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Los Angeles' AFI FEST announces full lineup of 134 films
AFI FEST, the internationalfilm festival held by the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles Nov7-17, has announced its lineup, which is composed of 134 films from 37countries.The festival is divided intovarious categories: International feature competition, internationaldocumentary competition and international shorts competition, AmericanDirections, Asian New Classics, European Showcase, Latin Cinema ...
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Pusan Int'l film festival unveils 7th edition line-up
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has unveiled the line-up of its 7th edition, to be held from November 14-23 in South Korea. Increasingly seen as the region's leading showcase of Asian cinema, this year's festival will feature a record 228 films as well as further efforts to expand ...
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Nobel Prize helps greenlight Hungarian classic adaptation
Despite a string of international producers lining up with offers to film Imre Kertesz's Fateless, after the Hungarian author won the Nobel prize for Literature last week, it seems the project is going to remain predominantly Hungarian.Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai has been preparing his directorial debut - a film based ...
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First Look picks up North American rights to Angela
First Look Pictures hasacquired North American rights to Roberta Torre's Italian drama Angela which had its world premiere in Directors Fortnightat the Cannes Film Festival this year and recently played in the TorontoInternational Film Festival. First Look Pictures president MJ Peckos negotiatedthe deal for the film with sales agent Adriana ...
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Germany's Das Werk to change market listing
Germany's leading postproduction player Das Werk has been given the greenlight by the German Stock Exchange to change its listing from the Neuer Markt to the Frankfurt's Geregelter Markt from Monday 11 November.Das Werk, which had been listed on the Neuer Markt since its IPO in August 1999, explained that ...
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Two Helkon subsidiaries file for insolvency
Another two, first and second-tier, companies of the bankrupt Helkon Media group - Helkon International Holding GmbH und Helkon International Production GmbH - filed for insolvency at the Munich Regional Court on Wednesday (October 16). A release stated that these filings were 'a direct result of the insolvency of Helkon ...
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Heather Rose dies, aged 36
Heather Rose, who got a standing ovation at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for her performance as Julia in director Rolf de Heer's competition title Dance Me To My Song, died suddenly last week in South Australia a day after her 36th birthday.She was born with severe cerebral palsy, confined ...
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Golden Harvest returns to production after nine-month gap
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment plans to return to production next month following a nine-month hiatus with a romantic comedy, My Lucky Year, to star Tony Leung Chiu Wai and hot up-and-coming actress Miriam Yeung.Vincent Kok is attached to direct the film which is scheduled to start shooting at the ...
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Germany's Premiere provides proof that there is life after Kirch
Germany's pay TV platform Premiere has shown that it is very much still in business by sealing a long-term output deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and acquiring a film package from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.In addition to providing Premiere with German TV premieres of such MGM titles as Legally Blonde, Barbershop ...
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All-star cast lines up for Olesen's Crimes
An impressive cast of Danish talent is lining up to star in award-winning local filmmaker Annette K. Olesen's Crimes, the 10th Dogme-style production to come out of the territory.The story is set in a women's prison, where a minister, played by Ann Eleonora Jorgensen (Italian For Beginners), finds her faith ...
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Scooby hits for Warner Bros in Latin America
Scooby-Doo was a hit in Latin America for Warner Bros over theweekend, scoring the studio's second best opening of all time in Argentinawhere it opened at number one, grossing $113,000 from 82,000 admissions at 51screens. It was the second biggest opening for Warners behind Ocean's Eleven. In Chile Scooby-Doo opened ...
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Sweden's Bonnier sees record earnings from entertainment arm
Swedish media giant Bonnier has reported record earnings from film, video and DVD distribution in Scandinavia over the last eight months. While earnings for the media group in total fell by $49.25m (SEK457m) due to a steep decline in the advertising market, Bonnier Entertainment posted an increase of $18.2m (SEK169m) ...
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Vancouver festival audience bowled over by Columbine
Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling For Columbine has won the audience award at the 21st annual Vancouver International Film Festival. Another documentary, Nettie Wild's Fix: The Story Of An Addicted City, shared the festival's prize for most popular Canadian feature; the film, a searing expose of Vancouver's drug culture, was ...
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Craven, Williamson reteam for werewolf horror at Dimension
WesCraven is reuniting with his Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson on the horrormovie Cursed for Dimension Films.The story will be a Los Angeles-based modern twist on the werewolf genre andhas already been set for release on August 8 2003.'Kevinwrote a fun, scary and surprise-filled script just like the original Scream,' said ...
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Italian singer-songwriter starts shooting debut feature
Franco Battiato, one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters, has moved behind the camera to direct his first feature, Perduto Amor, which started shooting this week in Italy.Produced and co-written by the cult Sicilian singer with his long-term collaborator, philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, the picture tells the coming-of-age story of a Sicilian ...
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Gill leaves Miramax, joins Gordon, Yari in new venture
Mark Gill,president of Miramax LA and one of the lynchpins at the studio since 1994, isleaving the company to join veteran producer Mark Gordon and financier Bob Yariin Stratus Film Company, a new production vehicle with a mission to make amininum of three to four "high quality" productions a year ...
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John Maybury to take on Super-Cannes
John Maybury, who previously directed experimental Francis Bacon biopic Love Is The Devil, is set to direct an adaptation of JG Ballard's futuristic thriller Super-Cannes. The project marks the revival of a relationship between veteran British producer Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Pictures Company (RPC) and the controversial Ballard. Ballard, who wrote ...
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Local films steer Danish box office to 19-year high
Local Danish product is continuing to fend off Hollywood competition, as Tomas Villum Jensen's family film My Sister's Kids In The Snow easily outperformed competitive release The Sum Of All Fears.At this rate, the boost given to local ticket sales from home-grown films looks set to achieve an end-of-year admissions ...
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Imax makes giant screen leap into South America
Giant screen entertainment company Imax Corp has made its first foray into South America, signing agreements to build four theatres, two each in Chile and Ecuador. The first Ecuadorian facility will be located in Guayaquil and operated by the Malecon 2000 Foundation; the second will be operated by the Universidad ...
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Granada, Carlton announce details of merger plan
Granada and Carlton, the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters, today announced details of the long awaited merger that will put most of Britain's free-TV under one management. But the impact for the film industry has yet to become clear.As their finances have become increasingly strained, both groups have pulled away ...