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Lantana, Moulin Rouge bag Oz critics awards
Producer Jan Chapman won the best film award for Lantana at the Film Critics Circle Awards on Feb 22, while Baz Luhrmann took home the best director trophy for Moulin Rouge, making it less of a one-horse race than the Australian Film Institute Awards in November had been. Lantana also ...
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Hollywood plans remakes of Korean comedies
Two Korean hit comedies from 2001, My Sassy Girl and Hi, Dharma!, have been sold to Hollywood studios for English-language remakes. Korean distributor IM Pictures revealed that DreamWorks SKG has bought remake rights to My Sassy Girl (pictured) for $750,000 plus 4% of worldwide revenues earned by the remake. ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores with Hong Kong award nods
Stephen Chow's kung fu and soccer comedy, Shaolin Soccer, led the pack in the nominations for the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards with 13 nods including best film and best director.The record-breaking film, which became Hong Kong's biggest-grossing local production ever last year, with a box office haul of $7.4m ...
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European DVD market sets new sector records
The meteoric rise in the global popularity and profitability of the DVD format has seen Germany and the UK join the many markets experiencing record business in the sector.In Germany, the home video industry's turnover exceeded the Euros 1bn mark for the first time ever in 2001, according to ...
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Charlotte Gray struggles to find box office gold
Charlotte Gray's status as FilmFour's biggest production to date failed to translate into UK box-office gold this weekend. But FilmFour calculates that the WW2 drama, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, will still have a profitable UK release across all windows after taking $644,104 (£450,229) from 217 sites.Along with ...
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Deutsche Telekom/Liberty deal is blocked
Germany's Federal Cartel Office has blocked Deutsche Telekom's planned sale of six regional cable TV companies to the US media concern Liberty Media throwing the German media landscape into disarray.In an official communique, Deutsche Telekom (DT), which had seen such a transaction as being "a clear stimulus to competition", regretted ...
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Stuart Ford named acquisitions co-head at Miramax
Stuart Ford who is currentlysenior vice president of acquisitions and international operations at MiramaxFilms has been promoted to co-head of acquisitions alongside Agnes Mentre,executive vice president and co-head of acquisitions and co-productions.Together with Mentre, Ford will oversee Miramax's busy acquisitionsdepartment.Ford, who is based in NewYork, will report to Mentre and ...
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Celluloid Dreams closes out 8 Femmes sales
After launching FrancoisOzon's 8 Women at the AFMlast year, French sales house Celluloid Dreams has come full circle with aspate of finalised deals. PierreMenahem, who has been overseeing the market for the independent outfit, saidyesterday that only four territories remain unsold (Singapore, South Africa,Peru and India) but that those could ...
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Eclipse announces new worldwide sales arm
Eclipse Entertainment has launched Eclipse Releasing, a new worldwide sales company to handle product from the publicly-traded Eclipse Entertainment Group, with Sridhar Sreekakula supervising sales. Sreekakula was formerly a sales executive at Menahem Golan's 21st Century Film Corporation, at Southern Star Film Sales and at Titan Films International.First title for ...
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MIFED plans two-day market extension
Following a meeting with representatives of several AFMA-affiliated sales companies at the AFM, the organisers of MIFED are considering adding two days to the end of the autumn sales market.The Milan market, which is currently scheduled for Nov 3-7, would only become longer if the London Screenings were to ...
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Malaga fest honours Cuerda and Marsillach
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga is set to pay tribute to director-producer Jose Luis Cuerda and actor Adolfo Marsillach at its fifth annual edition, to be held a month earlier than usual this year (April 26 to May 4).Acclaimed director of 1999's Butterfly (La Lengua De Las Mariposas) and ...
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Special Oscar for Sweden's Super-16 inventor
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has decided to give an Award of Commendation (a special Academy Award) to the Swedish cinematographer Rune Ericson, who invented the Super 16-system in the early 70s. The Award has only been given out 5 times since it was introduced ...
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Screen International's final AFM news round-up
Mirovision, the Korean seller and distribution newcomer, has picked up international rights on Deserted Valley, a Vietnamese film which attended the Berlin festival's Forum section and a daring new picture about ageing.Deserted Valley, which charts a multi-layered love story involving two teachers, a school manager and one of their students, ...
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Fantasporto unveils new film festival of Gaia
The organisers of Portugal's premiere film festival, Fantasporto, have unveiled plans to launch a new annual event, the International Film Festival of Gaia, with a first edition scheduled for June 14-22, 2002.Set in the neighbouring city of Oporto, the Gaia festival will be non genre-specific, thus setting it apart from ...
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Fortissimo celebrates strong AFM deals
Fortissimo Film Sales celebrated a successful AFM with sales of Tsai Ming-liang's Cannes 2001 competition film What Time Is It There' to the ICA for the UK and Pegasos for Germany. The ICA also bought Iwai Shinji's All About Lily Chou Chou. Japanese film Hush! Went to Crown Films for ...
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Spain's Quiero appoints Sahun as general manager
Spanish DTT platform Quiero TV has appointed Luis Sahun its new general manager following former GM Ildefonso de Miguel's resignation Friday (Feb 22). Sahun, a former executive at Quiero majority backer Auna (Retevision), moves up from his position as sub-director general at Quiero. Having directed the beleaguered platform since before ...
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Italy's state-backed film fund is cut by 50%
The Italian film industry has lost almost 50% of its state funding for local production, following an announcement by cultural minister Giuliano Urbani. The cut, from Euros 97.5m in 2001 to this year's budget of Euros 55.5m, is part of a widespread reduction in government funding for entertainment.Urbani said the ...
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Berlusconi controversy builds to a climax
The controversial debate over Silvio Berlusconi's conflict of interest law, to be held in the Italian parliament this week, is set to co-incide with a 100,000-strong mass protest against the government in Rome. Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has expressed fears that the event could develop into violence. Last weekend, 40,000 ...
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Hong Kong's Emperor reveals five-picture slate
Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), which is on its way towards becoming one of the territory's major studios has unveiled a new five picture development slate.The company, which is now wrapping Jackie Chan comedy-action vehicle The Highbinders, has set Swordbearer, a $20m martial arts drama as the next project ...
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Korea's Nabi Pictures launches with epic roster
Jo Min-whan, the producer behind Korea's epic, Musa The Warrior, has launched a new production company and a slate that includes the most expensive Korean film of all time.The production roster of Jo's new outfit, Nabi Pictures, is headed by Musa director Kim Sung-soo's new project 625, an epic war ...