All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 44
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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Moviehouse wraps Fear X, add two more
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped Fear X, his John Turturro-starring psychological thriller after a shoot that took him to Winnipeg and Copenhagen.The film has its market debut at Cannes, where it is represented by new UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment.Fear X, about a man prompted by dark dreams ...
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Holland's Orange Worldwide Film Sales to launch at Cannes
New Dutch sales outfit, Orange Worldwide Film Sales is to get its international launch this week at Cannes. Headed by Michael Berkel and Peter van Vogelpoel, Orange arrives on the Croisette with four films on its slate.The slate is headed by Britney Baby One More Time, a Ludi Boeken-directed comedy ...
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Larry Clark's Ken Park goes Fortissimo
Ken Park, the new drama co-directed by controversial US film-maker Larry Clark and cinematographer Edward Lachman, has been picked up by Fortissimo Film Sales.The film, which recently completed principal photography, is a disquieting look at a group of in-line skaters in San Joaquin, California. Written by professional rebel and regular ...
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Larry Clark's Ken Park goes Fortissimo
Ken Park, the new drama co-directed by controversial US film-maker Larry Clark and cinematographer Edward Lachman, has been picked up by Fortissimo Film Sales.The film, which recently completed principal photography, is a disquieting look at a group of in-line skaters in San Joaquin, California. Written by professional rebel and regular ...
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Cannes develops digital film screenings
There is more to digital cinema than just Star Wars: Episode II at Cannes this year, with the festival planning a multitude of digital screenings. The operation will kick off with Attack Of The Clones, which will be the first film ever to be screened digitally in the Grande Theatre ...
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Cannes develops digital film screenings
There is more to digital cinema than just Star Wars: Episode II at Cannes this year, with the festival planning a multitude of digital screenings. The operation will kick off with Attack Of The Clones, which will be the first film ever to be screened digitally in the Grande Theatre ...
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European Commission challenges French advertising laws
France's film marketing and distribution sector could be in for a radical shake-up with a new aspect of the country's cultural exception coming under attack from the European Union (EU).The European Commission, the EU's executive wing, last week asked the French government to justify its laws on television advertising, which ...
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Cannes adds two heavyweights to special screening programme
The Cannes festival filled out its special, out-of competition screenings programme with two heavyweight additions, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones and Brian De Palma's Cannes-set thriller Femme Fatale.George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones will be shown twice in the Salle Bunuel ...
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Cannes adds two heavyweights to special screening programme
The Cannes festival filled out its special, out-of competition screenings programme with two heavyweight additions, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones and Brian De Palma's Cannes-set thriller Femme Fatale.George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones will be shown twice in the Salle Bunuel ...
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Fortissimo takes world rights for Bollywood Hollywood
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based sales house, has picked up worldwide rights to Indian director Deepa Mehta's new picture Bollywood Hollywood. The film is described as a "musical romantic comedy, which crosses between the vibrant melodrama of Bollywood and the schematic mainstream cinema of Hollywood." The Toronto-set ...
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EU rules sales tax to be added to foreign online products
The European Union (EU) today (Tuesday, May 7) approved rules that will require non-European firms to apply a sales tax (VAT) to films, games and software that are sold over the internet into the EU.The new rules, which take effect from July next year, are intended to put foreign firms ...
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European production, admissions & BO market share unite in growth
The European film industry "flourished" last year on a number of levels, including an average 9% hike in local market shares for European films, according to new research. The findings were published by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) in data that measured feature film output, box office and market share ...
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The Repentant (La Repentie)
Dir: Laetitia Masson. France. 2002. 125minsLife is a lie. History is what you make it out to be. And so is this film. Seemingly created for and by Isabelle Adjani, La Repentie is either a triumphant return to the cinema for the enigmatic French screen goddess, after three years of ...
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Vivendi Universal calls extraordinary general meeting for June
Troubled media giant, Vivendi Universal has set a slot in June as the date for an extraordinary shareholder meeting after the results of last week's annual general meeting were thrown into doubt by suspicious electronic voting. The company has not hesitated to allege interference and to describe it as fraudulent. ...
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Directors' Fortnight line-up complete
The Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) wrapped up its 2002 line-up today (Monday Apr 29) when it announced the inclusion of Werner Schroeter's Franco-German production Deux and Romain Goupil's Une Pure Coincidence.In Deux, last year's Palme-winning actress Isabelle Huppert plays twin sisters deprived of love by a tyrannical mother. Sex ...
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Fortissimo to handle remaining sales on Pau's The Touch
Han Entertainment, Thomas Chung's nascent media empire, is to appoint fellow Hong Kong outfit Fortissimo Film Sales to handle outstanding territories on big-budget extravaganza The Touch. Produced by superstar Michelle Yeoh through her Mythical Films, which has a deal with Han, the film is the English-language directorial debut of Oscar-winning ...
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Director's Fortnight unveils six more titles
The Director's Fortnight (Quinzaine Des Realisateurs) came closer to completing its line up when it announced the selection of a further five films. These included Shane Meadows One Upon A Time In The Midlands, Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar from the UK, Romanian first film Occident by Christian Mungiu and three ...
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Farrugia appointed chairman of Canal Plus SA
Dominique Farrugia (pictured) has been appointed chairman of Canal Plus SA, the principal French channel within the Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal empire. His appointment, which is subject to approval by Canal Plus shareholders at a meeting tomorrow (Friday, April 26), sees him replace Pierre Lescure at the channel. Lescure ...
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Annual amfAR AIDS research gala set for May 23 in Cannes
Cannes jury president David Lynch and jury member Sharon Stone will join other celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Iman and Harvey Weinstein at the annual amfAR AIDS research gala. The event will take place on Thursday May 23 at the Moulin de Mougins restaurant and be sponsored by Motorola. ...