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Sarajevo film festival to open with The Sum Of All Fears
An open-air screening of Phil Alden Robinson's thriller The Sum Of All Fears will open this year's Sarajevo Film Festival on August 16.Among the other "big movies" being shown in the nightly Open Air programme are Men In Black II, Bad Company, About A Boy, as well as Lilo ...
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Luther biopic follows El Crimen Del Padre Amaro in wide release pattern
Following the news that Mexico's El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, about a priest's affair with a young woman, is to get the country's biggest ever national release; now a $20m German/US co-production plans to get the story of Martin Luther and his relationship with a former nun on to 1,200 ...
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Italy's summer release strategy wilts in the heat
Despite this year's groundbreaking summer programming of Hollywood blockbusters in cinemas across Italy, it looks like local distributors and exhibitors will always find it tough to compete against the lure of the sun and the beach. According to data released by Italian body Cinetel, box office takings across the country ...
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Aki Kaurismaki to get Douglas Sirk award at Filmfest Hamburg
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is to receive the Douglas Sirk Award at this year's Filmfest Hamburg (September 23-29) during the German premiere of his Cannes prize-winner The Man Without A Past.The Award, which honours an individual 'for his or her distinguished contribution to film culture, to cinematic art and cinematic ...
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Neue Kinowelt to be back in business for this autumn's film markets
Jerry Payne and Marcus Schoefer of the Kinowelt management buyout (MBO) team anticipate their takeover plans will be a done deal by the middle of next week and are looking to be back in the rights acquisition business in time for this autumn's film markets.Payne told screendaily.com that he and ...
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Cinema Service set to join Korean exhibition giants
Korean major Cinema Service is poised to become the country's fourth exhibition giant when it unveils detailed plans next week to build a country-wide multiplex circuit (see Screendaily.com April 14).Structured as a joint venture, the circuit will concentrate on developments in under-serviced regional areas. The company envisages having 10 venues ...
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Michelle Yeoh's Touch passed untouched
Peter Pau's The Touch, starring and produced by Michelle Yeoh, has been passed uncut by the China's national censor the Film Bureau. The move means that the film has cleared the last hurdle in its bid to secure a day-and-date release in mainland China and other parts of Asia. The ...
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Ormieres to shine for Moonstone
Noted French producer Jean-Luc Ormieres has been appointed artistic director of Moonstone International, the Edinburgh-based training programme. Ormieres, whose credits include Chantal Akerman's A Couch In New York, Stijn Coninx's Daens and Ferzan Ozpetek's Ignorant Fairies (Le Fate Ignoranti), succeeds John McGrath, who died suddenly in January.Moonstone currently runs two ...
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Stuart appears littler than his predecessor
Although it has performed respectably Columbia TriStar's Stuart Little 2 was not the runaway success that studio might have hoped given the success of its predecessor and Columbia's strong summer 2002 run to date with Spider-Man and Men In Black II.After the North American launch lost out on the top ...
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Fox 2000 takes remake rights to Denmark's Catch That Girl
Denmark's Nimbus Film has sold English-language remake rights on its children's film Catch That Girl (Klatretosen) to Fox 2000.The Hans Fabian Wullenveber-directed film, which appeared in the Kinderfest arm of this year's Berlin Festival, is the story of a 13 year-old girl who robs a bank in order to save ...
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Italy's Mikado adds three titles to its slate
Italian arthouse distributor Mikado has added three new titles to its line-up, including Manoel de Oliveira's Cannes contender The Uncertainty Principle.An entangled family drama adapted from the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luis, The Uncertainty Principle tells the story of the wealthy Antonio, played by Ivo Canelas, and Jose Luciano (Ricardo Trepa), ...
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Media Asia Films takes four films from start-up Base Production
Hong Kong's Media Asia Films has signed a four-picture deal with start-up production outfit Base Production, headed by Hong Kong director Andrew Lau.The first picture under the two-year deal will be $5.1m (HK$40m) thriller, I Want To Be You, set to star four previous winners of the Best Actor award ...
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South Korean film banned from screening in home territory
Cannes Critics' Week selection Too Young To Die by South Korean director Park Jin-pyo has been effectively banned in its home country, following a decision by the local Media Ratings Board to give the film a 'restricted' rating. The rating prohibits advertising of any kind and obliges the film to ...
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Bollywood/Hollywood tops list of world premieres for Toronto's Perspective Canada
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood will make its world premiere as the opening night film for the Toronto International Film Festival's Perspective Canada programme. Among the other 16 world premieres announced were Long Life, Happiness And Prosperity by Mina Shum and two Canada/UK co-productions, The Wild Dogs by Thom Fitzgerald ...
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Jean-Luc Godard to lecture at Montreal World Film Festival
Iconic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard will attend the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 22 - Sept 2) to give a lecture on filmmaking and his place in it. The lecture, entitled Le regard de Jean-Luc Godard sur le cinema d'aujourd'hui et de demain (Jean-Luc Godard and the Cinema of the Present ...
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Naficy, Algazi join staff of studios' IP VOD co Movielink
Movielink, the IP-based video-on-demand distribution service formed as a joint venture by five major studios, has hired Mariam Naficy as vice president of marketing and Jessica Algazi as vice president of content.Algazi's appointment has significance for the international community in that she will be responsible for acquiring product from third ...
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First Spanish titles announced for San Sebastian
At least four Spanish films are to compete in the official section of the 50th Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival, which runs from 19-28 September.Two further Spanish titles have been selected for the Zabaltegi section - dedicated to the most contemporary works available, whether from other festivals or elsewhere.The initial ...
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Newmarket sets up US distribution co, Berney leaves IFC to run it
Bob Berney is to leave his post as senior vice president, marketing and distribution, at IFC Films and join Newmarket Capital Group as a partner in and president of its formal start-up theatrical distribution company which will be based in New York. Newmarket has dipped its toe into US distribution ...
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MGM to launch branded channel in Greece with NOVA
MGM Networks, the TV channel arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), has entered into an agreement with NOVA, the first digital-satellite platform in Greece, to launch a round-the-clock branded channel in the country. The channel - dubbed The MGM Movie Channel - will be customised for the market to include Greek subtitles ...
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Only one Italian film selected for Venice's Critics Week competition
Sipro Scipione and Francesco Sframeli's Two Friends (Due Amici), a tale adapted from the theatre about two Sicilians who live on the outskirts of a large Northern Italian city, is the only Italian film selected for the Critics Week competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.The competition line-up, selected by ...