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Alcas launches Euros 93.4m German film fund for Hallmark Entertainment
While debate is currently raging in Germany about ways of keeping more private film fund equity at home, fund initiator Alcas has launched a Euros 93.4m fund to produce a raft of international film and TV projects for Hallmark Entertainment.Private German individuals are being invited to invest a minimum of ...
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Bornedal writes Just Another Love Story
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal is putting the final touches on a new feature script, Just Another Love Story, set to go before the cameras in spring-summer 2003. The thriller sees an ordinary family man, who gets a chance to change his identity in a split second and does - only ...
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Gaga picks up Bellucci
Japan's Gaga has acquired local distribution rights to Unruly, yet another new film starring real-life hot couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.Sold by Rome-based outfit Surf Film, Unruly sees Cassel play the role of a man who returns to Marseilles, after a stint in jail, only to find that life ...
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Star Wars: Episode II gets IMAX boost
Fox's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones reaped the rewards of a limited IMAX roll-out in North America over the weekend, grossing $1.4m from 58 screens for a $24,746 per-screen average. Fox president of domestic distribution Bruce Snyder said in a statement that he was thrilled with ...
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Buena Vista Int'l enjoys the weekend
Signs grossed $6.3m over the weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI) to bring its international running total to $162m. The supernatural thriller produced BVI's biggest ever opening in Greece, where it scored $650,000 from 53 screens and was roughly 60% higher than the opening for director M Night Shyamalan's previous ...
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Gareth Jones to spearhead Winchester production
Winchester Films has appointed Gareth Jones to head UK production activities. The ex-Alibi Films International chief joins the UK company as head of UK film production and finance, effective from next week.Jones, who was formerly head of HandMade Films, will act as the contact point for producers outside the US ...
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Fox sees international releases reap rewards
In addition to Fox Searchlight's apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later taking the UK box office by storm, the company enjoyed a number of other successes over the weekendFox scored the highest ever debut for a Pedro Almodovar picture in Brazil, opening Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) on 65 screens ...
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Marketing campaign raises awareness of 28 Days Later
A savvy marketing campaign came up trumps in the UK this week as 20th Century Fox launched British director Danny Boyle's latest film 28 Days Later. The horror title defeated all comers in the country including Hollywood heavyweights XXX and Lilo & Stitch and fellow wide openers Changing Lanes and ...
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Female lead cast for Dirty Dancing 2
Romola Garai has signed as the female lead in Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films' Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2. Garai, whose credits include Nicholas Nickleby and the BBC's I Capture The Castle, will star opposite Diego Luna. Directed by Guy Ferland and produced by Lawrence Bender, the story is set ...
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Spanish broadcaster TVE to invest Euros 25m in film rights
Responding to local producers' calls for broadcasters to make public their investment in Spanish films, public broadcaster Television Espanola (TVE) announced that it expects to pump as much as Euros 25m into free-to-air film rights in 2002.TVE provided a list of 40 feature films, 15 documentaries and one animated film ...
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8 Mile
Dir: Curtis Hanson. US. 2002. 110 mins.Flashdance gets an electrifying sex change and upgrade courtesy of director Curtis Hanson and rap icon Eminem in 8 Mile. A loose retelling of Eminem's own troubled youth in the run-down 8 Mile district of Detroit, the film is a downbeat, but not depressing, ...
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I Spy
Dir: Betty Thomas. US. 2002. 96 mins.At the end of a year of box office disappointment, Eddie Murphy could certainly do with the kind of boost promised by a big screen version of a popular TV show and a teaming with an up-and-coming younger star. Sporadically effective action comedy I ...
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Industry jury still out on MIFED's future
If anything concrete could be learned from this year's MIFED it was that the jury is still out on whether the Milan event should be replaced as the pre-eminent movie market of the autumn.And there was even less consensus among buyers and sellers over whether their business calendar should be ...
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Rialto Film is first in line for Dear Wendy
Switzerland's Rialto Film has been the first to pick up distribution rights to Dear Wendy, the highly-anticipated collaboration between Denmark's award-winning filmmakers, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The two previously fathered the influential Dogme95 movement, and this time Vinterberg will direct the English-language film based on Trier's script. Wendy ...
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Das Werk's holding company files to start insolvency
Following Helkon International Production and peppermint from the Helkon Media Group, the German postproduction group Das Werk has become the latest former Neuer Markt stock to file an application to start insolvency proceedings. And while peppermint was still operating at MIFED as a sales entity with an ongoing business - ...
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Intermedia takes world sales rights on Suriyothai
Los Angeles-based sales house Intermedia has picked up world sales rights on Suriyothai, the historical epic, which is the largest film ever to come out of Thailand.Directed by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol and originally presented in a three hour version at the Pusan festival in November 2001, the film was subsequently ...
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Scacchi and Prochnow headline Baltic Storm
Greta Scacchi and Juergen Prochnow are the leads in US director Reuben Leder's poltical thriller Baltic Storm which began shooting on location in Berlin on November 5.The co-production between Babelsberg-based Top Story Filmproductio, Denmark's Smile Entertainment and the UK sales agent IAC centres on the sinking of the Baltic ferry ...
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Stephen Fry starts shooting Bright Young Things
Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Sir John Mills and Peter O'Toole are all set to play cameo roles in Stephen Fry's directorial debut Bright Young Things, which started shooting this week in and around London and at Pinewood Studios.An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, the ...
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American Psycho
Dir: Mary Harron. Canada/USA. 2000. 104 minsUS Dist: Lions Gate Films. Int'l Sales: Lions Gate. Scr: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner. Prods: Edward R. Pressman, Chris Hanley, Christian Halsey Solomon. Exec Prods: Michael Paseornek, Jeff Sackman, Joe Drake. DoP: Andrzej Sekula. Prod Des: Gideon Ponte. ...
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Four Nordic sales companies form Viking Export
Four Nordic film sales companies have joined together to create an informal lobbying group, Viking Export.Members include Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and NonStop Film Sales from Sweden and Nordisk International and Trust Film Sales from Denmark. Ann-Kristin Westerberg of SF has been asked to chair the group.Viking's agenda is to improve ...