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Esposito's Coeur wins German distribution backing
Arsenal Filmverleih has been awarded the Euros 20,000 MFG/Unifrance Distribution Prize at Tuebingen's French Film Days for Marc Esposito's Le Coeur Des Hommes for release in Germany next March.In addition, a Special Mention went to Lucas Belvaux's film trilogy of Apres La Vie, Cavale and Un Couple Epatant which will ...
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Sony passes $1bn mark in domestic grosses for second year in a row
Sony Pictures Entertainmentpassed $1bn in North American ticket sales yesterday (Oct 30), marking thefirst time in the studio's 79-year history that it has reached the milestone intwo consecutive years. Powered by eight number onefilms this year and five that have grossed more than $100m, executives will behoping to make it ...
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US showcase of Italian cinema opens with Avati, closes with Cervi
The 13th N.I.C.E. FestivalUSA will open in San Francisco on Nov 16 with a screening of Pupi Avati's Enchanted and closes on Nov 23 with the late Tonino Cervi's Antonia'sRecipes. The Italian cinema showcasewas organised in association with the Italian Institute of Culture and RAIInternational, among others, and takes place ...
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Animation veteran Hirsh buys Cinar in $144m deal
Canadian animation veteranMichael Hirsh is buying Cinar, the troubled Montreal-based animation house. TheUS$144m sale puts Hirsh, co-founder and former CEO of Toronto-based Nelvana Limited,back in the centre of the Canadian animation scene he helped establish. Backed by a Canadian equitycapital fund, TD Capital Canadian Private Equity Partners, Hirsh and partnerToper ...
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Beta Cinema takes Mifed sales duties for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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Infernal Affairs II review
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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France's Louis Delluc prize names nominees
Five films have been nominated for the 61st Prix Louis Delluc, one of France's top honours for film.The five candidates are: Jacques Rivette's Histoire De Marie Et Julien; Jacques Doillon's Raja which screened at both Venice and Marrakesh; Noemie Lvovsky's Les Sentiments - also a Venice competitor; Cannes entry Tiresia ...
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Intertainment signs $22m deal with Spain's Manga
Germany's Intertainment has signed a $22.4m multi-picture deal with Spanish distributor Manga Films. Under the terms of the deal, Manga takes Spanish first-run, free-TV rights to several Franchise pictures that Intertainment has co-financed or acquired through its output deal with the company, including Art of War, starring Wesley Snipes, the ...
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Cheeky
Dir: David Thewlis. UK/France. 2003. 94 minsTen years ago, Mike Leigh's Naked confirmed David Thewlis as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. His tour de force earned him a Best Actor prize at Cannes and a far from satisfactory international career that includes the disastrous remake ...
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FRANCE
In one of the biggest openings this year, Francis Veber's latest comedy Tais Toi managed to almost break the cherished 1 million admissions mark in its first week. In January, Taxi 3 claimed an impressive 65% of the market over its five-day launch with 2,036,368 admissions ($10.6m) taken from 969 ...
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Saucers flies onto Sogepaq's MIFED 2003 slate
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has added forthcoming title Flying Saucers (Platillos Volantes) to its Mifed line-up.The film, a tragedy with elements of black humour, is based on the true story of two men in a bleak industrial town in 1972 who commit suicide in the hope of being united with ...
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Mifed unveils 2003 market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...
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AFM on collision course with MIFED in 2004
The American Film Market (AFM) is officially moving to November in an effort to force a two-market calendar and knock out MIFED from the annual market timetable.Yesterday AFMA, the trade organisation which runs the AFM, issued a statement announcing its intentions to hold two AFMs in 2004, one in Feb ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Petricic's Almost Totally Ordinary Story opened last weekend at the third position in its home territory. The urban comedy, featuring a cast of newcomers sold 3,448 tickets to earn $9,020 for distributor Pro Vision. The two top positions are held by Small World and Pirates Of The Caribbean for ...
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Australia singles out Japanese Story, Gettin' Square
Un Certain Regard film Japanese Story dominated the prizes at the 2003 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, held in Sydney on Friday night (Oct 31).Japanese Story won best film for producer Sue Maslin, best director for Sue Brooks, best actress for Toni Collette, best cinematography for Ian Baker, and ...
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Non English-language buzz films at Mifed 2003
Against The Wall(Germany)Word on the street: Fatih Akin's best yetThe word is good on the latest film from writer-director-actor FatihAkin, whose credits include Short Sharp Shock, In July and Solino.Against The Wall (Gegen Die Wand), now in post-production, is a tragiclove story starring Birol Uenel and Sibel Kekilli as a ...
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Non-English buzz films at Mifed 2003
In the first of a two part series we look at the hot non-English-language films and projects debuting at Mifed.Against The Wall(Germany)Word on the street: Fatih Akin's best yetThe word is good on the latest film from writer-director-actor FatihAkin, whose credits include Short Sharp Shock, In July and Solino.Against The ...
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HONG KONG
The second lacklustre week in a row at the Hong Kong box office suggests that audiences spent their hard-earned cash on local event films Running On Karma and Infernal Affairs II earlier in the month and need strong persuasion to visit the cinema again. Of this week's five new openers, ...
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French film suffers decline in foreign investment
Foreign investment in French production decreased by an alarming 34% in 1999, according to figures released by French cultural body CNC (Centre National de la Cinematographie). The dip can mostly be attributed to government legislation, introduced last April, which restricts local support to French films that have budgets which are ...
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Preview: markets go head-to-head
If the organisers of theAmerican Film Market (AFM) and their many powerful supporters have their way,2003 will prove to be Mifed's swansong, great pasta and wonderful shoppingnotwithstanding. By scheduling a rival AFMnext November, AFMA is forcing film buyers into a cruel choice. Do they allsuccumb to the gravitational pull of ...