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UIP chairman Oneile expected to step down
UIP chairman Paul Oneile is expected to announce his departure from the international distribution giant imminently.London-based Oneile, who is understood to be leaving for personal reasons, has headed the international distribution venture of Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures since 1996.UIP president Andrew Cripps is seen as a likely to candidate ...
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The Ring runs circles around the competition
A haunted video tape proved too much for Hannibal and friends over the weekend as DreamWorks SKG's The Ring spooked Red Dragon off the top spot with an estimated $15m bow. The English-language remake of Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese horror picture Ringu impressed the critics and averaged $7,571 from 1,981 ...
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Senator shares boosted by KirchMedia licence deal
German distributor and licence trader Senator Entertainment has struck a "wide ranging deal" that will see its films licensed to the bankrupt KirchMedia group. The films will be shown on free-TV channels ProSieben, Sat 1 and Kabel 1.Senator did not disclose the terms of the deal, nor say how many ...
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Villa Des Roses
Director: Frank van Passel. Bel-UK-Neth-Lux. 2002. 119minsSelected as Best Feature at the recent Hollywood Film Festival and a triple nominee at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) later this month, Villa Des Roses is finally beginning to generate the kind of modest heat that could secure it a welcome in ...
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Media Asia picks up two Chinese features
Hong Kong's Media Asia has picked up all rights outside China to two features from up-and-coming mainland talent in the run-up to Mifed.Directed by Zhang Yibai, Media Asia's first pick-up: Spring Subway is written and produced by Liu Fendou whose writing credits include Zhang Yang's Shower and Spicy Love Soup. ...
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Korean exhibitor to launch pilot US cinema
South Korean major CJ Entertainment has announced plans to expand its CGV multiplex line into the US, with its first venue scheduled to open in Los Angeles' Koreatown in 2004. The venture marks the first effort by a Korean film company to target the Korean-American community through theatrical, rather ...
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Spain's film funding crisis deepens
Spain's film funding crisis is escalating, with producers, actors, broadcasters and the government all blaming each other for a major production slowdown.Newly released figures show that both local productions and foreign acquisitions have plummeted in Spain this year. Spanish producers' federation FAPAE estimates that 84 films will shoot in ...
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FilmFour racks up quarter of a million subscribers
FilmFour, the pay-TV film channel owned UK broadcaster Channel 4, signed up 250,000 subscribers by the end of December last year, the channel announced this week.FilmFour, which had a projected target of 150,000 subscribers, now aims to secure 400,000 subscribers by the end of this year. The one year-old operation ...
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Spanish pay-TV merger could encounter national resistance
The pending merger of Spain's digital pay-TV platforms, Via Digital and Canal Satellite Digital is likely to meet stiff resistance from numerous sectors within the country. The nation's Court for the Defence of Competition is understood to be collecting multiple complaints concerning the merger from Spanish companies and associations prior ...
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Germany submits Nowhere In Africa for foreign-language Oscar
Multiple award-winning Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa has been chosen as the German entry to compete for the best foreign-language Oscar.The nine-person independent jury of experts, which was appointed by the Export Union of German Cinema to select the German entry to compete for the best foreign language film Oscar, ...
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Watling joins cast of Gay's In The City
Actress Leonor Watling has joined the cast of director Cesc Gay's forthcoming tragicomedy In The City (En La Ciudad).Watling, who starred as the comatose ballerina in Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella), will take a supporting role in the film, which stars Eduard Fernandez (Smoking Room), Monica Lopez ...
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Gettin' Square gets international distribution
Universal Pictures/Studio Canal/UIP has been named as the international distributor of Gettin' Square, the hard-edged comedy drama that went into production in Queensland today under the direction of Jonathan Teplitzky, whose debut film was Better Than Sex. Hoyts is handling the film locally. Gettin' Square is set in the world ...
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Ceili War starts in Northern Ireland
Location filming started in Northern Ireland on Friday on The Great Ceili War. The $7.7m (£5m) film about brothers who lead rival bands is directed by John Irvin and will shoot for four weeks in Belfast and Glenarm, County Antrim, before relocating to the Isle of Man. The script is ...
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Spain TV Expo readies inaugural US edition
The newly created Spain TV Expo is readying its first edition next month in Miami (Nov 14-16) with the anticipated participation of companies from Spain, the US and Latin America.The Expo was created to further commercial relations between Spanish producers and key broadcasters from the Americas through one-on-one meetings between ...
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Hungary's premiere film festival wraps
The 10th Titanic Budapest Film Festival came to an end on Sunday night with a special screening of Atom Egoyan's Ararat. Although the director could not be present at the screening he did send a letter saying 'I am proud and honoured that you have chosen to close your festival ...
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European Film Academy nominates shorts
The European Film Academy (EFA) and United International Pictures (UIP) have announced the 11 nominations for the Euros 10,000 European Short Film Award 2002 - Prix UIP, the winner of which will be presented in Rome on December 7, during the European Film Awards ceremony.The nominations are:MunoBouli Lanners, BelgiumPrix UIP ...
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UGC makes solid start as UK distributor
The UK saw a new film distributor take its bow in the theatrical marketplace over the weekend as UGC Films released Mike Leigh's critically-acclaimed All Or Nothing.Entering the chart at number 10, despite playing at just 55 sites, the social drama, which stars Leigh regular Timothy Spall, grossed a good ...
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Noe's Irreversible gets UK theatrical OK
The British Board Of Film Classification given Gaspar Noe's Irreversible an 18 certificate, and passed it uncut for its UK theatrical release - which will be through Metro Tartan in Spring 2003..In a statement, Metro Tartan said it was delighted to hear that the film had been passed uncut for ...
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Pascal, Blake, Landau promoted to vice chairmen at SPE
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) chairman John Calley has promoted three of company's leading lights to the position of vice chairman under a new management structure designed to encourage a "constant flow of information". Columbia Pictures chairman Amy Pascal, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group worldwide marketing and distribution president Jeff Blake ...
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Kiss The Bride, Cinemania win top prizes at Hamptons Fest
Director-screenwriter Vanessa Parise's Kiss The Bride and James Coburn were among honorees as the tenth Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) closed amid a flurry of awards on Oct 19 and 20. Jury panel and audience awards were selected from 129 independent features, documentaries and short films screened from Oct 16-20. ...