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Greenberg omitted from Oscar documentary shortlist
The moment that this year's Academy Award nominees are revealed to the entire world at a pre-dawn ceremony broadcast live from Los Angeles tomorrow morning, there will be the usual gasps at some of the omissions and more questions raised about why some of the year's best-known documentary features have ...
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Reviews
Hannibal
(The following is an extract from a review that ran in the weekly edition of Screen International. For the full review see Screen International, Feb 9-16)Dir: Ridley Scott. US. 2001. 141mins.The dark shadow of The Silence Of The Lambs looms large over Hannibal, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to the 1991 ...
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Pathe, TF1 end merger talks
French broadcaster TF1 has ended its talks with film major Pathe, aimed at merging the two groups' interests in the areas of movie management, acquisition and sales, reportedly because of conflict between TF1 chairman Patrick Le Lay and Pathe's Jerome Seydoux.The merger would have created a French competitor to StudioCanal, ...
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Cappon replaces Celli as RAI director general
Italian state broadcaster RAI has promoted deputy director Claudio Cappon to the position of director general, replacing former chief Pier Luigi Celli who quit on Friday.RAI's unprecedented speed in appointing Cappon served to quash a political storm which arose when the newly-departed director said that the broadcaster was "ungovernable"."We have ...
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Peppermint acquires Italy's Domenica
German rights trader Peppermint has picked up German rights to Italian director Wilma Labate's Domenica which is showing in the Panorama section of this year's Berlin Film Festival. Starring Claudio Amendola, Domenica Giuliano and Annabella Sciorra, the film centres on a police inspector, who doesn't have a daughter, and an ...
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Bavaria sells In July, Fandango to Japan
Germany's Bavaria Film International has sold Fatih Akin's In July (Im Juli) to Japan's Tokyo Theatres, and Matthias Glasner's Fandango to Japan's Gaga Communications.In July, a Bulgarian-German-Turkish co-production, is a romantic comedy and road movie which follows a journey from Hamburg to Istanbul. Director Akin is serving on this year's ...
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Gusinsky moves to block takeover of NTV
Vladimir Gusinsky is reportedly attempting to stop Russian state gas giant Gazprom from taking over his NTV television station at an extraordinary general meeting next month, by switching the location of the meeting to Gibraltar.Gusinsky, who is currently in southern Spain pending an extradition request from Russia, said that the ...
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Werckmeister wins top prize at Hungarian Film Week
Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies was awarded the grand prix and the Gene Moskowtiz critics prize at the 32nd Hungarian Film Week (February 1-6).Best director went to Arpad Sopsits for Abandoned and best photography to Gergely Poharnok for I Love Budapest and Sorted Letters. Best first film was split between I ...
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Buyers get first taste of Von Trier's Dogville
Poland's Gutek Film and Switzerland's Monopol Pathe have already signed up for Lars von Trier's next project, Dogville, following the screening in Berlin of a five-minute film, shot last month to test the project's innovative concept.Only the international backers of von Trier's last film, Dancer In The Dark, were invited ...
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Palace, Istituto Luce strike two-pronged pact
Italian state distributor Istituto Luce and Australia's Palace Films have signed a two-pronged deal under which they will co-produce features and jointly distribute Italian titles in the Australian market.The deal, which is expected to lead to the creation of a jointly owned company in the next few months, marks a ...
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Medusa hit comedy moves from screen to console
Italian mini-major Medusa is seeking a US co-production partner to develop a line of video games spun off from its film properties. It is already preparing its first title, set to feature the money-spinning comic trio Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo. Medusa plans to release the game, which is being ...
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Ferch to star in Iceland's Seagull's Laughter
German actor Heino Ferch, who recently headlined SAT1's East-West drama The Tunnel, is to play one of the leads alongside Margaret Vilhjalmsdottir and Ugla Egilsdottir in Icelandic director Agust Gudmundsson's next project The Seagull's Laughter (Mavahlatur). The film, which starts shooting in Iceland from February 26, is being executive produced ...
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Pinewood-Shepperton eyes European expansion
Pinewood-Shepperton Holdings, owner of the $145m (£100m)-plus super studio formed this week from Pinewood Studios' effective takeover of Shepperton Studios, has set its sights on a link-up with a production facility on the European Continent.Michael Grade, the former Pinewood chief who becomes executive chairman of the new group, confirmed that ...
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Canal Plus Polska signs output deal with Kinowelt
Germany's Kinowelt International and Canal Plus Polska have signed a three-year agreement which gives Canal Plus' Polish pay-TV offshoot exclusive broadcast rights to all New Line Cinema titles.The agreement covers all titles distributed by Kinowelt International - a subsidiary of Kinowelt Medien which handles the German group's international development through ...
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Alliance buys into Canada's indie film network
Less than two months after losing out to Novia Scotia's Salter Street Films in a bid to launch Canada's first English-language movie network dedicated solely to independent filmmaking, Alliance Atlantis has offered some C$80m ($53m) to buy out Salter Street under an agreed takeover. Since Alliance Atlantis already enjoys long-term ...
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Picture This! picks up Confusion Of Genders for US
Picture This! Entertainment, Doug Witkins' boutique distribution outfit that specialises in stories presenting non-stereotypical gay, lesbian and bisexual characters, has acquired all US rights to the raunchy French sex comedy The Confusion of Genders (La Confusion Des Genres). Written and directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, a 37-year-old graduate of New ...
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Beacon, UPI reteam to sell The Palace Thief
Beacon Pictures is reteaming with Universal Pictures International (UPI) to sell one of its newest projects in international territories - The Palace Thief, a drama to star Kevin Kline and be directed by Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day, Soapdish). Per its long term domestic distribution deal, Universal Pictures will handle ...
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Judi Dench rejoins Hallstrom, Miramax in News
Judi Dench has joined the cast of The Shipping News, Lasse Hallstrom's movie version of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E Annie Proulx, which is currently in pre-production and is set to start shooting in March. Produced and financed by Miramax Films, it marks the fourth Miramax picture in ...
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FULL LIST OF AFM SEMINARS & CONFERENCE AGENDA
The American Film Market has announced the lineup for its AFM Seminars at the Le Merigot Hotel as well as the participants in the AFM Finance Conference which will take place on Feb 23 from 9.00 to 12.30 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.FEB 23:The two panels at the Finance Conference ...
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UK's Nicola Usburne wins Silverman Fellowship
Nicola Usborne, the UK producer of FilmFour's Sundance hit Jump Tomorrow, has been selected as the recipient of the 2001 Mark Silverman Fellowship which supports "visionary independent producers who have committed to a film project and still face the challenge of moving forward into production."The award is bestowed by The ...