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Oscar winning Czech director returns with Bottles
Oscar-winning director of Kolya,and Dark Blue World and Czech Republic box office record holder, Jan Sverak has announced his return to directing after an absence of nearly two years. Dispelling rumours that his next project would be a horror film, Sverak said his latest project would be Returnable Bottles, a ...
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Istituto Luce boards Garcia-vehicle and Haneke-Binoche drama
Two months after new management was put into place at Istituto Luce, the venerable state-owned Italian film distributor is returning to local and international film production. Its slate includes a new picture by Cannes regular Michael Haneke and vehicles for Andy Garcia and Al Pacino. New chief executive Luciano Sovena ...
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Palm takes domestic rights to Venice hit Springtime
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to the award-winning drama Springtime In A Small Town, the first film from acclaimed director Tian Zhuangzhuang since 1993's The Blue Kite, from Fortissimo Film Sales.A theatrical release is planned through Palm's Arthouse Films this autumn, followed by a DVD and ...
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Wellspring's Russian Ark joins US digital series
US distributor Wellspring isto exhibit Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, which was famously shot in a single unedited91-minute take, as part of the BMW Films Digital Cinema Series in MicrosoftWindows Media 9 Series in select cities nationwide.The film was released intheatres in December 2002 on 35mm through Wellspring and grossed $1.6m.Cinematographer ...
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Un Certain Regard takes on added lustre
The Cannes Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar is taking on the allure and scale of a fully-fledged festival to rival discovery events like Locarno or Rotterdam.The Cannes selectors today completed their selection with the addition of Argentinian director Pablo Reyero's La Cruz Del Sur (sold by F For Film). Previously ...
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1975 Palme d'Or winner Lakhdar-Hamina to return to Cannes
Chronicle Of The Years Of Fire (Chronique Des Annes De Braise), an account of the period between 1939 and the Algerian War of Independence that won the Palme d'Or in 1975, will screen in Cannes again this year.Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the film will be high point of an Algerian ...
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Cannes 2003 - competition line-up
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Granada ties TV production knot with Seven Network
The UK's Granada Media Group has become one of the top five shareholders in Australia's Seven Network, as part of a deal which sees the two entities form an as-yet-unnamed Australian-based production company.Granada will combine its Australian production company Artist Services, which has several feature credits, with Seven's in-house production.The ...
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Competition line-up 2003
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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IMAX cuts deal to launch three new theatres in India
IMAX Corporation announcedtoday (Apr 29) that it has signed an agreement to install three theatres inIndia, marking the company's largest international multiple dealcommitment to date.The deal with commericalreal estate developer Aerens Developers & Engineers was closed in lateMarch and brings to six the number of IMAX theatres that will be ...
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Sundance Channel acquires Dopamine for film series
The SundanceChannel has acquired all North American rights to Mark Decena's debut featurefilm Dopamine, thecompany's senior vice president of film programming Paola Frecceroannounced today (Apr 29).A romanticcomedy about a computer programmer who falls for a nursery school teacher, Dopamine stars John Livingston (The Net) and Sabrina Lloyd (TV's SportsNight).The acquisition ...
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Warner promotes Reid, Rich, Volland to vice presidents
Warner Bros.Pictures International (WBPI) has announced three promotions in its marketingdepartment, with Samantha Reid becoming vice president of marketing, creativeadvertising and production, Blair Rich becoming vice president of marketing andcreative advertising and Lance Volland becoming vice president of publicity.The promotionswere announced today (Apr 29) by Sue Kroll, WBPI's president ofmarketing.Reid ...
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Toronto breathes again after WHO warning rescinded
The World HealthOrganisation yesterday lifted its travel advice against non-essential travel toToronto, effective today. It is a welcome relief for Canada'slargest production centre, which was bracing for a collapse of US productions.The city suffered an instantaneous downturn in tourism and convention businesswhen WHO posted the advice April 23. As of ...
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May Yip moves from EMG to Fortune Star
May Yip, distribution andacquisition manager at Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), is leavingthe company today to take up the position of head of distribution at FortuneStar. Fortune Star is the contentarm of News Corp-owned regional broadcaster Star TV. It owns world rights inperpetuity to a large library of Chinese-language ...
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UK BOX OFFICE
Three major new openers in the UK were no challenge for homegrown hit Johnny English last weekend (April 25-27), which saw the comedy drop off a mere 10% to lead for a third consecutive week. The UIP distributed film claimed another $3.6m (£2.3m) over the three-day weekend and has already ...
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Yip swaps EMG for Fortune Star
May Yip, distribution and acquisition manager at Hong Kong's Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), is leaving the company today to take up the position of head of distribution at Fortune Star. Fortune Star is the content arm of News Corp-owned regional broadcaster Star TV. It owns world rights in perpetuity to ...
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EU says pay-TV broadcasters to blame for rise in piracy
The European Union (EU) this week criticised Europe's pay-TV companies for creating the conditions that encourage piracy of their services.In a new report on electronic services the European Commission said: "significant amounts of piracy result from the impossibility of obtaining pay satellite-TV channels originating from other member states. EU citizens ...
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Matrix computer game does record business
Infogrames Entertainment said that it has done record business on Enter The Matrix, the video game tie-in with forthcoming film The Matrix Reloaded.The game will be released on 15 May in parallel with the premiere of the film at the Cannes festival and its simultaneous world release. Infogrames said that ...
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Say It In My Own Words
Say It In My Own Words (Dillo Con Parole Mie)Lee Marshall in RomeDir: Daniele Luchetti. Italy. 2003. 108minsDaniele Luchetti scored a minor hit in 1995 with the classroom comedy drama La Scuola and followed it with the intermittently interesting Piccoli Maestri (1998), about a group of students caught up in ...
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Distant (Uzak)
DistantDan Fainaru in IstanbulDir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turkey. 2002. 106mins.With a high profile after its selection in competition at Cannes later this month, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new film promises to become a surefire hit on the festival circuit. Faithful to Ceylan's intransigently ascetic reputation, it has already collected all the ...