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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
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 in Europe and ...
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Cape Town studio project attracts massive interest
South Africa's Western Cape government's plans to establish a $27m film studio in Cape Town has received a staggering 13 expressions of interest in the project. The public/private partnership project is seen as vital for the future of the local film industry, which has been constrained by the lack of ...
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Consolidation boosts UK independent cinema sector
City Screen, the UK's leading specialist exhibitor, is expanding its business and launching a cinema programming and management division.The new arm will be headed up by Clare Binns, previously managing director of Zoo, the cinema programming and management outfit. In a significant move towards consolidation in the UK's specialised and ...
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Japan's Fair Trade Commission investigates Fox
Officials of Japan's Fair Trade Commission have launched an investigation into Twentieth Century Fox (Far East) on suspicion of violating Japan's Antitrust Act. On January 6 FTC officials visited Fox offices in Tokyo and other locations to gather evidence regarding charges that Fox forced exhibitors to drop discounts on tickets ...
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Spain's Zebra Films lines up three features
Madrid-based production company Zebra Films is preparing three new feature films including the as-yet-untitled next project from recent best original script Goya Award winner Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits).The project is a surreal mystery with a twist about a woman haunted by her dead lover. Zebra chief Antonio ...
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Soderbergh returns to remake trail
Steven Soderbergh is behind a planned remake of Argentinian heist picture Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas). Section Eight, the company he owns with George Clooney, will produce an English-language version of the picture with Gregory Jacobs making his directing debut and co-writing the screenplay with Soderbergh. The rights to Nine ...
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TV5 to broadcast Cesars live on US network
TV5, in agreement with CanalPlus, will broadcast the 28th Cesar Awards live on Feb 22 on its US network,TV5 tats-Unis. The annual French film awards will be hosted by GeraldinePailhas, who won the Cesar in 1992 for best newcomer and recently starred inNicole Garcia's L'Adversaire. This year's leadingcontenders are ...
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Fiji opens LA office in advance of location tax breaks
In a drive to boost itsprofile as a location for international productions and promote proposed taxbreaks, the Fijian government has opened the Los Angeles offices of the FijiAudiovisual Commission (FAVC). Headed up by CEO Dan Bolea, the commission willact as a 'one-stop shop' for Los Angeles film industryprofessionals, promoting Fiji's ...
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Susannah Ludwig wins Silverman prize from Sundance
The Sundance Institute andthe Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers have announced that SusannahLudwig is to receive the 2003 Mark Silverman Fellowship. Set up in tribute toSilverman, who died in 1989 and worked on titles including Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, the award includes $5,000 for pre-production costs.Sundance will form ...
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TLA Releasing acquires North American rights to The Trip
TLA Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights toMiles Swain's award-winning gay romantic comedy The Trip, it was announced today (Feb 6). Thetwo-year-old distribution label, a division of TLA Entertainment Group, willrelease the film initially in New York on May 2 and then platform the releasenationally.'This was one of the ...
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FULL LINEUP OF AFM SEMINARS
Influential film-makersincluding Michael Apted, Kathryn Bigelow and Neil LaBute are scheduled to speakin a series of eight seminars to run during the 23rd American Film Market(AFM), which takes place from Feb 19-26. The seminars have traditionally been apopular draw among industry professionals and topics this year include actingin the digital ...
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Vivendi assures Canal Plus of support
In a move to quell rumours, the heads of Vivendi Universal and Canal Plus have sent letters of support and explanation to Canal staff.Following a week of speculation and rumour, Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou has assured employees that the channel is "not for sale." He also confirmed the appointment ...
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UK's First Light film awards to be held this month
The UK's inaugural First Light Film Awards are to be held in London on February 26.The awards are part of a $1.6m initiative launched in May 2001 between UK funding body The Film Council and Birmingham-based Hi8us Projects to give young people aged between 7 and 18 the opportunity to ...
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Foley's Confidence opens Santa Barbara Film Festival
James Foley's acclaimed thriller Confidence, starring Dustin Hoffman, Ed Burns andRachel Weisz, will receive its West Coast premiere at the opening night gala ofthe 2003 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Feb 28. Foley andBurns will attend the screening. In addition, the festival's new executivedirector Jon Fitzgerald announced today ...
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Idiom Entertainment formed with Bardem, Wright Penn picture
Robert C Hawk, the former CEO of cable operator US WestMultimedia, and Quay Hays, a veteran executive most recently senior consultantat RKO Pictures, have formed Idiom Films, an independent production and financecompany that has two projects in pre-production, The Last Face and Hating Her. The company, which has its own ...
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Hungarian film industry gets major cash boost
The chronically under-funded Hungarian film industry has received a major boost with Cultural minister Gabor Gorgey (pictured) approving funding of $20m for local filmmakers in 2003.Previously, a mere $1.5m state fund was available to the industry as seed finance - usually for non-commercial projects.Yesterday, Gorgey signed a declaration confirming the ...
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Paramount Classics concludes Singing Detective deal
ParamountClassics has finalized its deal with Icon Entertainment to buy rights in NorthAmerica, Latin America and Japan to The Singing Detective, Keith Gordon's film version of DennisPotter's landmark 1986 TV series which world premiered at the Sundance FilmFestival last month,Negotiations for the film which stars Robert Downey Jr,Mel Gibson and ...
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Just Married opens at number one in Mexico for Fox
Just Married, the Fox comedy that opened number one in January in the US, hasscored the biggest ever opening day for a comedy in Mexico. The picture, whichstars Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher as newlyweds who embark on adisastrous honeymoon, opened on Feb 5 and grossed $465,916 from 250 screens. ...
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Michael Moore wins ground-breaking WGA nomination
Bowling For Columbine continued to blaze a trail through the industry today (Feb 6)when it became the first documentary to receive an original screenplaynomination by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). The picture, which exploresUS attitudes toward gun ownership in the wake of the Columbine High Schoolkillings in 1999, has ...
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Kevin Williams Associates adds to Berlin line-up
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has added Chiqui Carabante's debut feature film Carlos Against The World (Carlos Contra El Mundo) and Palm Springs Film Festival entry The Impatient Alchemist (El Alquimista Impaciente) to its line-up for Berlin.The story of a working class twenty-something who leads a double life ...