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Bignardi to replace Mueller at Locarno
The Locarno International Film Festival has appointed Italian film critic Irene Bignardi as its new director, replacing Marco Mueller who quit at the end of this year's event in August. Bignardi, 57, currently works as a film critic and columnist for Rome daily La Repubblica. Until recently, she was also ...
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Jacquot, Diaz Yanes score Eurimages funding
Council of Europe-backed finance body Eurimages is to plough Euros3.075m into eight European co-productions in its third funding round of this year, including new projects from Benoit Jacquot and Agustin Diaz Yanes.Eurimages has two schemes for production funding, both with distinct cultural objectives. The first scheme's awards are based on ...
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Carlton, JAM team for Archer adaptations
A series of TV movies based on novels by best-selling author and politician Jeffrey Archer are to be made under a deal between Michael Braham and Jane Walmsley's UK production outfit JAM Pictures and the US' Carlton America.JAM will develop and produce movies and mini-series for the US market under ...
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Sheridan Group closes Dublin IMAX
Dublin's 370-seat IMAX cinema, operated by the Belfast-based Sheridan Group, was closed down at short notice on Sunday (October 8).The large-format cinema in Dublin's city centre opened June 4, 1998 with what was then claimed to be the biggest cinema screen in Europe. It forms part of a linear on-street ...
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Via Digital signs up as Valencia sponsor
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has announced that it will sponsor this year's 21st annual Valencia Film Showing (Mostra de Valencia/Cinema del Mediterrani) which runs October 16-23.Via Digital committed to a three-year sponsorship last year of the Malaga Film Festival alongside Antena 3. As a result, the event boasted ...
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Universal secures DreamWorks titles for UK DVD
Universal Pictures UK (UPUK) is to release titles from DreamWorks Home Entertainment on DVD in the UK, marking the first time that DVD films from DreamWorks have been released locally.First up is American Beauty, which is to hit shelves on November 27. Also on the DVD slate are The Haunting, ...
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UPC in talks to buy Germany's Tele-Columbus
Dutch cable giant UPC has confirmed that it is in talks with Deutsche Bank to acquire Germany's second-largest cable TV company, Tele-Columbus, in a deal worth about $1.3bn.The deal forms part of UPC's plans to build a broadband network across Europe, offering telephony and high-speed internet access. The Dutch company ...
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New Telefilm money to be allocated this year
Hot on the heels of the Canadian government's $67m boost to local film (ScreenDaily, October 6), Telefilm Canada is asking the country's industry for pitches on how best to spend the first gush of new money.Over the next two weeks, Telefilm, the country's principal public sector funding agency, will be ...
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Pusan emerges as production force
South Korean port city Pusan is making a bid to become the production capital of the reviving Korean film industry by constructing state-of-the art facilities and seeking to attract foreign infrastructure investment.Development has begun on Centum City, a high-tech business and production complex half an hour from downtown Pusan. The ...
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Wenders & Shepard reteam for untitled 2001 project
Wim Wenders and Sam Shepard who last collaborated on Wenders' 80s classic Paris Texas are to reteam on the screenplay for Wenders' next feature, an as yet untitled road movie set across the US. The new film which will be produced by Wenders' Berlin-based Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH is set ...
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Filmax, Endemol launch joint production venture
Growing Spanish producer-distributor The Filmax Group and Endemol-backed TV producer Gestmusic have joined 50-50 to launch new production outfit Zenit Multimedia.Based in Santiago de Compostela, Zenit will produce original product for television including fiction series, variety shows and docu-series. Plans to market its original formats abroad are also in the ...
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Messier denies rumours of rift with Lescure
Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier has officially denied rumours of a rift with Canal Plus boss Pierre Lescure which he described in a televised interview as 'a storm in a glass of water'.Messier said he was confident that Lescure would ride out any changes arising from the proposed three-way merger between ...
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Billy Elliot leaps 13% in second weekend
The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps may have weighed in at number one in the UK's weekend chart but the box office winner was British title Billy Elliot, which rose 13% from its opening weekend to $2.5m (£1.7m).The figures are vindication that UIP's ambitious release strategy for Stephen Daldry's low-budget ...
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Norwegian government axes Norsk Film
In a move widely supported by the local film industry, the Norwegian culture ministry has decided to close state-owned production company Norsk Film and replace it with a new financing body The Norwegian Film Fund (NFF).Norsk Film has suffered a string of box office and critical disappointments over the last ...
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Chaplin Film to back competition winners
Hungarian production company Chaplin Film and web-site www.magyar.film.hu have selected five treatments from their joint screenwriting competition which Chaplin plans to develop into full-length screenplays.The winning projects include Propulsion by Balazs Loth, Dead Channel by Miklos Varga and Andras Horvath, Champion Factory by Istvan Bernath and family dramas Lajcsi, The ...
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Stream, Telepiu given ultimatum on decoder
The Italian communications watchdog has slapped a second fine and an ultimatum onto rival pay-TV companies Telepiu and Stream for failing to agree on a common decoder. According to Rome daily La Stampa, communications chief Enzo Cheli imposed a fine of $250,000 on top of an existing $150,000 fine and ...
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Belgrade cinemas hold one-day celebration
The citizens of Belgrade were treated to free cinema admissions for one day on Friday (October 6) as distributors and exhibitors celebrated the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's ten-year dictatorship.Among the films screening for free were Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator and Hollow Man. The National Film Archives went one step ...
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Universal to enter Japan's CS market
Universal Studios is tying up with Japanese companies including Hitachi and the Asahi media group to enter the communications satellite (CS) broadcasting business in Japan. The partners will launch a joint venture company in April to provide broadcasting services starting from autumn 2001. They plan to use the Universal film ...
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Marcondes relaunches Brazilian distribution co
Brazil's Marco Aurelio Marcondes has relaunched his distribution consortium, which includes Art Filmes' Ugo Sorrentino, Jose Sobrinho of Top Tape and Europa Filmes' Wilson Feitosa, under the new banner M.A. Marcondes.The consortium, first announced in March last year, was originally called Consorcio Brasileiro de Cinema (CBC). "It was more a ...
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Virgin takes top honours at Pusan
Korean writer-director Hong Sang-Soo's third film, Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, was awarded best film and best script by Pusan Film Critics on Sunday night in a ceremony that coincides with Korea's 5th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).The best director award went to Bae Chang-Ho for My Heart, while ...