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Protesters picket Crimen's Hollywood premiere
Protesters led by ultra conservative group The American Society for the Defence of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) picketed the Hollywood premiere of Mexican priest scandal drama El Crimen Del Padre Amaro last Thursday. Samuel Goldywn Jr, whose company holds North American distribution rights, invited the group to watch ...
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Falcom Media signs distribution deal with Universum
Andreas Fallscheer's Falcom Media Group has concluded a long-term video/DVD distribution deal with the RTL Group's video subsidiary BMG/Universum Film for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.The first releases - all "straight to video" - will be the US children's animation film The Little Drummer Boy, Chuck Norris actioner McCourd, Mimic 2 ...
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Dougray Scott takes part in football hooligan drama
A hard hitting film about football hooligans starring Dougray Scott has gone into production in the UK.Based on the best-selling cult novel by John King about Chelsea hooligans, The Football Factory is the first feature from Vertigo Films and is produced by Allan Niblo (Human Traffic, South West Nine) and ...
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DreamWorks to remake Kurosawa's Ikiru
Hisao Kurosawa, the president of Kurosawa Productions, has confirmed that he is in discussions with DreamWorks over a remake of his father Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic Ikiru (pictured). Kurosawa, however, declined to comment on the production, saying that negotiations were still ongoing. According to press reports, DreamWorks' Walter Parkes and ...
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Paramount Pictures to tap German equity fund for two titles
Despite the growing caution among German investors, Paramount Pictures is set to access private German equity for the financing of biopic Against The Ropes and the high school comedy The Perfect Score. After collaborating with the German financing companies SachsenFonds and EastMerchant last year on a Euros 52.7m fund for ...
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First Thai film festival launches in UK
The Royal Thai Embassy is backing the launch of the first Thai Film Festival in the UK (Nov 28-Dec 5)The Thai Film Festival 2002 will show a range of 15 Thai films, encompassing traditional and contemporary films, across a range of genres from comedy to horror. It is being held ...
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Pathe takes over FilmFour slate
Pathe UK has confirmed it is taking over 11 titles from FilmFour, the UK film operation being scaled back by broadcasting parent Channel 4.Pathe will handle UK distribution and international sales on the package, which includes Motorcycle Diaries, To Kill A King, It's All About Love and Once Upon A ...
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US remake of The Ring outperforms original in Japan
The Hollywood remake of Hideo Nakata's 1998 horror Ringu has already become a bigger hit in Japan than the original, after just three weeks on release. Topping the box office chart the first week after opening on November 2, Gore Verbinski's The Ring (pictured) has grossed $8.3m (Y1bn) from 800,000 ...
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Australia's Hopscotch signs for first local film
Fledgling Australian distributor Hopscotch has picked up Australian and New Zealand rights for its first local film. Peaches got a greenlight from the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) this week and is to be directed by Craig Monahan from a script by television writer Sue Smith. "Craig Monahan should have ...
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Bac Majestic to quit exhibition as revenues collapse
Bac Majectic is to pull out of the exhibition sector anc concentrate exclusively on film distribution.The company said that following finacnial difficulties in its exhibition operations it has taken the decision to progressively withdraw from the sector. The stockmarket-traded group last year sold its collection of parisian screens but held ...
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The Mill cuts its film division out of the picture
In a further sign of the difficult times facing the UK film industry, Oscar winning special effects company, The Mill, is pulling out of feature film. The London based company is blaming the move on the volatile nature of the industry and a desire to concentrate on its advertising activities.A ...
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Madame Sata enchants Huelva
Karim Ainouz's Madame Sata scooped three of the top awards at the 28th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, The 1930-set biopic of a Rio streetfighter and drag artist won best film, best actor for Lazaro Ramos and best cinematography for Walter Carvalho. Madame Sata was produced by Walter Salles' VideoFilmes ...
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The Touch adds sales, hits US delivery delay
Big-budget Hong Kong action-adventure, The Touch has wrapped up a number of additional sales, but has hit a snag with delivery of the final version to Miramax for the US.In the days since Mifed, Sabrina Chen, sales chief at the film's principal backer Han Entertainment, has inked key distribution deals ...
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Korea, France sign preliminary co-operation agreement
South Korea and France this weekend signed an agreement to increase co-operation between their two film industries, with the aim of expanding it into a full co-production accord.However, the agreement fell short of being a co-production treaty, of which France boasts 43, and which would have allowed French ...
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World records crumble to Chamber Of Secrets
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets stormed to the top of the charts in eight international markets with a stunning non-holiday weekend tally of $54m from 3,284 screens and 6.3m admissions. Results in the UK were particularly impressive. In a new series of industry records that beat the old ...
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Mannheim jury in favour of The Devils
French director Christopher Ruggia's drama The Devils (Les Diables) was named Best Film by the international jury at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.Announcing its decision, the jury of Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, French sales agent Margarita Seguy (F For Film), Korean sales agent Karen Moon (CJ Entertainment), Finnish Film ...
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Junkersdorf launches tax fund to finance four pictures
Eberhard Junkersdorf, who called earlier this year for the introduction in Germany of tax-driven incentives similar to those in the UK, Ireland, Canada or Luxembourg, has launched his own media fund - Neue Bioskop Film - to finance four international feature productions in 2002 and 2003.German individuals can invest a ...
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Fine Line signs on for The Recipe
Fine Line Features has acquired the script The Recipe by Ruth Graham which will be produced by Janette Day and Ruth Graham. The story of an aspiring chef who is bequeathed her grandmother's infmaous aphrodisiac recipe and then travels to Italy to seek out its origins.The deal was negotiated by ...
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Van Helsing locates to Prague for winter shoot
Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing has entered pre-production in Prague, with principle photography on the monster thriller set to start in the Czech capital in January.Universal's latest creature feature, following Sommers directed blockbusters The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, is the first large US production to land in ...
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Japan picks Out Oscar nominee
Japan has selected Hideyuki Hirayama's Out as its nominee for the foreign language film category at next year's Academy Awards. A female orientated black comedy, Out was selected from a shortlist of ten films by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan.Based on a recently published novel by best-selling mystery ...