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Brother wins top prizes at PiFan
Clearly there was no World Cup animosity. German film Getting My Brother Laid (aka Mein Bruder Der Vampir) was the big winner at the 6th edition of the Pucheon International Festival of Fantastic Film (PiFan) in South Korea. The film, which won Sven Taddicken the best new director prize at ...
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France's TF1, M6 jointly acquire 25% of TPS
French private broadcasting groups TF1 and M6 have jointly acquired the 25% stake held by French utilities group Suez Lyonnaise in digital satellite platform Television Par Satellite (TPS).TF1, which previously held a controlling 50% stake in TPS, following the acquisition in December last year of the 25% stake jointly held ...
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Devdas expected to gross $10m in first week on release in India
Devdas has been declared a hit in India, with industry sources telling Screendaily that the film is expected to pass $10m at the box office by the end of its first week in the country. The film opened to capacity screenings at 300 cinemas across the territory, grossing nearly $50,000 ...
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Packer nets $130m from sale of Cinemex exhibition stake
Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer has sold his stake in Mexican exhibition company Cinemex to Canadian investment firm Onex and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, netting a profit of $130m, according to local newspaper The Australian.Packer acquired the 35% stake in Cinemex in 1999 when his Consolidated Press Holdings bought ...
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Australian actors are getting behind the camera
Russell Crowe's mooted directorial debut, The Long Green Shore, is just one example of a host of Australian actors currently getting behind the camera with projects to direct or produce.Toni Collette is in the process of producing an adaptation of Luke Davis's novel Isabelle The Navigator alongside Icon Shanahan Productions' ...
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Hong Kong supernatural comedy conjures $1m in five days
China Star's supernatural comedy, My Left Eye Sees Ghosts, (pictured) possessed the top spot at the Hong Kong box office this week, grossing HK$7.79m ($1m) from 46 screens in the five days to July 17.The film features the lucrative combination of star Sammi Cheng and director-producers Johnnie To and Wai ...
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Serbian local productions unable to repeat 2001's success
While Serbia's local productions regularly outperform Hollywood releases, this year home-grown titles are suffering - despite overall admissions rising 21% year-on-year for the first six months of 2002, from 1,665,245 in 2001 to 2,021,843 tickets sold this year. Unlike most emerging and mature markets, summer is a slow season ...
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Mad Love opens 6th LA Latino int'l film festival
The 6th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) presented by co-founder/actor Edward James Olmos kicks off today (Friday July 19th) with Vicente Aranda's Juana La Loca (Mad Love) from Spain. To be held at its traditional venue, the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, from July 19th to July 28th, ...
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Legendary costumier Monty Berman dies aged 90
Monty Berman, the legendary British costumier, died in Monte Carlo on Monday after a short illness. Berman was head of the London-based costume house Berman's, which later became Berman's And Nathan's.His list of clients encompassed some of the biggest names in movies including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Katharine Hepburn, Rex ...
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Kismet announces Dog Soldiers sequel, boards two with Seven Arts
Kismet Entertainment Group, the LA-based production outfit behind British horror hit Dog Soldiers, has announced that it will produce Dog Soldiers 2 as well as two new pictures in alliance with Peter Hoffman's Seven Arts Pictures.Kismet, headed by entrepreneur David E Allen, first connected with Hoffman on the recently completed ...
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Bewkes named entertainment overlord at AOL Time Warner
HBO's top executive JeffBewkes has been put in charge of AOL Time Warner's entire entertainmentportfolio, including both Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, as part of amanagement re-shuffle that sees the back of the troubled media empire'schief operating officer Bob Pittman.Pittman, who becameincreasingly frustrated at being made the media scapegoat ...
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Shanghai Disneyland sparks fears of Hong Kong rival
Plans have been initiated for a Shanghai Disney theme park. It was reported in the Hong Kong Economic Times that Shanghai's government signed a letter of intent with Walt Disney Co. The news has prompted concerns that the park would rival Hong Kong Disneyland, currently under construction and hoped to ...
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Italy's Giffoni festival announces line-up to 1,000 school children
The Giffoni Film Festival, Italy's international youth-orientated event, has unveiled its full three-tiered competition line-up, which includes Ken Loach's Cannes prize-winner Sweet Sixteen, Chinese director Li Jixian's A High Sky Summer and Kirsten Sheridan's Irish hit Disco Pigs.Other hot titles to be judged by the 1,000 international school children ...
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20th Century Fox announces first Bollywood production
20th Century Fox is to produce its first Bollywood film: a Hindi feature titled Ek Haseena Thee (There Was A Beautiful Girl) to be directed by Ram Gopal Verma. Fox India is likely to release the film in January 2003 with production set to begin in the next few weeks.The ...
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Anant Singh's Videovision to build South African film studio
Leading South African production company Videovision Entertainment is to build a $5m (R50m)international film studio in Durban over the next 18 months, local producer Anant Singh said yesterday.The studio will be one of two in the country with all the facilities necessary for international film makers. Singh, who sits on ...
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Diamonds, Darwin among UK Film Council's development awards
New films from director Mike Newell and Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes are among the latest projects to receive development investment from UK support body the Film Council.The council's development fund is investing $25,800 (£16,433) in The Eustace Diamonds, written by Gosford Park Oscar-winner Julian Fellowes and based on the ...
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US productions running away to Australia, says new research
Australia is the first choice when shooting abroad for 60% of Los Angeles-based film and television producers that have worked there, according to a new survey released this week. "Australia is seen as more competitive than Canada because of the exchange rate and the climate," the survey states, "and more ...
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Two Australian production companies established
Two Australian companies, leading TV commercials producer Film Graphics and top visual effects outfit Animal Logic have simultaneously, but separately, launched into feature film and television programme production.And while each company's methods are different - Australian Rules producer Mark Lazarus has been appointed executive producer and head of development for ...
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DVD piracy crackdown goes global
Asia, and in particular Hong Kong, has been targeted by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) as the main source of pirated DVDS and VCDS, costing the American film industry up to $3bn annually.With the recent discovery in Hong Kong of over 80 underground facilities replicating copies a new 'reward ...