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Monday Morning (Lundi Matin)
Dir: Otar Iosselliani. Fr/It, 2002. 122 mins.The first ten minutes of Georgian director Otar Iosselliani's delicate new film break all those script workshop rules about snappy, cut-to-the-chase montage. We see a man getting up, having breakfast, going downstairs, crossing a muddy yard, getting into his car, driving, parking, catching the ...
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Screen International AFM news round-up
A round-up of the latest news taken from the Screen International AFM dailies For related stories from the 2002 American Film Market - type: AFM into the search bar at the top of the screendaily homepage.Promark Entertainment Group, Jonathan Kramer's LA-based production and sales group owned by Germany's Das Werk, ...
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Hong Kong's Han revives classic Chinese vampire
Han Entertainment, the Hong Kong-based multimedia company established by former Media Asia head Thomas Chung and Michelle Yeoh, has added a contemporary take on the classic Chinese vampire genre to its burgeoning development slate.The project, entitled Jiang Shi, is being scripted by French writers Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud, who ...
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Oz tax smallprint reveals gov't 'runaway' hopes
With its recent introduction of a new scheme regulating the "refundable tax offset", the Australian government now anticipates that the level of runaway films shooting in Australia will increase to 10 per year within five years and have a total value of $440.3m (A$850m), with $253.8m (A$490m) of this spent ...
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French industry unites over TV regulation concerns
French broadcasting group AB has denied accusations of intending to avoid the national content quota and other broadcasting regulations by transmitting its planned new movie channels from Luxembourg."We will broadcast from Luxembourg because we have a technical platform there", AB's chairman, Claude Berda told French publication Satellifax. However, various French ...
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Beckham to shoot first in UK, then score in US
UK sales company The Works is holding back on a US sale on Bend It Like Beckham until after its UK theatrical debut, following a rapturously-received advance screening in London.UK distributor Helkon SK is now looking at releasing Gurinder Chadha's low-budget drama comedy on a hefty 430 prints in April. ...
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Tesseract starts shooting with Pang in Bangkok
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Saskia Reeves have started shooting in Bangkok on The Tesseract, the film adaptation of The Beach writer Alex Garland's second novel.Previously developed at BBC Films, the project is now set up as a Japanese-Thai production directed by Oxide Pang, the Hong Kong-Thai director who won the FIPRESCI ...
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NZ's Rialto to enter Australian distribution
New Zealand distributor Rialto Entertainment is to directly distribute into Australia for the first time with the release of the Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land on April 25, followed mid-year by NZ director Christine Jeff's Rain.Rain has grossed $210,000 (NZ$500,000) in its ...
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Marry A Rich Man has box office benefits
Hong Kong production Marry A Rich Man took pole position at the local box office over the competitive Chinese New Year holiday period, grossing $1.53m from 31 screens (Feb 8-14) and beating Monsters, Inc. to the top spot.The romantic comedy, produced by Hong Kong start-up SML, was released on Feb ...
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Poon joins Hong Kong's Fortune Star Pictures
Peter Poon has joined Hong Kong-based broadcaster Star TV as general manager of Chinese-language programming division, Fortune Star Pictures.Poon was formerly deputy general manager at Hong Kong's Media Asia Group, where he took particular responsibility for international distribution.Fortune Star's credits include feature film I Do and 30-part drama series Devil ...
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Till's Signpost points towards Larry Gordon pact
StewartTill's fledgling Signpost Films, which kicked off its slate with the $55m Bulletproof Monk starring Chow Yun-fat, is now set to addto its pipeline through a pact with heavyweight producer Larry Gordon, theformer 20th Century Fox production chief.It is anticipatedthat Gordon will produce at least one film a year, which ...
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Winchester crosses Divide, unveils UK releases
WinchesterFilms is introducing a new action picture from Wind Dancer Films to buyers, hasidentified another film from its relationship with The Donners Co and hasunveiled the first slate for its UK distribution company headed by MickSouthworth.TheWind Dancer project, The Divide, will be directed by Wind Dancer principal Matt Williams (WhereThe ...
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THINKFilm puckers up for Last Kiss
THINKFilm, the new North American distributor founded by Jeff Sackman, has acquired all North American rights to The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo Baccio), Gabriele Muccino's award-winning romantic comedy which shared the world cinema audience award at the Sundance Film Festival last month. The company, under distribution chief Mark Urman, plans to ...
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GMI cleans out Bedroom, as buyers hail Hero
Even before he arrived at this week's American Film Market, David Linde and his Good Machine International (GMI) had closed a large range of sales already on new titles Hero, Ash Wednesday and Zhou Yu's Train, as well as completing worldwide sales on Oscar-nominated drama In The Bedroom.UniversalPictures bought In ...
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Miramax gets in family way with Keystone
Miramax Filmsand its genre releasing company Dimension Films have signed a multi-year,multi-picture co-financing agreement for family entertainment projects producedby Keystone Entertainment. Miramax is the distributor of Keystone's family filmfranchise Air Bud.Under the deal, Miramax has the optionto acquire US rights to Keystone's movies and has agreed to release a minimumof ...
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UK's Medusa gets Ichi fingers for Miike
HongKong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG) has struck a pan-European deal withthe UK's Medusa to handle Miike Takashi's ultra-violent Ichi TheKiller.The deal seesMedusa take all rights in East and West Europe. While the film may have itsgreatest potential in the home entertainment sector, Ichi has played numerous European festivalsand Medusa is ...
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Pathe signs writer for Newell's Seven Fires
The UK's PathePictures has signed Randi Mayem Singer, the writer of last year's blockbusterMrs Doubtfire, to write the screenplay for The Seven Fires Of Mademoiselle, the film of Esther Vilar's novel whichMike Newell is to direct.Judy Counihanand Lila Rawlings' Pearl Pictures is producing the film which is set inKennedy-era Washington ...
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Summit solidifies Anschutz ties with Crusader
Hoton the heels of yesterday's alignment with Cary Granat's Walden, SummitEntertainment has closed a long-term agreement with Howard Baldwin's CrusaderEntertainment to represent its product in international territories. BothWalden and Crusader are backed by Denver-based billionaire Phillip Anschutz andhis Anschutz Group which also controls one sixth of the US exhibition market.Firsttitles ...
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On_Line
Dir: Jed Weintrob. USA. 2001. 85mins.A romantic comedy about a group of young New Yorkers looking for sex and possibly even love on the Internet, On_Line offers a refreshing alternative to such feeble Hollywood attempts to milk the theme as the Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks movie You've Got Mail. Shot in ...
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Screen International AFM news round-up
A round-up of the latest news taken from the Screen International AFM dailies For related stories from the 2002 American Film Market - type: AFM into the search bar at the top of the Screendaily homepage.Lions Gate Films International has sold a slew of territories on its award-winning Monster's Ball ...
