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Ireland's Tribal looks to Bloom with Joyce adaptation
Tribal Films, the new Irish distribution and sales outfit set up in July, has announced its acquisition of all Irish rights to Sean Walsh's Bloom with plans for an early February theatrical release.Bloom (formerly Bl,.m) is an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The film's Dublin premiere will coincide with the ...
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Korean conglomerate boosts film investment
Daesung, the Korean conglomerate that invested $510,000 (W600m) in Park Chan-Wook's hit thriller Old Boy, has decided to set up a media investment fund in partnership with the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) and a trio of industrial groupsThe new fund will have some $8.2m (Won10bn) at its disposal for ...
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Mifed owners unveil strategic overhaul
As part of its drive to reinvigorate Mifed and save it from the onslaught of AFM, Fiera Milano International (FMI), the body that manages Mifed, has announced that it has officially joined forces with Cinecitta Holding and created a new company named Audiovisual Industry Promotion that will run the event ...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Dir: Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Ireland. 1999. 94 mins. Prod cos: Little Bird, in association with Tatfilm and Trigger Street Productions. Int'l sales: Icon Entertainment International (44 207 494 8100). Exec prods: James Mitchell. Prods: Jonathan Cavendish. Co-prods: Martha O'Neill, Christine Ruppert. Scr: Gerry Stembridge. DoP: Andrew Dunn. Prod des: Tony Burrough. ...
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Kinderfilmfest reveals competition five
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has confirmed five titles for its new 14plus youth film competition, which will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Anders Gustafsson's Bagland (Scratch).The Kinderfilmfest has also announced another innovation, a retrospective of works from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem.Commenting on ...
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Germany's BKN secures London Stock Exchange listing
BKN, the Cologne-based animation firm, has become the first renegade company from Germany's discredited Neuer Markt to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).The Neuer Markt was for three years home to a host of high-flying new technology and media companies. But many of the companies collapsed, were embroiled ...
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Cannes festival outlines new selection teams
Thierry Fremaux, artisticdirector of the Cannes festival, has realigned and clarified the selectionsystem for the next edition (12-23 May 2004).The festival will now havetwo Paris-based selection committees which screen and pre-select films, one forFrench films and one for foreign pictures. In a significant shift, bothcommittees are now deemed to be ...
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FabiLuce Films gets reality movie for US distribution
New York-based Fire IslandFilms' Games People Play: New Yorkhas been picked up for distribution by the new production and distributionhouse FabiLuce Films and is scheduled for US release in March 2004.Games People Play: NewYork is the first instalment in areality movie franchise conceived, produced, edited and directed by Fire Islandfounder ...
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Toronto critics opt for Lost In Translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost InTranslation won three prizes as theToronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) announced its awards for 2003. Thedramatic comedy won best picture, best male performance for Bill Murray, andbest screenplay for Coppola, who shared the prize in that category withCanadian auteur Denys Arcand for The Barbarian Invasions.Peter Jackson was ...
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ITALY
As Italy prepares to unleash its lengthy line-up of Christmas releases on Friday 19th December, the top five films at the Italian box office remained the same for the second consecutive weekend.The real surprise came from Lost In Translation and The Barbarian Invasions, whose takings increased respectively by 46% and ...
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Not On the Mouth (Pas Sur La Bouche)
Dir: Alain Resnais. France-Switzerland. 2003 115 mins.Alain Resnais and humour make strange bedfellows and his new film is grounds for divorce: Not On The Mouth is a glossy but charmless adaptation of a comic operetta and the best argument do date for Resnais, the erstwhile icon of solemn art house ...
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King cashes in at European box office
Early estimates for key European territories on New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King show the expected rise against the previous instalment has been borne out.In Germany an estimated $4.3m (Euro 3.5m) from 916 screens was taken on the film's first day, approximately 9.5% ...
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Golden Globes: full list of nominations
Best Motion Picture - DramaCold MountainThe Lord Of the Rings: The Return Of the KingMaster and Commander: The Far Side Of the World Mystic RiverSeabiscuitBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyBend It Like BeckhamBig FishFinding NemoLost In TranslationLove ActuallyActor In A Leading Role - DramaRussell Crowe Master and Commander: The ...
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ShoWest: P&A costs down in 99, says Valenti
The average cost of making and releasing a major studio picture was a massive $76m in 1999, but for the first time in several years, prints and advertising costs were down and for the second year in a row negative production costs were also down.The figures were released by Jack ...
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De Hadeln's Venice future hangs in balance
A serious question mark is currently hanging over the head of Moritz De Hadlen's position as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, after the Italian Parliament approved a new statute for the Venice Biennale, the body that manages the event on the Lido.Culture minister Giuliano Urbani, who is known ...
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Millimages comes riding to Bac's rescue
Following weeks of speculation, ailing French distributor Bac Majestic has seen French animation studio Millimages come to its financial rescue. Filen, the company personally owned by Millimages president Roch Lener, will pump Euros 3m into the company and will thus change the shareholding structure of Bac. A meeting of Bac's ...
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Luminaries to spill secrets at Berlinale's Talent Campus
Legendary production designer Ken Adam, The Lord Of The Rings cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, Indian film critic Aruna Vasudev and Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni are among the film industry luminaries lined up for five discussion events open to the general public at the Berlinale Talent Campus (8-12 Feb).The programme will kick ...
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Dutch immigration comedy wins Berlinale Panorama slot
A Dutch comedy that deals with the contentious issues of immigration and cultural identity has been selected for the Panorama-section of the upcoming 54th Berlinale (Feb 5- 15). Shouf Shouf Habibi, written by first-time director Albert ter Heerdt, tells the story of 20-year old Ap, a Moroccan boy born in ...
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Sliding Dice wraps after Romanian, Irish shoot
Production wraps today (19 Dec) on Sliding Dice, a caper movie with a serious subject set in Romania and Ireland.The film is directed by Canadian-born John Ketchum and John Riley of the UK. It describes a real-life immigration scam in which 41 Romanians obtained tourist visas for Ireland purporting to ...