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Sasani CEO Sandra Gordon steps aside
South Africa's facilities giant Sasani Limited has announced that Sandra Gordon, who joined the group as chief executive officer three years ago, has not renewed her contract and will be leaving on 31 March 2002. In an unrelated move, Ralf Degni ...
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Little big guy Dudley Moore dies aged 66
Dudley Moore, the multi-talented comedian and musician who starred In Beyond The Fringe before becoming an unlikely Hollywood film star, died on Wednesday (Mar 27) after a long battle against illness. Sixty six year old Moore died of pneumonia as a complication of supranuclear palsy.A diminutive man, Moore was renowned ...
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PVR opens first multiplex outside Delhi
Delhi based Priya Village Roadshow (PVR) will next year launch first multiplex outside Delhi when it opens the doors of an 11 screen complex in suburban Mumbai (Bombay). The company is planning to expand from 12 screens to over 80 screens by 2005 and invest up to $30m. PVR director, ...
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Labadie, Chiche establish Wild Side video label
French film group Bac Films has launched its first two home video titles - Scary Movie 2 and Spy Kids - on the rental market through its recently created home video company, Wild Side Video. Wild Side Video -- a 100% subsidiary of Jean Labadie's Bac Films launched in February ...
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THINKFilm makes first worldwide rights acquisition
Recently formed NorthAmerican distributor THINKFilm has made its first acquisition of worldwiderights to a film - Thom Fitzgerald's ensemble drama The Event.Currently in production, the picture marks a returnto theatrical film for the acclaimed director of The Hanging Garden and Beefcake after his USA Networks TV movie Wolf Girl. Starring ...
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Panic Room locks up Easter record with $30.2m
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) kicked off its high-powered 2002 slate of event movies with a bang overEaster Weekend, as Jodie Foster-starrer Panic Room debuted with the biggest Easter opening of all timeof $30.2m in three days. Directed by David Fincher, the taut R-rated thrillerreceived mainly favourable reviews and gives SPE a ...
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Billy Wilder 1906-2002
With the death last week of Billy Wilder at the age of 95,the world lost one its greatest ever film-makers, a brilliant screenwriter andendlessly innovative director who created some of Hollywood's finestfilms.The director of Sunset Boulevard (1950),The Lost Weekend (1945), DoubleIndemnity (1944), Some Like ItHot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) ...
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Lumumba hits at South African box-office
Lumumba, the true story of assassinated African leader Patrice Lumumba, is smashing South African art-house records.The Ster-Kinekor Picturesand Film Resource Unit film has racked up more than $14,700 (R167,000) fromjust two prints. Directed by Raoul Peck, it beat the second week tally of Buena Vista Social Club, although itopened slightly ...
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Ice Age speeds to $56m international gross
20th CenturyFox's Ice Age continued itsbox office rampage around the world, racking up $56.15m to date - some$27.35m in the last seven days. The film opened in South Africa over theweekend, breaking the record for the highest animated opening ever with$248,289 from 71 screens and registering the third highest opening ...
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Pichirallo quits Searchlight for evp role at USA
Joe Pichirallo, one of theoriginal executives who founded Fox Searchlight Pictures in 1994, has left thecompany to join USA Films as executive vice president of production.Reporting to president ofproduction Glenn Williamson, Pichirallo will be responsible for bringing inprojects and supervising them through production; he will be based in thecompany's LA ...
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Miller, Oliveira find US homes for latest films
Two Europeanfilms have found US theatrical distribution through New York-based art-housespecialists, with Wellspring Media acquiring all domestic rights to Claude Miller's BettyFisher et Autres Histoires and Milestone Film & Video picking up Manoel de Oliveira's Vou Para Casa (I'm Going Home).Wellspring, the filmand video outfit that was formerly under the ...
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SAG downplays international impact of Global Rule
The US Screen Actors Guild(SAG) says its controversial Global Rule One will only apply to that small cadre of internationalactors primarily living in the US, and not those many foreign SAG card-holders who have worked on US films but remain overseas residents.International producers,particularly those in the UK, were in uproar ...
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Japan's theme parks ride recession rollercoaster
Japan's Disney and Universal Studios theme parks have enjoyed banner years despite a long recession which has plunged several local sites into receivership.Visitors to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea totalled 22.05 million, for a year-on gain of 27%, according to recently released figures. Although the newly opened DisneySea park accounted for ...
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Asia Screenings open with Golden Network pick-up
The first ever Hong Kong Asia Screenings, an industry companion piece to the Hong Kong Film Festival, kicked off this weekend with expanding world sales outfit Golden Network unveiling its latest pick-up, Girls' Friends.The film, about the friendship amongst five teen friends, joins a clutch of Thai titles on the ...
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Korea's Cat takes care of international business
Take Care Of My Cat, screening this week in the Hong Kong International Film Festival, is to make the leap into Europe after it emerged that Swedish-based Willmar Andersson Film has picked up all Nordic rights.Andersson, a well-known intermediary between the Nordic countries and Far Eastern film-makers, has secured a ...
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Death To Smoochy
Dir: Danny DeVito. US. 2002. 109 mins. A dark, subversive comedy enthusiastically realised by some big-name Hollywood talents - most notably Robin Williams, for whom it is the first of three big-screen comeback projects - Death To Smoochy takes an amusing premise and flogs it well beyond the point of ...
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UK release of France's Pornographer is
UK distributor Metro Tartan plans to place a card at the front of controversial French film The Pornographer stating that it has been "butchered" after UK certification body the BBFC demanded an 11-second cut.The BBFC objected to what it called "an unsimulated porn sequence in which a women is seen ...
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IN-Motion faces Neuer Markt termination
The German Stock Exchange has warned it plans to terminate trading on the Neuer Markt of shares in the IN-Motion Group, parent of Kirk D'Amico and Philip von Alvensleben's Myriad Pictures, within weeks.The company was informed over the weekend that the Exchange planned to terminate trading in the company's shares ...
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Major studios team to standardise digital cinema
The seven Hollywood studioshave clubbed together to develop technical standards for digital cinematechnology. The companies - Disney, MGM, Paramount, Sony, 20thCentury Fox, Universal and Warner Bros - are creating an entity to ensurethat competing digital exhibition formats are "open, compatible andinter-operable" and weigh up strategies for deploying digital exhibitionsystems in ...
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Clockstoppers
Dir: Jonathan Frakes. US. 2002. 94 mins. Nickelodeon Movies' Clockstoppers is the kind of calculatedly wholesome youth entertainment that seems more likely to appeal to protective parents than to a target audience of older kids and tweens. Thanks to Nickelodeon owner Viacom's aggressive company-wide marketing campaign, this effects-laden sci-fi adventure ...