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Plenus Entertainment unveils Korean exhibition plans
Plenus Entertainment, the parent of Korea's Cinema Service, today detailed its plans to challenge the market leaders in the country's exhibition sector (see Screendaily, April 14).Plenus will launch a multiplex theatre chain, called Primus Cinema, which it aims to have operating 100 screens with some 24,000 seats by 2004.Primus will ...
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Chuo joins Artisan as vice president, acquisitions in Los Angeles
Artisan Pictures has hired Monica Chuo as its vice president of acquisitions based in Los Angeles. She will report directly to the company's executive vice president Patrick Gunn, and fills the space left by senior vice president, acquisitions, Leilani Forby who left Artisan recently to join former Artisan colleague John ...
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Constantin exits Escape Artist deal
Munich-based producer-distributor Constantin Film yesterday said it had prematurely terminated a two-year output deal with US producer Escape Artists as a result of changes to its product sourcing strategy.Reporting a narrowing first-half net loss of Euros6m (2001: Euros6.7m), Constantin said it had been forced to write-off Euros3.9m - the value ...
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Japan plans $22m boost for local films
The Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs is asking the government to double its spend on local film this year in a bid to boost domestic film production.The agency has asked the government to set aside Y2.6bn ($22.1m) from its fiscal 2003 budget - twice the amount spent last year - ...
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Rush Hour 2 is biggest indie film of 2001
Rush Hour 2, New Line's action sequel, has emerged as the biggest independent film of 2001 in the US, according to a list compiled by AFMA, the trade body representing the independent film industry worldwide. The film, staring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker grossed $226 million.Films eligible for AFMA's list ...
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Festival unveils more world and North American premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 5-14) will feature the world premiere of director Shekhar Kapur's The Four Feathers, along with the North American premieres of writer/director Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale and Julie Taymor's Frida.Filmed in Morocco, Four Feathers is Kapur's (Elizabeth) epic tale of man's indomitable spirit and ...
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NuVision chief steps down
Pedro Rodriguez Domecq has resigned from his post as president of Mexico-based, Latin American distributor NuVision. Domecq's resignation comes amid reports that NuVision and sister production company Altavista have both been cutting staff following slow returns and less than successful productions since last year's Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros). Federico ...
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Scanbox inks UIP distribution deal
Following months of speculation United International Pictures (UIP) has confirmed that it will handle all theatrical distribution of Scanbox Entertainment films in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The deal, effective from Jan15, was prompted by Scanbox's desire to cut down its activities. Scanbox CEO Jorgen Kristiansen said: "the distribution know-how ...
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Toronto to mark 9/11anniversary
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 5-14), that was massively disrupted by last year's terrorist attacks, is to mark the anniversary of the tragic events by remaining dark.The festival will suspend all conferences, lectures and screenings until 11am on Sept 11 this year and will offer counseling services to staff ...
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Lions Gate gets boost from Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball (pictured), the Marc Forster-directed drama that earned Halle Berry her best actress Oscar, also did wonders for its distributor Lions Gate.Lions Gate reported net income of $2.7m, or 4 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $335,000, or 3 cents a ...
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Monster's Ball boosts Lions Gate
Monster's Ball (pictured), the Marc Forster-directed drama that earned Halle Berry her best actress Oscar, also did wonders for its distributor Lions Gate.Lions Gate reported net income of $2.7m, or 4 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $335,000, or 3 cents a ...
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O'Neal stars in New York indie The Technical Writer
Tatum O'Neal, WilliamForsythe and Michael Harris are the stars and Scott Saunders the director of TheTechnical Writer, an independentfeature which went into production in New York City this week. The film marksthe first feature from production outfit Damage Control which was formed in NewYork by David Leitner and Michael Yanko ...
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Abril signs to Alquimia's Swindled
Tie Me Up,Tie Me Down star and Spain's leading lady, Victoria Abril has signed on to star in the forthcoming Alquimia Cinema production Swindled (Incautos).Abril will star alongside Argentine veteran Federico Luppi (The Devil's Backbone) and Spanish up-and-comers Ernesto Alterio and Guillermo Toledo (both from The Wrong Side Of The ...
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Evans to take business role at Film Council
UK funding body the Film Council has recruited Intermedia senior executive Will Evans to be its new head of business affairs. Evans, an entertainment lawyer with 23 years' experience, joins the Film Council on 2 September. He has worked at Intermedia for six years, most recently as co-president of ...
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Israel sets date for TV franchise race
The tender round for Israel's proposed third free-to-air television channel will start no later than July according to Israeli communications minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer.Ben Eliezer, who is pushing legislation through the Israeli parliament in order to meet the deadline, has hinted that he'd prefer to award the franchise to a ...
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Possession
Dir: Neil LaBute. US. 2002. 103 mins. An extraordinary choice of director lies at the heart of Possession, a story of rapturous Victorian romance told by a film-maker, Neil LaBute, best known for his razor-tongued and cynical comedies about contemporary American sexual mores. Critical response will depend on whether his ...
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The Guru
Dir: Daisy von Scherler Mayer. UK-US. 2002. 94minsFeatherweight, feel good escapism, The Guru grafts a modish Bollywood sensibility on to a tried and tested fish-out-of-water comedy scenario. The end result is technically polished candy floss that tries desperately hard to please, with a cartoonish approach and casual disregard for basic ...
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Edinburgh: Irreversible director Noe lays down challenge to UK censors
Aware that the UK has the most restrictive regulations in Europe on the screening of sexual violence, Gaspar Noe director of scandal film Irreversible challenged the UK censors to ban the film or leave it well alone."I don't think it will be released if it needs to be cut. I ...