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    Shooting Stars head for NatFilm festival

    2003-02-14T04:05:00Z

    Six of Berlin's Shooting Stars will travel to Danish NatFilm Festival, for its opening gala on March 27 in Copenhagen. Among the European talent attending are Denmark own Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Iceland's Nina Dögg Filippusdóttir, Norway's Kristoffer Joner, Finland's Minna Haapkulä and Germany's Daniel Brühl. Apart from the busy Danish ...

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    Bankruptcy workshop draws Talent attention

    2003-02-14T04:05:00Z

    One of the hotest draws at this week's Berlinale Talent Campus was the work shop on Bankruptcy and Resurrection, with an insiders view of the experience provided by Kinowelt's Rainer Koelmel and producers Cedomir Kolar (No Man's Land) and Nik Powell (The Crying Game).Bankruptcy is something that often hovers over ...

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    Noosa Film Festival unlikely to return

    2000-02-01T17:14:00Z

    Despite the success of last year's Noosa Film Festival in terms of profile and programming, director Luke Davis has admitted that unpaid debts and lack of sponsorship means there is unlikely to be a sequel. Davis confirmed the event has about A$300,000 in outstanding bills due to a sponsor withdrawing ...

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    Mandelberger launches International Film Weeks

    2003-02-14T04:05:00Z

    Sandy Mandelberger, head of the marketing and promotion outlet International Media Resources, has launched a new distribution arm International Film Weeks, focused on international films for specialty theatrical, television and video/dvd release in the United States. Among the first all-rights deals for the US market are Chop Chop from Trust ...

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    Scandinavian films get off to good start in 2003

    2003-02-14T04:05:00Z

    New local release Kopps in Sweden and four-week local holdover Bad Boys (Pahat Pojat) in Finland are already leading the way for Scandinavian films in 2003.Kopps, the second outing for Jalla! Jalla! director Josef Fares, took the top spot in Sweden with ease at the weekend with $1m (SKR 8.5m) ...

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    Swimmers wins Sundance Producers Club Of Maryland prize

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    SundanceInstitute and the Producers Club of Maryland have announced that Doug Sadler'sdrama Swimmers is toreceive the 2003 Producers Club of Maryland Fellowship. The fellowship was setup to help film-makers who participate in the Sundance Lab meet pre-productionexpenses and offers a $10,000 towards casting, budgetary and location costs,among others. Previous recipients ...

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    Zeta-Jones named supporting actress of the year at ShoWest

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Zeta-Jones, currently riding high on a best supportingactress Oscar nomination for Chicago, has been named ShoWest 2003's supporting actress of theyear, it was announced today (Feb 14). Zeta-Jones will collect her award at theannual Gala Awards Banquet at Bally's and Paris Hotel in Las Vegas on Mar 6.Zeta-Jones willnext ...

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    Fox Lorber's Lorber creates new specialised US DVD label with Koch

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Michael Koch and Richard Lorber have announced they willlaunch Koch Lorber Films, a new US DVD label catering to world cinema,independent documentaries, music and the performing arts. The company isscheduled to kick off in the second quarter of the year. Koch, whose KochEntertainment music distribution outfit will also handle distribution ...

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    Ghost House hires Norowzian for Boogeyman

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Senator International presidentJoe Drake announced today (Feb 14) that the genre production label created inApril 2002 between Sam Raimi, Rob Tappert and Senator is to be called GhostHouse Pictures. The company's first feature, the classic horror story, Boogeyman, will be directed by Mehdi Norowzian, who receivedan Oscar nomination in 2000 ...

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    Ararat wins five out of nine at Canada's Genies

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Canada's Genie Awards wereevenly distributed across the nominees, with no film dominating the majorprizes which were handed out last night. Atom Egoyan's Ararat, nominated for nine awards, was the leader in thefinal tally, with five statuettes including Best Picture and Best Actress forArsinee Khanjian. Director Atom Egoyan was not nominated ...

  • Reviews

    Daredevil

    2003-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Mark Steven Johnson. US. 2003. 102mins.Take that, Batman! Finally comes a comic book adaptation which really does dare to go where Tim Burton and co merely flirted - into the dark realm. Daredevil, as brought to the screen by writer - director Mark Steven Johnson, brings real violence and ...

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    Uncertain climate weighs on AFM

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    Retrenchment is still the name of the game at the upcoming American Film Market (Feb 19-26), as both buyers and sellers cautiously weigh up the pros and cons of spending money in such a dour economic climate. Yes, they both need new films, but they are both being selective, with ...

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    Verhoeven, Hauer classic to be remade by van de Velde

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    Classic Dutch cult TV series Floris, that first united director Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer in 1969, is to be remade for the cinema. Jean van de Velde (Leak, All Stars) is set to direct the adventurous epic, about the heroic knight Floris and his sidekick Sindela. The original series ...

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    Distant Horizon joins party at Shore's Wedding

    2000-02-01T17:16:00Z

    South African production, financing and sales operation Distant Horizon is backing Cassandra At The Wedding, UK director Simon Shore's follow-up to his widely-acquired feature debut, Get Real.The $8.9m comedy drama, which has already secured $1.6m in national lottery funding, is the story of a woman looking to scupper her identical ...

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    Blind Shaft director readies debut follow-up

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    With the applause still ringing in his ears from the screening of his first feature, Blind Shaft, Chinese director Li Yang (pictured) has already put together most of the pieces for his follow-up, set during the Cultural Revolution.As yet untitled, the new film will, said Li, be "much closer to ...

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    Minghella promotes location Romania

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    Ever since director Anthony Minghella finished his shoot of Cold Mountain, he's been asked one question repeatedly by fellow directors: what's it like to shoot in Romania.The $80m Civil War epic starring Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Jude Law shot late last year in the Carpathian mountains of Romania's Transylvania. Speaking ...

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    South African films to be feted at FESPACO

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    Thirteen South African films will be screened at FESPACO, Africa's longest-running festival. Held in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, the 18th edition of the festival runs Feb 22 - March 1.Six of the 13 films have been selected for official competition at FESPACO. These include: Amandla (Lee Hirsch), ...

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    European broadcasters called on to increase film funding

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    German broadcasters have been called on to double their financial contribution to the German Federal Film Board to bring them into line with the cinema owners' annual payments of Euros 21m.In a declaration on the revision to the German Film Funding Law (FFG), the four German exhibitor trade ...

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    European Film Market closes with flurry of deals

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    The European Film Market came to a close with a flurry of last-minute deals.One of the most notable deals was MK2's sale of Claude Chabrol's competition film The Flower Of Evil to Wanda Films for Spain and Portugal - two territories which because of the pay-TV crisis have been ...

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    Kosslick reflects on his second Berlinale

    2003-02-17T04:05:00Z

    As the Berlinale drew to a close with the out of competition screening of Gangs Of New York, festival director Dieter Kosslick for one was happy.With the threat of war being declared on Iraq at the back of people's minds during the festival, Kosslick observed that the festival's motto ...