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Sundance Film Festival sets 79 short films
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the 79 short films that will play in the Sundance Film Festival next year (Jan 10-20, 2002). American short film under 30 minutes compete for the jury prize which is sponsored by American Express.International short films include:About A Girl (UK) Brian PercivalAfro Deutsch (Germany) AyassiBintou ...
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German film industry summit set for Dec 7
The film policy document presented last month by Germany's State Minister for Culture Julian Nida-Ruemelin on proposals for reforms to the film funding infrastructure will be at the centre of the fourth German "Alliance for Film" summit on Dec 7.The Alliance, at the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich, will be ...
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Italian set designer Donati dies aged 75
Danilo Donati, Oscar-winner for his costumes for Fellini's Casanova and Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet and set designer on Roberto Benigni's current production Pinocchio, died in Rome of heart failure on Sunday Dec 2.Donati, aged 75, had also designed sets for Benigni's Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful and had won Italian film ...
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F.A.M.E. shuts Soundhouse post subsidiary
German media concern F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment has closed its postproduction subsidiary F.A.M.E. Soundhouse, which has filed for insolvency. The parent company will also now cut back on its operations as a rights trader and expand activities in international co-production.In its report for the first nine months of 2001, ...
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Prague Studios, Barrandov attracting new projects
Czech upstart Prague Studios unveiled its refurbished stages last week, just in time for filming to start on Vin Diesel actioner XXX, with Rob Cohen becoming the latest director to take advantage of low production costs in the Czech Republic. At the same time, it was confirmed that Children Of ...
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Breillat's Scenes Intimes pre-sold before finished
Catherine Breillat's latest project, Scenes Intimes, which started shooting on Nov 19, has already attracted the attention of foreign distributors on the strength of the successes of Romance and A Ma Soeur! (Fat Girl).Scenes Intimes - produced, like Romance and Fat Girl , by Flach Films and starring Anne Parillaud ...
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Kodak to sell its Kino Mir Moscow flagship cinema
Kodak is selling its landmark central Moscow cinema Kino Mir at the beginning of next year to concentrate on its core business. The sale of the high-profile site which often accounted for a staggering 50% of the total box office profits for the whole of the country, is a sign ...
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Chung, Yeoh launch multimedia Han dynasty
A new film by Oscar-winning cinematographer Peter Pau is set to head the slate of Han Entertainment, the new multi-media company established by Thomas Chung, the colourful former head of Media Asia, and Michelle Yeoh.The film, Hua Mulan, is currently in advanced development and is written by Huang Wei Ling, ...
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Tim Palen joins Lions Gate as marketing chief
Tim Palen has joined Lions Gate Films as vice president, theatrical marketing, spearheading the marketing of all Lions Gate feature film marketing operations. He will report to Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate Film Releasing.Palen comes to Lions Gate from the now defunct Destination Films where he was vice president, ...
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Columbia TriStar snags Chan-starrer Highbinders
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG) has acquired worldwide distribution rights excluding Asia and France to Highbinders, the latest Asian-financed action adventure to star Jackie Chan. The film, which is backed by Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), recently wrapped a portion of its shooting schedule in Ireland and is now moving ...
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Germany's VIP launches second media fund
Munich-based private media fund Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds is preparing to place its second fund with a volume of between Euros 10m and a maximum Euros 100m.Private individuals will be invited between December 15, 2001 and October 31, 2002 to invest a minimum of Euros 25,000 each into the ...
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75th Eurimages supports nine new features
At its 75th meeting held on 26-28 November 2001 in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe Eurimages fund agreed to support nine feature films for a total amount of Euros 2.7m.The feature films are :Scheme 1 - Assistance awarded mainly on the basis of the project's circulation potentialKedma, Vers l'Orient - ...
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Kastner, Michael team for MiKast Movies
Milica Kastner, formerly at Helkon SK, has teamed with Yvonne Michael, previously at Phantom Pictures, to form London-based production company MiKast Movies.The company has a debut slate including a remake of the 1969 film Royal Hunt Of The Sun and Darkness Visible, a contemporary thriller set in Hawksmoor's London.Additionally, Traffic ...
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Lanzarote screenings bask in calendar shade
The third annual Spanish Film Screenings at Lanzarote (Nov 29-Dec 1) established the event as a valuable showcase for Spanish productions and talent but not a marketplace for closing deals."People see films here; the reaction comes later," said Antonia Nava, head of international sales and co-productions at Filmax.Nevertheless, growing interest ...
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South African producers team to form D-V-8
Independent South African producers Jeremy Nathan of Avatar Digital, Joel Phiri of ICE Media and Kobus Botha of Ballistic Pictures have formed an alliance to make up to eight feature films to be produced on digital over the next two years. The alliance, called D-V-8 Films, announced last week that ...
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Intercartel increases its co-production activity
Spain's Valencia-based Intercartel, co-producer of this year's foreign-language Oscar candidate for Venezuela, is stepping up its co-production plans and shaping up as a key player in the growing Valencia media market. "My objective is to make three or four films per year between national and international co-productions," says Intercartel president ...
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Local witch-doctor outperforms Potter's wizard
Harry Potter has met his match in South Africa. A local film has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of displacing Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone from its pole position immediately upon release - as well as outperforming Potter's opening gross of one week earlier.Mr Bones, (pictured) produced by Videovision ...
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Japan's Gaga posts $10.8m pre-tax profit
Gaga Communications, one of Japan's leading distributors, has recorded a pre-tax operating profit of $10.8m (Y1.34 billion) in the fiscal year 2001, ended Sept 30, up by 209% from the previous year. Gaga attributed this increase largely to the success of The Mexican which grossed $21m (Y2.6 billion), and summer ...
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Overseas records fall as Harry conjures up $60.9m
It was another magical weekend for Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone in the international market, as the Warner Bros film grossed $60.9m in 31 territories on 6,574 prints to bring its total take to $152.75m after just three weekends. Over the weekend, the film opened in 14 more countries ...
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ContentFilm buys Wendigo, Magnolia to release it
ContentFilm, the New York independent recently formed by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, has acquired worldwide rights to Wendigo, a supernatural thriller starring Patricia Clarkson, and has enlisted Eamonn Bowles' brand new distribution outfit Magnolia Pictures to distribute it in the US.Written, directed and edited by Larry Fessenden, a ...