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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Asian film market planned for Bangkok festival
The newly appointed US programmers responsible for stagingnext year's Bangkok International Film Festival are to introduce aninternational film market to run alongside the Thai festival.Former Palm Springs International Film Festival executives CraigPrater and Jennifer Stark have been named executive director and director ofprogramming, respectively, for the event which runs from ...
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Palm jams with Tom Dowd music documentary
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired North American andCaribbean rights to Mark Moormann's award-winning documentary Tom Dowd &The Language Of Music.The film will receive its world premiere on the US-basedSundance Channel on Oct 3, followed by a limited theatrical release late thisyear and DVD roll-out in early 2004.Tom Dowd & ...
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Terminator 3 looks for French connection
With a subdued slate of major international releases this upcoming weekend, all eyes will be on whether Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines can maintain its perfect record of opening number one in every market.The sci-fi sequel was the runaway number one performer last weekend and has amassed $153m to ...
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Love Actually gets world premiere at Toronto
The worldpremiere of Richard Curtis' romantic comedy Love Actually and North American premieres ofAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 21 Grams, Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and PhilipSaville's The Gospel Of John will screen as special presentations at the Toronto FilmFestival.Also included isLost In Translation,Sofia Coppola's follow-up to the acclaimed The Virgin Suicides. The ...
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Ryan takes over as chairman of AFMA
Veteran British filmexecutive Michael Ryan has been named the next chairman of AFMA, becoming thefirst person from outside the US to be appointed to the post.Ryan, who is currentlydirector at IAC Films & Television in London where he is executive producingthe dramas Elizabeth Rex and Escape, was a founding member ...
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UK Film Council backs Dog Soldiers follow up
Neil Marshall, director of UK werewolf hit Dog Soldiers, is returning to the horror genre with Outpost, one of a fresh slate of projects to receive development funding from public funding body the UK Film Council this week.In a premise similar to Marshall's hit debut, which follows a squad of ...
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Warner Bros boards two new Italian projects
Warner Bros PicturesInternational is to collaborate on the production and release of twoItalian-language films in Italy, working with BiancaFilm on L'AmoreRitorna (Love Returns) and with Cattleya on Tre Metri Sopra Il Cielo (Three Steps Over Heaven).Sergio Rubini will direct L'AmoreRitorna, a comedy-drama about acelebrated actor who reconsiders life after illness ...
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Warner Independent Pictures is opened for business
Warner Bros PicturesInternational is to collaborate on the production and release of twoItalian-language films in Italy, working with BiancaFilm on L'AmoreRitorna (Love Returns) and with Cattleya on Tre Metri Sopra Il Cielo (Three Steps Over Heaven).Sergio Rubini will direct L'AmoreRitorna, a comedy-drama about acelebrated actor who reconsiders life after illness ...
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Warner Independent Pictures opens for business
After months of speculationWarner Bros officially unveiled Warner Independent Pictures yesterday, its newspecialty division that will be headed up by former Miramax LA and Stratus Film Co president Mark Gill.As president of the new division Gill willoversee all aspects of business including development, production, acquisition,marketing and distribution, reporting directly to ...
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Mexican film-makers face fund drought
The two film funds of Mexican film institute Imcine - Foprocine and Fidecine - are drying up. The Foprocine fund of $13.5m (135m pesos) has been virtually used up since it was created in 1999 by former President Ernesto Zedillo. "There is little chance it will be replenished as it ...
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Geraghty leaves Screen Producers Ireland
Tracy Geraghty has stepped down as director of Irish producers' association Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) as of August 1 after seven months in the job. According to sources it was a decision arrived at "mutually" with the board of SPI. The SPI board will consider the development along with other ...
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UK Production Listings - August 8 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalUK - August 8Pre-ProductionALEXANDER(Intermedia) Co-prod: Pathe (Fr). Int'l sales: Summit Entertainment (US). US dist: Warner Bros. Prod: Iain Smith. Main cast: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins. Shooting from Sept. Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1753 651 700BRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh ...
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Globo empire founder Marinho, dies aged 98
Roberto Marinho, once dubbed the Citizen Kane of Brazil for building one of Latin America's largest news and entertainment empires, died on Wednesday aged 98.Marinho turned his father's small newspaper into a media empire, becoming one of Brazil's richest men. He founded Organizacoes Globo, which encompasses television, cable, pay television, ...
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Universal, Arenas terminate partnership
Universal Pictures and advertising, PR and talent management firm The Arenas Group are dissolving their partnership in Arenas Entertainment, the US Latino-targeted film label launched in November 2001. "We are shifting to a non exclusive arrangement with Arenas," said Marc Shmuger, vice chairman of Universal Pictures. Rather than using one ...
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Argentinian films hunt for funding at Locarno
The Locarno International Film festival (August 6-16), which kicked off last night, is to hold a co-production workshop focusing entirely on projects from Argentina.New projects by Diego Lerman, director of the Silver Leopard-winning Tan De Repente in Locarno last year, Pablo Trapero (El Bonaerense), Santiago Loza (Extrano) and Juan Manuel ...
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Lerner named vp, Lewis, Winters hired at Bumble Ward & Assocs
Veteran entertainmentpublicist BeBe Lerner has been promoted to vice president at BeverlyHills-based PR company Bumble Ward & Associates (BWA).Ward, the company presidentwho founded BWA in 1994, has also brought in James Lewis as a publicist andpublic relations and marketing executive Rochelle Winters to spearhead thecompany's corporate division.'It is not anexaggeration ...
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UK launch for black film-makers sales outfit
Former High Point senior sales executive Sarah Chammartin has launched a new sales company which will specialise in handling films by black film-makers.Based in the UK and called Carre Noir Film, Chammartin says the aim is provide films by black film-makers to black communities around the world. Chammartin is currently ...
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Film-makers line up Indian Pakistani co-production
London based film producer Sevy Ali and well known Indian film maker Mahesh Bhatt are working together on an Indian Pakistani co-production. The yet to be titled film is a love story set against the backdrop of violence and turmoil that occurred during "partition" - the separation of Pakistan and ...