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Fuehrer Ex
Dir: Winfried Bonengel. Germany. 2002. 106 mins.Winfried Bonengel has made neo-Nazis his speciality subject. The documentary Profession: Neo-Nazi (1993) was shown at 40 festivals around the world, while Fuehrer Ex , the book he wrote with former neo-Nazi militant Ingo Hasselbach, became a minor bestseller when it appeared in the ...
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Asian reception boosts I Am Sam past $50m at Int'l box office
New Line Cinema's I Am Sam has passed the $50m in international box office grosses after receiving a mighty launch in South Korea at the end of its run.The drama, which stars Sean Penn - Oscar nominated as best actor earlier in the year - and Michelle Pfeiffer, grossed $1.3m ...
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UK film production sector slumps by almost 40%
Confirming the worst fears of anyone in the UK struggling to get a film off the ground, local production levels have collapsed this year by almost 40%.The crash exacerbates last year's 57% slump in inward investment from overseas productions shooting. However, as Screen International reveals in this week's UK Focus ...
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HanWay re-teams with Norbu for Travellers & Magicians
UK-based sales concern HanWay has re-teamed with Buddhist monk-turned film director Khyentse Norbu after their collaboration on Norbu's acclaimed debut The Cup.Norbu started principal photography on Travellers & Magicians last month on location in his homeland of Bhutan. Also sold by HanWay, The Cup played in Directors' Fortnight at the ...
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Shooting starts on Cheeky black comedy
Shooting started this week on Cheeky, a black comedy which marks the feature directorial debut of UK actor David Thewlis.Thewlis, best known for his role in Mike Leigh's Naked, has also scripted and will star in the film, produced by Trudie Styler's Xingu Films outfit. Luc Besson's Europa Corp is ...
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German/Polish collaboration at the core of Cottbus
Roman Polanski's Golden Palm winner The Pianist will open the Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (October 30-November 3) which will be placing a particular focus this year on contemporary filmmaking from Poland and the potential for closer collaboration between German and Polish producers.Apart from the Filmfest Cottbus' official ...
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Crunch year for both MIFED and London Screenings
A boycott by AFMA-affiliated sales companies has reduced London's pre-MIFED Screenings to a shadow of their former selves and given MIFED a major boost. But there is now mounting talk of the AFM challenging MIFED to be the premiere autumn film market.Next week's London Premiere Screenings sees the number of ...
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MGM quits Cold Mountain, Miramax talks to new partners
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)has withdrawn from the currently shooting Civil War epic Cold Mountain, leaving Miramax Films with the whole burden of the$80m-plus budget. Miramax is already in negotiations with other potentialpartners to co-finance the production which has now returned to Romania againafter a stint in North Carolina. Miramax confirmed that it ...
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Jennifer Lopez signs on with Endeavor after ICM split
Jennifer Lopez has signedwith Endeavor for all areas of representation following her recent departurefrom ICM. A statement released today by the Endeavor partners said: 'Weare thrilled to be working with Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer is recognised as oneof today's leading talents of film and music.' She will continue to bemanaged by ...
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Darkness
Dir: Jaime Balaguero. Spain-US. 2002. 102 mins.Opening wide in Spain on Oct 11 following its world premiere at Sitges, Darkness has already broken local records for the year, with an opening weekend gross of $1.14m (E1.17m) from 275 copies. Pre-sales around the world - including to Miramax for English-language territories ...
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Poland selects foreign-language Oscar contender
Edi by Piotr Trzaskalski has been selected as Poland's entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, Polish minister of culture Waldemar Dabrowski announced yesterday.Winner of the first "New Films, New Directors" competition at the Warsaw International Film Festival, the film was also awarded a special jury prize at the annual Polish ...
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Plural Entertainment, Televisa Cine seal wide-ranging pact
A new joint production-distribution accord encompassing feature films, TV movies and miniseries, unites two giants from opposite sides of the Atlantic: Spain's Plural Entertainment, 100% owned by media conglom Grupo Prisa, and Mexico's Televisa Cine, the film arm of Televisa.The wide-ranging agreement extends an existing relationship between the two companies, ...
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Loews Cineplex postpones IPO
Back from the brink of bankruptcy, exhibitor Loews Cineplex has postponed its planned $300m initial public offering, citing unfavourable market conditions. One of North America's largest circuits, the company is under the control of Toronto-based Onex Corp., headed by leveraged buyout specialist Gerald Schwartz, and LA based investment firm Oaktree ...
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Dick Sano promoted to senior vp at BVI-Japan
Dick Sano, vicepresident and general manager for Buena Vista International (BVI)-Japan, hasbeen promoted to senior vice president & general manager for the company.He will continue to report directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI.Sano willcontinue to lead BVI's theatrical distribution and marketing efforts inJapan following on from huge ...
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US producers Kaplan, Daniel, Katz team to form Rainstorm
US producers Steven G Kaplanand Gregg L Daniel have joined forces with entrepreneur Richard Katz to formRainstorm Entertainment, an LA-based independent film production company thataims to make cost-effective movies by original writers and directors. Rainstormis already in post-production on the black comedy, The Big Empty, which it produced with Echo ...
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Dubin named Los Angeles rep for ARD, Degeto, Telepool
Kristina Dubin of DubinMediahas been enlisted by three German networks as head of their US operations. Shewill represent ARD, Germany's largest broadcaster, Degeto, which is theARD-network contact for films, series and miniseries and Telepool, theall-rights distributor for German-speaking territories."The newconstellation of three companies under one head in the US, which ...
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European Investment Bank funds three Italian features
The European Investment Bank has made one of its first concrete investments in feature film, bankrolling three Italian pictures through the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Euros 100m credit line. The Italian films that benefited from the EIB loans are Piergiorgio Gay's La Forza Del Passato, which screened at this year's ...
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Richard Harris dies, aged 72
The renowned Irish actor Richard Harris died on Friday night, aged 72. His passing was announced by his family, Harris was being treated for some months for Hodgkins Disease, a form of cancer, at University College Hospital, London where he died. He is survived by his sons, actors Jared and ...
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Wenders launches new production outfit
Wim Wenders has set up a new, Hamburg-based production outfit Reverse Angle Production which will produce his next feature project entitled Don't Come Knockin'.Originally developed at Road Movies Filmproduktion as In America, the project still has previous Wenders collaborator Sam Shepard onboard as screenwriter for the contemporary love story ...
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Borau awarded Spain's national film prize
Veteran director Jose Luis Borau is the recipient of Spain's prestigious National Film Prize, the Ministry of Culture's Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts announced.Among the feature films on his lengthy filmography as writer-director are 2000's Leo, 1986's My Dear Nanny (Tata Mia) and 1975 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner ...