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Alliance Atlantis posts 35% increase in net earnings
Canada's Alliance Atlantis recorded improved year-end results, ending a bad run for the company with net earnings of $31m (C$47.3m), a 35% increase over the previous fiscal year. In January, the company reduced its LA office, cutting 80 staff and paring down distribution and marketing operations. A further 35 positions ...
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Larry Meyers turns consultancy gig at Trilogy into evp job
Veteran executive Lawrence Steven Meyers aka Larry Meyers has joined LA-based independent production outfit Trilogy Entertainment Group as executive vice president. Meyers has been consulting for Trilogy since Sept 2000.Working with Trilogy co-chairmen Pen Densham and John Watson, Meyers is charged with helping to grow the company, particularly the feature ...
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Alan Parker re-appointed chairman of UK Film Council
Alan Parker has been re-appointed as chairman of UK support body the Film Council for a further two years, film minister Kim Howells announced on Wednesday.Parker is understood to feel he needs another two years to see through changes begun by the council, which launched two years ago. He said ...
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Singapore's Raintree strikes joint production deal with Media Asia
Singapore's Raintree Pictures is planning a substantial production expansion after signing a deal with Hong Kong major Media Asia.The deal sees the two companies agree to jointly produce between four and six films per year. Production costs will be equally shared. "It resembles a first look deal, but with a ...
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European Film Awards to travel to Rome
Following an invitation by Rome's cinephile mayor Walter Veltroni, the European Film Awards will be travelling for the first time to the Italian capital. Traditionally alternating between the European Film Academy's home town of Berlin and other European cities, the relocated ceremony will take place on December 7th 2002. The ...
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Spider-Man takes Spain's opening gross record - by a whisker
Spider-Man's Spanish release has seen the film claim the all-time biggest opening gross in the territory, by a slender margin of just $4,088.The film grossed $4,966,824 (Euros 5,014,686) for Columbia TriStar Films de España, narrowly beating previous record-holder Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, which earned $4,962,736 (Euros 5,010,559) on ...
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Shaolin Soccer is still the talk of the town
One of the hottest topics of conversation at the Hong Kong international film & TV market (FilMart) is not the level of deal-making at the event, or even the forthcoming World Cup final, but the enduring box-office success of local hit comedy Shaolin Soccer.As World Cup fever continues to dominate ...
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Teze confirmed as head of Miramax and TF1's TF/M Distribution
TF1 has confirmed the appointment of Perrine Teze as head of TF/M Distribution, the French broadcaster's theatrical joint venture with Miramax. Teze, formerly deputy general manager of TF1's foreign sales division TF1 International, has developed close ties with Miramax. "In fact, it was them who suggested my candidature," she ...
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Women In The Mirror (Kagami No Onnatachi)
Dir: Kijyu Yoshida. Japan. 2002. 129mins.Kijyu Yoshida's first feature in 14 years, Women In The Mirror, is a throwback to the humanistic films with a political slant that once flowed from Japan's 1960s Nouvelle Vague, of which he was a key member. It is also a reminder of why such ...
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Angela
Dir: Roberta Torre. Italy. 2002. 95mins. Dispensing with the musical numbers that peppered her first two films, but remaining true to her fascination with the character and people of Palermo, Roberta Torre still adds little new to the well-worn themes of Angela. Based on true events from the mid-1980s, the ...
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Black And White
Dir: Craig Lahiff. Australia/UK. 2002. 99mins.The Sydney Film Festival traditionally opens with the world premiere of a quality Australian feature: last year it was the free-flowing, cinematically intense Lantana. This year's opener was an altogether more stolid affair - the worthy dramatisation of a 1958 South Australian murder trial and ...
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28 titles join Nielsen EDI's international $100m club
UIP picked up ten Nielsen EDI International Gold Reel awards, which are given to distributors with films grossing more than $100m internationally, at the Cinema Expo exhibitor's conference in Amsterdam. UIP's $100m-plus grossers included A Beautiful Mind, Shrek and Bridget Jones's Diary. "They are the bedrock of the industry and ...
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And Now... Ladies And Gentlemen
Dir: Claude Lelouch. France. 2002. 135 mins. His Palme D'Or in 1966 for A Man And A Woman notwithstanding, Claude Lelouch has never been a critics' favourite and his latest offering, unveiled to the press in Cannes to sniggers and walk-outs, was no exception. And indeed even the director's fans ...
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Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiao Yao)
Dir: Jia Zhang-Ke. China 2002. 113 mins. CompetitionA film about teenage aimlessness that evokes its subject only too well, the third feature by Jia Zhang-Ke, director of Xiao Wu and Platform, is a loose, funky digital venture that undoubtedly feels as if it captures the authentic beat of contemporary Chinese ...
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Can DreamWorks' Spirit run free at the international box office'
DreamWorks SKG's latest animated effort, Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, made its European debut in Germany this week, its first major international territory, but can the 2D-film finally give the company an international triumph over rival studio, and animation giant, Disney'Spirit, distributed internationally by UIP, is DreamWorks first animated title ...
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10
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Iran/France 2002. 94 mins. In competitionA defiantly no-frills exercise even by his ascetic standards, 10 is Abbas Kiarostami's triumphant vindication of digital video's potential to produce a kind of cinema that cannot be achieved by other means. This is screen minimalism at its most uncompromising: 10 sequences ...
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Cinema Expo seminar poses the $10bn digital question
It may have been the first major picture to be shot entirely with high-end digital technology, but the release of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has seen the film projected at cinemas around the world using considerably less digital equipment.Episode II has been released on only ...
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No Man's Land producer to head Locarno festival jury
No Man's Land producer, Cedomir Kolar is to head the jury for the upcoming Locarno film festival (Aug 1 -11), while the event's "Indian Summer" retrospective will include Rajiv Menon's Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Finding One's Self (Kandukondain Kandukondain), and politically active Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen's ...
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Ketan Mehta to produce The Rising, raise $12m via IPO
Veteran Hindi film producer and director Ketan Mehta has announced plans to produce a three-part international English-language feature titled The Rising based on the 1857 revolt of the Indian forces against the British Raj. Mehta, chairman and managing director of Maya Entertainment Ltd (MEL), told Screendaily that the company is ...
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Jingle Ma to direct Jackie Chan in $40m Titanium Rain
Media Asia has lined up hot Hong Kong director Jingle Ma to direct its $40m Jackie Chan vehicle Titanium Rain.The futuristic action title is set in China, the US and Japan and is being scripted in both English and Mandarin. Production is scheduled to start next March for release during ...