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Tallinn Black Nights film fest attracts record admissions
The sixth annual edition (23 November to 8 December) of the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival joined forces for the first time this year with the Estonian Film Foundation to present two days of new films from the Baltic states during the festival.The Baltic screenings presented the six feature films ...
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Spice Factory buys into Arclight
Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films has confirmed that the UK-based production company Spice Factory has taken an equity stake in the six-month-old company which, until now, has been owned by Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis. This expands on the first-look deal Arclight already had for all Spice Factory's output."I am ...
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Blissfully Yours delights Tokyo FILMeX
Tokyo FILMeX awarded its top prize, the Kodak Vision Award, to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Blissfully Yours at its competition awards ceremony on December 8. A drama about an unusual love triangle that develops between Myanmarese immigrants in Thailand, the film was also winner of the Un Certain Regard section at this ...
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Nine world premieres in Max Ophuels competition
Over half of the 17-film line-up at this year's Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival feature film competition will be world premieres. The complete line-up of 11 German, four Austrian and two Swiss newcomer features screening in Saarbruecken from January 13-19, 2003 includes:011 Beograd by Michael Pfeifenberger, Austria (World premiere)Baby by ...
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Spanish producer duo prepare two new features
Pedro Costa and Enrique Cerezo, the co-producers behind Eduard Cortes' Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) and last year's Spanish nomination to the foreign language Oscar, Mad Love (Juana La Loca), are prepping two new feature films, including Cortes' next project.Cortes and Nobody's Life co-scripter Piti Espanol are currently writing ...
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Ex-Admira president plans new Spanish media group
Juan Jose Nieto, former executive president of Admira (Telefonica Media), is understood to be in final negotiations to buy Das Werk's remaining interests in Barcelona-based En Efecto in a bid to create a new media group in Spain. Through his own start-up holding company Palmera Capital, Nieto is negotiating the ...
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Die rustles up another $21.3m for Fox International
Die Another Day grossed $21.3m over the weekend - including numberone bows in the Far East and South Africa - and now boasts a superb $95.2minternational cumulative total. With the $119.2m domestic total taken intoconsideration, the twentieth James Bond instalment has so far grossed $214.4mworldwide. In Singapore it took $838,836 ...
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Minority Report opens in Japan to $6.3m for Fox
Fox International enjoyed its fourth highest opening ofall time in Japan over the weekend with a $6.3m bow for Minority Report on 458 screens. The picture reached number twonationwide but topped the charts in nine key cities, studio executives saidtoday (Dec 9). The sci-fi thriller received a pre-release boost when ...
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Harry conjures up magical $60.5m over the weekend
Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets conjured up$60.5m in the international markets over the weekend, according to latestestimates from Warner Bros. The family sequel registered more than 10.9 millionadmissions from 9,850 screens in 41 countries and now has a remarkable $289minternational running total with just over $500m worldwide.In the latest ...
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Harryhausen, Linklater, Lurie shorts among Sundance selection
Short films from RichardLinklater, actress Illeana Douglas and Lord Of The Rings star Sean Astin are among the 90 shorts programmedat next year's Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off Jan 16 in ParkCity, Utah.Culled from a record 3,345submissions, the narrative and documentary titles will screen before featuresand as part of ...
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Palm Springs throws spotlight on Bollywood
The Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival will focus its Spotlight strand on Bollywood nextmonth, featuring a series of North American premieres that kicks off on Jan 12,2003 with the Indian foreign language Oscar entry, Devdas. The epic tale of star-crossed lovers is due to beattended by director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and ...
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Spyglass finds a new home at DreamWorks
Spyglass Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures announced today (Dec 9) that they have signed an exclusive first-look, non-exclusive production deal. The two parties are already in production on Seabiscuit starring Jeff Bridges and Tobey Maguire, which chronicles the life of the legendary racehorse. Gary Ross is directing the currently-shooting picture which ...
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Girl From Paris goes to US through Philos
Fledgling US distributorFilms Philos has acquired Christian Carion's directorial debut TheGirl From Paris (Une Hirondelle AFait Le Printemps) for NorthAmerican release in spring 2003. The story centres on a young woman'sefforts to start over as a farmer in the French Alps and is told from theperspective of the girl and ...
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The Santa Clause 2 spreads its reach
The top three chart positions remained unchanged this week in the UK as The Santa Clause 2 took advantage of Harry Potter's 42% drop off, Pathe launched Brit-horror Deathwatch into fourth and Bond was neither shaken nor stirred from its hold on pole position.Die Another Day, distributed by 20th Century ...
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Irish Film Board gets reduced government funds
In line with its published spending estimates for 2003 (Screendaily, November 15) the Irish Government has reduced the Irish Film Board's allocation in its pared-back Budget for 2003. The Film Board's funding has been cut by an aggregate 12.5%, leaving it with Euros 1.6m to spend on administration and Euros ...
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Film Council funds scheme to improve cinema access for sensory impaired
UK support body the Film Council has unveiled a£500,000 National Lottery package to boost the accessibility of films for people with sensory disabilities.A pilot project will install selected cinemas with captioning and audio description equipment. With matching funding from cinema owners, the cash is to allow up to 75 cinemas ...
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Hong Kong approves local film guarantee fund
The Hong Kong government has approved a $6.4m (HK$50m) Film Guarantee Fund which is designed to help local companies obtain bank loans for film production. Only two changes have been made to initial proposals for the fund. The government issued a consultation paper in October recommending that the fund only ...
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Co-production markets offer new hope for independent film finance
Market consolidation, the collapse of pay-TV prices and reductions in state subsidies are just three reasons why co-production markets are booming.They may have started as the poor man's film market - there being no movies to see - but the importance of co-production markets is growing as sources of production ...
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Drubigny leaves UGC International
After a mere six months, UGC International director Alexandre Drubigny has left the company. Although sources at UGC confirm Drubigny's voluntary departure, no answers are being given as to what his future plans are.Drubigny, a former TF1 executive, was hired by Canal Plus in 2001 to head up programming during ...