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Screen International's final AFM news round-up
Mirovision, the Korean seller and distribution newcomer, has picked up international rights on Deserted Valley, a Vietnamese film which attended the Berlin festival's Forum section and a daring new picture about ageing.Deserted Valley, which charts a multi-layered love story involving two teachers, a school manager and one of their students, ...
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Special Oscar for Sweden's Super-16 inventor
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has decided to give an Award of Commendation (a special Academy Award) to the Swedish cinematographer Rune Ericson, who invented the Super 16-system in the early 70s. The Award has only been given out 5 times since it was introduced ...
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Malaga fest honours Cuerda and Marsillach
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga is set to pay tribute to director-producer Jose Luis Cuerda and actor Adolfo Marsillach at its fifth annual edition, to be held a month earlier than usual this year (April 26 to May 4).Acclaimed director of 1999's Butterfly (La Lengua De Las Mariposas) and ...
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MIFED plans two-day market extension
Following a meeting with representatives of several AFMA-affiliated sales companies at the AFM, the organisers of MIFED are considering adding two days to the end of the autumn sales market.The Milan market, which is currently scheduled for Nov 3-7, would only become longer if the London Screenings were to ...
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Eclipse announces new worldwide sales arm
Eclipse Entertainment has launched Eclipse Releasing, a new worldwide sales company to handle product from the publicly-traded Eclipse Entertainment Group, with Sridhar Sreekakula supervising sales. Sreekakula was formerly a sales executive at Menahem Golan's 21st Century Film Corporation, at Southern Star Film Sales and at Titan Films International.First title for ...
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Celluloid Dreams closes out 8 Femmes sales
After launching FrancoisOzon's 8 Women at the AFMlast year, French sales house Celluloid Dreams has come full circle with aspate of finalised deals. PierreMenahem, who has been overseeing the market for the independent outfit, saidyesterday that only four territories remain unsold (Singapore, South Africa,Peru and India) but that those could ...
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Stuart Ford named acquisitions co-head at Miramax
Stuart Ford who is currentlysenior vice president of acquisitions and international operations at MiramaxFilms has been promoted to co-head of acquisitions alongside Agnes Mentre,executive vice president and co-head of acquisitions and co-productions.Together with Mentre, Ford will oversee Miramax's busy acquisitionsdepartment.Ford, who is based in NewYork, will report to Mentre and ...
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Deutsche Telekom/Liberty deal is blocked
Germany's Federal Cartel Office has blocked Deutsche Telekom's planned sale of six regional cable TV companies to the US media concern Liberty Media throwing the German media landscape into disarray.In an official communique, Deutsche Telekom (DT), which had seen such a transaction as being "a clear stimulus to competition", regretted ...
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Charlotte Gray struggles to find box office gold
Charlotte Gray's status as FilmFour's biggest production to date failed to translate into UK box-office gold this weekend. But FilmFour calculates that the WW2 drama, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, will still have a profitable UK release across all windows after taking $644,104 (£450,229) from 217 sites.Along with ...
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Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven
Dir: Daniel Burman. Argentina/Spain. 2001. 98mins.A brooding, fatalistic romance, faintly reminiscent of Julio Medem's Lovers Of The Arctic Circle or Vincent Ward's A Map Of The Human Heart in mood, Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven establishes third-time director Daniel Burman as a talent to watch. Burman's first two films, A ...
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Coastlines
Dir Victor Nunez. US. 2002. 116min.Coastlines, Victor Nunez's latest film to be set on the unique landscape of Florida's unfamiliar coast, should be regarded as an instalment in his Panhandle trilogy, a follow-up to the poetic Ruby In Paradise (1993) and character-driven Ulee's Gold (1997), which featured Peter Fonda in ...
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European DVD market sets new sector records
The meteoric rise in the global popularity and profitability of the DVD format has seen Germany and the UK join the many markets experiencing record business in the sector.In Germany, the home video industry's turnover exceeded the Euros 1bn mark for the first time ever in 2001, according to ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores with Hong Kong award nods
Stephen Chow's kung fu and soccer comedy, Shaolin Soccer, led the pack in the nominations for the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards with 13 nods including best film and best director.The record-breaking film, which became Hong Kong's biggest-grossing local production ever last year, with a box office haul of $7.4m ...
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Hollywood plans remakes of Korean comedies
Two Korean hit comedies from 2001, My Sassy Girl and Hi, Dharma!, have been sold to Hollywood studios for English-language remakes. Korean distributor IM Pictures revealed that DreamWorks SKG has bought remake rights to My Sassy Girl (pictured) for $750,000 plus 4% of worldwide revenues earned by the remake. ...
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Lantana, Moulin Rouge bag Oz critics awards
Producer Jan Chapman won the best film award for Lantana at the Film Critics Circle Awards on Feb 22, while Baz Luhrmann took home the best director trophy for Moulin Rouge, making it less of a one-horse race than the Australian Film Institute Awards in November had been. Lantana also ...
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Lauren Bacall to present Denmark's top film award
Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall will add extra glamour to this weekend's award ceremony in Copenhagen, when the Danish association of film critics hands out its prestigious Bodil awards on March 3. 77 year-old Bacall, who is presently starring opposite Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany and fellow veterans Ben Gazzara and Philip ...
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Premiere Group unveils first titles starting June
Mitchell Goldman's USdistribution outfit The Premiere Marketing & Distribution Group -which he announced at AFM last year - has finally unveiled its debutslate which will kick off with Slap Her, She's French, a comedy originally housed at Fox Searchlight, onJune 7. Action drama Madisonstarring Jim Caviezel will follow on Aug ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton end secret merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off a planned merger, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. But the annual savings from the merger - estimated at $71m (£50m) by 2002-3 - pale beside ...
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UK's Granada and Carlton call off merger talks
UK commercial television companies Granada and Carlton have called off merger talks, it was announced on Wednesday (Feb 27).A link-up would have given the broadcasters 90% control of commercial television network ITV. The decision is said to have been made because of onerous regulatory hurdles, although talks could restart ahead ...
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Stones (Piedras)
Dir: Ramon Salazar. Spain. 2001. 130mins.Some Spanish critics have seen Ramon Salazar as Pedro Almodovar's heir, and Stones certainly looks on paper like a sequel to the latter's 1991 comedy High Heels: it tells five women's interlocking stories through their feelings about their feet. The female-dominated subject, a light scattering ...