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KirchMedia back on the map with Buena Vista deal
KirchMedia has signed a multi-year deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) for the German free-TV rights to 20-30 feature films a year from Touchstone, Walt Disney Pictures and Miramax as well as a selection of TV movies and series from ABC/Touchstone and Walt Disney.The agreement includes such feature films ...
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BFI endorses Carnages at Regus London film festival
The British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy went to French film Carnages by Delphine Gleize as this year's London Film Festival wound to a close.Other awards saw the FIPRESCI prize going to The Angel On The Right and the Satyajit Ray Award go to Rachida. Thespian X, by Gerald McMorrow, won ...
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Koelmel Bros' Kinowelt bid in jeopardy
The saga of the Koelmel brothers' bid to take over the core activities of their insolvent Kinowelt Medien empire has taken yet another, dramatic twist.Insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott has issued the Sparkasse Leipzig with an ultimatum to transfer the purchase price of Euros 32m by November 27 at the ...
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Irreversible wins Stockholm Bronze Horse
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible won the Bronze Horse for best film 2002 at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday in Sweden. The jury, composed of Kristoffer Leandoer, Alexandra Rapaport, Ilkka Matila, Lucy Walker and Dogge Doggelito, cited the film as "groundbreaking cinema that manages to revitalise film narration in ...
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PLANET & stern documentary prize winner gets on the road
Production has begun in Berlin on Axel Brandt and Irina Roerig's documentary Russenbus - Fremde Brueder which has been selected as the first winner of the PLANET & stern Documentary Prize launched at the Vision Day during this year's Berlinale (Screen Daily Feb 2002).Brandt and Roerig's portrait of the coach ...
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European Pitch Point jury named
German distributor Stephan Hutter of Prokino, No Man's Land producer Cedomir Kolar, Dogville co-producer Els Vandevorst from the Netherlands' Isabella Films, UK producer and European Film Academy (EFA) chairman Nik Powell, and Eurimages secretary general Renate Roginas will serve on the international jury of next year's European Pitch Point to ...
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Imovision, Teleimage team to form Telescope
Brazilian independent distributor Imovision has teamed up with local post production outfit Teleimage to create a new distribution, exhibition and production entity, Telescope. The new company has earmarked $4m in seed capital to kickstart its various activities, half of which will be allotted to building an exhibition circuit. The circuit ...
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Jealousy, Passion share top honours at Pusan
South Korea's Park Chan-ok's (pictured, right) debut Jealousy Is My Middle Name and Indian director K.N.T. Sastry's (pictured, left) The Rite' A Passion shared the top prize in the Pusan International Film Festival's New Currents competition for first and second-time Asian directors.A Special Mention was awarded to Park Jin-pyo's Too ...
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StudioCanal picks up von Trotta's Women
StudioCanal has taken on international sales for Margarethe von Trotta's new feature The Women Of Rosenstrasse which continues shooting at the Babelsberg Studios until the end of this week before moving to Munich The Euros 6.5m co-production between Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion, Tele Muenchen, the Netherlands' Get Reel, and ...
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Bond lives another day with killer $47m opening
Reports of the demise of James Bond have been greatly exaggerated of late and the superspy struck back over the weekend as MGM's Die Another Day opened top of the table with a record-breaking $47m haul, according to studio estimates.The 20th Bond may have divided the critics but there was ...
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Devdas dominates the first annual RACE awards in India
India's Oscar submission Devdas has won eight awards in the first annual RACE (Rajkamal Academy Of Cinematic Excellence) National Awards, which will be presented at a ceremony in Mumbai, India, on Dec 21, 2002.RACE was established in Oct 2002 by Kiran Shantaram to develop the Indian film industry; as well ...
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Anonymous Content, Strong/Morrone merge
LA management and production company Anonymous Content is to merge with talent management outfit Strong/Morrone Entertainment effective Jan 1, 2003, the two companies announced on Friday. Beverly Strong and Jeff Morrone along with managers Maani Golesorkhi, Nils Larsen and staff will transfer their base of operations into Anonymous Content's headquarters ...
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Miami Film Festival under Guillemet opens with Other Side Of The Bed
Hit Spanish comedy musical The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama) will open the 20th annual Miami International Film Festival on Feb 21 to Mar 2 next year. The festival, which is the first to be programmed by former Sundance Film Festival co-director Nicole Guillemet. ...
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Bond opens to record figures internationally
Die Another Day stormed the international charts over the weekend, grossing $25m from five territories for 20th Century Fox.Not only did the film claim the top spot in each market where it opened, it also claimed the biggest Bond opening in every territory in the process.The first Bond film handled ...
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Potter sets new Japanese box office record
Launched on a record 858 screens on November 23, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets has become the highest-grossing opener of all-time in Japan, taking $16.7m from 862,958 admissionsThe previous record holder was Star Wars: Episode II - Attacks Of The Clones, with an opening gross of $13m. Third ...
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Callas Forever to open Palm Springs festival
Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever will receive its North American premiere when it opens the 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 9, 2003. The director, a longtime friend of the legendary opera singer, and lead actors Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons are expected to attend. The picture takes ...
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Remakes take centre stage at Pusan
The surge in the number Asian films being remade for western audiences was highlighted at this year's PPP projects market in Pusan. After announcing the sale of remake rights on Korean hit Marrying The Mafia last month, Korean major Cinema Service opened up unreleased Break Out for remake treatment after ...
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UK government moves to tighten co-production rules
The Great Goose Caper, a Chevy Chase family film currently shooting in Canada, is not the UK government's ideal co-production. Certainly, its UK spend of 26% of its budget is within existing co-production requirements. But co-productions with such a minimal UK involvement have triggered a dramatic overhaul of UK production ...
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Roadshow snaps up Oz rights to Perfect film
Roadshow Films has acquired all Australian and New Zealand rights to the unfinished homegrown drama One Perfect Day, about a young musical prodigy torn from the pursuit of his classical music career after his sister dies from a drug overdose at a dance party. One Perfect Day is a rare ...
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Hong Kong project market set for revival
The Hong Kong Asia Film Finance Forum (HAF) is set to make a return in 2003 after a two year hiatus. The new event will combine the project market of the first HAF with the industry screenings of last year's hastily organised Hong Kong Asia Screenings (HAS). Held at the ...