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Italian industry worried as admissions slip in 2003
Admissions in Italy slipped by just 1.92% in 2003, but the drop has worried industry observers as it comes in spite of the fact that 182 new screens were built in the country last year.According to data released by Cinetel, which monitors around 75% of cinemas nationwide, Italian cinemas recorded ...
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Carandiru to open Argentina's Mar Del Plata
Carandiru, Brazil's official entry to the Oscars, will open Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival, slated to run from March 11th to 20th.Pupi Avati's Heart Is Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) will close the Latin American A-listed festival.Carandiru director Hector Babenco is Argentine-born and is best known for directing Oscar-nominated ...
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Lakeshore dives into Romania with Cave
Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems have settled on Romania as the location for the shoot of their action-thriller Prime Evil aka Cave.The picture, which is scheduled to shoot from March, had long been pencilled in to use East European locations. Lakeshore recently settled on Romania and has begun constructing sets ...
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Croff confirmed as Biennale boss
As expected, Italian culture minister Giuliano Urbani confirmed on Thursday the appointment of Davide Croff as the new president of the Biennale, the organization that runs the Venice Film Festival. (See ScreenDaily.com, Jan 15)Croff's appointment will now have to be ratified by the both the parliament and the senate's cultural ...
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First Forum films announced by Berlinale
Films by Korea's Kim Jee-woon, Japan's Sabu, Russian directorial duo Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, and Hong Kong's Johnnie To are among the first batch of titles confirmed for this year's International Forum of New Cinema at the forthcoming Berlinale.The titles announced so far are:A Bride Of The Seventh Heaven ...
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Production Show: Producers slam UK broadcasters
UK broadcasters were accused of undermining the creation of a sustainable local film industry by a line-up of leading producers, financiers and international sales agents at The Production Show in London on Wednesday.The broadcasters came under fire at the Movie Days conference, hosted by Screen International at The Production Show ...
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Spanish cinema stuck in 'vicious circle' says Academy
Spanish cinema is stuck in a "vicious circle" of debility and dependence, the Spanish Cinema Academy suggested in its annual report on the local film sector, presented on Thursday in Madrid.The so-called "Crisis" of Spanish film production - the title of last year's report - is far from resolved, ...
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Premier PR expands with Flagship acquisition
Premier PR, the London and LA-based entertainment public relations agency, has acquired Flagship Publicity, the UK based celebrity representation and fashion/luxury goods brand PR..Premier also recently brought in Deborah Harpur to run their Events Management department. Harpur was formerly in charge of Lilac Events at Purple PR. PPR already ...
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Cannes Market launches Producers Network
The Cannes Market islaunching a new initiative intended to make its activities relevant toproducers, as well as the usual ranks of sales agents and distributors.It is launching ProducersNetwork, Le Reseau Des Producteurs, which will act as both an informationsource and a highly-structured meeting place for producers.It says that the movereflects ...
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Art Directors Guild announces nominations
TheArt Directors Guild (ADG) has announced its nominations in two film categoriesfor its upcoming Eighth Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards.Theperiod or fantasy film nominees include Ben Van Os for Girl With A PearlEarring, Lily Kilvert for The Last Samurai, Grant Major for TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of ...
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Kenny, Abad promoted at Warners Bros Int'l TV
SimonKenny has been promoted to executive vice president, Europe, and Jose 'Pepe'Abad has been promoted to the new post of senior vice president, SouthernEurope, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).Kenny,who joined WBITD as senior vice president, Europe, last year, will continue tooversee the company's European sales force based in ...
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Kenny, Abad promoted at Warner Bros Int'l TV Distribution
SimonKenny has been promoted to executive vice president, Europe, and Jose 'Pepe'Abad has been promoted to the new post of senior vice president, SouthernEurope, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).Kenny,who joined WBITD as senior vice president, Europe, last year, will continue tooversee the company's European sales force based in ...
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Whitaker, Balaban board freedom project for Sundance Channel and Court TV
ForestWhitaker and Bob Balaban are the first two film-makers to join The FirstAmendment Project, a four-part series of half-hour films by the SundanceChannel and Court TV.Setto air in August 2004, the series invites film-makers to reflect on the notionof freedom in daily life and the challenges of protecting the values ...
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Aurum shows Spanish Passion for Gibson epic
Spanish distributor Aurum has nabbed all local rights to Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion Of Christ.The film will premiere in Spain on April 2. Despite the widespread use of dubbing in Spain, it will be released according to Gibson's wishes in original version with subtitles to highlight the original use ...
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UK based steel billionaire to invest in Indian film
UK based Indian billionaire Lord Swraj Paul has announced that his steel and engineering conglomerate Caparo Group plans to invest more in India in areas such as films, fashion and tourism.Lord Paul's son Angad Paul was the executive producer of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.Lord Paul told Indian press ...
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Berlinale unveils Talent Campus 2004
520 young film talents from 84 countries have been selected for this year's Berlinale Talent Campus 2004, where they will be tutored by guest professional filmmakers such as Eleanor Bergstein, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Nicolas Philibert, Zbigniew Preisner, Alan Parker and Wim Wenders.Compared to last year the total number of ...
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Eurimages unveils new funding round
Eurimages, the European production finance body, has made its first round of funding decisions since changing its rules at the beginning of the year.At a three-day funding round (March 6-8), the Council of Europe-backed organisation said that it is investing a total of $3.8m (Euros3.95m) to back ten features. Decisions ...
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German exhibitors call on court to examine Film Law
Germany's exhibitors' association HDF decided at an extraordinary AGM on Jan 15 to call on the Federal Constitutional Court to examine whether the new Film Funding Law (FFG) is in accordance with the German Constitution.The exhibitors are particularly unhappy about the different ways in which the ticket levy was decided ...
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Spain's Plural embarks on US Justice shoot
Spain's Plural Entertainment has begun shooting in Miami on Justice For All (Justicia Para Todos), the first Spain-produced fiction series wholly designed for, shot and broadcast in the US.The one-hour dramatic series will be broadcast during prime-time on Univision, giving it a potential audience of 40 million.The series is set ...
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Vinterberg, Almodovar win Euro i2i backing
New features by Thomas Vinterberg, Pedro Almodovar, the Brothers Quay, Jonathan English and Charles Dance are among 59 European film and TV projects supported with over Euros 2.3m by the European Commission's i2i Audiovisual scheme.The new scheme was launched last July to help production companies access external funding from banks. ...