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Korean talent looks to international break-out
2005 may end up being a breakout year forseveral Korean directors who are well-known at home, but yet to fully establishthemselves abroad. Festivals in anadventurous mood, not to mention foreign distributors, should have much tochoose from in the coming year.One of the biggest buzz projects to emergein recent months is ...
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Mexican Film Week tours US with seven new classics
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Amores Perros and Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien are among a line-up of seven Mexican pictures thatwill tour the US from now until September 2005 under the banner of the FirstContemporary Mexican Film Week.The tour arrivesin Los Angeles from Dec 7-13 and includes the above two ...
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WBITD signs VOD deal with Lyse Tele in Norway
Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) has signed a video-on-demand deal with LyseTele in Norway that will offer television broadband subscribers such titles as HarryPotter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Mystic River, The Last Samurai and select library titles."We are delighted that LyseTele will now deliver Warner Bros' films conveniently and ...
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Seven Swords sells for Fortissimo
Fortissimo Film Sales hasracked up a string of pre-sales on Tsui Hark's forthcoming martial arts epic SevenSwords.The film, which is now inproduction, has been sold to Village Roadshow for Australia, Pathe/DES forFrance, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, Monopol Pathe for Switzerland,A-Film for Benelux, EEPA for East Europe, Lusomundo for Portugal and ...
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British Independent Film Awards unveil starry guest list
Bob Hoskins, Mike Leigh, Matthew Vaughn, Shane Meadows,Christian Slater and Naomie Harris are among the guests confirmed to attend theBritish Independent Film Awards on Nov 30.Held at the Hammersmith Palais and hosted by RichardJobson, BIFA sponsors this year include Bloomberg, Nokia, Chiltern, and LauraMercier.Expected nominees and guests on Tuesday also ...
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Tokyo Filmex programmes Italian B Movies
The VeniceFilm Festival's recent Italian Kings of the B Movies retrospective willbe featured in the upcoming Tokyo Filmex Festival (Nov 26-30), which isorganised by Takeshi Kitano's production and distribution outfit, OfficeKitano.The Venicesidebar features 20-25 restored Italian genre movies, and is part of a wider4-year film restoration project which is being ...
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Caridi must pay $300,000 damages to Warner Bros
Carmine Caridi, the Academyof Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member who violated the Academy's screenerban last awards season, has been ordered to pay $300,000 in damages in a civilsuit brought by Warner Bros Entertainment.Caridi received DVD screenersfor Mystic River and The LastSamurai and passed them on toRussell Sprague in Chicago. ...
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Intermedia launches merchandising line for Alexander
Intermedia andDavis-Anderson Merchandising Corp have teamed up to launch The AlexanderCollection, a line of merchandise inspired by the forthcoming epic Alexander, which Warner Bros releases in the US today.Crafted by the Martoartisans in Toledo, Spain, the collection features items ranging from swordsand daggers to jewellery and fine collectibles."The Alexander brand ...
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Summer Storm to get North American outing
US distributor here! Films & Television has picked upMarco Kreuzpaintner's gay coming of age tale Summer Storm (Sommersturm) which won the audience award at thisyear's Filmfest Muenchen.Sales agent Bavaria Film International also reported saleson the film after presentations at the Toronto Film Fetival and the MIFED andAFM markets to ABC/Cinemien ...
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German coproduction market looks East
The organisers of theMannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival's annual 'CoproductionMeetings' are considering expanding the gathering to include projects from Asiain the future.Speaking at a workshop onthe development of the co-production market since its founding in 1996,co-ordinator Olaf Aichinger said that they were encouraged by the fact that aproject from China, Haolun ...
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IMAX scores day-and-date release in US of Robots
IMAX Corporationwill digitally remaster and release Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming animatedfamily feature Robotsin IMAX theatres day-and-date with the picture's conventional release on Mar 112005."The spectacular CGI effects in this movie are perfect forIMAX's immersive format and will look amazing in IMAX theatres," Bruce Snyder,president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century ...
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Fire destroys Japanese sound stage
A fire has destroyed a sound stage at Kadokawa-Daieistudio in Chofu, a western Tokyo suburb. The blaze, which broke out in thestructure in the early morning hours of November 21, did not result in anyinjuries. The cause has not yet been determined and total damages have not yetbeen assessed.The 1,067 ...
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Pinchot launches equity-backed film financing outfit
Documentary producer AriDaniel Pinchot has formed the production and financing company Crystal CityEntertainment (CCE), which will focus on developing and producing narrativefeatures.Funded by private equitypartners and a first-look deal with Robert Johnson and Joe Fab's The JohnsonGroup, CCE plans to fully finance live-action and animated features up to $10m.CCE will ...
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Modigliani, Jack And Rose go to Miami
Mick Davis' Modigliani, which stars Andy Garcia as the Italian Modernistpainter and chronicles his rivalry with Picasso, will open the MiamiInternational Film Festival, which runs from Feb 4-13 2005.Rebecca Miller's familydrama The Ballad Of Jack And Rose,starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Catherine Keener, will receive its US premiere aday later.Joaquin Oristrell's ...
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Producers honour three New Zealanders
Producer Trevor Haysom, casting agent Diana Rowan (pictured)and up-and-coming filmmaker Florian Habicht were all honoured at the close ofthe annual conference of the Screen Production and Development Association ofNew Zealand.Haysom had something else to celebrate - within two days ofbeing awarded the title of inaugural independent producer of the year: ...
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Wright's Macbeth to be set in Melbourne's underbelly
A retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the present-day violent underbelly of Melbourne,took a step closer to getting a green light with Romper Stomper director Geoffrey Wright at the helm.M, as it istitled, was the only feature to get production funding as part of a $787,000(A$1m) package of support handed ...
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HUNGARY 24 November
Veteran Hungarian director Istvan Szabo's Being Julia was the talk of the town inHungary last week when it managed over 16,000 admissions on twenty-threeprints, an incredibly strong performance for a costume drama.Last week's other new releases couldn't quite match thislevel of interest, Robert De Niro produced his biggest flop yet ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 24 November
Localproduct has proven to be favourite of Serbian-Montenegrin audiences once again,with three local films occupying the top three places on this weekend's chart.Srdjan Koljevic's Red Coloured Gray Truck(Sivi kamion crvene boje), Audience Award winner at Montpellier, openedwith 14,029 admissions and cumulative gross of $60,231 for Metro.Aftera run of five weekends ...
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ITALY 24 November
On a weekend which saw a huge seven films unleashed on theItalian market and a box office completely devoid of any homegrown films in thetop 20, Twentieth Century Fox's Alien VsPredator landed at number one, grossing $1,627,686.Starring local screen idol Raoul Bova, AvP was released on 284 screens and earned ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Lists - November 24
SOUTH KOREA - November 24PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEAST(Popcorn Film) Int'l sales/dist: Showbox. Noirish dramaabout a detective, prosecutor and gangster, all equally vicious. Dir: KimSung-soo. Main cast: Kwon Sang-woo, Yu Dong-geun.Contact: Showbox, (82) 2 3218 5626BLOOD SISTERS(Angel Underground) Int'l sales: Cineclick Asia. Horroromnibus in three segments by Korean women directors. Prod: Jenna Ku. ...