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Italian singer-songwriter starts shooting debut feature
Franco Battiato, one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters, has moved behind the camera to direct his first feature, Perduto Amor, which started shooting this week in Italy.Produced and co-written by the cult Sicilian singer with his long-term collaborator, philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, the picture tells the coming-of-age story of a Sicilian ...
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Scooby hits for Warner Bros in Latin America
Scooby-Doo was a hit in Latin America for Warner Bros over theweekend, scoring the studio's second best opening of all time in Argentinawhere it opened at number one, grossing $113,000 from 82,000 admissions at 51screens. It was the second biggest opening for Warners behind Ocean's Eleven. In Chile Scooby-Doo opened ...
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Craven, Williamson reteam for werewolf horror at Dimension
WesCraven is reuniting with his Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson on the horrormovie Cursed for Dimension Films.The story will be a Los Angeles-based modern twist on the werewolf genre andhas already been set for release on August 8 2003.'Kevinwrote a fun, scary and surprise-filled script just like the original Scream,' said ...
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Gill leaves Miramax, joins Gordon, Yari in new venture
Mark Gill,president of Miramax LA and one of the lynchpins at the studio since 1994, isleaving the company to join veteran producer Mark Gordon and financier Bob Yariin Stratus Film Company, a new production vehicle with a mission to make amininum of three to four "high quality" productions a year ...
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Local films steer Danish box office to 19-year high
Local Danish product is continuing to fend off Hollywood competition, as Tomas Villum Jensen's family film My Sister's Kids In The Snow easily outperformed competitive release The Sum Of All Fears.At this rate, the boost given to local ticket sales from home-grown films looks set to achieve an end-of-year admissions ...
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Granada, Carlton announce details of merger plan
Granada and Carlton, the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters, today announced details of the long awaited merger that will put most of Britain's free-TV under one management. But the impact for the film industry has yet to become clear.As their finances have become increasingly strained, both groups have pulled away ...
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Berlinale unveils first Talent Campus
The first Berlinale Talent Campus will take place from February 10 to 14 during the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival at the House of World Cultures Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg's Prof. Klaus Keil and U.K. Film Council's Paul Trijbits, is inviting up-and-coming filmmakers from ...
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But I'm A Cheerleader
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 1999. 90 mins. Prod cos: Ignite Entertainment, The Kushner-Locke Company. Int'l sales: Franchise Pictures, tel (1) 323 822 0730. Exec prods: Michael Burns, Marc Butan. Prods: Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel. Scr: Brian Wayne Peterson. DoP: Jules La Barthe. Prod des: Rachel Kamerman. Ed: Cecily Rhett. Music: ...
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Buena Vista Int'l TV signs deal with Portugal's SIC
Buena Vista International (BVI-TV) has signed a new agreement with Portuguese free-TV broadcaster SIC. The multi-year, multi-genre agreement will provide SIC with features including Toy Story, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Disney's The Kid, Remember The Titans and The Royal Tenenbaums. Live action series include Alias and the channel will ...
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Imax makes giant screen leap into South America
Giant screen entertainment company Imax Corp has made its first foray into South America, signing agreements to build four theatres, two each in Chile and Ecuador. The first Ecuadorian facility will be located in Guayaquil and operated by the Malecon 2000 Foundation; the second will be operated by the Universidad ...
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City Of Ghosts
Dir: Matt Dillon. US. 2002. 116 minsA redundant throwback to the foreign climes, B-move thriller cliches of the 1950s, City Of Ghosts marks a competent but entirely conventional directorial debut from actor Matt Dillon. Fifty years ago, this might have served as a Robert Mitchum second feature with a sultry ...
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Pusan Int'l film festival unveils 7th edition line-up
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has unveiled the line-up of its 7th edition, to be held from November 14-23 in South Korea. Increasingly seen as the region's leading showcase of Asian cinema, this year's festival will feature a record 228 films as well as further efforts to expand ...
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Nobel Prize helps greenlight Hungarian classic adaptation
Despite a string of international producers lining up with offers to film Imre Kertesz's Fateless, after the Hungarian author won the Nobel prize for Literature last week, it seems the project is going to remain predominantly Hungarian.Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai has been preparing his directorial debut - a film based ...
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Two Helkon subsidiaries file for insolvency
Another two, first and second-tier, companies of the bankrupt Helkon Media group - Helkon International Holding GmbH und Helkon International Production GmbH - filed for insolvency at the Munich Regional Court on Wednesday (October 16). A release stated that these filings were 'a direct result of the insolvency of Helkon ...
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Germany's Das Werk to change market listing
Germany's leading postproduction player Das Werk has been given the greenlight by the German Stock Exchange to change its listing from the Neuer Markt to the Frankfurt's Geregelter Markt from Monday 11 November.Das Werk, which had been listed on the Neuer Markt since its IPO in August 1999, explained that ...
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First Look picks up North American rights to Angela
First Look Pictures hasacquired North American rights to Roberta Torre's Italian drama Angela which had its world premiere in Directors Fortnightat the Cannes Film Festival this year and recently played in the TorontoInternational Film Festival. First Look Pictures president MJ Peckos negotiatedthe deal for the film with sales agent Adriana ...
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Los Angeles' AFI FEST announces full lineup of 134 films
AFI FEST, the internationalfilm festival held by the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles Nov7-17, has announced its lineup, which is composed of 134 films from 37countries.The festival is divided intovarious categories: International feature competition, internationaldocumentary competition and international shorts competition, AmericanDirections, Asian New Classics, European Showcase, Latin Cinema ...
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Cinven clinches Odeon deal
Private equity financier Cinven is understood to have sealed its previously reported (Screen International, Jan 21) deal to acquire Odeon Cinemas from UK leisure company Rank Group for £325m ($534m), according to industry sources.The deal is likely to spawn one of Europe's largest cinema circuits if the Cinven-funded Associated British ...
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Channel 4 slashes staff numbers as part of radical overhaul
UK broadcaster and former stalwart of the British film industry Channel 4 has embarked on the most radical shake-up in its 20 year history, announcing plans to slash 200 jobs.The redundancies are in addition to the 50 job losses at Channel 4's FilmFour division, which was recently closed as a ...
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Eurimages president Massaro in shock resignation
Gianni Massaro has resigned as president of European Council film fund Eurimages, blaming the "excessive power of the European Council," bad management, and feuds between the Council and the Eurimages Committee.Massaro explained the reasons for his departure at a press conference in Rome, commenting: "I fear that Eurimages cannot go ...