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Dans Grozny Dans wins inaugural cph:dox
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox, which wrapped this weekend, saw its major awards go to Jos de Putter's Dutch film Dans, Grozny, Dans and Jose Padilha's Brazilian Bus 174. "Dans, Grozny, Dans is a deeply humanistic tale of a dance group and their dedicated teacher in a tale ...
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Mifed was good news for documentary sales
Last week's Mifed film market will have brought financial cheer to a number of documentary producers who saw their works licensed for theatrical release. The annual market in Milan is normally focused of feature films and forthcoming projects, but this year also saw a growing emphasis on documentaries.Although the market ...
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Lee's Red Eagle to soar for Film Hanza
Hong Kong director Daniel Lee is attached to direct action movie Red Eagle for Thailand's Film Hanza - a new production company set up by Cinemasia co-founders Duangkamol Limcharoen and Nonzee Nimibutr. Limcharoen was awarded "Producer of the Year" on Thursday night at the CineAsia conference in Bangkok. The award ...
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Fox takes Thai rights to local drama Beautiful Boxer
Twentieth Century Fox has picked up Thai distribution rights to local action drama Beautiful Boxer produced by GMM Pictures - the film arm of Thai entertainment giant GMM Grammy.Directed by Singapore's Ekachai Uekrongtham, the film tells the real-life story of Parinya Charoenphol, affectionately nicknamed Nong Toom in Thailand, a kickboxer ...
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CineAsia wraps on positive note for local language pics
The resurgence of local-language product across the Asia Pacific region was a recurring theme at this year's CineAsia convention for distributors and exhibitors which wrapped on Thursday (Nov 20) in Bangkok.At a seminar on the last day of the market, the increasing volume and quality of local-language films was credited ...
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MIFED 2003: market deals round-up
The Agronomist (Wild Bunch)UK (Optimum), Italy (Bim)Arahan (Cinema Service)Thailand (Nontanund)Black Dahlia (Signature)Japan (Toho-Towa)Blizzard (First Look)US (Private Planet Releasing)Bright Young Things (Icon)Netherlands (RCV)Capturing The Friedmans (Fortissimo)Spain (Karma)The Card Player (Adriana Chiesa)Japan (Gaga) UK (Arrow)Coffee And Cigarettes (Fortissimo)UK (Tartan); Benelux (A-Film)Cold Mountain (Miramax)Netherlands (RCV)Cowboys And Angels (Media Luna)Hong Kong/Taiwan (I-Movie)Crash (Arclight)Japan (Movie-Eye ...
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Fresh blow for Graz's Diagonale festival
The future of Graz's Diagonale festival under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs has been dealt another blow with the news that Graz's city council has decided to also provide funding for the rival event being planned by the filmmaking community (ScreenDaily.com, 29 Oct).According to the Austrian ...
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Cold&Dark start for Cornwall studio
Shooting started this week on Cold&Dark, a supernatural horror film about police vigilantism starring Luke Goss and directed by Andrew Goth (Everybody Loves Sunshine).The film, which is the first to use the newly opened South West Film Studios in Cornwall, tells the story of Detective Sergeant John Dark, a good ...
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Scanbox, Paradox strike co-production deal
Nordic distributor Scanbox Entertainment, which has emerged in a strong position after a major restructure in 2001, has through its Norwegian arm signed a co-production agreement on six feature films with the prolific production outfit Paradox Spillefilm AS. The deal will see the companies select, develop, produce and market the ...
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11 animated films make the shortlist for Oscar
Eleven films have been namedeligible for the 2003 Best Animated Feature Film Academy Award by the AcademyOf Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Per the rules of the category, thatmeans that a maximum of three films can be nominated.They are The Jungle Book2, Piglet's Big Movie and BrotherBear from Walt Disney ...
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Dennis Rice returns to Disney, Trotta promoted to senior vp
Marketing veteran DennisRice has re-joined Buena Vista Pictures Marketing (BVPM) as senior vicepresident, publicity, while Heidi Trotta has been promoted to senior vicepresident, communications, for Walt Disney Studios.Rice, who will reportdirectly to Oren Aviv, president of BVPM Marketing, will oversee all areas ofpublicity on a national and field level for ...
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FRANCE
Although it remains in the number one spot, the final Matrix instalment is certainly not The One. The shine fell off the film in its second week out with the largest fall-off seen in any major market of 69%. With last week's release schedule virtually barren, distributors who tried to ...
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Though Finding Nemo swam safely into the top spot on its massive 181 prints and a strong screen average of $9.879 Matrix Revolutions clung to second place despite falling off 51%. The local box-office hits Evil and The Third Wave continued their successful runs, but for the first time in ...
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Singapore strides ahead with digital cinema roll-out
Singapore exhibitor Eng Wah Organization is collaborating with Barco and two government agencies to install 20 2K digital projectors - a move that pushes the tiny city-state of Singapore to the forefront of digital cinema technology.The roll-out is backed by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) - a government body which ...
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UK's Soda Pictures gulps down arthouse pair
UK distributor Soda Pictures has picked up UK rights to Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music In The World and Damian Kozole's Spare Parts.Maddin's film, which made its North American premiere at Toronto earlier this year, stars Isabella Rossellini as a legless beer baroness who holds a worldwide contest to perform ...
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Celador chief steps back, hands over reigns to Lux
Celador founder Paul Smith, who recently steered the TV production company behind Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' into features, is stepping back from the day to day running of the company.Smith will continue to head the company as executive chairman but is handing over hands-on management to former Channel ...
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Bellocchio's Goodmorning wins EFA critics prize
The European Film Awards have unveiled its first two prize winning films: Marco Bellocchio's Italian film Goodmorning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte) and S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine by Rithy Panh, from France. Bellochio's film won the European Film Academy Critics Award 2003 - Prix Fipresci, while S21 was awarded The ...
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RCV binges on high profile Mifed titles
Dutch distributor RCV Entertainment has bought local rights to Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain from Miramax and will release the film in the first half of 2004. During last week's Mifed, RCV also acquired John Madden's Proof from Miramax; Zhang Yimou's House Of The Flying Daggers and horror film Seed Of ...
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Mission promotes Meyer to development chief
Mission Pictures has promoted Sophie Meyer to head of development in the UK.Previously development executive at the company, Meyer oversaw the development of Danny Boyle's Millions and comedy spoof Gladiatress. She is responsible for the development of a number of projects on Mission's slate, including a film written and to ...