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Amy Israel named production chief of The Orphanage
LA post-production house The Orphanage has appointed independent producer Amy Israel as head of production. Israel, the former senior vice president of acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, will oversee a broad range of film-maker-driven projects as the company seeks to develop its production slate. While budgets will vary, all productions ...
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Scorsese gets US DGA Lifetime Achievement Award
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) will bestow its highest honour on Martin Scorsese when it presents the veteran film-maker with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 55th Annual DGA Awards on Mar 1. Announcing the decision today (Jan 16), DGA president Martha Coolidge said this would be only the ...
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8 Mile has record-breaking Australian opening day
Universal continued its impressive international roll-out of 8 Mile with a record bow in Australia today (Jan 16), where the rap drama's $975,000 (A$1.7m) one-day haul marked the biggest January opening in Australian box office history. It was also distributor UIP's biggest ever opening in the territory - beating Meet ...
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PGA omits Hours, Pianist, Schmidt
Adaptation, Chicago, Gangs Of New York, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Road To Perdition and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers will chase the main theatrical honour at the 14th Producers Guild of America Annual Awards on Mar 2. The six pictures were nominated today (Jan 16) for ...
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Alan Cumming to adapt his own novel for Bar Code Productions
Film rights to Alan Cumming's semi-autobiographical novel Tommy's Tale have been acquired by the newly-launched New York production company Bar Code Productions. The Scottish actor will produce the picture with Bar Code co-founders Aimee Shieh and Lisa Raden. Published by ReganBooks in the US in August, Tommy's Tale centres on ...
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Another Senator executive bails out
Just four weeks after the surprise departure of Juergen Fabritius from Senator Entertainment, another executive: COO Friedrich-Carl Wachs has quit the company.Wachs (pictured) had been appointed in April 2002 as deputy to chairman Hanno Huth and Senator's fourth board member with responsibilities for corporate development, corporate communication, investor relations and ...
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Universal signs deals with BBC, Canal Plus
Universal Studios Networks UK has acquired extensive packages of movies from the BBC and Canal Plus.Universal declined to comment on speculation that it will launch a second European pay movie channel, based on 13th Street, in the UK other than to point out that "there are other brands". Universal has ...
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Soft Money - Nordic Region
Nordic regionProducers in the heavily-taxed Nordic region rely heavily on public subsidies, without which many would be unable to operate. Osman Kibar, Pia Lundberg and Jacob Neiiendam report.The Nordic region has some of the highest rates of taxation in the world. But its film producers are major beneficiaries of the ...
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Family films take top honours at Bavarian film awards
The makers of the family films Bibi Blocksberg and Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer shared top honours at this year's Bavarian Film Awards Presenting the Euro 250,000 award to producers Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz and Peter Zenk, Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber said "the success of both of these productions confirms the welcome ...
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Berlinale's young German film-making sidebar complete
Perspektive Deutshces Kino - the Berlinale's sidebar for young, innovative German film making - has announced the remaining five films which will complete its list of eleven titles for this year's program. The sidebar will offer a mix of full-length feature and documentary films as well as, for the ...
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France's EuroPalaces maintains market dominance
EuroPalaces held on to its status as top French exhibitor last year. The company, a marriage between Pathe and Gaumont's cinema circuits, attracted 40.6 million visitors in its multiplexes across France for the year - out of total national ticket sales of 185 million.The strong showing helped EuroPalaces' balance ...
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Berlin's Panorama Dokumente series announced
The Panorama Dokumente series of the Berlin International Film Festival has announced its programme for 2003.The series will open on Feb 7 with Traces Of A Dragon: Jackie Chan And His Lost Family by Mabel Cheung and Alex Law (Hong Kong, China).The other films will be: Comandante by Oliver ...
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UK distributor issues writ against Larry Clark
UK distributor Hamish McAlpine is refusing to let his fight with Larry Clark die down and has issued proceedings against the US director.McAlpine is claiming damages for libel from statements and actions which Clark alleged McAlpine made after the two were involved in a restaurant brawl in London last November, ...
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Italy to introduce tougher anti-piracy laws
The Italian Parliament has approved a new anti-piracy law that will put behind bars those who use counterfeit smart cards to access pay-TV channels.While anti-piracy legislation already exists in Italy, prison terms had until now been excluded. But now, as legislators attempt to curb the rampant piracy which has caused ...
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Istituto Luce names Andrea Piersanti as new president
Andrea Piersanti has been named the new president of Istituto Luce, the Rome-based state distributor which is also involved in production and exhibition.Piersanti, 44, is currently the president of the catholic entertainment organisation, Ente dello Spettacolo. He replaces Antonio More, who was temporarily appointed after industry veteran Angelo Guglielmi stepped ...
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A Guy Thing
Dir: Chris Koch. US. 2002. 101mins. Having got his big break as the writer of $300m worldwide hit Meet The Parents, Greg Glienna now mines a similar vein of material for A Guy Thing, a sweet-natured, though sometimes familiar-feeling romantic comedy made on a modest budget for MGM. Replicating the ...
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9
Dir: Umit Unal. Turkey. 2002. 94mins.Preceded by a quote from Franz Kafka's In The Penal Colony about the invisible workings of the system, 9 presents a grim portrait of the way in which religious bigotry and social malaise have a direct and poisonous impact on people's everyday behaviour. Chosen, surprisingly, ...
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BERLIN: COMPETITION AND JURY LINE-UP
Below is a list of titles confirmed for the various sections of the 50th International Film Festival Berlin (February 9-20). OPENING NIGHT FILM (also in competition):The Million Dollar Hotel - Wim Wenders (Germany-US)COMPETITION:Any Given Sunday - Oliver Stone (US)The Beach - Danny Boyle (US)Boys' Choir (Dokuritsu Shonen Gasshoudan) - Akira ...
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Sony Pictures signs up Garnett to production deal
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has entered into a first-look production deal in the UK with Tony Garnett and John Heyman's London-based World Productions, a further move in its expansion into non-US film production. Garnett and Heyman co-founded World in 1990 and have focused principally on TV series with a ...
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Miracle debut wins Max Ophuels Prize
Writer-director Anne Wild's feature debut My First Miracle (Mein Erstes Wunder) (pictured) has won this year's $38,500 (Euros 36,000) Max Ophuels Prize The prize, for up-and-coming German language cinema, was awarded at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival (January 13-19) in Saarbruecken, Germany.The story about a friendship between an eleven ...