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Avrio acquires Red Green comedy Duct Tape Forever
Vancouver-based independentproducer/distributor Avrio Filmworks which was founded by producer MichaelDerbas has acquired worldwide sales rights to Duct Tape Forever, a $4m comedy produced by Toronto's S&SProductions, and starring TV comic Red Green.The film is the first basedon the hit Canadian TV series The Red Green Show and follows the adventures ...
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Dick Cook named chairman of Walt Disney Studios
Hollywood has a new studiochief in Richard W Cook, the veteran of Walt Disney Studios who was namedchairman of the company on Friday. Cook, who has spent 31 years at Disney,steps into the position vacated eight months ago by Peter Schneider whoresigned in June 2001 after only 18 months on ...
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Columbia TriStar boards Mexican co-production
Columbia Tri Star Mexico has boarded its first Mexican co production, the comedy thriller Sin Ton Ni Sonia, currently shooting in Mexico City. In addition to from covering 20% of the estimated $1m budget, Columbia TriStar has picked up the local and international distribution rights to the project. ...
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Queen Of The Damned
Dir Michael Rymer. US 2002. 100 min.A new star is born in Queen Of The Damned, the horror picture based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and a follow-up to Neil Jordan's Interview With The Vampire, which was also produced by Warner Bros. Assuming the role of Lestat ...
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Crossroads
Dir Tamra Davis. US 2002. 95 min.Naive and amateurish in both the positive and negative sense of these terms, Crossroads, Britney Spears' feature screen debut, provides a decent showcase for the pop icon and youth symbol, who seems to be everywhere this month. As a coming of age yarn, ...
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Cannes to subsidise festival attendees
The Cannes film festival is to subsidise the attendance of more than fifty young French film-makers at this year's festival, with the initiative expanding to include European film-makers next year.With the support of the Cannes hotel and restaurant owners' unions, the film-makers only have to pay Euros 115 towards ...
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UK cinema admissions continue to rise
Having recorded the highest admissions last year (156 million) since 1972, the upward trend in UK cinema attendance and box office takings looks set to continue in 2002.Figures for January 2002 show that the month's box office figure of£59.6m is a year-on-year rise of 25% over the same period in ...
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Germany's Helkon raises Euros 20m loan
Ahead of its AGM on Feb 19, German license trader-producer Helkon Media has announced that its credit lines with the Hamburg-based Vereins- und Westbank AG and Cologne's Stadtsparkasse Koeln has been transferred into a syndicated loan giving the company additional funds of Euros 20m.The new arrangement is part of ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast lines up topnotch local slate
Film I Vast, Sweden's successful regional film fund, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, has lined up another busy schedule, including highly anticipated new films from Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares, Executive Protection's Anders Nilson and Dan Ying (Home Sour Home).Fares will shoot his as yet untitled action comedy ...
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Grill Point's international sales heat up
Even before the audience's rapturous applause at the announcement of Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) being awarded the Jury Grand Prix, Silver Bear at the Berlinale on Sunday (Feb 17), Andreas Dresen's bittersweet comedy had already impressed a host of international film buyers.Bavaria Film International (BFI) closed a number of sales ...
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Oliver Stone to interview Castro for Cuba project
Spanish producers MediaPro, Morena Films and Argentina's Esperanza Films have joined Madrid-based Pentagrama Films to produce a documentary about Cuba for director Oliver Stone.Provisionally titled Looking For Fidel, the documentary is based on an original idea by Pentagrama producer Jose Ibanez exploring the history and future of the island. Production ...
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World's largest film studio to be built in Quebec
Two weeks after the announcement of plans to build a massive studio in Toronto, another facility is going forward in the province of Quebec. The backers of Studio Bromont plan to convert a 1.2 million sq. ft automobile plant north of Montreal into the largest film production studio in the ...
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Two major Nordic industry events join forces
The Nordic region's two major festival and market events have joined forces to increase their international profile. The two festivals, in Gothenburg (Sweden) and Haugesund (Norway), have long been the favourite meeting places for the Nordic industry, but in recent years have also succeeded in attracting buyers and festival programmers ...
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New Zealand mourns actor Kevin Smith
New Zealand is mourning the untimely death of local actor Kevin Smith, who died in a Beijing Hospital as the result of a fall. At the time of the accident he had been preparing to return home and begin preparation for Man Of War with Bruce Willis, a role many ...
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Vortex acquires Emmett's Mark with Roth, Byrne
Vortex Pictures, the newinternational sales outfit run by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has pickedup international rights to Emmett's Mark, a psychological thriller starring Scott Wolf, TimRoth and Gabriel Byrne. WMA Independent is representing North American rightson behalf of the film-makers, writer/director Keith Snyder and producers BradFuller and Graham Taylor.The ...
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Deakins wins ASC award for Man Who Wasn't There
Roger Deakins won theAmerican Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award in thefeature film category for his work on The Man Who Wasn't There, the sixth film by the Coen brothers which Deakinshas shot. It was also his sixth ASC nomination and his second award after TheShawshank Redemption in 1994.He ...
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Mimi Steinbauer is new sales head at Franchise
Following the departureof Lisa Wilson to join Splendid Pictures, Franchise Pictures has hireddistribution veteran Mimi Steinbauer as its new president of internationaldistribution. She will be responsible for selling territorial rights for all ofFranchise's films as well as films produced by the company'sarthouse label Franchise Classics.She will alsooversee the company's delivery ...
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Harry Potter is the number two movie of all time
Harry Potter & TheSorcerer's Stone officiallybypassed Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace over the weekend to become the number two movie ofall time after Titanic. TheWarner Bros movie, known in many territories as Harry Potter & ThePhilosopher's Stone, has nowgrossed a worldwide total of $926.1, eclipsing the $922.8m ...
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Bullish MDP Worldwide posts records results
MDP WorldwideEntertainment, Mark Damon's production and sales outfit which is listedon the Toronto Stock Exchange, has reported its highest ever financial resultsfor the year ending Sept 30,2001. MDP reports a net profit of $3.6m onoperating revenues of $53.6m, a rise of 427% from the previous fiscal year.Earnings pershare were up ...
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Secretary
Dir: Steven Shainberg. US. 2002. 112min.Audacious, offbeat and darkly humorous, Steven Shainberg's Secretary, based on Mary Gaitskill's critically acclaimed novella Bad Behaviour, tells an utterly bizarre love story between an enigmatic attorney and his highly insecure secretary. Maggie Gyllenhaal renders an exquisite performance as the troubled young woman ...