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Sony warns against movie piracy
Sony vice chairman and the chief of its entertainment operations Sir Howard Stringer today warned of the growing threat of online movie piracy from broadband-connected homes, as the entertainment giant announced plans for its own legal online music service.Speaking to Sony dealers in Paris, Sir Howard said that more than ...
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Wenders back on the road...
Wim Wenders has won back control of Road Movies, the production outfit he sold to the now insolvent German media group Das Werk.Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, his partner in a new venture set up last year, Reverse Angle Production, have secured ownership of Road Movies Factory and will rename it ...
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Intolerable Cruelty
Dir: Joel Coen. 2003. 100 mins.The Coen brothers paradox is simply stated: why have critical plaudits and a substantial international fanbase never translated into big box-office results' Fargo was praised to the skies but performed disappointingly; while O Brother Where Art Thou, the Coens' best earner to date, did what ...
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Israel's Yana's Friends adds BO success to awards
Israeli film Yana's Friends, directed by Arik Kaplun, is fast becoming one of Israel's best performing movies as well as its most decorated.The bitter-sweet comedy, about Russian immigrants trying to find their bearings in Israel during the Gulf War, has racked up about 100,000 admissions since its release in October ...
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Suite Habana, Open Range bookend 51st San Sebastian
Cuban-Spanish co-production Suite Habana and Kevin Costner's Open Range will open and close, respectively, the 51st edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Open Range will screen out of competition. James Ivory's Le Divorce will inaugurate the parallel Zabaltegi section, closing with Zhang Yimou's Hero.The festival also unveiled ...
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Vivendi mulls sale of UGC cinema stake
Vivendi Universal, the French group that earlier this week agreed to merge with NBC to create a $40bn media colossus, is understood to be planning to sell half of its stake in the UGC cinema circuit. A consortium of minority shareholders brought to the table by the Verrechia family, looks ...
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Fox turns searchlight on UK
Creating the most potent UK-based, studio-backed outfit in London after Working Title Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures and UK National Lottery franchise DNA Films have finally unveiled their $50m joint venture to make British films over the next five years.The deal marks an ambitious bid to turn DNA into a longterm ...
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...and behind the camera for InDigEnt
Wim Wenders will direct the 12th, as yet untitled, project forInDigEnt, the digital video collective created by New York-based IFCProductions' Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan, producer-director GaryWinick and Cinetic Media's John Sloss.Principal photography is scheduled to begin later this month inLos Angeles.This is the first time InDigEnt has teamed up ...
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Slamdance 2004 to expand films, add screening rooms
More films, new and improved screening rooms and a new jury formatare on the cards at the 10th Slamdance Film Festival, which will take placefrom Jan 17-24 2004 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.Headquartered at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Park City's MainStreet, the event will boast four ...
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Miercourt moves from Myriad to Miramax as svp
David Miercort has joined Miramax Films as senior vice presidentof acquisitions and business affairs.Based in the company's Los Angeles offices, Miercort will beinvolved in day-to-day acquisitions activities from a business affairs andlegal perspective and will also work on Miramax's worldwide promotions.He will report to both Agnes Mentre, head of Miramax's ...
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Antidote plots Macbeth, Sarah
Jeff Levy-Hinte and Mary Jane Skalski's New York productioncompany Antidote Films has unveiled two new projects: Todd Louiso's Macbeth, which is to star Philip Seymour Hoffman, and StevenShainberg's Sarah, based on J TLeroy's acclaimed debut novel about West Virginia lowlifes.Louiso directed Love Liza, which starred Hoffman and earned the actor's ...
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LA launches new horror/sci-fi fest with world premiere of Monster Man
The world premiere ofLions Gate's Monster Man and theWest Coast premiere of Beyond Re-Animator are among the highlights of the inaugural ManiaFest sci-fi, fantasy andhorror festival, which runs in Santa Monica from Sept 18-21.The four-day event features classic screenings, panel discussions,a competition strand and panel discussions with Friday The 13th ...
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BVI passes the $1bn mark in 2003 - already
Buena Vista International (BVI) passed $1bn in internationaltickets sales at the weekend, the ninth consecutive time it has achieved thefeat - a record for any studio international arm. Fuelled by the success of Bruce Almighty, Pirates Of TheCaribbean, Jungle Book 2and Finding Nemo, BVIreached the milestone in record time.The chief ...
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Hugh Grant named 2003 Britannia Award winner by BAFTA/LA
Hugh Grant is to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick BritanniaAward for Excellence in Film at the 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeleson Nov 8"We are pleased to behonouring Hugh Grant, who is an accomplished stage and screen actor both in theUK and the United States," BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said ...
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Finland's Ambush sweeps local Jussi Awards
Finnish box office smash Ambush, directed by Olli Saarela, swept seven of the Finnish Film Awards - the Jussi - last weekend taking prizes for best film, direction and cinematography as well as editing, music, sound and set design.The film, produced by Marko Rohr and Ilkka Matila for MRP Productions, ...
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Menemsha takes Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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Revolver turns to Sayles' Casa
John Sayles' drama Casa De Los Babys has been picked up for Italian release by new distributor Revolver.The film, which plays in Venice's Controcorrente or Upstream section, tells the different life stories of six American women holed up in a South American motel while they await the bureaucratic processes necessary ...
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FRANCE
Following what can only be termed a rotten summer for film-going in France, exhibitors are thrilled with the performance of Johnny Depp's Pirates Of The Carribbean, the first real summer blockbuster to show any legs. Also new this week and of note is Cannes competition film La Petite Lili. The ...
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Mexico's Mandoki returns for two
Mexican director Luis Mandoki is returning to his native country to shoot two films back to back. Mandoki, who has directed the likes of Kevin Costner, Jennifer Lopez and Meg Ryan, will first shoot a drama based on a true story, Casa De Carton, by first time Salvadorean writer Oscar ...
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Gun-shy (Schussangst)
Dir. Dito Tsintsadze. Germany. 2003. 105 min.Gun-shy is a slow-burning yet always engaging psychological thriller that plots a merciless course to its devastating but inevitable conclusion. A story of compulsion leavened by surreal elements - there is dark humour but no quirkiness for quirkiness' sake - it should find a ...