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Karlovy Vary unveils Int'l film festival jury
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced the line-up of its grand jury, with Canadian producer Rock Demers chairing a seven-member panel for the Czech event. Demers (pictured) leads a multinational team of seven judges including Indian director Buddhadeb Dasgupta (The Wrestlers); Czech actress Ana Geislerova (Return Of The ...
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House Of Fools to open Munich film festival
Andrei Konchalovsky's House Of Fools (Dom Durakov), winner of the Jury Grand Prix at 2002's Venice Film Festival, will open this year's Munich Film Festival on June 28.The eight-day festival, which is the last under the management of founder Eberhard Hauff, will also include Oliver Stone's controversial documentary Comandante, Roberto ...
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Filmko up and running with Star Runner
Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment is starting production next Monday (June 16) on $3m action romance Star Runner, a co-production with Hong Kong-based Sil-Metropole Organisation and South Korea's Polestar.Directed by Daniel Lee (A Fighter's Blues), the film will star Vanness Wu, from Taiwanese boy band F4, and popular Korean actress Kim ...
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France mulls sale and leaseback funding scheme
A new soft money scheme is being examined by French authorities, which could give local and foreign productions access to funding via a sale and leaseback system.Similar to schemes already established in the UK, Germany and more recently Belgium, the 'credit-bail' could give producers a 20% rebate on the cost ...
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Stefan Arndt to receive producer award at Cinema Expo
Stefan Arndt, producer of German hit Good Bye, Lenin! will be named European producer of the year at the 2003 Cinema Expo European exhibition conference, held June 23-26 at Amsterdam's RAI convention centre.A critical hit at this year's Berlinale, Good Bye, Lenin! has taken more than Euros 34.8m at the ...
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China prepares to break film distribution monopoly
Chinese film officials have unveiled details of the territory's long-awaited second distributor, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, which is designed to break China Film Group Corp's monopoly on the distribution of imported films. The new company will be launched next week and start distributing movies next month, according to the China ...
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Russian films maintain high presence at Moscow festival
The 25th Moscow International Film Festival (June 20-29) has announced its competition line-up with Russian films again making their strongest presence in recent years.Three Russian films, The Stroll directed by Alexei Uchitel, Koktbel directed by Alexey Popogrebsky and Boris Khlebnikov and Petersburg directed by Irina Yevteeva feature in the ...
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Sydney's 50th Int'l film festival starts on an uninspiring note
On June 6, Sydney joined the nine other international film festivals to have reached their 50th year.It was hardly a sparkling evening, however. And even though Larry Clark's controversial festival entrant Ken Park had been banned by the national censors only days before, no mention was made in the bland ...
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South African film studio edges closer to reality
The establishment of a film studio in Cape Town moved closer to reality following the submission of six business plans, Ebrahim Rasool, the Western Cape's finance Minister, said yesterday.The preferred bidders would be named in August and building of the studio could start as soon as December, he said, adding ...
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Budapest Film closes Almodovar, Ozon deals
Budapest Film, Hungary's largest independent film distributor closed several deals during and after this year's Cannes. Following its success with earlier Pedro Almodovar films, especially All About My Mother and Talk to Her, Budapest Film will also distribute the Spanish director's La Mala Educacion. The film is expected to be ...
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Anant Singh invites public participation in film project
Anant Singh, South Africa's leading producer, is launching a unique contest for the production of his Durban-based company Videovision's new film. The movie is based on the book Echoes Of Love From Heavens Above, by New York's Mickey Nivelli and Singh is offering a prize of $12,000 (R100,000) for public ...
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Emden film festival focuses on new British cinema
The International Film Festival Emden - Aurich - Nordeney (June 11-18) is remaining true to its traditional focus on new British cinema with screenings of new films by Don Coutts (American Cousins), Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen), Duncan Roy (AKA) as well as Lone Scherfig's UK-Danish co-production Wilbur Wants To Kill ...
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Prague film-makers look to international cheques
With local sources of funding drying up, Czech producers are increasingly looking abroad for cash and international co-productions are becoming the new financing model.Czech cinema has traditionally been an insular world, with local sources of funding contributing to projects with local themes, a local style and a local sense of ...
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Turner Classic Movies launches shorts competition
Turner Classic Movies has launched the TCM Classic Shorts competition, with the awards ceremony to be part of The Times bfi London Film Festival (22 October - 6 November). Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Bernardo Bertolucci are just three of the fifteen judges to sit on the competition's panel to ...
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Swedish film institute greenlights two new comedies
Two new comedies have been greenlighted by the Swedish Film Institute, one by newcomer Ragnar Di Marzo (pictured) and one by established comedian/director Peter Dalle.Ragnar Di Marzo's family comedy Karringen Dar Nere tells the story of 74-year-old Magda, whose life changes when she is persuaded to help a 23-year-old female ...
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Global Film Initiative acquires first films for US distribution
The Global FilmInitiative, the US-based charitable foundation dedicated to the promotion ofcross-cultural understanding through cinema, has acquired five films for itsdistribution and education programmes.The filmsinclude Rashid Masharawi's drama Ticket to Jerusalem, about a Palestinian filmprojectionist's struggle to screen a film in Jerusalem's Old City,and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's drama Shadow Kill, which ...
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John Dahl to receive alumnus medal from AFI
Film-maker JohnDahl will receive the 13th Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal on Jun 12honouring the 'extraordinary creative talents' of a graduate of theAmerican Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory.Dahl, whosecredits include The Last Seduction, Rounders and Red Rock West, graduated from the Conservatory in1982.He will collect the award at a ceremony atHollywood's ...
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Bruce Almighty strikes down records in Brazil
BruceAlmighty sentinternational records tumbling over the weekend with a string of number oneopenings for Buena Vista International (BVI), grossing $6m to raise its non-UScumulative score to $13.7m.In Brazil thecomedy took a mighty $1.5m from 241 screens, scoring the eighth biggestindustry bow ever, the biggest comedy opening and the second biggest ...
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Octane, Shade premiere at CineVegas
Marcus Hunter's Octane starring Madeline Stowe and Damian Nieman's Shade starring Sylvester Stallone and Thandie Newton willhave their world premieres at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival which kicks off on Friday (June 13) and continues to the followingSaturday (June 21).The festival, whose directorof programming for the second year is ...
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Taiwan welcomes Phone Booth for Fox, X2 hits Egypt
Fox International's thriller Phone Booth opened in Taiwan over the weekend on$241,000 from 70 screens.The film ranked second in themarket and contributed to the film's $1m international haul from 407 screens.It now has a $14.5m cumulative score.Elsewhere for Fox, 28 Days Later opened number two in Germany andAustria, grossing $1.1m ...