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Jean Prewitt promoted to CEO of AFMA
Jean Prewitt, the presidentof AFMA, has been promoted to chief executive officer of the independet filmand TV trade organization. Prewitt, who joined the organization in April 2000,will retain the title of president as well."Over the last twoyears, Jean has exhibited exemplary leadership in solidifying AFMA's role inrepresenting the independent film ...
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BERLINALE Screen International's news round-up
A round-up of the latest news taken from the Screen International Berlinale dailies - the official festival magazine.For previous stories and a full listing of the films in the main sections of the festival - type: Berlinale into the search bar at the top of the screendaily homepage.Madrid-based sales agent, ...
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Contact Berlin feature line-up confirmed
New feature projects from the UK, Spain, Denmark and France are among 12 films being presented to key potential financiers at the "Contact Berlin" financing platform being held at this year's Berlinale from February 9-10.The line-up of projects include:The Body In The Yard (AGAT Films & Cie, France)The Bum's Rush ...
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Canada's Genies snatched by The Fast Runner
To the surprise of no one, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) continued its winning ways, taking Best Picture and Best Direction at Canada's 22nd Genie Awards on Feb. 7. The Inuit-language feature, which is Canada's submission for the Foreign-language Academy Award, also won the Genies for Screenplay, Editing and Original Score. ...
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Guardian teams with Mainline for new sales outfit
Richard S Guardian, theveteran sales executive who has held stints with Overseas Filmgroup, HBOEnterprises and most recently Beyond Films, has teamed up with video and TVdistributor Mainline Releasing to launch Lightning Entertainment, a newLA-based boutique focusing on worldwide distribution of mid-budget independenttheatrical films.Mainline principals RichGoldberg and Marc Greenberg will provide ...
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WGA nominates Rings, Park, Mind, Rouge
The Writers Guild Of America(WGA) unveiled its nominations for the 2001 WGA awards this week just daysafter it was revealed that two of the year's most acclaimed screenplays-from the independent breakthrough hits Memento and In The Bedroom - had been deemed ineligible.The original screenplaynominees are Julian Fellowes for Gosford Park, ...
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Nicole Kidman gets
Nicole Kidman will receive adistinguished decade of achievement in film award at worldwide exhibitorsconvention ShoWest in March in Las Vegas. The actress will accept her award,which recognizes "Kidman's extraordinary body of work over the lastten years," on stage on March 7 at the Showest gala awards banquet.Other 2002 honorees so ...
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Australia's Darnley House boards $12m Jamil
Australia's Darnley House Productions has boarded Italian producer Leo Pescarolo's $12m picture, Jamil, The Last Goddess.Backing has also been secured from Italy's Rai Cinema for the movie, which is loosely based on H.Rider Haggard's novel She, a mythical late 19th century African adventure about an immortal woman who is ...
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Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest law criticised
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's government is trying to push through a polemical new conflict-of-interest law, days before it is due to appoint a new board of directors for state broadcaster Rai, the main rival to the premier's multi-billion dollar media empire.The proposed law states that the national watchdog should ...
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Chico takes Hungarian Film Week prize
Ibolya Fekete's film Chico - about a mercenary who fights in many of the 20th century's revolutionary conflicts - has walked away with the Hungarian Film Week's main feature film prize. Chico is just one of a number of films credited with injecting a more populist note into the Hungarian ...
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Paris prefers Eight Women to Amelie
French sales agency Celluloid Dreams has received a double confidence boost ahead of tonight's (Feb 8) competition film Eight Women (Huit Femmes).In its first day on commercial release Eight Women, a female ensemble piece by controversial director Francois Ozon, secured 43,000 spectators from a 24-print release in Paris handled by ...
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Nazi image set to fire up Berlin film festival
A crucifix parodied as a Nazi swastika, hung only a few hundred metres from Hitler's famous bunker in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, is certain to spark controversy at the Berlin festival as well as among the city's populace.The gruesome image (pictured) is the poster for Costa-Gavras' Amen, which gets its ...
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$25m Rhythm Section to shoot in Berlin this year
The German-UK partners behind zombie video game adaptation Resident Evil are planning to return to Berlin this year to shoot The Rhythm Section, a large-scale thriller that sets a Nikita-style story in the German capital.The $25m-$30m production is being developed through the long-term production partnership between leading German producer Bernd ...
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Canada enjoys 17% rise in 'runaway productions'
Canadian film and television production increased to $3.3bn in 2000-2001 against $2.84bn in 1999-2000, driven in large part by a 17% increase in foreign location shooting - often referred to as "runaway production" by US film industry lobbyists. According to figures released today (Feb 7) by the Canadian Film and ...
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Miramax takes on Zhang Yimou's Hero
The ever-voracious Miramax has pounced on Hero, the big-budget historical adventure whose post-production kept director Zhang Yimou away from Berlin this week. The film is getting good word of mouth in Asia where it is being compared with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Miramax grabbed all rights in North America, Latin ...
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Asterix breaks French 5-day opening record
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre drew a phenomenal 2.96 million admissions during its first five days on release in France, breaking the all-time record previously held by another French film (and another sequel) Taxi 2, which saw 2.95 million tickets sold.Pathe Distribution released the Asterix & Obelix sequel on a ...
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Cool And Crazy tops Amanda awards at Haugesund
Knut Erik Jensen's documentary Cool and Crazy about a male choir from a remote arctic town took home two Amanda Awards, for best Norwegian film and best documentary at this year's Haugesund Film Festival. With more than half a million admissions, Cool and Crazy has become the second best attended ...
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Pinewood Shepperton backs new Toronto studio
A major film and television production facility is set to be built in Toronto with the participation of the UK's Pinewood Shepperton Studios and its partners including Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. If approved for land-use permits, the 1.2m sq. ft. studio will feature as many as 16 sound stages ...
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Beatty gets lifetime nod at San Francisco Fest
Warren Beatty will receivethe Akira Kurosawa Award for lifetime achievement in film directing at the 45thSan Francisco International Film Festival (Apr 18-May 2). The award will bepresented to Beatty on Thursday April 25 at Film Society Awards Night at SanFrancisco's Argent Hotel.The presentation willinclude a compilation of clips from Beatty's ...
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FilmFour, Karlsen team Together on two projects
FilmFour is teaming withElizabeth Karlsen's production outfit Number 9 on two new projects- an English language remake of Lukas Moodysson's Swedish hit Together and a film of the cult novel The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin, to which they have optionedthe rights.The Together remake will be set in the ...