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Adam Bialow promoted in international dept at Lions Gate
Adam Bialow has been promoted to vice president ofinternational business and legal affairs at Lions Gate Entertainment in a movethat highlights the distribution and production company's expandingworldview. Bialow will beresponsible for business and legal affairs for Lions Gate's internationaltheatrical, home video and television arms and will continue to report to ...
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Miramax swoops on MDP's The I Inside
Miramax Filmshas acquired all distribution rights for North America, Italy and Australia/NewZealand to MDP Worldwide's psychological thriller The I Inside. The film will be released in NorthAmerica under the Dimension Films label.Starring RyanPhillippe, Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea and directed by Roland Suso Richter,the picture centres on an amnesiac's journey ...
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China assesses co-production potential with South Africa, Australia
The Chinese government is increasing its level of cultural exchanges with South Africa and Australia with a view to the development of potential co-productions.A delegation of Chinese government officials and film industry players is currently visiting South Africa to coincide with the country's first Chinese film week.Hosted by the Department ...
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Film Studio planned for Cape Town
South Africa's provincial minister of finance and economic affairs has announced plans to build a $27m film studio in Cape Town.The minister, Ebrahim Rasoo, also called for expressions of interest from the private sector, which was followed up by a nationwide campaign in the country's press calling for tenders to ...
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African film industry buoyed by record breaking Sithengi
South Africa's Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri may have failed to show at the opening party for the seventh edition of Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market. But that did not dampen the spirits of delegates who acknowledged that, despite organisational hiccups, it was the best Sithengi so far. ...
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Optimum adds two to 2003 UK release slate
UK independent distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up all UK rights to Roger Dodger from Alliance Atlantis and XX/XY from Senator International.Artisan Entertainment is currently distributing Roger Dodger in the US, where the Venice title is on more than $650,000. The film, which stars Campbell Scott and Isabella Rossellini, tells ...
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Das Werk divisions begin insolvency proceedings
Key divisions of Germany's Das Werk post-production group have begun filing for insolvency, three weeks after their parent company began insolvency proceedings (Screendaily.com, Nov 7).Das Werk post-production companies at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Ludwigsburg and Munich as well as Hamburg-based Magic Video have each filed for insolvency. The ...
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Europe's broadcasters exceeding minimum quotas by 50%
For all the everyday complaints about imported programming, Europe's TV broadcasters are comfortably exceeding local content quotas set down by the Television Without Frontiers directive. According to a European Commission report broadcasters devote an average 62% of airtime to European works in 2000, up from 60.7% in 1999. The minimum ...
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New Zealand film commission eager to promote co-productions
The New Zealand Film Commission is trying to capitalise on the country's high profile due to Lord Of The Rings, by helping to develop international co-productions.John Gilbert, Academy Award nominee for his editing on The Fellowship Of The Ring and producer of a popular NZ sitcom, is in discussion with ...
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Alta readies first English-language production
Alta Films' Enrique Gonzalez Macho is developing his first English-language production for the company, Once In Europa. Based on the book by John Berger, the £3.5m ($5.8m) film is planned for a May shoot in Spain. According to international production head Ana San Martin, Alta is in talks with UK ...
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Three new Korean films maintain strong local market share
South Korean cinema continues to perform strongly, with local films currently maintaining a 45% market share in Seoul and three Korean titles heading the box-office this weekend. Cinema Service's Jail Breakers (pictured) has become the latest comedy to top the box-office, drawing 554,000 admissions nationwide in its first four days ...
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Bond and Potter generate $22.5m weekend between them from 66% of the nation's screens
The entry of James Bond title Die Another Day and the continued might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets at the UK box office this weekend caused a massive downturn in the fortunes of most other current releases.Die Another Day, the first Bond handled by 20th Century Fox ...
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IMAX announces major European expansion plans
In the wake of expansion into China, Russia and India, Toronto-based large format operator IMAX Corporation has announced its intention to establish itself in more European markets.Speaking in London at the European launch of the company's DMR technology - which digitally re-masters 35mm films for projection on IMAX systems - ...
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Spain to alter local TV ownership rules
In a decision that will directly affect both parties in Spain's pending pay-TV merger, the Spanish government has announced that it will prohibit companies from owning shares in more than one broadcaster at the national, regional and local levels. Grupo Prisa and Telefonica - the backers, respectively, behind set-to-merge digital ...
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I'm Taraneh, 15
Dir: Rassul Sadr-Ameli. Iran. 2002. 110 mins. A young single mother's struggle for survival is the theme of a compelling story that's both universally recognisable and packed with revealing detail unique to contemporary Iran. The country's official candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar and a critical and popular hit there, ...
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Out
Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Japan. 2002. 119 mins.Every once in a while a Japanese movie comes along that translates well across borders, whether as an original or a remake. Hideo Nakata's Ringu was one, Hideyuki Hirayama's Out, a black comedy about three women who chop up bodies for cash, is another, ...
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Roger Michell's Mother adds clutch of int'l sales
The UK's Renaissance Films has concluded pre-sales for Roger Michell's recently wrapped film The Mother. Deals were closed with Concorde for Germany, Atalanta for Portugal, Odeon for Greece, Shani Films for Israel and A Film/Cinelibre for Benelux. Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for North America during the ...
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Solaris
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US 2002. 99 minutes For a film which purports to be about the deepest recesses of the human heart, this sci-fi romance is curiously lacking in emotion. It is a fatal flaw and, while the marquee value of international heartthrob Clooney and wunderkind film-maker Soderbergh promises encouraging ...
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Etre Et Avoir wins European documentary award - Prix ARTE
European cultural channel ARTE and the European Film Academy have named French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert's Etre Et Avoir as the winner of this year's European Documentary Award - Prix ARTE which will be officially presented at the European Film Awards gala in Rome's Teatro dell'Opera on December 7.Philibert's film was ...
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Intermedia appoints Meyer as development executive
Intermedia Films has appointed Sophie Meyer as development executive at its London office, co-chairmen Guy East and Nigel Sinclair have announced.Meyer, who was previously development assistant at UK funding body British Screen, will report to department head Nick Drake. Intermedia's UK production activities include backing Ruth Jackson's West Eleven Films; ...