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Treasure Planet
Dir: John Musker & Ron Clements. US. 2002. 95 mins. Walt Disney Feature Animation follow up the delightful Lilo & Stitch with a more conventional holiday programmer in Treasure Planet, an entertaining, but perfunctory animated adventure which will come third on kids' wishlists after live-action family movies Harry Potter And ...
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France mulls Eurimages exit
Europe's leading film producing nation, France is considering withdrawing from Eurimages, the Council of Europe-backed support body.The proposal is only one of several suggestions made by the country's film regulator, the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), in a report into Eurimages' usefulness. Although France is a net beneficiary - ...
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Danish production companies unite for $13m, five-feature slate
Two Danish production outfits Easy Film and ASA Film have joined forces to produce their future projects in collaboration. The companies have secured backing from distributor Scanbox for the development of five new features, of which they aim to produce two a year. Scanbox takes Scandinavian rights and will distribute ...
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The Magdalene Sisters makes a deep impression on Ireland
After just five weeks on release Peter Mullan's prize-winning The Magdalene Sisters has been seen by one in twenty of the Irish population, having passed the Euros 1m mark in the Republic.According to its Irish distributors Eclipse Pictures, "indications are that it will play in Irish cinemas right into the ...
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Europa Cinemas recognises youth-oriented activities
Film theatres in Barcelona, Spain and Liege, Belgium were presented with the inaugural Europa Cinemas awards for the quality and diversity of their programming and for in-house activities for young audiences.The winners were the 9-screen, Barcelona-based Cinemas Verdi and Verdi Park, run by Enrique Perez Font and the 4-screen, Churchill ...
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Cineclick Asia unveils string of international sales
Last week's Pusan festival was background for Cineclick Asia to unveil a string of English-language territory deals on its slate of high profile Korean movies.Action comedy, My Wife Is A Gangster and boxing drama Champion were both sold to the UK's Medusa. Friend, the action drama which briefly held the ...
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Peter Scarlet named executive director of Tribeca film fest
Former San Francisco festival head, Peter Scarlet has been appointed executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.The festival, in its second edition (May 6-11, 2003) was founded last year by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. The main focus of the 2003 will be an official selection ...
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Karel Reisz dies, aged 76
Karel Reisz, director of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, the major box-office success of British New Wave cinema in the early 60s, has died in London aged 76.The Czech-born filmmaker had been ill for six months with a blood disorder. He leaves a wife, Betsy Blair, and three sons.Reisz became ...
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Gebirtig to open Max Ophuels prize festival
Lukas Stepanik and Robert Schindel's co-directed drama Gebirtig - Austria's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar - will be the opening film at the 24th Max Ophuels Prize Festival (January 13-19, 2003) in Saarbruecken. The Austrian-German-Polish co-production between Cult-Film, Daniel Zuta's Cologne-based DaZu Film and Akson Studio in Warsaw, ...
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Cinema City complex opens in Israel, despite troubles
A new state-of-the-art 21-screen multiplex, Cinema City, opens on the outskirts of Tel Aviv today, while plans are revealed for what could be the world's largest cinema, a 34-screen megaplex in Lisbon.Cinema City, which is the largest complex in the Middle East, boasts Sony's SDDS sound system in every ...
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Tartan Films, Muse team up for London Fields
An $8-12m adaptation of well-known UK writer Martin Amis' novel London Fields heads the second development slate of Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Films, the Los Angeles-based sister company of UK distributor Metro Tartan Distribution.Tartan has jointly acquired rights to the book with US production outfit Muse Productions, which has credits including ...
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Germany's Tobis breaks away from StudioCanal
The future for German distributor Tobis has become much clearer after a management buyout (MBO) by shareholders Kilian Rebentrost and Pathe.The MBO has seen the duo acquire StudioCanal's 60% majority holding in the Berlin-based company. They have also taken over the activities of its local production arm StudioCanal Produktion, which ...
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Anomalies delay foreign language Oscar announcement
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has delayed naming its list of official entries for the 2003 foreign language Oscar category in order to clear up anomalies over submissions from Afghanistan, Palestine, Hong Kong and the UK. The list was expected to go up on the Academy's official ...
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Argentinian production levels leap 50% - despite economic crisis
Argentina is producing an astonishing number of films, despite the country experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history. According to Bernardo Bergeret, marketing director of Argentinian film institute (INCAA), so far there have been 156 feature films in various phases of production this year, 50% more than in 2001. ...
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Asian film libraries prepare to reveal hidden treasures
Two years after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the jury is still out on whether the film created a huge, global market for Chinese-language film. However, several Asian companies are still working on the assumption that the film's international box office success managed to kick down numerous doors, and not just ...
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Columbine bowls over international audiences
The past two weeks have seen two box office behemoths unleashed into the international market. Two consecutive weekends of nearly $60m in international grosses have marked a huge start for Harry Potter sequel The Chamber Of Secrets and a $25m-plus debut last weekend marked a triumphant return for James Bond ...
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Fantasporto film festival unveils competition titles
Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Plots With A View by Nick Hurran are to be the opening and closing films of Portugal's Oporto film festivalThe 23rd edition of Fantasporto will be held between February 21 and March, 1 and will include a homage to Stephen King film adaptations and to ...
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Portugal's national film institute appoints new president
Portugal's National Film Institute ICAM has appointed a new president in the midst of an industry-wide controversy concerning the funding body's outstanding debts.Elisio Cabral de Oliveira was appointed to replace long-time ICAM president Pedro Berhan da Costa, who resigned late last month amid multiple back-and-forth accusations of incompetence with the ...
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Koelmels miss Kinowelt payment deadline, but get extension
The Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their former company is set to drag on for yet another week after they missed the November 27 deadline for the transfer of the Euros 32m purchase price.On November 22, insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott said that "if the confirmation by the Sparkasse Leipzig ...
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Tracy Geraghty appointed director of Film Makers Ireland
Film Makers Ireland (FMI) has announced the appointment of Tracy Geraghty as the new Director of the association.Until recently, Geraghty has been programme manager with North by Northwest, the Denmark-based script development programme supported by the MEDIA Programme. Prior to that she had worked with Eurimages and with the Irish ...