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Schmidt points to flying start for Entertainment
Having narrowly missed out on being the top performing UK distributor of 2002 to 20th Century Fox, Entertainment Film Distributors is off to a flying start in 2003.The company still holds two top five positions with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - placed third this week with ...
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Nine Matrix short films kick off with Osiris
The Final Flight Of The Osiris, Warner Bros and Village RoadshowPictures' first in a series of nine short films envisioned by The Matrix directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, willaccompany the worldwide theatrical release of Warner Bros' supernatural thrillerDreamcatcher on Mar21. Like its counterparts in the nine-film set dubbed The Animatrix, ...
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The War Is Over triumphs at FIPA
Italy's RAI TV series The War Is Over (La Guerra E Finita) won five golden awards and one special mention, to wind up as the main victor at this year's FIPA (Festival International de Productions Audiovisuelles) in Biarritz, France. Other winners includde German drama Mein Vater by Andreas Kleinert, Israeli ...
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Australia's Palace lines up bumper year of releases
Australian distributor Palace Films has acquired three new foreign titles to add to its 2003 schedule and says the year is shaping up to be its biggest yet with as many as 16 theatrical releases planned, including a raft of local films.US black comedy Igby Goes Dow, starring Kieran Culkin, ...
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Optimum brings Japanese mega-hit Spirited Away to UK
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up Japanese animation hit Spirited Away and Igby Goes Down, the US black comedy starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Jeff Goldblum.Optimum acquired UK rights to Spirited Away from Wild Bunch Exception. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the co-winner of last year's Golden Bear was ...
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Danish Film Institute backs four films
The Danish Film Institute has backed three new Danish films as well as a Danish co-production. Shooting from late April is Anders Ronnow Klarlund's puppet tale Strings. It tells the story of royal heir Hal Tara, who goes in search of his father's murderer, but end up discovering the truth ...
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Oil rig drama Blasts off in Cape Town
Principal photography is currently underway on Blast, one of the biggest action features to be shot in South Africa's Cape Town to date. The film - described as Die Hard on an oil rig - also marks the first time, anywhere in the world, that an oil company has granted ...
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Ster Century puts Euro cinemas on the block
Ster Century Europe, the South African-owned cinema operator, has announced it is to sell its nine sites in the UK, Ireland and Spain in a move that will leave the company with only one site in Slovakia.According to a statement, the decision to put the sites on the auction block ...
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BV International Pictures takes One Last Ride
Bjoerg Veland's BV International Pictures is to handle international sales on Tony Vitale's urban thriller One Last Ride which begins shooting in Los Angeles on January 25.Produced by director Ang Lee, Germany's Christian Arnold-Beutel of MagicWorx, US producer John Kelly, and Patrick Cupo who adapted his own stage play for ...
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Everest crosses $120m after five years
MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF) has declared that Everest is now the highest grossing documentary of all time, amassing more than $120.6m in worldwide box office since it went on continual release on Mar 6 1998. Throughout its run Everest, a harrowing account of an ascent by three climbers in 1996, ...
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Assisted Living wins top prize at Slamdance
Elliot Greenebaum's dark comedy Assisted Living about a janitor in a nursing home for the elderly who spends his time getting high with the residents won the Grand Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival on Friday night in Park City. Slamdance runs concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival and ...
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Sokurov to receive Berlin Freedom Prize
Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) is to receive this year's Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at a special gala ceremony in the Berlin Rathaus on February 9. The Prize, which is presented by the Foundation with a purse of $ 10,000 donated by Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung, is awarded annually ...
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Sokurov to receive Berlin Freedom Prize
Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) is to receive this year's Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at a special gala ceremony in the Berlin Rathaus on February 9. The Prize, which is presented by the Foundation with a purse of $ 10,000 donated by Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung, is awarded annually ...
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Confidence to open Philadelphia Film Fest, Laurel Canyon to close
The Philadelphia Film Festival will open on April 3 with James Foley's Confidence and close on April 17 with Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon. The festival this year changes its name from Philadelphia Festival Of World Cinema to Philadelphia Film Festival.Philadelphia Film Society board chairman and artistic director Raymond Murray announced ...
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Skyy Vodka launches short film competition
Skyy Vodka has inaugurated a short film competition in which finalists have three days to make a five-minute film based on the same script. Entrants to the Skyy Vodka Short Film Project need to submit a videotaped pitch outlining why they want to direct and citing their favourite director. Three ...
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Noah Cowan launches Global Film Initiative
Former distribution executive and festival programmer Noah Cowan has formed a new US-based non-profit foundation called The Global Film Initiative to promote cross-cultural understanding through film. Cowan, a well-known face on the festival circuit, is executive director of the foundation which he unveiled at the Rotterdam Film Festival over the ...
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Slamdunk honours Zero Day, Seven Songs
The Slamdunk Film Festival which ran from Jan 19 to 22 awarded Ben Coccio's Zero Day the best film and best actor prizes. Zero Day is a digital film which follows the video diary of two high school students who are planning a Columbine-style shooting of their classmates. Andre Keuck ...
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Rotterdam festival incites 'Parliamentary' dissent
The decision by the Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) to revive its Film Parliament format - first used 15 years ago - produced two of the sparkiest festival debates on film seen in recent years. By ditching the classical panel debates and opting instead for a confrontational set-up concluding in a ...
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Palm pacts with Lions Gate for US home video release
Palm Pictures and Lions Gate Home Entertainment have struck a new distribution deal under which all Palm Pictures' new and select catalogue live action home video releases will be distributed and sold by Lions Gate Entertainment in the US. The announcement was made jointly by Paul DeGooyer, general manager of ...
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Summit, Intermedia team for international sales super-company
The international businesswas transformed on Friday as two of its market leaders Intermedia and SummitEntertainment formed a sales, marketing and distribution joint venture calledIS Film Distribution which instantly becomes the biggest seller in the marketplace.As a result, Intermedia andSummit will transfer all their distribution and marketing staff into IS.Intermedia's distribution ...