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Pflug joins, Hiltzik promoted at Miramax
In two big changesin the publicity department at Miramax Films, Paul Pflug has joined the companyas executive vice president of media relations and corporate communications,while Matthew Hiltzik has been promoted to senior vice president of corporatecommunications and government relations.Effective today,Pflug is based in Miramax's Los Angeles office, where his responsibilitiesinclude ...
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Entertainment gurus resurrect Hammer horror label
An investment consortium headed by leading lights in the UK film, music, publishing and advertising sectors has acquired classic British horror and genre franchise Hammer Film Productions.The group aims to boost sales on Hammer's library - which encompasses 179 feature films including The Curse Of Frankenstein and Dracula - plus ...
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MGM posts $142.2m loss in 2002, extends Yemenidjian contract
MGM posted a net loss of $142.2m or 57 cents per share in 2002,compared with a net loss of $438.1m or $1.89 per share in 2001, according tothe studio's annual shareholder report.The company also declined to pay annual bonuses to its topofficers for 2002, "due to the failure of the ...
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News Corp seals DirecTV in $6.6bn deal
Two years after an unsuccessful bid by News Corp for US satelliteleader DirecTV, Rupert Murdoch awoke today (Apr 10) secure in the knowledgethat at last the cat appears to be in the bag.Yesterday the media mogul announced News Corp had signed a dealworth approximately $6.6bn to take control of DirecTV ...
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Father Amaro triumphs at Mexico's Academy Awards
Best Foreign Oscar nominee El Crimen Del Padre Amaro swept Mexico's 45th Academy Awards, the Premios Ariel, winning in nine categories. Carlos Carrera's priest scandal drama took home nine out of its 13 nominations on April 8th, including Best Picture, Director, adapted screenplay, editing, sound and wardrobe design. Actors Damian ...
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Chouchou
Dir: Merzak Allouache. France. 105minsAfter nearly a decade of supporting roles in mostly indifferent French commercial pictures, Casablanca-born stand-up comic Gad Elmaleh at last makes his screen breakthrough in this serviceable self-devised screen vehicle. He plays a young Algerian trying to cope with life in Paris as an illegal immigrant ...
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The Son wins three Belgian Oscars
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Son (Le Fils) was the big winner at this year's Belgian Oscars, the Joseph Plateau Awards, taking the honours in three categories - Best Belgian Film, Best Belgian Director and Best Belgian Actor - after being nominated for five.The awards, which are organised by Ghent's ...
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Sony's Spanish production arm confirms first projects
Just a month after the company closed its German production division, Sony Pictures Entertainment's new Spanish production operation, Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas has confirmed two of its first projects in development.Iona de Macedo, head of the Madrid-based unit since its September 2001 launch, confirmed that writer-director Juan Calvo's Tam Tam, ...
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Danish broadcasters sign production funding deal
Denmark's two major broadcasters DR-TV and TV2/Danmark have reached an agreement with the Association of Danish Film Producers on how to spend the $8.7m (DKR60m) they are obliged to invest annually in local film production. It was last year's media agreement which dictated the amount, but it is the first ...
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218 films in competition at Annecy animation festival
Organisers of the International Animation Film Festival and market in Annecy (June 2-7) have announced their line up for 2003, including 218 titles in competition.Of the record-breaking 1,309 films submitted to the festival this year, some 265 are in the official selection from 36 countries. In the official competition 218 ...
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International festival selectors could undermine new German Film Law
Festival selectors for Cannes, Venice and Berlin could exert an unacceptable influence on future German film funding decisions under the proposed new German Film Law (FFG), according to Klaus Schaefer, managing director of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund FFF Bayern.The new Film Law proposes that producers could gather "reference ...
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Britspotting festival to honour Winterbottom
Golden Bear-winning UK director Michael Winterbottom will be the subject of this year's retrospective at the British independent film festival "britspotting" in Berlin from April 24-30.The six-title homage will include Butterfly Kiss, Jude, Welcome To Sarajevo and Wonderland, while his 24 Hour Party People will be shown in the festival's ...
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Italian directors face blasphemy charges
The directors of Italian production Toto, Who Lived Twice are standing trial in Italy this week on charges of fraud and blasphemy which were brought against them by the state. The Palermo filmmakers, Daniele Cipri and Franceso Maresco, became local celebrities last year when their publicly-funded movie was banned by ...
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Madrid Film Commission launched
Spain's capital city will finally boast a film commission thanks to the creation this week of the Madrid Film Commission.Backers include the Audiovisual Producers' Rights' Management Entity (EGEDA), the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE) and the national umbrella org Spain Film Commission. The new commission also has the support of the ...
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Swedish Film Institute director general awarded Legion d'Honneur
Ase Kleveland, Director General of the Swedish Film Institute, has been awarded France's Legion d'Honneur in acknowledgement of her efforts to promote cooperation in cinema related issues throughout Europe. The award was presented by the Grand Chancellor of the Legion d'Honneur, Jean-Philippe Douin.Since Ase Kleveland became director general of the ...
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Lisa Gregorian promoted to senior vp, TV, at Warner Bros
Lisa Gregorian has beenappointed to the new position of senior vice president of television at WarnerBros marketing services, it was announced today (Apr 11) by Bruce Rosenblum,executive vice president of Warner Bros Television Group.Gregorian, who since 1998has served as senior vice president of marketing and research at Warner BrosInternational Television ...
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Film Source acquires dark comedy Santa Smokes
Alex Massis' NewYork-based marketing and licensing company The Film Source has acquiredworldwide rights, excluding the US, to Til Terror and Chris Valentien'sdark comedy Santa Smokes.Featuring Terror, KristyJean Hulslander and Richard Glover and written, produced and directed by Terrorand Valentien, Santa Smokescentres on a disillusioned actor who tries to make a ...
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Palm takes US rights to La Fleur Du Mal
Palm Pictureshas acquired all US rights to Claude Chabrol's Flower Of Evil (La FleurDu Mal), the acclaimeddirector's latest film that premiered at this year's Berlin FilmFestival.Palm plans a theatrical release in the autumn followed bya DVD and video roll-out next year.The Flower OfEvil is set in theBordeaux region of France ...
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A Man Apart
Dir: F Gary Gray. US. 2003. 109mins.Filmed two years ago, before the release of its star's 2001 breakthrough The Fast And The Furious, Vin Diesel vehicle A Man Apart delivers some stylishly violent drug cop action but never quite makes it as the more weighty crime drama it clearly wants ...
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Babenco's prison drama gets high-profile release in Brazil
Hector Babenco's much anticipated prison drama, Carandiru, opens wide in Brazil on up to 250 prints today, according to Columbia TriStar, Brazil. Co-producer Globo Filmes, the film arm of leading broadcaster Globo TV, has invested nearly $1m in a massive advertising and marketing campaign which will include plugs on some ...