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Focus lures ex-Miramax marketing chief Brooks
David Brooks,the former executive vice president and co-head of marketing at Miramax Films,has joined Focus Features as its president of marketing. Brooks will be based in New York, where he will be responsiblefor overseeing the company's worldwide marketing activities as Universal'sspecialty arm. His appointment is effective immediately.Announcing themove, Focus co-presidents ...
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National Board Of Review chimes with The Hours
In the first barometer of the North American awards season, the National Board of Review (NBR) announced its 2002 winners today (Dec 4), with Stephen Daldry's star-studded drama The Hours taking 2002 Best Film Of The Year. The results were a triumph for Miramax Films which co-financed The Hours and ...
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Reynolds, Suchet star in Foolproof for Alliance Atlantis
Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet are to star in William Phillip's thriller Foolproof, which has started principal photography in Toronto for Alliance Atlantis and Atom Egoyan's EGO FILM ARTS. Reynolds, whose credits include National Lampoon's Van Wilder and upcoming The Wedding Party, will play a theoretical heist mastermind who is ...
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
Dir: Peter Jackson. New Zealand-US. 2002. 179mins.The second film in Peter Jackson's trilogy of JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings is one of the year's best. Having introduced the elaborate story and its myriad characters in the much-garlanded first film The Fellowship Of The Ring, Jackson is now free ...
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European Film Academy lambasts French, German broadcasters
German and French broadcasters have come under fire from the European Film Academy (EFA) for not airing this year's European Film Awards, which takes place in Rome this Saturday (Dec 7)."It is a political and cultural scandal that the television broadcasters in France and Germany are unwilling to partner with ...
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NATPE: Beresford boards Coote/Hayes' Fatal Shore
Coote/Hayes Productions has added two high-profile TV movies to its expanding slate of film and TV productions and has confirmed Bruce Beresford as director of its four-hour miniseries The Fatal Shore.Jeffrey Hayes, Coote/Hayes Prods co-founder, revealed that the firm has optioned Bio Hazard, a novel written by Russian scientist Ken ...
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Saturday, The Magdalene Sisters win Ljubljana prizes
Juan Villegas's Saturday and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters garnered top honours at the 13th annual Ljubljana International Film Festival, held in the Slovenian capital.Villegas, an Argentine, won the festival's top award, the Kingfisher Award, worth Euros5,000. The award is given to the most promising first- or second- time director. ...
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Norwegian Film Fund backs Play, Bum's Rush
The Norwegian Film Fund has invested in two new feature films, the Norwegian Play and Scottish/Norwegian The Bum's Rush, with $276,000 (NKR2m) and $317,000 (NKR2.3m) respectively. John Sullivan wrote and directed the $468,000 Play for Dinamo Story and producers Tomas Backstrom, Tom Remlov and Gard A. Andreassen. It tells the ...
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Film industry worries over Spanish pay-TV merger
The government approval last week of the merger between Spain's rival pay TV platforms - Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital - has produced as many questions as it has answers for the film industry.The government released a surprisingly long list of 34 conditions on the merger (Screendaily.com, Nov ...
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Former Canal Plus exec Godfroid joins Air
Former Canal Plus executive Bibiane Godfroid has joined Air Productions, one of France's most successful television production houses.Godfroid, who had been with Canal since 1996, was executive managing director of the Canal Plus Group at the time of her departure earlier this year. She left Canal amid the restructuring ...
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Gaga takes over veteran Japanese film magazine
Gaga Crossmedia Marketing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaga Communications, has purchased a majority stake in Kinema Jumpo, Japan's oldest and most highly regarded film magazine. Founded in 1919, Kinema Jumpo has long played a leading role in promoting film culture in Japan. Though best known for its Kinema Jumpo ...
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Italy's Mediaset mulls majority stake in Spain's Telecinco
More changes to Spain's television landscape are in order if Italy's Mediaset follows through on plans to up its 40% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco to a majority 51% share.Speaking at a conference in Cordoba, Telecinco president Alejandro Echevarria confirmed the move to reporters. The broadcaster's remaining shareholders include Grupo ...
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Alliance Atlantis rolls with Foolproof
Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet are set to star in William Phillip's Foolproof. The film is produced by Alliance Atlantis and Atom Egoyan's Ego Film Arts. The film also stars Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi and David Hewlett. It is the second feature of writer/director Phillips, whose debut Treed ...
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Fledgling Italian distribution outfits swoop on raft of titles
Undeterred by the current tough economic conditions for Italian distributors, some of the newest kids on the Roman block have unveiled a series of hot international acquisitions.Domenico Procacci's fledgling distributor Fandango has picked up Matt Dillon directorial debut, City of Ghosts. Co-written by Dillon and Wild At Heart novelist Barry ...
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Bollywood braces itself for most expensive Indian film yet
Devdas producer Bharat Shah has joined forces with director Ram Gopal Varma to make a film with acting superstar Amitabh Bachchan that will be the most expensive ever made in Bollywood.The US$13m film is billed as an international political thriller that will be shot in five countries, including India and ...
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BAFTA declares Oscar reject The Warrior is British
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has confirmed it considers The Warrior as British, despite the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' decision that the film is ineligible as the UK entry for the foreign-language Oscars.Duncan Kenworthy, chair of BAFTA's film committee, said in a ...
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NATPE: Film Co expands slate with Palm Pictures
UK sales and finance boutique The Film Co has picked up international sales duties to a package of films from Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures. The five Lady Ninja pictures are produced by Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corp and were financed by Palm. Palm will retain US rights for distribution through its ...
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Woo presents first US showing of Melville's uncut Le Cercle Rouge
Director JohnWoo is to present the new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's LeCercle Rouge, theclassic 1970 heist thriller that will be seen in US theatres for the first timein its complete and original French-language version early next year.Rialto Pictures,which enjoyed considerable success in the US with the re-issue of Jean LucGodard's ...
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Das Werk jettisons Swiss, Spanish assets
Just aweek after Das Werk's German post-production divisions filed forinsolvency (ScreenDaily, Nov 26), the group has now sold off interests inSpain and Switzerland as part of its programme of restructuring andstreamlining operations.DasWerk has sold its stake in the Barcelona-based film laboratory Image Film tothe newly created Image Laboratories, which is ...
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Gangs Of New York
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US. 2002. 165 mins.In terms of old-fashioned spectacle, few films today come anywhere near Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York. Already a part of movie folklore, the shooting of Gangs on mammoth sets at Rome's Cinecitta Studios is probably the last of its kind. A gargantuan undertaking, ...