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Tarantino to preside over Cannes jury 2004...
Quentin Tarantino will preside over the jury at the 57th CannesFilm Festival this May organizers announced Friday. The director follows in thefootsteps of Patrice Chereau, David Lynch, Liv Ullman and Luc Besson who have toppedthe jury respectively back to 2000.Tarantino and Cannes have a long and warm history with thewunderkind's ...
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Smith rides Intandem with August
Ex-Winchester boss Gary Smith yesterday announced that he was back in the film business with a new sales and production outfit, Intandem Films.The company is handling international rights on Bille August's thriller Return To Sender, the long-gestating project from writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (The World Is Not Enough) ...
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Music rocks Berlin's festival and market
From the famous to the exotic, this year's Berlinale has been flooded with features and documentaries centering on music."I'm never just looking for portraits, but films with an original approach and the music documentaries we're screening this year have those bridging qualities," says Wieland Speck, the director of the Berlinale ...
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Buyers sing to Choristes tune
A deal for North American rights to French film Les Choristes is imminent.Sales house Pathe International enjoyed high levels of interest in Berlin where the Market title was one of the few to unite buyers.Pathe is believed to have received a firm offer from Miramax. Executives were confident of a ...
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Mar del Plata chief embarks on Village shoot
Miguel Pereira, head of Latin America's leading film festival, Mar del Plata, is due to start principal photography on his latest feature film days after the festival closes.He is in Berlin this week helping artistic producer Mauro Andrizzi put the finishing touches to the festival line-up. Twelve films have been ...
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Delpy lines up dark directorial debuts
In Berlin with competition title Before Sunset, actress Julie Delpy has revealed further details of her two new directorial projects, both of which are slated to feature roles for her Before Sunset co-star, Ethan Hawke.The $4m Tell Me is a modern fairy tale about a woman trapped with a man ...
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DVD sell-through market surges in Germany and France
Confirming the inexorable growth in the global DVD market, latest figures from Germany and France show DVD sell-through growth towering over both the rental and video sectors.The German home entertainment industry posted a year-on-year growth of 11% in revenues to Euros 1.555 bn in 2003, according to Bundesverband Audiovisuelle Medien ...
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F For Film goes South
French sales agent F For Film has picked up international rights to The South (Het Zuiden), the film by Martin Koolhoven that featured in the main programme of the recent Rotterdam festival.The film is an intense character study about the owner of an industrial laundry and has been described as ...
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Festival kickstarts Timebandits journey
The Berlinale has served as the ideal showcase for the new German distributor Timebandits films, which has four films showing in the festival's different sections.While Fatih Akin's new feature Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) premiered in the Official Competition section, Andres Veiel's documentary Die Spielwuetigen unspooled in the Panorama, Felix Randau's ...
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Rings set for final theatrical outing in Japan
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King will notch up another milestone thisupcoming weekend when it passes $600m at the international box office.Spurred on by its final major market opening in Japan on Feb 14 on750 prints and what should be another batch of decent holdovers in ...
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Intertainment and Kopelson go separate ways
German rights trader Intertainment and US production company Kopelson Entertainment have mutually agreed to terminate their deal to finance a slate of big budget pictures.According to a statement, the step - effective from Feb 11 - was taken "because of Intertainment's cost-cutting requirements interfering with the production requirements of Kopelson ...
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UK producers seek alternative film investment schemes
The UK Film Council, together with representatives from BSAC and PACT, met yesterday with Inland Revenue officials and made the case for transitional arrangements following the changes to the rules covering losses through partnerships announced on 10 February.The Council proposed to the Revenue that transitional relief should be available to ...
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Sundance programme alumnus Hartsfield wins Maryland Fellowship
Caran Hartsfield's drama Bury Me Standing will receive the 2004 Producers Club ofMaryland Fellowship, set up to help a Sundance Institute Feature Film Programmealumnus with a feature project.The annual fellowship provides a $10,000 grant to help fund afilmmaker's post-Sundance Lab and pre-production expenses, which may includecasting, budgeting, and location scouting.Caran ...
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In America and Eternal Sunshine bookend Bermuda fest
Jim Sheridan's award-winning drama In America will open the 2004 Bermuda InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF) on Mar 19 while Michael Gondry's romantic comedy EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind and David Mackenzie's Young Adam will close the event on Mar 25.Seventy-two pictures willscreen at the event, which includes competition feature and documentarycategories ...
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Irish Film Institute announces honourees, travelling programme
The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has announced that the recipients of its 2004 awards for outstanding contribution to Irish film are Brendan McCaul, vice president and general manager of Buena Vista International, Ireland, and Rod Stoneman, director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media and former chief executive ...
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Fox plans movie based on BRATZ fashion dolls
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned live-action/animation featurefilm rights for MGA Entertainment's best-selling BRATZ fashion dolls while 20thCentury Home Entertainment has already started production on a direct-to-videospin-off."The BRATZ dolls are a true phenomenon that has taken the toy dollindustry by storm," Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Jim Gianopulos said in astatement.He added: ...
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... while Nelson Mandela is invited to open Cannes
South Africa's Department of Arts and Culture and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) is preparing for a very special Cannes Film Festival this year - after enjoying successful profiles at both Rotterdam and Berlin.This year's Cannes will feature a special focus on South Africa, celebrating its ten years of ...
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Senator takes on sales of Gold Circle comedy starring Chris Klein
Senator International will handle international sales on GoldCircle's high concept comedy The Long Weekend, which stars Chris Klein (AmericanPie) and Brendan Fehr (BikerBoyz, Final Destination).Currently shooting in Vancouver, the film has already been pickedup by Entertainment Film Distributors for UK distribution and HoytsCinemas/Universal have jointly acquired distribution rights in Australia.Written ...
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Survival prospects narrow for Dutch producer
Oscar-winning Dutch producer First Floor Features and its sister company First Floor Films have been granted suspension of payment by the Amsterdam local court.During the suspension, which ends March 24th, company trustee Paul Schaink, affiliated to Lawyer's office Van Doorne, will assess the company's financial situation and future.Schaink says there ...
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Comedy Les 11 Commandements heads the box office this week nearly breaking the 1 million admissions barrier with its Jackass-inspired stunts pushing local caveman romp RRRrrrr !!! down to number 3.Disney's Brother Bear holds its number two position only dropping off by 16% in its second week.New US arrivals Peter ...