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Moreau to be patron for Berlin's Shooting Stars
Dir: Carlos Diegues. Brazil. 1999. 110 mins.Prod co: Rio Vermelho. Co-prod: Globo. Int'l Sales: TFI International (33) 1 41 41 35 32. Prods: Renata de Almeida Magalhaes, Paula Lavigne. Scr: Diegues, with the collaboration of Hermano Vianna, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Paulo Lins and Joao Emanuel Carneiro, based on the play ...
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Danish veteran Holst goes solo
Danish veteran producer Per Holst, who won the Palme d'Or, Golden Globe and Academy Award for Pelle The Conqueror, has once again set up his own production company after working under major Nordisk Film for some 10 years. The 63 year-old Holst (pictured) has established Asta Film with two newcomers, ...
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German TV still suffering from advertising crisis
The recession in the TV advertising market has continued to affect the revenues of German broadcasting giant, the ProSiebenSAT.1 Media Group which reported a 10% decline in revenues - down Euros 40m to Euros 351.1m - for the third quarter of 2002.Over the first nine months of this year, revenues ...
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Fortissimo lines up double Dutch treat
Netherlands-Hong Kong-based sales outfit, Fortissimo Film Sales has struck an output deal with Benelux distributor A-Films and picked up a new Dutch picture which it expects to sell worldwide.The first Fortissimo titles acquired by San Fu Maltha and Pim Hermeling's A-Film Distribution/Fu Works under the new output deal are Wong ...
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Senator's Boogeyman chased by int'l buyers
Last week's MIFED saw Senator International strike its first deals on films from the genre-film label recently launched with Sam Raimi and Rob Tappert.On Boogeyman, it licensed French rights to Hachette Filipacchi Films (formerly known as Film Office) for France, Manga for Spain, Village Roadshow for Australia, Singapore and Greece, ...
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Bavaria Film Int'l celebrates successful MIFED
Leading German sales agent, Bavaria Film International had a successful MIFED selling all rights for Japan on its local hit Bibi Blocksberg to Gaga Communications. The film, an adaptation of a popular children's novel directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, has grossed Euros8m in Germany and was also sold to Thai distributor ...
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Danes win multi-million film support package
The Danish government has won political backing to pass a new $237m support plan for the film industry, spread over four years and provided by both public broadcasters and the state.The package, put together by the new right-wing cultural minister of Denmark, Brian Mikkelsen, was passed by all political parties ...
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Pusan film critics announce annual awards
Park Chan-wook's hard-hitting Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance has been named Korea's top film of the year in the annual Pusan Film Critics Awards. The film, also honoured with a Best Director prize, will be presented with its awards on November 15 at the upcoming Pusan International Film Festival.Other top ...
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German media fund adds two more titles, re-affirms local production
German private media fund CP Medien has added the Pathe production The Night Of The Medicis and the Joseph Vilsmaier-produced "bizarre horror comedy" Diamond Dead to its production slate which already includes Robert Altman's The Company which began shooting in Chicago last month.The new Pathe project, which will be shot ...
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Mannheim meetings to expand in 2003
The "Mannheim Meetings" co-production market plans to expand next year to include projects from Asia in addition to the present line-up from Europe, Latin America and North America. The Meetings co-ordinator Olaf Aichinger told screendaily.com that he has a scout based in Korea who would recommend Asian projects for participation ...
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Spanish cinema-going amongst highest in Europe
Cinema attendance is higher in Spain than in most of Europe according to a report from Spain's General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) on the cultural consumption habits of Spaniards. Spaniards go to the movies on average 2.85 times per year, the report says, a figure well above ...
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Spice Factory, Bigel Mailer team for The Great Turrell
UK production company The Spice Factory has optioned the rights to The Great Turrell, a script by Michael Mailer which it will co-produce with New York-based Bigel Mailer Films. The script is based on the 19th Century French novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Fournier and is a coming-of-age story ...
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Film Momentum takes US rights to Last Party 2000
Film Momentum, Larry Meistrich's subscription-based distribution company, has acquired all US rights to Last Party 2000, the election campaign documentary narrated by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In the full-length picture Hoffman takes a behind-the-scenes look at electioneering and the American political process as he interviews politicians, activists and celebrities at Democratic ...
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XXX crosses $100m barrier for CTFDI
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's XXX passed $100m toward the end of last week and now has an international running total of $110m after a $7.1m haul on 3,100 screens over the weekend. The action thriller opened number one in Argentina where enduring economic instability meant that $110,000 from 61 ...
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Box-office records fall to Potter a week before launch
The second instalment in Warner Bros Harry Potter franchise, The Chamber Of Secrets, got off to a magical start at the UK box office this weekend, despite not officially opening until Nov 15.Figures for the weekend reveal the film grossed a mighty $12.5m (£7.86m) over its three-day preview weekend - ...
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Flying Scotsman grounded until next year
Scottish Screen and Bronco Films' Peter Broughan have confirmed that the filming of The Flying Scotsman has now been postponed until the Spring. The£3.3 million biography of champion Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, pitched as "Shine meets Chariots Of Fire", was originally set to start filming on November 11 with a ...
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Spain, Israel name foreign language Oscar hopefuls
Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun was named Spain's submission for the foreign language Oscar today, beating the other shortlisted films, Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her and Jose Luis Garci's Story Of A Kiss .Mondays In The Sun, which stars Javier Bardem as an out-of-work dock labourer, took home ...
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Broken Wings (Knafayim Shevuroth)
Dir. Nir Bergman, Israel, 2002. 87mins.Having already secured top awards first in Jerusalem and then in Tokyo, this coming-of-age story in a dysfunctional family mourning the accidental death of the father, is bound to become Israel's film of the year for 2002. The auspicious debut of Nir Bergman, a ...
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German investors cheered by erotic media floatation
Amidst all of the insolvency doom and gloom, German investors had reasons to be cheerful with the successful flotation of the adult films trader erotic media ag on the Frankfurt stock exchange with a threefold over-subscription of its 100,000 shares. Trading began on Friday at Euros 34.50, up 15% from ...
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German funds less attractive to investors in 2002
German media funds are expected to raise Euros1.5bn in 2002 from private investors to finance feature film and TV production - 25% less than last year.This will be the second year in a row that fund investment levels will have fallen. In his newly published survey of the performance of ...