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Two titles share China's top film honours
Yang Yazhou's Pretty Big Feet and military drama Charging Out Amazon by Song Yeming, were jointly awarded best film at the 22nd Golden Rooster and One Hundred Flowers Awards - China's top film honours - which took place in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province on Tuesday night.The best director prize was also ...
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Italian producers speak out in support of Eurimages
Italian producers are distancing themselves from the inflammatory comments made by Gianni Massaro about Eurimages when he announced his shock resignation as president of the Fund last week.Massaro left his position two months before the end of his non-renewable 2-year term, blaming crippling bureaucracy as well as behind-the-scenes feuds between ...
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Fox takes Australian rights on Perfect Strangers
Twentieth Century Fox Distributors Australia has acquired Australian theatrical rights to Perfect Strangers, its first New Zealand film, with a sale price believed to be the biggest ever paid to sales agent the New Zealand Film Commission for that territory.While a local distribution deal has yet to be signed, the ...
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South Korean cinema boosts local market share
South Korean cinema has maintained a 44% market share in Seoul through the end of September, according to figures released this week by the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC). Overall admissions were up 16.4% on the same period last year, despite what was viewed as a disappointing summer season.Hollywood features ...
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Pathe UK accesses Ingenious equity funding
Underlining how far the UK's fast-growing production tax funds have moved into the mainstream, leading local financier Ingenious is to provide 35% of the budget on a slate of titles from Pathe UK.Ingenious is initially providing a fund for three pictures, but Cameron McCracken, deputy head of Pathe UK, expects ...
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Linda Seifert launches independent management company
The UK's Linda Seifert of London-based agency Seifert Dench Associates is setting up her own independent management company, Linda Seifert Management.Joining Seifert in the new venture are former Seifert Dench Associates agents Edward Hughes and Craig Smith plus more than forty writers, directors and producers from Seifert's client roster.Linda Seifert ...
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Nordisk Film Sales takes on Science Fiction
Nordisk Film Sales has taken on international sales duties for Belgian director Danny Deprez children's film Science Fiction. The film about two kids who believe that aliens in disguise are plotting to take over the world, was written by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem. Shot in Flemish, Science Fiction is released this ...
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UK talent joins Supertex - An Hour In Paradise
Maureen Lipman, Stephen Mangam and Elliot Levey are among the UK acting talent cast for Jan Schuette's adaptation of Leon de Winter's best-selling novel Supertex - An Hour In Paradise which has now gone into production.'I have always been amazed at the wealth of talent available in Britain. You can ...
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BAFTA, British Council team up for US screenings
BAFTA LA and the British Council have teamed up to present a series of screenings of new British films in Los Angeles. The series entitled New Blood From Britain is intended to enable BAFTA LA members to see films which they might want to nominate for the Alexander Korda Award ...
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Vivendi sells publishing businesses
Vivendi Universal chief Jean Fortou confirmed yesterday that it was selling its European and Latin American publishing assets for Euros 1.25bn ($1.2bn) to a consortium led by French publishers Lagardere that includes US investment house Ripplewood Holdings and publisher John Wiley & Sons.Vivendi's US publishing arm Houghton Mifflin is to ...
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Kino picks up US rights to Amen from Pathe
New York-based distributorKino International has picked up US rights to Costa-Gavras' historical thrillerAmen for release in late Jan2003. The picture, sold to Kino by Pathe International (France), received its premiere at the 2002 Berlin FilmFestival and was the opening night film of the 2002 Human Rights Watch FilmFestival.The story is ...
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Sundance Documentary Fund gives grants to 23 projects
Documentaries exploring themurder of Iranian prostitutes, the rebirth of culture in post-Khmer RougeCambodia and the plight of illegal Mexican workers in the US are among 23recipients of grant funding announced today by the Sundance Documentary Fund (SDF).Formerly known as the Soros Documentary Fund and launched under the auspices ofthe Sundance ...
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Myriad takes international rights to Home Room
MyriadPictures has acquired all international rights excluding the US and Canada inall media to the drama-thriller Home Room, starring Erika Christensen, the hot young actress whose creditsinclude Swimfan, The BangerSisters and Traffic, Busy Philipps and Victor Garber. Thepicture was bought from producer's representative Andrew Herwitz, president ofthe recently announced Film ...
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Hero gets the Chinese Oscar nod, opens today to qualify
Zhang Yimou's highly-anticipated $31m martial arts epic, Hero, has been selected as China's candidate for the best foreign-language Oscar.The film is opening today (Oct 24) for a seven-day qualifying run on a single screen in Shenzhen, in southern China. In order to qualify for next year's Oscars, the picture must ...
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Hero gets the Chinese Oscar nod, opens today to qualify
Zhang Yimou's highly-anticipated $31m martial arts epic, Hero, has been selected as China's candidate for the best foreign-language Oscar.The film is opening today (Oct 24) for a seven-day qualifying run on a single screen in southern China. In order to qualify for next year's Oscars, the picture must receive a ...
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28 Days Later
Dir: Danny Boyle. UK. 2002. 113minsWhen daily newspaper headlines are more frightening than anything fiction can devise, 28 Days Later may find that audiences prefer the comfort of frivolous escapism over an ambitious slice of end-of-the-world mayhem. A serious-minded, sloppily plotted homage to such 1970s fantasy genre giants ...
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Thailand's Mon-rak Transistor joins strong list of Asian foreign-language Oscar submissions
Thailand has chosen Mon-rak Transistor, the third film from hot Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, as the country's official submission for the best foreign-language Oscar.Produced by Cinemasia and Five Star Productions, the film is a genre-defying tale of an aspiring folk singer who is forced to abandon the love of his ...
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Kuhn, Bazalgette join NFTS board of governors
Former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn is to chair the board of governors at the UK's National Film and Television School (NFTS), the school announced this week.Peter Bazalgette, chairman of Endemol UK, will serve as Kuhn's deputy. The duo take over from former Channel 5 chief David Elstein, whose ...
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Belgian industry to hold UK showcase
Belgium's sometime divided film communities are teaming up in an effort to win over the British public and UK distributors. They are taking over London's Curzon Soho cinema to hold a week-long (Mar 30-Apr 5) showcase of modern Belgian films under the banner United Tastes Of Belgium. The event is ...