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Latin films honoured at Films From South festival
Denmark'sFilms From The South Festival is this to focus onLatin American cinema and will open in Copenhagen on Sep 5 with Walter Salles Brazilian drama Behind The Sun (Abril Despedacado). Theperipatetic festival is the second largest international film festival inDenmark and has always focused on films from outside Europe and ...
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Man Without A Past, Ramsay get new FIPRESCI prizes
The Man Without A Past (Miles Vailla Menneisyytta) will receive the Best Film of the Year and UKdirector Lynne Ramsay the newly-created New Director of the Year awards fromthe International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) at the opening ceremonyof this month's San Sebastian International Film Festival.The prizes are selected by ...
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Battle of the delegations
The Bear's Kiss, a Russian fantasy in competition at Venice, is accompanied by a massive official delegation of no less than 45 people. Given the high prices for hotels and restaurants in Venice, the hospitality bill could end up equalling a significant chunk of the $7m budget.The film by veteran ...
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura steps down at Warner Bros
Lorenzo diBonaventura has stepped down from his corporate position as executive vicepresident, worldwide motion pictures, at Warner Bros to become an independentproducer for Warner Bros Pictures. He has been co-president or president ofproduction at the studio since 1996 and is one of the best-known productionexecutives in Hollywood."I lovefilmmaking, but the ...
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BVI's Insomnia wakes up UK box office
Buena Vista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with its Alaskan-set thriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m) over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the number one slot in the chart. The latest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previous title ...
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Insomnia wakes up UK box office
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with itsAlaskan-setthriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m)over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the numberone slot in the chart. Thelatest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previoustitleMemento grossed $2.4m for Pathe in 2000 ...
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Linda Tizard tipped to become FFC boss
The close-knit Australian film industry is awash with talk that Linda Tizard is to become the new chief executive of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), arguably the most influential film job in the land. But the FFC says that no selection has yet been made and no ministerial stamp given, ...
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Not much to get buzzed up about in Venice
If a festival is only as good as the films it screens,Venice has cause to be more than a little worried. It's day five on the Lido,and so far only the mosquitoes, out in record numbers this year, have beenconsistently successful in getting under the skin.Thestart was respectable enough. Frida, ...
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Korean films surprise again but studio titles hold their own at BO
Thesummer season has produced some unexpected heavyweights at the South Koreanbox-office. Following a year in whichlocal titles My Sassy Girl ($24m) and Kick The Moon ($21)dominated theatres, the strongest performer has been Steven Spielberg's MinorityReport, remaining atop thebox-office for five weeks after its July 26 release and earning over $17m. ...
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Film Office expands roles becomes Hachette Filipacchi Films
Film Office, a subsidiary of Frenchmedia and publishing giant Hachette Filipacchi, which has been increasinglyboarding foreign feature film projects at an early stage in order to build upits library of theatrical rights, is now to develop its own titles.Theveteran French home video company, which has been a pioneer of all-rightsacquisitions ...
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BV International to work magic on Box
Norway's BV International has picked up world sales rights to RidhaBehi's drama The Magic Box (La Boite Magique), which appears out of competition in Venice and is one of the fewto have won consistently widespread praise on the Lido.Magic Box is avoyage of self discovery by a film-director commissioned to ...
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BV International to work magic on Box
Norway's BV International has picked up world sales rights to RidhaBehi's drama The Magic Box (La Boite Magique), which appears out of competition in Venice and is one of the fewto have won consistently widespread praise on the Lido.Magic Box is avoyage of self discovery by a film-director commissioned to ...
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Ken Park scores with Venice buyers
Ahead of tomorrow (Wednesday)'s debut screening in the Upstream sectionof the Venice festival, inflammatory teen drama Ken Park is settingbuyers alight.Norway's Oro Film has pickedup all Scandinavian rights, while VideoVision bought it for South Africa, Eco Filmes for Portugal, Audiovisual forGreece and Mongkol for Thailand. International rights are handled by ...
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Few films can equal mosquitos' buzz
If a festival is only as good as the films it screens,Venice has cause to be more than a little worried. It's day five on the Lido,and so far only the mosquitos, out in record numbers this year, have beenconsistently successful in getting under the skin.Thestart was respectable enough. Frida, ...
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SPC clings tight to Michell's Mother
Sony Pictures Classics haspicked up Free Range Films' The Mother for North American distribution. The film which reunites Buddha Of Suburbia team -director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer Kevin Loader - iscurrently in post-production following a six-week shoot on location in London.The story of a recently bereaved woman ...
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Roger Dodger
Roger DodgerReviewed by Lee Marshall in VeniceDir: Dylan Kidd. USA. 2002. 106 mins.This dark-veined New York comedy by first-time director Dylan Kidd came as oneof the few pleasant surprises in the opening few days at Venice, where itplayed in critics' week. Roger Dodger is thethinking man's American Pie: thestory of ...
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Roger Dodger
Roger DodgerReviewed by Lee Marshall in VeniceDir: Dylan Kidd. USA. 2002. 106 mins.This dark-veined New York comedy by first-time director Dylan Kidd came as oneof the few pleasant surprises in the opening few days at Venice, where itplayed in critics' week. Roger Dodger is thethinking man's American Pie: thestory of ...
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Government offers Swedish industry surprise lifeline
With only two weeks to go beforeparliamentary elections, Sweden's minister of culture Marita Ulvskog unveiled asurprise $8.7m (SEK80m) financial support package for the Swedish filmindustry.Ulvskogpresented her package to mixed reactions at a meeting between trade bodies andpolitical parties held at the Swedish Film Institute yesterday (Monday)evening.Themove comes after some 18 ...
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Veteran Tamberi launches Metacinema group
Italian industry veteran Giovanni Tamberi is launching an ambitiouscompany that will focus on film production, distribution, communication andmultimedia education in Italy.Under a new umbrella companyMetacinema, Tamberi will oversee three separate outfits each named afterRoberto Rossellini films. Voyage In Italy (Viaggio in Italia) will focus eachyear on the production of two ...