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The War Is Over triumphs at FIPA
Italy's RAI TV series The War Is Over (La Guerra E Finita) won five golden awards and one special mention, to wind up as the main victor at this year's FIPA (Festival International de Productions Audiovisuelles) in Biarritz, France. Other winners includde German drama Mein Vater by Andreas Kleinert, Israeli ...
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Schmidt points to flying start for Entertainment
Having narrowly missed out on being the top performing UK distributor of 2002 to 20th Century Fox, Entertainment Film Distributors is off to a flying start in 2003.The company still holds two top five positions with The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - placed third this week with ...
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Brown extends tenure at SPAA
Geoff Brown has been signed to a long-term contact as executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). He took on the job about 10 months ago when predecessor Joanne Yates departed after less than six months, but he has been associated with the organisation for much longer ...
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Record year for German home entertainment market
2002 looks to have been a record year for the German video and DVD market, according to the video industry trade body.According to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute, turnover for the sector increased by over 22% to Euros 1.15bn in the first eleven months of 2002 compared ...
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Swedish Film Institute greenlights new projects
The Swedish Film Institute has awarded funding to three new feature films and a number of documentaries.After 17 years abscence, critics' favourite Kay Pollack is set to make a highly-anticipated comeback. The director, best-known for his coming-of-age drama Children's Island (Barnens O), which was nominated for the Golden Bear at ...
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Spanish digital merger goes ahead
Today marks the deadline for Spain's Sogecable and Telefonica to accept or decline the 34 conditions placed by the Spanish government on the merger of their pay TV platforms Canal Satelite Digital and Via Digital.While there were rumours that the partners might delay their decision by a week, all other ...
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Films Distribution enjoys its inheritance
French sales house Films Distribution is doing good business with an unlikely clutch of films that it inherited from the now collapsed Mercure Distribution.In Rotterdam it closed a UK sale of Lucas Belvaux' trilogy of films An Amazing Couple (Un Couple Epatant), On The Run (Cavale) and After Life (Apres ...
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Dutch A-Film snaps up two Tigers
A-Film Distribution, the independent distributor which last year enjoyed a market share of over 15% in The Netherlands, grabbed Dutch rights to two films showing in the Tiger competition section of the Rotterdam Festival. It bought rights to Bodysong and Principles Of Lust, respectively by Simon Pummel and Penny Woolcock, ...
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Kusama, Lonergan films share Sundance jury prize
Girlfight - the story of a teenage girl boxer - and You Can Count On Me - about a brother and sister whose parents died when they were kids - tied for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition section of the Sundance Film Festival this year.Girlfight, directed by ...
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Showtime gets US rights to Arquette's Debra Winger doc
ShowtimeNetworks has picked up US rights to Searching For Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette's documentaryabout the competing demands of motherhood and being a professional actress. Thepicture had a special screening at Cannes last year and was inspired by thestory of Winger, the acclaimed star of Terms Of Endearment and An Officer ...
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Walken gets supporting actor prize at ShoWest 2003
Christopher Walken has beennamed ShoWest 2003's Supporting Actor of the Year. Walken will collecthis honour at the 29th ShoWest's annual gala awards banquet at Bally'sand Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Mar 6Walken began acting at theage of 10. After training as a dancer and winning several awards for his ...
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Palisades pledges $1m to release of Pauly Shore directorial debut
Palisades PicturesEntertainment Group has pledged a $1m print and advertising commitment to PaulyShore's directorial debut, Pauly Shore Is Dead: You'll NeverWiez In This Town Again. Thepicture, which opened the Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City last week, is asemi-autobiographical account of the ups and downs of comedian Shore'scareer and features ...
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Chicago leads the pack in SAG Award nominations
Miramax's Chicago led the pack with five SAG Awardsnominations today (Jan 28), including lead actor and actress nods for GoldenGlobe winners Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger and an ensemble cast nomination.Gere's first SAG Awards nomination pits him against fellow Golden Globewinner Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt, Adrien Brody for The ...
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Andrew Bovell signs on to adapt Edge Of Darkness for C23 and BBC Films
Australianscreenwriter Andrew Bovell (Lantana, Head On) has signed on to write Catch 23 Entertainmentand BBC Films' feature adaptation of the award-winning BBC drama series, EdgeOf Darkness. Catch 23and BBC Films will co-develop, co-finance and co-produce the project. It will bedirected by the thriller series' original director Martin Campbell, whosefeature credits ...
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Radley leaves Lucasfilm, Lucas reorganises
In a bid to promotethe long-term growth of his business interests, George Lucas announced today(Jan 28) that he will consolidate Lucasfilm, Lucas Digital, LucasArtsEntertainment and Lucas Licensing into one company. 'We have a uniquearray of talent in the areas of special effects, sound design, interactivegames, licensing, distribution and marketing. This ...
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Italy reaps multiplex benefits
With multiplexes mushrooming around the country, Italy recorded a healthy 7.8% rise in earnings at the box office in 2002 as total revenue increased to Euros 525m, according to annual data released by Cinetel. Last year, box office revenue stood at Euros 475.6m.Admissions were up 6% to 89.1m compared to ...
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All The Real Girls
Dir: David Gordon Green. USA. 2002. 105 mins. Young writer-director David Gordon Green lives up to the poetic promise shown by his acclaimed but little-seen first feature, George Washington, with this exquisite dissection of young heartbreak that is similarly set amid the gorgeously-shot industrial decay of North Carolina. An art-house ...
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American Splendor
Dir: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini. US. 2003. 105 mins. American Splendor tells the true story of Harvey Pekar, the writer of the American Splendor comic book series which depicts the inanities of Pekar's humdrum life. A sort of celebration of ennui, or triumph of the nerd saga, the ...
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New movie giant emerges in Asia
South Korean major CJ Entertainment signed a memorandum of understanding today to acquire a stake of up to 35.4% in Plenus Entertainment, the parent company of rival studio Cinema Service. The linking up of the two firms, which are by far the biggest film companies in Korea, is ...
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Paramount, SPC continue Sundance buying frenzy
Happy Accidents and Shadow Magic were the last two pictures to secure domestic distribution deals at this year's Sundance Film Festival, although offers are on the table for at least four more, making it one of the busiest, if most conservative, buyer frenzies in years.Paramount Classics is in the final ...