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Bavaria Film completes Grill Point, Tattoo sales
In spite of an overall quiet AFM, Bavaria Film International (BFI) completed sales on the Jury Grand Prix/Silver Berlin Bear winner Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) and newcomer Robert Schwentke's thriller Tattoo. Only three weeks after the premiere of Andreas Dresen's film in the Berlinale official competition, BFI has already sold ...
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Spain gets new travelling filmhouse: Club del Cine
A group of Spanish industry vets have joined to launch an innovative new project to send little-seen films out to all corners of Spain.Launching with an initial first-year budget of around Euros 240,000 largely from the pockets of its six founders, the Club del Cine will work as a kind ...
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German producer and sales co to release Felsen
Medien & Television Muenchen (MTM), producer of the Berlinale competition film Der Felsen (A Map Of The Heart), and the film's sales agent Bavaria Film International plan to release Dominik Graf's film themselves theatrically in Germany."We are going to try an experiment", explained executive producer Andreas Bareiss of MTM. "Since ...
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US statistics offer hope for international markets
The current health of the North American distribution and exhibition market is generally assumed to be an indicator of the aches and pains that can be expected to occur in many international territories. If so, then the industry can allow itself a cautious sigh of relief.Here is a breakdown of ...
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South Korean production steps up activity
A frenzy of activity seems to have taken over South Korea's production sector. After a record 49% market share for 2001 that proved local films can make big money, more and more projects, many from the best known names in the Korean industry, are getting underway. "At the ...
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Secretary sold to multiple territories for Alibi
UK-based sales house Alibi Films International has sold a slew of international territories on its US romantic drama Secretary, including deals with Eagle Pictures for Italy and NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia.The film, which stars James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lesley Ann Warren, went to LNK for Portugal, Yehmax Film for ...
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Ali takes on international contenders
Michael Mann's Muhammad Ali biopic, simply titled Ali, took on a host of major international territories this week with inconsistent results.The film, for which stars Will Smith and Jon Voight are nominated for acting awards at this month's Academy Awards, came out fighting in France where it took second place ...
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Simon Kenny leaves Disney for WBITD
Simon D Kenny has been named senior vice president, Europe, for Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD), assuming the responsibilities of Joshua A Berger who was recently promoted to the newly created position of executive vice president and managing director, Warner Bros UK.Based in London, Kenny will oversee WBITD's European ...
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Two movies share Sundance/Maryland prize
The Sundance Institute and the Producers Club Of Maryland have named two films as the recipient of the 2002 Producers Club Of Maryland Fellowship: Jacob & Josh Kornbluth's The Best Thief In The World and Tatia Rosenthal & Etgar Kerets' $9.99.The annual fellowship helps fund a film-maker's post-Sundance Lab and ...
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Carrie Fisher to host BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards
Carrie Fisher, the writer and actress who famously played Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, will host the British Academy Of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA)'s 11th annual Britannia Awards show on April 12. Star Wars creator George Lucas is being honoured at the awards show with the ...
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Alquimia Cinema's slate has Latin American flavour
Madrid-based production house Alquimia Cinema's new slate of films reflects the increasing attractiveness of Spain as a marketplace for actors from across Latin America (particularly financially troubled Argentina), including Ricardo Darin (The Son Of The Bride, Nine Queens), Leonardo Sbaraglia (Intact), Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) and Dario Grandinetti ...
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UK film certification boss to stand down
Andreas Whittam Smith is standing down as president of UK certification body the British Board of Film Classification.Whittam Smith, credited with liberalising certification with regard to sexual content, made the decision after being appointed First Church Estates Commissioner, which is a Crown appointment. He steps down on July 31, having ...
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Kirch joins with Arcor for German VOD pilot
Leo Kirch's embattled pay-TV platform Premiere is seeking to increase business by joining forces with Arcor Online to launch a six-month video-on-demand (VOD) pilot to download feature films via broadband networks. After registering at the Arcor platform, participants will be able to order feature films to view on their computer ...
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UK actors cast for Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Denmark's Lone Scherfig is following her Berlin Silver Bear-winning Italian For Beginners with Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, which started shooting on location in Glasgow on Monday March 4. The director's first English-language film features a number of young UK actors including Jamie Sieves (Mean Machine) as the main character ...
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Allen's Hollywood Ending to close San Fran fest
The world premiere of Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending will close next month's San Francisco International Film Festival, the event announced this week.Expected to attend are George Hamilton, Mark Rydell and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who star in the comedy of Hollywood manners."It's our tribute to what Hollywood can do best - satirise ...
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Brit TV watchdog demands respect from Ali G
Working Title Films' Ali G IndaHouse, the feature debut of UK comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's spoof gangsta rapper, is heading for a showdown with. UK TV advertising watchdog BACC.Ali G's backer Universal said it has been told by BACC to get permission from the Queen, president George W Bush and ...
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Brazilian exhibition race heats up
International and local exhibitors in Brazil have stepped up the pace in their ongoing race to provide this hugely under-screened territory with more multiplexes. In December, Cinemark International dethroned local giant exhibitor Severiano Ribeiro from its dominant position of many years. The Texas-based circuit now boasts 258 screens, ...
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Vivendi Universal posts Euros 13.6bn net loss
Vivendi Universal posted a Euros 13.6bn net loss in 2001, due to a massive Euros 15.2bn goodwill write down, the result of a raft of expensive acquisitions. However, the group has met its operational targets for its media and communications division.Presenting VU's full-year report to the press March 4 in ...
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Intermedia crash has Splendid knock-on effect
Internationalmedia's cancellation of its proposed merger with Spyglass Entertainment has had a "knock-on" effect for rival German listed media company Splendid Medien, which saw its stock price plummet over 23% in trading on Wednesday morning.Splendid ended trading on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt at Euros 2.50 on Tuesday evening (March 5), but ...
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India removes restrictions on film investment
The Indian government has lifted restrictions on foreign investment in the burgeoning film and broadcasting industries, in a landmark move that is expected to have wide-reaching effects on the growth of the sector.The move, on March 5, followed a review of the entertainment sector policy, with the Cabinet of Ministers ...