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Dinard assesses UK/French exchange
Asif Kapadia's well-received The Warrior has scooped the Golden Hitchcock at the Dinard Festival Of British Film, which carries a $2,805 (FF20,000) award to aid distribution in France and a $1,400 (FF10,000) grant to the director.Jury president Emily Watson hailed the India-set adventure story as one that had opened "a ...
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Lee Evans, Christopher Walken undertake Plots
Lee Evans and Alfred Molina have joined Christopher Walken and Brenda Blethyn in the cast of Plots With A View, a comedy set in small-town Wales which starts a six-week shoot in the UK this Wednesday (Oct 10).Directed by Nick Hurran and produced by the US' Snowfall and the UK's ...
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Amelie takes the UK box office by charm
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is celebrating a triumphant weekend for its French pick-up Amelie as it stormed into the UK charts, taking fifth position, with a massive $832,000 (£560,768) from its 82 print release, including previews of $64,731 (£43,629) from 67 sites. The film easily outperformed the week's new Hollywood ...
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Real TV dominates MIP-COM television market
MIP-COM organisers are putting a brave face on a television programmes market that is competing against the scariest and most compelling kind of reality TV - war. The main market had not officially opened by the time that US and British missiles had started raining down on Afghanistan on Sunday ...
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Italy's MIFED is increasingly threatened by events
This month's MIFED film market appears to have been hit hard by the terrorist attacks on the US, with the number of registered sellers plummeting by more than 26%, according to Screen International's figures.Many of those companies may now cancel following Sunday night's attack on the Taliban regime. On Monday, ...
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Euromedia & Bollore buy French SFP studios
French state-owned studios and facilities group Societe Francaise de Production (SFP), which has been drowning in red ink for decades, has been acquired for $4.2m (Ffr30m) by Euromedia Television facilities house in partnership with Bollore Investissement.The French government has been seeking to sell SFP -- which lost close to $11.2m ...
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Speaking Of Sex to close Chicago Film Festival
John McNaughton's comedy Speaking Of Sex will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the Chicago International Film Festival on Oct 18.The film stars James Spader as an over-sexed therapist who becomes involved with a new client (Melora Walters) while a rival doctor (Lara Flynn Boyle) is ...
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Dark Blue World opens AFI Fest, Ball to close it
Jan Sverak's Dark Blue World - distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics - will open the AFI Fest 2001 on Nov 1 in Los Angeles, while Marc Forster's Monster's Ball - fully financed by Lions Gate Films - will have its world premiere as the closing night film ...
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Cobalt to finance Chin's Cambodia-set actioner
Cobalt Media Group has teamed up with writer/producer Stephen Chin on Last Place On Earth, an action drama set in Cambodia on the eve of the UN-supervised elections which Chin wrote.Chin will also produce Last Place On Earth, with Cobalt arranging production finance and handling international sales through its London ...
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Training Day opens to $24.2m
Warner Bros' police drama Training Day conquered the box office with ease over the weekend, ending studio fears that audiences wouldn't respond to a story about a crooked cop and validating the move of the film from its original Sept 21 release date. The film grossed a powerful estimated $24.2m ...
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Interactive Dogme film heads for MIPCOM
On the eve of the Millennium, the four Danish directors behind the Dogme 95 movement spent the crucial hour between 23.30 and 00.40 making their first film together -the first interactive TV movie, simply known as D-Dag (D-Day). The movie, which had its world premiere at the Danish TV-Festival, will ...
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Intertainment, RTV announce appointments
Stephen Brown, the head of German film rights trader Intertainment's US operations and board member responsible for business development, has been appointed as the vice president and successor to David Williamson who has left the company by mutual agreement. Williamson's responsibility for legal affairs will now be assumed by CEO ...
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Film Council and CNC launch The Short Channel
The UK's Film Council has partnered with equivalent French public support body CNC to launch a short film competition aimed at promoting creative and financial co-operation between the two territories, as well as encouraging producers to develop films with a chance of travelling.Dubbed "The Short Channel" the scheme will produce ...
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Kinepolis delays international expansion
Belgian exhibition giant, Kinepolis Group, is delaying its international expansion plans by one full year, according to a report in Belgian newspaper De Financieel-Economische Tijd. Planned cinema complexes in Granada and Nancy will be opened in 2003 rather than 2002 and other investment plans have been postponed from 2003 ...
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Mexico to produce 60 films annually from 2006
Mexico will produce up to 60 films a year starting in 2006, according to president-elect Vicente Fox. Speaking at the presentation of awards to members of the film production workers union (Sindicato de Tecnicos Manuales de la Producion Cinematografica), Fox made his first public commitment to local cinema. "Our aim ...
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Charlton Heston plays Mengele in war crime drama
Charlton Heston has joined the cast of Papa Alguem 5555, a movie about a Nazi war criminal who lives in hiding in Brazil. Adapted from a controversial novel by German author Peter Schneider, the Italian-Brazilian-Hungarian film is currently shooting in Rio de Janeiro.The movie, which is set in 1977 and ...
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Minnie Driver joins New Cardiff cast
Minnie Driver is set to join Heather Graham, Colin Firth and Mary Steenburgen in New Cardiff, a romantic comedy being produced by the UK's Fragile Films for Buena Vista International.Driver is to play Vera, a scheming woman who dumps her fiance, an artist played by Firth, by sending him an ...
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Recession watch - Part II
In the second part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the home entertainment and film exhibition sectors is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalHome entertainmentVideo was an immediate winner from the Sept 11 fallout. Not ...
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My Wife Is A Gangster breaks local Korean record
South Korean comedy My Wife Is A Gangster opened to phenomenal returns during Korea's 5-day Chusok holiday, filling cinemas to 94% capacity for a nationwide gross of $7.6m, and setting a new record for being the first local release to reach one million admissions in 5 days. Released by Korea ...
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Script Factory launches UK comedy competition
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack's Mirage Enterprises, sales and financing operation Intermedia and UK script development body The Script Factory have launched a screenwriting competition for contemporary urban comedies.Finalists will compete for a $14,700 (£10,000) development commission from Mirage and Intermedia by pitching ideas to Minghella and Pollack. The competition ...