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Channel 4's Omagh drama wraps
Production has wrapped in Navan and Dublin on Omagh, the dramatisation of events leading up to and the aftermath of the terrorist bomb atrocity which struck the Northern Ireland town of Omagh on August 15, 1998.Based on extensive research and consultation with the families of the 29 people killed by ...
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With All Deliberate Speed to launch Discovery Docs banner
Award-winning documentary film-maker Peter Gilbert will direct With All Deliberate Speed (working title) for Discovery Communications' first theatrical release under the Discovery Docs banner.The film will be produced as part of a series of projects in association with Manhattan-based independent studio CameraPlanet and will mark the 50th anniversary of the ...
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Film-makers Alliance, Cinema Libre launch indie video collection
The independent film-making collective the Film-makers Alliance (FA) has partnered up with production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio to launch The Film-makers Alliance Collection, a video label that the partners have styled as a response to the studio-dominated distribution system.The collection's initial slate comprises five festival hits, the first ...
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Cold Mountain leads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Bafta awards, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and ...
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Cold Mountain heads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Baftas, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and Master ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domestic distribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema Libre Distribution division.The entertainment entity will seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and Doc Workers labels during Get IN!, an event ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domestic distribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema Libre Distribution division.The entertainment entity will seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and Doc Workers labels during Get IN!, an event ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distributionoutfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domesticdistribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema LibreDistribution division.The entertainment entitywill seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and DocWorkers labels during Get IN!, an event it is hosting at Sundance ...
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Bollore increases stake in France's Gaumont
The Bollore Group has upped its stake in French major Gaumont to 10.06%.Controlled by the Bollore family and more specifically mogul Vincent Bollore, the group now holds 6.77% of voting rights to the world's oldest film company.Bollore previously took a 5% stake in Gaumont in February 2002.In a statement, the ...
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Sundance sees dynamite deal-making spree
Theannual Sundance Film Festival buying spree got off to an unexpectedly briskstart this year with five films finding at least North American distributionfor a collective price tag upwards of $18m. And that was after just three full andfrenetic screening days in Park City.Thekey acquisitions so far are:- Garden State, Zach ...
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Rotterdam director joins UK production outfit Illuminations
Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) co-director Simon Field is to become a director of UK production company Illuminations Films.Field will take up the position at the end of this year's festival, which runs from Jan 21 until Feb 1. Sandra Den Hamer, who has been co-director with Field for several ...
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Emerging Pictures, Full Frame plan syndicated documentary festival
New York-based EmergingPictures and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival are developing anationally syndicated festival using Emerging Pictures' digital cinema network.The syndicated festival willrun at the same time as the flagship festival in Durham, North Carolina, in itsusual April slot and will play in up to 20 cities.The Full Frame ...
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Nordic film industries look to increased government funding
For full Nordic listings click HEREAlthough the Nordic film industries can look back on 2003 as a year when local market shares either boomed - as in Norway and Finland - or maintained a solid streak - as in Denmark and Sweden - the many unresolved issues of ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama TheReturn was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panel ofinternational critics at the 15th Palm Springs International FilmFestival's closing ceremony last night (18).In other awards, the JohnSchlesinger Award for first feature went to Yann Samuell's French Film Galalove story, Love Me If You Dare. The ...
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FRANCE
The Lord Of The Rings still rules the French box office followed closely by favourite son Mathieu Kassovitz's first foray into English, Gothika.Good news for art house pics with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation breaking in at number 4 following seriously good press. Nathalie, starring Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant ...
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NEW ZEALAND
At last The Return Of The King - the epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - has been overhauled at the home box office. All-action newcomer The Last Samurai - another epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - topped the takings (NZ$629,295) and the screen averages ...
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Warner expands China cinema reach
Warner Bros InternationalTheatres (WBIT) is expanding its reach into China's nascent cinema marketstill further via a deal to manage a chain of around 30 multiplexes which arebeing built by Chinese property developer, Dalian Wanda Group.The deal, which was signed byWBIT president Millard Ochs and Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin in ...
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Distant Lights takes top Bavarian film honour
The producers of last year's Berlinale competition film Distant Lights by Hans-Christian Schmid took home the top honour at this year's Bavarian Film AwardsThe jury presented the Euros 200,000 Producers Award to Jakob Claussen, Thomas Woebke and Uli Putz of Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, acknowledging "the independent stand of the ...
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Cannes Market launches Producers Network
The Cannes Market islaunching a new initiative intended to make its activities relevant toproducers, as well as the usual ranks of sales agents and distributors.It is launching ProducersNetwork, Le Reseau Des Producteurs, which will act as both an informationsource and a highly-structured meeting place for producers.It says that the movereflects ...