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German film fund supports South Africa's AVEA
German film fund MFG Medien und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wuerttemberg has joined the list of backers of the new South Africa-based producers' training initiative "AVEA - Audiovisual Entrepreneurs of Africa" which is modelled on the MEDIA programme's EAVE scheme.Financing for the initiative, which aims to prepare film and TV producers from the ...
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Cast Away hangs on to UK box office crown
Tom Hanks, who won the Golden Globe for best actor on Sunday night, continued to reign at the UK box office over the weekend as Cast Away held first position in its second week. The UIP film took $3,527,590 (£2,402,289) from 393 sites for an impressive three-day site average of ...
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UK's Target merges with New Media Industries
Target Media, a leading advertising space buying company for the UK film industry, has merged with internet outfit New Media Industries (NMI).Target, which boasts clients including FilmFour, Icon, Metrodome, Redbus and Winchester, and its parent DPA Soho are forming a new operation titled Target NMI as a result of the ...
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Italian box office up but local fare slides
Italian box office takings grew 5.5% to $378m (L779.5bn) in 2000, according to figures from box office service Cinetel, but local product's share of the market slipped to 17.48% compared to 23.90% in 1999.Italian films and co-productions grossed $61.6m (L127bn) in 2000, down 18% from $75m (L154.6bn) in 1999, as ...
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UK cinema admissions the highest for 26 years
As expected, UK cinema attendance hit a 26-year high in 2000, despite November admissions dropping 30% over the same period in 1999. According to year-end figures from the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) more than 142.5 million tickets were sold, compared with 139 million in 1999.Strong box office performances towards the ...
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Lot 47 signs three year US deal with Blow-Up
Blow-Up Pictures, the digital film-making production outfit behind Series 7 - Contenders and Chuck And Buck, has signed a three year, multi-picture distribution agreement with US independent distributor Lot 47 Films whereby Lot 47 will provide domestic distribution for at least 50% of Blow-Up's film productions to Jan 2004.Films under ...
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Noreen Ward named senior vp at Good Machine
Noreen Ward has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Good Machine Inc, overseeing all business administration for both Good Machine and its sister company Good Machine International.The promotion comes in the company's tenth - and most profitable - year to date and was announced ...
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Sundance Channel buys three sports films for US TV
The Sundance Channel has picked up US TV rights to three independent films - P David Ebersole's feature Straight Right which premiered at last year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Katya Bankowski's documentary Shadow Boxers which was in the Toronto Film Festival 1999 and Greg Stiever's documentary Poles Apart. All ...
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Lions Gate buys US rights to Double Whammy
In the second deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Lions Gate Films has bought North American distribution rights to Tom DiCillo's latest film Double Whammy, which screened in the Premiere section, for an estimated $1m. The deal was negotiated between Lions Gate Films co-presidents Tom Ortenberg and Mark Urman with ...
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Berlin to feature sidebar of De Hadeln favourites
Outgoing Berlin Film Festival director Moritz de Hadeln has made a selection of personal cinematic memories from his 22-year tenure that will screen in a special sidebar at this year's event under the banner "Moritz' Favourites".De Hadeln said he didn't want to put his own personality into the spotlight, but ...
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Switzerland's Fribourg fest unveils first titles
South Korean director Im Kwon-Taek's Chunhyang and Yi Yi directed by Taiwan's Edward Yang are among the first batch of films confirmed for the official competition at the 15th Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland (March 11-18).The competition line-up also includes Chang Wai-hung's Among The Stars (Hong Kong), Vivian Chang's ...
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Ad chief moves to South Australian Film Corp
David Minear, chairman of the Young & Rubicam Adelaide advertising agency, has been appointed chairman of the board of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), which recently announced a new strategy aimed at making the state a centre for independent film-making. Film-maker Rolf de Heer has an office at the ...
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Lounguine's Wedding wins top prize at Tromso
Pavel Lounguine's The Wedding (La Noce) picked up top honours, the Aurora award, at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (January 16-21). One third of the $10,000 award, founded by the Norwegian Film Institute, goes to the film's director, while the rest of the money is earmarked for its Norwegian ...
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EFP reveals fourth Shooting Stars line-up
The UK's Kate Ashfield and Germany's Heike Makatsch, lead actresses from Panorama film Late Night Shopping, are among 18 young European actors and actresses selected by members of pan-European promotional organisation European Film Promotion (EFP) for the fourth "Shooting Stars" showcase at the Berlin Film Festival on February 10-11.Icelandic actor-director ...
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Australia's GUET fit-out company splits in two
Australia's biggest cinema fit-out company, Greater Union Entertainment Technology (GUET), will begin operating as two businesses - one dealing only with film technology and the other handling the installation of sound, video and lighting systems in other markets - from February 1. The company is active abroad as well as ...
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Memento
Screening at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2000. 113mins.Not content with the challenges raised by making a film about a memory-deficient character who has to work out where he is every time he wakes up, Nolan has complicated life further by telling the story of Memento backwards, cut ...
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France passes loyalty card legislation
The French Parliament has endorsed the country's controversial loyalty card scheme by passing a set of regulatory guidelines that has met the approval of the various film industry lobbies.All exhibitors will be able to issue or participate in a loyalty card scheme, providing they have secured authorisation from the French ...
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France Telecom to take control of Madrid Film
France Telecom subsidiary TDF looks poised to take control of leading Spanish film laboratory Madrid Film with an accumulated 79% interest in the company. According to Spanish daily Cinco Dias, TDF, which already owns a 66% share in the firm, has agreed to buy out a 13% share held by ...
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Dancer strikes a pose in Japan
Lars Von Trier's Dancer In the Dark not only divided the critics, with some jeering and some cheering at its Cannes premiere, but is getting a radically different reception in major world territories, bombing in some while cleaning up in others, notably Japan. Last week, its fourth on release, Dancer ...
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Sundance hots up after initial cold feet
After a decidedly slow start, this year's Sundance Film Festival finally caught fire on Wednesday with Miramax Films grabbing actor Todd Fields' debut feature In The Bedroom and IFC Films snapping up both Jump Tomorrow and the documentary Go Tigers! for US distribution. At the same time Arrow Entertainment was ...