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The clock is ticking for Venice film festival
The clock is ticking and the Venice Film Festival is still without an artistic director following the sudden withdrawal of Pierluigi Celli and Piera Detassis, who were both reportedly offered the top job last week. Although Celli had initially indicated his willingness to accept the position, he has since emerged ...
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Three Cartoon Movie tributes awarded
Three European companies were awarded tributes at the closing event of Cartoon Movie, the forum dedicated to European animation feature films, which took place in the Babelsberg studios from 14 to 16 March. Of the seven nominees, the three winning companies were selected for being major initiatives or success stories.Cinelibre ...
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Denmark's NatFilm dedicated to Stroheim
This year's NatFilm Festival, the biggest film event in Denmark, will feature a special tribute to Austrian director and actor Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957). The non-competitive event, now in its 13th edition, runs from April 5-21 in Copenhagen and three other cities around the country and will present ...
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Korea's film floatation boom yet to materialise
The phenomenally successful share floatation of Korea's CJ Entertainment earlier this year raised expectations of a film-fuelled boom reminiscent of Germany's Neuer Markt in the late 1990s.As the nation's first film-related company to issue an IPO, CJ Entertainment broke new ground. The company's share price at first doubled, with investors ...
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Venice Int'l TV festival to launch this week
While Venice's Film Festival still awaits the official appointment of a new artistic director, the Lido is about to see the first Venice International Television Festival kick off in high style.The TV festival will open its doors to the industry and the public from March 21 to 25, in the ...
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Danish film panned by critics, loved by audiences
Despite getting a critical mauling from the local press, Danish comedy, Polle Fiction, had the third highest ever opening in Denmark with 80,473 admissions, behind Anja & Viktor (157,000) and Olsen-Bandens Sidste Stik (100,000). The first ever feature based on a TV commercial concept, Danish comedy, Polle Fiction, has made ...
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Kirch Group to unveil Premiereworld restructure
The Kirch group is expected to unveil plans to restructure Premiereworld, its loss-making pay-TV division. Premiereworld has cost Kirch billions of Euros and has seen a succession of chief executives. Today it is the turn of Georg Kofler, who was drafted in only a few months ago, to present to ...
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Shochiku signs first-look deal with DiCaprio, IEG
Japan's Shochiku has signed a $5m three-year, first-look distribution deal with Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way.In return for Shochiku's $5m, to cover Appian's project development overhead costs, for the next three years it will have first negotiation rights to distribute Appian Way films in Japan.Appian Way was established in ...
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Film buyers heading to Hong Kong Asia screenings
Film buyers from 15 countries, including the US, UK and Japan, have confirmed their attendance at Hong Kong's new film market, the Hong Kong Asia Screenings (HAS), which is set to take place April 2-4.Organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and Hong Kong industry association, the MPIA, ...
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Bolivar That's Me takes Mar del Plata crown
Jorge Ali Triana's Bolivar That's Me (Bolivar Soy Yo) won the Golden Ombu award for best film and the best Iberoamerican film prize at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Latin America's leading film event, on Saturday 16 March. The 59-year-old Colombian director's use of magical realism flew in ...
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Nanni Moretti to give lecture at Cannes
Last year's Palme d'Or winner, Nanni Moretti will return to the Croisette to give the Cinema Lesson (La Lecon Du Cinema) at this year's Cannes Festival.A Cannes regular, with films including The Son's Room (La Stanza Del Figlio), Dear Diary (Caro Diario), which won the directing prize, and Aprile ...
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75 lose jobs as Miramax cuts staff by 16%
Miramax Films, a division ofThe Walt Disney Co, laid off about 16% of its staff on Friday in a massiverationalization effort which stunned the industries in New York City, where thecompany is based, and Los Angeles, where it maintains a busy office. The cullcame just eight days before this year's ...
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Ice Age rocks box office record book
One week before the AcademyAwards, 20th Century Fox, which has one of the lead contenders in MoulinRouge, celebrated a victory at theNorth American box office with Ice Age. The CGI animated comedy about a family of prehistoric beasts trying toreunite a human baby with its mother took a massive estimated ...
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International appeal to save Buenos Aires festival
Jacques Gerber, assistant programmer of the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, has announced the Quinzaine's intention to launch an international appeal to rescue the Buenos Aires Independent Cinema International Festival, which has lost 80% of its funding. Over the last three years, director Eduardo Antin (Quintin) has developed the festival into the ...
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Columbia Tristar enters Korean film production
Columbia Tristar is to fully finance a major new Korean production directed by Cinema Service founder Kang Woo-suk. The $10m feature, titled Silmi Island, is the first instance of a Hollywood studio fully funding and taking on worldwide distribution rights for a Korean movie.The Korean-language film, which will be produced ...
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India's film & TV industry set to double by 2006
India's entertainment sector is set to double in size within five years, according to data presented over the weekend at the Frames 2002 industry seminar in Bombay. Consulting firm Arthur Andersen said that the local film industry would grow steadily at a compound annual rate of 15%, to reach a ...
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Strand, Sundance, Tomorrow join Cockettes party
Strand Releasing and TheSundance Channel are jointly acquiring domestic rights and Yoram Pelman'sTomorrow Films has acquired international sales rights to to hit documentary TheCockettes directed by Bill Weber andDavid Weissman.The Cockettes is the story of the flamboyant, drug-fuelled troupeof performers who dressed up in drag and glitter for a series ...
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Madonna confirms she will sing Die Another Day
Madonna has confirmed thatshe will compose and perform the main title song for the 20th JamesBond film Die Another Day whichis scheduled to open around the world on Nov 22 this year."We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as theworld's most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose ...
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THINKFilm launches genre video label Velocity
Newly formed North Americandistributor THINKFilm has launched a stand-alone, domestic direct-to-videolabel Velocity Home Entertainment with plans to distribute 15 to 18 genretitles a year. The label is the initiative of THINKFilm president and CEO Jeff Sackmanwho initiated three US video labels while he was president of Lions Gate Filmsincluding genre ...
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New Line's Rush Hour 2 hits $100m internationally
Rush Hour 2 has crossed the $100m barrier at the internationalbox office eight months after its first territories opened in August last year.The movie, released by New Line International buyers and partner distributorsinternationally, now stands at $100.3m and could catch up with Rush Hour which took $103.1m in international territories ...