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Godard's latest gets official screening at Cannes
Master French auteurJean-Luc Godard's latest film Notre Musique will be screened in the official selection but outof competition at Cannes Film Festival, according to organisers, who also enigmatically promised a surprise for Godard on the night of the film's screening.The film is split into threeparts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Hell ...
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Memories sweeps prizes at Cognac thriller fest
The 22nd annualCognac thriller festival wrapped up on Sunday night with Bong Joon-Ho's MemoriesOf Murder the hands down winner. TheKorean film took the grand prize, the special police prize conferred byprofessional law enforcement agents the Premiere magazine prize and theMediatheques prize.Memories is a poignant look at a special ...
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Godard's latest gets official screening out of competition
Master French auteurJean-Luc Godard's latest film Notre Musique will be screened in the official selection but outof competition at Cannes Film Festival, according to organisers, who also enigmatically promised a surprise for Godard on the night of the film's screening.The film is split into threeparts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Hell ...
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Passion takes Easter box office crown
Newmarket Films' The Passion Of The Christ performed as expected over Easterweekend, resurrecting its box office supremacy as it climbed four places toease past $350m on an estimated $17.1m.Mel Gibson's celebratedaccount of the final hours of Christ's life now stands on $354.9m and is theeighth biggest grossing film ever in ...
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AusFILM's Pratt to step down as LA-based film commissioner
AusFILM's LA-based film commissioner David Pratt is to leave his job after six years in the post.AusFILM is responsible for marketing Australia as a location for film and television production."David has been a wonderful asset," said Sydney-based chief executive Trisha Rothkrans. "We are very grateful to him for the outstanding ...
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NonStop takes Buena Vista sequel for Scandinavia, Baltics
Stockholm based distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian and Baltic rights to Musica Cubana - The Sons Of Havana, the follow up to Buena Vista Social Club.Sold by Victory Media Group, the deal was struck at MIP-TV. Produced by Wim Wenders, Musica Cubana follows a group of Cuban musicians ...
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Malaysia cracks down on film piracy
Malaysia scored a major crackdown on piracy on 1 April when $1.3m worth of illegal DVDs and VCDs and replicating equipment were seized from a single syndicate. Some of the discs were for distribution to India.The seizure is the biggest this year: together with 18 CD burners, more than 800,000 ...
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Mira Nair serves as guest director for LAFF
Film-maker Mira Nair is toserve as guest director for the 2004 Los Angeles Film Festival. In this role,she will host a two-day film-maker retreat, programme a sidebar of films thathave inspired her work and attend opening night festivities.The tenth annual Los AngelesFilm Festival runs from June 17 to June 26. ...
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Slamdance turns to US distribution, talent managing
The founder ofthe Slamdance Film Festival Peter Baxter has teamed up with film and TVproducer and manager Robert Schwartz and Cleveland-based businessman GeorgeKetvertis to launch Slamdance Media Group, a new US distribution and talentmanagement outfit based in Los Angeles.The company hasalready closed a home entertainment output deal with Ventura Entertainment, ...
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Passion poised for more gold over Easter weekend
Easter weekend sees somewide studio offerings hit the markets, while other pictures already in themarket, most notably The Passion Of The Christ will be looking for holiday audiences to bump theirgrosses.Most notably, The Passion opens in Italy on Friday through Eagle Pictureswhich has spent Euros 2.5m to launch the film. ...
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Grosvenor Park's Taylor to spearhead TriMedia feature push
DanielTaylor, managing director of UK tax financier Grosvenor Park, is joiningTriMedia Entertainment, the entertainment company of 90s rap mogul ChrisSchwartz, to spearhead a push into producing youth-oriented, music-drivenfeatures with European music stars.Taylortakes up the post of president at TriMedia in addition to his Grosvenor Parkduties. The two companies are hatching ...
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Senator in 'takeover talks' with mystery investor
Troubled German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is reportedly "negotiating with a strategic investor" to invest in the company.Berlin daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday that Senator's executive board was "conducting takeover talks with a limited partnership active in the film fund business."It also quoted Bolko Hoffmann, CEO of Effectenspiegel which ...
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Japan's production sector resorts to violence
Best known in the West for the films he has directed, including the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Hana-Bi and the 2003 box office smash Zatoichi, multi-talented Takeshi Kitano has had a longer career as an actor, going back to his breakout role as a brutal prison camp guard in ...
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UK Film Council unveils Development Fund recipients
UK Film Council's Development Fund has unveiled details of its third year of slate funding to a selection of film companies.Recipients include: Fragile Films (£200,000), Ruby Films (£255,000), Tall Stories (£100,000), NFTS (£12,000), Riverchild Films (£65,000), October Films (£90,000), Gruber Films (£100,000) and Recorded Picture Company (£100,000).Little Bird has been ...
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Germany's Senator files for insolvency
Beleaguered German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment filed for insolvency today (April 8) after failing to agree a rescue plan with its creditor banks and potential investors.The Berlin-based company said the filing affected parent company Senator Entertainment AG as well as the subsidiaries Senator Film Produktion GmbH, Senator Film Verleih GmbH and ...
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Sales agents win cash backing to market European films
With the aim of opening up new markets outside the European Union, the European Film Promotion (EFP) is to launch its new Film Sales Support (FSS) initiative at this month's Buenos Aires Film Festival (April 14-25).FSS offers financial support to sales companies and producers who promote and market European films ...
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Best Of Youth sweeps Italian critics' prizes
Marco Tullio Giordana's epic The Best of Youth has swept the Nastri d'Argento awards, winning seven of the prestigious Critics' prizes, including best director, best screenplay and two collective awards for its ensemble cast.The Best Of Youth, which won Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year, is a six hour ...
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Eurimages chief plays up Media Programme 'collaboration'
Eurimages chief Jacques Toubon has distanced himself from comments he made earlier this week suggesting that a merger between the Media Programme and Eurimages may be inevitable in the future.Last week, in an email interview with ScreenDaily.com, he said it would be "natural that the two initiatives will merge in ...
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Zeffirelli tipped for presidency role at RAI Cinema
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli is expected to soon be named the new president of Rai Cinema, the film arm of state broadcaster RAI.Zeffirelli was approached, he says, both by RAI CEO Flavio Cattaneo, and by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns Rai Cinema's rival Medusa and Mediaset. "So many people ...
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French show healthy Passion for Gibson epic
Despite boycotts and lawsuits in the lead up to its French release, The Passion Of The Christ has had a healthy first five days at the local box office.On its opening day, Wednesday March 31, Mel Gibson's film sold 82,111 tickets for a take of just over $500,000 on 502 ...