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BVI's Man Who Sued God rides high
Australia scored another local hit last weekend as boisterous comedy The Man Who Sued God chalked up one of the biggest openings of the year in the market.The film grossed $780,612 (A$1.53m) for Buena Vista International in its first four days from 226 screens. The gross was $102,000 more than ...
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Berlin to create 'campus' for young film-makers
The Berlin International Film Festival is to set up a parallel event for up to a thousand international film students, festival director Dieter Kosslick has revealed.Called the Berlinale Talent Campus, the event is to run in parallel with the 53rd edition of the festival in 2003. The initiative will include ...
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Domestic Disturbance
Domestic DisturbanceReviewed by Jean OppenheimerDir: Harold Becker. US 2001. 91minsIf Domestic Disturbance is indicative of the current state of Hollywood thrillers, then the genre is suffering from a bad case of fatigue. Coming on the heels of Swordfish and Battlefield Earth, John Travolta appears to be in a bit of ...
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The One
The OneDir: James Wong. US. 2001. 80mins. The One offers a double dose of Asian martial arts star Jet Li but shortchanges its audience in just about every other department. After the promising box office showings in the US of last year's Romeo Must Die ($56m) and this past summer's ...
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Rift between Kirch and BSkyB opens wider
Relations between UK satellite giant BSkyB and Germany's Kirch appear close to breaking point.Continuing losses and repeated changes of management at Premiere World, Kirch's pay-TV brand, appear to have put in doubt BSk'B's investment in the operation. With the prospect of a stockmarket flotation for KirchPayTV looking increasingly remote, BSkyB ...
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Miramax prepares ingenue for Oscar run
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalNo doubt smarting at missing out on foreign-language megahit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last year, Miramax Films has done everything in its considerable power this year to bag the cream of the world crop.But all its many international pick-ups this year - which ...
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Bandits to open Mumbai festival of Indian film
Bandits, produced by Indian-born producer Ashok Amritraj, is to open the International film festival of Mumbai on 21 November. Amritraj will be the chief attraction at the three year old festival which will also screen a total of 30 feature films as part of the Indian Panorama, including this year's ...
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MIFED: figures show attendance drop of15%
Mifed organising company Rassegne has pledged to tackle one of the most persistent complaints of the market's attendees - the terrible air-conditioning system - which chilled this year's dwindling number of delegates."Next year, we will be upgrading the air conditioning system," promised Manlio Armellini, managing director of Rassegne. The move ...
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UK trade gap narrows in film and TV sectors
The positive trade balance of the UK film industry has plunged between 1999 and 2000, dropping from $409m (£278m) to $107m (£73m) last year.According to figures from government agency National Statistics, UK film exports fell by 20% - or $60.1m (£41m) to $899m (£612m) - between 1999 and 2000, while ...
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Academics attack Asoka's historical accuracy
Academics in the Indian state of Orissa have hit out at the historical accuracy of actor-producer Shah Rukh Khan's international hit Asoka. MN Das, an internationally renowned expert on Emperor Ashoka and his conquest of Kalinga, said that a figure of such historical importance should not have been distorted ...
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UK French Festival to benefit from Amelie success
The 10th instalment of the French Film Festival UK will get underway on Nov 16 with an Amelie-like air of optimism.The festival includes screenings of Eric Rohmer's The Lady And The Duke (L'Anglaise Et Le Duc), Gabriel Aghion's Absolutely Fabulous (Absolument Fabuleux), Claude Miller's Betty Fischer And Other Stories and ...
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EFCA lobbies against EC-proposed subsidy ceiling
Film lobby group, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) has taken issue with a key European Commission communication on state aid schemes for cinema.The Commission proposal was published last week and recommended capping state aid to 50% of a film's production budget, arguing that this would stimulate the growth of ...
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MIFED: Paradiso nets magnificent seven for Benelux
Territories making themselves noticed this MIFED by the numbers and activity of their buyers included Benelux, Turkey and Russia. One company from Benelux was particularly busy. Brussels-based independent distributor Paradiso Entertainment bought Benelux rights to The Human Stain and The Adopted from Lakeshore. From New Line, a regular source of ...
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Film-makers protest Iran's treatment of Milani
Film-makers' association Facets Multimedia, critics group FIPRESCI and dozens of film directors have voiced their support for jailed Iranian auteur Tahmineh Milani, who faces execution over her recent film The Hidden Half.Industry luminaries who have appealed to the Iranian government to relent include Francis Ford Coppola, Ang Lee, Steven Soderbergh, ...
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MIFED: UK's Film Company enjoys bumper sales
Defying the economic and political gloom, UK foreign sales outfit The Film Company enjoyed a busy MIFED.It sold Zombie Dawn of the Dead to Gaga Communications, comfortably Japan's leading buyer in MilanUK independent title The Bunker was sold to Mi-Pic for Japan, AMIK Films for Spain, GMI for South Korea, ...
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MMG boards Palm Tree drama quartet
Armi Artsi's Milestone Media Group (MMG) has boarded a slate of four period features being readied by Scottish development and production outfit Palm Tree Productions. The deal was finalised at last week's Mifed film market.Palm Tree recently secured independent financial backing from Monaco-based media investment company IP Hedge for the ...
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Monsters, Inc. swallows $63.5m
Michael Eisner will be sighing with relief. The Walt Disney/Pixar animation, Monsters, Inc., scored a $63.5m opening weekend bonanza. Based on estimates, the film set a Disney record and, more important symbolically, reclaims from DreamWorks the record for a three-day opening by an animated film. DreamWorks' animated film Shrek opened ...
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Emmys pick Judy Davis over Emma Thompson
The 53rd Annual Prime Time Emmy awards, twice-cancelled in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, finally went ahead Nov. 4. There were no great surprises in terms of network television series ' NBC's White House fiction The West Wing won its second consecutive award for best drama series ...
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Korea's CJ poised to suck up newcomer Tube
South Korean major CJ Entertainment is poised to acquire independent outfit Tube Entertainment in a deal that looks to reshape the landscape of the Korean film industry. A formal acquisition is likely to take place by late November or early December, around the time that CJ Entertainment intends to ...
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Behind The Sun, Lagaan, Atanarjuat join Oscar race
Walter Salles' Behind The Sun, Cannes Camera d'Or winner Atanarjuat The Fast Runner and epic cricketing film Lagaan have joined an increasingly promising line-up as India, Canada and four Latin American countries unveiled their Oscar hopefuls.Japan picked the less well-known film Go, a drama by Yukisada Isao about a boy ...