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Scott wins plot of land at Taos Film Festival
Campbell Scottcollected perhaps the most eccentric prize on the film festival circuit overthe weekend when his second solo feature Off The Map won five acres of New Mexico land at theninth Taos Talking Picture Film Festival's award gala.Chosen by thejury for its 'inventiveness and passion', the drama focuses on theeffect ...
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Johnny English laughs its way to $20m opening weekend
A wideday-and-date international launch for UIP/Working Title's JohnnyEnglish has paid off with a massive $19.98m recorded over the weekend (April 11-13)from the 22 territories that received the spy spoof. Deliberately placed a week prior toEaster, the Peter Howitt-directed film firmly addressedfamily audiences and took the number one spot in ...
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21 young European producers selected for Cannes showcase
Germany's Jakob Claussen (Distant Lights, Anatomie), the Czech Republic's Pavel Strnad (Year Of The Devil) and Antonio Saura (Semana Santa) are among 21 young European producers selected by the member organisations of the pan-European promotion body European Film Promotion (EFP) to take part in the "Producers On The Move" showcase ...
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Austria mulls Luxembourg-style tax scheme
Austria's federal government has been urged to adopt Luxembourg's Audiovisual Investment Certificate Programme in a reform of national film policy to introduce tax incentives for private investment in film production.Luxembourg's tax scheme has been held up as an example to emulate by Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vienna's city councillor for arts, as ...
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Constantin prepares big-budget Hitler feature
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger (pictured) is producing a film on the last days of Adolf Hitler with director Oliver Hirschbiegl in his first feature outing since the award-winning Das Experiment.The screenplay for Der Untergang - Hitler Und Das Ende Des 3. Reichs (The Downfall - Hitler And The End Of ...
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Polish producer hopes for new blockbuster with Old Tale
While the Polish film industry is still waiting for promised funding from new minister of culture Waldemar Dabrowski to revive the stalled industry, some producers are still managing to make films. Director Jerzy Hoffman who ushered in the era of the Polish blockbuster in 1999 with With Fire And ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! - Hello Lolas!
Wolfgang Becker's box-office triumph Good Bye, Lenin!, which is now approaching 5 million admissions (Euros 28.4m), received six nominations for Germany's Oscars, the Lolas - for Best Film, Best Direction and in four acting categories.Meanwhile, Zueli Aladag's Elefantenherz and Eoin Moore's Pigs Will Fly both received nominations in three categories ...
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CS Leigh's Process hopeful for a Cannes slot
Recently having completed shooting in Paris, CS Leigh's Process is currently being prepped for a possible Cannes slot. The film is a somewhat existential look at a woman's trajectory towards suicide. Starring Guillaume Depardieu and Beatrice Dalle, Process is an almost entirely silent film.Mark Westaway and Humbert Balsan are producing ...
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Gurinder Chadha finds her leading man
Pathe UK's white-hot Bollywood musical version of Pride And Prejudice has finally found its Darcy.Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has cast rising New Zealand star Martin Henderson (pictured), who played opposite Naomi Watts in The Ring, to appear alongside Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai.Pathe is likely to fly Henderson ...
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Cannes Market adds shorts programme, video library, digital facilities
The CannesMarket has introduced three new initiatives for this year's event being heldconcurrent with the film festival May 14 to 24.- A videolibrary will be launched for buyers to view recent films on VHS and DVD to beopen from 9am to 10pm. Located in the Palais des Festivals, level 01, ...
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Miami Lesbian & Gay Fest showcases best of queer international cinema
Mark Rucker'sSundance competition entry Die Mommie Die has been named the opening night film of the fifth annualMiami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which takes place from April 25 to May 4.Richard Day's GirlsWill Be Girls, whichalso played in the Sundance Film Festival, will the centerpiece gala screening,while Brad Fraser's ...
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Neal Block leaves IDP for theatrical distribution at Palm
Neal Block hasjoined Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures as manager of theatrical distribution toserve the company's newly busy domestic theatrical department.Block will beresponsible for all theatrical sales and exhibitor relations for upcoming Palmreleases. Reporting directly to Ryan Werner, head of theatrical distribution,he will also work with the film team on an ...
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Lorie, Vasquez get promotions in international publicity at New Line
New Line Cinemahas promoted Tracy Lorie to senior vice president, international publicity, andTrish Vasquez to director, international publicity, at the company. Inaddition, Kristi Foreman has joined the international publicity team asmanager, international publicity.The promotions come in thewake of New Line's biggest ever year in international markets with a gross ofover ...
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Anger Management is career best opening for Sandler
The first quarter of 2003 has seen several strong comedy openingsand the baton passed to Columbia/Revolution's Anger Management over the weekend, which opened numberone on $44.5m - the highest bow of the year so far.The combination of ShoWest Male Star of the Year recipient AdamSandler and this year's Oscar nominee ...
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Anger Management is career best opening for Sandler
The first quarter of 2003 has seen several strong comedy openingsand the baton passed to Columbia/Revolution's Anger Management over the weekend, which opened numberone on $44.5m - the highest bow of the year so far.The combination of ShoWest Male Star of the Year recipient AdamSandler and this year's Oscar nominee ...
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Impressive opening for gross-out Australian comedy
The politically incorrect Australian comedy Fat Pizza grossed $702,000 from 101 screens over its opening weekend, putting it in second place in the national chart and giving it the best screen average of the top 20.A highly impressive result for distributor Roadshow, Fat Pizza is the micro-budget big screen version ...
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218 films in competition at Annecy animation festival
Organisers of the International Animation Film Festival and market in Annecy (June 2-7) have announced their line up for 2003, including 218 titles in competition.Of the record-breaking 1,309 films submitted to the festival this year, some 265 are in the official selection from 36 countries. In the official competition 218 ...
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Sony's Spanish production arm confirms first projects
Just a month after the company closed its German production division, Sony Pictures Entertainment's new Spanish production operation, Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas has confirmed two of its first projects in development.Iona de Macedo, head of the Madrid-based unit since its September 2001 launch, confirmed that writer-director Juan Calvo's Tam Tam, ...
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Swedish Film Institute director general awarded Legion d'Honneur
Ase Kleveland, Director General of the Swedish Film Institute, has been awarded France's Legion d'Honneur in acknowledgement of her efforts to promote cooperation in cinema related issues throughout Europe. The award was presented by the Grand Chancellor of the Legion d'Honneur, Jean-Philippe Douin.Since Ase Kleveland became director general of the ...
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Britspotting festival to honour Winterbottom
Golden Bear-winning UK director Michael Winterbottom will be the subject of this year's retrospective at the British independent film festival "britspotting" in Berlin from April 24-30.The six-title homage will include Butterfly Kiss, Jude, Welcome To Sarajevo and Wonderland, while his 24 Hour Party People will be shown in the festival's ...