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ottfilm announces further distribution deal
Following the sealing of a distribution co-operation with the German office of UIP at the end of August, new theatrical distributor ottfilm has reached a further agreement with the Munich-based Filmwelt Verleih Agentur.Filmwelt, which also handles films on an agency basis for TiMe Medienvertrieb, Advanced Filmverleih and zoomfilm.de, will be ...
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Spain's Huelva fest announces line-up
Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 17-24) has announced the 12 titles which will compete for its top Golden and Silver Columbus awards in this year's 27th edition.Huelva has the difficult task of seeking films which haven't yet premiered in Spain just two months after the San Sebastian International ...
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My Voyage To Italy (Il Mio Viaggio In Italia)
Dir Martin Scorsese. Italy-US 1999. 246 min.No history book about Italian cinema (and there have been several quite good ones) can accomplish what Martin Scorsese does in this four-hour documentary. For My Voyage To Italy brings the extraordinarily rich tradition of this national cinema to life by placing it in ...
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Dinner Rush
Dir Bob Giraldi. US 2001. 94 mins.There is a lot of fun to be had in Bob Giraldi's Dinner Rush, an unpretentious, quintessentially New York independent film that recalls the kind of offbeat, low-budget pictures made in the 1970s and early 1980s, before independent cinema became a forceful movement or ...
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King, DiCaprio and Scorsese re-team for Alexander
Two years exactly since triggering a buying frenzy in London with Gangs Of New York, Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is to team with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese again on the ultimate indie epic - the story of Alexander The Great.King has bought the script Alexander in a ...
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Fortissimo gets international rights on Springtime
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Dutch-Hong Kong-based world sales group, has picked up international rights to the high-profile remake of Chinese classic Springtime In A Small Town.The new film (pictured), a story of lust unleashed on a respectable bourgeois family following the arrival of a mysterious visitor, is now being filmed ...
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Phillips, Vennis launch Moviehouse sales company
Former J&M Entertainment head of sales Gary Phillips has partnered with Mark Vennis, formerly a director of film financiers Mansfield Associates, to launch UK-based independent sales company Moviehouse Entertainment. The partners aim to handle five or six UK and US theatrical projects per year. The company is backed by private ...
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Recession watch - Part VI
In the sixth, and final, part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the corporate finance sector is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalCorporate finance activitiesShare prices have wobbled hugely since the Sept 11 atrocities - ...
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Cineart/Cinelibre restructures ownership
Belgium's leading independent distributor, Cineart/Cinelibre, has restructured its ownership, with Eliane Du Bois buying outright control after a 25 year partnership with Thierry Abel.Du Bois took over Abel's share of the business when the duo decided to separate their interests and concentrate respectively on distribution and exhibition. Cineart, the operation's ...
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Global starts pre-sales on Six Bullets From Now
Peter Elson's Global Cinema Group is launching pre-sales on Ridley Scott-produced action film Six Bullets From Now, one of three titles the US sales outfit is handling for Los Angeles production operation Miracle Entertainment.Stephen Kay, whose credits include The Last Time I Committed Suicide and Get Carter, is directing the ...
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Beyond to sell 3 Blind Mice for international
Beyond Films has signed up to handle international sales on 3 Blind Mice, starring Edward Furlong and Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of rock group Texas.The cyber thriller is slated to begin shooting in the UK during January 2002, with France's Mathias Ledoux directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with ...
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Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn gets Myriad money
Myriad Pictures has committed to fully finance romantic comedy Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, which is set to star Jennifer Love Hewitt.Hewitt, who herself played Hepburn in a recent ABC miniseries, will be directed by Ryan Murphy, the writer and producer of hit US TV show Popular. She plays ...
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Egmont takes Scandi rights to Skagerrak
Nordic major Egmont has taken Scandinavian rights to Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the veteran director's second English-language film after 1997's The Island On Bird Street.Set in the UK, Skagerrak will star Iben Hjejle (pictured), who also appeared in Kragh-Jacobsen's crowd pleasing Dogme-title, Mifune. The romantic-comedy-drama, budgeted at up to $5.5m, follows ...
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Spain chooses three foreign Oscar contenders
Penelope Cruz-starrer No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios), erotic melodrama Sex And Lucia (Lucia Y El Sexo) and period drama Juana La Loca are the Spanish Cinema Academy's three semi-finalists to compete for the country's nomination to the foreign language category of the Oscars.In accordance with the Spanish ...
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Turin festival announces first competition titles
The upcoming Turin Film Festival (November 15th-23rd)'s line-up will include James Toback's latest film, Harvard Man, Todd Solondz's Storytelling and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, organizers of the northern Italian festival announced. The festival will only reveal its full-line up on November 8th, but organizers have already confirmed that competition titles ...
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Omirbajev's Jol to open FilmFestival Cottbus
Kazakh filmmaker Dareshan Omirbajev's Jol will open this year's FilmFestival Cottbus (October 31 - November 4) which has developed into a leading international showcase spotlighting the range of production from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. German producer Peter Rommel, Directors Fortnight selector Jacques Gerber and Russian actor Ivan Shvedoff ...
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Jeepers Creepers leaps into UK box office
UK distributor Helkon SK scored a hit with its horror title Jeepers Creepers at the weekend as it claimed $2.2m (£1.5m) from 307 sites in the UK. The film, which stars Justin Long and Gina Philips, scored the best site average of any of the openers with $7,134 per venue. ...
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Chaos
Dir: Coline Serreau. France. 110mins.If there's one occupational hazard that seems to afflict comic artists at some point in their careers, it's the desire to be taken seriously and the temptation to dispense with laughter as a medium. This is what has now happened to writer-director Coline Serreau, who has ...
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The Man Who Sued God
Dir: Mark Joffe. Australia. 2001. 102 mins.Although this intelligent comedy could well have bitten deeper and challenged its heavyweight targets (God, religion, insurance) more aggressively, it's nevertheless a pleasure to welcome a widescreen entertainment so confident in its adult, humanistic stance. With an intriguing premise and a star role exactly ...
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Manitu becomes all-time German champion
After 14 weeks on release, this year's surprise summer hit Der Schuh Des Manitu has broken the 15-year record held by comedy Otto - Der Film to become the most successful German film since records began, in 1980.Michael "Bully" Herbig's Western parody clocked up total admissions of more than 8.85 ...