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North by Northwest open to Eastern Europe
North by Northwest, the popular Copenhagen-based training body for film professionals from across Europe, has expanded its pan European activities with a new programme, East of Eden.From its new Prague office, the programme is open to participants from all over Eastern Europe from Latvia to Poland, Cyprus and Slovenia.Deadline is ...
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Amnesty to launch film prize at Berlinale 2005
Amnesty International is to launch a new prize at the Berlinale next year for films dealing with subjects such as human rights and human dignity.The Amnesty International Film Award is being launched to put these films in the spotlight, to offer them a larger audience and to encourage committed filmmakers.Starting ...
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Co-Production Office boards Jesus You Know
Upscale French sales and production outfit The Co-Production Office has boarded Ulrich Seidel's, Jesus You Know, which last year won the best documentary award at Karlovy Vary.The film takes a darkly comical look at five Austrians and their own, highly individualistic communion with God. Characters range from a student who ...
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Before Sunset
Dir: Richard Linklater. USA. 2004. 82 mins.The sequel to Richard Linklater's brief encounter movie Before Sunrise is utterly charming, and has a light but not superficial touch that is all too rare in contemporary boy-meets-girl flicks. Virtually plotless, it is (like many of Linklater's films) a wordy trip which takes ...
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Leconte Berlin favourite goes to Paramount Classics
Paramount Classics hasclosed a deal for multiple territory rights on Berlin Film Festival favourite ConfidencesTrop Intimes (aka IntimateStrangers). The studio specializedarm has bought rights in North America, Latin America, Australia/New Zealandand Japan from sales outfit StudioCanal.The film is directed byPatrice Leconte whose 1999 movie Girl On The Bridge and last ...
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Tupperware! movie in the works at Crossroads
Crossroads Films has optioned film rights to Laurie Kahn-Leavitt'sdocumentary Tupperware!and plans to turn it into a narrative feature charting the history of therevolutionary kitchenware design.Narrated by Kathy Bates, Tupperware! made its national debut on PBS'sAmerican Experience strand; it traces the rise of reclusive inventor Earl Tupper'shumble plastic bowls to the ...
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Paramount closes in on worldwide DVD rights to Metallica
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) is understood to be closing inon worldwide DVD rights for the hotly contested Sundance documentary Metallica:Some Kind Of Monster,which has reportedly got international buyers in Berlin lining up fortheatrical rights. A domestic theatrical deal is also close, with IFC Filmsleading the pack.DVD rights would be a ...
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John Davis named producer of the year at ShoWest 2004
Veteran producer John Davis, whose credits include The Firm,Predator and Heartbreakers, is to receive the ShoWest 2004 Producerof the Year at the annual exhibitors convention in Las Vegas next month."With such box office winners as Paycheck and Daddy Day Care as his most recent releases and theupcoming Garfield andI Robot, ...
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Tom Cruise serves as honorary chair at Independent Spirits
Tom Cruise will serve as honorary chair for the 2004 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards, which are set to take place in Santa Monica on Feb28."We are so pleased to honour Tom Cruise and his ongoing commitmentto independent film," IFP/Los Angeles executive director Dawn Hudson said in astatement."He has used his position ...
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Ariel Veneziano joins Greene Street as sales head
Ariel Veneziano has joined GreeneStreet Films International (GFI)as vice president, where his chief duties will include supervising thedivision's marketing, distribution and administrative functions andselling all GreeneStreet Films and Raw Nerve productions in select territories.Veneziano will report to Cedric Jeanson, GFI president andGreeneStreet Films partner, with whom he will work to ...
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Echo Bridge to launch at AFM, armed with PM library and 94 CineTel titles
Veteran entertainment industry executives Michael Alexander, DougHamilton, Michael Rosenblatt and Lucie Salhany have teamed up to form the worldwidesales and distribution company Echo Bridge Entertainment.The company, which will get its official launch at the upcomingAFM, operates with a mandate to acquire "commercially driven" pictures forworldwide distribution and to target and ...
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British industry rocked by $375m equity cull
The British filmindustry has been left in a state of shock following the surprise announcementthis week that tax authority the Inland Revenue is pulling down the"guillotine" on the UK's tax equity funds.Veteran producerJeremy Thomas warned that the move would have "major implications"for employment in the UK industry.Pointing out thatup to ...
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Master And Commander sails off with London Critics awards
Master And Commander was the toast of last night at the 24th London Film Critics Circle Awards taking away Best Film, Best British Actor for Paul Bettany and Best Screenwriter for John Collee and Peter Weir.The other winners of the night included Mystic River for Best Director and Best Actor ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Opening off the chart in 37th place this week, with $142,632, was Fox Searchlight's The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci's heady tale of sexual awakening at the time of the 1968 student riots in Paris.It opened in five New York and Los Angeles theatres for a superb $28,526 per-site average that defied ...
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Beautiful Country
Dir: Hans Petter Moland. Norway/US. 2004. 126 mins.A beautifully photographed but dramatically clunky saga about a Vietnamese war child's journey to rejoin his father in America, Beautiful Country is as much Terence Malick's film as it is that of Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland. Malick wrote the treatment, co-produced and ...
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The Stratosphere Girl
Dir/scr: M X Oxberg. Ger-UK-Fr-Switz-It. 2004. 92 mins.It's a chilly place, the stratosphere, and the air can get pretty rarefied. Nothing wrong with that, of course: but down here on earth, cinemagoers need a little character warmth and a little story oxygen, and the third feature by young German director ...
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Karma leads Hong Kong Film Award nominations
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's action comedy Running On Karma leads the race for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards with 13 nominations, although the second instalment in Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs trilogy is close behind with 12 nods.Running On Karma, which stars Andy Lau as a ...
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Strand Releasing wins US rights to Suzhou
Suzhou, the clandestinely-made Chinese film that became one of the hottest films at this year''s European Film Market in Berlin, has secured a US theatrical release through Strand Releasing.The Shanghai-set melodrama, which is the second feature by Chinese director Lou Ye, was produced on a budget of $600,000 by Essential ...
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Bill Nighy joins voice cast of Magic Roundabout
Pathe has signed Bill Nighy - to voice the character of the rabbit, Dylan, for its CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Nighy rounds out the previously announced voice cast members for the film of The Magic Roundabout, which is based on the classic cult TV series of the same name, ...
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Croff guarantees Biennale autonomy
Hours after his appointment was finally confirmed by the Italian parliament, new Venice Biennale president Davide Croff issued a statement saying that he intends to "guarantee the Biennale's autonomy" and appoint a festival director as soon as possible."The Venice Biennale needs stability and transparency at this delicate time. I therefore ...