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Evelyn
Dir: Bruce Beresford. US-Ire. 2002. 94 mins. Evelyn might well benefit from a worldwide roll-out in the wake of unlikely box office blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It has the same softness of touch, dearth of dramatic conflict and ethnic cutesiness which is obviously proving reassuring and heartwarming to ...
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A major setback for Australia's Film Finance Corp.
Film Finance Corporation (FFC) chair Geoff Levy today released a three-paragraph media statement that must be one of the most ill-considered and misleading the organisation has ever issued. It announced that the search had resumed for a new chief executive, arguably, the most important job in Australia's film industry. But ...
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Man Without A Past wins new Nordic prize, joins Oscar race
The Nordic Council's Film Prize 2002, which was awarded for the first time on Tuesday night, went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki for The Man Without A Past - which has also been selected as the Finnish candidate for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. With the Nordic Council's Film Prize, ...
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Metro Tartan acquires Secretary
UK independent Metro Tartan Distribution has acquired local rights to Sundance festival sensation Secretary (pictured) by Steven Shainberg.The film, which features Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who enters a sado-masochistic relationship with her demanding lawyer boss (James Spader), was originally sold by the UK's Alibi Films. Lion's Gate picked up ...
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Ewan McGregor quits Natural Nylon
Ewan McGregor has left Natural Nylon, the UK production company founded by the cream of the country's acting talent in a bid to create a British United Artists.News of the UK star's departure comes only weeks after the production company lost founder member and producer Damon Bryant, who left to ...
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Story Of A Kiss (Historia De Un Beso)
Dir: Jose Luis Garci. Spain. 2002. 105 mins.When a character, a novelist, in Jose Luis Garci's Story Of A Kiss (Historia De Un Beso) says of his art, 'I try to entertain and to move, never to persuade,' it could easily be Garci himself speaking. A romantic and meditative period ...
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Three film funding schemes launched at British independent film awards
Fittingly for an industry experiencing a flood a new tax-based film funds, Wednesday night's British Independent Film Awards (Bifa's) saw the unveiling of the latest venture to hit the market with bold claims.Attended by actor Ewan McGregor, director Ken Loach and leading industry figures such as producer Jeremy Thomas and ...
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Hong Kong submits English-language film for best foreign-language Oscar
Hong Kong has presented the Academy Awards with an interesting test case, by submitting Peter Pau's The Touch as its official entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, despite the fact the film is predominantly English-language.The body responsible for the nomination process - the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong ...
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Mason in the frame to head Channel 4's new film unit
Graeme Mason, Universal Pictures' former president of acquisitions, has emerged as a candidate to head Channel 4's new film unit if he and the channel agree on a structure for the operation.Mason has until now been seen as an unlikely candidate to head Channel 4's scaled-back film unit, which was ...
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Michael Koelmel released on bail
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel is back on the streets after being released on bail early Wednesday afternoon after spending the past two nights in a prison cell.Despite the negative headlines, brothers Rainer and Michael are still sticking to their plans to take over the core assets of their bankrupt media ...
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Bauer consortium selected as negotiating partner for KirchMedia
The bidding consortium of German publisher Heinrich Bauer Verlag and the HypoVereinsbank has been selected by the creditors committee of the insolvent KirchMedia to enter into exclusive negotiations for the take over of the media concern which includes the private broadcasters ProSieben, SAT.1, Kabel 1 and the former KirchGroup's film ...
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Imax, Regal sign five screen deal, settle Edwards suit
Toronto-based Imax Corp. has signed an agreement with US exhibitor Regal Entertainment Group to install giant screen systems at Regal's recently-acquired subsidiary circuits, four in its Edwards Theatres facilities and one in an United Artists facility. The deal gives Imax certain exclusivity rights as Regal's large-format provider - the company's ...
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Beyond ups Fletcher to head distribution
Richard Fletcher has been confirmed as the new distribution manager for Beyond Films, the theatrical releasing arm of the diversified Australian film and TV group that is best known as a sales agent.The role sees Fletcher manage all distribution activities in Australia and New Zealand and take responsibility for the ...
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Rezo Films to produce Rohmer's Triple Agent
French distribution outfit Rezo Films is to produce Eric Rohmer's next film, Triple Agent. The Euros 4m film, which teams Rezo with Rohmer's own production outfit, C.E.R, will also mark the distribution outfit's first foray into the foreign sales sector.Rezo Film used to focus on the distribution (and sometimes the ...
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Cinerenta and Babelsberg sign co-operative agreement
John Boorman's SFX-laden, family fantasy feature Knight's Castle may benefit from a cooperative agreement concluded this week between German private media fund Cinerenta and Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures for Cinerenta's Media Fund VI to be dedicated exclusively to projects produced in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Introducing the joint initiative, Cinerenta's COO ...
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Portugal's national film institute in crisis
The vice president of Portugal's national film institute ICAM abruptly resigned last weekend, launching accusations that ICAM could default on outstanding debt worth upwards of Euros 30m.In a three-page letter sent to the Ministry of Culture and cited in all of the country's major newspapers, the former vice president Jose ...
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Moviehouse Entertainment takes Long Lunch
Moviehouse Entertainment, the one-year-old UK sales company, has picked up worldwide rights to Australian action-comedy The Long Lunch.The low-budget caper is directed by commercials director Antony Redman, who was named as one of the world's hottest new directors by London advertising magazine Campaign. Starring Jeanette Cronin, Ian Bliss and Vince ...
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Stanley Tong, Gordon Chan join Media Asia slate
Hong Kong's Media Asia has unveiled three new projects, to start shooting in the first half of next year, and confirmed that Stanley Tong will direct its big-budget Jackie Chan action vehicle, Titanium Rain. Tong previously directed Chan in his first three stateside hits - Supercop, Rumble In The Bronx ...
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First Look takes My Kingdom to North America
Specialist US distributor First Look Pictures has picked up My Kingdom, a modernistic re-telling of the King Lear story, that was the last leading role for acting legend Richard Harris who died last week.The picture, bought from sister company Overseas Filmgroup, will be given a US release on Dec 6, ...
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Poland's Sobocinski to receive top cinematography prize
The veteran cinematographer Witold Sobocinski is to receive the American Society Of Cinematographer's (ASC) International Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to international cinema. Sobocinski, who was born in Poland in 1929 and has made more than 30 features mostly seen in Poland and Eastern Europe, is the first recipient ...