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UK actors' union opts for strike - with exceptions
In a move that threatens to bring UK production to a virtual standstill, powerful local performers' union Equity has told its members not to agree to any contracts for feature films that would mean working on or after December 1.The call marks a serious turn in Equity's talks with UK ...
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Arkoff, cult movie king, dies aged 83
Samuel Z. Arkoff, the maverick Hollywood producer responsible for than 500 low-budget cult movies, died of natural causes, aged 83 on Sunday Sept 16.Arkoff, many of whose movies were hugely profitable, tapped into the youth culture long before the major studios recognised the lucrative demographic market.Among his best-known titles were ...
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Beyond Films improves but still suffers loss
Australia's Beyond International made a profit of $1.1m (A$2.25m) for the 12 months to June 30, a reversal of fortunes given the $1.6m (A$3.2m) net loss recorded for the previous financial year. Total revenues grew by 10% to $48.5m (A$96.98m), about 85% of which came from television production and international ...
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Viennale unveils first titles in 130-film line up
Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room, Sean Penn's The Pledge, the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There, Manoel de Oliviera's I'm Going Home and Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise Of Love are among the titles making their local premieres in Viennale's main programme. The 130-title line-up, which includes many films not ...
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Film By The Sea honours The Weight Of Water
At the third edition of Film by the Sea (10-16 Sept) in the Dutch seaside town of Flushing, Katherine Bigelow's The Weight Of The Water picked up the Silver Mermaid award worth Euros 10,000. The festival's main competition has a theme of literary adaptations, and The Weight Of The Water ...
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Buena Vista Spain banks on established success
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) has picked up local distribution rights on forthcoming Spanish-language comedy Dirty Vivancos The Sequel (Vivancos El Sucio III), a "zany detective comedy" which boasts all the ingredients to repeat the success of biggest-ever domestic hit Torrente 2: Mission In Marbella (Torrente 2: Mision En Marbella). ...
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Working Title eyes Daldry for Backpacker film
Working Title Films is believed to be courting Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry for a drama about a group of young backpackers travelling abroad.Under the working title The Backpacker Movie, the picture would be the first to emerge from a three-year deal which Daldry signed with Working Title in November ...
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Disney most bruised as media stocks get beaten up
Winchester Films has picked up international rights to New Best Friend, a college-age drama produced by Frank Mancuso Jr on which Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group has acquired domestic and Latin American rights. The film was formerly known as Mary Jane's Last Dance and was originally set domestically at MGM, ...
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3-way merger creates international PR powerhouse
Three of the UK's leading film public relations companies are merging to form an international publicity powerhouse with offshoots in Los Angeles and a new reach into television. Coming together under the new banner of Premier Public Relations are the well known Corbett & Keene, Falco Ink (London) and Joy ...
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Hardball
Dir: Brian Robbins. US. 2001. 106 mins. Set around a scruffy baseball diamond in a tough black neighbourhood of Chicago, Hardball is essentially a re-casting of seventies hit The Bad News Bears with less comedy and considerably more urban grit. As a family-oriented drama, it efficiently delivers its uplifting message ...
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Digi@ward line-up at Germany's Filmfest Hamburg
Dom Rotheroe's My Brother Tom, Dan Ying's Home Sour Home and Christine Lahti's My First Mister are among the twelve films using digital technology in this year's Filmfest Hamburg programme, which will be competing for the newly created $47,000 (DM 100,000) Digi@ward The full competition line-up is: Electric Dragon ...
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France's TF1 expects 2001 to see ad sales dive
TF1 is expecting its full year advertising sales to drop by up to 5% in 2001, with its net profits sliding up to 10% compared to last year. During the first half of 2001, TF1's advertising sales were relatively stable (a 0.2% rise, to Euros 834m) compared to the same ...
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Berlin Academy supplies 5th newcomer award winner
This year's $7,000 (DM 15,000) Studio Hamburg Newcomer Prize for Best Film was awarded to Hannes Stoehr's Berlin Is In Germany, making him the fifth graduate in a row from Berlin's German Film & Television Academy (dffb) to receive this top honour since the founding of the prize ...
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Post-tragedy schedules completely revised for TV
The tragedy that befell America last week has prompted TV and theatre owners around the world to pull potentially offensive or sensitive material from their schedules. A good example of the extent to which schedules have had to be altered out of sensitivity to events is found at the UK's ...
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Korean Film Commission awards production support
The Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) has announced the recipients of its second annual production support program for art and experimental films worth a total $1.6m. The program, which dispenses $320,000 each to three art films and $160,000 each to four experimental films, was inaugurated last year in an effort ...
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French box office heads for vintage year
2001 is looking likely to become a vintage year for the French cinema sector. Since January 1, admissions in the territory have reached 122 million, a 9.9% increase on the same period last year.According to estimates by the CNC (Centre National de la Cinematographie) French films have enjoyed a 42.5% ...
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Bridget Jones's Diary crosses $200m worldwide
Bridget Jones's Diary was set to cross the $200m barrier in worldwide box office this weekend as it continues to pull in audiences across the globe. With an international running total of $125.4m to add to its $71.5m North American receipts, the romantic comedy needed to make just $3.05m internationally ...
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London Film Festival secures major premieres
Robert Altman's Gosford Park will world premiere as opening night film at November's London Film Festival, while Iain Softley's K-PAX will close proceedings as an international premiere.Marking something of a coup for the festival, Gosford Park is the biggest budget film supported by Governement-backed UK support body the Film ...
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The Hole attracts Italian audiences
UK production The Hole is turning heads at the Italian box office where it continues to perform well despite strong competition from Hollywood fare including Jurassic Park III, Heartbreakers and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. After opening on August 31 for a debut weekend gross of $440,000 (L 944.7m), the ...
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Germany's VCL restructures subsidiary Scanbox
Germany's VCL Film + Medien has begun a finance restructuring of its subsidiary Scanbox Entertainment after talks with Danish banks to increase credit facilities ended without results. As a consequence, VCL and Scanbox's board agreed to transfer all operational assets of Scanbox into a new 100% subsidiary. An ad-hoc release ...