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Nine Matrix short films kick off with Osiris
The Final Flight Of The Osiris, Warner Bros and Village RoadshowPictures' first in a series of nine short films envisioned by The Matrix directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, willaccompany the worldwide theatrical release of Warner Bros' supernatural thrillerDreamcatcher on Mar21. Like its counterparts in the nine-film set dubbed The Animatrix, ...
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Ingenious taps Perry for co-productions
Simon Perry, the former head of semi-private finance house British Screen Finance, has been appointed director of co-productions at major UK tax financier Ingenious Media.Perry told Screen International: "My role will not just be about feeding the sale and leaseback operations, but more involve bringing and managing projects that can ...
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Pieces Of April
Dir: Peter Hedges. US. 2003. 80 mins. Sweet, neat and oh-so-slight, Pieces Of April marks another triumph for InDigEnt, the digital film-making initiative behind Personal Velocity, Tadpole, Tape and Chelsea Walls. Budgeted at some $150,000, the film looks good and hits all the same buttons you would expect from a ...
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Fear X
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn. Denmark-UK. 2002. 91mins.Abandoning the mean streets of the Copenhagen underworld to make his first American-set feature film, Nicolas Winding Refn has crafted an intensely eerie psycho-drama that plays unnerving mind-games with the audience right through to its ambiguous and rather abrupt end. Evoking at times David ...
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Hoffman, Grant, Hayek among Goldene Kamera recipients
Dustin Hoffmann, Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Sir Elton John are among the recipients of this year's Goldene Kamera awards which will be presented by the HoerZu magazine in Berlin's Konzerthaus on the eve of the Berlinale on February 4. Hoffmann, who will also be in Berlin to present Moonlight ...
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Holocaust producer receives death threats
Veteran producer Artur 'Atze' Brauner has received death threats ahead of the special screening of his Holocaust drama Babij Yar at this year's Berlinale.84-year-old Brauner revealed that he had received anonymous telephone calls and letters in the past few weeks threatening that he would not live to see the film's ...
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Perrine Teze to step down as head of TFM
Perrine Teze, managing director of Miramax-TF1 joint French distribution venture, TFM Distrbution, is planning to leave her post and head back to the TF1 Group. According to widespread industry rumours, Teze, who is pregnant, has apparently decided to slow down her pace and will stay within the cinema arm of ...
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The War Is Over triumphs at FIPA
Italy's RAI TV series The War Is Over (La Guerra E Finita) won five golden awards and one special mention, to wind up as the main victor at this year's FIPA (Festival International de Productions Audiovisuelles) in Biarritz, France. Other winners includde German drama Mein Vater by Andreas Kleinert, Israeli ...
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Schmidt points to flying start for Entertainment
Having narrowly missed out on being the top performing UK distributor of 2002 to 20th Century Fox, Entertainment Film Distributors is off to a flying start in 2003.The company still holds two top five positions with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - placed third this week with ...
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Brown extends tenure at SPAA
Geoff Brown has been signed to a long-term contact as executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). He took on the job about 10 months ago when predecessor Joanne Yates departed after less than six months, but he has been associated with the organisation for much longer ...
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Record year for German home entertainment market
2002 looks to have been a record year for the German video and DVD market, according to the video industry trade body.According to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute, turnover for the sector increased by over 22% to Euros 1.15bn in the first eleven months of 2002 compared ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights new projects
The Swedish Film Institute has awarded funding to three new feature films and a number of documentaries.After 17 years abscence, critics' favourite Kay Pollack is set to make a highly-anticipated comeback. The director, best-known for his coming-of-age drama Children's Island (Barnens O), which was nominated for the Golden Bear at ...
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Spanish digital merger goes ahead
Today marks the deadline for Spain's Sogecable and Telefonica to accept or decline the 34 conditions placed by the Spanish government on the merger of their pay TV platforms Canal Satelite Digital and Via Digital.While there were rumours that the partners might delay their decision by a week, all other ...
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Films Distribution enjoys its inheritance
French sales house Films Distribution is doing good business with an unlikely clutch of films that it inherited from the now collapsed Mercure Distribution.In Rotterdam it closed a UK sale of Lucas Belvaux' trilogy of films An Amazing Couple (Un Couple Epatant), On The Run (Cavale) and After Life (Apres ...
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Dutch A-Film snaps up two Tigers
A-Film Distribution, the independent distributor which last year enjoyed a market share of over 15% in The Netherlands, grabbed Dutch rights to two films showing in the Tiger competition section of the Rotterdam Festival. It bought rights to Bodysong and Principles Of Lust, respectively by Simon Pummel and Penny Woolcock, ...
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Kusama, Lonergan films share Sundance jury prize
Girlfight - the story of a teenage girl boxer - and You Can Count On Me - about a brother and sister whose parents died when they were kids - tied for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition section of the Sundance Film Festival this year.Girlfight, directed by ...
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Showtime gets US rights to Arquette's Debra Winger doc
ShowtimeNetworks has picked up US rights to Searching For Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette's documentaryabout the competing demands of motherhood and being a professional actress. Thepicture had a special screening at Cannes last year and was inspired by thestory of Winger, the acclaimed star of Terms Of Endearment and An Officer ...
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Walken gets supporting actor prize at ShoWest 2003
Christopher Walken has beennamed ShoWest 2003's Supporting Actor of the Year. Walken will collecthis honour at the 29th ShoWest's annual gala awards banquet at Bally'sand Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Mar 6Walken began acting at theage of 10. After training as a dancer and winning several awards for his ...
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Palisades pledges $1m to release of Pauly Shore directorial debut
Palisades PicturesEntertainment Group has pledged a $1m print and advertising commitment to PaulyShore's directorial debut, Pauly Shore Is Dead: You'll NeverWiez In This Town Again. Thepicture, which opened the Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City last week, is asemi-autobiographical account of the ups and downs of comedian Shore'scareer and features ...
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Chicago leads the pack in SAG Award nominations
Miramax's Chicago led the pack with five SAG Awardsnominations today (Jan 28), including lead actor and actress nods for GoldenGlobe winners Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger and an ensemble cast nomination.Gere's first SAG Awards nomination pits him against fellow Golden Globewinner Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt, Adrien Brody for The ...