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Indican takes US rights to Two Men Went To War
Indican Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the UK comic drama Two Men Went To War.The film is an Ira Trattner Production for Little Wing Films directed by John Henderson and co-written by Richard Everett and Christopher Villiers.The deal was struck after the film screened at the recent Hollywood ...
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EFA to honour Chabrol, di Palma
The European Film Academy is to honour Claude Chabrol and Carlo di Palma at its forthcoming awards ceremony.Chabrol, whose credits include Le Beau Serge, Jours Tranquilles A Clichy, Madame Bovary and La Fleur Du Mal, will receive the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 2003. Di Palma will receive the ...
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BFI launches online film archive service
As part of a move to make its vast film and television collection more accessible to the public, the British Film Institute (bfi) has launched a new website featuring footage from its archives.Clips of films dating back to the late 19th Century can be viewed on the site, which is ...
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McKenzie promoted to vice president at WBITD
AlastairMcKenzie has been promoted to vice president, legal & business affairs,Europe, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).McKenzie waspreviously director, legal & business affairs, Europe, and in his new rolewill have an expanded role in all aspects of legal and business affairs for thedivision. He will continue to focus on ...
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UK industry partners with Orange for cinema day
The UK has launched a so-called cinema day offering users of mobile phone network Orange two tickets for the price of one on Wednesdays.The three-year initiative, developed with pan-industry promotional body All Industry Marketing (AIM), has secured exclusive promotion in at least 90% of UK cinemas. As part of the ...
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UGC reopens Dublin multiplex
The Irish production, distribution and exhibition trades turned out in force on Nov 25 for the re-opening of UGC's Euros 13m upgrade of their Dublin site. The site is already one of the company's top locations in the Ireland/UK territory, UGC Commercial Director Mike Thomson told ScreenDaily.com at the launch."With ...
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German public embraces film piracy
The illegal copying of feature films onto CDs and DVDs or by downloading from the Internet is becoming more acute in Germany, according to a new study commissioned by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).5.1m people burnt approximately 30.1m feature films onto 63m blank CDs and DVDs in the first ...
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Rosenstrasse producer joins Canada's True West
Germany's Henrik Meyer, one of the producers of Margarethe von Trotta's Venice prize-winner Rosenstrasse, has joined Elizabeth Yake's British Columbia-based production outfit True West Films as a vice president and partner.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this year's Mannheim Co-Production Meetings, Yake explained that they had both been looking for international partners ...
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Diaphana backs Cesar winner's first feature
Delphine Gleize, who has just received the best short film Cesar for Sale Batards, is preparing her first feature, Carnages. French distributor Diaphana is backing the FFr20m film, set in the world of bull-fighting, which Jerome Dopffer of Balthazar Productions is producing. Dopffer produced most of Gleize's short films. Gleize ...
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Denmark's Ost takes trio from Brussels AVE
Danish distributor Ost for Paradis has picked up all rights to three titles handled by Belgian-based Brussels AVE, in a deal struck at this week's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.The films are Mannheim-Heidelberg's International Competition film I Always Wanted To Be A Saint (J'ai Toujours Voulu Etre Une Sainte) by Luxembourg ...
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Post houses create£1.4bn special effect for UK economy
The UK post-production industry generated £1.39bn in revenues in 2002 and employs 15,000 people, according to a comprehensive new study of the sector published today (Nov 27) by the UK Film Council.The report - Post-production in the UK - concludes that the UK post sector ranks with the USA and ...
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Mushroom, Rialto tie up production joint venture
Australian production outfit Mushroom Pictures (Chopper, Gettin' Square) and Auckland based distributor Rialto Entertainment have formed a joint venture to produce thrillers and contemporary horror movies along the lines of 28 Days Later.The aim for the initial 18-month period of the deal is to develop, finance, produce and distribute a ...
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The Haunted Mansion
Dir: Rob Minkoff. US. 2003. 98 mins.Disney's latest attempt to turn a theme park attraction into a movie relies on impressive design and effects work and a warmly funny performance from Eddie Murphy to pep up an otherwise rather anaemic ghosts'n'ghouls family comedy adventure. The selling points may well prove ...
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Miyazaki breaks with architectural project
Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) has publicly disassociated himself from a planned community to be built on a man-made island in Hakata Bay, near the city of Fukuoka. Earlier this month Fukuoka mayor Kotaro Yamazaki announced a project to build a community for 1,500 families based on sketches drawn ...
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Diagonale dismisses Austrian film curator
With just over three months to go, the beleaguered 'official' Diagonale 04 festival has given its Austrian films curator Wolfgang Ainberger his marching orders after his criticism of the festival's directors was made public in the Austrian media last week (ScreenDaily.com, 24 Nov 2003).In an official statement, the Diagonale's director ...
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Balkan Fund hands out script grants at Thessaloniki
Four film projects from four southeastern European countries have received the first grants to be handed out by the Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).The projects to receive 10,000 Euros each are: The Journey, writer/director/producer Artan Minarolli, Albania;Grbavica, writer/ ...
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Carlton strikes Spanish deals for Film Collection
Carlton International has struck two deals with Spanish distributors to handle its Carlton Film Collection.Manga Films has taken TV and video rights for the entire Korda Library, which features 33 classic films. This is an expansion of a previous deal, with new titles now added including such as The Scarlet ...
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The Missing
Dir: Ron Howard. US. 2003. 135mins.The versatile Ron Howard stirs up a melange of story elements in The Missing and the result, perhaps surprisingly, is a consistently engaging tale that is part stoic western, part spooky thriller and part dysfunctional family drama. Selling such a hard-to-categorise item to mainstream audiences ...
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Manga snags Kill Bill for Spain
Barcelona-based Manga Films has snagged theatrical, video and DVD rights in Spain to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and will give attendees at the local Sitges International Film Festival (Nov 27-Dec 7) a sneak preview of Volume 1 on Saturday.It looks unlikely that Tarantino will attend the festival, which kicks off ...
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Top auteurs give support to human rights fest
An initiative to create a multi-territory festival aiming to use film to promote awareness for human rights issues has garnered glittering support from the film industry. Dubbed Europa-Europa, the start-up event has brought together a leading director from each participating country's industry with the inaugural edition aiming to draw attention ...