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Work In Progress (En Construccion)
Dir: Jose Luis Guerin. Spain 2001. 125 mins. A humorous and poetic chronicle of the impact on a working-class neighbourhood of a major construction project, Work In Progress was one of San Sebastian's most original discoveries. Screened to a packed auditorium of over 1000, the film held the audience's attention ...
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Distrib newcomer ThinkFilm calls Time Out for US
ThinkFilm, the fledgling North American distributor that was set up recently by a team of former Lions Gate executives, has acquired US rights to Venice-winning French title L'Emploi Du Temps (Time Out), the second feature film by Human Resources director Laurent Cantet.Since the Toronto film festival some ten companies have ...
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Shine pair re-teams for Oz-UK Love's Brother
Jane Scott and Jan Sardi, the producer and writer of Australian hit film Shine, are teaming up again for the romantic comedy Love's Brother, except that this time it will also be Sardi's directorial debut. Great Scott Productions' producing partner in the official Australian/UK co-production is Sarah Radclyffe Productions.A substantial ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast to sponsor Goteborg festival
Sweden's successful regional fund, Film I Vast has become the new backer of the Nordic Film Award at the Goteborg Film Festival. The award was instigated in 1989 by local newspaper Goteborg Posten, and has been known as the GP's Nordic Award, but from next year's 25th edition it will ...
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Optimism emerges from industry gloom
A sector by sector look at the industry's financial prospects after the impact of the Sept 11 events and the threat of economic slowdown. To be published over the next few days. Part 1: broadcast TV. Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThree weeks on, and like the rest ...
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UK agents pitch for bigger slice of the action
The turbulent UK agency scene, where three leading players have changed ownership in as many months, is increasingly looking for a slice of the producing action - to the point of taking producer credits and fees instead of the usual commissions.Among the ventures now producing or seriously looking at raising ...
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Japanese box office reaches all-time high
Confirming early predictions (Screendaily Jan 7) official data just released by the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan (Eiren), reveals that national cinema admissions reached 163.3m in 2001, generating all-time record box office revenues.Boosted by the massive success of Spirited Away, the Japanese box office soared 17.% in 2001 compared ...
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NTL appoints advisers on $17bn debt burden
UK cable network operator, NTL today (Jan 31) ended weeks of speculation by formally appointing financial advisers to help it renegotiate the debt burden that had become a concern within the investment community.The company, which is currently valued at $120m, has debts of about $17bn. The majority of this is ...
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Germany's Splendid reports 150% sales growth
Germany's Neuer Markt-listed Splendid Medien reported a 150% year-on-year growth in sales and positive earnings before tax, according to provisional figures for the 2001 financial year. The final financial report will not be presented until March 28.The Cologne-based company reported that the preliminary sales for 2001 are approximately Euros 68m ...
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Bader to run business affairs at MGM Pictures
Jonathan Bader has beenpromoted to executive vice president, business affairs, at MGM Pictures. In hisnew position, he will oversee theatrical business affairs and legal affairs forthe film unit and supervise all aspects of negotiations including talent,production and rights issues. He will also overseefinancing, split rights and other acquisition agreements. He ...
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I Am Sam producers win Stanley Kramer PGA prize
The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) is to give its inaugural Stanley Kramer Award to the producers ofNew Line Cinema's I Am Sam -Jessie Nelson, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Richard Solomon - atthe annual PGA Awards on March 2 in Los Angeles.The award was established tohonour a producer whose work ...
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Paramount Classics takes Human Voices
Paramount Classics hasconcluded a multiple territory deal on Michael Petroni's supernaturalromance Till Human Voices Wake Usstarring Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter. The company acquired rights inNorth and Latin America, the UK, South Africa and the Middle East to the filmfrom Key Entertainment and Tomorrow Film Corp.Written and directed byPetroni, ...
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Kung Pow: Enter The Fist
Dir: Steve Oedekerk. US. 2002. 80 mins. Kung Pow: Enter The Fist is a late-night college joke done on a Hollywood budget. Masterminded by writer-director Steve Oedekerk (whose credits include Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, The Nutty Professor and Patch Adams), the film takes an obscure 1970s Hong Kong karate ...
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BAFTA/LA axes Oscar tea party, launches brunch
TheBritish Academy Of Film And Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) is to axe its annualOscar tea party usually held the day before the Oscar ceremony and replace itwith a brunch and live satellite viewing of the Orange British Academy FilmAwards on Feb 24. BAFTA/LA plans to make theawards brunch an annual ...
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RJ Millard joins IDP as vp, publicity & marketing
RJ Millard, previously thepress officer and digital media development consultant for the Sundance FilmFestival, has joined IDP Distribution as vice president, publicity andmarketing. He will direct all publicityand marketing campaigns for IDP, which is the US distribution joint venturebetween Fireworks Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Films and StratosphereEntertainment. He will report to ...
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Microsoft technology to be used in film release
Horror thriller Wendigo which was shot on digital video will be the firstfilm to be released using Microsoft Windows Media. Distributed by ContentFilmand Magnolia Pictures, the film will be released using a preview of theupcoming version of Microsoft Media Audio and Video technology codenamed"Corona". The experiment, which willbegin in Seattle ...
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Paramount shifts international video back to LA
Paramount Home EntertainmentInternational (PHEI) is to move its headquarters from London to Los Angeles,where the company's president Phil Jackson will relocate. Jackson willcontinue to head up the division, reporting to Eric Doctorow, president ofParamount Home Entertainment Worldwide.The move, effective July2002, brings together the domestic and international home entertainmentoperations in one ...
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Wellspring, Criterion team for US DVD releases
Wellspring Media, the newlyreconfigured US specialized distributor formerly called Winstar TV & Video,has partnered with US arthouse video label Criterion to release titles on DVD from itslibrary by the likes of Fassbinder, Truffaut and Rohmer as part of theCriterion Collection.The new editions willfeature state-of-the-art upgrades of the films as well ...
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Two films tie for prize at Seattle Women's Fest
Lone Scherfig's Danishhit Italian For Beginners andRakhshan Bani-Etemad's Under The Skin Of The City tied for the top prize at the 2002 Women In CinemaFilm Festival in Seattle on Thursday night. Determined by audience vote,the best film runner-up was Rose Troche's The Safety Of Objects. Best documentary was Maia Wechsler's ...
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Spinks heads Signpost's world business affairs
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has appointed Lynwood Spinks, formerly chief operating officer of the US' Industry Entertainment, as head of worldwide business affairs.Spinks will be based in Los Angeles and takes up the position with immediate effect. He spent ten years at Carolco Pictures, where he ended his stint as ...