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Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Screened at Sundance (Dramatic Competition). Dir: John Cameron Mitchell. US. 2001. 95 mins.A conceptually bold, visually striking production - a style often associated with the work of indie producer Christine Vachon and brilliant designer Therese DePrez - marks Hedwig And The Angry Inch an impressive screen adaptation of the long-running, ...
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Crouching Tiger breaks UK foreign-language record
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon set yet another box office record Wednesday night as it became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the UK. The Mandarin-language film, which is still only in its third week on release, has taken $4,483,784 (£3,078,380) to date. The previous record of $4,423,087 ...
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Telefonica doubles stake in Portugal Telecom
Spain's Telefonica has more than doubled its stake in Portuguese counterpart Portugal Telecom (PT) from 4.75% to 10% as part of a deal that sees the two companies create South America's largest mobile phone operator via a joint venture in Brazil.The Spanish conglomerate may also take an option to invest ...
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Hald becomes chair of Nordic Film & TV Fund
The Swedish Film Institute's Peter Hald has been appointed chairman of the board of the Nordic Film & TV Fund by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Other additions to the board, which includes one member from each Nordic country, include Finnish Film Foundation head of production Erkki Astala; Thorfinnur Omarsson, ...
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Italian authority clears TMC deal with conditions
Italy's Antitrust Authority has said that it will wave through Telecom Italia and publishing giant Seat Pagine Gialle's proposed takeover of Cecchi Gori-owned broadcaster Telemontecarlo (TMC), if a law court greenlights the deal, and providing both companies comply with four regulatory conditions.Last week, Italy's communications watchdog vetoed the takeover because ...
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Spain's ICEX taps Campoy as advisor
Eduardo Campoy, president of the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE), has been named advisor to Spain's Foreign Commerce Institute (ICEX).This marks the first time that the ICEX has appointed an advisor from the media sector. Campoy will advise on how Spanish audiovisual product can better sell abroad.Campoy - a film director ...
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Media Park cancels IPO; unveils studio plans
Barcelona-based content producer and packager, Media Park, has postponed its proposed stock flotation, but at the same time has revealed that it will open a 6,500 square metre production facility in Madrid next month.Commenting on the cancelled IPO, company sources said: "Financially, we don't need to do it," and pointed ...
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Berlin's Kinderfilmfest unveils final line-up
The world premiere of Andrea Katzenberger's Der Mistkerl, which is handled internationally by Studio Hamburg Produktion, will open this year's edition of Berlin's Kinderfilmfest.The line-up for the children's film festival has now been finalised by organisers Renate Zylla and Maryanne Redpath. Films confirmed to screen include:Jannik Hastrup's animation film Cirkeline ...
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Haneke's Code Unknown to open Diagonale fest
Michael Haneke's Cannes competition title Code Unknown (Code Inconnu) will open this year's Diagonale festival of Austrian cinema, which will feature several sidebars to complement the central showcase of new Austrian film. Among the special programmes are a retrospective dedicated to German filmmaker Michael Klier; an animation focus presenting work ...
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The Caveman's Valentine
BEST PICTURE:Chocolat (Prods: David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Prods: Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee)Erin Brockovich (Prods: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher)Gladiator (Prods: Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig)Traffic (Prods: Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford)DIRECTING:Stephen Daldry - Billy ElliotAng Lee - Crouching Tiger, ...
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Japan's box office slumps despite 'plex growth
Japan had more films to watch and more screens to watch them on in 2000, but the country that pays the world's highest ticket prices for the privilege declined. According to the Motion Picture Association of Japan (Eiren), box office fell by 6.5% last year to $1.47bn (Y171bn).Despite this, the ...
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TF1 racks up sales on Ruiz, Chatilliez titles
French sales outfit TF1 International has sold Raoul Ruiz's Venice title La Comedie De L'Innocence, starring Isabelle Huppert and Charles Berling, to the UK's Artificial Eye, and pre-sold Etienne Chatilliez's latest comedy Tanguy to Germany's Prokino.The Ruiz title has already been sold to some 20 territories, most recently Spain which ...
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Azzurro takes top honours at Swiss Film Awards
Denis Rabaglia's Azzurro was named Best Feature Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards, held during the Solothurn Film Days (Jan 23-28), against competition from Markus Imboden's Komiker - which left empty-handed despite being nominated in three categories - Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips, Xavier Koller's Gripsholm and Clemens Klopfenstein's ...
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Sweden set to revise ratings system
Sweden's culture minister Marita Ulvskog has announced that a new film ratings system could be introduced in Sweden, based on a report which she recently commissioned from the Swedish Council on Media Violence.Sweden's current censorship debate started at the end of last year with the release of teen horror spoof ...
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Wedding Planner tops Superbowl Weekend
The North American box office continued to look healthy, improving some 55% on the same weekend last year this Superbowl weekend, when the competition from sports on television is traditionally intense.Heading the pack was Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy The Wedding Planner - a co-production with IMF and Intermedia (which has ...
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Sundance: Artisan buys US on Sundance rape docu
Artisan Entertainment, which has picked up a film every year at Sundance for the last three years, made it four on Friday, closing a deal to acquire North American rights to the documentary Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, which is playing in the festival's American Spectrum section.The film examines ...
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Showcase buys Dumped and Code Conspiracy
LA-based independent producer/distributor Showcase Entertainment has picked up international sales rights to two new pictures - romantic comedy Dumped and high-tech thriller The Code Conspiracy.Dumped, which is written and directed by former child actor Oliver Robbins (one of the children in Poltergeist), stars Dana Barron as a young woman who ...
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Sundance: ARP gets European rights to Haiku Tunnel
French independent ARP concluded its buying streak at the Sundance Film Festival, taking continental European rights to American Spectrum entry Haiku Tunnel. ARP had already bought French-speaking rights to David Siegel and Scott McGehee's The Deep End and Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow, in both instances before the US domestic buyers ...
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Bean's The Believer takes top prize at Sundance
Signalling a return to its roots as a committed showcase for edgy, provocative filmmaking, the Sundance Film Festival awarded its top dramatic prize to Henry Bean's incendiary directorial debut The Believer.Starring Ryan Gosling in a career-making role as a tormented Jewish religious student who joins a militant neo-Nazi clan, The ...
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Fox Searchlight, Key Films dive into Deep End
Fox Seachlight has splashed out $4m for the distributionrights to The Deep End in all available worldwideterritories except Italy, where Key Films looks set to release the film aftertabling a pre-emptive bid during this year's Sundance Film Festival. Cited by this jury for its cinematography, The Deep End stirred up ...