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Clifford leaves Disney for job as vp, production at Warner Bros
Jeffrey Clifford has left his post as vice president of productionat Buena Vista to perform the same role for Warner Bros."Jeff is going to be a tremendous addition to our group," WarnerBros production president Jeff Robinov said in a statement."He's a great executive with excellent taste and relationships. Weare really ...
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Columbia's Warriors makes cut as Chinese Oscar choice
Chinahas selected He Ping's epic adventure tale, Warriors Of Heaven And Earth, as its official entry for the foreign-language categoryof the Academy Awards.Co-producedby Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Huayi Brothers & Taihe FilmInvestment Co and Xian Film Studio, the film stars leading Chinese actors JiangWen and Zhao Wei (Vicky Zhao), ...
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Swiss join forces to promote national cinema
Switzerland's Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Film Centre and the Swiss Short Film Agency have joined forces to launch Swiss Films to give the Alpine nation's cinema a higher profile at home and abroad.The new promotion agency will start work at offices in Zurich and Geneva from January 1, ...
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Zhang cranks up Hero follow up
Zhang Yimou has started production on his second big-budget martial arts film following Hero - Shi Mian Maifu (literally Ambush From Ten Directions) - in the Ukraine. The film, which has been the subject of intense speculation in the mainland press for several months, is set to star China's Zhang ...
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Rappeneau romance gets Oscar nod
Veteran directorJean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage has been selected as France's contender for the foreign-languageOscar. Thefilm, which stars Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal,Gregori Derangere andGerard Depardieu, is a romantic drama set against the period when France was losing ground in WWII. The director, who previouslydirected foreign-language box office champion Cyrano ...
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French box office buoyed by August figures
France's National Cinema Centre has released figures for August box office which add up to good news for the local industry. Following a rotten year for movie going, numbers were up in August by 5.2% compared with last year.August saw 14.1 million tickets sold making it one of the best ...
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UK's Skills Investment Fund may become obligatory
The Skills Investment Fund, the UK fund for training made up of voluntary contributions from local productions, may become obligatory under plans being discussed with the Government.Stewart Till, who is deputy chairman of support body the UK Film Council and training agency Skillset, which administers the fund, told Screendaily that ...
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Piggies hopes to fly with Little Bird
UK production company Little Bird has optioned teen horror novel Piggies as the first title under its recently-launched teen film arm.The book by Nick Gifford follows a youngster who is transported to a parallel world inhabited by vampires. Nahrein Mirza, who heads Little Bird's teen arm, is teaming up on ...
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Exorcist prequel books into Cinecitta for major reshoot
The Exorcist: The Beginning has booked in for a five to six week reshoot at Rome's Cinecitta Studios next month, following director Paul Schrader's sudden dismissal from the movie after an alleged conflict with his producers at Morgan Creek. Carol Andre-Smith, director of international marketing at Cinecitta confirmed that re-shoots ...
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Rome plays host to cloistered screening of Gibson's Passion
Special projects require special tactics. And there can be few films requiring such an approach as Mel Gibson's $25m religious tract The Passion.Gibson's company Icon Entertainment and ICM, the Catholic activist superstar's agent, are carefully selecting distributors for what it already knows is inflammatory and difficult material. On the eve ...
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Scott prepares to embark on Crusades epic
Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott has confirmed that his next project will be the historical epic The Crusades.Speaking in London on Sept 9 after a BAFTA screening of his latest film Matchstick Men, Scott said he planned to begin filming early next year in Spain and North Africa.Despite the sensitive ...
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Spacey's Sea heads up Element X debut slate
Beyond The Sea, Kevin Spacey's story of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, is amongst the titles on the debut slate of Element X, the London-based international sales company set up by former FilmFour executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner.Principal photography on the Anglo-German co-production starts in October in Europe. The film ...
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Mudge wins $1m deal at Toronto in Chrysler Million Dollar Film Fest
Film-maker Andrew Mudge haswon a $1m production deal to develop his feature project The P T JohansenField Guide To North American Monstersas first prize in the 2003 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival.Mudge beat off more than 700contestants in the competition, which began in January and progressed to amentored short film ...
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EFA unveils 2003 film awards shortlist
Forty-three European films have made it onto the selection list for the European Film Awards 2003.Choosing from this list, the 1,600 members of the European Film Academy will, in the coming weeks, select the nominations in the different award categories. More than 360 films were submitted for the selection. The ...
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France names Bon Voyage its Oscar contender
Jean-Paul Rappeneau's BonVoyage will be France's entry intothe Oscar race this year. The National Cinema Center announced Wednesday theselection of Rappeneau's film as its choice for a potential nomination by theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The film, produced by ARPSelection's Laurent and Michele Petin was released in France under ...
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Herwitz signs on as consultant to Stern's Endgame
Andrew Herwitz, president ofNew York-based The Film Sales Company, has signed on as independent consultantfor Jim Stern's production and financing outfit Endgame Entertainment.Herwitz will immediatelybegin scouting material for Endgame's development, co-production financing andacquisitions fund, structuring deals and advising on sales strategies."It is refreshing to workwith someone like Jim who has ...
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Jon Fitzgerald creates consulting and services operation for indie film-makers
Festival veteran JonFitzgerald has launched Right Angle Studios, an integrated and technologicallysavvy one-stop shop offering consulting, production and distribution servicesfor independent film-makers.The venture will be linkedto a website offering online resources and links with the aim of providing aguide through the choppy and often overcrowded festival circuit waters."In the first ...
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Hebrew Hammer strikes US theatrical, TV deals
New York-based CowboyPictures has acquired Jonathan Kesselman's "Jewxploitation" comedy TheHebrew Hammer for theatrical releasein select cities in mid-December to coincide with the Hannukkah holiday.The acquisition is relatedto a larger deal in which ContentFilm also sold North American broadcast rightsto Comedy Central, which will air The Hebrew Hammer for two weeks ...
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Kosse to depart Momentum for Universal
Momentum Pictures managing director David Kosse is set to join Universal to head up its international marketing and distribution.Based in London, Kosse will help manage Universal's relationship with its international distributor, UIP. It is understood that Kosse will take a seat on the UIP board. Kosse has spent more that ...
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Toronto: Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...