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German star to headline English-language Ghetto
Hot German star Moritz Bleibtreu (The Experiment, Luna Papa, Taking Sides) is to play the lead role of the Nazi officer Kittel in Audrius Juzenas' adaptation of Joshua Sobol's Ghetto based on real events in the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius during the Second World War."Normally, the Nazi is played ...
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Eastwood to get SAG lifetime achievement award
The veteran actor-director-producer Clint Eastwood is to receive the 39th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award in recognition of his career and humanitarian accomplishments. The accolade goes each year to an actor who is deemed to foster the highest ideals of the profession and will be presented at the ...
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Universal, Network Ten extend free TV deal in Australia
Universal and Australia's free-to-air Network Ten television broadcaster have extended their agreement for exclusive free terrestrial television rights to the studio's content in Australia. Pictures such as American Pie 2, The Bourne Identity, new releases like 8 Mile and select series from Universal's television slate will go out to Australia's ...
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New production outfit: light club launched by Day
Elinor Day, the former deputy head of production at FilmFour who was responsible for such films as East Is East and Oscar hopeful The Warrior, has launched her own production company, the light club.The venture has an umbrella deal with Box Film, the TV and film company founded by former ...
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Sherfig's Wilbur opens to strong Danish results
Lone Scherfig's highly anticipated English-language debut Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, (pictured) which last week attracted buyers from around the world to it's national premiere, attracted a strong 16,993 admissions and a $101,957 gross on just 40 prints over its opening weekend. The film which received highly favourable reviews ...
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Senator Entertainment issues profit warning
Senator Entertainment today became the latest German film player to admit financial difficulties.The distribution and sales outfit said that revenues for the current year will be half those it previously forecast. While it says it will still achieve a positive EBITDA, it added that it will "not be able to ...
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12 finalists named for Sundance/NHK Award
The Sundance Institute and public Japanese broadcaster NHK today announced the 12 finalists for the 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The annual award goes to an emerging international film-maker and is designed to help them with their next project. Each finalist is eligible to win a cash award of $10,000 ...
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German funds less attractive to investors in 2002
German media funds are expected to raise Euros1.5bn in 2002 from private investors to finance feature film and TV production - 25% less than last year.This will be the second year in a row that fund investment levels will have fallen. In his newly published survey of the performance of ...
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Vivendi Universal reports 2002 third quarter results
Vivendi Universal today released provisional third quarter results for 2002. The company said its revenues had increased 9% to Euros 44.5bn across all businesses for the first nine months of 2002. However, revenues for its media assets in the third quarter were down to Euros 7.4bn, a 4% drop, year-on-year ...
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Spain's Alquimia signs co-production deal with France's Mandarin
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Mandarin have signed a two-picture co-production agreement.According to Alquimia founder and chief Francisco Ramos, the reciprocal agreement will encompass Alquimia's Swindled (Incautos), director Miguel Bardem's con-man tale starring Victoria Abril and Federico Luppi, and Mandarin's The Elementary Particles (Les Particules Elementaires), directed by Philippe Harel, ...
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KWA sells three Latin American titles to the UK
Spain-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has sold three Latin American titles to the UK.Arthouse exhibitor and start-up distributor City Screen picked up theatrical rights to hot Mexican titles Violet Perfume (Perfume De Violetas) and Streeters (De La Calle), while the Feature Film Company took theatrical rights on Argentine ...
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Asian Film Industry Network to be launched at Pusan film festival
The Korean Film Commission has unveiled a long-term initiative to promote Asian film industries, to be launched at the upcoming Pusan International Film Festival.The Asian Film Industry Network (AFIN) which will launch in association with the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) which runs November 19-20, will initially function as an annual ...
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Internationalmedia losses force board shake-up
Production and finance group Internationalmedia announced pre-tax losses of Euros35.7m for the first nine months and as part of a cost cutting programme halved its management board from four members to two. Graham King will step down from the board although will continue to serve as managing director of Initial ...
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German investors cheered by erotic media floatation
Amidst all of the insolvency doom and gloom, German investors had reasons to be cheerful with the successful flotation of the adult films trader erotic media ag on the Frankfurt stock exchange with a threefold over-subscription of its 100,000 shares. Trading began on Friday at Euros 34.50, up 15% from ...
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Dubbed Shoe gets world premiere
The most successful German film of all time Der Schuh Des Manitou (Manitou's Shoe) got its English-language version world premiere at AFI FEST in Los Angeles last night.Following its box-office record in Germany, where it attracted nearly 12 million viewers and some $60m, Michael Herbig's irreverent comedy has been sold ...
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Flying Scotsman grounded until next year
Scottish Screen and Bronco Films' Peter Broughan have confirmed that the filming of The Flying Scotsman has now been postponed until the Spring. The£3.3 million biography of champion Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, pitched as "Shine meets Chariots Of Fire", was originally set to start filming on November 11 with a ...
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Double Vision nears $2m after three weeks in Taiwan
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI)'s Double Vision followed its chart-topping $1m record opening for a thriller in Taiwan with an impressive third weekend $67,968 haul that brings its cumulative score to $1.91m nationwide including previews. The picture, which is billed as Seven with a Taoist twist, took $1m including ...
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Italy, Iceland bring list of foreign language Oscar hopefuls to 40
Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio from Italy and Baltasar Kormakur's The Sea (Hafid) from Iceland have brought the current number of national submissions for the best foreign language Oscar to 40.Pinocchio, which has grossed a phenomenal $24.3m in just five weeks on release in Italy, is the most expensive film ever ...
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Metro Tartan drops Ken Park after restaurant punch-up
Distributor Metro Tartan has cancelled its UK release of Larry Clark's film Ken Park following a restaurant brawl at the weekend between Clark and Metro Tartan CEO Hamish McAlpine.McAlpine and Clark were dining together at the weekend, just ahead of the release of Ken Park at the London Film Festival. ...
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Talk To Her prospers for Fox in Latin America
Fox's Ice Age is expected to pass $200m by the end of November after a $142,800 weekend haul raised its international cumulative total to $198.8m. The animated picture will get a boost once it resumes its run in China following a nationwide blackout on foreign pictures declared by the government ...