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Calendar Girls set for open air world premiere
Nigel Cole's highly anticipated Calendar Girls is set to make its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival (Aug 6-16), as an outdoor screening in the Piazza Grande in front of a potential audience of 7,000.The high profile, public screening is seen by distributor Buena Vista International as an ...
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Cannes pays tribute to Alexander Walker
Cannes president Gilles Jacob has paid tribute to film critic Alexander Walker, who died suddenly yesterday."It is with great sadness that I heard about Alex's passing. Alex was a close friend, a great critic and historian," Jacob told Screen. "I believe that he didn't miss a single Cannes Film Festival ...
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Diller, Redstone weigh up joint bid for Vivendi
Barry Diller has been talking to Viacom chief Sumner Redstone about a possible joint bid for Vivendi Universal's U.S. show business empire, Reuters reported on Tuesday quoting 'sources close to the auction.'Diller, a former Vivendi executive who owns a stake in company's entertainment assets, is eyeing the multi-billion-dollar auction of ...
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Chadha's Bride And Prejudice begins Ealing shoot
Filming begins today (July 14) on Bride And Prejudice - The Bollywood Musical, the Bollywood style re-telling of the Jane Austen classic by the team behind Bend It Like Beckham - director/producer Gurinder Chadha and producer Deepak Nayar.The film stays faithful to Jane Austen's central story of a mother and ...
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France wins 'cultural exception' fight in EU charter
France won a last-ditch battle this week to maintain its right of veto in a future European Union constitution to protect its film and television industry in international trade negotiations. The committee drafting the EU's first constitution agreed to add a clause sought by Paris on the so-called "cultural exception" ...
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Mellis & Scinto to script Potsdamer Platz for Scott, Searchlight
Louis Mellis and David Scinto, writers ofSearchlight's Sexy Beast, have been signed to write the screenplay for Tony Scott's planned film version of the novel Potsdamer Platz which is being developed at Fox Searchlight Pictures.The $15m project, based on abook by Buddy Giovinazzo, centres on the intergang turf wars that ...
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UK scriptwriters learn to pitch in 25 words or less
Four feature films pitched using 25 words or less have been granted development funding from UK support body the Film Council.The films were pitched to the Council as part of their "25 Words or Less" programme which was launched last year and called for applicants to present their concept for ...
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UIP to distribute Sony films in Poland
United International Pictures (UIP) and Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) have unveiled a long-term agreement that will see UIP release CFTDI pictures in Poland. UIP will distribute CFTDI films in Poland such as Maid In Manhattan (June 13), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (July 4), Anger Management (July 25), and ...
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CineNova strikes MGM, Fox deals
Amsterdam based movie channel CineNova has signed new film licensing agreements with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and 20th Century Fox. CineNova already sources movies from shareholders Sony Pictures Entertainment and Buena Vista International Television, as well as movies from outfits such as Indies Entertainment Group, RCV Entertainment Group, Three Lines Pictures, Les ...
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Warner Bros kicks off Matrix marketing onslaught
Warner Bros kicked off in earnest its international marketing campaign for The Matrix sequels this week, with a major London presentation - titled The Year Of The Matrix - to introduce the two films to the industry.Warners invited over 300 press, exhibitors and retail partners to the presentation on Thursday(March ...
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Global ticket prices keeping ahead of inflation
Ticket prices are rising faster than inflation in most of the major cinema markets around the world - with the notable exception of Japan.Japan still has the most expensive tickets in the world, with an average price of Euros 9.48 ($10.47). However, prices have been either stagnant or falling for ...
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UK Film Council funds seven company slates
The UK Film Council has invested US$1,878,401 (£1,171,000) in seven company slate deals with British film production outfits.The money is the second part of a proposed three year business investment scheme set up by the Film Council's Development Fund, originally announced in July and November 2001, following a review of ...
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BBC Worldwide to co-produce feature documentary with Germany's Greenlight
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is working on a theatrical version of its acclaimed natural history documentary series The Blue Planet. BBC Worldwide has signed a co-production agreement with German production and international distribution company Greenlight Media to fund the feature length documentary.Greenlight Media will co-ordinate all ...
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Bloody Sunday director prepares Jimi Hendrix project
Paul Greengrass, the award winning director of Bloody Sunday, is preparing to shoot a film about the last days of rock-legend Jimi Hendrix.Called Cross Town Traffic, the film is to be scripted by Oliver Parker (It Was An Accident) and produced by Number 9 Films' Elizabeth Karlsen (Little Voice, The ...
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Minghella promotes location Romania
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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Sandy Lieberson named head of Film London
Veteran film producer Sandy Lieberson has been appointed chair of Film London, the new body charged with representing and developing the film industry in the UK capital.From April this year, Film London takes on the responsibilities of the London Film and Video Development Agency and the London Film Commission. As ...
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Huge selection as full Panorama line-up is unveiled
Over thirty feature films have been selected for the final Panorama section (Main Programme & Specials) of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-14), which will open with Emir Kusturica's production Jagoda In The Supermarket (Jagoda u Supermarketu) (pictured) by Dusan Milic.Some 26 of the full-length films are world premieres, ...
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Berlin unveils full Panorama line-up
Over thirty feature films have been selected for the final Panorama section (Main Programme & Specials) of the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-14), which will open with Emir Kusturica's production Jagoda In The Supermarket (Jagoda u Supermarketu) (pictured) by Dusan Milic.Some 26 of the full-length films are world premieres, ...
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Forum of New Cinema line-up finally unveiled
Fifty two films from 24 countries have been selected for the Forum of New Cinema at next month's Berlin International Film Festival. Directorial debuts by young filmmakers from Argentina, China, Japan, Mozambique, Hungary, the United States and Thailand together make up almost a third of the entire programme. Twenty-six of ...
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Chairman Case steps down at AOL Time Warner
Steve Case, the architect of the $106bn merger of AOL and Time Warner, is to stand down from the top job at the troubled media conglomerate.Succumbing to months of investor and media pressure to resign, Case said he would step down at the annual shareholders meeting in May. He will ...