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Maradona biopic set to unveil star actor
The Spanish, Argentinean and Italian co-producers of a Euros 6m-plus feature film about the life of Argentinean football hero Diego Maradona have unveiled new details of the project days after the star was hospitalised in Buenos Aires for a heart problem and lung infection.The film starts with the heart problems ...
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Hanks to receive BAFTA/LA Britannia Award
Tom Hanks will receive theStanley Kubrick Britannia Award in honour of his services to the industry at aBAFTA/LA ceremony in Los Angeles on Nov 4.Hanks became the first actorin 50 years to win back-to-back Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in 1994 and 1995 respectively and his expansivecredits roster includes ...
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EC probes Microsoft, Telewest deal
The European Commission has today opened a full investigation of the proposed acquisition of a 29.7% stake in UK cable network Telewest by Microsoft.The deal was announced in May last year when AT&T, which owns Liberty Media, took over Media One, which owns the stake. The EC said it expects ...
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Annenberg Foundation dishes out $5m to Sundance
The SundanceInstitute received its largest ever grant of $5m from the Annenberg Foundationlast night (22) and will use the award to establish the Annenberg Film FellowsProgramme to help aspiring film-makers.The five-yearscheme will offer personal stipends, residencies and creative support for up tofive participants on the institute's Feature Film Programme, with ...
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Bill starts second international onslaught
This weekend revenge is a dish best served hot asMiramax's Kill Bill Vol 2 opens wide infive major international markets within a week of its table-topping US bow.QuentinTarantino's sequel opened in Germany and Australia on Apr 22 and goes out inthe UK and Italy on Apr 23 - all through ...
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MPAA hails worldwide anti-piracy raids
MPAA chiefs have hailed a series of worldwide anti-piracyraids that resulted in the seizure this week of tens of thousands of titles foronline use worth at least $50m.Operation Fastlink launched on the morning of Apr 22 in 27US states and ten other countries including the UK, Germany, France, Hungaryand Singapore.Undercover ...
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Man On Fire
Dir: Tony Scott. US. 2004. 145mins.Just weeks after The Rock (Walking Tall) and Tom Jane (The Punisher) decimated parts of the US, comes Denzel Washington to wreak havoc on Mexico City. Man On Fire is yet another post-9/11 vigilante movie in which a righteous American tough man takes revenge on ...
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Appleseed
Dir: Shinji Aramaki. Japan. 2004. 103 mins.Japanese animation is insinuating itself into everything from Kill Bill Vol. 1 to kiddy cartoon channels on US cable. Unlike makers of Japanese live-action films, whose total annual exports wouldn't underwrite one middling Hollywood movie, Japanese animators can strike it truly rich abroad - ...
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Video Island DVD service strikes UK Post Office deal
UK online DVD rental service Video Island has signed a dealwhich will allow the service to be promoted in many of the UK's 17,000post offices.The exclusive partnership deal was signed withPostmasternetwork, a commercial group which supports local Postmasters. 90% ofPost Offices are run independently by local Postermasters.Postmasternetwork members will promote ...
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Nine Queens director readies Aura thriller
Fabian Bielinsky, director of international hit NineQueens, is putting the finishing touches onthe script for his follow-up film, a psychological thriller provisionallytitled The Aura (El Aura) and setto star Ricardo Darin.Darin (Nine Queens, Son Of The Bride) will play a taxidermist whose fantasies aboutsetting up the perfect crime come unexpectedly ...
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Moviehouse takes on Nina's Tragedies, Overnight sales
London-basedsales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights forSundance title Overnight and Israeli hit Nina's Tragedies. Both titles will receive market premiere screenings at theupcoming Cannes market.Overnightis documentaryfollowing the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of filmmaker Troy Duffy who,approached by Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein, is offered the once in alifetime opportunity to ...
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Wild Bunch Man plugs financing hole
Man ToMan, WildBunch's period piece starring Joseph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas,has patched together its financing after tax fund First Choice fell thoughfollowing the government's Feb 10 clamp down.The UK-Frenchco-production is plugging the hole left in the budget - about a third ofits total - with a standard sale and ...
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Costa-Gavras, Haneke features win Eurimages funding
New feature film projects by Michael Haneke, ConstantinCosta-Gavras, Robert Glinski and Pal Sletaune are among nine Europeanco-productions which were awarded Euro 3.3m by the pan-European co-productionfund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amounts - Euro 600,000 each - went to Haneke's Cache and Pasquale Scimeca's Italian-Spanishco-productionPassione Di Giosue ...
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Village plans to sell Harvest stake to hotel chain
Australia's Village Roadshow plans to sell its 34.7% stake in Hong Kong movie company Golden Harvest Entertainment to Hong Kong-based Lai Sun Hotels International for $40m (HK$304.3m). The deal is conditional on the consent of Golden Harvest founder and chairman Raymond Chow."Village Roadshow is now totally focused on its core ...
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Constantin financial chief to leave after five years
Constantin Film's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Dr DanielWiest is to leave the German producer-distributor at the end of next monthafter five years with the company.Constantin's Chairman of theSupervisory Board Bernd Eichinger noted that Wiest had 'played a prominentrole in helping to make Constantin Film one of the most successful German ...
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Cannes market set for record attendance figures
Cannes' Marche du Film has said that it expects arecord number of 8500 participants at this year's event withpre-registration figures already up by ten per cent compared to 2003.The highest increases are from the UK, the US, Asia, Spain,South Africa and Finland.The Marche also reports that the number of buyers ...
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Alliance Atlantis restructures operations
There's about tobe a lot of new business cards printed at Alliance Atlantis. Two years afterintroducing its operating groups of Broadcast, Motion Picture Distribution andEntertainment, the company is re-integrating those groups into a single corporatestructure - all save Motion Picture Distribution, which became a distinctcorporate entity in the autumn ...
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FIFE 2004 Application Form
FILM INDUSTRY FOOTBALL EVENT 2004THE DEN, MILLWALL FOOTBALL CLUBSUNDAY 23rd MAY 2004ENTRY FORMPlease complete and return the form, by post or fax, to:Chris HiggsFIFE 2004NCH85 Highbury ParkLondon, N5 1UDFax: 020 7704 7063Please enter my team at £1,000. I understand that teams will be sold on a first come first served ...
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Find out about FIFE
Find out about FIFEThe Film Industry Football Event (FIFE) is an annual 5-a-side football tournament, open to people who work in the UK film industry.Now in its seventh year, FIFE has raised more than £200,000 towards the work of NCH, one of the UK's leading children's charities.Firmly established as one ...