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Warner Germany scores smash with Polar Bear
Warner Bros Germany has scored a record-breaking opening with its locally produced family entertainment picture The Little Polar Bear (Der Kleine Eisbar), taking DM4,320,651 ($2.04m) on 477 prints over the weekend.The animated German-language film co-produced by Warner Bros Germany with Cartoon Film is the best opening of the year for ...
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Elling
Dir: Petter Naess. Norway. 2001. 90 mins. Playing in the Zabaltegi (New Directors) programme at San Sebastian, this sweet-tempered comedy about two eccentrics carving an unusual niche for themselves in society is a modest audience-pleaser which won the Youth Jury award by a comfortable margin and was given a Special ...
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Industry mourns tragic death of Steen S. Larsen
One of the most respected and competent cinema builders in Europe died on Monday Oct 8, when Nordic major Nordisk Film Biografer's vice president of Logistics, Steen S. Larsen, was among the passengers killed on board the SAS flight that tragically crashed in Milan. Larsen had attended the IBTS Mediatech ...
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Moulin Rouge regains UK box office crown
Audacious Australian musical Moulin Rouge reclaimed the top of the UK chart this week from two-week champ A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Now in its fifth week on release Baz Luhrmann's film dropped off just 20% from its previous weekend, its largest fall so far, taking a three-day gross of $1.6m (£1.1m) ...
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Film Export UK assesses autumn markets
MIFED has secured support from 73% of companies asked to choose between the Italian market and the preceeding London screenings in a worldwide survey by promotional body Film Export UK. With the economic downturn adding urgency to buyers and sellers' longstanding complaints about attending two consecutive markets in different countries, ...
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Rai Trade shows first fruit of production branch
Rai Trade, the sales arm of Italian public broadcaster RAI, has added a new strategic dimension to its sales and distribution activities and become a co-financier of European and international co-productions. The first fruits of this new branch were on display this week at MIP-COM.Rai Trade gets its first production ...
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New MD for Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH
Producer Gabriela Bacher has been appointed as the managing director of the soon-to-be founded Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH with responsibility for all media activities in Potsdam/Babelsberg and Los Angeles.Reporting directly to Vivendi Germany boss Thierry Potok, she will also take over the running of the studios from Gerhard Bergfried ...
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South Korea's Pusan fest's 6th edition line-up
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has unveiled the complete lineup for its 6th edition, to be held Nov. 9-17 in Busan, South Korea. Opening with the world premiere of Korean director Bae Chang-ho's The Last Witness, the festival will screen a total of 202 films from a record ...
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Recession watch - Part III
In the third 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 production and post-production sectors is assessed.Abstracted from Screen InternationalProductionThe production sector could be the part of the film life-cycle that is most ...
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The latest MIP-COM deals round-up
Beyond signs five picture deal with WeintraubAustralia's Beyond Films has signed a major five picture deal with US producer Fred Weintraub of Weintraub Kume Productions. The slate of genre features will be co-produced by German film fund MBP, with Beyond Films handling international sales.Beyond is also reported to have signed ...
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Optimum takes UK rights to French hit The Closet
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing has acquired all UK rights from Gaumont to Francis Veber's French hit The Closet (Le Placard).The comedy, starring Daniel Auteil and Gerard Depardieu, tells the story of a forty-something man who pretends that he's gay in order to save himself from redundancy.The Closet achieved more ...
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Friedman sees AOLTV as interactive brand leader
AOLTV will succeed because of the strength of the AOL brand and because its lead in the on-line market makes it able to federate many of its competitors. That at least was the message from Rob Friedman, newly installed president, worldwide interactive marketing TV at AOL, in his keynote address ...
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Disney/Pixar titles sold to European free-TV
Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV) has licensed its Classic Treasure package, a bundle of Disney and Pixar animation features to free-TV broadcasters in Europe. Following a similar deal last week with the BBC (Screendaily Oct 1), Danmarks Radio of Denmark, SIC of Portugal, Cinenova in Benlux and RTE in ...
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GMI acquires sales rights to Zhou Yu's Train
Good Machine International (GMI) has acquired worldwide sales rights outside Chinese-language Asia, Latin America and the English-language territories to Zhou Yu's Train starring Gong Li and Tony Leung.Directed by Sun Zhou and written by Sun, Bai Chun and Zhang Mei, Zhou Yu's Train is currently in production in the province ...
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Senator International hires Goldsmith & Call
LA-based Senator International, the US production and distribution arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has made two key appointments, hiring Brian Goldsmith as chief financial officer and executive vice president of operations and Paula Call as senior vice president of business and legal affairs.Goldsmith first consulted for Senator International on Luis ...
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All About Lily Chou Chou
Dir: Shunji Iwai. Japan. 2001. 146 mins.If you thought Tim Blake Nelson's O was an edgy high school movie, take a look at Shunji Iwai's latest film All About Lily Chou Chou - a harrowing portrait of contemporary teenagers in a Japanese school where casual violence, pimping, rape and murder ...
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Iron Monkey
Dir: Yuen Wo Ping. Hong Kong. 1993. 87 mins. Made in 1993 by Hong Kong action masters Tsui Hark and Yuen Wo Ping, Iron Monkey is considered a modern classic by many martial arts movie aficionados. Miramax's release in North and South America of a spruced up version of the ...
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Escape To Paradise
Dir: Nino Jacusso. Switzerland. 2001. 90 mins. The outstanding feature of this well-meaning but utterly predictable melodrama about a Kurdish family seeking political asylum is the zesty, touching and thoroughly convincing performances from a cast of mainly non-professionals playing heightened versions of themselves (a strategy which the film's credits pretentiously ...
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Catalan govt. doubles film & TV funding to $110m
Artur Mas, chief minister of Spain's Catalan regional government, the Generalitat, revealed plans to nearly double annual funding of the local audiovisual industry to Euros 120m (pts20bn) for 2002, at the Catalonia Film Festival of SitgesMas and culture minister Jordi Vilajoana also announced a new project to back the production ...
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Sony's SCE invests $124m in struggling Square
Sony Computer Entertainment has purchased an 18.6% stake in Square Co., a leading game maker in recovery after the box office disaster of its first film, Final Fantasy. The unit of Sony Corp. in charge of the bestselling PlayStation 2 console, SCE will become Square's second-largest shareholder. Square founder Masafumi ...