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Violette joins Myriad as head of music
Independent music specialist Christopher Violette has joined Myriad Pictures as head of music. Reporting to Myriad president Kirk D'Amico and president of production Lucas Foster, he will music supervise a number of Myriad films as well as being responsible for overseeing all the company's music-related interests including the hiring of ...
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Legally Blonde
Dir: Robert Luketic. US. 2001. 97 mins.Slick, sexy andwinsome, Legally Blonde isa lot of fun and a rare sight this summer: A feel-good movie that's notentirely frivolous. A logical follow-up to Election, in which Reese Witherspoon played an obnoxiouslyambitious high-schooler, the new comedy casts her as a ditzy but smart ...
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The Score
Dir: Frank Oz. US. 2001.122 mins.Despite a high-calibre cast, headed by three of the most accomplished actors working in American film - Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton - not many sparks fly in The Score, an extremely old-fashioned heist thriller that looks and sounds as if it were ...
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Cecchi Gori president steps down amid allegations
Italy's fallenmedia mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori (pictured left) announced on Monday night that he is temporarily "abstaining" himself from all his duties as president of the Cecchi Gori Group.Cecchi Gori's self-suspension announcement comes only days after police said they found nine grams of cocaine during an early morning search at ...
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Moulin Rouge outdances Strictly Ballroom in Oz
Baz Luhrmann's compatriots have voted Moulin Rouge the best of his films - with their wallets. In its seventh week on release in Australia it has overtaken his debut Strictly Ballroom to become the fourth biggest local film ever, with a domestic gross of $11.3m (A$22.4m). Strictly Ballroom grossed $8.11m ...
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Eastern Europe warned of runaway production
Central Europe's newfound prominence as a production location may come to a swift end as Hollywood turns to locations with better subsidies, tax support schemes and incentives, said producers gathered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.'The real competition for the former Soviet Bloc countries is ...
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Spain's Alquimia tunes up for Zeffirelli's Callas
Fledgling Spanish producer-distributor Alquimia Cinema has boarded Franco Zeffirelli's widely anticipated forthcoming film Callas Forever about the famed opera diva.Veteran Spanish actors Angela Molina (Live Flesh) and Manuel de Blas (Goya In Bordeaux) have also joined the cast, which is set to star Fanny Ardant in the title role alongside ...
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Kinowelt ditches interest in East German distrib
Beleaguered German media concern Kinowelt Medien has sold its 40% stake in Progress Film Verleih to Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft, making Tellux the sole shareholder of the former East German state distributor.In an official statement, Tellux stated that it plans "in future, to further expand the initiated Progress activities in distribution, world ...
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Deauville's Avant-Premieres have French flavour
In a departure from its usual cluster of major US studio films, a record half of the titles in Deauville's prestigious 'Avant-Premieres' selection are handled by French independent distributors, giving the American film festival a more auteurish twist.Along with Steven Spielberg's AI and another Warner Bros movie, Swordfish, the titles ...
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Spain's biggest animation rolls as Aardman stalls
In the week when UK-based Aardman Animations announced it was postponing production on its $40m Tortoise vs. Hare, Barcelona-based Filmax has unveiled details of an ambitious animation project: El Cid, The Legend (El Cid, La Leyenda) The film, one of the biggest animated features ever produced in Spain, is to ...
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Ladies Day: Lara & Bridget rule UK
Who says there are no good roles for women' Films with female leads dominated the box office in the UK at the weekend. Computer-game icon Lara Croft demonstrated her pulling power taking $5.4m (£3.8m) in her first big screen venture: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Played by Hollywood hot-property Angelina Jolie, ...
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Joerg Agin retires from Kodak after 34 years
Joerg D Agin will retire as senior vice president of Kodak and president of the company's entertainment imaging division on Sept 1. He will be replaced by Eric G Rodli, who will be promoted from his current position as chief operating officer and vice president of entertainment imaging.Agin joined Kodak ...
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Slamdance Film Festival to launch in Germany
Slamdance Entertainment, a joint venture between the Slamdance Film Festival and Marco Weber's production company Atlantic Streamline, is to launch a Slamdance Film Festival event in Cologne, Germany, on Aug 18.Taking place in association with music convention Popkomm, the new event is aimed to create and develop a European counterpart ...
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Miramax buys int'l territories on Apocalypse Redux
Miramax Films has acquired rights in the UK, Latin America and Italy to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the 197-minute director's reworking of the 1979 classic. Miramax had already acquired North American theatrical rights to the film which opens at showcase screens in New York City and Los Angeles ...
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Food Of Love fills out cast
UK actors Kevin Bishop, Juliet Stevenson, Paul Rhys and Allan Corduner have signed on to star in Spanish director Ventura Pons' English-language debut, Food Of Love, for start-up company 42nd Street Productions. Other actors had been attached initially, but finally it will be Bishop (Treasure Island) who takes the lead ...
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Almodovar's Tarantula may weave in Cruz, Banderas
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo production company has optioned film rights to French novel Tarantula, marking it as a potential next project for the director and igniting local speculation that this may well be the project that will re-unite Almodovar with Spanish acting superstars Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz.The ...
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Denmark media giant Egmont names surprise chief
Nordic media major Egmont has appointed Steffen Kragh (pictured) from within its own ranks to take over from president and CEO Jan O. Froshaug who quit earlier this year after 14 years in the position.The 37 year-old Kragh has an eight-year track record with the company, working primarily on its ...
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German media funds set to raise $4.3bn this year
German media funds, which have raised a total of $4.3bn in the last five years, could achieve a similar volume for the year 2001 alone according to analysts, with some 20 such schemes already underway and more appearing every week.Tax analysts are predicting a surge in German media fund investment ...
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Chinese facility animates Singapore stock exchange
Chinese company Colorland Animation has raised $1.4m from a share listing on the Singapore stock exchange. The company, which is based in Shenzhen and has production facilities in Hong Kong and Singapore, has focused on sub-contracted 2D and 3D production for European, US and Australian animation companies. Clients include Germany's ...
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Venice dedicates tributes to Munk and Debord
The Venice International Film Festival (August 29th - September 8th) has announced that it will dedicate a retrospective to the late Polish film director Andrzej Munk and to the little known cinema oeuvre of French critic Guy Debord.The festival's tribute to Andrzej Munk, who first gained international recognition at Venice ...