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Corman, Schwarzenegger, Zellweger get AFMA Honours
The American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) is to launch its own awards ceremony at this month's American Film Market (AFM), giving out a series of "AFMA Honors" to celebrate the talent integral to independent film-making.The first awards event will take place on the beach near the Loews Santa Monica Beach ...
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Svankmajer to be awarded Freedom Prize
Veteran Czech filmmaker-artist Jan Svankmajer is to be presented with the Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize by Polish director Wajda at a special ceremony in Berlin's Academy of Arts on February 11.The presentation will take place as part of the Freedom Film Showcase of films from Central and Eastern Europe ...
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TF1 takes 100% control of Eurosport
Leading French broadcaster TF1 - which recently reported a 57.8% jump in its net revenues for 2000 - has acquired Canal Plus' and Havas Images' stake in the Eurosport group, which it now owns 100%.Eurosport, which reaches 92 million households and is available in 54 countries and 17 different languages ...
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CinemaxX embarks on $9m cost-cutting programme
The board of German exhibitor CinemaxX has agreed to a "massive programme of reducing costs" which should lead to a $9.6m (DM20m) improvement in its results. The company also said that it now plans to focus on the German market, and will only pursue expansion abroad "in co-operation with a ...
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Germany to get UK comedy TV adaptations
UK television comedy series Hale And Pace and drama series Reckless are being adapted by the German production arm of UK broadcaster Granada. Called Granada Produktion fuer Film und Fernsehen, the company aims to establish itself in the German market, through local adaptations of comedy and TV movies. Granada ...
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Ellender named MD of Freemantle Int'l
David Ellender has been named managing director of Fremantle International Distribution, which distributes programming throughout the world. He comes to Fremantle from Universal Studios Television Distribution, where he was also managing director.At his new post, Ellender will be accountable for managing and developing all aspects of the company, including the ...
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Chicago festival honours Sigourney Weaver
Signourney Weaver is to receive a lifetime achievement award during this year's Chicago International film festival, at a gala evening hosted by Bill Kurtis of A & E television. "We're thrilled to have Sigourney Weaver as our lifetime achievement award recipient," said festival director Michael Kutza. "She is truly a ...
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Shortlist announced for Comedy Shorts initiative
The UK's First Film Foundation and the Paramount Comedy Channel have announced the shortlisted scriptwriters and directors in the Comedy Shorts Initiative 2001. Four scripts and five directors have been shortlisted from a total of more than 700 submitted scripts and showreels The judging panel, which currently includes Bruce Robinson, ...
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UK's Scala Productions boards TSP's Seagull
The UK's Scala Productions has boarded English-language Spanish production The Seagull, in development at Barcelona start-up TSP.Spaniard Enrique Gabriel (Fading Memories) will direct the "Mediterranean adaptation" of the Chekhov play, which was co-scripted by TSP founders Eva Baro and Antoni Sole. The $12m film is being prepped for a 2002 ...
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Korean debut wins Hamburg's Golden tesafilm reel
Korean director Kim Dae-Seung's first feature film Bungee Jumping Of Their Own has won the Filmfest Hamburg's 'Golden tesafilm Reel' audience award against competition from 10 other first-time filmmakers. Filmfest director Josef Wutz announced that more than 25,000 admissions were registered for the 148 screenings of the 81 films in ...
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Script Factory launches UK comedy competition
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack's Mirage Enterprises, sales and financing operation Intermedia and UK script development body The Script Factory have launched a screenwriting competition for contemporary urban comedies.Finalists will compete for a $14,700 (£10,000) development commission from Mirage and Intermedia by pitching ideas to Minghella and Pollack. The competition ...
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Bandits
Dir Barry Levinson. US 2001. 122 min.Following his minor, disappointing comedy, An Everlasting Piece (which DreamWork barely released last year), Barry Levinson is back on terra firma with the crime comedy Bandits, a hybrid of a movie that blends to almost satisfying results the norms of classic screwball comedy ...
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My Wife Is A Gangster breaks local Korean record
South Korean comedy My Wife Is A Gangster opened to phenomenal returns during Korea's 5-day Chusok holiday, filling cinemas to 94% capacity for a nationwide gross of $7.6m, and setting a new record for being the first local release to reach one million admissions in 5 days. Released by Korea ...
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Recession watch - Part II
In the second part of Screen International's analysis on the effect on the industry of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, the threat of recession on the home entertainment and film exhibition sectors is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalHome entertainmentVideo was an immediate winner from the Sept 11 fallout. Not ...
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Minnie Driver joins New Cardiff cast
Minnie Driver is set to join Heather Graham, Colin Firth and Mary Steenburgen in New Cardiff, a romantic comedy being produced by the UK's Fragile Films for Buena Vista International.Driver is to play Vera, a scheming woman who dumps her fiance, an artist played by Firth, by sending him an ...
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Charlton Heston plays Mengele in war crime drama
Charlton Heston has joined the cast of Papa Alguem 5555, a movie about a Nazi war criminal who lives in hiding in Brazil. Adapted from a controversial novel by German author Peter Schneider, the Italian-Brazilian-Hungarian film is currently shooting in Rio de Janeiro.The movie, which is set in 1977 and ...
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Mexico to produce 60 films annually from 2006
Mexico will produce up to 60 films a year starting in 2006, according to president-elect Vicente Fox. Speaking at the presentation of awards to members of the film production workers union (Sindicato de Tecnicos Manuales de la Producion Cinematografica), Fox made his first public commitment to local cinema. "Our aim ...
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Kinepolis delays international expansion
Belgian exhibition giant, Kinepolis Group, is delaying its international expansion plans by one full year, according to a report in Belgian newspaper De Financieel-Economische Tijd. Planned cinema complexes in Granada and Nancy will be opened in 2003 rather than 2002 and other investment plans have been postponed from 2003 ...
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Film Council and CNC launch The Short Channel
The UK's Film Council has partnered with equivalent French public support body CNC to launch a short film competition aimed at promoting creative and financial co-operation between the two territories, as well as encouraging producers to develop films with a chance of travelling.Dubbed "The Short Channel" the scheme will produce ...
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Intertainment, RTV announce appointments
Stephen Brown, the head of German film rights trader Intertainment's US operations and board member responsible for business development, has been appointed as the vice president and successor to David Williamson who has left the company by mutual agreement. Williamson's responsibility for legal affairs will now be assumed by CEO ...