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Wenders tipped to get back his old company
Wim Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, who jointly founded Reverse Angle Production in Hamburg last autumn, are now favourites to retrieve Wenders' old production company Road Movies from the insolvent Das Werk group, according to Germany's Die Welt.The daily newspaper reported at the weekend that Das Werk's insolvency administrator Holger Lessing ...
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Constantin Film confirmed as Germany's top producer, distributor
Constantin Film confirmed its leading position as Germany's top production house and distributor by walking away with almost a third of the Euros 22.6m retroactive "reference" funding handed out by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The box-office success last year of such (co) productions as the Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, ...
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Italian festival set to withdraw invitations to 22 Chinese guests
Italy's Far East Cinema Festival, one of the biggest Asian film events in Europe, is to withdraw invitations to 22 Chinese guests who were due to fly in to the country later this month, because of fears of the killer SARS virus. The festival, whose fifth edition will be held ...
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Infernal Affairs, Hero share honours at Hong Kong Film Awards
The show went on at the Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night (April 6) despite the outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the territory. Box office smash Infernal Affairs and Zhang Yimou's Hero were the big winners, taking home seven awards apiece, although the latter scored mostly in the technical ...
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L'Homme Du Train joins Monsieur Hire for Leconte remake
Not one, but two films by French director Patrice Leconte are set for English-language remake treatment. According to multiple US sources, Leconte's most recent effort, The Man On The Train (L'Homme Du Train) is poised to be set up via Warner Bros, while earlier drama Monsieur Hire is likely to ...
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Cohen remakes hardcore anime classic for Distant Horizon
DirectorRob Cohen, whose recent filmmaking credits include the international hits XXX and The Fast And The Furious, is teaming up with Distant Horizon to rework the acclaimedbut controversial 1998 Japanese anime shocker Kite into a live action version that will water down theoriginal's explicit sexual content.Inaddition to signing on direct ...
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ICM to open new UK literary division in London
International CreativeManagement (ICM), the LA talent agency is opening a new London office calledICM Books to be based in Soho Square. Not to be confused with the UK agency runby Duncan Heath, the new division of the Hollywood agency is designed to buildon its reach in the New York book ...
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Maid In Manhattan is J Lo's number one international movie
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's (CTFDI) MaidIn Manhattan became thehighest grossing international film starring Jennifer Lopez over the weekend.The romantic comedy added $4.3m on 2,200 screens in internationalmarkets for a $45.3m running total, surpassing the star's previous best of$42.6m for 2000's The Cell.So far the film has reachednumber one in ...
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Fresh talent picks up Tigers at Rotterdam
Three fledgling directors from three different international territories walked away with a VPRO Tiger Award at the close of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday night. The winning directors were: China's Lou Ye for his Suzhou River; Argentinean Pablo Trapero's Mundo Grua (Crane World) and Katrin Ottarsdottir from ...
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Phone Booth tops lacklustre box office
The delayed Foxthriller Phone Boothrang up a modest $15m number one opening gross over the weekend as box officefigures were sluggish for the fourth weekend in a row. Despite two other largeopeners following close behind in second and third places, the general lack ofinspiring films compounded the "war effect" as ...
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France, Germany, UK record declining cinema admissions
France, Germany and now also the UK are seeing declining admissions in the first stages of 2003.France's national cinema federation, the FNCF, released figures for the first quarter of 2003, showing a 9% decrease in ticket sales compared to the same period in 2002. In February 2002, Asterix And Obelix: ...
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Las Palmas awards top prize to Mr & Mrs Iyer
India's Aparna Sen (pictured) picked up the gold prize for best film for Mr & Mrs Iyer at the fourth annual International Film Festival of Las Palmas (March 28-April 5), which also hosted the first edition of the EuroForum Co-Production Market.Organisers of the first annual three-day EuroForum said that despite ...
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Italian Oscars organiser to get new name and awards location change
Following an agreement with the EU Commission in Brussels, the Ente David di Donatello, the organisation that manages Italy's Donatello awards will be renamed 'Academy of Italian Cinema,' bringing it in line with the Cesars, the Goyas, the BAFTAS and the Academy Awards.It is hoped that the new name will ...
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Barbara Rudnik to head PLANET documentary prize jury
German actress Barbara Rudnik (pictured) has been named chairperson of the international jury for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.The other members of the jury are Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christian Frei (War Photographer), European Film Award winner Andres Veiel (Black Box BRD) and veteran Polish filmmaker-writer Andrzej Titkow.The prize, which ...
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France resists TV advertising for films
Convinced that television commercials for films in France would create a schism in the local marketplace, France's culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon met with EU commissioner Frits Bolkestein last week to make his case. Based on rules laid out in 1992, France retains an exception regarding television advertising for films, publishing, ...
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Casa Nova Films launched to develop US Hispanic market
Two new players have launched LA- and Barcelona-based theatrical distributor and consultant Casa Nova Films, specialising in the US Hispanic market.Partners Joshua Gabel and Walter Cuculic, both experienced marketing and business management/development consultants, aim to build up to as many as eight Spanish-language releases per year for the Hispanic market, ...
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Malaga fest unveils 16 new Spanish films
Pedro Olea's Tiempo De Tormenta is set to inaugurate the sixth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 25-May 3).Starring Maribel Verdu (Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Dario Grandinetti (Talk To Her), Tiempo will open the official competition section, which also includes the following 15 new Spanish films:Dionisio Perez Galindo's ...
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Baltic Films becomes member of European Film Promotion
Baltic Films, the joint organisation of the Estonian Film Foundation, the Latvian National Film Center and the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, has become the 22nd organisation to become a member of the pan-European promotional body European Film Promotion (EFP).Commenting on joining EFP's network, Karlo Funk, a board member of Baltic ...
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Sweden's NonStop Entertainment takes on Comandante
Swedish distribution company NonStop Entertainment has acquired all rights for Scandinavia and the Baltic countries to Oliver Stone's Comandante. For his first documentary, Stone has chosen a controversial subject: an intimate conversation between the director and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.From three days of shooting in Cuba, Stone has edited down ...
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Daredevil has powerful $7.7m weekend for Fox
Strong openingsin the major markets of Italy and Japan were the chief drivers in a $7.7mweekend for Fox International's Daredevil, which played on 4,337 screens in 43territories and raised its international running total to $55.8m.In Italy thesuperhero adaptation went straight in at number one, taking $1.3m on 249screens. In Japan ...