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Italy's RAI appoints another new president
War correspondent and former RAI television news director Lucia Annunziata has been named president of state broadcaster RAI less than 24 hours after Paolo Mieli's tumultuous resignation.The decision has been met with approval by Italy's majority politicians and skepticism by the opposition who complain that they had nothing to do ...
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Sweden's Nonstop takes Infernal Affairs
Sweden's Nonstop Entertainment has acquired Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs by young director Alan Mak. The rights cover Scandinavia, Iceland and the Baltic countries, and the release date is set for late 2003. Infernal Affairs, an action thriller about an undercover cop in the triads starring Tony Leung and Andy ...
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Danish talent attracted to historical drama
Danish director Jorn Faurschou and producer Henrik Moller-Sorensen have attracted three major local names to head up the cast on the $3.3m (DKR22m) historic drama Dagen Og Vejen. Kim Bodnia (Bleeder, Old Men In New Cars) will play the self-centred and powerful lead, while actor-director Erik Clausen (Fish Out Of ...
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Indian cinema goes digital
Indian film processing giant, Adlabs has partnered with Singapore's GDC Technology to install digital projectors in 400 Indian cinemas by April 2004, with a target of creating 1,500 e-cinemas in India by 2007.GDC Technology is part of the Global Digital Creations Holdings Group. It was set up in 2000 by ...
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New co-production market to be launched at Las Palmas film fest
The fourth edition of the Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 28-April 5), is to introduce a new co-production market: EuroForum (April 3-5).The event follows a growing and successful new trend in festivals whereby film projects in their early stages are presented to potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. Organisers say ...
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Paris film festival unveils line-up, new jury president
The Paris Film Festival, which runs from March 24 to April 1 has announced its line up and international jury. In a last minute change, Rupert Everett has stepped down as jury president and will be replaced by Malcolm McDowell.Alongside McDowell are French producer Jean-Louis Livi, French director Claire Denis, ...
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Artisan, Miramax complete Dirty Dancing 2 cast
HavanaNights: Dirty Dancing 2co-producers and co-financers Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films haveannounced final casting on the follow-up to the 1987 original. Set inrevolution-era Cuba in 1958, the story centres on a romance between Katey, a17-year-old American girl whose family has moved to Cuba, and Javier, a Cubanman. Principal photography is ...
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Alliance Atlantis acquires The Station Agent
Alliance Atlantis hasacquired international rights (excluding the English-speaking world and Italy)to The Station Agent, one of thehits of this year's Sundance Film Festival. Written and directed by TomMcCarthy, the film won the 2003 Audience Award and the Waldo Salt screenwritingprize at the festival where Miramax Films bought rights in the ...
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J Lo to teach dance moves to Gere in Miramax remake
Jennifer Lopezis in negotiations to star with Richard Gere in Miramax Films' remake of1996 Japanese megahit Shall We Dance' which Peter Chelsom will direct. The film would markLopez's third film with Miramax after Jersey Girl which is scheduled to open in Nov in theUS and An Unfinished Life which starts ...
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International specialist Heller promoted at Paramount Home Ent
Amy Heller has been promotedto vice president of planning and business development at Paramount HomeEntertainment (PHE), senior vice president of planning JC Galiana announcedtoday (Mar 12). Heller, who has been with PHE since 1998, previously held theposition of executive director of planning and business development and isresponsible for executing the ...
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New president of RAI quits after six days
Paolo Mieli has stepped down as president of RAI just six days after being appointed to the position and without once having stepped into the Italian state broadcaster's headquarters.Mieli, the former editor of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, cited 'political and technical difficulties' behind his resignation, and that he ...
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New head of production appointed at Nordisk Film
Norwegian producer Aage Aaberge has been named head of feature film production at Nordisk Film & TV in Norway to boost the company's production volume. This also means that the Nordisk-controlled Northern Lights is merged into Nordisk Film & TV. Former Lights chief Axel Helgeland, who produced I Am Dina, ...
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Warner Village Cinemas in talks to sell UK circuit
Less than a week after the UK's largest exhibitor Odeon Cinemas was sold for $694m, it has emerged that Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT) and Village Roadshow are also in discussions for the sale of their UK joint venture Warner Village Cinemas. A WBIT spokesperson confirmed that negotiations were taking ...
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Skolimowski to return to film-making after 10-year absence.
Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski, who won awards at both Cannes and Berlin, is set to return to film-making after a 10-year absence. Working with producer Jeremy Thomas, Skolimowski is developing Las Vegas-set project: The System on a budget likely to be around $12m, with the director aiming for an autumn ...
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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum to feature 24 new projects
Top name directors including Taiwan's Tsai Ming Liang and Chang Tso Chi, Australia's Clara Law, Hong Kong's Mabel Cheung, Korea's Jang Sun Woo and Thailand's Nonzee Nimibutr are among the 24 artists unveiling their next projects at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) next month (April 7-9).HAF, which ...
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Argentinian actors voice concern over use of non-professionals
Argentina's actors' union is to look into limiting the number of amateur actors allowed to be cast in feature films in response to protests by local actors against the trend in the New Argentine Cinema to use non-professionals.At a heated meeting between representatives of the Asociacion Argentina de Actores and ...
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Canal Plus to announce lay-offs today
The axe falls today. A long anticipated announcement will come from Canal Plus' Paris headquarters regarding what could turn out to be massive lay-offs. Although Canal management is keeping quiet about what the news will entail, Bertrand Meheut, the newly-installed president of Canal Plus told French daily La Tribune, "I ...
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New Zealand film industry calls for tax breaks
Key members of the New Zealand film industry have called on the country's government to introduce tax incentives to encourage private investment in the local industry. The recommendation, which forms part of the findings of a specially appointed Screen Production Industry Taskforce, says that tax incentives should be available to ...
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Rance joins Spain's City of Light studio complex
Spanish studio complex City of Light (Ciudad de la Luz) has contracted former Pinewood Studios executive David Rance as its operations manager.Rance worked for nine years at Pinewood, where he also oversaw operations. In his new position he will co-ordinate the new complex's services to the requirements of each production.Still ...