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Working Title, DNA team on Curtis comedy
Working Title Films and National Lottery franchise DNA Films have teamed to produce leading UK writer Richard Curtis' directing debut, a romantic comedy in which Hugh Grant is to play the British prime minister.Grant is in talks to play a bachelor PM who falls in love on his first day ...
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Indian banks find confidence to fund films
Indian information and broadcasting minister, Sushma Swaraj has cleared the way for the Industrial Development Bank of India, the Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India to grant loans to filmmakers.The move comes as part of 'Operation Clean-Up', an initiative launched to prevent the use of 'underground' money ...
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Rings tops NZ box office, nears $500m int'l gross
Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring has become the biggest box office earner of all time in its home territory, New Zealand - fittingly the first country where it has done so, but with other nations set to follow shortly. It is due to pass $500m internationally within ...
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Argentine president steps in to save film industry
Argentina's president Eduardo Duhalde is to push through measures to rescue the country's film industry after a meeting last week head of the Argentine film institute, INCAA, Jorge Coscia, minister of culture Ruben Stella, and the producers of Oscar nominee Son Of The Bride - Pol-ka's Adrian Suar, Jemsa Productions' ...
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Golden Harvest losses increase by 34.5%
Losses at Hong Kong studio: Golden Harvest increased by 34.5% to $3.1m (HK$23.96m) in the six months to December 31, 2001, compared to $2.3m (HK$17.81m) for the same period the previous year.However, at the same time group turnover increased during the second half of 2001, by 8% to $17.6m (HK$137m), ...
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Bertelsmann opts against RTL share offering
Germany's Bertelsmann has decided not to proceed with a voluntary public offer for minority shares in the RTL Group not already held by the media concern or its affiliates.In December 2001, Bertelsmann had purchased Pearson's 22% stake in the Group and investigated whether a voluntary public offer of Euros 44 ...
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Isle of Man launches $35m location incentive fund
The Isle of Man Government has launched a $35.6m (£25m) fund to attract big-budget films to use it as a locationThe so-called Media Development Fund will invest in films, as well as develop an infrastructure for the film sector. The Isle of Man government aims for the fund to retain ...
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Lost In La Mancha finds UK distribution
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up Lost In La Mancha, the acclaimed documentary about the so-called un-making of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.Optimum is to give the film a theatrical outing this year after its success with audiences and critics at February's Berlin International Film Festival. ...
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K3G dominates Indian Academy technical categories
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, the Indian epic which has already been a globalsuccess, came out on top in the tehnical categories for the InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards which were announced yesterday byPricewaterhouseCoopers. The technical awards weredecided on the basis of film industry polling held on Feb 23 and 24 ...
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Artisan hires Will Rokos to write new Billy Liar
Will Rokos, theOscar-nominated co-writer of Monster's Ball, has signed on with Artisan Pictures to write thescreenplay for Artisan's update of Keith Waterhouse's novel BillyLiar, which was turned into a hitplay by Waterhouse and Willis Hall and the classic 1963 film directed by JohnSchlesinger.Paul A Kaufman, who broughtthe project to Artisan ...
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Magnolia takes domestic rights to Sur Mes Levres
Eamonn Bowles' new USdistributor Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights (excludingFrench-speaking Canada) to Jacques Audiard's award-winning French film SurMes Levres (Read My Lips) starring Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos.Sur Mes Levres, which won three Cesar awards in Paris earlier thismonth including best actress for Devos, is a thriller about ...
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Laissez-Passer opens 6th LA French film festival
Bertrand Tavernier's Laissez-Passer (Safe Passage), which played in competition at the Berlin International FilmFestival, will have its US premiere kicking off the sixth annual City OfLights, City Of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles on April 8.The film, for which JacquesGamblin was named best actor at Berlin, will be introduced ...
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Profession Of Arms leads Donatello nominations
Ermanno Olmi's 16th century war picture The Profession Of Arms, Silvio Soldini's tortured drama Burning In The Wind and Giuseppe Piccioni's film about urban misfits, Light of My Eyes led the nominations for the 2002 David di Donatello Awards, Italy's Oscar equivalents.Veteran auteur Olmi's picture, which scored well with local ...
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Dir: Alain Chabat. France. 2001. 107mins.Mission Cleopatra has come, been seen and conquered. In a mere six weeks, the record-setting $42m blockbuster comedy has racked up 12.9m admissions ($61.9m) in France from 898 sites, and should replace 1992 Gaumont time-warp comedy Les Visiteurs as the second top-grossing French film of ...
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Ali G IndaHouse
Dir: Mark Mylod. UK. 2002. 88 mins. A send-up of white kids trying to act black, Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego Ali G has cut quite a figure on UK TV, making a fool of celebrities like David Beckham. He has shot a video with Madonna (Music). Now he has ...
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Sony premieres Spider-man trailer on the web
Columbia TriStar MarketingGroup is to premiere the new theatrical trailer for Spider-Man on the film's dedicated website www.sony.com/Spider-Man starting nextWednesday before it hits theatres across the world. "This internetexclusive is also our way of saying thank you to the online community that hasso enthusiastically followed and supported the development ...
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Le Divorce cast finalised for Merchant Ivory
Director James Ivory andproducer Ismail Merchant have begun production on Le Divorce, a contemporary social comedy about two Americansisters in Paris, which is being fully financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Playing the two sisters areKate Hudson and Naomi Watts and the cast also includes Glenn Close, StockardChanning, Sam Waterston, Bebe ...
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KirchMedia, ProSiebenSat.1 merger cancelled
Germany's KirchMedia and ProSiebenSat.1 have cancelled their planned merger which was to take place this June.In an official communique stating that the merger would be "not feasible in the foreseeable future", the two indicated that they would nevertheless "continue to work together, as they always successfully have been doing, to ...
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Queensland funds Warner Roadshow Studio expansion
Australia's appeal as a location for runaway productions is set to get another boost with Queensland Premier Peter Beattie's decision to grant a $4.3m (A$8m) loan to the Warner Roadshow MovieWorld Studios in order to increase its size by 50%. Once completed, the Gold Coast facility will be one of ...
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Indo-Canadian production treaty imminent
India and Canada are on the brink of signing a co-production treaty that will extend the nascent film production relationship between the two territories, which has already seen a number of Indian films shoot in the country.Cwurrently, Indian film star Manoj Bajpai is to star in (Exotica), an Indo-Canadian feature ...