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Spanish Cinema Academy re-elects Paredes president
The Spanish Cinema Academy has unanimously re-elected actress Marisa Paredes as its president for three more years.Paredes, whose credits include All About My Mother and Life Is Beautiful, replaced actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon in the top Academy spot in December 2000.Scriptwriter-director Joaquin Oristrell and director-producer Antonio Chavarrias were also re-elected as ...
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Korean horror breaks local opening record
Local horror film A Tale Of Two Sisters has become the biggest Korean opener in history, recording 774,500 viewers ($4m) from 158 prints over the weekend.The three-day take for distributor Big Blue Film narrowly tops a record for local pictures set earlier this year by comedy My Tutor Friend, which ...
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Bachmann replaces Schau at Columbia TriStar Germany
Martin Bachmann, senior vice president international marketing at the headquarters of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), is to succeed Juergen Schau as Managing Director, Germany.Bachmann has been at CTFDI since 1989 where he began as a management trainee at the German office in Munich before being promoted to the ...
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Senator Entertainment reports Euros 178.2m net loss
German distributor-producer Senator Entertainment posted a net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year (2001's loss was: Euros 4.2m) but expects its extensive restructuring will start showing results by the 2004 financial year.In a statement issued on Friday after trading had closed, Senator reported that group sales fell ...
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House to produce Armstrong comedy, Broken Hill
Australian producer Lynda House has unveiled a slate of new projects including a comedy-drama to be directed by Gillian Armstrong and a $7.5m (A$12m) futuristic fairy-tale The Broken Hill, which has a pack of wild dogs as one of the cast members.Gillian Armstrong, who credits include Little Women and Oscar ...
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Chalte Chalte makes impression at UK's Bollywood box office
Bollywood distributor Eros International enjoyed a substantial hit in the UK this weekend with Chalte Chalte.The film had the third best Bollywood opening of all time in the territory and Eros' second best opening result ever. Taking $483,138 (£289,883) from 37 sites - a location average of $13,058 - Chalte ...
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Martin Sorrell's WPP invests in Spain's MediaPro
Multinational communications giant WPP has taken a 30% stake in growing Spanish media firm MediaPro. The remaining 70% of the company remains in equal parts with MediaPro's three founding partners: Jaume Roures, Gerard Romy and Jose Maria Benet. The value of the WPP sale was not revealed. MediaPro president Roures ...
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It's official: AFM to clash 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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Bachmann moves back to Europe to head CTDFI Germany
Martin Bachmann has been named managing director of the German office of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI). Former German chief Juergen Schau will continue in his role as managing director of Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Co, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Releasing, which is responsible for production activities ...
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Winchester to acquire Cobalt Pictures
The UK's Winchester Entertainment has agreed in principle to acquire Cobalt Pictures from owners and founders John Muse and Alton Irby, Winchester announced to the stock exchange on Tuesday.Winchester and Cobalt have agreed non-binding heads of terms and the transaction is subject to due diligence and an acquisition agreement. The ...
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Nowhere In Africa producers team for Sergeant Pepper
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen and Constantin Film, who were co-producers on Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, are teaming up for Sandra Nettelbeck's second German-language feature Sergeant Pepper after her international hit Mostly Martha.The comedy about an unusual friendship between a six-year-old boy and a talking dog called Sergeant ...
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Aliens vs. Predator to do battle in Prague
The long-awaited Aliens vs. Predator is likely to begin filming in Prague in October for 20th Century Fox with horror director Paul Anderson (Resident Evil) at the helm, although the project has yet to receive the final greenlight, according to sources.Long subject to speculation by fans of the monster films, ...
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Spain, Puerto Rico sign co-production pact
As part of an ongoing push to 'internationalise local cinema,' Puerto Rico has signed a pact with Spain to facilitate feature film co-productions between the two countries.The deal follows Puerto Rico's new participation this year in the pan-regional Ibermedia program and inclusion last year in the Iberoamerican Conference of Cinematographic ...
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France supports Serbian film archive
While many national film archives are coming under financial pressure, Serbia and Montenegro's Yugoslav Film Archive is to be upgraded to become one of the most sophisticated in the world.The French ambassador in Belgrade Gabriel Keller and the Serbian Minister of Culture Branislav Lecic have jointly announced that the Yugoslav ...
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Serbian black comedy CiviLife for Belgrade shoot
Principal photography on Serbian-German-French-Dutch co-production CiviLife is due to start in Belgrade on June 22 for eight weeks. The dark comedy about a Serbian black-market gangster shooting down an American pilot during the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999 is written and will be directed by Milos Radovic. Radovic enjoyed ...
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Disney pulls plug on Canadian animation studios
So much for Canada stealing all that production work from Hollywood: The Walt Disney Co has now confirmed that it is closing its animation facilities in Vancouver and Toronto four years after opening them, laying off more than 200 staff and dealing a significant blow to Canadian animation.Canadian sources on ...
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Quaresma (Careme)
Dir: Jose Alvaro Morais. Portugal. 2003. 95minsExclusively for followers of Portuguese cinema and dealing with national traumas that do not always translate into dramatic narrative sense, Jose Alvaro Morais' latest effort, Quaresma, while visually impressive, remains pretty much a puzzle for those who will wish to take the plot at ...
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Robinson's Crusoe
Dir: Lin Cheng-sheng. Taiwan. 2003. 90minsFor this contemplative, static portrait of a successful Taipei real estate dealer, unhappy with his life and his career but unable to make a decisive move elsewhere, director Lin Cheng-sheng - never one to rush proceedings - seems to have slowed to a crawl. The ...
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UK box office 50% down despite 5 new films
Despite dropping off over 50% each and facing competition from five new chart entries, UK top 15 leaders The Matrix Reloaded and Anger Management easily retained their one-two positions.Over another hot weekend audiences abandoned the cinema with the holdovers amongst the top 15 dropping an average of 62% from the ...
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Magdalene Sisters wins top jury prize in Newport
Peter Mullan's TheMagdalene Sisters, which walked awaywith the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, continued its winningways on the international festival circuit by being named best feature film bythe jury of the Newport International Film Festival.The MagdaleneSisters, which will bereleased in the US on August 1st through Miramax ...