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MDP posts near 50% revenue increase
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide recorded a second quarter revenue increase of nearly 50% on the back of feature film The Musketeer and producing and financing fees from Christian Duguay's The Extremist. It was a company-record sixth consecutive profitable quarter. Six month income was up 90% from the same period last ...
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Major cash boost for German regional film fund
German regional public fund Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg could get a 30% boost to its funding budget for 2003 following an announcement by the Berlin Senate that it intends to provide an additional Euros 2.5m for the subsidy body next year.Assuming that the Land of Brandenburg follows suit, the Filmboard would then ...
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India's Hinduja Group announces Hollywood-style studio for Mumbai
The Hinduja Group, one of the oldest overseas distributors of Bollywood films, has announced plans to set up a Hollywood-style studio enterprise in Mumbai. Their Indian film production and distribution venture 'In Network' company will produce 15 - 20 features a year. The Hinduja group has already entered film financing ...
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Japon returns from Cannes with kudos and contracts
Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' feature debut, Japon, returned from Cannes with more than just a Golden Camera Special Jury Mention, it also secured sales contracts for twelve territories.Screened in a longer version at this year's Rotterdam Festival, Japon was picked up there for international sales by French-German producer and sales ...
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UK's BBC Films, New Cinema Fund team for Entering Blue Zone
Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey and Peter Mullan are to star in Entering Blue Zone, a UK film jointly commissioned from BBC Films and the Film Council's New Cinema Fund for BBC TWO.Directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Stuart Mackinnon, Entering Blue Zone is the story of a premature ...
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IFC aims to Sex up Breillat's North American appeal
IFC Films has confirmedits acquisition of all North American rights to Catherine Breillat's Sex IsComedy, the well-received OpeningNight selection of this year's Directors' Fortnight in Cannes which ithopes will introduce the provocative French director to her widest statesideaudience yet.The acquisition wasannounced Thursday by Bob Berney, senior vice president of marketing ...
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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
Dir: Shane Meadows. UK. 2002. 104 mins. Director's FortnightExtensive critical acclaim has failed to generate great audience enthusiasm for the previous films of British hyphenate Shane Meadows. A broad, bittersweet comedy, his third feature Once Upon A Time In The Midlands should tip the balance in the opposite direction. A ...
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Sex Is Comedy
Dir: Catherine Breillat. France. 2002. 92 mins. A welcome reprieve from the joyless intensity of such recent succes de scandale as Romance and A Ma Soeur, Sex Is Comedy allows Catherine Breillat to reveal the kind of light touch and easy humour that some critics may have thought was beyond ...
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Spain's Admira names Martin Marin as new president
Admira, the media subsidiary of Spain's Telefonica last night confirmed the anticipated appointment of Pedro Antonio Martin Marin as its new president, and announced the division of the filial into two separate companies: Admira and Telefonica Contenidos (Telefonica Contents).Martin Marin will preside over Admira, which will contain the company's free-to-air ...
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The Sum Of All Fears takes US box office by storm
Paramount's spy thriller The Sum of All Fears exceeded expectations and shot to the top of the charts over the weekend, overthrowing Star Wars: Episode II, with an estimated $31.2m gross. Clones was shunted to second spot on $20.7m, bringing its cumulative total to $232m after 18 days. Spider-Man slipped ...
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Japan's Toei names new president, posts fiscal 2001 results
Toei, one of the Japan's major film studios, is expected to name current president Tan Takaiwa as its new chairman. Managing director Tsuyoshi Okada, son of outgoing chairman, Shigeru Okada, will take over as president.Tsuyoshi Okada's appointment will see him hit the ground running to regain financial stability for the ...
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New directors awarded German Film Board funds
The new generation of German cinema is the focus in the Federal German Film Board's (FFA) latest round of production funding which totalled Euros 2.5m.Backing between Euros 100,000 and Euros 270,000 was given to feature debuts by Marco Kreuzpaintner (Ganz Unz Gar) and Joachim Masannek (Die Wilden Kerle) and second ...
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Melbourne's St Kilda fest becomes premiere short film event
Melbourne's St Kilda Film Festival will next year quadruple the cash prize for Best Australian Short Film to $5,650 (A$10,000), making it the most lucrative award for short films in the country. This is in addition to the $11,300 (A$20,000) already awarded at the festival.Festival director Malcolm Blaylock told the ...
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Spanish Huesca film festival to honour Kaurismaki
Finnish actress Kati Outinen, recently awarded the best actress prize at Cannes for her work in Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without A Past, is one of the stars expected to turn out for this year's 30th anniversary edition of the Huesca Film Festival of Spain (June 6-15).Outinen will be on ...
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Screendaily.com holiday break
Owing to the Golden Jubilee holiday in the UK, Screendaily.com will be providing a limited news service until Wednesday 5th June.
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One Day Out wins top prize at South Korean shorts festival
Kim Sun-kyung's 16mm short One Day Out (pictured) has won the Busan Asian Short Film Festival Grand Prize, which was awarded on Sunday. A Special Jury Prize was awarded to Choi Jin-young's Too Happy To Die.Highlights of the South Korean five-day BASFF, under the auspices of festival directors, Jeon ...
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Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet
Dirs: Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Chen Kaige, Aki Kaurismaki, Spike Lee, Victor Erice, Wim Wenders. 2002. 92 mins. There are enormous advantages to the short-film format. It allows directors a creative freedom rarely enjoyed these days by even the most bankable names. For the audience, it offers a chance to ...
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Bad Company
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2002. 111 mins. Given producer Jerry Bruckheimer's track record with odd-couple action movies (Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, Enemy Of The State), and the promising pairing of Anthony Hopkins with Chris Rock, action comedy Bad Company could hardly be a better proposition or a bigger disappointment. ...
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Tavernier's latest finds safe passage in US with Empire
Empire Pictures, the NewYork-based art-house distributor that released Patrice Chereau'sBerlinale Golden Bear-winner Intimacy unrated in the US last year, has acquired American rights to anotherBerlin Film Festival award-winning French title, Bertrand Tavernier's Laissez-Passer.The deal was confirmedlast week by Empire Pictures president Edmondo Schwartz and John Kochman,director of international sales at ...