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UK Film Council plans nationwide film school network
The UK Film Council is understood to be planning a nationwide network of state-of-the-art film schools.The ambitious initiative is expected to be proposed next month when the Council, the UK's leading source of National Lottery cash, unveils the results of a high-powered training working group it launched in February with ...
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Germany secures future of film funds
Germany's Federal Finance Ministry has amended the way German media funds operate, bringing both an end to months of uncertainty about their future and giving investors more control over films in their portfolio.Last year, the future of German funds came under threat after the Finance Ministry proposed tighter regulations governing ...
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Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 returns to profit
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group has posted strong financial results, just days before U.S. investor Haim Saban is likely to sign off on his deal to buy the broadcaster. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group reported a sharp earnings increase in the second quarter of 2003 and posted group pre-tax income for the first six ...
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Locarno Band Wagon starts to roll
The Locarno International Film Festival's 56th edition kicked off last night, on a scorching, hot and humid summer night, with a brand new print of Vincente Minelli's evergreen musical The Band Wagon. The opening, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film made by a director born 100 years ago, faithfully ...
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Media Luna picks up Locarno competitor Maria
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up world sales rights for Romanian first time director Calin Netzer's Maria which will receive its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival's Official Competition next Wednesday (August 13).Maria is a co-production by Artis Film Romania with France's Cine-Manufacture and Germany's Pandora Filmproduktion, which will be ...
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Moodysson cranks up Swedish family focused film
Acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is to start shooting his new as yet untitled film later this month at the Trollhattan studio, where he shot his previous hits Fucking Amal, Together and Lilja 4-ever.The Swedish-language contemporary drama will again focus on a family, but as usual the writer-director is being ...
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Premiere posts healthier than expected figures
Thanks to substantial growth in revenues and further cost-cutting measures, German pay-TV platform Premiere has revised its predicted operating loss downwards a second time - to less than Euros 40m for 2003.In February, the Premiere had originally forecast a loss of Euros 80m. This was then revised downwards to a ...
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Everett boards cast of France's Jet Set 2
British actor Rupert Everett has joined the cast of Jet Set 2, the sequel to hit French film of 2000, which is set to start shooting in Ibiza in September.Miramax acquired remake and US distribution rights to the original French-language comedy Jet Set (Screen Daily, May 23, 2000). A "fish-out-of-water" ...
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Hong Kong submits Affairs for Oscar consideration
Blockbuster action thriller Infernal Affairs has been selected as Hong Kong's official entry for the best foreign-language category of the 76th Academy Awards. The selection was unveiled by Crucindo Hung, chairman of the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong. The choice of Infernal Affairs was unanimous.Infernal Affairs topped ...
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Bavaria picks up world sales for San Sebastian film
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up world sales rights for Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay's In The City (En La Ciudad), the follow-up to his internationally successful Krampack.Starring Monica Lopez, Eduard Fernandez and Leonor Watling, the tragicomedy about a group of friends who gradually discover the truth about one another ...
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Oz cheaper than Canada for runaway shoots says report
A Hollywood producer would save significant amounts of money shooting a big budget film in Australia compared to Canada, according to a report published this week.The report, which was produced by Sydney's best-known film accountancy firm for the Australian Government, concludes that a Hollywood producer would save 7.5% if he ...
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Rings fever hits Japan early
Japanese distributor Nippon Herald Films has sold a record number of advanced tickets to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - even though it does not open in Japan until Spring 2004.13,645 advanced tickets were sold on August 2 in nine key cities for the third ...
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Blonde 2 takes $4m including number two opening in UK
Fox International rolled out the MGM comedy sequel LegallyBlonde 2: Red, White & Blonde in the UK and several smaller European territories at theweekend, grossing $4m.The comedy opened number two inthe UK and took $2.5m (including previews) from 351 screens.In other openings, Belgium scored $178,000 from 40, Swedenproduced $100,000 from ...
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IFP LA moves 2004 Independent Spirit Awards forward by a month
Abandoning its traditional March berth but sticking to its Oscarweekend slot, IFP/Los Angeles has announced that the 2004 IFP IndependentSpirit Awards will take place one day before the Academy Awards on Feb 28,2004.The move is in response to the truncated awards 2003/04 season, anupcoming logistical melee triggered last year when ...
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Indian music major unveils ambitious film plans
Indian music major Saregama is planning to re-enter movie production and has unveiled plans to produce 20 Indian language films over the next three years.The owner of the largest music catalogue in India, the move is part of Saregama's plan to become an all-round entertainment company which will allow it ...
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Oz producers bemoan lack of homegrown hits
An air of despondency is beginning to settle over Australian producers as, one by one, 2003's crop of local films fail to take off at the box office. The two latest Australian releases, Roadshow's comedy Bad Eggs and 20th Century Fox's Danny Deckchair, while only just out of the starting ...
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Euro pay-TV outfits set for revenue boom
For the past three years, the news emanating from most of Europe's pay-TV outfits has been consistently grim.Financial cutbacks, bankruptcies and mergers in countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and France hit the film industry hard as the leading pay-TV players cut back on their investment in movies.However, a new ...
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Irish viewers elect favourite films for broadcast
Irish terrestrial broadcaster RTE has launched an innovative, interactive scheme which allows its viewers to vote for and choose the film they want to watch each week. Called Cinepicks, the scheme sees viewers vote for one of two possible films. Viewers vote by calling one of two premium rate telephone ...
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Pawlikowski embarks on Love shoot
Pawel Pawlikowski, the acclaimed director of Last Resort, has started shooting his new film, My Summer Of Love.Described as a loose adaptation of the book by Helen Cross, it is the story of the friendship and burgeoning sexuality of two teenage girls - one rich, one poor - who form ...
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Locarno shines spotlight on film foundations
Locarno's Film Industry Office is to cast a spotlight on the workings of film foundations such as Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund and Montecinema Verita at this year's festival.Held on August 12, the event will examine the potential role for international sales companies or distributors becoming involved at an early stage ...