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Warm day for Cold Mountain with Globe nominations
Miramax'shomeric American Civil War drama Cold Mountain led the 61st Golden Globe nominationstoday (Dec 18) with eight nods including best drama, actor, actress, directorand screenplay, while Focus Features' dreamy Tokyo romance Lost InTranslation and Warner'smurder drama Mystic River followed on five each. The Globes are voted on by the 90-member ...
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Danish Film Institute greenlights family films
The Danish Film Institute has greenlit two animated and one live action film aimed at family audiences.The latter is the third instalment in the popular My Sister's Kids series, based on a string of films from the late 60s. My Sister's Kids In Egypt received $1.2m and as the title ...
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Huth steps down from Germany's Senator
Hanno Huth is to step down from his board position at Senator Entertainment on Dec 31 and plans to set up his own production outfit in the New Year.Huth says he wants to concentrate on hands-on film production again after being immersed in management tasks at Senator since it launched ...
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Cannes festival outlines new selection teams
Thierry Fremaux, artisticdirector of the Cannes festival, has realigned and clarified the selectionsystem for the next edition (12-23 May 2004).The festival will now havetwo Paris-based selection committees which screen and pre-select films, one forFrench films and one for foreign pictures. In a significant shift, bothcommittees are now deemed to be ...
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Diagonale scrapped for 2004 as festival bosses quit
Tillmann Fuchs and Miroljub Vuckovic, the management of the "official" Diagonale appointed by Austria's controversial Secretary of State for Arts Franz Morak, have cancelled the 2004 event and stepped down from their posts.Their position has looked increasingly isolated for weeks. Their plans to introduce changes to the Diagonale had met ...
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France mulls granting US majors access to state funding
France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) has made a proposal to the government to allow US majors the right to access France's coveted "compte de soutien". The compte is a revolving account set up at the CNC into which a percentage of box-office, video and television sales is placed in order ...
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Ireland's Tribal looks to Bloom with Joyce adaptation
Tribal Films, the new Irish distribution and sales outfit set up in July, has announced its acquisition of all Irish rights to Sean Walsh's Bloom with plans for an early February theatrical release.Bloom (formerly Bl,.m) is an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The film's Dublin premiere will coincide with the ...
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Korean conglomerate boosts film investment
Daesung, the Korean conglomerate that invested $510,000 (W600m) in Park Chan-Wook's hit thriller Old Boy, has decided to set up a media investment fund in partnership with the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) and a trio of industrial groupsThe new fund will have some $8.2m (Won10bn) at its disposal for ...
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Kinderfilmfest reveals competition five
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has confirmed five titles for its new 14plus youth film competition, which will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Anders Gustafsson's Bagland (Scratch).The Kinderfilmfest has also announced another innovation, a retrospective of works from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem.Commenting on ...
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FabiLuce Films gets reality movie for US distribution
New York-based Fire IslandFilms' Games People Play: New Yorkhas been picked up for distribution by the new production and distributionhouse FabiLuce Films and is scheduled for US release in March 2004.Games People Play: NewYork is the first instalment in areality movie franchise conceived, produced, edited and directed by Fire Islandfounder ...
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Mexico grants reprieve for endangered film institutions
Fierce pressure from home and abroad has forced President Vicente Fox's government to back pedal on its plans to sell or shut down Mexico's key film institutions. Local legislators have agreed not to include state-backed national film institute Imcine, film school CCC and studio Churubusco in their budget cutback proposal ...
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Mifed owners unveil strategic overhaul
As part of its drive to reinvigorate Mifed and save it from the onslaught of AFM, Fiera Milano International (FMI), the body that manages Mifed, has announced that it has officially joined forces with Cinecitta Holding and created a new company named Audiovisual Industry Promotion that will run the event ...
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De Hadeln's Venice future hangs in balance
A serious question mark is currently hanging over the head of Moritz De Hadlen's position as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, after the Italian Parliament approved a new statute for the Venice Biennale, the body that manages the event on the Lido.Culture minister Giuliano Urbani, who is known ...
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King cashes in at European box office
Early estimates for key European territories on New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King show the expected rise against the previous instalment has been borne out.In Germany an estimated $4.3m (Euro 3.5m) from 916 screens was taken on the film's first day, approximately 9.5% ...
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Toronto critics opt for Lost In Translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost InTranslation won three prizes as theToronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) announced its awards for 2003. Thedramatic comedy won best picture, best male performance for Bill Murray, andbest screenplay for Coppola, who shared the prize in that category withCanadian auteur Denys Arcand for The Barbarian Invasions.Peter Jackson was ...
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Golden Globes: full list of nominations
Best Motion Picture - DramaCold MountainThe Lord Of the Rings: The Return Of the KingMaster and Commander: The Far Side Of the World Mystic RiverSeabiscuitBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyBend It Like BeckhamBig FishFinding NemoLost In TranslationLove ActuallyActor In A Leading Role - DramaRussell Crowe Master and Commander: The ...
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As Italy prepares to unleash its lengthy line-up of Christmas releases on Friday 19th December, the top five films at the Italian box office remained the same for the second consecutive weekend.The real surprise came from Lost In Translation and The Barbarian Invasions, whose takings increased respectively by 46% and ...
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Hong Kong films expand 2003 market share
Hong Kong productions reversed their downward slide at the local box office in 2003, grossing $47m (HK$366) as of December 14, up 11.6% from the same period last year, according to industry body, the Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA). In addition, Hong Kong-produced films accounted for 46.7% of this year's ...
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Nemo swims past $330m mark for BVI
Finding Nemo continued to plough its way throughinternational waters at the weekend, grossing $31.5m to raise its internationalrunning total to a stunning $330.2m.With no new openings BuenaVista International (BVI) executives pointed to strong number one holds inJapan and key European territories as the weekend highlights.In its secondweekend in Japan the ...