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Ali
Dir: Michael Mann. US 2001. 159mins.The challenge of how to present dramatically the life of Muhammad Ali, arguably the most recognisable and flamboyant celebrity of the 20th century, is only partially met in Michael Mann's Ali. An ambitious but flawed film, it narrowly focuses on one decade in ...
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The Golden Globe nominations in full
The full list of nominations for the 2002 Golden Globe AwardsBEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMAA Beautiful MindImagine Entertainment; Universal Pictures/DreamWorks In The BedroomGood Machine Productions; Miramax FilmsThe Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The RingWingnut Films; New Line CinemaThe Man Who Wasn't ThereWorking Title; USA FilmsMulholland DriveLes Films Alain ...
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Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge lead Globe nods
A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge came out top in the nominations for the 59th Golden Globe Awards which were announced this morning (Dec 20) in Los Angeles. The films scored six nominations apiece, A Beautiful Mind leading the way in the best drama categories and Moulin Rouge in the ...
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Lescure rejects accusations of sell-out
"The French film industry is healthy if Canal Plus is healthy," said Canal Plus chief Pierre Lescure yesterday in response to charges that Vivendi Universal is becoming American dominated. "Its health will be better through the acquisition of USA Networks."His remarks came during a hastily organised Paris press conference, put ...
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2001 - An Odyssey
No one will forget 2001 in a hurry. A year that had already been memorialised by Stanley Kubrick has now been burned into our collective psyches because of one day in September. For once the entertainment industry found itself thrust into the limelight by forces beyond its control and making. ...
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Veteran Warner executive Richard Ma dies at 81
Long-time Warner Bros film executive Richard Ma has died in Canada at the age of 81.Ma joined Warner Bros Pictures in 1945 as assistant manager in the company's Hong Kong office. He held several positions with the company in Hong Kong, New York and Burbank, working his way up through ...
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Odeon buys Canadian rights to Atanarjuat
Odeon Films, the Canadian specialised distribution arm of Alliance Atlantis, has picked up Canadian rights to Zacharias Kunuk's acclaimed Inuit film Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, Canada's submission to the foreign language film Oscar category.The film, an action thriller set in ancient Igloolik, won the Camera d'Or for best first ...
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Sundance launches second online film festival
The second Sundance Online Film Festival started online yesterday at www.sundanceonlinefestival.org, showcasing a selection of new work designed specifically for the web.21 projects are being presented featuring animation, live-action, documentary, interactive, new form and selected shorts from the Sundance Film Festival shorts programme. The festival will run online, sponsored by ...
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Guy East & Nigel Sinclair set to depart Intermedia
Intermedia co-chiefs Guy East and Nigel Sinclair are understood be leaving the indie powerhouse they co-founded, taking the first opportunity to cash in their shares following the company’s flotation.The two executives, who are currently negotiating their exits, could earn up to $60 million each before any deductions by selling their ...
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Elstein takes over as lottery franchise struggles
Former Channel 5 chief David Elstein is replacing Richard Thompson as chairman of Civilian Content, the publicly listed company that owns UK lottery franchise the Film Consortium.Thompson is exiting the company after it issued a profit warning and signalled plans to cut overheads, citing a delay in receiving payments from ...
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Black Hawk Down
Dir Ridley Scott. US 2001. 148mins.Although visually awesome in its gritty, ultra-realistic portrait of men in combat, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down highlights what's wrong with most Hollywood pictures even when they're superbly realised. Too many films suffer from a lack of coherent narrative and an absence of emotionally engaging ...
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End of Year Box Office
The end of the year shouldbring some more success to the international box office
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Lord Of The Rings a triumph: $73.1m in five days
It was a spectacular launch, as expected, for New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in the domestic market, taking $73.1m in the five day period from Wednesday to Sunday. In the three day weekend (Fri to Sun), it took $45.25m - a record ...
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$133.3m in five days for Lord Of The Rings
It was one of the biggest financial risks in the history of the movies, but The Lord Of The Rings has so far paid off handsomely for New Line Cinema. Since Wednesday, The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in the trilogy of films, grossed $133.3m in 23 territories including ...
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Senator sells 29 titles to Universal Germany
Germany's Senator Entertainment has sold a package of some 29 video/DVD titles, including: America's Sweethearts, The Others, Black Hawk Down, Lammbock and Mondscheintarif to Universal Pictures Germany.The deal, which covers the German language market, is valued at a double-digit million Euros amount, according to both partners, and Senator is looking ...
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Internationalmedia buys 100% of IEG
Internationalmedia has signed a deal to take over 100% of the US-based Initial Entertainment Group, (IEG) (see Screendaily, Oct 26). IEG is an independent Hollywood film company specialising in the distribution of film rights obtained through license agreements or co- productions. IEG owns the international rights to over 20 films, ...
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Nordic distrib SF Norge acquires Monster stake
Norway's leading distributor, SF Norge, subsidiary of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF), has acquired a substantial stake in local start-up production outfit Monster Media. Headed by veteran feature film, TV and commercials producers, Edward A. Dreyer, Olav Oen and Trond Kvernstrom, Monster Media is now set to become a major ...
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Minoes to open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
Belgian director Vincent Bal's Minoes will be the opening film of the Berlinale's children's film sidebar, the Kinderfilmfest, which will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2002.Among the other films already confirmed for the competition lineup of films for 4-14 year-olds are the feature debut A Passage To Ottawa by ...
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Dir: John A Davis. US. 2001. 92 mins.Viacom has loaded a lot of responsibility onto the computer-animated shoulders of Jimmy Neutron. Intended as the basis for a "multi-platform franchise", the character has been popping up for the past 10 months on Viacom's Nickelodeon channel in preparation for a feature debut ...
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Parker, Kingsley knighted in UK honours list
Alan Parker, the veteran film director, and actor Ben Kingsley were named as Knights Bachelor in the UK's New Year's honours list.Other awards for the film and drama industries included Orders of the British Empire, officer class (OBEs) for actresses Miraim Margolyes and Lynn Redgrave and to actor Dennis QuilleyParker, ...