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UK's BFI undergoes major internal review
Anthony Minghella, the director who chairs of the British Film Institute (BFI), has launched a wide-ranging internal review of the venerable film body to develop a blueprint for the future of the organisation.The strategic review may well lead to an overhaul or even a scaling back at the National Film ...
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Father Amaro ordained by Mexican press awards
Mexican blockbuster The Crime Of Father Amaro has won four Silver Goddess awards from the Mexican Press Association, Pecime. Now on its 33rd edition, these are the second most prestigious awards after Mexico's Oscars, the Ariel.Carlos Carrera's priest scandal drama went home with the awards for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography ...
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Chada, Campion pledge support for UK women in film scheme
Directors Gurinder Chadha and Jane Campion have pledged their support to a UK scheme for women in film launched this week by industry agency Women in Film and Television and distributor United International Pictures (UIP).Titled Directing Change, the scheme will allow women directors to work alongside an experienced and internationally ...
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New Line takes domestic on romantic comedy Laws
New Line Cinemahas acquired North American distribution rights to the romantic comedy LawsOf Attraction starringPierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore which is scheduled to go into production inDublin and New York on June 16, 2003.The studio beatout other studios including MGM, Paramount and Disney to the film which isproduced by Deep ...
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Wallace launches film rep outfit with Capitol as client
Ronna Wallace, the seasoned independent production and acquisitions executive associated with such companies as Samuel Goldwyn and Stratosphere as well as Live Entertainment during its film financing heydey a decade ago, has launched her own film rep company, Eastgate Pictures.Under the new banner, Wallace will serve as producer's rep on ...
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Germany's BetaCinema moves into English-language films
German sales agent BetaCinema has moved into English-language features for its line-up at the forthcoming Cannes market. The Munich-based outfit, which is now headed by Andreas Rothbauer (international sales) and Robert Czajkowski (acquisitions), has picked up Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda's feature debut Coldwater, starring Arsinee Khanijan, Simon Abkarian ...
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X2 marks the spot with $155.2m worldwide opening
X marked the spot for 20th Century Fox over the weekend as the hugely anticipated comic book sequel X2: X-Men United raised the curtain on the summer season in spectacular style, storming to number one on an estimated $85.9m.Bryan Singer's follow-up to his 2000 worldwide smash X-Men also grossed an ...
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X2 marks the spot with $155m worldwide opening
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Marketing vet Kalish in filmmaking foray
Ambergate Associates, the outfit spearheaded by veteran marketing consultant Eddie Kalish, is expanding its activities to include film and television development and production, music management and live event presentation.In co-production with writer-producer Elliot Geisinger's (Amityville Horror, The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia, Child's Play) Gem Films, Ambergate is ...
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Sony Pictures Classics converts to Tao Of Steve
Sealing yet another Sundance acquisition, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American distribution rights to Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao Of Steve from New York's Good Machine.The crowd-pleasing romantic comedy, about a group of friends living in Santa Fe, New Mexico who use the philosophies of Lao-Tzu, Kierkegaard and Marx ...
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Talk To Her crosses C$1m milestone in French Canada
Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her has surpassed C$1m ($708,000) in its 19th weekat the Quebec box office, making it one of the top grossing foreign languagefilms of all time in Canada's predominantly French-language province.The highest grossing film in alanguage other than English or French, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful(La Vie ...
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Streetsweeper cleans up at LA Italian festival
The Streetsweeper, a low budget American drama by James Hill that took five yearsto make, was named best picture at the 5th annual Los Angeles Italian FilmAwards at the weekend (May 4).Broadway veteran Paul Michael stars as a man who honourshis wife's dying wish by cleaning streets in order to ...
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Johnny English holds up strongly against X2
Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English has hoisted its international runningtotal to $90.5m after 25 days on release, adding $8.2m from 3,000 theatres in37 countries over the weekend, according to estimates.The comedy placed second in the international market behind Fox's X2:X-Men United and managedseveral decent holds despite the global mutant ...
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Imax results beat quarterly expectations
Imax Corp. posted improved quarterly results, yieldingearnings of $34m, up from $31.3m in the prior year quarter and exceedinganalyst estimates. The company has been hot of late, following news lastmonth that the second and third Matrix films, The Matrix Reloadedand The Matrix Revolutions, willbe released on Imax screens concurrent with ...
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Nordic films dominate Toronto children's festival
Finnish filmmakerKlaus Haro's Elina continued its winning ways, taking theYoung People's Jury Award at the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festivalfor Children, which wrapped this weekend. Elina, from Sweden, won theCrystal Bear at the Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest in February, and top prizes atthe Montreal International Children's Film Festival and Sweden's BUFF, a ...
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X2 global rampage keeps pirates at bay
20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United grossed an emphatic $69,270,300 outside North America this past weekend in what was the most ambitious - and most lucrative - day-and-date global release ever staged by a studio.Adding in the simultaneous $85,558,731 taken in domestically, the global total of $154,829,031 for X2 represents ...
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CanWest dumps Firestone as Fireworks fizzles
Money-losing Fireworks Entertainment has a new leader,following the departure Monday of founding president and CEO Jay Firestone fromparent company CanWest Global Communications. CanWest has invested considerably more than $100m in thefilm and television production company since acquiring it in 1998. Firestone'sfive-year contract was up for renewal on May 4, 2003. ...
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Euro cinema classics set for US re-issue
New York-based Rialto Pictures has acquired US theatrical, videoand DVD rights to seven classic titles from the StudioCanal library vaultsincluding works by Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Alain Resnais andJean-Pierre Melville.A theatrical run of the restored films will kick off withGodard's romantic comedy A Woman Is A Womanat New York's ...
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Albert Lee named CEO of Emperor Multimedia Group
Albert Lee has been appointed chief executive of Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), replacing Carl Chang who is leaving the company to set up his own production outfit.Chang is expected to work alongside Lee at EMG until delivery of $6m action adventure The Twins Effect which is currently in ...
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Carver appointed senior vice president at Screen Gems
Benedict Carver has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions and co-productions for Screen Gems, it was announced by Clint Culpepper, president, Screen Gems. Carver oversees worldwide acquisitions for Screen Gems and for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG). He also initiates co-financing ...