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Film20 assesses EU-expansion in the film industry
In advance of the second part of its Euro Expansion Conference, to be held in Berlin on October 20 - 21, Germany's Film20 producer lobby group held a press conference in Berlin to set the agenda. Titled 'Pro Extension in the film business' the event set out the strategy of ...
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Spun, Shottas get UK premieres through ICA, Amnesty
Spun and Shottas have their first UK showings in October as part of DJ Saved MY Life - a series of nights from Amnesty International and the ICA to highlight their International Arms Campaign. The movie programme includes an exclusive preview screening of the speed-freak story Spun, the first ...
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Hitler's film-maker Riefenstahl dies at 101
Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker who became a favourite of Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 101, the mayor of the town where she lived said on Tuesday. Rainer Schnitzler told Agence France Presse that the legendary director and photographer had died late Monday at her home in ...
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Venice festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice 2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Six-hour epic emerges as surprise Italian hit
A six-hour long epic about the lives of two brothers between 1966 and 2002 has become a surprise sleeper hit in Italy.Marco Tullio Giordano's La Meglio Gioventu - which won the Altadis award in this year's Un Certain Regard section at Cannes - has posted good results at Italy's slow ...
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French admissions in March show weakness
French cinemaadmissions in March hit 15.47 million, a gain of 3.4% compared with the samemonth last year. However according to data from the Centre National dela Cinematographie (CNC) the total for a rolling 12month period was down by 3.2% at 178.8 million, compared with 184.8 million. The CNC data also ...
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Venice star Nadia Zandegiacomo dies, age 35
Nadia Zandegiacomo of the Venice Film Festival died last week at the age of 35, having succumbed to the cancer that kept her away from the 2002 festival - the first time in ten years that she had not given her invaluable all to the event.Zandegiacomo served as a producers’ ...
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Talk To Her triumphs at Bangkok
Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her took both best film and best director prizes at the first competitive edition of the Bangkok international film festival.The fifth edition of the festival ended last night, with other Golden Kinnarees awarded to Michael Cain for best actor for The Quiet American, Kati Outen received ...
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UPI to launch video distribution arm in Mexico
Universal Pictures International (UPI), the London-based international video distribution arm of Universal Pictures, has announced its plans to launch a wholly-owned video distribution operation in Mexico. Universal Pictures Mexico will launch on 1st January 2003, following the expiration of the current four-year joint venture distribution deal with Paramount, ...
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CineMart unveils 2003 projects
The CineMart project market (Jan 26-30) held under the umbrella of the Rotterdam film festival, unveiled what its organisers claimed is one of its strongest ever line-ups. "We had a terribly difficult time making the final selection," said Ido Abram, Cinemart chief. "That was because we had more projects thatn ...
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Hong Kong film industry hammers out crisis proposals
The creation of a Hong Kong Film Commission - centralising all of the territory's film support mechanisms - was one of the key proposals to emerge from a crisis conference held by the Hong Kong film industry yesterday (September 18).Conference delegates also suggested that the Hong Kong government underwrite bank ...
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The Pornographer forced into double UK video release
The UK's Tartan Video is to release Bertrand Bonello's The Pornographer on video in two different versions due to the restrictions of the British Video Recordings Act 1984. One version with an 18 certificate will be available for 18 year olds to purchase in normal high-street retail outlets ...
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Hong Kong's film industry appeals for government assistance
Hong Kong's leading film organisations plan to appeal to the government for help following a sharp downturn in both production levels and box office for domestic films in the first eight months of the year.The Federation of Hong Kong Film Workers, an alliance of nine industry associations, is holding a ...
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Hong Kong exhibitors slash ticket prices
Hong Kong cinemas are slashing ticket prices for the second time this year after a disappointing summer in which box office takings slumped by 36%The Hong Kong Theatres Association announced that 51 of HongKong's 60 cinemas will cut admission prices to $3.20 (HK$25) every Tuesday and Wednesday for the next ...
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Deltamac is newest distributor to enter Hong Kong market
Hong Kong's increasingly competitive distribution sector has a new player Deltamac (HK) Ltd, which will handle the Hong Kong theatrical release of The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers in January next year.The decade-old video distributor, owned by Taiwanese disc manufacturer CMC Magnetics Corp, has quietly put together a ...
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China Star consolidates ahead of rights issue
Hong Kong producer-distributor China Star is planning a rights issue to raise around $12m (HK$95m), of which $9.6m (HK$75m) will be pumped into production.However the company is undergoing a capital reorganisation prior to the rights issue due to a collapse in its share price which has slumped from 26 HK ...
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Iran acts on domestic film crisis
The dire predicament of Iran's domestic film production and exhibition industry was highlighted this week when deputy minister of culture Hassan Pezeshk revealed a dramatic fall in domestic box-office which has reached such lows that Iranian citizens spent an average of just 40-minutes last year at the cinema.At a meeting ...
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DreamWorks threatens legal action over web domain name
Hollywood entertainment studio DreamWorks is threatening an India internet design firm with the legal action for registering the domain name webdreamworks.com.DreamWorks is understood to have instructed lawyers to give the Indian firm - which touts itself as a "full-service design and development company" - just fifteen days to surrender the ...