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The Mill cuts its film division out of the picture
In a further sign of the difficult times facing the UK film industry, Oscar winning special effects company, The Mill, is pulling out of feature film. The London based company is blaming the move on the volatile nature of the industry and a desire to concentrate on its advertising activities.A ...
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Bac Majestic to quit exhibition as revenues collapse
Bac Majectic is to pull out of the exhibition sector anc concentrate exclusively on film distribution.The company said that following finacnial difficulties in its exhibition operations it has taken the decision to progressively withdraw from the sector. The stockmarket-traded group last year sold its collection of parisian screens but held ...
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Aardman's Rose goes solo with Sirolo
Michael Rose, who spearheaded Aardman Animations' drive into features with its hit debut Chicken Run, has left the UK animation company to set up his own production outfit, Sirolo Films.The London-based venture has formed an informal partnership with Celluloid Dreams, the Paris-based sales agency of Hengameh Panahi, who aims to ...
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There's nothing like the present for Japanese cinema
With the economy stagnant and the political situation in turmoil, its no wonder Japanese audiences want to escape the present. Fittingly, there are an extraordinary number of new Japanese live-action films set in the past or in the future. And yet, only a few years ago both the sci-fi and ...
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Joe Gould's Secret
Dir: Stanley Tucci. USA. 1999. 107 mins.Prod Co: October Films, Bohemian Productions. Int'l sales: Good Machine International. Prods: Beth Alexander, Stanley Tucci, Charles Weinstock. Exec prod: Chrisann Verges, Mike Leiber. Scr: Howard A. Rodman, from the book by Joseph Mitchell. DoP: Maryse Alberti. Prod des: Andrew Jackness. Ed: Suzy Elmiger. ...
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Asia gets multi-purpose market after Korea's BIFCOM-PPP merge
The Busan International Film Commission Exhibition (BIFCOM), held during the Pusan International Film Festival, is set to merge with the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)'s Korean Film Industry Centre to form an expanded industry expo for the Asian market in 2003. Renamed the Asian Film Industry Center (AFIC), the event will ...
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Eurimages elects new president
Former French Minister of Culture Jacques Toubon was unanimously elected on Tuesday (19 November) as the new president of Eurimages, the Council of Europe's pan-European fund for co-production, distribution and exhibition.Toubon, who had held a number of ministerial posts in France, most notably that of Culture and Francophony from 1993-1995 ...
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Netherlands leads latest revival of local film industries
For the first time in Dutch film history five local productions took up top 20 positions in the Netherlands box office chart at the weekend (Nov 14-17).The local success follows on from the rise in fortunes of local films in general in 2001. While the Netherlands saw a rise in ...
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New director for Munich film festival named
Andreas Stroehl has been named successor to Eberhard Hauff who this year celebrated his 20th year as director of the Filmfest Muenchen.Stroehl, who has worked for the German cultural organisation Goethe Institut since 1988 - most recently as head of the division for film, film production management, television and radio ...
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Metro Tartan gets Mind Of A Killer for UK
Spanish sales house Grupo PI has sold all UK rights on San Sebastian International Film Festival competition title Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer (Aro Tolbukhin: En La Mente Del Asesino) to Metro Tartan.The deal was closed following the recent MIFED market, where Grupo PI also sold all ...
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Scottish short to get feature-length US remake
New York-based Kinetic Arts is to produce a feature-length version of the award-winning Scottish short Leonard. Written by Richard Smith and directed by Brian Kelly, the Stella Maris production tells of a lonely middle-aged man at the mercy of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and his reunion with a long lost ...
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Morawetz launches new German distribution outfit
After being off the radar for a while, Veronika Morawetz has bounced back with the launch of a new distribution outfit Stardust Filmverleih into the increasingly difficult German distribution market.The first company's releases scheduled for January 30, 2003 will be the trio of 'Planet B' features - The Antman, Detective ...
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New Line lines up premieres for The Two Towers
In a move that enshrines thenotion of a global market, New Line is to stage a series of world premieres forThe Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. The eagerly awaited second instalment in Peter Jackson'sadaptation of JRR Tolkien's trilogy will make its North American bow inNew York on Dec ...
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Mondays In The Sun snapped up by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has boughtall North American rights from Sogepaq to Mondays In The Sun, Spain's entry for the 2002 Foreign Language FilmOscar. The social drama was recently released to critical and commercialsuccess in Spain and won four awards at this year's San SebastianInternational Film Festival. Javier Bardem stars as ...
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Potter's record opening has little impact on UK holdovers
Despite the record-breaking openings recorded by both Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Momentum Pictures' Bowling For Columbine (see separate Screendaily stories) the rest of the UK chart saw relatively small percentage drops from the previous week.As already reported on this site, the second film in ...
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Crackerjack
Dir: Paul Maloney. Australia. 2002. 92mins.Relying heavily on the shambling amiability of its co-writer/co-producer/ star, this easy-going comedy will register with local audiences familiar with comedian Mick Molloy's unkempt persona, developed during a decade of TV, radio and stand-up appearances. With Roadshow investing in a wide Australian release (it opened ...
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Wellspring takes Madame Sata to the US
New York-based Wellspring Media has acquired US distribution rights to Brazilian biopic Madame Sata, the directorial debut of Karim Ainouz, which had its world premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard this year. According to Wellspring acquisitions head Krysanne Katsoolis, the company is scheduling a platform theatrical release in April 2003 ...
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Pusan's problems reflect Asian industry's growing pains
The inconsistencies at this year's Pusan International Film Festival and the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) reflect the uneven progress of the growing Asian film industry.The festival and productions markets were hampered by growing pains, most notably the decision to locate in two different districts of Pusan which are an ...
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German film industry wants more cash from broadcasters
The debate on a revised Film Funding Law (FFG) - due to come into effect from 2004 - has heated up with the German film industry "umbrella organisation" SPIO calling on the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to follow the State Ministry for Culture's (BKM) proposal and substantially increase their ...
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Ararat takes highest screen average crown
Atom Egoyan's Ararat scored the highest screen average of films on release in North America last weekend. Opening on six screens in Toronto, New York and LA, the film logged a cumulative $211,130, for an average of more than $35,000. The next highest per screen average was the weekend's box ...