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Spacey to receive San Francico Fest Owens Award
Kevin Spacey will receivethe Peter J Owens Award at the 45th San Francisco International FilmFestival which takes place this year April 18 to May 2. The award, named afterlocal benefactor and longtime festival board member Owens honours an actorwhose work "exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity."The award will be presentedto Spacey ...
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Kidman & Lee named honorary co-chairs of Spirits
Nicole Kidman and Ang Leehave signed up as honorary co-chairpersons and presenters at the 2002 IFP/WestIndependent Spirit Awards which will be presented on Santa Monica beach onMarch 23. The show is being emceed by John Waters.Other presenters at the eventinclude this year's Oscar nominees Ian McKellan, Ben Kingsley and EthanHawke ...
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E. European successes - though budgets poles apart
After just five weeks on release, a low-budget Hungarian comedy has out-performed all of last year's local films at the box office. Meanwhile, in neighbouring Ukraine, a local production outfit is preparing to release the most expensive film in the country's history.Made with a largely unknown cast and crew on ...
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Scandinavia's costliest film proves its worth
The most expensive film ever produced in Scandinavia had its world premiere in Norway on national release last week, after having been critically slated by the press.I Am Dina, the $15.9m English-language film by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch - both Danish and US versions), starring Gerard Depardieu and Christopher Eccleston, was ...
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Overseas buys worldwide on Hillenbrands' Pinata
Overseas FilmGroup hasacquired worldwide distribution rights to Pinata: Survival Island, a horror thriller being produced by Hill &Brand Entertainment. Written, produced and directed by brothers David and ScottHillenbrand, the film stars Nicholas Brendon, Jaime Pressly, Nate Richert andGarrett Wang.The Hillenbrands have todate made actioner King Cobra forTrimark Pictures and are ...
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Italian cinema admissions plummet yet again
Cinema admissions in Italy tumbled a sharp 29.4% in February 2002 compared to last year, marking the third consecutive monthly drop during what is traditionally one of the busiest periods at the box office. According to data released by national data body Cinetel, 6,849,000 tickets were sold in February 2002, ...
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Spain's Telecino appoints Alberto Carullo
Private Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has named Italian-born Alberto Carullo its new head of production, marketing and programming.Carullo moves to Telecinco from Madrid-based film and TV producer BocaBoca, where he has managed contents and marketing since 1999.Prior to that he was head of marketing and promotion for the Italian TV interests ...
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Last Supper wins short film award in Finland
Christian Lindblad's Last Supper was awarded this year's first Jameson Short Film Award with a purse of Euros 6,000, at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland on March 11.The Jameson Short Film Awards is a joint initiative by Jameson Irish Whiskey and the ECFF (European Coordination of Film Festivals) and ...
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Bond 20 officially christened
Ending months of speculation, Bond producers Eon Productions have christened the spy's 20th instalment Die Another Day.The film, which now has the acronym DAD, was rumoured to have been named Beyond The Ice and Beneath The Sea. One website reported last year that it was Final Assignment, only to discover ...
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Cartoon Movie tribute nominations announced
Seven European companies have been nominated for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which will be awarded to three players who have had a positive and dynamic influence on the European animation feature film industry.The final three winners will be voted on by the animation industry professionals attending the 4th edition ...
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Gary Hamilton to leave Oz's Beyond Films
Two names that have been synonymous for 12 years, Beyond Films and Gary Hamilton, are to separate. The founder and general manager of Australia's only consistently active film sales agent will step down from his post at the end of the month."Over the 12 years Gary has been with Beyond ...
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Village Roadshow's cinema sell-off boosts profit
Village Roadshow's exhibition arm has been given substantial credit for VRL's net profit after tax of $23.5m (A$45.3m) for the half-year to December 31, up 100% on the previous corresponding period.Only 15 months ago shareholders were told that VRL's unsatisfactory profits of the past two to three years were entirely ...
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20th Century Fox to roll with $100m Dragonball
Twentieth Century Fox is to make a $100m live-action feature based on the Japanese cult comic Dragonball, the inspiration behind 17 animated films as well as a highly successful TV series.Fox has engaged the comic's creator, Akira Toriyama as creative consultant, and has concluded a rights deal with Shueisha, the ...
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Gibson's soldiers go fourth in the UK
Mel Gibson's Vietnam War film, We Were Soldiers, opened in the UK this week but met with a surprisingly average result. Playing at 384 sites the fourth-placed title grossed $1.077m (£757,760) for an okay screen average of $2,807 - the lowest average amongst the top five.The result will be disappointing ...
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Italian producers threaten Venice festival boycott
With just fivemonths to go before the start of the next Venice Film Festival and still no newartistic director to run it, Aurelio De Laurentiis, the head of Italy's producers union, has threatened not to present any Italian films in the upcoming festival unless Venice Biennale president Franco Bernabe appoints ...
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Men With Brooms: Canadian comedy opens with C$1m
Men With Brooms, an English-language Canadian comedy set in theheady world of curling, has enjoyed spectacular success on its debut weekend inCanada through Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution. Taking C$1.04m,it scored the highest opening weekend of all time for an English language localproduction - and, playing at 207 theatres, it ...
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Emmett/Furla signs to five more with Millenium
Randall Emmett and GeorgeFurla's Emmett/Furla Films has extended its ten picture non-exclusivefinancing and distribution agreement with Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsfor an additional five pictures. Under the current agreement, the two have alsopacted to make Lizzie Borden's next film Rialto which will star Susan Sarandon and is set to startshooting in ...
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Sundance's Groth heads programming at CineVegas
Trevor Groth, the well-knownprogrammer for the Sundance Film Festival, has been hired as director ofprogramming for the annual CineVegas International Film Festival which thisyear holds its fourth annual event in Las Vegas from June 8-15. Groth will tacklehis CineVegas role in addition to his work at Sundance."Trevor'sjoining the CineVegas team ...
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Mar del Plata fest praised for diversity and scope
Argentina's leading film event, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, kicked off on March 7 despite a 75% cut in its funding.Due to the plummeting peso and Argentina's other economic woes, the national film institute, INCAA, slashed the festival budget from $2m to less than $500,000. However, festival director ...
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Asian films in the spotlight at Singapore festival
The competition section of this year's Singapore International Film Festival, known as the Silver Screen Awards, has rounded up a broad cross-section of Asian cinema including Fruit Chan's Hollywood Hong Kong, South Korea's popular festival runner Camel(s), Seafood from China, the three hour epic from the Philippines Batang West Side ...