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Berlin completes competition line-up
The remaining five films in competition add significantly to the Asian content of this year's Berlin festival and put increased emphasis on the Holocaust.The new additions, which complete the line-up, are headed by Chinese-German co-production Blind Shaft (Mang Jing), a first feature by documentary director Li Yang. The film about ...
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Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself
Dir: Lone Scherfig. Den-UK. 2002. 111minsA bittersweet reflection on love and death, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself should beguile the same sophisticated audience who warmed to Italian For Beginners and also win writer-director Lone Scherfig a fresh wave of admirers. Displaying the same quirky charm and bone dry humour of ...
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Kinderfilmfest international jury announced
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has announced its International Jury which will award the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix.The five jury members are:German director Christina Schindler (Rinnsteinpiraten); Norway's Lars Berg (winner of the Grand Prix and the Crystal Bear for Glasskar last year); Ricardo Casas, director of Uruguay's Festival Internacionale de Cine para ...
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Theatrical distributor Cinemac launches in Colombia
Despite a 40% dip in admissions over the last two years, a new distributor has launched in Colombia in a bid to introduce more independent cinema to the country. Under the banner Cinemac, the new indie plans to release three to four titles a month, starting with Victor Salva's Jeepers ...
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Zentropa to cut staff by 25%
Danish production company Zentropa is to cut a quarter of its staff; while local authorities investigate a number of its subsidiary companies.Peter Aalbæk Jensen and Lars von Trier's Zentropa is set to lose 20 out of a total of 80 of its staff in the weeks to come.At the same ...
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Miramax tracks down Station Agent at Sundance
Marking its first Sundance Film Festival acquisition this year, Miramax Films beat out several other rivals to pick up all English speaking territories and Italian rights to The Station Agent, a small, intimate character study from first-time director and screenwriter Tom McCarthy that appears in dramatic competition here.Although no price ...
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Arclight takes international on Dentists
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has picked up international rights to Alan Rudolph's The Secret Lives Of Dentists which screens this week in the premiere section of the Sundance Film Festival after its world premiere at Toronto last September.Manhattan Pictures has domestic rights to the film which was produced by Holedigger ...
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Forum of New Cinema line-up finally unveiled
Fifty two films from 24 countries have been selected for the Forum of New Cinema at next month's Berlin International Film Festival. Directorial debuts by young filmmakers from Argentina, China, Japan, Mozambique, Hungary, the United States and Thailand together make up almost a third of the entire programme. Twenty-six of ...
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Love And Sex
Dir: Valerie Breiman. USA. 2000. 82 mins.Prod Co: Bogart/Barab/Wyman. Int'l sales: Behaviour Worldwide. Prod: Timothy Scott Bogart, Brad Wyman, Martin J Barab. Exec prod: Mark Damon. Scr: Valerie Breiman. DoP: Adam Kane. Prod des: Sarah Sprawls. Ed: Martin Apelbaum. Mus: Billy White Acre, Pierpalo Tiane. Main cast: Famke Janssen, Jon ...
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Comerica Bank files lawsuit against Advanced Licencing
German license trader Advanced Medien's troubles seem to have no end with the news that US-based Comerica Bank has filed a lawsuit against subsidiary Advanced Licencing.The lawsuit is over payment of over $2m in loans granted by the bank to Unified Film Organization (UFO), a 51% subsidiary of Advanced Medien, ...
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Records fall as Australia celebrates bumper box office
Box office revenues in Australia rose 4% in 2002 to hit US$495.4m (A$844.8 million) and achieve another record-breaking year. Given that annual falls have only been registered once in the past 15 years, the positive result was not a surprise.While the country's nearly 19m people are visiting cinemas more than ...
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Specialist Hispanic distributor launches into US
Cinemateca, a new distribution company for Spanish-language arthouse and classic films, kicks off next month in a bid to tap the exploding DVD market in the U.S. where DVD player penetration currently stands at 46% of TV households. The move also comes just as census figures show that Hispanics have ...
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Hungarian Film Week unveils competition line-up
The annual Hungarian Film Week in Budapest (Jan 28- Feb 4) will open with Miklos Jancso's latest film, Wake Up Mate, Don't You Sleep.The Film Week will close with a film from another Hungarian filmmaking legend, Karoly Makk's A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda. The feature film competition will ...
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Goats, Goddesses and AC/DC feature in Lolafilms slate
Spanish production company Lolafilms is readying several new films for production in 2003."I foresee making four or five films this year," says Lolafilms CEO Andres Vicente Gomez, co-producer on Aisling Walsh's Sundance title Song For A Raggy Boy and this season's biggest domestic hit in Italy, Christmas On The Nile ...
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Chris Aronson joins MGM Distribution as evp and general sales manager
MGM Distribution has appointed industry veteran Chris Aronson as executive vice president and general sales manager, it was announced today (Jan 23) by Erik Lomis, president of MGM Distribution. Aronson will be responsible for the sales and distribution of both MGM Pictures and United Artists theatrical releases within the US ...
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Kirk Douglas signs to The Illusion for Entitled
Kirk Douglas has joined the cast of The Illusion for production house Entitled Entertainment, it was announced today (Jan 22) by partners James Burke and Scott Disharoon. Burke and Disharoon, along with Kevin Weisman and Anahid Nazarian, will serve as producers on the film, which marks actor Michael Goorjian's directorial ...
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IFM picks up The Turner Affair for AFM
Anthony I Ginnane and Ann Lyons' film and TV sales outfit IFM has picked up worldwide rights to the mystery thriller The Turner Affair, which is set to receive its world premiere at AFM next month. Filmed in Queensland, Australia, the picture centres on the aftermath of a scheming couple's ...
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NATPE 2000: DOTCOMS TAKE CENTRE STAGE
NATPE organisers said that despite bad weather delays, attendance at the New Orleans programme market exceeded last year - 17,520 had checked in after two days. But it was unclear whether record amounts of sales were being conducted.NATPE chairman Bruce Johansen said that the number of programme acquisition executives from ...
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Spice Factory options Ondaatje's Forgotten Games
UK production outfit Spice Factory has optioned the rights to The Forgotten Games, an original screenplay by David Ondaatje based on the true story of the British Olympic ice hockey team's controversial participation in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Nazi Germany. Ondaatje also plans to direct the film which is ...
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United Artists clinches Pieces Of April for $3.5m
United Artists (UA) closed the biggest deal of the Sundance Film Festival yesterday, beating competitors including Fox Searchlight and Focus Features to worldwide rights to fest favourite Pieces Of April. The price paid was $3.5m.The film once again comes from the digital video production powerhouse InDigEnt and backer IFC Productions, ...