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Hugh Grant named 2003 Britannia Award winner by BAFTA/LA
Hugh Grant is to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick BritanniaAward for Excellence in Film at the 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeleson Nov 8"We are pleased to behonouring Hugh Grant, who is an accomplished stage and screen actor both in theUK and the United States," BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said ...
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Slamdance 2004 to expand films, add screening rooms
More films, new and improved screening rooms and a new jury formatare on the cards at the 10th Slamdance Film Festival, which will take placefrom Jan 17-24 2004 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.Headquartered at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Park City's MainStreet, the event will boast four ...
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Antidote plots Macbeth, Sarah
Jeff Levy-Hinte and Mary Jane Skalski's New York productioncompany Antidote Films has unveiled two new projects: Todd Louiso's Macbeth, which is to star Philip Seymour Hoffman, and StevenShainberg's Sarah, based on J TLeroy's acclaimed debut novel about West Virginia lowlifes.Louiso directed Love Liza, which starred Hoffman and earned the actor's ...
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Bronfman: GE too big to beat
General Electric was too big and powerful to overcome in the battle for the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal, beaten suitor Edgar Bronfman said in his first interview since losing the auction."Look, they were GE. We weren't. GE is the most powerful company in the world. They decided they wanted ...
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Menemsha takes Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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Menemsha takes festival premieres Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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Revolver turns to Sayles' Casa
John Sayles' drama Casa De Los Babys has been picked up for Italian release by new distributor Revolver.The film, which plays in Venice's Controcorrente or Upstream section, tells the different life stories of six American women holed up in a South American motel while they await the bureaucratic processes necessary ...
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LA launches new horror/sci-fi fest with world premiere of Monster Man
The world premiere ofLions Gate's Monster Man and theWest Coast premiere of Beyond Re-Animator are among the highlights of the inaugural ManiaFest sci-fi, fantasy andhorror festival, which runs in Santa Monica from Sept 18-21.The four-day event features classic screenings, panel discussions,a competition strand and panel discussions with Friday The 13th ...
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FRANCE
Following what can only be termed a rotten summer for film-going in France, exhibitors are thrilled with the performance of Johnny Depp's Pirates Of The Carribbean, the first real summer blockbuster to show any legs. Also new this week and of note is Cannes competition film La Petite Lili. The ...
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Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film.'My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...
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Mexico's Mandoki returns for two
Mexican director Luis Mandoki is returning to his native country to shoot two films back to back. Mandoki, who has directed the likes of Kevin Costner, Jennifer Lopez and Meg Ryan, will first shoot a drama based on a true story, Casa De Carton, by first time Salvadorean writer Oscar ...
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Miercourt moves from Myriad to Miramax as svp
David Miercort has joined Miramax Films as senior vice presidentof acquisitions and business affairs.Based in the company's Los Angeles offices, Miercort will beinvolved in day-to-day acquisitions activities from a business affairs andlegal perspective and will also work on Miramax's worldwide promotions.He will report to both Agnes Mentre, head of Miramax's ...
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Swimfan director's next gets Australian FCC approval
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has approved investment in four new features. They are Mozart Maulers, the third film by director John Polson (Swimfan), Three Dollars, Robert Connolly's second film as a director after The Bank, debut writer/director Anna Reeves' The Oyster Farmer, and You And Your Stupid Mate, which ...
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German DVD market booms
Germany's DVD boom continued unabated during the first six months of 2003, spurred on by the lure of new releases such as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, James Bond;Die Another Day and The Matrix.According to statistics from the country's home entertainment industry body Bundesverband audiovisuelle Medien (BVV), the ...
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Last Life joins Oscar contenders
Thailand has selected Venice title Last Life In The Universe as its official foreign-language Oscar contender. The film, which is directed by Pen-Et Ratanaruang, is currently represented in the Controcorrente or Upsteam competition section of the Venice festival.It has drawn plaudits for its cool storytelling and visual intelligence and marked ...
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Italy's Istituto Luce takes Payami's Silence
Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film."My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...
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New York shoots up by a third
Despite the recent city blackout and the legacy on 9/11 the number of feature film shooting days has leapt by over a third since the start of the year, according to the Mayor's Office of Film Theatre and Broadcasting.Although the city has yet to compile its full shooting figues for ...
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Pirates aims to haul more international gold
Pirates Of The Caribbean looks set to continue its international dominance this upcoming weekend with releases in the key territories of Germany, Italy and Korea.Buena Vista International's family adventure has been a late summer arrival outside the US and has wasted little time in making waves.Pirates boosted its international running ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes on international rights to Moon
Alliance Atlantis hasacquired international rights to writer-director Robert Lepage's Far Side ofthe Moon. Adapted from Lepage'seponymous stage play, and starring Lepage in two roles, as competitive twinbrothers, the film explores the notion of duality against the backdrop of theUS-Soviet space race. The film makes its world premiere at the TorontoInternational ...
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Alliance takes international rights to festival-bound Moon
Alliance Atlantis hasacquired international rights to writer-director Robert Lepage's Far Side ofthe Moon. Adapted from Lepage'seponymous stage play, and starring Lepage in two roles, as competitive twinbrothers, the film explores the notion of duality against the backdrop of theUS-Soviet space race. The film makes its world premiere at the TorontoInternational ...