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Irreversible wins Stockholm Bronze Horse
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible won the Bronze Horse for best film 2002 at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival on Saturday in Sweden. The jury, composed of Kristoffer Leandoer, Alexandra Rapaport, Ilkka Matila, Lucy Walker and Dogge Doggelito, cited the film as "groundbreaking cinema that manages to revitalise film narration in ...
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Wild Bees (Divoke Vcely)
Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech Republic. 2001. 94minsThis good-natured countryside romp has already secured a place in a number of film festivals, from Rotterdam onwards. While there is no denying its unspoilt natural flavour and its light, insouciant charm, it is also difficult to ignore its lack of a real story, ...
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Gebirtig
Dirs: Lukas Stepanik, Robert Schindel. Austria 2002. 115minsAdapted from Robert Schindel's own successful novel of the same name, this Austrian candidate for the 2002 foreign Oscars delivers one of the more intelligent, caustic and lucid films made on the country's share in Nazi guilt, an issue that has been repeatedly ...
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Bond opens to record figures internationally
Die Another Day stormed the international charts over the weekend, grossing $25m from five territories for 20th Century Fox.Not only did the film claim the top spot in each market where it opened, it also claimed the biggest Bond opening in every territory in the process.The first Bond film handled ...
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Potter sets new Japanese box office record
Launched on a record 858 screens on November 23, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets has become the highest-grossing opener of all-time in Japan, taking $16.7m from 862,958 admissionsThe previous record holder was Star Wars: Episode II - Attacks Of The Clones, with an opening gross of $13m. Third ...
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Late Night Shopping bags BAFTA Scotland award
Ideal World's critically acclaimed Late Night Shopping was named best feature Film at the 2002 BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards held in Glasgow on Sunday night. The quirky tale of fraught friendships starring Luke de Woolfson, James Lance and Heike Makatsch also won best director for Saul Metzstein and the ...
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Germany's Telepool boards Santa Claus feature
German licence trader Telepool has picked up German rights to the live-action family entertainment film The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus which is set to begin shooting next year. Based on a novel by The Wizard Of Oz writer L Frank Baum, the story tells how Young Claus ...
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Two more low budget features get underway in Ireland
A further two low budget features started shooting in Dublin last week, bringing to seven the total of low budget films shot or shooting in Ireland so far this year. The two latest additions to the low budget reanimation of Ireland's production sector are Fatface Films' Halo Effect and Zanzibar ...
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Flanders chief plans Ghent film commission
Flanders International Film Festival director Jacques Dubrulle is drawing up plans that could lead to Ghent becoming the first Belgian city to launch a film commission. Dubrulle, who was approached by the Ghent city authorities to help with the project, put Ghent on the map as home for the Flanders ...
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Academy Pictures picks up Locarno winner The Longing
Ludwigsburg-based Academy Pictures has picked up Iain Dilthey's The Longing (Das Verlangen) which was the surprise winner of the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival in the summer.Academy's managing director Stefan Paul told screendaily.com that he expects Dilthey's sombre drama to screen in the Berlinale's Perspectives German ...
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German distributors call for cinema owner flexibility
German distributors are planning to start talks with cinema owners about introducing more flexible programming and price structures.The move comes amid distributor concern that exhibitor programming and pricing patterns are deterring potential cinema-goers from visiting local theatres. The distributors worry that the exhibitor's habit of increasing prices at the weekend ...
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Eager guests limber up for Cuban festival
An impressive array of international guests is set to attend the 24th Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Dec 3-13) which opens with Mexican Foreign Oscar contender El Crimen Del Padre Amaro.Festival director Ivan Giroud promises a celebrity-studded event with confirmed guests led by Marisa Tomei, Julie Taymor, ...
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Kongrod takes over at Sandrew Metronome
Morten Kongrod (43) has been appointed CEO and president of Sandrew Metronome AB, Sweden, and head of the Nordic Sandrew Metronome Group. Kongrod will take over on March 1, 2003 from Klas Olofsson (60), who is retiring. Olofsson has been head of Sandrew Metronome since 1998. Kongrod is currently senior ...
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Buyers gear up for Lanzarote's Spanish Film Screenings
The fourth annual Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 28-30) kicks off in Spain's Canary Islands this week with 92 buyers attending from around the world to screen 37 of the latest Spanish feature films.With a budget of close to Euros530,000 - almost Euros50,000 more than last year's edition - ...
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Alliance Atlantis film activities boost second quarter
Toronto-basedAlliance Atlantis announced strong second quarter results for its distributionarm, the Motion Picture Group (MPG), which delivered nearly half of thequarter's $160m (C$252m) in revenue for the period ending Sept. 20. TheMPG's $76.2m revenue was up more than 50% from the same time last year.The numbers were driven by domestic ...
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Lucas to be honoured by the National Board Of Review
The National Board of Review (NBR) is to present GeorgeLucas with a special award in honour of his 'visionary cinematicachievements', the film body announced today (Nov 25).The presentation will take place at the annual awards galaon Jan 14, 2003, at Tavern on the Green in New York. A full list ...
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XXX continues its run, with $2m over weekend
The action picture XXX, which is being distributed internationally byColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), added another $2mover the weekend to raise its international cumulative score to $122.5m. TheVin Diesel starrer held well in Belgium and Holland in spite of bows by HarryPotter And The Chamber Of Secrets inboth territories ...
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Chamber Of Secrets conjures up another $58.7m
Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets raised itsinternational cumulative score to $128m after 10 days with a mighty $58.7m haulover the weekend, according to studio estimates released today. The secondinstalment in the Potter franchise recorded 8.632m admissions from 5,249screens in 20 territories and established another set of records along the ...
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IBB pumps $15m into Berlin Animation Fund
Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) has become the latest German bank to get involved in Germany's private media fund sector by investing DM30m ($15.4m) in the DM168m ($86m) Berlin Animation Film (BAF) fund, launched at the end of last year by London-based Kleinwort Benson.Kleinwort Benson, part of the Dresdner Bank Group, reports ...
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Menemsha picks up international on Kamchatka
Neil Friedman'sLA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Entertainment has acquiredinternational rights to Kamchatka,Marcelo Pineyro's latest film which is representing Argentina in theforeign language film category of the Academy Awards.Friedman picked up the filmfrom Argentina's Patagonik Film Group, for which Friedman had alreadysold Son Of The Bride, lastyear's Argentinian submission and ...
