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Italy's Adriana Chiesa seals Cannes deals
Italian seller Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) had a busy Cannes.On its Directors' Fortnight film Angela it sold a package of Japanese and European rights to France's MK2. The film is the story of a Mafiosa woman who is emotionally torn between her husband and a man she takes to ...
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Distant Horizon takes world rights to Promised Land
Anant Singh's Distant Horizon has picked up world rights to Promised Land, the directorial debut of Jason Xenopolous.The South African film is a drama about one man's journey to find truth and a nation's struggle to hide it. It stars Nick Boraine, Yvonne van den Bergh, Daniel Browde and Ian ...
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Allen to receive Spain's Prince of Asturias Award
Woody Allen is set to receive Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts at the hand of the country's Prince Felipe next October, an honour which could lift the director's spirit this week as he defends his highly publicised lawsuit against producer Jean Doumanian.A sparse turnout in the ...
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Langhelle reveives Norway's prestigious Aamot Award
The coveted Aamot Award, given by Norway's film distribution professionals and theatre managers, has been bestowed on local actor Joergen Langhelle for his contribution to Norwegian film. The prize has existed since 1959 and is considered to be the finest, as it for some 30 years was the only major ...
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Australia's film industry to overhaul trailer policy
The Australian film industry is to get together to try and overhaul the rules that govern the screening of trailers in the territory. The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) gets more complaints about trailers than about any other subject, while the industry wants to be able to show ...
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New Zealand film awards cancelled due to lack of films
While New Zealand's filmmaking profile is at an all-time high because of the worldwide success of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring, The New Zealand Herald reports that the local film awards will not be going ahead this year because of a shortage of films. Three films ...
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Ireland's Film Fleadh shows international flair
Ireland's 14th Galway Film Fleadh from July 9 to 14 will host an actors' masterclass and public interview with Irish American actor Aidan Quinn. Quinn, who is in Ireland for two films - TV project Dark Eagle (previously titled Benedict Arnold), and Song For A Raggy Boy, scheduled for a ...
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Holmes, Euston Films partner for The Farmer Wants A Wife
Shooting Fish and Waking Ned producer Richard Holmes has partnered with Euston Films, the reincarnation of UK broadcaster Thames Television's film division, to co-produce $10m romantic comedy The Farmer Wants A Wife. The true story of a campaign to find wives for lonely farmers marks Euston's first step in a ...
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Beyond International adds second London executive
Sydney-based Beyond International has named Liliana Lombardero as general manager of television arm Beyond Distribution. With the news leaking out at Cannes that Hilary Davis from Alibi Films International was replacing Gary Hamilton as head of sales at Beyond Films, this is the second London-based divisional head to be appointed ...
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Toronto appoints new programmers, promotes Free
The Toronto International Film Festival has appointed two new programmers for its 27th outing and promoted press office veteran Gabrielle Free to replace outgoing director of media and public relations Nuria Bronfman.Joining the programming team are Diana Sanchez, who will select Spanish-language and Latin American films, and Jane Schoettle, who ...
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UK's Channel 4 mulls FilmFour options
UK broadcaster Channel 4 is in talks to bring in a partner for its loss-making film arm FilmFour, chief executive Mark Thompson said on Wednesday.The statement came after reports in the local press said the broadcaster had already decided to make significant cuts at the film operation, which has suffered ...
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Nicole Guillemet gets top job at Miami Film Festival
Nicole Guillemet, the former co-director of the Sundance Film Festival who left Sundance early this year, has landed in Florida as the new director of the Miami Film Festival.Scheduled to start her new job on July 15, Guillemet is charged with revitalizing an event which last year suffered a drop ...
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Kino takes North American rights to restored Metropolis
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino International has licensed North American distribution rights to the digitally restored 35mm presentation of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis from Munich-based Transit Films. The film will premiere in New York on July 12, followed by a national expansion.Not to be confused with the 1984 ...
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Portman, Hoffman, Ribisi, Gleeson to climb Cold Mountain
The glittering cast of Anthony Minghella's upcoming epic Cold Mountain is taking shape, with the addition of Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi and Brendan Gleeson this week. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger play the three lead roles in the film, which is a co-production between Miramax ...
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Graham Bradstreet's Montage merges with Viastar
In a deal concluded at Cannes last month, Graham Bradstreet's Montage Media & Capital has merged with publicly traded Viastar Holdings VISH and Bradstreet has been appointed chairman of the new group.Viastar, which is run by CEO George Malasek, is an outfit dedicated to developing portfolio companies in the media ...
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Intertainer launches European broadband VOD co
Jonathan Taplin's US broadband video-on-demand (VOD) venture Intertainer has teamed up with Italian new media giant Freedomland to launch an Internet Protocol (IP) VOD service for broadband customers throughout Europe. As part of the deal, Freedomland has made an equity investment of E10 million in Intertainer in return for a ...
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Reviews
The Sum Of All Fears
Dir: Phil Alden Robinson. US. 2002. 124 mins. It's not the efficiently staged action that stands out in the fourth movie adapted from Tom Clancy's series of best-selling Jack Ryan political thriller novels. Nor even the debut of Ben Affleck as a younger, sexier incarnation of CIA stalwart Ryan. Rather, ...
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Searching For Debra Winger (Hladanie)
Dir: Rosanna Arquette. US. 2001. 97mins. Special ScreeningBilled as a "Rosanna Arquette Experience", this documentary portrait of the pressures faced by actresses in the film business is modestly described by its first-time director as "like a home movie. Very simple'. She's right: with its from-the-hip camerawork, some shot by Arquette ...
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US runaway productions in decline
The number of so-called runaway productions from the US to Canada is decreasing, according to a report by the Center for Entertainment Industry Data and Research (CEIDR). The 2001 Production Report, which focuses on "theatrical-length motion pictures released in US theatres", indicates that of 158 films in its 2001 study, ...
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Germany's DVD sell-through market leaps 79%
Germany's DVD sell-through market has leaped 79% in the first quarter, over 2001, helping to boost overall turnover in the national video industry by 25.5% to $332.2m in the first three months of 2002.Statistics compiled by GfK for the trade association Bundesverband Video (BVV) show that the video/DVD sell-through sector ...