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NORDIC Production Listings - August 15 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalNORDIC TERRITORIES - August 15DENMARKPRE-PRODUCTIONBIG PLANS(Angel Productions) Budget: dkr13.2m. Backer: Danish Film Institute, TV2/Denmark, TV2/Norway, RUV. Dist: Angel Distribution (Den). Comedy. A paroled crook decides to reform his old gang to prove to his eight-year-old son that he is not a failure. Exec prods: Poul Erik Lindeborg, Mogens ...
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Universal declares record summer with $667.8m to date
With three summer box office weekends still to come, UniversalPictures announced yesterday it had passed its all-time season record with$667.8m in domestic ticket sales.The new milestone includes business up to Aug 13 and overtakes theprevious mark of $665.9m set in 2001. So far this year the studio has grossed$693.1m.The record ...
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Bignardi counters 'lack of glamour' criticism
"We are not here for promoting films, but to make a festival", festival director Irene Bignardi declared in response to BVI Switzerland Roger Crotti's criticisms early this week of the Piazza Grande open-air programme and of the absence of glamour at the festival.In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily.com, Bignardi observed ...
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Comcast, Universal discuss new US cable channels
Hours after pulling out of the bidding for Vivendi Universal'sentertainment assets yesterday (14), cable giant Comcast said it was exploringthe launch of new cable channels and services with the French conglomerate.It is understood any possible venture involving Comcast's cableexpertise and Vivendi content would not interfere with the sale, which is ...
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Swiss producers set for broadcaster boost
Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR plans to inject an additional US$11m (CHF15m) into the local film industry between 2004-2007.SRG SSR director-general Armin Walpen revealed at the Locarno Film Festival this week that the TV station proposes to provide an additional US$2.7m per year on top of the current annual budget ...
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Tsui Hark readies Chinese pair
Film Workshop's Tsui Hark is lining up two US$3.9m (HK$ 30m) Chinese-language dramas to be directed by Tsui himself later this year and early next year.The first is titled Initial D, adapted from a hit Japanese comic book of the same name, which tells the story of a delivery boy ...
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Locarno Piazza programme comes in for criticism
Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme has come under harsh criticism from Roger Crotti, general manager and vice president of Buena Vista International (Switzerland) - whose world premiere screening of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls was seen by an audience of 9,500 on Saturday (Aug 9).In an interview with the Swiss daily ...
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Hammer partners on horror with Paradise
British horror company Hammer Films is to develop a slate of low-budget horror movies with Australian production outfit, Pictures in Paradise.The partners aim to deliver a slate of up to six horror films over five years. The films will be targeted at young cinemagoers and designed to have strong potential ...
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Currency crunch hits Internationalmedia
Internationalmedia(IM) - parent company of Intermedia - has blamed currency imbalances between the Euro and the Dollar for a 5.7% year on year revenue fall in the first half of 2003.IM's CEO Moritz Borman said that "had the Euro and the Dollar maintained their comparative values from a year ago, ...
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Distant Lights to open Warsaw fest
The 19th Warsaw International Film Festival (Oct 2-13) will feature 15 films in its competition programme, a Ventura Pons retrospective and a selection of the newest Polish films as part of the Warsaw Screenings section.The festival, the country's sole FIAPF-accredited feature film event, will open with Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale FIPRESCI-award ...
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Eastwood's Mystic River pulls out of Edinburgh
The critically acclaimed Clint Eastwood thriller Mystic River has been pulled from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 13-24) programme. One of the Festival's star attractions, the film was set for two sell-out screenings next week but has been withdrawn by distributor Warner Brothers who have claimed 'unforeseen scheduling conflicts' ...
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Moreau presides over Flanders jury
Jeanne Moreau, the iconic star of more than 100 films includingFrancois Truffaut's Jules Et Jim, has been confirmed as president of the jury of the 30th FlandersInternational Film Festival.Moreau joins the directors Ahmed Imamovic and Gaston Kabore andcomposers Daan Stuyven and Stephen Warbeck on the jury panel for the event,which ...
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Kim's Spring, Summer gathers Locarno heat
Prolific Korean film-maker Kim Ki-duk's Locarno competition film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring has been picked up by Israel's United King Films. "Strong interest" has also been reported from Brazil by sales agent Bavaria Film International after Wednesday's press show and ahead of today's public world premiere screening.The tale about ...
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Out Of Time to world premiere at Toronto
Director Carl Franklin's Out Of Time will have its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, the film also stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, and Dean Cain in a story of one man's race against time to solve ...
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Another Oz studio planned
A major new studio facility is set to be built in Australia - the fourth in the country. Paul Hathaway, a business consultant and engineer, and his property developer brother Michael Hathway, are confident they will have all the necessary final approvals by the end of this year to construct ...
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Gaga blames losses on bad timing
Japanese distributor Gaga Communications has blamed its release strategy for Hollywood films as one of the reasons for cutting its earnings forecast earlier this month. At the beginning of August, Gaga said it would post a consolidated net loss of $12.3m (Y1.47b) for the financial year ending September 31. The ...
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Swiss producers set for government funding boost
Swiss Federal President and Minister of Culture Pascal Couchepin has proposed that the national cinema funding budget should be increased by up to 15%. At the same time, however, he called on Swiss producers to be more commercially minded in the future.Speaking during the weekend at the Locarno International Film ...
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Notting Hill director to mentor for Directing Change
Notting Hill director Roger Michell is to mentor newcomer Shreepali Patel on the first production to go though training scheme Directing Change.Patel, a Cardiff based director-producer with credits on documentaries such as Falkland Stories and Heavenly Bodies, will work alongside Michell on Pathe UK's upcoming production, Enduring Love.The scheme, set ...
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Copenhagen festival gets off to turbulent start
The first Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has had a turbulent few weeks in the lead up to its launch on Wednesday night. Festival programmer Michael Soeby has resigned and will not be returning next year, despite lining up a decent first programme with a strong focus on European ...
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Human Stain producer Steindorff wins backing
ProducerScott Steindorff, whose credits include the upcoming Miramax drama The HumanStain, has teamed up with Las Vegas business-people Andrew Molasky and Danny andRobin Greenspun to form Stone Village Entertainment.Thedeal transforms Steindorff's existing Stone Village Productions into a broaderentertainment company that will handle film production through Stone VillagePictures and television through ...