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Two short film festivals wrap in Romania
The end of November saw two important international short film festivals take place in Romania. The town of Tirgu Mures hosted the tenth edition of the Alter-Native International Short Film Festival between November 20 and 24. The festival screened fifty-seven productions in competition as well as a selection of popular ...
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Sinisa Dragin wins top prize at Belgrade
Bertrand Tavernier's Safe Conduct (Laissez-Passer) closed the ninth Belgrade International Festival of Auteur Films on Saturday night. The Rotterdam Tiger Award winner, Romanian Sinisa Dragin's Everyday God Kisses Us On The Mouth (In Fiecare Zi Dumnezeu Ne Saruta Pe Gura) won the main award, the 'Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic' plaque. The ...
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German Culture Minister hands out industry awards
Two Munich-based distributors Prokino Filmverleih and Movienet Film and Berlin distribution outfit Piffl Medien have each received the 2002 Distributor Award worth Euros 100,000.The awards were presented to the three companies at a special ceremony on last week by Germany's new State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss in recognition of ...
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East writer lines up second project for FilmFour
Ayub Khan-Din, the playwright and screenwriter behind current UK box office phenomenon East Is East, is re-teaming with the film's backers FilmFour for a romantic comedy.Khan-Din is writing Belmondo Sahib, which is understood to be his first feature after East Is East. The script is the story of an Indian ...
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Central Asian films to be focus of Trieste festival
Films from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will be showcased at this year's Trieste Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema (January 16-23, 2003) which has become an important meeting place for cinema from Central and Eastern Europe since its launch in 1988.The festival's 'Cinema of the Silk Road' showcase is part ...
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UPI to launch video distribution arm in Mexico
Universal Pictures International (UPI), the London-based international video distribution arm of Universal Pictures, has announced its plans to launch a wholly-owned video distribution operation in Mexico. Universal Pictures Mexico will launch on 1st January 2003, following the expiration of the current four-year joint venture distribution deal with Paramount, ...
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Deepa Mehta named CineAsia director of the year
Indo-Canadian filmmakerDeepa Mehta will be named 'Director of the Year' at this year'sCineAsia exhibition convention. The presentation will made at the event'sopening night December 3 to be followed by a screening of her latest film, Bollywood/Hollywood, a comedic amalgam of Bollywood romance andHollywood musical.Set in Toronto, the filmfeatures Bollywood ...
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SPE notches up the biggest studio gross record
Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE) has broken the industry's all-time record forworldwide box office receipts in a calendar year with $2.75bn in sales, thestudio said today (Dec 2). The performance beats the previous mark of $2.68bnset by 20th Century Fox in 1998, when that studio distributed Titanic internationally.In a statementissued today SPE ...
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Signature Theatres' Harris named 2003 ShoWester
Philip Harris III, the founder of Signature Theatres and current vice chair of the finance committee at the National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO), is to be named ShoWester of the Year at next year's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas running March 3 to 6."Phil Harris has quickly emerged as ...
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Submissions from 54 countries named eligible for foreign Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted its list of submissions for the Foreign Language Film Award category after eligibility concerns forced committee members to delay publication by one week. While the 54-strong list - a record number of submissions that beats last year's mark by three ...
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The world is wild about Harry: 11.2 million admissions over the weekend
The records continued to tumble for Warner Bros as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets passed $200m in international ticket sales over the weekend, amassing an estimated $56.8m from 11.2 million admissions on 8,201 screens in 32 territories. The sequel has an estimated $208m international and $408m worldwide total ...
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Sundance unveils 'challenging' 2003 selections
Sundance Film Festivalprogramming director Geoffrey Gilmore promised next year's influentialevent would feature "among the most provocative and challenging films wehave ever seen at the festival" even in the face of all the commercial hardships that independent filmmakers are currently confrontingUnveiling the Dramatic andDocumentary Competitions, as well as the films that ...
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Paramount bags more rights to Sunshine
Paramount Classics has acquired rights in Japan, Australia and New Zealand to Istvan Szabo's epic drama Sunshine, following its US acquisition of the movie after its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last year. The film, which was produced by Alliance Atlantis Communications and Robert Lantos' Serendipity Point Films, ...
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Foreign Language Oscar submissions
National submissions for Best Foreign Language OscarClick on the underlined titles to read the Screen International reviewAfghanistan FireDancer- Jawed WasselAlgeria Rachida - Yamina Bachir-Chouikh Argentina Kamchatka - Marcelo PineyroAustria Gebirtig (Gebuertig)- Lukas Stepanik and Robert SchindelBangladesh The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) - Tareque MasudBelgium The Son (Le Fils) - Jean-Pierre ...
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Bangkok Int'l film festival announces line-up and new competition
The 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) has announced a line-up of more than 70 films from more than 35 countries and a new award, the Golden Kinnaree. In addition, event organisers said yesterday (Dec 2) that there would be five world premieres and 15 Asian premieres. Gangs of New ...
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Phillip Noyce returns to Australia for Dirt Music
Expatriate Australian Phillip Noyce is planning to do more filmmaking in his home country. Two years after returning from Hollywood to make Rabbit-Proof Fence, Noyce has put together a team to adapt the novel Dirt Music by Tim Winton, with a possible starring role for Nicole Kidman. According to local ...
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Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan board new Irish Directors' Guild
Following a year's preparatory work and international research the formal setting up of the Screen Directors' Guild of Ireland (SDGI) has been announced. Following a Founder Members' meeting held at the end of November, an eight strong board - each the director of at least one feature film - was ...
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James Bond: International hit man
International distributor 20th Century Fox enjoyed another massive weekend for Die Another Day in its second week, taking an estimated $29m. The film's international cumulative score now stands at over $63m.The James Bond title opened in multiple territories over the weekend, once again scoring the biggest opening for the franchise ...
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Tokyo FILMex confirms its competitive status
While the Tokyo International Film Festival struggles to regain ground lost to Asian competition, like the recent Pusan Film Festival, a new event has arisen right under its nose. Tokyo FILMeX celebrates its third edition this year with a line-up that definitely, almost defiantly, emphasises culture over commerce. Instead of ...
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German pay-TV platform passes historic subscriber mark
The number of subscribers at German pay-TV platform Premiere has passed the 2.5 million mark for the first time in the channel's 11-year history.At the end of November, the platform had 2.53 million subscribers on its books, 85,000 more than at the end of the third quarter on September 30. ...