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Telepiu, net operations add to Canal Plus loss
Michael Haneke, the Austrian director whose film The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) scooped three of the top awards at Cannes last week, has set his next project as a series for television. The series Das Weisse Band (literally The White Band) will be produced for state broadcaster ORF and shot ...
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Warm day for Cold Mountain with Globe nominations
Miramax'shomeric American Civil War drama Cold Mountain led the 61st Golden Globe nominationstoday (Dec 18) with eight nods including best drama, actor, actress, directorand screenplay, while Focus Features' dreamy Tokyo romance Lost InTranslation and Warner'smurder drama Mystic River followed on five each. The Globes are voted on by the 90-member ...
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$57.6m in opening day for the King in 18 territories
With Friday andthe weekend still to come, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has already broken a slew ofinternational opening day records as the New Line International title grossedan estimated $23.5m in its first day in 17 territories and $34.1m in the US.All in all thefinal ...
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Australia's John Curran signs on with Endeavor
Award-winning Australianwriter and director John Curran, whose latest film is the drama We Don'tLive Here Anymore, hassigned for representation with Endeavor.The film starsLaura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Watts and will premiere in competition atSundance in January.Curran's creditsinclude the relationship drama Praise, which won the best director award from the ...
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Warner prosecutes German man with camcorder
In a move that demonstratesstudio resolve to stamp out piracy, Warner Bros Entertainment has begun legalaction against a cinema-goer for illegally camcording The Matrix Reloaded.A German man wasdetained while copying the film with a personal camcorder at a cinema in Munichafter he was spotted by cinema staff wearing night goggles.The ...
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Frameline & Horizons name four gay and lesbian grant-winners
San Franciscoorganizations Frameline and Horizons have announced recipients of the 2003Horizons/Frameline Completion Fund, established more than 10 years ago to helplesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media artists with the final stages ofproduction.This year, thefund received more than 80 submissions and awarded $15,000 in completion fundsto the following four projects:Screaming Queens: ...
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Huth steps down from Germany's Senator
Hanno Huth is to step down from his board position at Senator Entertainment on Dec 31 and plans to set up his own production outfit in the New Year.Huth says he wants to concentrate on hands-on film production again after being immersed in management tasks at Senator since it launched ...
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Berlinale unveils first Panorama titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has unveiled the first films to play in its programme at next year's festival (Feb 5-15).Almost a third of next year's selection has now been confirmed, following screenings in Asia, North and South America, as well as Europe.According to the Panorama organisers, this year's main programme ...
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Elephant to self-destruct in France
French distribution and production company MK2 is to send Cesar Award voters a self-destruct DVD of Gus Van Sant's Elephant.With fears of film piracy on the increase, the use of such a DVD has been widely debated. However, this is understood be the first time that a self destruct screener ...
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Danish Film Institute greenlights family films
The Danish Film Institute has greenlit two animated and one live action film aimed at family audiences.The latter is the third instalment in the popular My Sister's Kids series, based on a string of films from the late 60s. My Sister's Kids In Egypt received $1.2m and as the title ...
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Golden Harvest readies China multiplex
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment has signed a deal with developer China Resources Holdings to open a 12-screen cinema in the MIXc shopping mall in Shenzhen, southern China.The first phase of the development, including seven screens and around 1,200 seats, is expected to open by Christmas next year. The second ...
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HBO to launch Spanish-language channel in the US
HBO plans to launch a Spanish-language multiplex channel, HBO Latino, in the US by autumn 2000.The new channel is aimed the growing Spanish-speaking audience in the US. According to the network, 19% of Hispanic households subscribe to HBO and Latinos make up 11% of its subscriber base."HBO Latino fits perfectly ...
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Global demand for French film slips back
Global demand for French films this year fell for the second successive year in a row, according to the latest figures from Unifrance, the French film export body.French films attracted a projected 48m admissions in 2003, taking roughly Euros 240m in box-office.The numbers are down compared to 2002's 55 million ...
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Italian industry denounces Venice political interference
Italy's national association of independent film directors and producers, API, has released a strongly worded statement denouncing political interference in the Venice Film Festival. API also urged Biennale president Franco Bernabe' not to resign from his position.API's move comes after culture minister Giuliano Urbani failed to reconfirm Venice artistic director ...
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Another Mulisch novel set for feature treatment
French production company Nord-Ouest has bought the film rights to the novel The Procedure, written by Dutch author Harry Mulisch.Previous books by Mulisch have resulted in features such as The Discovery of Heaven (2000), directed by Jeroen Krabbé, and the Oscar winning The Assault (1984), directed by Fons Rademakers. The ...
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Zelary
Dir: Ondrej Trojan. Czech Republic. 2003. 150mins.Ondrej Trojan, the producer of Czech hits Divided We Fall and Pupendo, returns to directing with Zelary, a sweeping World War II story set in a remote mountain community where a resistance worker takes refuge from the Nazis. One of those lilting, long films ...
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Palm Springs to screen 52 of 56 foreign Oscar submissions
Sixty-nine world and US premieresare among a line-up of 200 films from 60 countries that will play at the 15thPalm Springs International Film Festival, which runs from Jan 8-19.The festival opens with TimBurton's father-son drama Big Fishand closes with the US premiere of John Irvin's musical comedy The Boys FromCounty ...
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Wellspring takes US rights to Strayed
US-based Wellspring Media has acquired all US rights toAndre Techine's Strayed (LesEgares), which premiered in competition atCannes earlier this year. The company plans a summer 2004 US release followedby DVD and video roll-out.Based on GillesPerrault's best-selling novel, Strayed stars Emmanuelle Beart as a widowed schoolteacher who fleesParis as the Nazis ...
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Warner Bros and Rowling win German plagiarism court case
A district courtin Hamburg has upheld a plagiarism claim brought by Warner Bros Entertainmentand J K Rowling against a German educational publisher.According to thestatement of claim the company, Verlag an der Ruhr, published three schoolbooks related to the character, lore and trademarks of the Harry Potter serieswithout formal permission of ...
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Seven films shortlisted for FX Oscar - but no Matrix
The Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven films that will be consideredfor achievement in visual effects for the 76th Academy Awards.The titles are: Hulk,The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Master And Commander, Peter Pan,Pirates Of The Caribbean, Terminator 3 and X2.Curiously,neither of ...