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FilmFour adds acquisitions chief
FilmFour, one of the most aggressive UK buyers at recent markets and festivals, is bolstering acquisition activities and has appointed Bobby Allen to the newly-created post of head of acquisition.Allen, formerly managing director of Lion's Gate Films UK, is to make his festival debut for FilmFour at Sundance. His appointment ...
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61 projects selected for Mannheim coproduction market
New feature film projects from Ireland's Orla Walsh (Love In Limbo), Poland's Robert Glinski (The Gorki Sanatorium), Brazil's Luiz Fernando Carvalho (The Passion According to G.H.), Slovenia's Igor Sterk (Red Horizons), Canada's John Hopkins (RoboSapiens) and the USA's RD Robb (Sex Crimes) are among 61 titles selected from 28 countries ...
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European Film Academy announces documentary prize nominees
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for European Documentary 2002 - Prix Arte, which will be presented, in association with Arte at the European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday 7th December in Rome.The Academy also announced the names of the jury, which will convene later this month in ...
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Beaune conference ends on muted note
The 12th annual Rencontres Cinematographiques de Beaune, a congress of the association of writers, directors and producers (ARP) that takes place in Burgundy's famous wine town, ended Sunday under sunny skies and without much fanfare - though whispering was heard all around. Indeed, the normally fiery three-day round table event ...
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Donnersmarck brothers win Hof's Eastman Support Award
Brothers Sebastian and Florian von Donnersmarck have won the Eastman Support Award for newcomer talents at the Hof Film Days for their short Der Templer.The story of a Templar knight returning disillusioned from the Crusades was produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion with broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte and 13th Street ...
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Germany's Prokino prepares provocative release
German distributor Prokino's marketing campaign for Buffalo Soldiers has selected both a provocative poster image as well as an arresting new title for the German market: Army Go Home The story of GIs stationed in West Germany during the 1980s uses an image of Joaquin Phoenix as a drug-dealing ...
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Teenage boys turn out in droves for MTV's Jackass: The Movie
Paramount's high jinks showcase Jackass: The Movie opened top of the charts over the weekend on $22.7m, according to studio estimates released today (Oct 27). The unexpectedly high bow for the big screen adaptation of the MTV stunt series was the third highest October opening of all time and shunted ...
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Lions Gate International brings Cabin Fever to market
Lions Gate Films International, the international theatrical sales arm of Lions Gate Entertainment run by Nick Meyer and Sergei Yershov, has acquired international rights to Cabin Fever, the surprise horror hit of the Toronto International Film Festival which its domestic arm Lions Gate Films bought after its first midnight screening ...
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The Truth About Charlie
Dir: Jonathan Demme. US. 2002. 104minsIf Steven Soderbergh can gross $400m worldwide with a remake of Ocean's Eleven, then why can not Jonathan Demme do the same with a remake of Charade' The reason is simple: the first Ocean's Eleven is a movie which never inspired much love and Soderbergh ...
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LONDON SCREENINGS 2002
LONDON SCREENINGSTUESDAY 29 OCTOBER9.00 AMChicken Poets(China) Beijing Guo Song Production. Drama, 94mins. Dir: Meng Jinghui. Scr: Liao Yimei.Key cast: Qin Hailu, Chen Jianbin, Liao Fan.Odeon Mezzanine 110.00 AMMc5 A True Testimonial (US) Cinetic Media. Documentary, 119mins. Dir: David C Thomas. Key cast: Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Fred 'Sonic' Smith.Other Cinema ...
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Maths may improve exhibitors' bottom line
Choose fewer "right" movies and show them longer: in the tight margin world of exhibition, this may become a mantra. Three academics who collaborated at the University of British Columbia have developed a mathematical programme that helps exhibitors determine which films to run, if and when to replace them and ...
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Lilja 4-Ever accepted as Sweden's foreign-language Oscar submission
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever has been selected as Sweden's entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, despite the film being almost entirely in Russian. As reported on screendaily.com, Lilja 4-Ever faced the threat of being ineligible as a Swedish submission due to its dialogue being almost entirely in Russian. The Academy ...
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Two more Fox projects to be backed by German fund
20th Century Fox's thriller The Clearing, starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, and the family comedy Catch That Girl have been added to the projects to be financed by Ideenkapital's Mediastream III fund, due to investor demand.. Ideenkapital had originally planned to raise Euros 246.7m from private ...
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Red Dragon scares up international box office revenues
UIP's Red Dragon launched in 10 new territories over the weekend taking $7.1m - towards its total weekend gross of $8.9m from its current 17 markets.The weekend saw a slew of major territories receiving the picture. In Italy it opened with $2.3m (Euros 2.4m) from 326 screens for a mighty ...
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Trio of high profile hopefuls submit Oscar contenders
With the deadline for the best foreign language film Oscar category looming at the end of this week, another three countries have unveiled their official submissions for the Academy Awards.As widely anticipated, Brazil has chosen Fernando Meirelles' tour de force City Of God (Cidade De Deus), while Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ...
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Japanese film wins Grand Prix at Cinema Tout Ecran
Japanese director Tetsuo Shinohara's The High-School Girl's Friend (Jogakusei no tomo) received the $6,715 (CHF 10,000) 'Grand Prix Cinema Tout Ecran' for Best Film at this year's Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva (October 21-27) which also featured a retrospective dedicated to Atom Egoyan.The International Competition jury, including Pierre-Henri ...
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Modern Entertainment expands into international sales
Modern Entertainment hasannounced it is expanding into worldwide sales and will be offering two newindependent pictures at MIFED, the Australian action thriller The Pact and the US erotic action thriller Fear Of Speed. 'We have been exploringthe market for some time now and we believe that these films offer enormousopportunities. ...
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Cooper promoted at Sundance
John Cooper has beenappointed director of film festival programming at the Sundance Film Fesitval,Sundance Institute executive director Ken Brecher and Sundance Film Festivaldirector Geoffrey Gilmore announced today. Cooper will run the film festivalprogramming team, which includes senior programmer Trevor Groth and programmersShari Frilot and Caroline Libresco, who in addition to ...
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James Harvey named director of distribution at Myriad
James Harvey has beenappointed director of distribution at LA-based production and distributioncompany Myriad Pictures.Harvey will haveresponsibility for supporting all domestic and international sales made byMyriad and will oversee the administration of content and rights management,handle distributor loyalty reporting and manage the corporate database. He willbe based at the corporate headquarters ...