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Jagoda In The Supermarket
Dir: Dusan Milic. Serb-Ger-It. 2003. 82mins.Produced by Emir Kusturica (who has the briefest cameo in the film as a police chief), this oddball siege comedy has many of the Greater Serb's traits: a goofball surreal-symbolic take on Balkan tragedies, characters that slip in and out of caricature, and a delirious ...
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UK's Odeon cinema chain sold for $690m
The UK's Odeon cinema chain has been bought by a syndicate led by German investment bank WestLB for $690m (£431m).In addition to a 25% equity stake, WestLB will take on £330m of debt, which it will refinance and securitise against future cinema ticket sales. The other members of the consortium ...
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Disney and Hyde Park champion with Bringing Down The House
Buena Vista's comedy BringingDown The House did just that over theweekend, opening number one on a superb $31.7m that marked the third biggestMarch opening of all time behind last year's Ice Age and Blade 2.It was also Steve Martin's best opening and proved too much forthe rest of the pack, ...
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J Lo's Maid makes her an international movie star
Jennifer Lopez confirmed her status as an international star overthe weekend as Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) scoreda powerful $11.5m weekend gross for Revolution Studios' Maid In Manhattan.In a series of excellent openings, the romantic comedy wentstraight to number one in the UK, Australia, Mexico, the German-speakingregions of Switzerland, ...
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Chicago dominates SAG Awards; Moore, Hare win WGA prizes
In the final stretch of the Academy Awards race over the weekend, Chicago dominated the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)Awards in Los Angeles taking the award for ensemble cast as well as bestactress for Renee Zellweger and best supporting actress for CatherineZeta-Jones.Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for Gangs Of New ...
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Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen wins top jury prize at Santa Barbara
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen won the grand jury prize in the internationalcompetition section at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival whichclosed last night with a screening of Thaddeus O'Sullivan's The Heart Of Me.A special jury prize in thissection was awarded to director Pan Nalin for Samsara and special mention was ...
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Mieli named new president of Italian state broadcaster
Paolo Mieli, a former editor of national Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, has been appointed president of state broadcaster RAI. The Italian parliament and senate's appointment of Mieli, a widely-respected journalist, historian and political commentator, followed the resignation of president Antonio Baldassarre and remaining board member Ettore Alberoni. Last week, ...
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Paulo Valente named MD of Universal Pictures Brazil
Universal Pictures International has named Paulo Valente as managing director of Universal Pictures Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, Valente will report to Wayne Borg, vice president, Universal Pictures, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The appointment is effective 24th March 2003.Valente succeeds the present MD, Marc Caux, who successfully ...
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Disney back in the frame for the Jim Henson Company
Walt Disney has reportedly come back into the picture as a possible bidder for The Jim Henson Company (JHC) after a US investment group terminated its non-binding letter of intent with JHC's current owner Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising for the partial sale of 49.9%.EM.TV announced that the negotiations would continue ...
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Twilight Samurai in the limelight
The Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yamada's drama about the home and love life of a poor-but-honest samurai, walked away with 12 of the 13 Japan Academy Awards.The film, which is still ranked in the Japanese box office top ten in its 18th week on release, took the Best Picture prize, while ...
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Film-maker appointed as South Korea's Minister of Culture
South Korean film director Lee Chang-dong has been named Minister of Culture and Tourism in a surprise appointment by new Korean president Roh Moo-hyun. This marks the first time in Korea's history that a member of the film industry will head the ministry.As Minister, Lee will oversee governmental affairs ...
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Meirelles begins preparations for Intolerance
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles has unveiled further details of the follow up to his worldwide box office and festival sensation City Of God, following the film's premiere in Argentina as the opening film of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. His new project, Intolerance - which he jokingly describes ...
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Kosslick wades into German media fund debate
Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick has added his voice to the growing chorus of industry figures calling for the private media funds to invest more in German production rather than concentrating on US productions.In an interview with the production company newsletter ndF:news, Kosslick said that he supported the idea ...
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New Spain-Argentina production company wraps first films
Start-up Spanish-Argentinean production company Altair Cinema has wrapped its first two feature films in Buenos Aires and is now preparing a similar second-year slate.Alejandro Chomski's drama Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), a co-production with Cinema Digital starring Manuel Navarro (Alas Rotas) and Antonella Costa (Garage Olimpo), starts post-production in ...
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Finnish Grand Prix goes to Australian Projectionist
At the 33rd International Short Film Festival in the Finnish inland city of Tampere, the international jury awarded Michael Bates' Australian stop-motion film The Projectionist with the Grand Prix - out of the 75 shorts and documentaries from 36 countries in the international competition. The Finnish jury, headed by the ...
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Oscar-winning German producer dies
Oscar-winning producer Manfred Durniok (Mephisto) died at the age of 68 at the weekend of a heart attack. Durniok, who had more than 600 cinema and television productions to his credit since 1957, produced Istvan Szabo's 1981 film Mephisto - which won the Foreign Language Film Academy Award, a BAFTA ...
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Monsieur N
Dir: Antoine de Caunes. Fr-UK-South Africa. 2003. 129mins.French TV presenter and sometime journalist Antoine de Caunes takes on Napoleon, with decidedly mixed results for the historical thriller Monsieur N. The made-for-co-production story straddles two cultures, but despite this, Monsieur N will not easily sell to the English-speaking territories it hopes ...
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Warner celebrates fourth weekend atop German box office with Lenin
Local language comedy Good Bye,Lenin! kept up the pace in Germany inits fourth weekend, holding on to top spot with a powerful $3.7m (Euros 3.4m)from 570 prints and dropping a mere 14.5% from last week. It finished ahead ofopener Maid In Manhattan by 44.6%and has an $18.4m (Euros 17.2m) running ...