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Koelmels spell out Neue Kinowelt ambitions
Rainer and Michael Koelmel have unveiled theplanned strategy of Neue Kinowelt, just ahead of their first market presence since regaining control oftheir insolvent Kinowelt empire.`We will no longer be in theleague of the majors as we were for a while in 1999`, explained Rainer Koelmel,`but we will certainly see ...
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SPC, Tobis focus on Life
Focus International has closed two key distribution deals on My Life Without Me, the Berlin Competition entry produced by the Almodovar brothers' El Deseo outfit and premiering here today. Sony Pictures Classics has just acquired the film for release in the US and Tobis will distribute in Germany.The English-language drama ...
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Sony Classics flies with Israel's Broken Wings
In a deal signed yesterday, Sony Pictures Classics grabbed North American rights to Israeli first film Broken Wings, which plays in Berlin's Panorama section.The film, directed by Nir Bergman, is darkly comic but uplifting story of a family coping with the turmoil that follows the accidental death of their patriarch.Since ...
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Apollo to launch four English-language productions
German media fund ApolloMedia has unveiled a raft of four titles to go into production in the first half of 2003.The first pictures to roll are Mick Garris' thriller Riding The Bullet based on an e-book by Stephen King (who is serving as one of the film's executive producers) and ...
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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US buyers flock to Berlin
American acquisition teams have turned up in Berlin in good number and it seems are now poised to buy festival and market films. The biggest hit to date with US buyers is Gabriele Salvatores' competition film I'm Not Afraid (Io No Ha Paura), which is on the radar of many ...
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Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training
The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...
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Extension sought for MEDIA Plus & Training
The MEDIA Programme is seeking a year extension to funding support mechanism MEDIA Plus, which is due to end in 2005. 'We will be proposing a technical extension of MEDIA Plus and MEDIA Training for one more year until the end of 2006 so that the programme can ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Robert Carlyle to take on Hitler role
Robert Carlyle is to play Adolf Hitler in a Canadian-backed miniseries that will explore his rise to power during the years prior to World War II.Currently filming in Prague under director Christian Duguay, the four-hour drama will 'focus closely on how the embittered, increasingly xenophobic and militaristic German society after ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Paris Je T'Aime woos Cruise and Cruz
Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz are expected to board an unusual project where the city of Paris is the star.The picture, Paris Je T'Aime, is being put together by Novem, a Franco-US production company headed by Emmanuel Benbihy and Mel Gee Henderson. Structured as a portmanteau, the film-makers have ...
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Malkovich to board Drunkboat
John Malkovich is set to star in Drunkboat, the first feature to be made by Daniel Walker, a Paris-based lawyer who has now moved into production. The film, which is written and directed by polymath theatre director-artist-actor Bob Meyer, is a coming of age story and a journey of self-discovery ...
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Lovenheim appointed head of production at BVIP
Robert Lovenheim has been appointed head of production to oversee a massive slate being ramped up by diversifying sales agent BV International Pictures (BVIP).Lovenheim, a US TV executive and European co-producer whose credits include The OJ Simpson Story and The Last Of His Tribe, has previously been consulting for the ...
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Flanders revamps support agencies
The Belgian region of Flanders is using the Berlin festival to announce the rebirth and expansion of many of its support agencies.Just before the festival, Flanders Image, the promotional agency for the northern Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, was absorbed into the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds) which started operations ...
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Mar del Plata re-invents itself
The new artistic head of South American's leading film festival, Mar del Plata (March 6-15), unveiled his competition line-up in Berlin with a promise to redefine its identity as a festival created "by film-makers for film-makers". The line-up features a number of films that deal with globalisation, xenophobia and a ...
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Reviews
The Life Of David Gale
Dir: Alan Parker. US. 2002. 128mins.The prosecution's case prevails in passing judgement on The Life of David Gale, a polemical thriller which has all the conviction and brio one expects of an Alan Parker film, but is let down by the two central performances and a spectacularly feeble script. Well-positioned ...
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Nine Israeli titles make it to the Berlinale
An unprecedented seven Israeli feature length titles and two shorts screen in various sections of the Berlinale this year - an impressive feat considering the present dire conditions of film making in Israel.The tally suggests that there must be something right about the much maligned Israeli Cinema Law, a ...
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Grosvenor Park launches new tax scheme
Aiming to create a rival to Inside Track, the groundbreaking fund bankrolling such titles as Girl With A Pearl Earring, Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park has launched First Choice, a similar tax write-off scheme offering 30% of budgets.Grosvenor Park chief Don Starr aims to raise $41m-$82m (£25m-£50m) from investors for the ...
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Lucas adds Sega to games franchise
George Lucas' games company LucasArts Entertainment is to produce a series of games for the Sega Dreamcast platform. First off will be Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer, a game derived from the pod race sequence in The Phantom Menace, which is already available for PC and Nintendo. The Sega version ...