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UK's BFI appoints new head
The British Film Institute (BFI) has appointed Amanda Nevill as director, the UK film and TV body announced on Friday.Nevill, who is currently head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and TV in Bradford, Yorkshire, will take up the post in June. The move has raised eyebrows as many ...
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Audiovisual Eureka to close by end of June
The European Union's enlargement eastwards and changes in its membership have resulted in Audiovisual Eureka deciding to close down in June, leaving Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and states of the former Yugoslavia without a broad support programme.In a statement, the Brussels-based body explained the context for the decision: "the geopolitical developments ...
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Mixed bag for international box office markets last year
2002 was the year the US majors clawed back market share at the international box office after the previous 12 months which had seen homegrown hits enjoy an unprecedented period of glory in their local markets.Record-breaking audiences were seduced by the second instalments in the Harry Potter (Chamber Of Secrets) ...
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German politician urges Jackass boycott
On the eve of its German opening, a Bavarian politician has called on cinema-owners to drop Jackass - The Movie from their programmes.In a statement, Markus Soeder, who is chairman of the of the conservative Christian Social Union party's Media Committee, said that "the series and film contain repulsive and ...
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Hong Kong - the sequel means business
With box office for local films down by nearly 25%, last year marked a low point for the Hong Kong film industry. So it's hardly surprising that filmmakers are now revisiting familiar material. At least three sequels are set to start shooting in Hong Kong over the next few months ...
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Spanish cinema takes heart from new figures
The Spanish box office looks to have enjoyed a better year last year than estimates predicted, as new figures from the state film institute ICAA reveal.Meanwhile, local films have started the year off with a bang thanks to the record-breaking performance of Javier Fesser's comic book-inspired action-adventure Mortadelo & Filemon ...
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India's Tata steps in to film production
Indian conglomerate the Tata Group has entered the Indian film production business, stepping in to rescue stalled production on Bollywood title Aitbaar.The company announced its plans to co-produce the big-budget movie, starring Bollywood super star Amitabh Bachchan and model-turned-Indian actress Bipasha Basu (pictured), after funding failed to materialise for producer ...
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Distant Horizon options Echoes Of Love From Heaven Above
Distant Horizon,Anant Singh's London, Los Angeles and South Africa-based entertainmentgroup whose production credits include Sarafina and Cry The Beloved Country, has optioned feature film rights toMickey Nivelli's acclaimed biography, Echoes Of Love From HeavensAbove. Based on the truelove story of Lotte Sommers, a young German Jew at the time of ...
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Ground-Zero closes three AFM deals
Ground-ZeroEntertainment, the North American distributor of martial arts videos andhip-hop-influenced titles, has closed three deals at this year's AmericanFilm Market, the company's founder and CEO Anthony Perez announced. Thecompany has signed a domestic distribution deal with James Bond III'surban production company Solid Rock for six titles. A limited theatricalrelease is ...
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Halle Berry named honorary chair at Spirit Awards
Halle Berry, who won lastyear's best actress Oscar for Monster's Ball, will serve as the honorary chair for the 2003 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards. 'Halle Berry has been incredibly generous toindependent film with her talent and with her support,' Dawn Hudson,executive director of IFP/Los Angeles, said in a statement.Berry also won ...
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ShoWest focuses on China
Two seminars on the growing film industry in China and theworldwide piracy problem are expected to be major draws at the upcoming ShoWest2003. China: A View From All Perspectives will take place on March 3 - the convention's InternationalDay - when Yang Buting, CEO and chairman of the China Film ...
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Constantin, Impact option Driver game for movie
Video game publisher Infogrames has optioned the featurefilm and television rights to its Drivergame franchise to German independent production and distribution companyConstantin Film. Constantin's subsidiary UK-based Impact Pictures -run by Jeremy Bolt and Paul Anderson - plans to take the project intoproduction this year with Paul W S Anderson (Resident ...
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Daly's MFD secures P&A fund from Filmstar Releasing
MiracleEntertainment chairman John Daly has signed a three-year revolving P&A fundwith Filmstar Releasing to support the newly-formed Miracle Film Distribution's(MFD) forthcoming domestic theatrical releases. MFD and Filmstar Releasing willshortly announce the first picture to come under the new arrangement.'I am very pleased tobe partnered with Jon Gentile and his Filmstar ...
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Zeidman leaves Landmark for Lions Gate, Peckos leaves Lions Gate for Landmark
Marty Zeidmanhas joined Lions Gate Films Releasing as senior vice president and generalsales manager, at the same time as Jay Peckos has left Lions Gate from his postas vice president of distribution to become film buyer at Landmark.Zeidman was headfilm buyer for the US arthouse theatre circuit, and in his ...
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Hollywood to make live-action feature of Japanese comic book
Twilight Entertainment has signed a deal to make a live-action feature of Japanese animation Lupin The Third .with Japan's TMS Entertainment who created animation features and TV series of the story and Kazuhiko Kato the writer of the original comic book. Hollywood producer, Gerald Molen (Schindler's List, Jurassic Park: The ...
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Inheritance inherits Danish box-office crown
Per Fly's highly anticipated new film, Inheritance (Arven), was very well received by both critics and audiences on its opening weekend in Denmark, which was the biggest for a local film this year. With 41,000 admissions and $319,430 (DKK 2.2m) from 60 prints local distributor Nordisk Film's high expectations were ...
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Spain to host Cartoon Master workshop
Galicia in Spain will play host to a three-day Cartoon Master workshop dedicated to technological developments in the animation industry May 15-17.It is one of three upcoming workshops organised by Cartoon, the European Association of Animated Film, including Cartoon Creativity (April 24-26) in Erfurt, Germany and Cartoon Finance (June 20-21) ...
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Russian company seeks investors for major cinema chain
A start-up Russian company is seeking investors for a multiplex cinema circuit that it claims will control 30% of a market that could be worth $1bn within eight years.According to local media reports, Alexander Timofeyev, co-founder of Investkinoproyekt, which owns one Russian cinema, said he and his partner Vladimir Murov ...
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New financing and production company to launch in Italy
A group of international private investors backed by a private UK bank has created a new financing and production company, named Company of Arts.The new Rome-based outfit, which will officially launch in May, already has two projects in the pipeline: Defenceless, a Euros 20m English-language feature film, set in the ...