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Rotterdam festival incites 'Parliamentary' dissent
The decision by the Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR) to revive its Film Parliament format - first used 15 years ago - produced two of the sparkiest festival debates on film seen in recent years. By ditching the classical panel debates and opting instead for a confrontational set-up concluding in a ...
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Confidence to open Philadelphia Film Fest, Laurel Canyon to close
The Philadelphia Film Festival will open on April 3 with James Foley's Confidence and close on April 17 with Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon. The festival this year changes its name from Philadelphia Festival Of World Cinema to Philadelphia Film Festival.Philadelphia Film Society board chairman and artistic director Raymond Murray announced ...
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Palm pacts with Lions Gate for US home video release
Palm Pictures and Lions Gate Home Entertainment have struck a new distribution deal under which all Palm Pictures' new and select catalogue live action home video releases will be distributed and sold by Lions Gate Entertainment in the US. The announcement was made jointly by Paul DeGooyer, general manager of ...
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Assisted Living wins top prize at Slamdance
Elliot Greenebaum's dark comedy Assisted Living about a janitor in a nursing home for the elderly who spends his time getting high with the residents won the Grand Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival on Friday night in Park City. Slamdance runs concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival and ...
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Skyy Vodka launches short film competition
Skyy Vodka has inaugurated a short film competition in which finalists have three days to make a five-minute film based on the same script. Entrants to the Skyy Vodka Short Film Project need to submit a videotaped pitch outlining why they want to direct and citing their favourite director. Three ...
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Slamdunk honours Zero Day, Seven Songs
The Slamdunk Film Festival which ran from Jan 19 to 22 awarded Ben Coccio's Zero Day the best film and best actor prizes. Zero Day is a digital film which follows the video diary of two high school students who are planning a Columbine-style shooting of their classmates. Andre Keuck ...
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Showcase builds AFM slate with Falling, Eastside
Showcase Entertainment has acquired two new pictures for its AFM slate - The Sky Is Falling and Eastside.The LA-based company headed by David Jackson has bought international rights to The Sky Is Falling, a comic drama about a 28-year-old having a mid-life crisis, which stars Dedee Pfeiffer, Teri Garr, Howard ...
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Everest crosses $120m after five years
MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF) has declared that Everest is now the highest grossing documentary of all time, amassing more than $120.6m in worldwide box office since it went on continual release on Mar 6 1998. Throughout its run Everest, a harrowing account of an ascent by three climbers in 1996, ...
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Noah Cowan launches Global Film Initiative
Former distribution executive and festival programmer Noah Cowan has formed a new US-based non-profit foundation called The Global Film Initiative to promote cross-cultural understanding through film. Cowan, a well-known face on the festival circuit, is executive director of the foundation which he unveiled at the Rotterdam Film Festival over the ...
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Summit, Intermedia team for international sales super-company
The international businesswas transformed on Friday as two of its market leaders Intermedia and SummitEntertainment formed a sales, marketing and distribution joint venture calledIS Film Distribution which instantly becomes the biggest seller in the marketplace.As a result, Intermedia andSummit will transfer all their distribution and marketing staff into IS.Intermedia's distribution ...
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Darkness Falls a surprise hit for Columbia/Revolution
Columbia scored its first numberone of the year as Revolution Studios' $11m horror picture Darkness Falls opened at the top on $12.5m, according to studio estimatesreleased today (Jan 26). The story centres on a young man who is stalked by theTooth Fairy and stars Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield and Joshua ...
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American Splendor wins top dramatic prize at Sundance
Films populated by socialoutcasts and misfits, both real and imagined, claimed the top honours at thisyear's Sundance Film Festival that ended over the weekend in Park City.The Grand Jury Prize forbest dramatic feature went to American Splendor, a docu-drama hybrid that used actors, real-lifevideo footage and animation sequences to tell ...
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Oscar favourites dominate UK's BAFTA nominations
Academy Award favourites Chicago, Gangs Of New York and The Hours dominated the nominations for the British Academy Film Awards.Chicago and Gangs secured 12 nods each, while The Hours came in with 11. The following pack was led by The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers with nine nominations, ...
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Just Married
Dir: Shawn Levy. US. 2002. 94 mins.Broad comedy, flimsy romance and some decorative European settings are the key ingredients in Just Married, a young-skewing romantic comedy from producer Robert Simonds. Grossing a surprising $34m after 10 days on US release, the $18m project has also become the film to knock ...
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Market leader prepares to sell Norwegian cinema circuit
Oslo City Council has started negotiations with both foreign and local bidders interested in acquiring 66% of its stake in the municipally-owned Oslo Cinemas. After 77 years as a public service, the sale of Norway's largest exhibitor Oslo Cinemas, which controls 25% of the country's cinema market, is being closely ...
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Competition heats up at Hungarian Film Week
22 titles will compete for the main feature film prize at the Hungarian Film Week in Budapest which starts today.The event, which runs between January 28 and February 4, will open with Miklos Jancso's latest film, Wake Up Mate, Don't You Sleep, land closes with a film from yet another ...
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Winter Films launches with $25m investment
A new New York-based production outfit - Winter Films - was launched at Sundance last week backed by a recently completed $25m equity investment. Formerly known as Ikahn Productions, the company is headed by Michael Kahn with a management team including British production veteran Steve Hodges and Erick Feitshans, who ...
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Columbia TriStar ends nine-year old Nordisk deal
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has ended its nine-year pact with Scandinavian media giant Egmont's subsidiary Nordisk Film.Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has made a new deal to distribute home entertainment in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with Universal Pictures Japan which also includes a number of other territories, including the Nordic ...