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US DVD sales continue to break all records
The fourth quarter of 2001 is fast proving to be a key turning point in the fortunes of DVD, with sales records smashed week in, week out. When Shrek was released in the US on DVD it sold 2.5 million copies in three days. With a retail value of more ...
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Oz features take a dive in number and value
Government sources provided 53% of the $42.7m (A$82m) spent on the 26 Australian films that went into production in the 12 months to June 30, 2001, according to the Australian Film Commission's (AFC) production survey released Nov 13. This is the lowest number of local features, the lowest amount spent, ...
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Japanese rights sold on Chinese classic remake
Japanese powerhouse Daiei has picked up local Japanese rights to the high-profile remake of Chinese classic Springtime In A Small Town.The film, is a story of lust unleashed on a respectable bourgeois family following the arrival of a mysterious visitor, is now being filmed by The Blue Kite director Tian ...
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Palm Springs Film Fest 2002 set for Jan 10-21
The 13th annual Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival will take place in Palm Springs, California, from Jan 10 to 21, 2002, with the deadline for submissions set as Nov 15, 2001. The festival was co-founded by Sonny Bono and festival director Denis Pregnolato in 1989 and last year ...
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Piano Teacher plays up against Potter-mania
The weekend grosses for most films in the UK chart were severely effected this week by the two-day preview screenings of Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - which would easily have claimed top position, if previews were included in box office charts prior to the actual opening ...
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Tom Cruise warms to Minghella's Cold Mountain
Anthony Minghella will directTom Cruise in a screen adaptation of the US Civil War bestseller ColdMountain next summer, producerSydney Pollack reportedly confirmed from Australia this morning. The film is a co-production betweenMGM and Miramax Films.Cruise would take the lead roleof Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who embarks on a long ...
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Warner acquires Leconte's Love Streets for Italy
Warner Bros Pictures hasacquired the Italian distribution rights to Rue Des Plaisirs (Love Streets), the new Patrice Leconte feature film that stars French former modelLaetitia Casta. The pick-up is part of a concerted push by Warner into Europeanproduction and distribution.Set in Paris in 1945, RueDes Plaisirs is described as thestory ...
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Radar Pictures signs three international partners
Ted Field's Radar Pictures has sealed three longterm strategic partnerships with foreign distributors - TMG/Concorde in Germany, Lauren Film in Spain and Sandrew Metronome International in Scandinavia - as part of its efforts to become a co-financier of its own productions.The deals were struck by Radar's exclusive sales agent Good ...
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Iran, Spain and Mexico name their Oscar candidates
Majid Majidi's Baran has been selected by Iran as its official candidate for the Academy Award for best foreign-language category. Vicente Aranda's historical drama Madness Of Love (Juana La Loca) is Spain's official nomination, while Mexico has chosen last spring's winner of five Ariel awards: Perfume De Violetas by Marisa ...
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Central Asian films attract increasing interest
Abstracted from Screen InternationalFor years a largely forgotten part of the world, Central Asia has been put back put on the map by the war in Afghanistan. The war has also provoked a wave of interest in the largely forgotten film cultures of the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan ...
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Hotshot trio make pan-Asian history
Billed as a step up in pan-Asian co-operation, Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled details of Three, an omnibus film featuring three of the region's most commercially successful directors.Nonzee Nimibutr, director of Thailand's Jan Dara and Nang Nak, Korea's Kim Jee Won, who previously directed The Foul King, and Hong Kong-based Peter ...
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...while Spain takes Madness, Mexico picks Perfume
Vicente Aranda's historical drama Madness Of Love (Juana La Loca) is Spain's official nomination to the foreign language category of the Oscars, while Mexico has chosen last spring's winner of five Ariel awards: Perfume De Violetas by Marisa Sistach as its foreign Oscar entry. Madness Of Love beat out the ...
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Japan's Shinoda announces final project
Masahiro Shinoda, a leading director of Japan's 1960s New Wave, has announced the production of what he says will be his last film: Spy: Sorge. A project Shinoda has been developing for the past fifteen years, Spy: Sorge will tell the story of Richard Sorge, a German journalist who served ...
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Tokyo court fines paper for pirated film images
In a case that may set a legal precedent, Tokyo District Court ordered Kodansha Publishing to pay the producers of Isao Morimoto's Ichigensan, a film about a cross-cultural love affair set in Kyoto, $46,290 (Y5.6m) for copyright violations. Shukan Gendai, a weekly tabloid magazine published by Kodansha, ran nude shots ...
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Kayser exits German Premiere World
Less than two months after the rapid exit of Manfred Puffer from the management of the debt-ridden pay-TV service Premiere World and just a couple of weeks after Rupert Murdoch suggested that he might consider bailing out of the German platform (Screen Daily, Nov 2001), Ferdinand Kayser has announced that ...
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Warner Bros. promotes Ball, Taubin
Brad Ball has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president, domestic corporate marketing, Warner Bros. Ball, previously president, domestic marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures for the past three and a half years, will be responsible for oversight of the studio's brand marketing efforts across the breadth of ...
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Kalmbach to head BBC Films Los Angeles
BBC Films has taken another step on the road towards making larger-scale pictures by setting up a Los Angeles office under Peter Kalmbach, formerly vice-president of acquisitions and production at USA Films.As senior vice-president of BBC Films Los Angeles, Kalmbach is to help find and develop material with international potential, ...
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Oz election result assures film funding boost
The re-election of a Coalition Government in Australia on Saturday, Nov 10 means that the $48m (A$92.7m) in new assistance for the film industry, promised in September and spread over four years starting from June 2002, is assured. The extra funding encompasses nearly all the federal government agencies and was ...
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Black Box BRD wins Euro documentary award
Andres Veiel's Black Box BRD has been named as the winner of this year's European Documentary Award - Prix Arte which will be presented at the forthcoming European Film Awards in Berlin on December 1. The decision by the Documentary Jury of producer-filmmaker Jens Meurer, director Cinzia Torrini and Warsaw ...
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New Zealand joint venture produces winners
Snakeskin won six of the 16 feature film awards, including best film for producer Vanessa Sheldrick, at the New Zealand Film Awards on Saturday, while Stickmen won best director for Hamish Rothwell, best screenplay for Nick Ward, and best actor for Scott Wills. Both films are from the same stable, ...