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95 titles selected for Rotterdam festival main programme
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2003Main Programme Features Historias Minimas - Carlos Sorin - Argentina/Spain A Cold Summer - Paul Middleditch - Australia Blue Moon - Andrea Maria Dusl - AustriaNosotros - Diego Martinez Vigna - BelgiumepHop - Dominique Standaert - BelgiumLe Fils - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Belgium/FranceMeisje - ...
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ContentFilm takes world rights on low budget Oz pair
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm has put up a substantial advance against world rights for the first two low-budget digifeatures being developed by new filmmakers under producers Andrew Mason and Lizzie Bryant of Sydney-based City Productions.Local support has come from the Ten Network via a television presale and, in ...
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Post-Soviet Russia film wins at Taiwan documentary fest
A film about a remote but beautiful area of post-Soviet Russia, On The Edge Of Time: Male Domains In The Caucasus, was awarded the grand prize at this year's Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), which was held in Taipei from December 5-15.Produced by Germany's Applause Film Media, the 90-minute film ...
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France's Xilam lines up 3-D Stupid Invaders
Xilam Animation is moving forward on a 3-D feature version of Stupid Invaders, a film company founder Marc du Pontavice calls "a Shrek-like family" entertainment. The ambitious project is budgeted at Euros18m and will start production in June of 2003. Du Pontavice, an animation guru who left Gaumont four years ...
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Film tracking set to become easier with ID plan
Films are set to get an unique identification number - which will function in similar fashion to ISO numbers for books and music - allowing easier tracking and better anti-piracy protection.The International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) has been launched by a consortium of producers' and authors' associations in conjunction with ...
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Premiere secures new owner and Hollywood films
German pay TV platform Premiere has signed film package deals with another two Hollywood studios - Paramount Pictures and Columbia - securing programming directly from seven of the eight majors from 2003. At the same time Premiere has become the first part of Leo Kirch's collapsed media empire to close ...
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Berlin Talent Campus attracts more than 2,000 applications
Over 2,000 young filmmakers from 70 countries have applied to take part in the Berlin International Film Festival's first Berlinale Talent Campus which will be held from February 10-14.The Talent Campus, which is being organised by Master School Drehbuch Berlin in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the UK's Film Council and ...
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Ice Age cracks $200m overseas
Fox International's Ice Age has passed $200m in international box office ticketsales, the distributor said yesterday. The hit animation was released in the US last spring, eventually generating $174.8m at thedomestic box office, a figure that has been complemented by impressive totalselsewhere. In Germany, Ice Age opened on March 21 ...
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Berlinale announces first Panorama titles
The Panorama section at the forthcoming Berlinale will be welcoming back several filmmakers who have had films screened in past editions.Returning directors include: Israel's Eytan Fox, the UK's Richard Kwietniowski, Hong Kong's Peter Chan, Spain's Isabel Coixet and Japan's Hideo Nakata, whose chilling thriller Dark Water opened the 2002 Panorama.After ...
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LOTR sequel Towers over first in smash worldwide bow
New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The TwoTowers has fully lived up to itsblockbuster expectations, reeling in $41.7m worldwide on its firstday on release. The figure represents a staggering 45% leap above thefirst episode's $29m one-day opening gross last year. Debuting in the US and 13 international territories ...
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Andrew Mason appointed to FTO board
Producer Andrew Mason has been appointed to the board of the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) for three years. Although best known as someone who shepherds offshore films such as The Matrix through Australia, he has also been building a local production business. Mason replaces Laurie Patton, ...
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UK's PACT appoints Planalp as director of film
UK producers body PACT has appointed Ronnie Planalp as director of film following Bertrand Moullier's exit earlier this year.Planalp was formerly EMI's senior vice president of new media/business development, Europe. She will have overall responsibility for PACT's film strategy, working with the PACT executive team, the PACT film policy group ...
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Australian Competition Commission protects indie exhibitors
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stepped in to protect cinema owners not part of the country's exhibition troika, The issue in question is the future of cinema advertising or, more specifically, of the only national provider of these services, Val Morgan. Village, Hoyts and Greater Union, which ...
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Eichinger joins Constantin Film supervisory board
Bernd Eichinger is being lined up to succeed Commerzbank's Franz Jung as a member of Constantin Film's supervisory board from January 1, 2003.Eichinger, who built Constantin Film up into Germany's most successful independent production and distribution house over the two decades since joining the company in 1979, had served ...
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Indian megastar cast in Bollywood Pride And Prejudice
Indian megastar Aishwarya Rai is to star in Pride And Prejudice - The Bollywood Musical, the all-singing, all-dancing take on Jane Austen's novel from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder ChadhaChadha confirmed that Rai, best known outside India for Cannes title Devdas and winning Miss World, has agreed in principle ...
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Italian comedy brings festive local box office cheer
Defying global patterns, Italian comic sensation Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo's new film, The Legend Of Al, John And Jack has knocked Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets off the number one spot at the local box office just one week after its release.The Legend of Al, John And Jack ...
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'Extraordinary' Kinderfilmfest expected
Films from South Korea, Finland, Israel, Germany and Japan are among the first seven titles confirmed by the Berlinale Kinderfilmfest's new director Thomas Hailer for a programme which, in his words, "promises to be both diversified and extraordinary."Two films have been invited from Finland: Arto Koskinen's The Handcuff King (Kahlekuningas) ...
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Zidi prepares to shoot Super Ripoux
French director Claude Zidi will next month start work on the second sequel to 1984 hit Le Cop (Les Ripoux), his comedy about two corrupt policemen. The new episode, titled Super Ripoux, begins shooting on Jan 21 in and around Paris and will see the re-teaming of Philippe Noiret and ...
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International skew to 2003 Sundance writers lab
The Sundance Institute has announced the 12'signature' projects, a third of them originated from outside theUS, which will participate in the upcoming Screenwriters Lab, which takes placein Utah next month. The Lab gives participating writers the opportunity to developtheir screenplays through workshop sessions with a stellar cast of leadinginternational screenwriters ...
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Jacob re-appointed as Cannes president
Gilles Jacob was yesterday re-appointed as president of the Cannes Festival.Jacob has been at the festival for nearly 25 years and was its head selector for over 20 years. He relinquished the head selector job two years ago, handing over to Thierry Fremaux (artistic director) and Veronique Cayla (managing director), ...