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Serbian black comedy CiviLife for Belgrade shoot
Principal photography on Serbian-German-French-Dutch co-production CiviLife is due to start in Belgrade on June 22 for eight weeks. The dark comedy about a Serbian black-market gangster shooting down an American pilot during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999 is written and will be directed by Milos Radovic. Radovic enjoyed ...
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Columbia Spain prepares first local production shoot
Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, Sony Picture Entertainment's Spanish production unit, has announced its first project to shoot this summer: Tam Tam, a co-production with local outfit Zebra Producciones. Starring Paz Vega (pictured) (Sex And Lucia) and Santi Millan (Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health), principal photography starts August 4 in ...
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Spain, Puerto Rico sign co-production pact
As part of an ongoing push to 'internationalise local cinema,' Puerto Rico has signed a pact with Spain to facilitate feature film co-productions between the two countries.The deal follows Puerto Rico's new participation this year in the pan-regional Ibermedia program and inclusion last year in the Iberoamerican Conference of Cinematographic ...
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Whale Rider wins another audience prize - at Maui
Niki Caro's coming-of-age story Whale Rider won the Audience Award in the dramaticfeature category at the fourth Maui Film Festival at Wailea, which ended onSunday (Jun 15).Dana Brown's paean to surfing Step Into Liquid won the Audience Award for bestdocumentary.Most,Bobby Garabedian's story of a railroad bridge-tender who learns he is ...
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Humantias shortlist includes Pianist and Antwone Fisher
Jim Sheridan (In America) and Niki Caro (Whale Rider) are among 41 writers vying for $105,000in prize money in this year's 29th Humanitas Prize.Overall there are 41 entrants in seven categories encompassingfilm and television, from which seven theatrical screenwriters will contest thefeature film and Sundance feature film categories.Nominations in the ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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Senator Entertainment reports Euros 178.2m net loss
German distributor-producer Senator Entertainment posted a net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year (2001's loss was: Euros 4.2m) but expects its extensive restructuring will start showing results by the 2004 financial year.In a statement issued on Friday after trading had closed, Senator reported that group sales fell ...
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Avignon festival hands out prizes at 20th anniversary event
Prizes at the 20th Avignon Film Festival were handed out Friday with the Best French Film going to Comme Si De Rien N'Etait by Pierre Olivier, who also took home a screenwriting award. Top honours for a European film went to Le Ventre De Juliette by Martin Provost and best ...
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Spanish Cinema Academy re-elects Paredes president
The Spanish Cinema Academy has unanimously re-elected actress Marisa Paredes as its president for three more years.Paredes, whose credits include All About My Mother and Life Is Beautiful, replaced actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon in the top Academy spot in December 2000.Scriptwriter-director Joaquin Oristrell and director-producer Antonio Chavarrias were also re-elected as ...
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Bachmann replaces Schau at Columbia TriStar Germany
Martin Bachmann, senior vice president international marketing at the headquarters of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), is to succeed Juergen Schau as Managing Director, Germany.Bachmann has been at CTFDI since 1989 where he began as a management trainee at the German office in Munich before being promoted to the ...
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Chalte Chalte makes impression at UK's Bollywood box office
Bollywood distributor Eros International enjoyed a substantial hit in the UK this weekend with Chalte Chalte.The film had the third best Bollywood opening of all time in the territory and Eros' second best opening result ever. Taking $483,138 (£289,883) from 37 sites - a location average of $13,058 - Chalte ...
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Korean horror breaks local opening record
Local horror film A Tale Of Two Sisters has become the biggest Korean opener in history, recording 774,500 viewers ($4m) from 158 prints over the weekend.The three-day take for distributor Big Blue Film narrowly tops a record for local pictures set earlier this year by comedy My Tutor Friend, which ...
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Warsaw salutes Latino cinema
Juan Jose Campanella's Oscar nominated Son Of The Bride from Argentina will open Warsaw 's 4th Latin American Film Festival, the largest showcase of Latino cinema in Eastern Europe. Brazilian hit City Of God by Fernando Meirelles, is set to close the event which runs from June 18 to 29. ...
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Spain's Ele Juarez launches Intuition Media consultancy
Veteran Spanish film and TV executive Ele Juarez has launched new Madrid- and Miami-based consulting firm Intuition Media.The consultancy will offer a range of services to Spanish and international media firms looking to capitalise on growing strategic opportunities both locally and overseas.Among those services are analysis and advising on corporate ...
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Hou Hsiao Hsien to direct Ozu homage
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japan's Yasujiro Ozu, Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao Hsien (City Of Sadness, The Flowers Of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo) will direct a feature-length Ozu homage. Shochiku, the studio where Ozu spent his entire career, will head the film's production consortium. During a recent ...
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UK productions win main prizes at Emden
Features by Lone Scherfig and Gillies MacKinnon were among four UK productions which were awarded prizes at this year's Emden - Aurich - Norderney International Film Festival which focuses on new British cinema.The Euros 10,000 Bernhard Wicki audience prize went to MacKinnon's Pure, while the 2nd Prize was taken by ...
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AFM on collision course with MIFED in 2004
The American Film Market (AFM) is officially moving to November in an effort to force a two-market calendar and knock out MIFED from the annual market timetable.Yesterday AFMA, the trade organisation which runs the AFM, issued a statement announcing its intentions to hold two AFMs in 2004, one in Feb ...
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It's official: AFM to clash with MIFED in 2004
The American Film Market (AFM) is officially moving to November in an effort to force a two-market calendar and knock out MIFED from the annual market timetable.Yesterday AFMA, the trade organisation which runs the AFM, issued a statement announcing its intentions to hold two AFMs in 2004, one in Feb ...
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Bachmann moves back to Europe to head CTDFI Germany
Martin Bachmann has been named managing director of the German office of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI). Former German chief Juergen Schau will continue in his role as managing director of Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Releasing, which is responsible for production activities ...
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UK box office 50% down despite 5 new films
Despite dropping off over 50% each and facing competition from five new chart entries, UK top 15 leaders The Matrix Reloaded and Anger Management easily retained their one-two positions.Over another hot weekend audiences abandoned the cinema with the holdovers amongst the top 15 dropping an average of 62% from the ...