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Amelie becomes North America's favourite
Amelie has become the highest grossing French-language film ever released in North America, having grossed $20,891,879 by Jan 21, breaking the previous record - held by La Cage Aux Folles since 1979 - of $20,424,259.Last week, Amelie also crossed the $100m mark in worldwide box office receipts.The film, which has ...
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The Laramie Project
Dir Moises Kaufman. US 2001. 94 mins.Although well-intentioned and dealing with the socially relevant issues of hate crimes and gay-bashing, Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project is a disappointing film from an artistic standpoint. Developed (at the Sundance Institute) and performed all over the US as a theatre ...
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A-Line launches South Korean distribution network
A major new player has arrived in the South Korean film industry in the form of a new investment/production/distribution network named A-Line, to be run collectively by KTB Entertainment, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Kang JeGyu Films and the recently-established EGG Films. More a broad partnership than a distinct corporate ...
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Spanish pay-TV merger talk resurfaces
Spanish media and publishing giant Grupo Prisa has played down local reports that it is negotiating the sale of its 21.3% stake in media subsidiary Sogecable to Vivendi Universal. The move would double the French giant's stake to 42.54%.An article published in Spanish newspaper El Mundo suggested that Vivendi Universal ...
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Arthouse cinema 'virtual circuit' mooted for UK
UK support body the Film Council is proposing to unite the county's art-house cinemas in a so-called virtual circuit, as well as underwrite distributors' p&a costs, under proposals worth $24.3m (£17m) in support for the specialist sector.The council, which is now consulting the film sector before launching its initiatives in ...
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Buena Vista Int'l TV, TF1 sign multi-year deal
Buena Vista International Television (BVI-TV), has concluded a multi-year agreement with French broadcaster TF1. The wide-ranging agreement includes rights to first-run feature films, the latest live action series, TV movies and mini-series. The agreement will also include a TV special about the opening of the new theme park at Disneyland ...
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Cinepool picks up films for Berlin market
Austrian filmmakers Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl's drama Nogo and Oliver Dommenget's children's film Help I'm A Boy! will be given their market premieres by Munich-based world sales outfit Cinepool at the forthcoming European Film Market in Berlin.Produced by Dor Film, Nogo stars hot young German acting talent such as ...
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MTV, Nelvana to co-produce two TV series
Viacom's MTV Networks and Toronto-based Nelvana Ltd. have signed an agreement to co-produce two new television series targeted to young adults. The first, the animated comedy Clone High, imagines a universe where young clones of historical figures and dead celebrities are in attendance at the same high school. The second ...
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Mex 10% tax on satellite & cable TV proposed
Foreign pay-TV programmers may have won a temporary victory over the implementation of harsh taxes in Brazil, but in Mexico the battle is just heating up. The bone of contention is a Congressional move to impose a new 10% tax on satellite and cable TV services in the country. Last ...
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PGA gives Vanguard honour to Pixar Animation
The Producers Guild OfAmerica is to give its inaugural Vanguard Award to Pixar Animation Studios atthe annual PGA Awards on March 3 in Los Angeles.The award was established tohonour the "brilliant and creative contributions in entertainmentproduction in the fields of new media and technology." It will beaccepted by Ed Catmull ...
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SPC buys North American rights to Juana La Loca
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has acquired North American rights to Vicente Aranda's Juana La Loca (Mad Love), the historic story of Queen Joan Of Castille and her love for thedecadent Archduke Of Austria Philip The Handsome. The film is the Spanishsubmission for the foreign language Academy Award and was recently nominatedfor ...
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Seattle Women's Fest kicks off tomorrow
The 2002 Women In Cinemafestival will kick off tomorrow (Jan 24-31) in Seattle, a presentation ofCinema Seattle and the Seattle International Film Festival.Films screening in thefestival include Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing, Kasia Adamik's Bark, Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967, Lone Scherfig's Italian For Beginners, Lucrecia Martel's ...
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Julian Levin moves to digital cinema at Fox
Julian Levin, executive vicepresident of sales and distribution for 20th Century FoxInternational, has switched jobs at the studio and been named executive vicepresident, digital exhibition and special projects, a title he will assume onFeb 4.Levin will now reportjointly to Scott Neeson, president of international theatrical, and BruceSnyder, president of domestic ...
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Altman snubbed by DGA; Nolan gets surprise nod
Just two days after theGolden Globe for best director of the year went to Robert Altman for GosfordPark, the Directors Guild Of America(DGA) has thrown the running open again by omitting Altman from its shortlistof five nominees.The nominees are Ron Howardfor A Beautiful Mind, PeterJackson for The Lord Of The ...
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Bruce Willis boards Intermedia, Hartswood, BBC pic
In an unlikely pairing of resources, independent giant Intermedia and Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin’s Cheyenne Enterprises are teaming up with Beryl Vertue’s UK company Hartswood Films and BBC Films to produce a US-set thriller Me Againwhich will star Willis and is set to go into production this year.To be ...
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The Dancer Upstairs
Dir John Malkovich. US 2001. 134 mins.It's such a rarity nowadays to see an American film about explicitly political themes, and one set in a foreign country, that The Dancer Upstairs, John Malkovich's honourable feature directorial debut, deserves extra credit for its ambitious scope and for being made in the ...
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Real Women Have Curves
Dir: Patricia Cardoso. US. 2002. 90minsHow ironic that the biggest crowd-pleaser at last week's Sundance Film Festival and winner of its prestigious audience award is made for television. Delighted cinema audiences who cheered and clapped in theatres at Park City will be the only ones in the US to participate ...
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Sidney Poitier to receive honorary Oscar
Sidney Poitier is to receivean honorary Academy Award at this year's Oscar ceremony on March 24,2002.The decision to give Poitierthe award was made by the board of governors of the Academy Of Motion PictureArts & Sciences "for his extraordinary performances and uniquepresence on the screen, and for representing the motion ...
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Mike Leigh Untitled gets title: All Or Nothing
Mike Leigh's latestfilm has been titled All Or Nothing.The story of a London couple - he a taxi driver, she a supermarketcheckout girl - whose life is thrown into turmoil when an unexpectedtragedy occurs, the film features Leigh regulars including Timothy Spall(Secrets And Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Life Is Sweet), Lesley Manville ...
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Berlin's official competition line-up announced
German cinema features prominently in the official competition section of next month's Berlinale, the first under new director Dieter Kosslick's leadership.Echoing the wide range of films now coming out of Germany, four of the main competition titles are German:Tom Tykwer's opening film Heaven, starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi; digitally ...