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Deauville Asian festival announces competition films
The fifth edition of the Deavuille Festival of Asian Film will kick off next week in the seaside Normandy town. From March 13 to 16 seven films will compete for the Lotus statue with a jury presided by French screenwriter Pierre Jolivet.Other members of the jury include French actresses Clotilde ...
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Blockbuster-Warner ceasefire spells change for UK film, video
Video rental giant Blockbuster and Warner Bros this week announced that they had reached an agreement on video rental practices in the UK. The deal is likely to change the structure of the video sector, favouring "sell-through" video and new media at the expense of rentals. The agreement ends an ...
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Fourtou sheds little light on Universal sale progress
Jean-Rene Fourtou just isn't talking. At a press conference on Thursday night announcing 2002 financial results, the Vivendi Universal chairman stuck to business and refused to be led on any of the burning questions swirling around a possible sell-off of entertainment assets.Regarding offers made by Texas oil man Marvin Davis ...
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Dentists, Dopamine bookend San Francisco fest
Alan Rudolph's The Secret Lives Of Dentists has been selected as the opening night film for the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 17. The film, which stars Campbell Scott and Hope Davis, has been well-received at its previous screenings at the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, and ...
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Arclight sells Moonlight
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Moonlight, the next film by Paula van der Oest whose last film Zus & Zo is one of the five best foreign language film nominees this year.Moonlight, which Hamilton says will screen at the Cannes market this year, is van ...
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Argentinian films dominate Films in Progress event
The Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) and Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) have unveiled the five new feature films set to participate in this year's third annual Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) program, which aims to bring needed financiers on board unfinished ...
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NuVision strikes deal with US Hispanic specialist Venevision
In what may signal the end of its plans to start up a US distribution company, Mexico-city based regional distributor NuVision has sold a package of titles produced by its sister company Altavista to Venevision International, a Spanish language distributor based in Miami. For the moment, Venevision has limited its ...
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Waking The Dead
Dir: Keith Gordon. USA. 1999. 105 mins.Prod Co: Egg Pictures. Int'l sales: Universal. US dist: USA Films. Prods: Keith Gordon, Stuart Kleinman, Linda Reisman. Exec prod: Jodie Foster. Scr: Robert Dillon from the novel by Scott Spencer. DoP: Tom Richmond. Prod des: Zoe Sakellaropoulo. Ed: Jeff Wishengrad. Mus: tomandandy. Main ...
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Swedish talent to shine in Three Suns
Richard Hobert, director of last year's Everyone Loves Alice, has assembled some of Sweden's top actors to star in his new film, Three Suns (Tre Solar). Actors such as Lena Endre (Faithless, Everyone Loves Alice), Maria Bonnevie (I Am Dina), Mikael Persbrandt (Everyone Loves Alice) and 11-year-old Natalie Minnevik ...
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Barrandov Studios no longer for sale
Prague's Barrandov Studios owner Moravia Steel announced last week that after a drawn out sale process that has stretched on for nearly a half-decade, it is not selling the fabled film complex after all. A spokesperson for the steel maker told weekly Prague Business Journal that Moravia Steel has decided ...
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Spain cordinates European Film workshops
Spanish authors' rights body SGAE is coordinating three workshops on "European Films Crossing Borders" to be held just prior to the next Cannes, San Sebastian and Berlin film festivals.The workshops are co-organised by French authors' rights counterpart SACD and Spanish multimedia promotion body Fundacion Autor, and have support from the ...
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MovieSystem launches Monaco VoD service
In partnership with Monaco Telecom and Alcatel, MovieSystem has launched a Video-on-Demand service for television via DSL, Sesame TV. At a press conference in Monaco last week, the project was unveiled and followed by an impressive demonstration of DVD quality resolution. Sesame TV will offer Monaco residents the opportunity to ...
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UK Film Council funds seven company slates
The UK Film Council has invested US$1,878,401 (£1,171,000) in seven company slate deals with British film production outfits.The money is the second part of a proposed three year business investment scheme set up by the Film Council's Development Fund, originally announced in July and November 2001, following a review of ...
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German fund gathers around 80 Days
Frank Coraci's Around The World In 80 Days starring Jackie Chan is one of 30 projects awarded a total of Euros 4.5m by the Central German film fund Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM). US-based Walden Media's production partner Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures received Euros 500,000 production support for the action comedy which ...
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Zhou Yu's Train
Dir: Sun Zhou. China. 2003. 96 mins.Comparisons will inevitably be made between Chinese mainland romance Zhou Yu's Train and Wong-Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. The photography is stunningly painterly, the narrative has the same suspended, timeless feel and Gong Li changes her skirt almost as often as Maggie ...
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Mar del Plata opens with peace dedication
Mar del Plata, Latin America's only A grade film festival, unspooled yesterday (March 6) with the screening of Fernando Meirelles' City Of God. Launching the event, new festival director Miguel Pereira dedicated the event to a celebration of peace. "At a time when we may soon see bombs falling on ...
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Cradle 2 The Grave
Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2003. 99mins.Having successfully applied the formula first in Romeo Must Die and then in Exit Wounds, producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak reassemble many of the talents from those two $50m-plus domestic hits for another slick yet moderately budgeted package of hip-hop/martial arts action for ...
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Jagoda In The Supermarket
Dir: Dusan Milic. Serb-Ger-It. 2003. 82mins.Produced by Emir Kusturica (who has the briefest cameo in the film as a police chief), this oddball siege comedy has many of the Greater Serb's traits: a goofball surreal-symbolic take on Balkan tragedies, characters that slip in and out of caricature, and a delirious ...