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Pusan unveils New Currents jury
Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie (The Oak) has been invited to serve as the chairman of the New Currents jury at the 8th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) in South Korea. A competitive category for first and second-time Asian filmmakers, the New Currents section has in past years recognised the ...
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Distant, Reconstruction win top Fipresci prizes
Cannes prize-winners Distant (Uzak) and Reconstruction will take home the top FIPRESCI prizes from next month's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Cannes grand jury and best actor prize-winner Distant, from Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, was selected best film, while Denmark's Christoffer Boe was chosen for the best director ...
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Venice festival opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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Venice festival opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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Germany's Splendid posts improved figures
German licence trader Splendid Medien has posted sales revenues of Euros 20.5m for the first half of 2003, slightly up on 2002's Euros 19.8m.The provosional consolidated earnings for the first six months amounted to Euros -1.7m, an improvement on last year's result of Euros -9.6m.According to provisional figures, the most ...
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Sky Italia pledges to invest in Italian film
In a move that will boost the confidence of the Italian film industry, Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge has announced that Rupert Murdoch's new Italian pay-tv platform will invest Euros 50m each year into the Italian film industry. "Sky believes that Italian cinema is a key element of its programming ...
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Vivendi sale marathon moves into final lap
Vivendi Universal's board meets this afternoon in Paris to review the final bids for the company's US entertainment assets.However, insiders at Vivendi are cautious when it comes to confirming a formal decision today. "The board will either say they want to go into deeper talks with all of the remaining ...
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Venice opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...
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Bruce Almighty has scored the third largest opening ever in Argentina, after The Matrix Reloaded and Spider-Man. The comedy opened on Aug 14 for the long five-day weekend where Monday was a holiday to mark the day of Saint Martin, Argentina's liberator. The comedy broke BVI's own record set by ...
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Edinburgh closes with Splendor
It may have been a tough year for securing titles and attracting talent but the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival closed in style on Sunday with the British premiere of Sundance prize-winner American Splendor. Earlier in the day star Paul Giamatti and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, the subject of the film, ...
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Fuse ignites Sarajevo
Bosnian filmmaker Pjer Zalica's Fuse (Gori Vatra) has continued its winning streak after Locarno's Silver Leopard by picking up six awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival this weekend.The International Jury led by veteran director-screenwriter Dusan Makaveyev awarded the Euros 15,000 Agnes B. Award for the Best Feature Film in the ...
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Reloaded passes $450m international gross
The Matrix Reloaded has passed $450m at the international box office, aformidable sum that combines with the $280m domestic take to make it thebiggest worldwide release of 2003 so far.The second instalment in theWachowski Brothers' sci-fi trilogy is also the highest grossing R-ratedfilm in both domestic and international marketplaces ever ...
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Menemsha acquires Mika Kaurismaki music doc
Menemsha'sworld sales division has picked up Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki'smusic road movie The Sound Of Brasil (Moro No Brasil) for all North and South American territories.Menemsha'sEuropean sales representative Beatrix Wesle brought the film to the companyafter it premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002."Kaurismakitakes the viewer on a 2,500 ...
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Kramer named executive vp, business affairs & operations, at Warner Independent
Veteran entertainment lawyerand business affairs executive Andrew Kramer has been appointed executive vicepresident of business affairs and operations at the fledgling WarnerIndependent Pictures.Kramer will be responsiblefor handling all business and legal matters related to the specialty unit'sslate, as well as the company's internal operations and relationships withother Warner Bros Entertainment ...
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Arclight to sell Fat Pizza worldwide
Arclight has picked up all international sales rights except Australia, New Zealand, Greece and Singapore on Fat Pizza, the highest grossing local comedy in Australia this year.A politically incorrect comedy adaptation of a cult SBS television series, Fat Pizza took many observers by surprise when it opened in the second ...
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Buddy emerges as Haugesund audience favourite
Romantic comedy Buddy by newcomer Morten Tyldum has picked up the audience award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug 17-24). The Norwegian film, which also was an audience prizewinner in Karlovy Vary, also received the 'feelgood' award (Gledessprederprisen) from Norwegian exhibitors. The exhibitor jury also gave a ...
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Spence leaves San Francisco, Blackaby steps up
Linda Blackabyhas been named director of programming for the San Francisco Film Society andthe San Francisco International Film Festival.Blackaby willtake over from Carl Spence, who has left to pursue other interests.In her new roleBlackaby will work with executive director Roxanne Messina Captor overseeingprogramming duties both for the film society and ...
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ScreenDaily.com to offer global box office service
Regular readers of both the weekly magazine Screen International and the daily news service ScreenDaily.com will notice important changes this week.The weekly magazine will sport a brand new look and speak with a fresh new voice that will truly help bridge the different worlds of the global cinema business.From Thursday ...
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Cecchi Gori cranks up comeback feature
Popular Roman actor-director Carlo Verdone (It Can't Be All Our Fault) has announced that he is about to start shooting a new project for Cecchi Gori - marking the first concrete steps in the fallen giant's comeback.Entitled Love Is Eternal - For As Long As It Lasts (L'Amore E' Eterno ...
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Diamant to launch sales company with Lamping
X-Men 2 screenwriter Dan Harris' directorial debut Imaginary Heroes will be the first film to be handled by new international sales outfit Signature Pictures International (SPI) - a subsidiary of Moshe Diamant's production outfit Signature Entertainment Inc. Diamant and Jan Fantl's Cologne-based Quality International are the investment partners in SPI, ...