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The Longing tops Locarno winners
Scots-born, German director Iain Dilthey's austere The Longing (Das Verlangen) was the surprise winner of this year's International Competition in Locarno. Dilthey's graduation film from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy won the top award of the Golden Leopard/Grand Prize of the City and Region of Locarno, with a purse worth CHF ...
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$46m triumph for Revolution's XXX
Revolution Studios' Vin Diesel action vehicle XXX blew away the competition over the weekend, opening top of the charts with an estimated $46m haul. Directed by Rob Cohen, who worked with Diesel on the 2001 hit The Fast And The Furious, XXX's gung-ho tale of an extreme sports junkie hired ...
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AIME TON PERE
Gerard Depardieu re-teams with son Guillaume for a powerhouse two-hander that will appeal to upscale arthouse audiences, writes Sheila JohnstonAIME TON PEREReviewed by Sheila Johnston in LocarnoScreened in CompetitionDir: Jacob Berger. Fr/Switz/Canada/UK. 2002. 100 mins. Two powerhouse performances drive Aime Ton Pere (provisionally entitled A Loving Father in the UK), ...
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Donostia-San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebar
The Donostia-San Sebastian Film festival (19-28 Sept) has announced the line-up for this year's Festival's Top strand, part of its Zabaltegi sidebar.According to San Sebastian organisers, the Festivals' Top section has been chosen to feature the most interesting films previously shown at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Sundance. Festivals' ...
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Vivendi shares slide on asset valuation doubts
Shares in Vivendi Universal slipped nearly 5% today (Aug 12) as fresh doubt emerged about its asset valuations.The shares fell to Euros16.19 after a report in financial daily La Tribune quoted an unnamed stock market analyst who said that Vivendi could devalue its internet assets by around Euros 400-500m and ...
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MIIB posts second biggest opening ever in France
Men In Black II (MIIB) recorded the second highest opening of all time in France over the weekend, taking a superb $10m from 916 screens for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), according to estimates released today. The sci-fi sequel trails only Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in the ...
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Cinecitta launches Masterclass, USC summer workshop
Famed Romestudio facility Cinecitta Studios has launched two new educational initiatives- a lecture series featuring more than 20 film-makers and technicians whohave worked at the studio and a six-week summer workshop at the studio forstudents at the University Of Southern California (USC) School OfCinema-Television.In addition,Cinecitta has hired executive producer and ...
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Third consortium joins KirchMedia race
A group that includes existing minority shareholders has become the third party to enter the bidding for the core assets of insolvent German media outfit KirchMedia.The group, which is understood to have submitted a bid of around Euros2.5bn ($2.44bn) includes Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holdings, investment bank Lehman ...
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Transmission Films launches first phase in online distribution system
New York-basedTransmission Films has launched a high-speed download system on its online filmdistribution site today (Aug 12), marking the first phase in thecompany's launch strategy. Transmission offers an online forum forindependent and foreign feature films for access by the online film-viewingcommunity while planning to create a revenue stream for film-makers ...
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Peppermint sold to management
Peppermint, the TV licence trading arm of the beleaguered Helkon group, has been sold to its management.The deal, sees the 51.1% interest held by wholly owned subsidiary Helkon International Production, sold to Peppermint's management for an undisclosed sum. The company is now 100% owned by its management.The disposal was approved ...
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Venice loses The Hours, adds three more titles
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Swiss film industry gets $33.3m production support
The Swiss film industry will receive $33.3m (CHF 50.4m) production support over the next three years with the signing of a third expanded Audiovisual Pact between public broadcaster SRG SSR idee suisse and the Swiss film industry in Locarno this week.The new pact will see SRG SSR providing a ...
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Hong Kong's Panorama steps up theatrical activity
Flush with cash from a flotation on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment is hoping to increase its share of the local theatrical market by doubling its slate to around 16 pictures a year.The newly-listed company has recently embarked on a spending spree, snapping up all ...
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Los Angeles organisation to promote Hungarian films
A new Los Angeles-based non-profit organisation is aiming to promote Hungarian films in the international market, starting with securing a Golden Globe nomination for Robert Koltai's Mayday Mayhem (pictured).Friends of Hungarian Cinema was founded by seven founders, including film distribution expert Bela Bunyik. One of the main ambitions of ...
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MIIB storms French box office
Columbia TriStar saw a massive first day opening in France for its latest summer blockbuster Men In Black II on Wednesday Aug 7.Recording a phenomenal 580,978 admissions (equivalent to $3m) in one day from 795 screens, the sequel to 1997's hit was leagues ahead of Columbia's earlier summer release Spider-Man ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 profits dive by 69%as bids for parent KirchMedia whittled down to two
Germany's largest free-to-air television broadcaster and the former jewel in KirchMedia's now tarnished crown, ProSiebenSat.1 today reported a 69% drop in first-half net profits blaming a weak advertising market for the results.Announcing the results Pro-SiebenSat.1 chief executive Urs Rohner said a 'cheerless 2002 advertising year' - which included an under-performing ...
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Venice announces short film competition
The Venice festival has unveiled a selection of nine short films to appear in its main Venezia 59 section. The mainly European and English-language titles will compete for a Silver Lion for the best short, the Premio UIP Venezia award for the best European short, and a Special Mention. The ...
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Venice announces short film competition
The Venice festival has unveiled a selection of nine short films to appear in its main Venezia 59 section. The mainly European and English-language titles will compete for a Silver Lion for the best short, the Premio UIP Venezia award for the best European short, and a Special Mention. The ...
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Screen International re-teams with Toronto festival daily
Although it is not a competitive event like Berlin or Venice, the Toronto festival has arguably become the festival that has the most industry clout after Cannes. For the second year, Toronto has asked Screen International to contribute to its official ...
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Emerging actresses are the talk of Locarno
Young women searching for their place in life is a major theme of a number of films in the second Locarno competition under the direction of Irene Bignardi - from Michael Hofmann's Sophiiie and Andrea Dusl's Blue Moon to Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity and Dorothee Van Den Berghe's Meisje (Girl).Even ...