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Defiant Samaha steps into witness box
Yesterday, five years andthousands of miles away from the hotel room in Cannes where they formed whatwas supposed to be one of the most lucrative alliances in independent filmfinancing history, Elie Samaha and Rudiger "Barry" Baeres finally facedtheir moment of truth.That's when Samaha steppedinto a witness box in a Santa ...
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Censored: Singapore Film Festival
As this year'sSingapore International Film Festival draws to a close on May 1, festivaldirector Philip Cheah has revealed that the Board of Film Censors banned threefilms and asked to cut another three which were scheduled for screening -effectively removing six titles from the event.Censorship is aconstant problem for the festival. ...
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New Diagonale team named
German-born film academic and journalist Birgit Flos(pictured) has been appointed as the new director of the Diagonale for threeyears from 2005.She will run the annual showcase of Austrian cinema in athree-person team together with critic Robert Buchschwenter (managing director,production) and financial consultant Georg Tillner (managing director, finance)and intends to continue ...
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Gaumont trails to Cannes with high-profile slate
French major Gaumont is heading to Cannes with a new film by Eric Valli, a promo reel for the $15 million Olivier Marchal-directed 36 and has confirmed that director Francis Veber is at work on an as-yet untitled project for the studio.Speaking to ScreenDaily, Gaumont head of worldwide marketing and ...
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450 films for Cannes' Short Film Corner
The Cannes Market has announcedthe participation of 450 short films in its new Short Film Corner which debutsat this year's festival.The Corner, based at the Palaiswas created to support the short film industry by opening channels ofdiscussion between producers, distributors and TV networks.Over 100 hours of programming fromabout 40 countries ...
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Renaissance picks up two for Cannes: Baxter, Human
London-based Renaissance Films has picked up two new films forCannes - international rights to IFC Productions' romantic comedy The Baxter and worldwide rights outside Spain,Portugal and Argentina to Tornasol Films and Greenpoint Films' Spanish-langugecomedy Only Human.The Baxteris a romantic comedy starring and directed by comedian Michael Showalter andinspired by classic ...
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My Bollywood Bride set for May shoot in Mumbai, Los Angeles
Jason Lewis ofSex And The City fame is set to star in My Bollywood Bride, a cross-culturalromantic comedy and co-production between Indian production house Dream TeamPictures and former investment banker Brad Listermann's Nevada-based HisKarmaProductions.My Bollywood Bride centres on a former windsurfer turned adventurenovelist who meets a holidaying Bollywood star in ...
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Stuart appears littler than his predecessor
Although it has performed respectably Columbia TriStar's Stuart Little 2 was not the runaway success that studio might have hoped given the success of its predecessor and Columbia's strong summer 2002 run to date with Spider-Man and Men In Black II.After the North American launch lost out on the top ...
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Luther biopic follows El Crimen Del Padre Amaro in wide release pattern
Following the news that Mexico's El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, about a priest's affair with a young woman, is to get the country's biggest ever national release; now a $20m German/US co-production plans to get the story of Martin Luther and his relationship with a former nun on to 1,200 ...
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Italy's summer release strategy wilts in the heat
Despite this year's groundbreaking summer programming of Hollywood blockbusters in cinemas across Italy, it looks like local distributors and exhibitors will always find it tough to compete against the lure of the sun and the beach. According to data released by Italian body Cinetel, box office takings across the country ...
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Sarajevo film festival to open with The Sum Of All Fears
An open-air screening of Phil Alden Robinson's thriller The Sum Of All Fears will open this year's Sarajevo Film Festival on August 16.Among the other "big movies" being shown in the nightly Open Air programme are Men In Black II, Bad Company, About A Boy, as well as Lilo ...
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Gong Li heads Venice jury
Chinese superstar Gong Li will head the jury of the upcoming 59th Venice International Film Festival, the festival's organisers have announced. The festival said Li had been chosen after artistic director Moritz de Hadeln suggested the actress should be considered as "her career successes have often been linked to the ...
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US box office to hit $10bn by 2006
The value of the US box office is predicted to top $10bn in 2006, according to a new report from global cinema analysts Dodona Research. Since 1990, the US' gross box office has been growing at an average of 5% per year, with last year's value hitting $7.9bn, according to ...
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Filmfest Hamburg chief heads for exit
Filmfest Hamburg director Josef Wutz has announced that this year's festival will be his last in charge of the event. According to German press reports, Wutz, who had served as festival director for the Filmfest since 1995, plans to "take up new challenges" after his current contract runs out on ...
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Walden Media secures Peacock to pen first Lewis outing
Emmy Award winning writer Ann Peacock has signed on to pen Walden Media's forthcoming adaptation of C S Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Peacock, who won an Emmy for her adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying for HBO, will write the screenplay for the ...
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Blockbuster slaps ban on Warner titles
Video chain Blockbuster has slapped a ban on stocking selected movie releases from AOL Time Warner, after the troubled US media giant said it would ignore the traditional six month 'rental window' and put its video and DVD titles on sale early. In response to AOL Time Warner's decision Blockbuster ...
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Austin's a Power-house at US box office
Chart-topping Austin Powers in Goldmember recorded a career-high $71.5m opening for its star Mike Myers over the weekend, becoming the biggest ever comedy and July opening, the fifth highest opening of all time and best ever opening for studio New Line, according to estimates released today. Despite this impressive figure ...
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Bertelsmann chairman steps down
Thomas Middelhoff, Chairman and CEO of the Bertelsmann media empire since 1998, has exited his post due to "differences of opinion" with the Supervisory Board "about the future strategy of Bertelsmann AG and the cooperation between the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board".Middelhoff's duties will be assumed by Guenter Thielen, ...
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Dan Fainaru in JerusalemDir. Krzystof Zanussi. Poland 2002. 101mins.Polish moralist Krzystof Zanussi, whose ethical codes permeate every one of his movies, is at it again. Going back to the plot of his 2000 award-winning feature Life As A Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease, but looking at it from a different angle, ...