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The end of the road for Wim Wenders & Road Movies'
The final chapter in the history of Road Movies may have been written with the news of the firing of Wim Wenders as managing director from the company he founded with partners in 1976 to make such classics as Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club.A second ...
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Echo Lake, Esparza/Katz team to remake 50s classic
Film-maker David Riker (LaCiudad) is to direct a remake of the1953 film Salt Of The Earth, theoriginal release of which was blocked during the McCarthy era, for Echo LakeProductions and Esparza/Katz Productions.The film will be produced byDoug Mankoff of Echo Lake along with Moctesuma Esparza and Robert Katz ofEsparza/Katz Productions ...
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Fireworks scores AFM deals on Coronado
Fireworks Pictures closed a host of international sales on its effects-driven action film Coronado at AFM including deals with Manga in Spain, Scanbox in Scandinavia, Europa in Brazil and RCV in Benelux. The film was written and produced by Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, partners in the production company Uncharted ...
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Goodbye, Lenin tops German box office for third week running
Warner Bros-distributed pictures Goodbye Lenin and Two Weeks Notice held on to first and second place respectively in the German charts at the weekend, claiming an impressive 65% market share. Goodbye Lenin, an X-Verleih presentation of an X-Film Creative Pool Production that Warner Bros is distributing in the territory, added ...
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Celestial Pictures launches travelling Chinese film festival in US
Hong Kong'sCelestial Pictures has launched a traveling US film festival of Chinese martialarts films which kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday and will travel throughuniversities and cinemas in 20 cities the country.The seriestitled Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film features ten classic ShawBrothers films produced between 1966 and ...
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Producers and directors toast Chicago
First-time director Rob Marshall was the surprise winner of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) feature film directing award on Saturday night for his musical Chicago. The DGA honour is regarded by awards watchers as a key indicator of Academy Award success: since 1949 only five winners have not gone ...
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Cradle 2 The Grave hip hops to the top
Warner Bros' action thriller Cradle 2 The Grave opened in first place over the weekend on $17.1m, according to studio estimates released today (Mar 2). The martial arts-hip-hop picture was the only major bow of the weekend as the studios pace themselves in the run-up to the Academy Awards on ...
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Venice star Nadia Zandegiacomo dies, age 35
Nadia Zandegiacomo of the Venice Film Festival died last week at the age of 35, having succumbed to the cancer that kept her away from the 2002 festival - the first time in ten years that she had not given her invaluable all to the event.Zandegiacomo served as a producers’ ...
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Splendid's Without Apparent Motive is apparently off
Splendid Pictures' $38m thriller Without Apparent Motive is not going ahead, certainly in its latest incarnation with director Bille August and stars Richard Gere and Julianne Moore. All three have left the project. The film, which was scheduled to start production in the next few weeks, had secured both Gere ...
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Brian Rosen to head Australia's Film Finance Corp.
It is believed that the Federal Cabinet today approved the appointment of producer Brian Rosen as chief executive of Australia's biggest film investor, the Film Finance Corporation (FFC). He will return to Australia from Los Angeles to take up the highly influential job.For the last decade Rosen has developed projects ...
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Digital cinema and piracy top ShoWest 2003 agenda
The roll-out of digital cinema and the growing threat of piracy are to be among the chief talking points when industry delegates convene in Las Vegas for ShoWest 2003. With domestic admissions reaching record levels in 2002 and the relatively low 2.5% hike in ticket prices compared to other entertainment ...
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Taipei film festival unveils 5th edition line-up
The Taipei Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its fifth edition (March 9-22) which includes a special focus on cinema from Australia and Japan. Among the eight films that will screen in the Australian New Current section are four from Tony Ayres, including last year's critical hit Walking On ...
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New films by Rohmer, Akerman and Fridriksson get Eurimages cash
New feature films by Eric Rohmer, Chantal Akerman and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson are among nine projects awarded over Euros 3.3m by Eurimages.Two projects were backed in the funding category for larger projects with commercial promise: Euros 700,000 for Didier and Thierry Poiraud's French-German-UK co-production Le Retour De James Bataille and ...
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Co-productions boost Czech release slate
Nearly half of all Czech films scheduled for release during 2003 are co-productions with Slovakia, the Republic's erstwhile partner in the former Czechoslovakia.One of the few female Czech directors, Michaela Pavlátová (pictured), makes her debut with Lassitude In Two, a psychological drama based on a novel by Slovak author Tina ...
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Canada pursues commerce over culture
Ararat and Crash producer Robert Lantos is readying a series of big-budget films with international casts - in line with Canadian funding body Telefilm's aim to support films with box office potential.It has been almost a year since federal funding body Telefilm spelled out its aim of focusing on supporting ...
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Forced exit for Tobis distribution head
Marlies Weber, head of distribution at Berlin-based Tobis Film, has been forced to vacate her position as of today.Speaking to Screendaily.com, Weber (pictured) said that she was "not going of her own free will" and does not yet have anything else lined up.Meanwhile, Magnus Vortmeyer, Tobis Film's head of press ...
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Golden Harvest takes The Grudge
Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest has become one of the first international distributors to sign on for Ghost House Pictures' remake of Japanese director Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge (Ju-On). The company has acquired Hong Kong and Malaysian rights to the film which will be the second production from Ghost House, ...
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IMAX records first profitable year since 1999
IMAX Corporationhas reported its first profitable year since 1999, with annual revenues (endingDec 31 2002) of $130.7m compared to $118.7m in 2001. Fourth quarter revenueswere $37.3m compared to $33.9m for the same period the year before.Thecompany's co-chairmen and co-CEOs Richard L Gelfond and Bradley JWechsler said they expected IMAX to ...
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Palm signs on for Assayas Cannes pic demonlover
Chris Blackwell's PalmPictures has acquired all US and Caribbean rights to Olivier Assayas'thriller demonlover, with plansfor a theatrical release in the autumn followed by a DVD release in 2004.The multi-layered storycentres on a corporate mole who discovers an online torture chamber. ConnieNielson (Gladiator, One Hour Photo),Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry),Gina ...
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Warner Bros signs Indonesian free TV deal
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year deal withIndonesia's Pt Duta Visual Nusantara Tivi Tujuh for free televisionrights to a raft of pictures, television series, animated series, TV movies,miniseries and documentaries for broadcast on the company's channel TV7.The dealincludes broadcast rights to Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, ...