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Pearl Earring director falls for pickpocket drama
UK director Peter Webber, currently drawing plaudits for his feature debut Girl With A Pearl Earring, will next direct a gritty feature about pickpockets for BBC Films.In development for the past two years, Jackdaw (working title) is a contemporary exploration of teenage crime in London. Producer is Jake Lushington, with ...
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French budget hikes production aid by 4.8%
Asmuch as 531.8m euros has been set aside for French film and TV production nextyear under the promising new budget outlined this afternoon in Paris by Frenchculture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon. Thatfigure represents a 4.8% jump from 2003 and is made up largely of funds comingfrom the National Cinema Center's (CNC) ...
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UPI appoints Suzuki as Japan president
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has appointed Mutsumi Suzuki as president of Universal Pictures Japan (UPJ). Based in Tokyo, Suzuki will report to Wayne Borg, vice president, Universal Pictures, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The appointment is effective from Sept 30..Suzuki succeeds Tada Wakabayashi, who has held the role ...
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Cooler, Human Stain bookend brimming Hamptons festival
The East Coast premiere of Wayne Kramer's Las Vegas-set casinodrama The Cooler willopen the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 22-26and closes with the East Coast premiere of Robert Benton's drama The HumanStain.All in all there will be 22 world premieres at this festival thattakes place in ...
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Cartoon initiative unveils pan-Euro film conference
In the run-up to the European Union's enlargement eastwards, the Brussels-based animation initiative CARTOON has been hired by the European Commission to organise a two-day audiovisual conference in Warsaw from March 19-20, 2004.CARTOON managing director Marc Vandenweyer told ScreenDaily.com that the event will aim to foster a greater exchange of ...
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Giannetti named Columbia exec-vice president of production
Andrea Giannetti has been named executive vice president of production at Columbia Pictures. Giannetti, who reports to co-presidents of production Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, most recently spearheaded development and production on Once Upon A Time In Mexico and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. She is currently working on Tim Burton's ...
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Ladies In Lavender kicks off for Dance
Charles Dance's directorial debut, Ladies In Lavender, has kicked off seven weeks of principal photography in Cornwall, London and at Pinewood Studios.Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruhl plays Andrea, a handsome and charismatic Polish castaway who is discovered by two spinsters - played by Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie ...
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Danish Film Insitute greenlights eight films
Six new Danish films and two Danish-Swedish co-productions have been greenlit after securing support from the Danish Film Institute. Two of these have received backing through the so-called 60/40 deal based on their high commercial potential, as they will be directed by the two successful female directors Hella Joof (Shake ...
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NYC's Guggenheim mounts huge Fellini retrospective
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will launch a retrospectiveof Federico Fellini's films and rarely seen drawings next month to coincidewith the 10th anniversary of the great director's death.Included in the three-month show are newly restored printsand a section devoted to Fellini's art that includes caricatures he drew as ayoung ...
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FRANCE
As kids get back to school and the French reminisce about summer flings, love is in the air with Jeux d'Enfants. The story of two inseparable and sometimes insufferable lovers who never quite make it, opened healthily at number one boosted by the star power of Guillaume Canet and new ...
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HUNGARY
Adventure was the name of the game last weekend at the Hungarian box office when The Pirates Of The Caribbean took over the top spot from Jim Carrey's Bruce Almighty with a strong opening performance of over forty thousand admissions. Peter Mullan's multi-award winning The Magdalene Sisters had a decent ...
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NETHERLANDS
Francois Ozon's thriller Swimming Pool proved another hit in The Netherlands for independent distributor Cinemien. The film placed sixth over the four-day weekend and held place over the full first week - taking $76,731 from 20 screens including previews by the end of its first week.The success follows the $750,000 ...
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SPAIN
Spanish film Football Days (Dias De Futbol) opened strong on its first weekend with a three-day gross of Euros 879,354 from 200 prints through Buena Vista International. The film marks the directorial debut of the screenwriter of last year's local hit The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado ...
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Animation trio benefit from German funding
Three animation productions including the sequel to the animation box office hit Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) are among the projects backed by Filmstiftung NRW with over Euros 4.8m in its latest round of funding.New features by Wim Wenders, Petra Katherina Wagner and Hannes Stoehr have also received ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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Studio Babelsberg looks to local industry
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) has boarded Torsten Wacker's Superseks, the second German feature the studio has backed this year on top of its high profile international productions.Starring Denis Moschitto, Marie Zielcke, Hilmi Soezer, and Martin Glade, the comedy centres on the 23-year-old Elviz who launches the first sex hotline ...
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Berlin moves to educate film journalists
A scheme to introduce to young critics and film journalists to the workings of the international film industry has been unveiled by the Berlin International Film Festival.Called The Talent Press, it will see 10 young film critics and film journalists from five different continents invited to Berlin to report on ...
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SPC strikes licensing deals with Canadian distributors
Montreal-based Seville Pictures has taken all Canadian rights to Wolfgang Becker's international hit Good Bye, Lenin! and has acquired all French Canadian rights to Pedro Almodovar's upcoming Bad Education, currently in post-production. Both deals are through Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), which holds North American rights on the pictures. Meanwhile, Toronto-based ...
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Clavier to produce debut French comedy
Marie-Anne Chazel will begin shooting Au Secours, J'ai 30 Ans (Help, I'm 30) on October 6, a comedy produced by French comic actor Christian Clavier.The film is based on the best selling novel The Last Chance Club by Mariane Keyes.Chazel, an actress best known to French audiences for her participation ...