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UK film policy: a dissenting voice
In the year or so since the demise of British Screen and the founding of the UK's Film Council former chief executive Simon Perry has remained silent. Now on Screendaily.com, he delivers an open letter to the UK's secretary of state for culture, media & sport, Tessa Jowell. An Open ...
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Christmas Carol to premiere at Toronto
Animated UK feature Christmas Carol: The Movie is to receive its world premiere at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival, held Sept 6-15.The $12m Dickens adaptation is being sold internationally by the UK's Winchester Films, and is voiced by Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, Rhys Ifans, Jane Horrocks, Juliet Stevenson ...
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Australia's Movieline to be online by December
Movieline is to add Internet movie ticket sales to its existing telephone ticketing and information lines in December, just in time for the peak Christmas and school holiday period. Up to 250,000 tickets are expected to be sold in the first year of what will be Australia's first nation-wide online ...
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Oz's PBL suffers from One.Tel collapse
Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), one of Australia's big three entertainment and media companies, has revealed its first annual loss in over 10 years for the year ending June 30. The result, which was entirely expected, was largely due to the collapse of telecommunications company One.Tel earlier this year. PBL ...
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San Sebastian's 21 films in New Directors slot
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) has unveiled the 21 titles set to compete for the Euros150,000 (pts25m) New Directors Award.Three of the films will compete in the Official Section, including: Lantana (Ray Lawrence, Australia), Magonia (Ineke Smits, Holland) and The Warrior (Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom).The remaining 18 ...
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UK film-makers urged to adopt lower budgets
On the day that Danny Boyle's frenetic couplet of made-for-television DV films -- Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise -- had well-received industry screenings at Edinburgh, UK film-makers were urged to embrace lower budgets and "liberating" new styles of production. "A lot of what goes on in UK production ...
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Swedish thriller sees off the competition
Not even a record-breaking heatwave combined with fierce US blockbuster competition could prevent local Swedish action-thriller, Executive Protection (Livvakterna) from drawing appreciative crowds and topping the Swedish box office last weekend.Despite reviews questioning the plausibility of the plot, about Eastern European gangsters threatening a Swedish businessman in Estonia, Anders Nilsson's ...
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Will Imax big screen fade to black'
Imax Corp. is in serious trouble. Ten months after its stock lost 70% of its value and a week after announcing disastrous 2001 second-quarter results, the Toronto-based giant-screen purveyor has seen another precipitous price drop -- to an all-time low of $1.02 on the US Nasdaq on August 22. In ...
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San Seb
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) has unveiled the 21 titles set to compete for the Euros150,000 (pts25m) New Directors Award.Three of the films will compete in the Official Section, including: Lantana (Ray Lawrence, Australia), Magonia (Ineke Smits, Holland) and The Warrior (Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom).The remaining 18 ...
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Movieline
UK director Andrea Arnold's short film Dog has won the Jameson Short Film Award at the Brief Encounters short film festival, held Nov 14-18 in Bristol.Shot on High Definition, Dog is set on a South London estate, and tells the story of teenager who decides to leave her boyfriend after ...
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PBL
Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), one of Australia's big three entertainment and media companies, has revealed its first annual loss in over 10 years for the year ending June 30. The result, which was entirely expected, was largely due to the collapse of telecommunications company One.Tel earlier this year. PBL ...
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X-mas
Animated UK feature Christmas Carol: The Movie is to receive its world premiere at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival, held Sept 6-15.The $12m Dickens adaptation is being sold internationally by the UK's Winchester Films, and is voiced by Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, Rhys Ifans, Jane Horrocks, Juliet Stevenson ...
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Executive Protection
Not even a record-breaking heatwave combined with fierce US blockbuster competition could prevent local Swedish action-thriller, Executive Protection (Livvakterna) from drawing appreciative crowds and topping the Swedish box office last weekend.Despite reviews questioning the plausibility of the plot, about Eastern European gangsters threatening a Swedish businessman in Estonia, Anders Nilsson's ...
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Mexico's IMCINE gives Spanish KWA first-look
Madrid-based sales house KWA has signed a first-look deal on all forthcoming productions out of Mexican national film institute IMCINE. KWA will also handle worldwide rights on two recent IMCINE films, Streeters (De La Calle) and Violet Perfume (Perfume De Violetas), both of which made waves as top prize winners ...
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Fireworks to release The Believer after Showtime
Henry Bean's multiple award-winning The Believer will be released theatrically in the US in Jan 2002 by Fireworks Pictures through Independent Distribution Partnership (IDP) - despite and subsequent to its domestic premiere on Showtime in September.The controversial film, which stars Ryan Gosling as a former Yeshiva student turned neo-Nazi skinhead, ...
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Edward Noeltner joins Miramax Int'l as senior vp
Edward Noeltner has joined Miramax International as senior vice president of sales and distribution, reporting directly to Miramax Films chairman of worldwide distribution Rick Sands.Noeltner, a well-known face on the international festival and market circuit, comes to Miramax from AB Svensk Filmindustri where he was senior vice president, international distribution, ...
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Szabo, Chelsom, Cox and Saura premiere at Toronto
New films from Istvan Szabo, Peter Chelsom, Paul Cox and Carlos Saura will have their world premieres at the 26th Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 6-15. At the final press conference before the event, Festival Director Piers Handling announced the titles rounding out the programme including Closing Night selection Lantana, ...
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New Zealand suffering from parallel imports
The 1998 removal of parallel importation restrictions and the failure of the DVD zoning system are being substantially blamed for a box office battering in New Zealand. If the decline matches that experienced in Singapore, the only other OECD country where the theatrical window has effectively disappeared with the removal ...
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Madden takes spotlight at Chichester Film Festival
John Madden, director of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Shakespeare In Love, heads the guest-list at the 10th Chichester Film Festival.Amelie, Battle Royale and Baise Moi are amongst the international titles screening at the event, which runs from August 23 to September 9. Other previews and premieres include Brotherhood Of The ...
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Chung reassigned at Media Asia Group
Hong Kong film production and distribution company Media Asia Group has announced the reassignment of group managing director Thomas Chung, ending speculation that Chung would leave the company. At a board meeting last Friday, Chung was appointed as executive director, concentrating on producing The Touch, a $20 million joint venture ...