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Cannes to showcase Mexican cinema
Cannes is to throw a spotlight on the Mexican film industryat this year's film festival (May 11-22).The Cannes Classics section will be dedicated to Mexicothis year, showcasing a number of classic Mexican pictures whose restorationhas been funded by Fundacion Televisa, the cultural arm of Latin American mediagiant Televisa Group.Backed the ...
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Thai production powerhouse unveils 2005 slate
Following a successful firstyear of operation, Thai production powerhouse GMM Tai Hub has unveiled aline-up of 10 genre-driven films directed by young talent for 2005. Headed by CEO VisutePoolvoralaks, Thailand's best-known producer, GMM Tai Hub was created last Junewhen GMM Pictures, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin merged. It produced ...
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Dedicated Scandinavian film channel set for launch
A team of Scandinavian producers headed by NielsAalbaek Jensen is planning to launch a pay-TV film channel dedicated toScandinavian film.The channel will play no US films or commercials -just Scandinavian features, documentaries and short films. The new channel, which will be co-owned by theproducers and Aalbaek Jensen, is close to ...
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Noyce, Slovo team for Working Title's Hot Stuff
Nearly 20 yearsafter A World Apart, the acclaimed film about her relationship with hermother - a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who was killed by a parcel bomb -writer Shawn Slovo is revisiting South Africa's last two turbulent decades.Slovo, the daughterof Ruth First and leading ANC figure Joe Slovo, has teamed with ...
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Films In Progress announces 2005 line-up
FilmsIn Progress, the joint completion financing initiative of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival and the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouse,has unveiled the seven titles screening in the seventh edition March 17-18 inToulouse.The titles were selected from among 47 entries from acrossLatin America. They will screen for producers, distributors, labs,broadcasters, ...
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Fourtou to step down from Vivendi Universal
Vivendi Universal chairmanJean-Rene Fourtou will leave his post this spring he affirmed Thursday during apress conference to report the company's 2004 results.Fourtou took over the reinsof Vivendi Universal from controversial former chairman Jean-Marie Messier whowas forced out in mid-2002. Under Fourtou's stewardship, the company has soldoff many of its assets, ...
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Hitch has new dates, Robots hits Mexico
Hitch will be the one to beat in theinternational marketplace this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) executives line up two more major market openings with the firmintention of keeping it in pole position.Last weekend'smuscular $21m haul saw the romantic comedy storm to number one overall anddominate a raft of ...
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Nolte, Mechlowicz head Peaceful Warrior cast
NickNolte has been cast in the key role of Socrates in Peaceful Warrior, a movie based on Dan Millman's bestsellingself-help novel Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which went into production this week.Hejoins Scott Mechlowicz, Amy Smart and Agnes Bruckner in the cast. Victor Salva(Jeepers Creepers and JeepersCreepers 2) is directing ...
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Roissy, Celluloid Dreams cancel merger plans
French sales outfits Roissy Films and Celluloid Dreams have cancelled the merger of their international sales activities because of a misconception that Roissy was financially backing its partner."Joining our two company names proved too confusing for buyers and producers," said Roissy Films chairman Raphael Berdugo. "Each of us will keep ...
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ShoWest awards watch: Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams has been named ShoWest 2005 supporting actress of the year and will collect her award at the closing night ceremony in Las Vegas on Mar 17. McAdams will next be seen opposite Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in the New Line comedy The Wedding Crashers and Wes Cravens' ...
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Caplan named as UK Film Council's Premiere Fund chief
The UK Film Council hasappointed Sally Caplan to replace Robert Jones as chief of its high-profileNational Lottery fund for commercial films, the Premiere Fund.Caplan, currently presidentof Icon Film Distribution in the UK, told staff on Friday that she was takingthe position, which puts the well-liked executive in charge of the ...
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Nordisk Film chief quits for top broadcasting job
Nordisk Film chief Kenneth D. Plummer has been named as the newhead of Danish national broadcaster Denmark Radio (DR).Plummer, 44, will take overin his new role on October 1, leaving Nordisk Film parent company EgmontEntertainment plenty of time to find a successor.One of the oldest filmcompanies in the world, Nordisk ...
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RTL to bankroll Dutch film-makers
Dutch broadcaster RTL Entertainment isexpanding its activities into film production. Senior head of programme acquisitionsDirk de Lille said he had reserved "a couple of million" Euros toco-produce around five film projects a year.They will primarily be Dutch filmprojects, but de Lille has not ruled out linking up with foreign partners ...
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Jackson says Hobbit on hold for three years
Lord Of TheRings director PeterJackson has said he will not start shooting an adaptation of J.R.RTolkein's The Hobbit for several years.Asked how longit would take to begin shooting the prequel to the Rings trilogy, Jackson said:"Three or four years would be accurate." Jackson was inSydney to talk to fans about ...
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Fox's Robots tops US box office with $36.5m weekend
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Wade joins Palmer to form Runaway film division
Producer Todd Wade has teamedup with Linda Palmer to form a feature film division at Palmer's LosAngeles-based commercials outfit Runaway Productions.The partners plan to produce between three and four low tomoderately budgeted titles each year with the first project, thriller Look @Me, set to begin filmingin Los Angeles later this ...
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Fabrication buys worldwide rights to Conversations
Los Angeles-based sales company Fabrication Films haspicked up worldwide rights to Hans Canosa's drama Conversations With OtherWomen, which was shotentirely in split-screen and stars Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.The story centres on a perilous love affair between two people whomeet at a friend's wedding reception.GordonStreet Pictures' Ram Bergman, whose ...
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McInnis steps down from Slamdance Film Festival
Kathleen McInnis is steppingdown from her role as Slamdance Film Festival director, following theevent's most successful incarnations back in January."We wish the best forKathleen," festival co-founder and president Peter Baxter said in astatement. "We have been fortunate to enjoy a great working relationshipwith her, and we were happy for the ...
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Mann cinemas sets out 3D digital plans with Real D
Southern California UStheatre chain Mann Theatres will today announce today [March 14] that it haschosen Los Angeles-based Real D as its exclusive delivery system for digital 3Dentertainment throughout the theatre chain.Mann Theatres' Grauman'sChinese Complex, locaed in Hollywood, will host the Real D flagship theatre andwill open to the public in ...
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Iger appointed Eisner's successor at Disney
Disney president Robert Iger has been chosen to succeed MichaelEisner as chief executive of the media conglomerate, according to an announcementby the company yesterday [13].Iger's appointment follows more than a year of speculation andrumour at the studio, which at times has reached the depths of muck-racking morecommonly associated with a ...