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Ken Burns to receive IDA career achievement award
Ken Burns will receive theInternational Documentary Association (IDA) 2002 Career Achievement Award atthe 18th annual IDA awards gala benefit at the Directors Guild OfAmerica Theatre on Dec 13. Burns has produced 19 documentaries including theOscar nominated Brooklyn Bridgeand the epic miniseries Jazz and TheCivil War.'Ken Burns is in arelatively early ...
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Laura Ivey joins Infinty in legal & business affairs dept
Laura Ivey has beenappointed vice president of business and legal affairs at the LA-based filmproduction and financing company, Infinity International Entertainment. Iveywill be responsible for negotiating and structuring licensing and productionsdeals with domestic and international parties for all Infinity productions andall productions by Cinerenta, Germany's largest film fund, which are ...
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Alcon buys Pemberton script
Alcon Entertainment, theWarner-based production outfit behind Insomnia and The Affair Of The Necklace, has purchased the comedy spec script The WholePemberton Thing written byfirst-time screenwriter Mike Samonek. The story deals with the volatile relationshipbetween a young executive and his Machiavellian, oddball office mate.Samonek has simultaneouslysigned a first-look deal with Alcon ...
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BVI's Signs flies high in UK, Germany, Mexico
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored its biggest ever live-action opening in the UKover the weekend as it continued the international roll-out of Signs, M Night Shyamalan's domestic sci-fi hit. Thepicture grossed $5.7m from 443 screens in the UK, including previews, which wasalso the biggest UK opening for star Mel Gibson. In ...
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Chen Kaige leads Chinese delegation to Denver
Together director Chen Kaige will be part of a Chinesedelegation attending next month's 25th Starz Denver International Film Festival(DIFF) as part of a tribute to Chinese cinema. The festival, which runs fromOctober 10-20, will present a 'Salute To Chinese Cinema' as part of its annualfocus on a country or region ...
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Fradis & Cohen team for new film investment fund
Anatoly Fradis of Alfa FilmEnterprises Inc and Joseph N Cohen of American Entertainment Investors Inc haveformed a new film investment outfit called Marching Band Productions. Fradisand Cohen have already closed their first deal for the company - forthree pictures with Nigel Sinclair and Guy East of Spitfire Productions kickingoff with ...
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Sony rebrands its TV units, dropping Columbia TriStar
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) has renamed its domestic and international television concerns, removingthe Columbia TriStar moniker and rebramding them with the Sony name. ColumbiaTriStar Domestic Television and Columbia TriStar International Television willnow operate as Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Sony Pictures TelevisionInternational (SPTI).The move is calculated tocapitalise on the strength of ...
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Signs points to strong UK gross for Gibson
Mel Gibson enjoyed his biggest opening to date in the UK at the weekend when M Night Shyamalan's Signs claimed a massive $5.9m (£3.8m) from 443 sites - including $481,566 of previews at 375 locations.Giving distributor Buena Vista International (BVI) its second biggest opening of the year, overtaking the $1.8m ...
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European Film Academy announces 2002 shortlist
The European Film Academy has selected 37 titles, from more than 300 submissions, as the shortlist for the European Film 2002 prize, to be presented on Saturday 7th December in RomeThe shortlist will be voted on by the 1400-strong Academy membership, which comprises directors, screenwriters, actors, producers and distributors from ...
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MGM celebrates with Barbershop's $21m opening
After a string of flops MGM had some long overdue good news this weekend as Barbershop cut through the competition to open top of the charts on $21m, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. The situational comedy stars Ice Cube as the patron of the eponymous salon and received ...
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Newmarket, Lions Gate seal two more Toronto acquisitions
Two more films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival secured domestic distribution deals over the weekend. Newmarket Films took US rights to Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-ever from Trust Film Sales, while Lions Gate Films beat out competitors including Miramax and New Line to buy North American rights to ...
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Newmarket, Lions Gate seal two more Toronto acquisitions
Two more films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival secured domestic distribution deals over the weekend. Newmarket Films took US rights to Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever from Trust Film Sales, while Lions Gate Films beat out competitors including Miramax and New Line to buy North American rights to horror ...
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XXX opens at number one in Australia
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) secured the number one spot in Australia with the release of XXX, grossing a terrific $1.7m from 300 prints. The movie is expected to enjoy a strong run in the territory as school holidays begin next week. XXX also opened in South Africa, Turkey ...
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Norway to allow cinema privatisation for the first time since 1913
Norway's largest exhibitor, the municipally-owned Oslo Cinemas, will be privatised before the end of this year, with the Oslo City Council which owns the company, planning to sell between 66 % and 100 % of its shares.Oslo Cinemas operates with 11 cinemas and 31 screens and attracted 3 million admissions ...
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Cronenberg, Sokurov, Caro take top honours at Toronto
Local hero David Cronenberg and Russian Ark director Alexandr Sokurov won the major adjudicated prizes as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 27th edition. Cronenberg's Cannes competitor Spider took the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature while Sokurov's technical masterpiece, an epochal 96 minute, single-take, won the inaugural Independent ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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Cronenberg, Sokurov take top honours at Toronto
Local hero David Cronenberg and Russian Ark director Alexandr Sokurov won the major adjudicated prizes as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 27th edition. Cronenberg's Cannes competitor Spider took the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature while Sokurov's technical masterpiece, Russian Ark, an epochal 96 minute, single-take, won the ...
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TVA takes local rights to Rhombus Media's current slate
TVA Films has picked up Canadian rights to new films from three major Canadian filmmakers, Francois Girard, Don McKellar and Guy Maddin, representing the entire production slate of Toronto-based Rhombus Media.Rhombus produced Girard's films The Red Violin and 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould as well as McKellar's debut ...
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Look Now signs output deal with Swiss Dschoint Ventschr
Zurich-based production outfit Dschoint Ventschr has signed an output deal with local theatrical distributor Look Now for the release of its films in Switzerland The first two titles to fall under this output deal are Dschoint Ventschr co-owner Samir's documentary Forget Bagdad - Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection ...