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Film Company takes off with Palm's Spaceman
UK-based sales outfit The Film Company (TFC) has secured worldwide rights to Spaceman, winner of the audience award for best competition feature at the Austin Film FestivalTFC acquired the film from Palm Pictures, which picked up the title following positive US reviews from its festival run. Directed by Internet humorist ...
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Freaky Friday
Dir: Mark Waters. US. 2003. 97mins.An original remake sounds like an oxymoron, but the new Freaky Friday, Disney's reworking of its own 1976 film, is smart, energetic and loads of fun. Indeed, it is almost as good as The Parent Trap, a 1998 Disney re-make that, not so coincidentally, starred ...
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Saban's German bid accepted
KirchMedia's creditors have approved US media mogul Haim Saban's offer to buy a controlling stake in Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 media group.The insolvent KirchMedia announced that its creditor committee had voted unanimously to accept the proposal of insolvency administrator Michael Jaffe to sell KirchMedia's shares in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG to Saban Capital ...
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Arnie heats up the UK box office
A return of the high summer temperatures affected a lot of films in the UK this weekend, but Columbia TriStar's Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines rode the heatwave with a massive $9.8m (£6.1m) gross from 478 sites playing 762 prints.The launch figures included Thursday previews of $1.7m (£1.05m) from ...
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Oz cheaper than Canada for runaway shoots says report
A Hollywood producer would save significant amounts of money shooting a big budget film in Australia compared to Canada, according to a report published this week.The report, which was produced by Sydney's best-known film accountancy firm for the Australian Government, concludes that a Hollywood producer would save 7.5% if he ...
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Bavaria picks up world sales for San Sebastian film
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up world sales rights for Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay's In The City (En La Ciudad), the follow-up to his internationally successful Krampack.Starring Monica Lopez, Eduard Fernandez and Leonor Watling, the tragicomedy about a group of friends who gradually discover the truth about one another ...
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Screen International to sponsor EFA prize
Screen International is once again to sponsor a major prize at the European Film Awards.The Prix Screen International will be presented to the best non-European film at this year's Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Saturday Dec 6.Nominations for all categories will be unveiled in the first week ...
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Rings fever hits Japan early
Japanese distributor Nippon Herald Films has sold a record number of advanced tickets to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - even though it does not open in Japan until Spring 2004.13,645 advanced tickets were sold on August 2 in nine key cities for the third ...
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Everett boards cast of France's Jet Set 2
British actor Rupert Everett has joined the cast of Jet Set 2, the sequel to hit French film of 2000, which is set to start shooting in Ibiza in September.Miramax acquired remake and US distribution rights to the original French-language comedy Jet Set (Screen Daily, May 23, 2000). A "fish-out-of-water" ...
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Hong Kong submits Affairs for Oscar consideration
Blockbuster action thriller Infernal Affairs has been selected as Hong Kong's official entry for the best foreign-language category of the 76th Academy Awards. The selection was unveiled by Crucindo Hung, chairman of the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong. The choice of Infernal Affairs was unanimous.Infernal Affairs topped ...
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Memories Of Murder (Salinui Chueok)
Dir: Bong Joon-Ho. Korea. 2003. 129mins.Memories Of Murder is one of the most complete and compelling films to have come out of South Korea in recent years. Set up as a detective thriller, the film is by turn mysterious, dramatic, creepy and corroding - and it comes loaded with a ...
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Korea lures co-producers with incentive funding
Korea's newly-galvanised film commission, KOFIC, is courting international partners to rebuild the country's recovering film industry with $3m in government cash.KOFIC's international business chief Paul Yi has been in Berlin alerting potential production and distribution partners to the government's new pro-film structures. These include $15m of incentive funding, at least ...
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Le Divorce
Dir: James Ivory. US/France. 2003. 115mins.It's no coincidence that Kate Hudson's character is named Isabel Walker, a thinly disguised Isabel Archer, in Merchant Ivory's latest film Le Divorce. Diane Johnson, herself an American who has lived in Paris, wanted to update the Henry James concept of American naifs being influenced ...
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UK launch for black film-makers sales outfit
Former High Point senior sales executive Sarah Chammartin has launched a new sales company which will specialise in handling films by black film-makers.Based in the UK and called Carre Noir Film, Chammartin says the aim is provide films by black film-makers to black communities around the world. Chammartin is currently ...
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Film-makers line up Indian Pakistani co-production
London based film producer Sevy Ali and well known Indian film maker Mahesh Bhatt are working together on an Indian Pakistani co-production. The yet to be titled film is a love story set against the backdrop of violence and turmoil that occurred during "partition" - the separation of Pakistan and ...
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Germany secures future of film funds
Germany's Federal Finance Ministry has amended the way German media funds operate, bringing both an end to months of uncertainty about their future and giving investors more control over films in their portfolio.Last year, the future of German funds came under threat after the Finance Ministry proposed tighter regulations governing ...
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Argentinian films hunt for funding at Locarno
The Locarno International Film festival (August 6-16), which kicked off last night, is to hold a co-production workshop focusing entirely on projects from Argentina.New projects by Diego Lerman, director of the Silver Leopard-winning Tan De Repente in Locarno last year, Pablo Trapero (El Bonaerense), Santiago Loza (Extrano) and Juan Manuel ...
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UK Film Council plans nationwide film school network
The UK Film Council is understood to be planning a nationwide network of state-of-the-art film schools.The ambitious initiative is expected to be proposed next month when the Council, the UK's leading source of National Lottery cash, unveils the results of a high-powered training working group it launched in February with ...
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Lerner named vp, Lewis, Winters hired at Bumble Ward & Assocs
Veteran entertainmentpublicist BeBe Lerner has been promoted to vice president at BeverlyHills-based PR company Bumble Ward & Associates (BWA).Ward, the company presidentwho founded BWA in 1994, has also brought in James Lewis as a publicist andpublic relations and marketing executive Rochelle Winters to spearhead thecompany's corporate division.'It is not anexaggeration ...