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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days tops the chart with $24.1m
Paramount's romantic comedy How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days showed how to win the audience's heartsin three with a terrific table-topping $24.1m bow over the weekend, accordingto studio estimates. Matthew McConaughey plays a commitment-phobe who bets hisfriends he can date a woman for 10 days or lose his ...
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Flanders revamps support agencies
The Belgian region of Flanders is using the Berlin festival to announce the rebirth and expansion of many of its support agencies.Just before the festival, Flanders Image, the promotional agency for the northern Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, was absorbed into the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) which started operations ...
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Almodovar pair comes into Focus
Pedro Almodovar's next film as director, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), has locked in its production financing structure two months before shooting is due to start in Spain, with Pathe taking a large swathe of European rights and Focus International handling sales in all other territories. The budget is estimated ...
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Apollo to launch four English-language productions
German media fund ApolloMedia has unveiled a raft of four titles to go into production in the first half of 2003.The first pictures to roll are Mick Garris' thriller Riding The Bullet based on an e-book by Stephen King (who is serving as one of the film's executive producers) and ...
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Lovenheim appointed head of production at BVIP
Robert Lovenheim has been appointed head of production to oversee a massive slate being ramped up by diversifying sales agent BV International Pictures (BVIP).Lovenheim, a US TV executive and European co-producer whose credits include The OJ Simpson Story and The Last Of His Tribe, has previously been consulting for the ...
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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Nine Israeli titles make it to the Berlinale
An unprecedented seven Israeli feature length titles and two shorts screen in various sections of the Berlinale this year - an impressive feat considering the present dire conditions of film making in Israel.The tally suggests that there must be something right about the much maligned Israeli Cinema Law, a ...
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Malkovich to board Drunkboat
John Malkovich is set to star in Drunkboat, the first feature to be made by Daniel Walker, a Paris-based lawyer who has now moved into production. The film, which is written and directed by polymath theatre director-artist-actor Bob Meyer, is a coming of age story and a journey of self-discovery ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Mar del Plata re-invents itself
The new artistic head of South American's leading film festival, Mar del Plata (March 6-15), unveiled his competition line-up in Berlin with a promise to redefine its identity as a festival created "by film-makers for film-makers". The line-up features a number of films that deal with globalisation, xenophobia and a ...
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Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training
The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...
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Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training
The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...
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Nordisk Film forges alliance with Finland's MRP
Nordic major Nordisk Film has signed an output deal with the prolific Finnish production outfit MRP Matila Röhr Productions. The three year deal will see the production company, which is Finland's largest, produce six new features. The deal is the first of its kind in the Finnish film industry, which ...
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Regal moves in on Hoyts America cinemas
No-one in Australia is publicly commenting on Regal Entertainment Group's widely publicised to buy 554 Hoyts America screens.But then Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, whose family company Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH) is apparently getting $200m split evenly between cash and stock from the sale, is not known for encouraging a ...
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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
The need for smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers ...