% drop off, Pathe launched Brit-horror Deathwatch into fourth and Bond was neither shaken nor stirred from its hold on pole position.Die Another Day, distributed by 20th Century ...
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Four new Nordic children's films head for Berlin
Scandinavian children's films have always been well represented at Berlin International Film Festival's Kinderfilmfest, and next year's first edition under it's new headmaster, Thomas Hailer, will be no exception The 2003 edition will see the international premieres of four new children's films -all of which are feature debuts. Henrik ...
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Miramax Italia increases its involvement in local production
American actor Breckin Meyer will be the voice of Pinocchio in the US version of Roberto Benigni's Italian blockbuster, to be released in North America on December 25th. Meyer - whose credits include Clueless, Rat Race and The Insider - joins Glenn Close, who will dub the Blue Fairy - ...
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Slamdance unveils 16-feature lineup
Nine world premieres will be among 16 features competing for honours at the Slamdance 2003 Film Festival after organisers sifted through a record 2,800 submissions. Announcing the line-up last night (Dec 9), Slamdance director Gianna Chachere and president and co-founder Peter Baxter said the titles reflected 'youthful voices and the ...
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Menemsha takes Marooned, Taraneh
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment, which enjoyed success in 2000 with Majid Majidi's Iranian hit The Color Of Paradise, has acquired two new Iranian films for worldwide representation - Bahman Ghobadi's Marooned In Iraq and Rasoul Sadrameli's I'm Taraneh, 15 which is Iran's submission for this ...
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Genie nominations honour Ararat but not Egoyan
Atom Egoyan's epic-scale Ararat has garnered nine Canadian Genie Award nominations, including one for Best Motion Picture, but the man himself was bypassed for a Best Direction nomination as candidates for Canada's major film prize were announced. English-Canada's other prominent filmmaker, David Cronenberg, did however get nominated. His Cannes competitor ...
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UK power-directors Daldry, Winterbottom team with Rudin
Top UK directors Stephen Daldry and Michael Winterbottom have boarded pictures for Scott Rudin, the New York-based producer who is one of Paramount Pictures' chief suppliers as well as a force in US theatre.Daldry, who directed this season's highly touted awards contender The Hours for Rudin, has taken over from ...
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Dir: Michael Lange. USA. 1999. 90 mins.Prod Cos: Moonstone Entertainment, Given Films. Prods: Galt Neiderhoffer, Etchie Stroh, Daniela Soto-Taplin. Co-prods: Karen Jaroneski, Alex Orlovsky. Exec prod: Randy Simon. Scr: Caroline Doyle, Jill Kopelman. DoP: Rodney Charters. Prod des: Jody Asnes. Ed: Anita Brandt-Burgoy. Mus: Jimmy Harry. Main cast: Dominique Swain, ...
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New chairman named for Roma Studios
Tarak Ben Ammar, head of the rights-trading venture Quinta Communications, has been named chairman of Roma Studios, the newly renovated and re-opened studios which were built by producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1964.The first international picture expected to roll at the studios is Brian De Palma's upcoming movie, The Toyer. ...
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DirecTV open to new bids
Satellite broadcaster EchoStar Communications yesterday formally gave up its $18bn attempt to buy Hughes Electronics from General Motors (GM), following regulatory objections. The collapse of the deal means that other media groups are free to re-enter the bidding for Hughes and its giant DirecTV broadcast subsidiary. The sale of the ...
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Italian government set to change state funding criteria
The Italian government could soon overhaul the much-criticised way films are currently selected for state funding, and base its selection process on a picture's potential exportability rather than just its "national cultural interest."At a conference held in Rome on the sidelines of the EFA film awards, Gianni Profita, the newly-appointed ...
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Israeli Censorship Board bans Jenin camp documentary
After 15 years of inactivity, Israel's Censorship Board is back in action, and courting controversy with its ban on Wednesday of the documentary Jenin, Jenin.The board's decision to ban the public screening of the documentary shot by Israeli-Arab actor-director Mukhammad Bakkri in the Jenin refugee camp after the military incursion ...
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Yasujiro Ozu to be honoured with Berlinale retrospective
The forthcoming Berlinale (February 6-16) will devote a retrospective to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth on December 12, 2003.His most famous work Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) will be screened at the Berlinale Palast, while other works by and about Ozu will be ...
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European Film Promotion 2003 gets full MEDIA Plus support
For the first time, the pan-European marketing initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) has received confirmation of support in advance for a whole year from the European Commission's MEDIA Plus Programme rather than on a project-by-project basis. "This year-long contract will allow us the necessary lead time to develop our projects ...
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Van Warmerdam begins Grimm shoot
Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam has begun filming Grimm, a fairytale-inspired tale of a young couple who travel to Spain for a fresh start in life. The picture shoots for ten weeks in Spain, Germany and The Netherlands. World sales are by Fortissimo Film Sales.Grimm, which was also written by ...
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Transit Film picks up Fassbinder In Hollywood
Transit Film has picked up international sales on Robert Fischer's documentary Fassbinder In Hollywood which was produced to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the legendary German director's untimely death in June 1982.The production by Fischer's Fiction FACTory and Ulli Lommel's Los Angeles-based company Lavida looks at Fassbinder's relationship to ...
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UK's Midnight Transfer brings post-production investment to Prague
Prague Studios has received financing from the UK's Midnight Transfer to expand the Czech studios to include a post-production facility.According to Prague Studios head Tomas Krejci Midnight Transfer, a post-production house with facilities in London's Soho and Twickenham Film Studios, plans to build editing facilities at the former aircraft ...
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Magic Lamp Releasing to produce Afghan doc
US distributionand services company Magic Lamp Releasing announced today (Dec 11) it is movinginto production with the documentary Life After War - The Sarah Chayes Story, based on American efforts to rebuildAfghanistan. Inspired by an idea from Marla Lewin Halperin, who has handled publicityand promotions on Magic Lamp's five releases, ...
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New Line, Alliance Atlantis renew vows till 2005
Alliance Atlantis and NewLine Cinema have renewed their long-running subdistribution deal that sees theUS company's output released through the Canadian company'sreleasing arm. The deal, first signed in 1989, covers all New Line and FineLine motion pictures in all media in Canada and runs until Dec. 31, 2005.Powered by such New ...