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Arthur Miller teams with Amos Gitai
Celebrated American playwright Arthur Miller and Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai are collaborating on an adaptation of Miller's story, Homely Girl.Along with co-writing the script, Miller is to appear in the picture, titled Plain Jane, alongside Samantha Morton, Danny Huston and Thomas Jane. Originally set in New York, Gitai and Miller ...
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Suzhou River wins Tokyo's first FILMeX festival
The first Tokyo FILMeX festival, launched as an art-house alternative to the more mainstream Tokyo International Film Festival, awarded its grand prize to Lou Ye's Suzhou River.Film-makers who lent their support to the festival included jury chairman Arturo Ripstein and jury members Bela Tarr and Jafar Panahi. A special ...
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Japan's Star, Sky to merge
A powerhouse film broadcaster is set to emerge in Japan following the merger of Star Channel, Japan's largest all-movie cable and satellite service, and Sony and News Corp's Sky Movies.The merged company will retain the name Star Channel and source films from six Hollywood majors. The service will have a ...
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2000 domestic box office breaks all-time record
The North American box office reached a record $7.45bn in 2000, up 2% from last year's $7.31bn, according to early estimates from box office data organisation ACNielsen EDI which is scheduled to reveal its final figures tomorrow.The record had looked unlikely earlier in the year after a disappointing summer (down ...
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Cast Away tops $109m after only 11 days
Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson demonstrated their huge star power over the Christmas and New Year holiday weekends, notching up megahits in the form of Cast Away and What Women Want respectively. Accompanied by excellent reviews from most North American critics, Cast Away opened with a powerhouse $39.9m opening over ...
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Artisan, Marvel cast Ray Park as Iron Fist
Artisan Entertainment has signed Ray Park, who played Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and Toad in X-Men, to play Iron Fist in its screen version of the Marvel Comics character. John Turman, whose credits include Buck Rogers In The 25th Century and The Incredible ...
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Claire Danes signs to Vinterberg's sci-fi romance
Claire Danes has been cast in Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's English-language fantastical romance, It's All About Love. Danes is to play the world famous ice skater Elena in the story about two lovers and their attempts to save their floundering relationship in a near-future world on the brink of spiritual ...
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Industry figures get British New Year Honours
Film industry figures receiving recognition in the British New Year Honours List include veteran actors Tom Courtenay, who receives a knighthood, and Paul Scofield, best known for his Shakespearean work, who becomes a Companion Of Honour.Producer William Kenwright, whose credits include Don't Go Breaking My Heart, receives a CBE, while ...
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French films slide to less than 30% market share
French cinema's national pride took a dent last year as local films' box office share dipped under the symbolic 30% mark.The fall from 1999's market share of 32.4% came despite a buoyant market. The French box-office rang up 163m tickets, the highest cinema attendance in ten years with the exception ...
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German shares slashed, Intertainment battered
German film stocks continued to fall despite stockmarket bouyancy over the recent holiday period as four companies lost at least a quarter of their value in the three weeks after December 15.Intertainment was hardest hit, being stripped of almost two-thirds of its value as it waged a public war with ...
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World-wide line-up set for Berlin's Panorama
Films from Sweden, Germany, the UK, Thailand, Korea, Argentina and Switzerland are among the first titles understood to have been selected for the Panorama section of February's Berlin International Film Festival.Family Secrets, a drama directed by Kjell-Ake Andersson, is expected to represent Sweden in the section. Ab Svensk Filmindustri is ...
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BVI tops 2000 international league with $1.307bn
Buena Vista International (BVI) grossed $1.307bn in 2000, marking it out as the top performing international distribution company of the year. Buena Vista was also the number one performing distributor in North America with a total of $1.1bn for the year.It is the sixth consecutive year that BVI has crossed ...
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Robino joins MGM as s'r vp, worldwide promotions
Mary Goss Robino has been named senior vice president, worldwide promotions, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) after ten years at New Line Cinema. Reporting to Gerry Rich, president of worldwide theatrical marketing for MGM, she will be responsible for developing creative marketing and promotional partnerships and tie-ins related to all the company's ...
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Sundance adds Campers, Stranger to fest lineup
The Sundance Film Festival has announced two surprise screenings which will be added to the 2001 lineup - Daniel Waters' Happy Campers and Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside.Happy Campers, financed and distributed worldwide by New Line Cinema, is the directorial debut of Waters. It stars Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, James King, ...
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Rotterdam programmes nine world premieres
This month's International Film Festival Rotterdam, considered to be at the cutting edge of the Euro festival circuit, boasts nine world premieres in its main competition section.Amongst the films screening for the first time in the VPRO Tiger Award Competition - which showcases first or second features - are Shi ...
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Kinowelt gets investor as Koelmels sell 4.9%
German mini-major Kinowelt has gained a new long-term investor after Munich Re Insurance Group's acquisition of 1.2m shares - equivalent to 4.9% of the media concern's capital stock.The shares were bought from Kinowelt founders Michael and Rainer Koelmel. According to an adhoc announcement, the proceeds from the sale will be ...
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Carlton, New Select partner on trio for Japan
London-based sales house Carlton International has signed a three-picture deal with Japan's New Select for star-driven TV action films. New Select is buying TV, DVD and video rights in Japan to Rough Air: Danger On Flight 534, Tin Can Alley and Maiden Voyage. All three are produced by Carlton America ...
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Scandinavian fears despite $500m admissions boom
Cinema-going in Scandinavia and the Baltic could explode by almost 40% by 2005 to hit $500m a year, according to the latest research from industry consultants Dodona Research. But, according to separate figues, local films may not benefit from the growth.Dodona calculates that total admissions in 2005 could reach 58 ...
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Telefonica in talks for majority stake in Manga
Telefonica Media, the multimedia filial of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, is in negotiations to take a majority stake in Barcelona-based distributor Manga Films.A spokesperson for Telefonica Media confirmed that talks are in "early stages." Manga was reportedly in negotiations last year to sell a stake to Germany's Splendid Medien.Manga would ...
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Miramax adds two new Italian directors to the fold
Miramax Films has closed two separate multi-picture deals with Italian directors Gabriele Muccino and Davide Ferrario to develop and direct both English and Italian language productions.First picture to go under Muccino's deal will be Miramax's remake of Cedric Klapisch's Paris-set, French-language breakthrough hit, Chacun Cherche Son Chat (When The Cat's ...