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Women Talking Dirty
Dir: Coky Giedroyc. UK-US. 1999. 97mins. Although a long time in the works for the talent involved (it is Rocket Pictures' first production to hit the screens since the company was founded five years ago and director Coky Giedroyc's follow-up to her noted 1997 debut, Stella Does Tricks), Women Talking ...
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Iris
Dir Richard Eyre. UK-US.2001. 90 mins.Viewers expecting to get illuminating insights about the literary genius, eccentric philosophy, and complex sexuality of Iris Murdoch, the British celeb of letters who died in 1999, will be disappointed with Richard Eyre’s Iris, a minor, rambling film, almost made-to-order for the dictates of the ...
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Vanilla Sky
Dir Cameron Crowe. US 2001. 136 mins.Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky provides a classic case study of what happens when a mainstream studio, Paramount, and a major Hollywood star, Tom Cruise, take a terrifically-executed Spanish thriller, Open Your Eyes, and turn it into a spectacularly glossy, big-budget, effects-ridden star vehicle that's ...
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News
New ACE fund to launch with 18-picture slate
New films by John Woo, Nick Hurran, John Milius and Jeremy Leven are among an 18-picture slate being lined up to receive backing from a new $250m German private investment fund which is to be launched in January 2002.The production fund ACE - Alliance Cinema Entertainment has been established by ...
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Ralph Kamp embarks on sales Odyssey
Ralph Kamp, the former chief executive of Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's London-based sales operation Icon Entertainment International, is understood to be setting up a new independent sales operation under the banner Odyssey.Amongst the first titles Kamp is expected to represent is the tentatively titled Great War project, starring Billy ...
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Murdoch considering Kirch Group takeover
Rupert Murdoch is reported to be eyeing up a full takeover of Germany's Kirch group.According to the Financial Times the two companies have discussed such a move, which would give Murdoch the position in central Europe he has long craved. Kirch denied that discussions are taking place.Murdoch joins another US ...
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Vivendi in advanced talks over Telepiu, Stream
Vivendi Universal said on Friday (Dec 7) that it was in advanced talks with News Corp concerning its Italian pay-TV platforms, Telepiu and Stream.In a statement Vivendi Universal said the discussions "would result in the acquisition of Stream by Telpiu" and would replace the current offer, which is being contested ...
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Movie TV to launch on Japan's Jasdaq
Movie Television, a leading seller of Hollywood films and TV programs to Japanese television, will list its shares on the Jasdaq over-the-counter market on December 13. Launched in 1984 by current president Kenichi Morohashi, the company has output deals with 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner, MGM and Universal. It earns ...
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RTL issues fourth profit warning of 2001
RTL, the pan-European broadcast giant, has issued its fourth profit warning of the year.It said that in the current year advertising revenues will show a drop averaging 10% and that its own earnings will fall by 35%-40%, from the EBIT figure of Euros 55m it recorded last year."Advertising markets across ...
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Scorsese-backed one shot feature to film on Dec 23
December 23 has been set as the date for Alexander Sokurov's one-shot, 90-minute film Waterloo - The Russian Ark which will be filmed at original locations in the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, tracing.key events in the former Tsarist Empire from Catherine the Great to Nicolas II.German steady-cam ...
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AMC buys insolvent General
Consolidation in the North American exhibition sector continues apace as AMC Entertainment acquired ailing General Cinemas out of bankruptcy court. Under the agreement, AMC, the second-largest exhibitor by screens, will pay the creditors of General's parent GC Companies valued at more than $175m in cash and AMC stock . ...
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Ocean's Eleven pays off, steals $39.3m opening
As expected, Warner Bros dominated the box office over the weekend with the release of star-packed Ocean's Eleven and the continued run of Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone. Ocean's Eleven opened in the top spot with a massive estimated $39.26m on 3,075 screens, while Harry Potter took $14.8m to ...
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Spain's box office heads towards world record
Spain looks set to break the world record for sustained admissions growth if predictions come true and cumulative ticket sales rise for the thirteenth year in a row.Spain had posted over 123 million admissions as of November 25, still trailing the 2000's total of 135 million, but not yet incorporating ...
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Total, Titan to re-make Sex, Shame & Tears
Brazil's Total Entertainment and Mexico's Titan Prods, which signed a co-production pact in September, are poised to make a Brazilian version of the highest grossing Mexican film of all time, Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) . The battle-of-the-sexes comedy grossed $12.4m in Mexico. Fox Film Brazil will ...
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Canada sees launch of two new distributors
Two new Canadian distribution outfits - one based in Montreal, one in Toronto - are emerging from the executive suites, libraries and deals of two old companies: an ailing TVA International and the defunct Blackwatch Releasing.Launched this week, Montreal-based Incendo Media begins life with several significant TV distribution deals, including ...
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Asif Kapadia considering gunslinger project
Having transplanted the spaghetti Western to India with Miramax Films pick-up The Warrior, UK director Asif Kapadia is considering swapping the deserts of Rajasthan for the real Wild West on St Agnes' Stand.Kapadia is being wooed to direct the story of an injured gunslinger on the run for Nik Powell's ...
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India's biggest ever movie set for release
Indian film producer Yash Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam (Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow), the most expensive Indian film ever made at a cost of $10m, is set for its world premiere on 14th December. Directed by Indian cinema wonder-kid Karan Johar, whose debut film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai smashed local ...
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Canal Plus, UPC to merge Polish pay-TV platforms
In a move that comes quicker than expected, Canal Plus and UPC have agreed to merge their pay-TV platforms in Poland (Screendaily Aug 12).Only four months after the ceasing of hostilities between former rivals Cyrfa+ and Wizja TV, the two parent companies have decided to go ahead with a ...
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Kirch's mixed messages about News Corp bid
Germany's Kirch Group is sending out mixed messages about a possible takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But the fact that it is sending out any signals already suggests that the threat is real (Screendaily, Dec 5).According to some sources Kirch held crisis meetings over the weekend in order ...
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Indian superstar Kumar dies, aged 90
Veteran film actor and the first Indian superstar Ashok Kumar died in Mumbai on Monday (Dec 10) aged 90. Ashok Kumar, born Kumudlal Kanjilal Ganguly, made his debut in the film Jeevan Naiya, before becoming the face of the 40's and 50's. Adding to his charisma was the meaningful roles ...