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Scooby-Doo
Dir: Raja Gosnell. US. 2002. 86 mins.Corporate film-making has become so transparent these days that Hollywood studios are not even making a pretence of masking their priorities on a project like Scooby-Doo. Moving at a pace so frenetic it makes MTV look stately, and blanketed in radio-friendly pop tunes (rock ...
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Stark contrast in 2002 cinema admissions across Europe
Following news that 2002's US box office is running some 20% ahead of last year, results from European territories are revealing some stark contrasts in box office fortunes for the first five months of this year.According to the Danish Film Institute, 2002 could be the most profitable in 20 years ...
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National Amusements becomes first Int'l exhibitor in Russia
National Amusements has announced plans to build Russia's largest cinema, an 11-screen multiplex in Moscow, making it the first major international exhibitor to venture into the Russian market.Called Kinostar, the new complex will be built and operated by Rising Star Media, a new joint venture set up by National Amusements ...
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Hong Kong's FilMart to be biggest event yet
The sixth Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (FilMart) is set to be the biggest yet, with a 23% increase in the number of pre-registered buyers to 1,400, according to organisers, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC).Exhibitor numbers for the three-day event, which kicks off Wednesday (June 26), ...
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US producer Saban Entertainment joins KirchMedia bidders
US producer Haim Saban is set to join the growing list of bidders for the insolvent KirchMedia, albeit in collaboration with further strategic partners, according to the latest issue of the German news weekly Focus.The magazine reported that Saban Entertainment, a regular business partner of Kirch in the past, ...
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Spain's Lolafilms secures Euros 18m capital boost
The financial restructuring of Spain's Lolafilms has concluded with majority backer Admira and Lola CEO Andres Vicente Gomez both subscribing to the Euros 18m capital amplification for the company. Gomez lifts his interest in Lola from 13% to 30% after buying out minority shareholders, while Admira - the media unit ...
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Cat bags Spain's top Cinema Jove prize
Korean director Jeong Jae-Eun took home the top Valencian Moon award Saturday from Spain's youth-oriented Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June15-22) for his debut feature film, Take Care Of My Cat (Go Yang I Rul Boo Tak Hae). The tale of five childhood friends grappling with young adulthood walked away ...
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Gaia's new Golden Prize goes to Heaven
The newly-launched Gaia International Film Festival of Portugal closed its first annual edition Saturday night (june 22) with the awarding of its non-monetary Golden Prize for Best Film to Tom Tykwer's Heaven. Guillermo del Toro won the festival's Silver Prize for The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo) and the ...
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Beckham scores in Sydney
Bend It Like Beckham won the Euros 15,000 Prix UIP for best European film on Friday 21 June at Sydney Film Festival closing night and was voted the most popular film by audiences at one of the event's two venues. Another UK film, Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, was voted best ...
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Fox South Africa switches from Ster Kinekor to Nu Metro
After 37 years distributing its product theatrically through Ster Kinekor in South Africa, 20th Century Fox is transferring its theatrical business to rival distributor/exhibitor Nu Metro from the 1 August 2002. Nu Metro has handled the video distribution of Fox product since 1994 and the decision is seen as a ...
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German Camera Awards announced
Directors of photography Peter Nix (Wie Feuer Und Flamme) and Hans-Guenther Buecking (Der Tanz Mit Dem Teufel) were among the prize-winners at this year's German Camera Awards in Cologne, which also included an Honorary Award for veteran cinematographer Juergen Juerges.Other Awards went to Matthias Fleischer for the short Der Kuscheldoktor, ...
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Photo finish for Minority Report and Lilo & Stitch
In a photo finish race at the North American box office, 20th Century Fox's epic futuristic thriller Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise topped the chart with an estimated $36.9m, just $1m ahead of Buena Vista's animated comedy Lilo & Stitch which took $35.8m. Whether those ...
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Cinema Expo highlights importance of local product
Media Salles' Focus On Europe seminar at the Cine Expo exhibition conference in Amsterdam today, highlighted the importance of local films in creating sustainable box office growth across European territories.Total admissions in Europe's 11 main cinema markets have risen by 41.76% from 1992, according to Media Salles' data. Significantly, ...
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Minority Report
Dir: Steven Spielberg. US. 2002. 145 minsThe work of the late Philip K Dick has been a fertile source for films since Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1982. The latest gloomy futuristic vision, from a 1956 Dick short story, is Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, which takes themes from Blade Runner, ...
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The Children Of God
Dir: Hiroshi Shinomiya. Japan. 2001. 105mins.A documentary about children who scavenge for a living in a Philippine trash dump may sound like depressing fare, but Children Of God director Hiroshi Shinomiya has found strength and dignity in his subjects, as well as human dramas that make for compelling, if occasionally ...
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Dear Fidel (Lieber Fidel - Maritas Geschichte)
Dir. Wilfried Huismann. Germany. 2000. 92mins. The story that unfolds in Wilfried Huismann's documentary Dear Fidel is so unexpected and off-kilter that it can be watched in the same fashion as a car crash: with a mute, horrified slow-motion fascination. About a woman who claims to be the lover of ...
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Impostor
Dir: Gary Fleder. US. 2001. 95 mins. With a McCarthy-era literary pedigree and thinking man's hunk Gary Sinese producing as well as starring, it's no surprise that Impostor is a sci-fi thriller more concerned with the genre's intellectual than visceral possibilities. Yet while the story offers some interesting topical parallels ...
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Food Of Love
Dir: Ventura Pons. Sp-Ger. 2002. 112mins.An absorbing tale of obsessive love, featuring nice visual exploitation by Catalan director Ventura Pons of his native Barcelona, make Food Of Love enjoyable to watch. Some audiences may be put off by Pons' theatrical style, and occasionally find some of the dialogue and ...
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India's film censors to allow pornographic cinemas
India's traditionally ultra-conservative Censor Board has announced that it may allow pornographic films to be played in certain cinemas. Having so far been unable to control widespread abuse of its rules, it has opted to regulate the practice and, presumably, impose entertainment taxes.Filmmaker Vijay Anand, Chairman of India's Central Board ...