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Chicago heads Golden Globe nominees
Miramax musical Chicago has emerged as front-runner in nominations for the 60th annual Golden Globes, with a total of eight nods - just ahead of Stephen Daldry's The Hours which is nominated in seven categories.Other multi-nominated films include Spike Jonze's Adaptation with six nods and Alexander Payne's About Schmidt and ...
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Globes circle round Chicago, The Hours
The dark and sometimes twisted streak running through so many of this year's Golden Globe nominations confirms what the pundits have been declaring for weeks now: that the awards pendulum has swung firmly back towards more rarefied audience tastes and away from the popcorn entertainment most often identified with Hollywood. ...
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Film comedy gets own gong show
As the North American awards season gathers pace the USComedy Arts Festival (USCAF) and HBO have got in on the gong-giving act byannouncing that next year's ninth annual event will feature the inauguralComedy Film Honours. The awards will recognise Studio Comedy Film, Independent ComedyFilm, First-Time Director and the Entertainment Weekly ...
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Italy's Mediaset takes control of Spain's Telecinco
Italy's Mediaset has agreed to pay Euros276m to Spanish media conglomerate Grupo Correo Prensa Espanola for an additional 12% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco.Mediaset - controlled by the family of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - thereby ups its interest in the broadcaster to a majority 52% while Grupo Correo ...
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Winchester mulls sale option as shares slump
UK-based Winchester Entertainment has effectively put itself up for sale, saying it is considering "strategic options".UK distributor Helkon SK is seen as a possible buyer after earlier this year buying a 3.67% stake in the AIM-listed company, which this week declared half-way losses on continuing operations of $10m (£6.3m). Winchester ...
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Sundance I: Festival announces Native Forum lineup 2003
The SundanceInstitute announced details of the 9th Native Forum programme for the 2003Sundance Film Festival today (Dec 17). The Native Forum highlights films madeby Native Americans and indigenous peoples and opens on Jan 17 with the USpremiere of Alanis Obomsawin's new documentary Is The Crown At WarWith Us' The rest ...
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Sundance II: 3rd annual online film festival launched
The SundanceInstitute today (Dec 17) launched the Third Annual Sundance Online FilmFestival at www.sundance.org. This year's event runs until Feb 5, 2003,and features 31 projects in four categories: Animation, Short Subject, Galleryand New Forms. Participating films will be highlighted during the mainfestival, which runs from Jan 16-26, in the Zenith ...
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70s cinema doc gets multi-platform release by IFC
The Independent Film Channel(IFC) announced today (Dec 16) a multi-platform distribution plan for ADecade Under The Influence, theextensive account of cinema in the 1970s that was film-maker Ted Demme'slast project before he died. The picture, which was co-directed by RichardLaGravenese who made Living Out Loud, is set to premiere in ...
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Anouk Aimee to get Berlinale lifetime achievement award
French actress Anouk Aimee will be honoured with the Berlinale's Homage and receive a Lifetime Achievement Golden Bear at a screening of Lola on February 13.Announcing the tribute, festival director Dieter Kosslick stated that "Anouk Aimee is one of the great European stars to whom we owe so many ...
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Schmidt, Adaptation lead US broadcast critics noms
AlexanderPayne's About Schmidt and Spike Jonze's Adaptation each received four nominations includingbest picture today (Dec 17) from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA),which announced its 10 Best Films of 2002 as well as a host of nominees inother categories.In addition toits best picture nod About Schmidt yielded a best actor ...
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Great American Songbook to close Palm Springs fest
Performer-composer MichaelFeinstein's The Great American Songbook, a homage to American musicals and song, will closethe 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 19, 2003.Feinstein will perform after the screening while the evening will be hosted bywriter-comedian Bruce Vilanch. Carol Channing and Jerry Herman will also appearon stage as ...
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Rotterdam sidebars underline event's artistic integrity
New sidebars featuring Indian film-makers and a back to its roots examination of digital film-making, underline the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)'s commitment to cinema at the artistic end of the scale. The festival (Jan 22- Feb 2) has picked Indian director Girish Kasaravalli for retrospective treatment in its regular ...
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Spain's Prodigius Audiovisual unveils first three projects
Prodigius Audiovisual, the new TV movie joint production venture of Spanish media groups DeAPlaneta and MEDIApro, has unveiled its first three projects in a push to produce and back ten made-for-TV movies per year.Jaume Santacana, the newly-appointed director of the venture, says as many as half those ten projects could ...
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German insolvency blow softened by Peppermint takeover
Helkon Media's production subsidiary Kinofilm Muenchen Filmproduktion and the Vienna-based associated company Helkon Media GesmbH have become the latest divisions of the bankrupt German media group to file proceedings for insolvency. Kinofilm Muenchen Filmproduktion, which produced such films as Hans-Guenther Buecking's Die Haeupter Meiner Lieben and Peter Gersina's Vienna, submitted ...
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Havana fest honours City Of God, Suddenly
Over 500 films were screened at Havana's 24th Festival of New Latin American Cinema, confirming the pre-eminence of Brazil and Argentina in the region.Fernardo Meireilles' magnificent epic City of God shared the top prize, the Premio Coral, with Diego Lerman's sparkling debut, Suddenly. These two films, along with A Red ...
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Francois Ozon returns to Focus Features
Focus Featureshas acquired US distribution rights to the thriller Swimming Pool, the latest picture by 8 Women director Francois Ozon, from sales agentCelluloid Dreams. Announcing the move today (Dec 17), Focus co-presidents DavidLinde and James Schamus said Swimming Pool will be released in 2003.Swimming Pool is the first English-language picture ...
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Kino launches Kedma at New York Jewish festival
Kino International hasannounced that Israeli director Amos Gitai's drama Kedma will receive its US premiere on Jan 23, 2003, as theclosing film of the 12th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival. This will befollowed by a two-week run at Makor from Jan 27-Feb 6, where the picture willplay twice a ...
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Had To Be Made year-round film festival launched in US
The inauguralHad To Be Made Film Festival (HTBMFF), which seeks to raise public awareness ofAmerican independent pictures by making its entire programme available forrental at participating video stores, has announced its first call for entries.Festival director Michael Kyle said yesterday (Dec 16) that the event willlaunch on Feb 1, 2003 ...
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MGM TV reorganises US sales operations
In light of agrowing global production and distribution role, MGM Worldwide TelevisionDistribution Group has reorganised its US sales operations, with Paul Danylikarriving as senior vice-president of national sales and Joe Patrick relocatingto Los Angeles from MGM's UK office to serve as vice president of basicand pay cable sales. The announcement ...
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Toronto critics hail Adaptation
SpikeJonze's Adaptation has beennamed the best film of 2002 by the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA), with Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and Alfonos Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien as runners-up.Adaptation received three other prizes: Nicolas Cage was namedbest actor for his two roles as twin brother screenwriters, Chris Cooper ...