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Festival in Cannes opens festival in Santa Barbara
The 17th annualSanta Barbara International Film Festival, which takes place Feb 27 to March 3,will open with Henry Jaglom's Festival In Cannes and close with George Hickenlooper's The ManFrom Elysian Fields.Among the world premieresare Tony Silber's documentary Arisman: Facing The Audience, Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay's LA-set comedy Bugstarring Brian ...
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Phoenix buys legal thriller Misconception
Mike Medavoy and ArnieMesser's Phoenix Pictures has acquired film rights to the novel Misconception, a legal thriller by Robert Shapiro and Walt Becker.The book, which waspublished in Jan in the US by Harper Collins, is the story of a Louisianadoctor whose life is shattered when an extramarital affair and pregnancy ...
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Mechanic's Pandemonium sets two with Southpaw
Southpaw Media Group, the LAproduction outfit set up by former Trilogy Entertainment Group partner Richard BLewis, is partnering with Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium on two pictures- The Whole Wide World, anaction love story set against the backdrop of NASA's early lunarmissions, and Across The Universe,an inter-galactic adventure set in the far ...
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Brian Benson wins Sundance producers fellowship
Brian Benson has beenselected as the recipient of the 2002 Mark Silverman Fellowship, a programmefor producers run by the Sundance Institute.The award was established asa tribute to independent producer Silverman whose credits include BloodSimple and Raising Arizona and supports "visionary independent producerswho have committed to a film project and still ...
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Splendid Pictures lures de Bont to The Courier
Jan de Bont is in finalnegotiations to make his next film as a director for newly formed SplendidPictures, the joint venture between Splendid Medien and Cutting EdgeEntertainment. The film, The Courier, is being produced by Newman/Tooley Films and is set to go intoproduction in late spring.The film is the firstproduct ...
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Mark Reinhart heads sales at Regent gay arm HERE!
Mark Reinhart, the veteransales executive who has worked at companies including The Samuel Goldwyn Co,Artisan/LIVE Entertainment and GRB Entertainment, has been hired by RegentEntertainment to oversee sales for HERE! Films, the specialty marketing anddistribution arm of Regent focusing exclusively on gay-themed films. His titleis vice president, international, and he reports ...
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Winchester issues profit warning for year to March
Winchester Entertainment hasissued a profit warning for the financial year to March 31, 2002, in which itsays it will make a one off write-down of approximately£2 million to itschildren's TV programming assets.However, the board of the companystressed in a statement that the expected low results are due to a number ...
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Ster-Kinekor loses Vanilla Sky in rental dispute
Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky is not screening on any of Ster-Kinekor's 190 screens throughout South Africa after negotiations between UIP/SA and Primedia's Filmco, owners of Ster-Kinekor, the country's biggest exhibitor, broke down. According to industry insiders, UIP initially wanted an opening week's film rental of 65% to which Ster-Kinekor offered ...
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France, Spain and UK dominate Cartoon market
More than half of the 42 feature projects selected for this year's Cartoon Movie market (March 14 - 16) to be presented to investors and distributors come from animation production companies from France, Spain and the UK.As the leading centre for animation in Europe, France leads the field with 10 ...
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Bavaria Film Int'l, X-Filme expand relationship
German world sales company Bavaria Film International (BFI) and X-Filme Creative Pool, producer of the Berlinale's opening film Heaven, have agreed to expand their existing working relationship."Our goal is to intensify the co-operation with X Filme on an informal basis, which could go over and above the world sales business ...
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One Hour Photo
Dir: Mark Romanek. US. 2002. 96 mins.Actor Robin Williams gets a wonderful opportunity to stretch (to use Hollywood jargon) in Mark Romanek's feature directorial debut, One Hour Photo, playing a serious dramatic role that deviates from the two screen images that have defined his career: as a funny, ...
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Gosford Park charms the box office
UK audiences turned out in force at the weekend to greet the latest local production, Gosford Park. The film, which won director Robert Altman the best director Golden Globe last month, opened at just 156 venues to record an impressive $1.2m (£837,589) taking fourth place in the national chart. This ...
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Hong Kong film studio plans come under threat
Ambitious plans for a new film studio complex in Hong Kong could be under threat as three investors in the project - Hong Kong's Media Asia and Mei Ah Entertainment and Taiwan's Era Group - have decided to pull out.A consortium of six companies, led by Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers, ...
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Korean investors swarm to country's first film IPO
South Korean major CJ Entertainment celebrated a triumphant IPO on Korea's over-the-counter KOSDAQ exchange on Feb 5, seeing its share price double in value during the day.CJ Entertainment is the first of Korea's film companies to hold an initial public offering. It floated a 30% stake worth $34m (Won ...
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Germany's VIP fund to back Richter's The I Inside
Munich-based Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds (VIP) is to back the first English-language project by Der Tunnel director Roland Suso Richter.VIP is to supply just over half of the budget for The I Inside which will go into production in March by Rudy Cohen's RCD Productions with a cast understood ...
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ApolloMedia lines up Hyams, Duguay projects
German private film fund ApolloMedia is lining up another three features in the Euros 25m-Euros 70m bracket with producer Moshe Diamant, which will see the fund reunited with directors Peter Hyams and Christian Duguay after working on D'Artagnan (The Musketeer) and The Extremists, respectively.According to the fund's production coordinator Jan ...
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Venice fest denies Barbera resignation reports
The Venice Film Festival has denied reports that artistic director Alberto Barbera has already resigned from his position. Rumours about Barbera's resignation and replacement began to emerge at the end of last week, when the Venice Biennale's board of directors stepped down three months before their contract officially expired. ...
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Mickie switches back to sales at Alliance Atlantis
Charlotte Mickie, to manythe international face of Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications, hasbeen promoted to managing director, international motion picture sales, at itsEntertainment Group, returning to a sales role at the company which last monthaxed over 80 staff and dramatically reduced its feature film department.Locatedat the company's head office, Mickie will ...
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Lagaan gets second US release, now through SPC
Sony Pictures Classics willgive Ashutosh Gowariker's Indian epic Lagaan a new theatrical outing in the US in the late springamid buzz that the 223 minute-film received a rapturous reception at itsAcademy Award foreign language film committee screening. The Academy Awardnominations are announced next Tuesday (Feb 12).The film was released on ...
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LAFF and sponsor Target offer top prize of $50,000
The 2002 Los Angeles FilmFestival is to introduce a new prize awarded to the director of the bestdramatic feature in competition worth $50,000. IFP/West executive director DawnHudson unveiled the award yesterday which will be furnished by thefestival's key sponsor Target, one of the biggest retail store circuitsin the US.The prize, ...