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China Star consolidates ahead of rights issue
Hong Kong producer-distributor China Star is planning a rights issue to raise around $12m (HK$95m), of which $9.6m (HK$75m) will be pumped into production.However the company is undergoing a capital reorganisation prior to the rights issue due to a collapse in its share price which has slumped from 26 HK ...
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Edinburgh: Out Of Control wins best British film award
Dominic Savage's Out Of Control received the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the 56th Edinburgh International Film Festival which closed on Sunday with the British premiere of Christopher Nolan's thriller Insomnia. Savage's improvised drama, that tells of a teenage boy whose life is made a living hell ...
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UK's Ealing Studios to revive St Trinian's comedies
Ealing Studios, the historic UK film studio at the centre of a £50 million redevelopment plan, is reviving the classic British comedies of St Trinian's.Producer and Ealing co-owner Barnaby Thompson confirmed that Rupert Everett may play the dual roles originally played by Alastair Sim in 1954's The Belles Of St ...
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The Good Thief to open San Sebastian competition
Neil Jordan's The Good Thief will open the official competition section of this year's 50th anniversary edition of Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28).Thief, which will also screen at next month's Toronto International Film Festival, competes for San Sebastian's top Golden and Silver Shell awards alongside seventeen other ...
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Signs returns to the top after four weekends
Disney's Signs returned to top spot over the weekend with a $14.3m haul that brings its total after four weekends to $173.m, according to studio estimates released today. The renewed surge by M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller spooked Columbia's XXX into second place on $13.7m and a $106.7m cumulative score ...
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DreamWorks threatens legal action over web domain name
Hollywood entertainment studio DreamWorks is threatening an India internet design firm with the legal action for registering the domain name webdreamworks.com.DreamWorks is understood to have instructed lawyers to give the Indian firm - which touts itself as a "full-service design and development company" - just fifteen days to surrender the ...
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Iran acts on domestic film crisis
The dire predicament of Iran's domestic film production and exhibition industry was highlighted this week when deputy minister of culture Hassan Pezeshk revealed a dramatic fall in domestic box-office which has reached such lows that Iranian citizens spent an average of just 40-minutes last year at the cinema.At a meeting ...
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Antonio Banderas firmly in Tarantula's web
Antonio Banderas reiterated his interest Thursday in taking a starring role in futuristic film noir Tarantula for director Pedro Almodovar.Speaking at a press conference in Madrid for Imagining Argentina, the film he is currently shooting in Spain and Argentina, Banderas said he had Tarantula scheduled for 2004 in his busy ...
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Asian films dominate Sitges sidebar
Asian films form the bulk of titles screening in the animated features sidebar Anima't at the forthcoming Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).Anima't will also feature more than fifty short films in competition and an homage to Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, whose multiple award-winning Spirited Away (Sen To ...
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Edinburgh: UK creative talent back on song
What a difference a year makes. Last year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there was much talk of a British section that was considered lightweight and lacking in quality. Inevitably, it was seen as a reflection on the whole industry.This year, Morvern Callar, All Or Nothing, Heartlands and My ...
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Eschbach gets top sales job at TF1 International
Didier Sapaut, TF1 International's chief executive has announced the appointment of Nicolas Eschbach as senior vice president, replacing Perrine Teze as top salesman at the French broadcast giant's film sales unit. Eschbach was previously senior sales executive at TF1 International, but since 2000 has been based in New York as ...
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Punch Drunk Love to platform straight after New York fest
Paul ThomasAnderson's Punch Drunk Love will be platform released on October 11 in New York, Los Angelesand Toronto and expand on October 18, Revolution Studios announced today. The romantic comedy, which won Anderson the Director'sAward at the Cannes Film Festival this year, will make its North American debutat the Toronto ...
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Phantom Menace dominates DVD awards in Los Angeles
Star Wars:Episode I - The Phantom Menace picked up four awards at yesterday's 5th Annual DVD Awards in LosAngeles, dominating a ceremony that saw honours go to old and new titles alike.TwentiethCentury Fox Home Entertainment's Episode I won the Viewers' Choice, Best Menu Design and BestAuthoring awards as well as ...
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Redford/Mirren thriller takes Dutch producer to new level
Dutch producer Pieter Jan Brugge is to take his career to a new level when he makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Clearing. According to Dutch sources, the story of a rich businessman kidnapped by a former employee will star Robert Redford and the UK's Helen Mirren as ...
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German pay-TV network attracts 20 takeover suitors
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has sent out preliminary sales brochures on Premiere to over 20 as-yet-unnamed parties in a bid to secure take-over bids for the ailing German pay-TV platform.The groups, understood to include financial, venture capital and other media concerns, have between 2-3 weeks to submit provisional offers for ...
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San Sebastian unveils director's award line-up
Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the 20 titles that will compete for the New Director's Award at this year's 50th anniversary edition (Sept 19-28).The award, sponsored by telecoms provider Jazztel, comes with a purse of Euros 150,000, touted by San Sebastian organizers as the highest prize of ...
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Han Entertainment's The Touch shows eastern promise
Despite stiff competition from Spider-Man, Han Entertainment's The Touch is continuing to perform strongly in China, where it has grossed $2.7m (RMB22m) after 18 days (August 1-18) from 162 screens. However, the action adventure, which was released day and date in four Asian territories to outsmart mainland pirates, will need ...
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Red Light Runners shelves plans to raise UK tax vehicle funds
Red Light Runners, the crime thriller that recently made headlines when it announced a cast including Michael Madsen and Minnie Driver, is understood to have shelved plans to raise its budget through UK tax financing vehicle the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).The film, which is understood to have sent at least ...
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IFC shuts down micro-budget production arm
IFCEntertainment announced that its low-budget Los Angeles-based production armNext Wave Films is to immediately cease operations as a separate divisionwithin the company. The closureprompted a warning from outgoing Next Wave president Peter Broderick, who saidthere was a "crisis" in independent film distribution that wasstopping most independents from reaching their target ...
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New York festival line-up draws heavily on Cannes favourites
The full line-up has beenannounced for the prestigious New York Film Festival, whose 40thedition will kick off on Sept 27 with the North American premiere of AlexanderPayne's About Schmidt, for whichactor Jack Nicholson is already drawing considerable Oscar buzz, and close onOct 13th with Talk To Her, the latest film ...