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Gordon Green teams with ContentFilm for Undertow
Hot on the heels of hiscritically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival prize-winner All The Real Girls, hot US director David Gordon Green has set his nextfilm Undertow at Edward Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm with DermotMulroney, Josh Lucas and Jamie Bell in the lead roles.The project has been indevelopment for over ...
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Two Weeks Notice an international smash for Warner
Warner Bros enjoyed hugesuccess over the weekend with Castle Rock comedy Two Weeks Notice, grossing $15m in 23 territories. The film whichstars Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant remained at number one in the UK in itssecond weekend with $3.6m (£2.19m) at 417 sites beating Fox's opener Daredevil and bringing its ...
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Blind Shaft (Mang Jing)
Dir: Li Yang. China-Ger. 2003. 92 mins.For most festival-goers at Berlin, the two first-time directors in competition were George Clooney and an unknown Chinese director. In the end, however, it was the latter who won the recognition, for Li Yang 's Blind Shaft is a solid, impressive debut. A watchable, ...
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Australian directors to honour Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi is to receive the major honour at the second annual awards ceremony of the Australian Screen Directors Association (ASDA). The outstanding achievement award recognises excellence for a body of work and will be presented by the president of the European Film Academy, German director Wim Wenders, at a ...
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Infernal Affairs leads Hong Kong Film Award nominations
Hit crime thriller Infernal Affairs leads the race for the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards with 16 nominations including best film, best director, for Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, and an impressive five nods in the best actor and supporting actor categories. The Media Asia production, which topped the Hong ...
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MGM roars back to financial health, reveals slate
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has announced its strongest quarterly operating results in 12 years, signalling a financial turnaround at the company under its new management structure of Alex Yemenidjian and his second-in-command Chris McGurk EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation), the cashflow measure by which Wall Street evaluates the performance of ...
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UK co-production tax breaks face uncertain future
It has been a gold rush to rival the Klondike, only this time many of the prospectors have been rushing the other way across the Atlantic. Since the UK introduced generous tax breaks in 1997, international co-productions have rocketed by some 400%. Canadian-UK co-productions mark the biggest single rise at ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! - success at home and abroad
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!, this year's winner of the Berlinale's Blue Angel award for the best European film, has become the top German opener at this year's local box-office and has been sold to more European territories by sales agent Bavaria Film International (BFI).Becker's tragi-comic farce starring Daniel Bruehl ...
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Indian delegation heads for AFM
Led by Mrs. Anjuli Duggal, joint secretary of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, a 25-strong delegation of Indian film directors, producers and financiers is heading for the AFM. The delegation, the first ever to visit the AFM, plans to promote the Indian film industry in an international context amongst ...
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Producers team for Nettelbeck's Helen
Sandra Nettelbeck's next feature Helen is to be produced by MTM Medien & Television Muenchen's Andreas Bareiss and co-produced with Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, who produced her international hit Mostly Martha.Helen, which will be shot in English, centres on a law professor fighting to save her life and her family ...
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Sarajevo film festival launches Balkan script development project
The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) has attracted support from Rotterdam International Film Festival's Hubert Bals Fund and the Dutch foundation HIVOS for a "Regional Script Development Project" which aims to support film production in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. SFF director Mirsad Purivatra announced that the new venture will be launched ...
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Mar del Plata completes competition line-up
Miguel Pereira, the new artistic co-ordinator of Mar del Plata, South America's leading film festival, has completed the competition line-up for his debut event, which runs March 6-15. The latest additions are Hugo Santiago's Le Loup De La Cote Ouest (France/Portugal), Matti Ijas' Blue Corner (Finland), David G Green's All ...
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Joint venture to distribute Hispanic films in the US
Spanish production company Plural Entertainment, Mexican producer-distributor Televisa Cine and Miami-based talent management and marketing firm Latin World Entertainment have formed a joint venture to distribute Hispanic films in the United States.The new venture aims to capitalise on the growing Latino market in the US and release at least five ...
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Rom-com holds off Daredevil in the UK
Romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice proved the big winner in the UK over Valentine's Day weekend despite the launch of 20th Century Fox's potential blockbuster, Daredevil.The top placed Warner Bros comedy showed an impressive second week performance, dropping off just 11% from its opening weekend to take a weekend score ...
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Buyers say yes to Noi
Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi), Icelandic director Dagur Kari's debut feature which has won six festival prizes in as many weeks, has proved a winner with buyers as well. Handled by Paris-based sales and production outfit, The Co-Production Office, Noi has now been licensed to nine territories. Latest deals closed ...
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UK's Feature Film Company strikes Sterling deal
Having recently earned kudos by boarding Bloody Sunday and The Last Great Wilderness at production stage, the UK's Winchester Entertainment-owned distributor: Feature Film Company is stepping up activities. FFC, which operates as the specialised arm of Winchester's UK distribution division, has appointed Laurence Gornall as managing director and struck ...
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AFM Premiere Screenings unveils line-up
This year's AFM Premiere Screenings will include the world premieres of two high profile Kushner-Locke Co movies: Alfonso Arau's Picking Up The Pieces, starring Woody Allen with a cameo from Sharon Stone, and Burt Reynolds' directorial debut The Last Producer.Sponsored by internet downloading outfit SightSound.com, the Santa Monica screening programme ...
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Fox opens Daredevil in two markets, grosses $3.6m
Fox International began its international roll-out of Daredevil over the weekend, grossing $3.6m from 440 screens in two markets. In the UK, the Marvel Comics adaptation fared slightly below expectations, opening with $3.2m on 384 screens in second place behind holdover Two Weeks Notice. In Puerto Rico the picture grossed ...
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Steven Paul launches genre division Renegade
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky has established a new genre division Renegade Worldwide which kicks off at AFM with Jon Voight-starrer Deadly Course and 3:44, a movie set against the underground music scene with Carrie Ann Moss in the lead role. Run by Paul and Patrick Ewald, Renegade Worldwide is also ...
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Revolution teams with Universal, BVI in Japan
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has sealed two separate studio deals for distribution of its 2003 slate in Japan. Universal Pictures has taken theatrical and TV rights to six films kicking off with Jennifer Lopez hit Maid In Manhattan, while Buena Vista International (BVI) has taken three films kicking off with ...