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Warner Village tests Greek co-production
Warner- Village Roadshow's first ever Greek co-production, the satirical comedy, Crying, A Blessing From Paradise will be a crucial test for local titles' box office potential, when it is released on Oct 26.The Safe co-production, with local directors Thanassis Papathanassiou and Mihalis Reppas, will try to renew the spectacular success ...
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France's new TPS Star challenges Canal Plus
Television Par Satellite (TPS) the French digital satellite operator which is a rival to Vivendi Universal's CanalSatellite, is taking on Canal Plus, the French pay-TV channel, with the launch of a 'premium' channel, TPS Star, which will concentrate on film and soccer programming.The operator -- which boasts 1 million subscribers, ...
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Germany's RTL joins Filmstiftung NRW
Germany's largest private TV channel RTL is to become the fourth shareholder of the country's largest public fund Filmstiftung NRW.At a session of the fund's supervisory board, it was decided to give RTL a seat each in the film funding committee, the supervisory board and the shareholders' assembly. RTL's decision ...
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Melissa Mazgedian upped at Paramount int'l group
Melissa Mazgedian has been promoted to vice president, international motion pictures, for Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group.Mazgedian will work closely with Paramount's international distribution unit United International Pictures (UIP) to coordinate sales and marketing for the international release of feature films. She will continue to report to Joanna Johnson, executive ...
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Ridley & Tony Scott sign three year deal with Fox
Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and their production outfit Scott Free have closed a three year-producing and directing deal with 20th Century Fox to develop and make movies with all producing divisions of Fox. In addition to producing films for Fox, the brothers have committed to direct at least one ...
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Germany gains digital accord, loses Puffer
German broadcasters yesterday (Thursday 20 Sept) put aside their differences and reached agreement on new standards for digital TV. But that came too late to save Manfred Puffer, who was replaced by Peter Mihatsch, as head of Premiere World.Puffer joined Premiere World last year as its chief financial officer and ...
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Kirch, Mediaset dismantle top-heavy Epsilon
Epsilon, the joint venture film finance outfit involving the Kirch group and Italy's Mediaset, has been wound up after two years of internal wrangling.The two companies' film production label Emotion and the TV arm Evision will live on as 50-50 joint ventures controlled by the parent companies. But their ambitions ...
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Reviews
The Safety Of Objects
Dir: Rose Troche. US. 2001. 120 mins.The multi-story ensemble piece has become fashionable of late, to dazzling effect in the case of Amores Perros or Happiness and with more muddled results in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and What's Cooking' Rose Troche's third film The Safety ...
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M6 grabs CJ's Musa, holds onto Yeoh's The Touch
Korean blockbuster Musa (aka Musa The Warrior) has been picked up for French release by M6 and heads a growing Asian slate that, despite rumours to the contrary, continues to include Michelle Yeoh's The Touch. Musa, which is the biggest-budget Korean title of all time, is set for an early ...
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Screen International Comment
Not even our darkest imaginations could have foretold the horrors of last week, although several came close enough to force our creative industries into a sensitive retreat. A handful of upcoming films and TV shows with terrorist themes were instantly put on the back-burner; adverts laced with ghoulish humour were ...
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Father And Daughter awarded Cartoon d'Or
Michael Dudok de Wit's animated short Father And Daughter was presented with this year's Euro25,000 Cartoon d'Or at the 12th Cartoon Forum co-production market (September 19-22) which was held in the Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2001. Next year's Forum will be hosted by the region of Snowdonia, Wales. De ...
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South Korean film minister appointed
South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has appointed Namgung Jin to serve as his next Minister of Culture and Tourism, following the nomination of former Minister Kim Han-gill as a candidate in a local parliamentary election.Namgung, 59, worked previously as senior presidential secretary for political affairs before the President's cabinet ...
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Acquisitions boost for Nordic Smile
Nordic distribution and production outfit Smile Entertainment, which has divisions in Denmark and Finland, has boosted rights acquisitions, grabbing a number of new titles for Scandinavia. According to Smile head Timo T. Lahtinen, the increase is in part due to delays in the outfit's own productions and co-productions, caused by ...
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Equity throws UK productions into uncertainty
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things is amongst the high-profile productions plunged into uncertainty as the UK film sector starts to feel the impact of last week's decision by actors union Equity to strike from December 1.Other titles hit by Equity's call for its members to refuse any new contracts involving ...
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Rio festival to open on Sep 27 as scheduled
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2001 will run from September 27 to October 8 as scheduled. It plans to screen more than 400 films and videos from various countries in 30 cinemas around the city of Rio. The festival includes workshops, seminars and various sidebars including a retrospective ...
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Dutch film fest is launch pad for new initiatives
Holland's film season has kicked off with the 21st edition of the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht (19-28 September) - opening with the tax-scheme funded feature The Cave, which had its world premiere at the World Cinema sidebar in Montreal. This year, the festival serves not only as a platform ...
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Spence, Blackaby join San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco International Film Festival has recruited a new programming team for its upcoming 45th annual festival under newly appointed executive director Roxanne Messina Captor, an Emmy-nominated producer and director who joined the festival in Jan this year. Carl Spence joins San Francisco from the Seattle International Film Festival ...
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Hardball leads the pack again over dismal weekend
It was one of the most dismal weekends of the year at the North American box office, down 7% from the same weekend last year and some 15% from last weekend. The reasons: two films due to open this weekend (Training Day and Big Trouble) were postponed, the one left ...
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Iris, Charlotte dated for pre-Oscar US releases
Two high-powered British prestige pictures - Iris and Charlotte Gray - have been set for release in the US and Canada in December, meaning that they qualify for and indeed will be pushed for Oscar consideration.Neither had been certain to open this year. Warner Bros, which has US rights to ...