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Fortune Star set for MIPCOM debut
Fortune Star, the Hong Kong film and television production arm of News Corp's Star TV, makes its debut as an exhibitor tomorrow at MIPCOM (Oct 10-13) with an emphasis on the DVD sector and high definition content.The boutique, headed by former Media Asia distribution head Peter Poon, has yet to ...
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Shochiku lines up Mullan for jazz drama
Expanding Japanese production and distribution group Shochiku is to unveil new historical drama Out Of This World by leading director Sakamoto Junji.Under the tagline 'Jazz Brings Peace', the film stars UK actor Peter Mullan and US actor Shea Whigham as American GIs who introduced jazz to Japan when the country ...
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Mirovision wanders into horror Park
Korea's Mirovision has picked up international sales on the new picture by super hot Hong Kong director Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, one half of the team behind the Infernal Affairs sensations.The Park is a low-budget horror piece about a group of seven teenagers who step into a theme-park which has been ...
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Hungarian adaptations win state funding
Three literary adaptations have received distribution aid from the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.To qualify for the aid, filmmakers and distributors have to commit to generating 80-100,000 admissions. Eight films received aid, with the largest sums going to: Tamas Sas' adaptation of Apam Beajulna (This'd Make Daddy Faint) by ...
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Intermission joins landmark year at Irish box office
Intermission hit the Euros 2m milestone for BVI at Irish cinemas on Wednesdaynight, adding to the lustre of 2003 as a landmark year at the local box officefor films made in Ireland. With several strong titles yet to be released in the final quarterIrish-made films have already reached a combined ...
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Kher named as Indian Censor chief
Indian actor Anupam Kher, who has appeared in Bend It Like Beckham has been appointed chief of India's Censor Board. The move was announced by the Indian information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi, who said Kher had worked in commercial cinema, cross-over cinema and had considerable ...
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Peter Sellers tickles UK and Down Under
IconFilm Distribution and Warner Home Video have teamed up to acquire theatricaland home video rights respectively in the UK and Australia/New Zealand for HBOFilms' star-laden The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers.BBCFilms had already secured all UK television rights to the film, which wrappedin London recently and stars Geoffrey Rush ...
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Despite the beating it took from the critics, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen opened at number one this week - largely due to a lack of strong competition, but also thanks to a very visible poster campaign that's been running for some weeks. Another surprise was the poor performance of ...
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Fuse lights up Marrakech jury
Pjer Zalica's Fuse was awarded the Golden Star (Etoile d'Or) at the third Marrakech International Film Festival, which wrapped yesterday(Oct 8. The Bosnian film also won the best actor prize for Bogdan Diklic's performance. Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent took the feature film Special Jury Prize, while Takeshi Kitano was ...
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Valenti showdown talks 'positive'
Fresh from a conferencecall with MPAA chief Jack Valenti, the heads of the studios' specialtydivisions are preparing a follow-up meeting in a bid to thrash out alternativesto the screener ban.Whilesources described Wednesday's showdown as "positive", details of the agendaremained sketchy other than proposals for less draconian anti-piracy measures.Itis understood neither ...
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Verve takes UK rights to Edinburgh winner Afterlife
Verve Films have acquired UK theatrical rights to Gabriel Films' Afterlife, the winner of the Standard Life Audience Award at the 2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Written by Andrea Gibb and directed by Alison Peebles, the low-budget digital feature is the first title created under the New Found Films scheme ...
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Armenia names Vodka Lemon for Oscars
Venice prizewinner Vodka Lemon has been selected as Armenia's entry for the foreign language Oscar category.The film is directed by Hiner Saleem, an Iraqui-Kurd, and is a co-production from French production company Dulcine Films along with Franco-German channel Arte, Canal Plus, Sintra Films, Amka Films, France's CNC and Eurimages.International sale ...
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Oz industry launches Asian focused trade body
A group of executives from the Australian industry have formed a new trade association to lobby their government for legislative support of their efforts to work within Asia.The establishment of the Australian Asia-Pacific Co-Production Association was announced yesterday at South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival by a group including Roger ...
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Garai boards O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing
Hot young UK actress Romola Garai has joined the cast of Damien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing which will film in Ireland for eight weeks from October 20. Garai (I Capture the Castle) has just finished shooting Vanity Fair with Mira Nair and will be seen early next year in the ...
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Budapest's Titantic fest kicks off with Otar
The eleventh edition of Hungary's premiere film festival, the Titanic Film Festival Budapest kicks off October 8 with a screening of director Julie Bertuccelli's Cannes favorite Since Otar Left. The festival will screen fewer films this time than in previous years - a total of 41 productions - with a ...
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Vietnamese Buffalo rolls with Euro financing
Filming on Buffalo Boy, a Vietnamese coming of age drama gets underway next week after having secured a raft of European financing.The film is the ultimate product of the growing system of project and co-production markets. Buffalo Boy was presented at Korea's PPP and New York's Independent Feature Project last ...
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Bugs! swarms over UK Imax theatres
Bugs!, the first large format 3D feature to have had significant UK financing, opened across the country in six Imax theatres last weekend for a strong $29,914 take in its first three days on release.The Film Consortium, jointly responsible with SK Films and UKFTV for marketing the film in the ...
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Madden to mentor on Proof for Directing Change
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and United International Pictures (UIP) have named Tammy Riley-Smith as the second director to benefit from the UK scheme Directing Change.Launched in May 2003, Directing Change gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside an experienced and internationally recognised feature film director during a ...
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Piracy dominates debates at Marrakech
Although the company is set to complete its deal to sell its US entertainment assets to NBC in the next few days, some things are still business as usual at Vivendi Universal. The company sponsored a special round table at the Marrakech Film Festival on Monday October 6 to ...
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Maturing Pusan experiences growing pains
As South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) passes its midpoint, the overall impression is of an event that is rapidly maturing, but still experiencing a few growing pains. Signs of the festival's burgeoning status in the Asian film industry abound. It secured a major international premiere for its opening ...