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Asian reception boosts I Am Sam past $50m at Int'l box office
New Line Cinema's I Am Sam has passed the $50m in international box office grosses after receiving a mighty launch in South Korea at the end of its run.The drama, which stars Sean Penn - Oscar nominated as best actor earlier in the year - and Michelle Pfeiffer, grossed $1.3m ...
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Thailand's Mon-rak Transistor joins strong list of Asian foreign-language Oscar submissions
Thailand has chosen Mon-rak Transistor, the third film from hot Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, as the country's official submission for the best foreign-language Oscar.Produced by Cinemasia and Five Star Productions, the film is a genre-defying tale of an aspiring folk singer who is forced to abandon the love of his ...
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Kuhn, Bazalgette join NFTS board of governors
Former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn is to chair the board of governors at the UK's National Film and Television School (NFTS), the school announced this week.Peter Bazalgette, chairman of Endemol UK, will serve as Kuhn's deputy. The duo take over from former Channel 5 chief David Elstein, whose ...
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Hero gets the Chinese Oscar nod, opens today to qualify
Zhang Yimou's highly-anticipated $31m martial arts epic, Hero, has been selected as China's candidate for the best foreign-language Oscar.The film is opening today (Oct 24) for a seven-day qualifying run on a single screen in Shenzhen, in southern China. In order to qualify for next year's Oscars, the picture must ...
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Hero gets the Chinese Oscar nod, opens today to qualify
Zhang Yimou's highly-anticipated $31m martial arts epic, Hero, has been selected as China's candidate for the best foreign-language Oscar.The film is opening today (Oct 24) for a seven-day qualifying run on a single screen in southern China. In order to qualify for next year's Oscars, the picture must receive a ...
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Cohen's Manhattan picks up US rights to 12 Hours
Manhattan PicturesInternational has picked up US rights to Puerto Rican festival favourite 12Hours with an eye on an early March2003 release. Raul Marchand-Sanchez's 93-minute picture was showcased at theTribeca Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at the Chicago LatinoFilm Festival. A socially relevant drama, 12 Hours was produced ...
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Digital opener for 36th Hof Film Days
Marc Ottiker's digitally shot feature Halbe Miete will have its world premiere as the opening film of the 36th International Hof Film Days today (Wednesday October 23).Ottiker's film and Hanno Hackfort's Junimond, which is also showing at the festival, are the first projects completed under the 'Radikal Digital' initiative ...
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South Korea adds to list of foreign-language Oscar submissions
Lee Chang-dong's third film Oasis has been picked to represent South Korea for the best foreign language Oscar. The film joins a rapidly-growing list of national submissions, including, most recently, Bohdan Slama's Wild Bees from the Czech Republic and Fernando Lopes's O Delfim from Portugal Oasis (pictured) an ...
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Jackie Chan, Arclight join EMG's Twins Effect
Jackie Chan has joined Hong Kong pop idols Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung in the cast of Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect.In addition, EMG announced that Sydney-based production and sales house, Arclight Films, will represent the film, which started shooting in Hong Kong on Tuesday, in all territories outside ...
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Coote says that Intertainer Asia is doing just fine
Singapore-basedIntertainer Asia issued a statement yesterday saying that the imminent (Oct 23) suspension ofIntertainer Inc's video-on-demand service in the US will have "no impacton, or consequence to" its operations. Jonathan Taplin's Intertainer Incsaid last week that it was temporarily shutting down the service for its147,000 broadband subscribers to save costs ...
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French porn ban could cost national film industry dear
Appearing late at night exclusively on encrypted channels, pornographic films have been a staple of the French pay-TV scene since Canal Plus launched in 1984. Now elements of the political establishment and the broadcast regulator, the CSA, are considering banning X-rated films from television. The Association of Cable and Satellite ...
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MGM pleased with 'better than expected' third quarter results
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(MGM) has posted 'better than expected' third quarter earnings,powered by revenues from its film and television library, increased televisionprogramming and the number one comedy, Barbershop.Revenuesfor the third quarter ending Sept 30, 2002 were $381.2m compared to $393.3mfrom the same period last year. The studio also reported net income of $11.7m,overturning ...
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Locally-produced family films dominate Nordic box office
Locally-produced family films are enjoying a strong run at the Nordic box-office, with home-grown films proving more than a match for US product. Hayflower And Quiltshoe (Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu) (pictured) had the biggest opening for a family feature in Finland this year with a weekend gross of Euros 224,453 and ...
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Spencer Proffer moves to Mandalay Branded Entertainment
MandalayEntertainment Group offshoot Mandalay Branded Entertainment (MBE) has acquiredthe operations of Spencer Proffer's film, music and television outfit MorlingManor Music and Media, with Proffer coming on board as MBE executive vicepresident. Proffer, a former United Artists and CBS Records executive andlawyer, will oversee all music integration and implementation for MBE ...
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Hong Kong government plans film guarantee fund
The Hong Kong government has issued a consultation paper proposing the establishment of a Film Guarantee Fund to help local companies obtain bank loans for film production.The paper suggests that $6.4m (HK$50m) of the existing $12.8m (HK$100m) Film Development Fund should be used to guarantee loans to filmmakers from banks ...
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Sobini joins Permut in long-gestating Julia Pastrana
MarkAmin's Sobini Films has teamed up with David Permit's PermutPresentations to co-produce Julia Pastrana, based on the real-life Victorian English romance between a deformedentertainer and the man who turned her into an international star. Although nodirector and cast have been attached, Meg Richman, who co-wrote and directedthe 1998 romantic drama ...
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Vivendi sells publishing businesses
Vivendi Universal chief Jean Fortou confirmed yesterday that it was selling its European and Latin American publishing assets for Euros 1.25bn ($1.2bn) to a consortium led by French publishers Lagardere that includes US investment house Ripplewood Holdings and publisher John Wiley & Sons.Vivendi's US publishing arm Houghton Mifflin is to ...
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Spain selects three contenders for foreign-language Oscar submission
The Spanish Cinema Academy's preliminary selection of three titles for the foreign-language Oscar submission includes Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her, Jose Luis Garci's Story Of A Kiss and Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun.The pre-selection will be whittled down to one nominee, unveiled on November 11. The Academy introduced the ...
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Hyman leaves Miramax to head physical production at Focus
Kevin Hyman has joined Universal Pictures' specialty films unit Focus Features as executive vice president of physical production. Hyman, who previously worked at Miramax Films, will be in charge of physical production and post-production on Focus' in-house productions and will oversee post-production on other Focus acquisitions. He will be based ...