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Danes choose Dogme hit Open Hearts for Oscar race
As expected, Susanne Bier's acclaimed Dogme hit Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) has been chosen as the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards' best foreign language film Oscar. The film received rave reviews on its domestic release and has scooped an impressive 450.000 admissions in eight weeks, never leaving ...
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Cuts at Signpost point to Till joining UIP
Signpost Films is to make further staff cuts this week, while its founder Stewart Till has held talks to take over from Paul Oneile as head of United International Pictures (UIP).Coming hard on the heels of slashing its UK-based sales operation, the latest round of cuts appear to signal the ...
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LONDON SCREENINGS 2002
LONDON SCREENINGSTUESDAY 29 OCTOBER9.00 AMChicken Poets(China) Beijing Guo Song Production. Drama, 94mins. Dir: Meng Jinghui. Scr: Liao Yimei.Key cast: Qin Hailu, Chen Jianbin, Liao Fan.Odeon Mezzanine 110.00 AMMc5 A True Testimonial (US) Cinetic Media. Documentary, 119mins. Dir: David C Thomas. Key cast: Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred 'Sonic' Smith.Other Cinema ...
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Dubin named Los Angeles rep for ARD, Degeto, Telepool
Kristina Dubin of DubinMediahas been enlisted by three German networks as head of their US operations. Shewill represent ARD, Germany's largest broadcaster, Degeto, which is theARD-network contact for films, series and miniseries and Telepool, theall-rights distributor for German-speaking territories."The newconstellation of three companies under one head in the US, which ...
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European Investment Bank funds three Italian features
The European Investment Bank has made one of its first concrete investments in feature film, bankrolling three Italian pictures through the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Euros 100m credit line. The Italian films that benefited from the EIB loans are Piergiorgio Gay's La Forza Del Passato, which screened at this year's ...
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Teenage boys turn out in droves for MTV's Jackass: The Movie
Paramount's high jinks showcase Jackass: The Movie opened top of the charts over the weekend on $22.7m, according to studio estimates released today (Oct 27). The unexpectedly high bow for the big screen adaptation of the MTV stunt series was the third highest October opening of all time and shunted ...
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Lions Gate International brings Cabin Fever to market
Lions Gate Films International, the international theatrical sales arm of Lions Gate Entertainment run by Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov, has acquired international rights to Cabin Fever, the surprise horror hit of the Toronto International Film Festival which its domestic arm Lions Gate Films bought after its first midnight screening ...
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Dick Sano promoted to senior vp at BVI-Japan
Dick Sano, vicepresident and general manager for Buena Vista International (BVI)-Japan, hasbeen promoted to senior vice president & general manager for the company.He will continue to report directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI.Sano willcontinue to lead BVI's theatrical distribution and marketing efforts inJapan following on from huge ...
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US producers Kaplan, Daniel, Katz team to form Rainstorm
US producers Steven G Kaplanand Gregg L Daniel have joined forces with entrepreneur Richard Katz to formRainstorm Entertainment, an LA-based independent film production company thataims to make cost-effective movies by original writers and directors. Rainstormis already in post-production on the black comedy, The Big Empty, which it produced with Echo ...
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Germany's Prokino prepares provocative release
German distributor Prokino's marketing campaign for Buffalo Soldiers has selected both a provocative poster image as well as an arresting new title for the German market: Army Go Home The story of GIs stationed in West Germany during the 1980s uses an image of Joaquin Phoenix as a drug-dealing ...
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Wenders launches new production outfit
Wim Wenders has set up a new, Hamburg-based production outfit Reverse Angle Production which will produce his next feature project entitled Don't Come Knockin'.Originally developed at Road Movies Filmproduktion as In America, the project still has previous Wenders collaborator Sam Shepard onboard as screenwriter for the contemporary love story ...
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61 projects selected for Mannheim coproduction market
New feature film projects from Ireland's Orla Walsh (Love In Limbo), Poland's Robert Glinski (The Gorki Sanatorium), Brazil's Luiz Fernando Carvalho (The Passion According to G.H.), Slovenia's Igor Sterk (Red Horizons), Canada's John Hopkins (RoboSapiens) and the USA's RD Robb (Sex Crimes) are among 61 titles selected from 28 countries ...
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Richard Harris dies, aged 72
The renowned Irish actor Richard Harris died on Friday night, aged 72. His passing was announced by his family, Harris was being treated for some months for Hodgkins Disease, a form of cancer, at University College Hospital, London where he died. He is survived by his sons, actors Jared and ...
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European Film Academy announces documentary prize nominees
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for European Documentary 2002 - Prix Arte, which will be presented, in association with Arte at the European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday 7th December in Rome.The Academy also announced the names of the jury, which will convene later this month in ...
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Donnersmarck brothers win Hof's Eastman Support Award
Brothers Sebastian and Florian von Donnersmarck have won the Eastman Support Award for newcomer talents at the Hof Film Days for their short Der Templer.The story of a Templar knight returning disillusioned from the Crusades was produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion with broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte and 13th Street ...
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Borau awarded Spain's national film prize
Veteran director Jose Luis Borau is the recipient of Spain's prestigious National Film Prize, the Ministry of Culture's Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts announced.Among the feature films on his lengthy filmography as writer-director are 2000's Leo, 1986's My Dear Nanny (Tata Mia) and 1975 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner ...
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Beaune conference ends on muted note
The 12th annual Rencontres Cinematographiques de Beaune, a congress of the association of writers, directors and producers (ARP) that takes place in Burgundy's famous wine town, ended Sunday under sunny skies and without much fanfare - though whispering was heard all around. Indeed, the normally fiery three-day round table event ...
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UK film production sector slumps by almost 40%
Confirming the worst fears of anyone in the UK struggling to get a film off the ground, local production levels have collapsed this year by almost 40%.The crash exacerbates last year's 57% slump in inward investment from overseas productions shooting. However, as Screen International reveals in this week's UK Focus ...
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Jennifer Lopez signs on with Endeavor after ICM split
Jennifer Lopez has signedwith Endeavor for all areas of representation following her recent departurefrom ICM. A statement released today by the Endeavor partners said: 'Weare thrilled to be working with Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer is recognised as oneof today's leading talents of film and music.' She will continue to bemanaged by ...
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Shooting starts on Cheeky black comedy
Shooting started this week on Cheeky, a black comedy which marks the feature directorial debut of UK actor David Thewlis.Thewlis, best known for his role in Mike Leigh's Naked, has also scripted and will star in the film, produced by Trudie Styler's Xingu Films outfit. Luc Besson's Europa Corp is ...