All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 38
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Fanfan La Tulipe to open this year's Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festivalhas set Fanfan La Tulipeas the opening film for this year's event. The film is a remake ofChristian-Jaque's 1952 swashbuckler.Directed by Gerard Krawczykwho has enjoyed immense success with the last two Taxi films, Fanfan stars Vincent Perez and PenelopeCruz. The film will be released in France on ...
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The Quiet American wins at Valenciennes
France's Valenciennes Action and Adventure Film Festival handed its top prize to Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American on Sunday night. Noyce, who has been enjoying critical praise for his efforts on last year's Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American, also took the best director statue for the film based ...
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France's Springtime Of Film programme records 2.5m admissions
France's exhibition federation, the FNCF, has announced that 2.5 million tickets were sold during its recent Springtime of Film programme. The event, a three-day promotion where admission is slashed to Euros 3 - less than half normal price - in 5,500 cinemas across the country, is four years old. 2003 ...
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TPS to increase local production investment
French satellite platform TPS is to increase its investment in local low- to medium-budget films.As stipulated by French broadcast authority, the CSA, TPS will continue to invest Euros 2.01 per subscriber per month in buying and pre-buying French films.TPS also contributes to 'cinematic diversity' by spending 15% of its investments ...
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Blind Shaft sweeps awards at Deauville's Asian fest
The 5th annual Deauville Festival of Asian Film wrapped last week with a slew of prizes going to German/Chinese/Hong Kong co-production Blind ShaftThe film, directed by Li Yang, took home five awards: Best Film, Best Director, the audience award, the critics' prize and Best Actor for Wang Baoqiang. Currently banned ...
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French cinema admissions take a dive in 2003
French admissions for the first two months of 2003 have taken a serious dive, according to the national film body CNC. Most seriously, February - which is traditionally one of the strongest months for film-going in France - saw a decline of 18.1% compared with 2002, to 19 million tickets ...
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Paris film festival unveils line-up, new jury president
The Paris Film Festival, which runs from March 24 to April 1 has announced its line up and international jury. In a last minute change, Rupert Everett has stepped down as jury president and will be replaced by Malcolm McDowell.Alongside McDowell are French producer Jean-Louis Livi, French director Claire Denis, ...
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French films see increase in foreign investment
French film production is still up, foreign investment is high but local investment is slowing, according to latest figures from France's National Cinema Centre (CNC). Two hundred films were produced in France in 2002, 163 of which were majority French efforts. Those figures are down, but only slightly, from 2001 ...
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Canal Plus to announce lay-offs today
The axe falls today. A long anticipated announcement will come from Canal Plus' Paris headquarters regarding what could turn out to be massive lay-offs. Although Canal management is keeping quiet about what the news will entail, Bertrand Meheut, the newly-installed president of Canal Plus told French daily La Tribune, "I ...
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Canal Plus announces staff redundancies
Following a meeting with union representatives, Canal Plus today released details of a long-anticipated redundancy program at the company. Out of a total 3,038 France-based employees, 305 are set to lose their jobs over the coming months. In a press release Canal explained that the layoffs are part of a ...
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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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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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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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Bac sees dip in 2002 revenues
Jean Labadie's Bac Majestic has announced its 2002 revenues, which registered a 3.5% drop to Euros90.8m for the year.Bac puts the slip down to the tapering off of its exhibition activities: it closed or sold theatres last year in Lille, Brest, Nimes and ParisOverall, exhibition was down to Euros3.2m from ...
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France's TPS signs multi-year deal with BVI television
One week after Canal Plus struck an exclusive pay-TV deal with Disney for five animated features, rival French satellite platform TPS has signed a multi-year agreement with Buena Vista International Television for live-action films from Touchstone Pictures.The deal is for first window pay-TV and will include major current and upcoming ...
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Pianist waltzes off with Cesar sweep
Roman Polanski's Palme d'Or winner, The Pianist, swept the 28th Cesar Awards in Paris Saturday night. In the major categories the film took Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in what ended up to be a trouncing of odds-on favorite 8 Women. Francois Ozon's musical murder mystery had ...
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Amen shines at France's Lumieres
Costa Gavras' heavily Cesar-nominated Amen picked up France's Lumiere award this weekend for best film of 2002. The Lumieres, which are the French equivalent to the Golden Globes in the US, are voted on by foreign journalists working in France.Jean Rochefort won the best actor prize for his role ...
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France's Rezo expands into international sales arena
Celebrating its tenth year in existence, French producer and distributor Rezo films will now move into international sales. The process will begin with the 23rd film from Eric Rohmer, Triple Agent. The film, which begins shooting in March in Paris is budgeted at Euros 4m and will be sold and ...
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Vivendi assures Canal Plus of support
In a move to quell rumours, the heads of Vivendi Universal and Canal Plus have sent letters of support and explanation to Canal staff.Following a week of speculation and rumour, Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou has assured employees that the channel is "not for sale." He also confirmed the appointment ...
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Dark Water triumphs at Gerardmer
Hideo Nakata's Dark Water won the Grand Prize at the Gerardmer fantastic film festival on Sunday. The Ring director also took home the Youth Jury Prize - given by a group of 12 film students from the region - and the International Critics' Prize.Nakata is the recognised master currently working ...