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Danish film industry accepts government cutbacks
Denmark's new right-wing cultural minister, Brian Mikkelsen, is to cut direct government support for film by $3.2m. However, protest and resistance on the part of the Danish film industry remains uncharacteristically absent.The total amount of direct government funding will drop from 2002's $50.3m (DKR375.9m) to 2003's $47.1m (DKR352.3m) according to ...
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De Hadeln gets to choose if he stays on
Discussion of whether stand-in artistic director Moritz De Hadeln will be allowed by Biennale organisers to keep the top job has been the favourite rumour throughout Venice this year. But the decision could be in his own hands.It is neither clear that the former Berlin and one-time Locarno chief has ...
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De Hadeln gets to choose if he stays on
Discussion of whether stand-in artistic director Moritz De Hadeln, will be allowed by Biennale organisers to keep the top job has been the favourite rumour throughout Venice this year. But the decision could be in his own hands.It is neither clear that the former Berlin and one-time Locarno chief has ...
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Sitges reveals full competition line-up
Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale, Oxide and Danny Pang's The Eye and David Cronenberg's Spider are among the films lined up to compete in the Official Fantastic Section of next month's Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).The full line-up includes the following 25 titles:A Snake Of June (Rokugatsu ...
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Dearth in Venice
As Venice approaches its climax, debate continues as to the value of a film market during the event. Both new Biennale head Franco Bernabe and current artistic director Moritz De Hadeln are in favour - while others remain dismissive.The Italian name "Mostra", which covers all the Biennale activities, suggests the ...
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Dearth in Venice
As Venice approaches its climax, debate continues as to the value of a film market during the event. Both new Biennale head Franco Bernabe and current artistic director Moritz De Hadeln are in favour - while others remain dismissive.The Italian name 'Mostra', which covers all the Biennale activities, suggests the ...
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Red Light Runners faces financial greenlight hurdle
Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen, has hit another financing roadblock.A spokesperson for the film confirmed that Germany's Fierce Entertainment, which purportedly stepped in with a deal for 70% of the funding, was no longer part of the project. Madsen ...
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Picture This! picks up US video rights to DAYS and Abandoned
Doug Witkins' PictureThis! Entertainment, which specialises in the distribution and internationalsales of gay, lesbian and bisexual cinema, has picked up LauraMuscardin's DAYS from Italyand Arpad Sopsits' Abandonedfrom Hungary for US video release and festival bookings. Abandoned, which was screened at the Montreal, Toronto andBerlin film festivals among others, is the ...
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European Film Awards announces People's Choice nominations
September 1st 2002 marked the start of the annual opportunity for European filmgoers to participate in the European Film Awards' People's Choice. Through a variety of outlets, cinemagoers can vote for their favourites, from the past year's films, in the categories of best European director, actor and actress. The ...
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Fox Searchlight reteams with Broken Lizard on Club Dread
Fox Searchlight Pictures isreteaming with director Jay Chandrasekhar and his Broken Lizard comedy group,the team behind its Sundance acquisition hit Super Troopers, on Broken Lizard's Club Dread. The film, which has already started principalphotography in Mexico, also stars Bill Paxton.Searchlight picked up SuperTroopers at Sundance 2001 andgrossed $18.5m on its ...
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Killer strikes first-look deal with Warner Bros
Killer Films,the prolific New York-based production company which is synonymous with theindependent film movement of the 1990s, has signed a one year, first-look dealwith Warner Bros Pictures. The deal is primarily for films in the $10m to $25mrange such as Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven or Mark Romanek's One HourPhoto ...
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Buffalo Soldiers get to go home
Buffalo Soldiers, FilmFour and Focus' long-delayed GI's and drugs picture, is finally set to get its first release more than a year after premiering at Toronto on the eve of September 11.While many buyers are still worried about escalating tensions between the US and Iraq, Prokino/Fox has announced it will ...
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Nine new films join San Sebastian's Cinema In Progress initiative
Seven Latin American and two Spanish films will be included in the second phase of the newly created Cinema In Progress (Cine En Construccion) joint initiative of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28) and the Latin American Screenings of Toulouse to find funding for stalled Latin American productions.Jose ...
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THINKFilm, Columbia TriStar strike three-picture US home video deal
THINKFilm, the NorthAmerican distibution outfit which was launched at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival last year, has entered into a three-picture home entertainmentdistribution deal with Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (CTHE). The first film on the slateis The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys starring and produced by Jodie Foster followed by BartFreundlich's ...
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Fierce Entertainment denies Red Light Runners deal
In a further bizarre twist to the film's financing - or lack of it - Fierce Entertainment has denied any commitment to Red Light Runners, the UK heist movie being set up by Reservoir Dogs star Michael Madsen.Producer Clark Westerman had announced that the financier had stepped in as an ...
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Dragonfly takes surprise flight in Spain
After an uninspiring US performance ($30.1m) and a generally lacklustre international performance to date (approximately $22m) Buena Vista International's supernatural romantic thriller, Dragonfly is causing a stir with a strong performance late in its international run, in Spain.With an impressive total gross of $4.22m (Euros 4.3m) after its third weekend ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Beta Cinema adds Baader, Scherbentanz to sales slate
Beta Cinema, the feature film division of Beta Film, has picked upinternational rights to Christoph Roth's controversial biopic Baaderwhich won the Alfred Bauer Prize at this year's Berlinale and received a stormyinternational premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a 15-minute shorter version last month. "The new version of ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Helkon sells TV prod unit and distributor Solo Film
Helkon Media has now offloaded its interests in the TV productionsubsidiary Sonne, Mond + Sterne Film- und Fernsehproduktions and distributorSolo Film Verleih.The 75.6% stake in Sonne, Mond + Sterne has been acquired by itsmanaging director Erwin Kraus, while Solo Film's managing director PeterHeinzemann has taken over all of the shares ...