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Chaos strikes twice at Haugesund
French director Coline Serreau's (pictured) melodrama Chaos starring Vincent Lindon and Catherine Frot received both the main award and the audience award the 30th edition of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund which closed on Sunday. Sigve Endresen's personal documentary Weightless about folk singer Kari Iveland's struggle with anorexia ...
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Norway goes crazy for documentaries
Following the runaway success of Knut Erik Jensen's 2001 musical documentary Cool And Crazy, a slate of new Norwegian documentaries are enjoying both critical and commercial success at home.The Norwegian Film Fund has just awarded $371,000 to local production outfit Barentsfilm for director Knut Erik Jensen's (pictured) new theatrical documentary ...
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UK documentary scheme emerges from Edinburgh
A proposed pilot scheme to boost UK theatrical audiences for documentaries was unveiled at Edinburgh during the closing weekend of the Film Festival.Inspired by the Docuzone initiative in the Nederlands and growing figures for the Sheffield Touring Festival, the scheme, titled Docuspace, is ultimately intended to devise a dedicated exhibition ...
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Epic Matrix shoot wraps in Oz as runaway production levels rise
The 12-month Sydney shoot of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions has just wrapped, leaving the legacy of a $110.6m contribution to the state economy and a host of titles lining up to shoot in production-friendly Australia. Brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski shot the futuristic films simultaneously and will ...
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Lions Gate takes North America on Loach's Sweet Sixteen
Lions Gate Films has boughtall North American rights to Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen from London-based The Works. The film will bereleased theatrically in spring 2003 and continues a relationship between LionsGate and Loach which began with Bread And Roses in 2001. The film was in competitionat Cannes this year where ...
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Artistic director, Moritz de Hadeln in his own words
"When I was growing up in Florence, we did not have any air-conditioning, so two or three evenings a week we used to go to an outdoor cinema with our mother. As an act of rebellion, I told my parents I wanted to become a film-maker. I started out as ...
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Wedding makes big fat impact at Canadian box-office
My Big Fat Greek Wedding has earned $1.9m (C$3m) at the Canadian box office in its first ten days on release through Montreal-based Equinox Films, making it one of the top non-studio box office releases of the year to date. The romantic comedy, which was written by and stars Canadian ...
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Vinterberg to direct von Trier's Dear Wendy
Two of Denmark's most acclaimed filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg - who together fathered the influential Dogme95 movement - are once again joining forces. Vinterberg is to direct the von Trier scripted Dear Wendy, a contemporary English-language film set in the US about a group of youngsters ...
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First Look launches Rolling Rez tour of Skins
US independent First LookPictures will take Native American Chris Eyre's drama Skins on a nationwide trip around Indian Reservations andcommunities ahead of the picture's theatrical release on September 27.The Rolling Rez Tour 2002 will present free screenings and take place in theCinetransformer, a trailer-like exhibition platform that expands laterally onsite ...
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Kirch film and TV assets could find different buyers
Film investors around the world are hoping to be given the same kind of opportunity as is being dangled in front of TV groups.The KirchMedia group, which is currently in insolvency administration, this week said that it would consider selling off the ProsiebenSAT1 group separately from its other media assets.This ...
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TLA Releasing takes three for US including Food Of Love, KM 0 from Spain
TLA Releasing, the oneyear-old Philadelphia-based US distributor specialising in independent, foreignand gay/lesbian-themed films, has picked up rights to three new pictures- Ventura Pons' Spanish drama Food Of Love, Steve Guttenberg's directorial debut PSYour Cat Is Dead! and Yolanda GarciaSerrano and Juan Luis Iborra's Spanish comedy KM. 0. Food Of Love, ...
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Scooby-Doo heads for $100m in international territories
Scooby-Doo is poised to break the $100m barrier at theinternational box office for Warner Bros after steady weekend takings across 38territories raised its cumulative score to $99m last weekend. The pictureopened at number one this weekend in Sweden, where it took an estimated$235,000 from 100 screens. Overall the live action ...
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Herwitz sells Last Party 2000 to ID in France
Andrew Herwitz's NewYork-based producers rep outfit The Film Sales Company has closed a sale ofdocumentary Last Party 2000 to IDDistribution in France, just a week before the film screens in the Panoramasidebar of the Deauville Festival Of American Film.The film, directed byDonovan Leitch and Rebecca Chaiklin and produced by Stanley ...
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DreamWorks refinances, accelerates animated output schedule
DreamWorks has announced a$1.5bn refinancing package that will enable it to double its animated featureoutput to two or three pictures a year by 2004 and increase by around 30% itsannual live action slate to 10-12 titles by 2005. The deal, unveiled on Friday,comprises a $1bn securitisation and a $500m revolving ...
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Palm buys worldwide DVD rights to doc American Mullet
Palm Pictures has acquiredworldwide DVD rights to Jennifer Arnold's American Mullet. The film explores the history and evolution of theMullet haircut, which is distinguished by a short front and long back. Theproject started out as The Mullet Chronicles, a web-based series that premiered at the SundanceOnline Festival, and eventually became ...
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Columbia TriStar takes XXX out in Asia, Yugoslavia
Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) launched the first internationalroll-outs of Revolution Studios' XXX over the weekend, scoring modest success in several smallerAsian territories and landing the seventh all-time highest opening inYugoslavia. The Vin Diesel action picture grossed $380,000 in The Philippineson 50 screens; $400,000 including previews from 38 screens in ...
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Miller named MD Walt Disney Television Int'l (Asia Pacific)
Doug Miller has been appointed managing director, Walt Disney Television International (Asia Pacific), having been senior vice president and general sales manager of Buena Vista International Television for Europe, Middle East and Africa.Miller will be responsible for all television activities throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, China and India ...
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The Guru levitates to the top of UK chart
Working Title and UIP scored yet another hit at the weekend as comedy The Guru claimed $2.3m (£1.5m) to take the UK number one slot away from three-week leader Men In Black II.Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Madeline) and starring Jimi Mistry alongside Hollywood stars Heather Graham and Marisa ...
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Denmark's SF Film in Good Company
As reported by Screendaily.com in May, Denmark's leading theatrical distributor, SF Film has launched a new local distribution arm - The Good Company, in order to strengthen its ties with Danish film producers. Susanne Teilmann, former head of programming at Danish broadcaster TV3, has been appointed as film executive, to ...
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Meistrich sets up Film Movement, specialised distribution by subscriber
Larry Meistrich, founder ofthe defunct New York production-distribution outfit Shooting Gallery, hasformed a new US distribution outfit called Film Movement chiefly aimed atfestival-winning independents that cannot meet rising marketing costs. FilmMovement will offer film-makers a range of platforms on which to showcasetheatrical-quality, first-run films via a subscription service. Beginning inDecember ...