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New York Film Critics move awards to Dec 15
The New YorkFilm Critics Circle (NYFCC) will announce its awards on Dec 15 at the MuseHotel in New York.The awards willbe given out at the group's annual awards dinner on Jan 4 2004 at Nochein Manhattan.'2003 hasalready proven to be a great year for films of all kinds, and we're ...
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Mark Gill negotiates to leave Stratus for Warner Bros
Mark Gill, the formerpresident of Miramax LA and currently a partner in Stratus Film Company, is infinal negotiations to leave Stratus and take the helm at Warner Bros'long-in-the-works specialized division. Warner confirmed reports inthe Hollywood trade press yesterday that Gill is in talks for the job, but saidas yet that ...
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Robert Greenblatt named president of entertainment at Showtime
Veterantelevision executive Robert Greenblatt is joining US cable giant ShowtimeNetworks as president of entertainment.Greenblatt willstart work at his Los Angeles offices on Jul 14 and will oversee creative andprogramming activities on all existing and planned channels.In addition hewill supervise original productions, acquisitions, scheduling and businessaffairs and have direct involvement in ...
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Palm Springs moves short film festival to Sept
The Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films is abandoning its traditional August slotand will run this year from Sept 16-22 in Palm Springs.Explaining thedecision in a statement, festival director Kevin McGuire said: 'We arelooking to offer greater educational opportunities for students and Septemberis a better month for schools to participate ...
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Pippin to get the Miramax musical treatment
Miramax Films, which earlier this week announced that it hadsecured film rights to one of Bob Fosse's classic stage musicals DamnYankees, has picked uprights to another - Pippin.Pippin,which has never been filmed before, charts the life of the eponymous son ofCharlemagne who dabbles in sex, politics and war before realising ...
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Music documentary Amandla! sings to South African audiences
On a screen for screen, basis music documentary Amandla! A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony, which was released in South Africa on Friday, June 20, outgrossed the Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling For Columbine on its first weekend of release. Amandla! earned $9,583 (R76 168) with eight prints, outgrossing Bowling For ...
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IMAX screens touted as remedy for over-screening
Cinema exhibitors with excess capacity following the multiplex building boom of the last decade should consider refitting theatres with IMAX screens, a seminar at Cine Expo in Amsterdam has heard. Two new systems unveiled earlier this year by IMAX Corporation mean it is now feasible for IMAX screens to be ...
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Glover to chair International Black Panther festival
Danny Glover will serve ashonourary chair of the third International Black Panther Film Festival, whichruns in Harlem, New York City, from Jul 31-Aug 4.Screenings at the biannualevent are scheduled to include Raoul Peck's acclaimed Congolese true-lifedrama Lumumba, Cuban directorGloria Rolando's Eyes Of The Rainbow and Robert Mugge's concert film on ...
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Cinema Expo warned: piracy 'ain't getting better'
Pirated DVD copies of Hulk went on sale in a small Scottish market two weeks ahead of the film's US June 20-22 opening weekend.A copy of Hulk DVD was brandished by Spencer Mott, director of operations for anti-piracy body FACT at a Cinema Expo seminar this week titled Piracy: It ...
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Melbourne film festival flies patriotic colours
The opening night of the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will feature the work of two hometown talents, Sue Brooks' Cannes competition feature Japanese Story and Adam Elliot's 22-minute claymation Harvie Krumpet.Japanese Story stars Toni Collette, Matthew Dyktynski and Gotaro Tsunashima in the Australian outback and was been picked ...
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Winchester Entertainment results 'not pleasing'
The UK's Winchester Entertainment has posted its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2003, with turnover at £5.1m, down from £6.5m in 2002, and a pre-tax loss of £11.2m, up from £8.3m in 2002. This resulted in a loss per share of 40.2p. But the company, listed on ...
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Jones to quit UK's Mission Pictures
Damian Jones, co-founder of UK production outfit Mission Pictures, is to leave the company to return to independent producing.According to a statement, Jones felt removed from the independent film production arena as Mission's development and production management work increased. He leaves with a two-year, non-exclusive independent production arrangement with the ...
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Sequel rolls out fast and furious across Europe
UIP's 2 Fast 2 Furious screeched into 15 European territories over the weekend taking $19m from 2,282 venues. The film, which claimed more than $21m over the weekend including its holdover territories, has taken $33m to date from international markets after launching in Australia on June 5. The absence of ...
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French comic book to get feature adaptation
Continuing the trend, France's latest comic book character to make a jump from the page to the screen will be Rene Goscinny's Iznogoud. Patrick Braoude will direct a cast that could include comedian Michael Youn and beloved comic actor Jacques Villeret.The film will begin shooting in early 2004. Canal Plus ...
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Euro film alliance lobbies for increased broadcaster investment
At a public hearing held in Brussels yesterday to discuss the review of the TV without Frontiers directive, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) called on the European Commission to propose stronger investment and market access obligations for European films to broadcasters."Today a broadcaster can comply with the TV without ...
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UK's Momentum provides revenue boost for Alliance Atlantis
UK-based Momentum Pictures has boosted its contribution to the bottom line of parent company Alliance Atlantis. Announcing its fourth-quarter and year-end results, the company said Momentum generated 20% of the fiscal 2003 EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) of its Motion Picture Distribution Group, or $7.9m of the ...
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Tunisia's Bouzid wins Innsbruck with Arais Al-Tein
Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid's Poupees D'Argile (Arais Al-Tein) picked up three prizes at this year's Innsbruck International Film Festival (June 18-22) which is dedicated to films from South America, Africa and Asia. The international jury, including Austrian filmmaker Andrea Maria Dusl, Benin's Idrissou Mora Kpai, and Brazil's Paulo Roberto de ...
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Morris appointed new UK film minister
Estelle Morris has effectively succeeded UK film minister Kim Howells following a government reshuffle.Morris has a higher ministerial ranking than the outspoken Howells, although, along with film and creative industries, her brief as arts minister covers such diverse matters as museums and street crime.Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell confirmed that Lord ...
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Loyalty schemes, local production assessed at Cinema Expo
The Media Salles Forum at Cine Expo in Amsterdam presented evidence of a link between the increase in box office in some European territories and an increase in home-made films.Its Focus On Europe seminar : 'A Panorama of Cinemagoing in Europe in 2002: Marketing Strategies by Exhibition Companies for building ...
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Premiere secures pay-TV package from Warner Bros
Matrix Reloaded, Good Bye, Lenin! and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are among the titles in a multi-year pay TV package deal concluded by Germany's digital pay TV platform Premiere and Warner Bros. International Television (WBIT).The deal, which is an extension of an existing agreement signed last October ...