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Paris prefers Eight Women to Amelie
French sales agency Celluloid Dreams has received a double confidence boost ahead of tonight's (Feb 8) competition film Eight Women (Huit Femmes).In its first day on commercial release Eight Women, a female ensemble piece by controversial director Francois Ozon, secured 43,000 spectators from a 24-print release in Paris handled by ...
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Chico takes Hungarian Film Week prize
Ibolya Fekete's film Chico - about a mercenary who fights in many of the 20th century's revolutionary conflicts - has walked away with the Hungarian Film Week's main feature film prize. Chico is just one of a number of films credited with injecting a more populist note into the Hungarian ...
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Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest law criticised
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's government is trying to push through a polemical new conflict-of-interest law, days before it is due to appoint a new board of directors for state broadcaster Rai, the main rival to the premier's multi-billion dollar media empire.The proposed law states that the national watchdog should ...
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Australia's Darnley House boards $12m Jamil
Australia's Darnley House Productions has boarded Italian producer Leo Pescarolo's $12m picture, Jamil, The Last Goddess.Backing has also been secured from Italy's Rai Cinema for the movie, which is loosely based on H.Rider Haggard's novel She, a mythical late 19th century African adventure about an immortal woman who is ...
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Nicole Kidman gets
Nicole Kidman will receive adistinguished decade of achievement in film award at worldwide exhibitorsconvention ShoWest in March in Las Vegas. The actress will accept her award,which recognizes "Kidman's extraordinary body of work over the lastten years," on stage on March 7 at the Showest gala awards banquet.Other 2002 honorees so ...
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WGA nominates Rings, Park, Mind, Rouge
The Writers Guild Of America(WGA) unveiled its nominations for the 2001 WGA awards this week just daysafter it was revealed that two of the year's most acclaimed screenplays-from the independent breakthrough hits Memento and In The Bedroom - had been deemed ineligible.The original screenplaynominees are Julian Fellowes for Gosford Park, ...
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Guardian teams with Mainline for new sales outfit
Richard S Guardian, theveteran sales executive who has held stints with Overseas Filmgroup, HBOEnterprises and most recently Beyond Films, has teamed up with video and TVdistributor Mainline Releasing to launch Lightning Entertainment, a newLA-based boutique focusing on worldwide distribution of mid-budget independenttheatrical films.Mainline principals RichGoldberg and Marc Greenberg will provide ...
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Canada's Genies snatched by The Fast Runner
To the surprise of no one, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) continued its winning ways, taking Best Picture and Best Direction at Canada's 22nd Genie Awards on Feb. 7. The Inuit-language feature, which is Canada's submission for the Foreign-language Academy Award, also won the Genies for Screenplay, Editing and Original Score. ...
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Contact Berlin feature line-up confirmed
New feature projects from the UK, Spain, Denmark and France are among 12 films being presented to key potential financiers at the "Contact Berlin" financing platform being held at this year's Berlinale from February 9-10.The line-up of projects include:The Body In The Yard (AGAT Films & Cie, France)The Bum's Rush ...
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Collateral Damage
Dir: Andrew Davis. US. 2002. 108mins.If it were not for the September 11 terrorist attacks, Collateral Damage - Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest action vehicle - would have been dismissed by critics as yet another popcorn picture, using terrorism as a cheap plot device to advance its gung-ho ...
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BERLINALE Screen International's news round-up
A round-up of the latest news taken from the Screen International Berlinale dailies - the official festival magazine.For previous stories and a full listing of the films in the main sections of the festival - type: Berlinale into the search bar at the top of the screendaily homepage.Madrid-based sales agent, ...
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Happy Times (Xingfu Shiguang)
Dir: Zhang Yimou. China/US. 2000. 96mins The first film from Edward R Pressman and Terrence Malick's Sunflower Productions, Zhang Yimou 's Happy Times is a Chaplinesque sentimental comedy which has its moments of greatness. Even during the more pedestrian scenes, it is difficult not to be warmed by ...
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Jean Prewitt promoted to CEO of AFMA
Jean Prewitt, the presidentof AFMA, has been promoted to chief executive officer of the independet filmand TV trade organization. Prewitt, who joined the organization in April 2000,will retain the title of president as well."Over the last twoyears, Jean has exhibited exemplary leadership in solidifying AFMA's role inrepresenting the independent film ...
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Full list of AFM seminars & finance conference
The American Film Market(AFM) will host six seminars and a finance conference at this year'sevent (Feb 20-27), sponsored bylegal advisory firm Coudert Brothers.The programme is as follows:Feb 22 AFM FinanceConferencePanels: The Future Of FeatureFilm Financing IPanelists: Lewis Horwitz(moderator), Paul Brooks, Martin Katz, Edward S Labowitz, John W MillerThe Future Of ...
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Screenwriters to get equal billing at Berlinale
Less than a year after the threat of a screenwriters' strike stuck fear into the heart of Hollywood, the Berlinale is to change its rules on recognition for scriptwriting.From next year the Berlinale will give writers equal credit with directors and lead actors in the listing of all festival films. ...
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Intermedia restructure scales back UK base
Intermedia, the biggest film concern listed on Germany's Neuer Markt, is scaling back the UK base from which it first launched as a small independent sales outfit.As the indie film giant becomes more of a Hollywood player, it is understood to be leaving only the international marketing department under Paul ...
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Wild Bunch adds Spirited Away, amongst others
French sales agent Wild Bunch is poised to pick up world sales rights to animated feature Spirited Away during the Berlin Film Festival. The picture, which was a late addition to the Berlinale competition, is the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time.The fantasy, directed by Hayao Miyazaki of the ...
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Harry Potter scores in China, despite piracy
Despite early availability of the title on pirate DVD and VCD formats, Warner Bros. estimates that Harry Potter grossed a promising $2m from 300 theatres during its first week of release in China (Jan 30 - Feb 5)."It's out-performing The Mummy Returns, but not doing as well as Pearl Harbor ...
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German exhibitors boycott All Industry Meeting
German exhibitors' association Hauptverband Deutscher Filmtheater (HDF) last week boycotted an All Industry Meeting on joint marketing measures in response to critical comments made about it in an internal memo by the distributors' association Verband der Filmverleiher (VdF). HDF - which represents more than half of the German exhibition sector, ...
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Kinowelt's fate to be determined by March 2002
A final decision on the fate of the debt-ridden Kinowelt Medien Group is likely to be made by the second half of March, according to the provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott.In a status report to the end of January on his efforts with Kinowelt's management and the creditor banks ...