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Good Machine strikes first-look deal with Miramax
Good Machine, which previously enjoyed housekeeping arrangements with 20th Century Fox and most recently Universal Pictures, has now has struck an exclusive first-look deal with Miramax Films, the Disney-owned studio that is within walking distance of Good Machine's building in downtown Manhattan.The multi-year deal, which becomes effective this month, means ...
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Betelnut Beauty
Screened at Berlin (Competition) Dir: Lin Cheng-sheng. Taiwan-China-France. 2000. 106mins.Young people struggling to find a meaningful life in the urban sprawl of Asian megacities like Taipei and Beijing is not a new premisefor a film, but Lin Cheng-sheng's Betelnut Beauty is a standoutnonetheless. Fully deserving the best director award ...
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ShoWest 2001
ShoWest 2001Behind the spectacle of some of Hollywood's hottest stars attending this year's ShoWest, lies the spectre of some of the most established US cinema operators facing bankruptcy.Snatched conversations between the many thousand-strong delegates, will be as much about the latest extravagant distributor showreel/performance as the overbuilding that has caused ...
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The Mexican goes good, not great, guns with $20.3m
As expected, DreamWorks SKG's superstar vehicle The Mexican which teams Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts topped the North American box office over the weekend, scoring a mighty $20.3m which is the biggest opening ever for the first weekend in March. The R-rated crime caper opened in 2,951 theatres, averaging $6,879 ...
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Zentropa: Bodils well at Danish awards
At the Bodil Awards on March 4 in Copenhagen, the Danish film-journalists and -critics' association gave out their prestigious prizes to last year's best films and acting talents.The award has been around since 1948, making it one of the oldest in Europe, but seldom, if ever, has it seen stronger ...
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Hamlet to be made by The Cell's Tarsem Singh
Indian born filmmaker Tarsem Singh, who made it to Hollywood's A-list with the sellout, The Cell is producing an Indian version of Hamlet. The film, titled Aditya, will be produced by Los Angeles based James Killough and New Delhi based William Gains. Killough had earlier written scripts for Indian films ...
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Hungary fears Government fund famine
Plans to restructure government funding for film production has set off a wave of protests from Hungarian filmmakers who claim it will give them fewer sources of cash to green-light new productions. Last year Hungarian filmmakers, who are heavily reliant on government subsidies, produced 27 feature films, the largest annual ...
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Columbia TriStar TV goes Globo in Brazil
Columbia TriStar International Television (CTIT) is currently co-producing the first TV movie to be made in Brazil. Titled Favorite Son, the drama is the first of a 12 TV movie package deal with leading Brazilian broadcaster Globo. The story of an Italian woman who returns to Brazil in search for ...
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JSA - Joint Security Area
Screened at Berlin (Competition). Dir: Park Chan-Wook. South Korea. 2000. 110mins. If nothing else, Korean director Park Chan-Wook's JSA - Joint Security Area can boast a highly unusual setting for its drama - the border between North and South Korea, the last flashpoint of the defunct Cold War. It is ...
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Amores Perros sweeps Fantasporto
Mexican sensation Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) took home two top awards of the official fantasy film competition of this year's Oporto International Film Festival (popularly known as "Fantasporto").Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's local box office hit and critical darling took home best film, best director and best screenplay (Guillermo Arriaga) awards ...
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Advanced Medien to announce changes
Christophe Montague's days as executive board chairman of the debt-ridden German distributor Advanced Medien could be numbered following the appointment of a new supervisory board which is expected "to make key personnel decisions and initiate organizational measures regarding the future development of the company".Advanced's previous supervisory board had resigned as ...
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Locarno to reveal secrets of American Cinema
From the "veiled racism" of The Deer Hunter to the more blatant kind evidenced by David Carradine's substitution of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in Kung Fu - the TV series Lee himself conceived - the issues facing Asian American cinema are explored in a major retrospective at August's Locarno ...
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Regent buys It Had To Be You with Henstridge
Regent Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to romantic comedy It Had To Be You starring Natasha Henstridge and Michael Vartan as two strangers who meet in New York while planning their respective weddings.Produced by Neil Kaplan and Steven Feder and directed by Feder, the film was originally distributed internationally by ...
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Future Film Group teams with Renaissance, MBP
UK finance, post-production and distribution outfit Future Film Group has clinched a multi-picture sale-and-leaseback arrangement with Renaisance Films kicking off with Paul McGuigan's Morality Play. It has also teamed up with German film fund MBP and UK production company Y2K Productions to finance Puckoon, a comedy currently in post-production with ...
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Metropolitan, Nexo sign New Line mega-deals
New Line International has made a host of international sales on its latest slate totalling over $40m worth of business, according to NLI president Rolf Mittweg who is also the co-chairman of worldwide marketing for New Line Cinema.The deals, clinched before, during and after the recent American Film Market include ...
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Monkeybone
Dir: Henry Selick. US. 2000. 92mins.For all its manic energy and elaborately-designed fantasy elements, Monkeybone, director Henry Selick's live-action follow-up to his acclaimed animated outings The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach, feels disappointingly flat. The film (based on the graphic novel Dark Town) appears to be ...
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Hamburg Festival celebrates Spain
Spain has been selected as the country focus in this year's international Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg/Germany (2-9 June 2001) The fest is a showcase of short films with a running time of no more than 20 minutes (the children's film sidebar allows films of up to 45 minutes in ...
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Quiero fulfils desire for Paramount Comedy
Spanish digital terrestrial pay television platform Quiero TV has extended its non-exclusive output agreement with Paramount Pictures to add the thematic channel Paramount Comedy into the platform's package offer. Paramount Comedy is the first new channel Quiero has incorporated since its launch last May. The channel can already be seen ...
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Indian bank to finance films
The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) has announced that a scheme to finance commercial films will be available by the end of this month (March 2001).The offer of financial assistance, not exceeding 50 per cent of a film's budget comes with a number of conditions. According to the details ...
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Fortissimo announces robust sales
Dutch-Asian sales agent Fortissimo Film Sales enjoyed a strong AFM ahead of what is expected to be a busy Cannes.During the AFM it sold Thai Cannes hopeful Tears Of The Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng to Bim Distribuzione (Italy), Alta Films (Spain), NFM (Netherlands), Edko (Hong Kong), Cathay (Singapore) and ...