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Huge selection as full Panorama line-up is unveiled
Over thirty feature films have been selected for the final Panorama section (Main Programme & Specials) of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-14), which will open with Emir Kusturica's production Jagoda In The Supermarket (Jagoda u Supermarketu) (pictured) by Dusan Milic.Some 26 of the full-length films are world premieres, ...
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IFP unveils US indie slate for Berlin
The IFP/New York hasunveiled a slate of eight films split evenly between documentaries andnarrative features - that it will screen at the upcoming European Film Marketin Berlin as part of the organization's seventh annual showcase of new work. The selections, announcedthis week by IFP/New York executive director Michelle Byrd, ...
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Three films share Tiger Awards at Rotterdam
Three films shared Tiger Awards at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Friday.Winning the three equal VPRO Tiger Awards were Santiago Loza's Extrano from Argentina, Park Chan-Ok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltoo-Neun Na-E Him) from South Korea and Larisa Sadilova's With Love. Lilya (S Ljubov' ...
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Hoffman, Grant, Hayek among Goldene Kamera recipients
Dustin Hoffmann, Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Sir Elton John are among the recipients of this year's Goldene Kamera awards which will be presented by the HoerZu magazine in Berlin's Konzerthaus on the eve of the Berlinale on February 4. Hoffmann, who will also be in Berlin to present Moonlight ...
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Berlinale awash with Talent
Festival directors know only too well that luck as well as judgement determines the strength or weakness of their competition programmes. The state of world cinema may vary enormously year by year - Cannes head Gilles Jacob has even admitted in the past that his programme has merely been the ...
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Egoyan heads main competition jury
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the competition.Atom Egoyan - director (Canada), President ...
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Sokurov to receive Berlin Freedom Prize
Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) is to receive this year's Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at a special gala ceremony in the Berlin Rathaus on February 9. The Prize, which is presented by the Foundation with a purse of $ 10,000 donated by Philip Morris Kunstfoerderung, is awarded annually ...
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Besson scores at Lumieres
Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was awarded the top two prizes - best film and best director - at the 2000 Lumieres du Cinema Français. The awards, which are the French equivalent of the US' Golden Globes, are considered as a dress rehearsal for the ...
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Talent Campus unveils programme of events
500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US (32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland ...
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Chicago
Dir: Rob Marshall. US. 2002. 113minsMoulin Rouge last year proved that there was box-office life in the movie musical. The eagerly anticipated Chicago should confirm that, at least in North America, where it opens on Dec 27, and other English-language territories. Buzz is furious on both coasts for the film ...
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Box office, admissions fall in Japan, despite increase in screens
Japanese admissions and box office fell slightly in 2002, despite a rise in the number of screens, according to figures compiled by the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan. Without a mega-hit like Spirited Away -- which broke all Japanese box office records in 2001, admissions dipped 1.5% year-on-year to ...
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Canal Plus bosses removed in latest executive cull
Following speculation last week, Canal Plus Group president Xavier Couture has reportedly been replaced at the head of the company by Bertrand Meheut. According to the reputable Le Monde newspaper, Couture was fired on Friday afternoon by Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou. His successor, Meheut, was previously managing director of ...
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Mondays In The Sun basks in Goya Awards
There was one clear victor in the battle for the top prizes at Spain's 17th annual Goya Awards ceremony held Saturday night in Madrid: Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun. Mondays (Los Lunes Al Sol) triumphed with five top awards including best film and director, new actor for Jose Angel ...
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Sichler steps into StudioCanal as Lenormand finally goes...
Frederic Sichler will take over as CEO of StudioCanal, European the film production and distribution division of Vivendi Universal, it was announced on Friday. He starts on Monday (Feb 3).The announcement follows weeks of speculation about a replacement for exiting president Richard Lenormand. Since late December, Lenormand has been rumoured ...
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Odeon Cinemas looks likely as Cinven cashes in
Odeon Cinemas, the UK's largest exhibition group, could soon change hands again, with private investment group, Cinven said to be readying a sale.According to reports in Sunday newspaper Business, Cinven is seeking $720m (£450m) for the operation. Odeon operates over 1,000 screens in some 160 sites and lost $11m (£7m) ...
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Gangs takes top spot for Columbia TriStar in Mexico and Colombia
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) scored atable topping double whammy over the weekend with number one bows for GangsOf New York inMexico and Colombia. In Mexico the picture grossed an estimated $1.1m from 350prints - more than double the number two picture - while the smallerColombian market yielded $120,000 ...
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Maxine Leonard gets evp marketing job at Myriad
Publicityveteran Maxine Leonard has joined Myriad Pictures to head up its marketing andPR operations in Los Angeles. As executive vice president, marketing andpublicity, Leonard will oversee the company's communication strategy in allareas as well as handle the international marketing and publicity campaigns forthe company's production and acquisitions. She reports to ...
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The Recruit tops box office with $16.5m haul
Three new releases claimed the top three spots over the weekendwith Buena Vista/Spyglass' spy thriller The Recruit leading the pack with a $16.5mnumber one bow. In second was New Line's horror sequel Final Destination 2 on $16.2m while the bronze medal wentto DreamWorks' motorbike action-drama Biker Boyz on $10.1m. In ...
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StudioCanal sales chief Weisbein flies to Senator International
Pierre Weisbein, the formerhead of sales at StudioCanal, has quit the diminishing French film operationand joined LA-based Senator International as executive vice president,international sales and distribution. Weisbein starts with Senator today.The Frenchman, who is basedin LA, will play a key role in evaluating projects for Senator's production andacquisition slate while ...
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Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi)
Dir: Dagur Kari. Ice-Ger-UK-Den. 2003. 95mins.Noi The Albino, the debut feature of young Icelandic director Dagur Kari, is one of those films that seem absolutely of their own place and yet curiously cosmopolitan. With its characteristically Nordic comic melancholia and strikingly photographed scenery, it could not have been made anywhere ...