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Jeunet to direct Very Long Engagement for Warner
Warner Bros is extending its commitment to producing films in France with the agreement to make Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next picture, A Very Long Engagement.The French-language period picture is based on a best-selling novel by Sebastien Japrisot about a woman's search for the truth behind her fiancee's mysterious disappearance.The ...
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GMM Pictures boosts profile in burgeoning Thai film industry
GMM Pictures, the new film arm of Thai multimedia giant GMM Grammy, is emerging as a major player in the rapidly-expanding Thai film industry with its first feature set to open on 100 screens this weekend and another four pictures in various stages of production.The outfit's debut film, Mekong Full ...
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Production starts on The Sons Of Buena Vista
Production started today (Mon, 7 Oct) on The Sons Of Buena Vista, a sequel to Wim Wenders'Cuban musical extravaganza Buena Vista Social Club, which was one of the most successful documentary features of all time.The new film is directed by Karl German, Wenders' regular assistant director and co-executive ...
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Bangkok film festival postponed, second event launched
The organisers of the Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF) - English-language newspaper, The Nation, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) - have decided to postpone the event from November until January next year.Meanwhile, a second event is being organised by the festival's former director, Brian Bennett, and is set ...
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Carlton America readies Giuliani biopic
Carlton America, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of Carlton International, is to produce a feature-length TV biopic about former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for US cable channel USA Networks.Rudy's Wars stars James Woods and will tell the story of the rise, fall and resurrection of Giuliani, ...
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Germany's third-largest cinema chain files for insolvency
UFA-Theater GmbH und Co. KG, Germany's third-largest cinema chain with 234 screens, has filed for insolvency.According to a press statement, UFA was been forced to take this step because of 'the national drastic fall in admissions in the past months and the concomitant worsening of the liquidity situation.' The ...
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Super RTL takes three from Buena Vista Int'l Television
Buena Vista International Television has licensed three animated features to Super RTL - Movietoons, in a deal which shows that business is still being done in the troubled German TV sector.The features - The Tigger Movie, Recess and Doug's First Movie - fit into Super RTL's Disney Playhouse pre-school strategy, ...
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New faces of Swedish cinema head for New York
A week-long programme of Swedish films has been organised by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York to run between November 1 - 7. The programme, called The New Faces of Swedish Cinema, includes seven feature films and a number of short films. The aim of the event, ...
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New state minister for culture appointed in Germany
Hamburg's former culture senator Christina Weiss has been appointed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the new State Minister for Culture to succeed Julian Nida-Ruemelin who announced last week that he is to return to his professorship in philosophy at the University of Goettingen.Speaking at a press conference with Foreign Minister ...
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Berlin line-up takes shape
Berlin International Film Festival chief Moritz de Hadeln appears to be rapidly firming up the Official Competition section for the festival's fiftieth anniversary edition (Feb 9-20).While de Hadeln will as usual not confirm Golden Bear contenders until close to the event - this year, Feb 1 - titles likely to ...
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Koelmel investor group announces Kinowelt contract
Responding to speculation in the German press, the investor group led by Michael and Rainer Koelmel has announced that contracts were signed on October 2 for the brothers to take over the core assets of the Kinowelt Medien Group.According to a statement, Leipzig-based Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH - ...
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Corporate development vp Isaac Palmer promoted at Viacom
Isaac Palmer has beenpromoted to senior vice president, corporate development, at ViacomEntertainment Group from vice president, corporate development. Palmer is a keyfigure at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures in finding financing partners onmovies, and structuring, negotiating and administering the transactions.He also serves on the boardof director of international theatrical exhibitor UCI, Canadian ...
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Wellspring buys US rights to Claire Denis' Friday Night
US independent distributorWellspring Media has acquired domestic rights to Friday Night (Vendredi Soir), the latest film from Claire Denis, with plans to release ittheatrically in spring 2003. The movie, which had its world premiere screeningat Venice last month, also played at Toronto and screens Friday night this weekat the New ...
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Menemsha gets rights to Same Love, Same Rain
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has picked upworldwide rights outside of Argentina and Spain to Same Love, Same Rain (El Mismo Amor, La Misma Illuvia), an Argentinian drama from the sameteam behind the enormously successful Son Of The Bride which won an Oscar nomination last yearfor Best ...
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NBC ponders $1.2bn purchase of Bravo network
US broadcastinggiant NBC is said to be pondering the takeover of Bravo, the arts andentertainment cable network that was a pioneer in showing US independent andsubtitled foreign films on American television.According to areport in the Wall Street Journal, NBC is seeking to swap its 21% stake in Bravo'scontrolling company Rainbow ...
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International Emmy nominations announced
Denmark, Slovak Republic and South Africa picked up their first ever nominations as the 2002 International Emmy Awards contenders were announced on Monday by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Aside from the traditional seven categories of arts programming, children and young people, documentary, drama series, TV movies/mini-series, ...
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Sundance Channel buys doc package, announces weekly DOCday
In a move that will cast doubt over the launch of its mooted documentary channel, Sundance Channel announced on Monday the creation of a weekly documentary night planned for March 2003. The so-called DOCday will premiere on Monday March 3 and continue every Monday thereafter from noon to midnight with ...
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BVI's Signs crosses $100m international mark
Signs passed the $100m mark with plenty to spare over the weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), while Lilo & Stitch scored a provisional third highest all-time industry opening for a traditionally animated picture in the UK. It was another strong performance from M Night Shyamalan's supernatural thriller Signs, which ...
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To Be And To Have (Etre Et Avoir)
Dir: Nicolas Philibert. France. 2002. 104mins.A film to play truant for, To Be And To Have is a warm, serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. This is the latest feature from leading French documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, and it is a measure of his growing reputation that ...
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Van Damme strikes two picture deal with London outfit
London-based production outfit Lucky 7 has signed a two-picture deal with Belgian action star Jean-Claude Van Damme which will see the actor direct his first film since The Quest in 1996.Lucky 7 Productions was set up last year by Florida's Bauer Martinez Studios in conjunction with UK producer Alan Latham. ...