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Regions to become the bankers of French cinema'
With film financing facing a crunch, France's regions ("provinces") are expected to take a greater role in bank-rolling film-making. But local producers would prefer the regions' role to be cultural rather than economic.The hotly contested subject was at the centre of a debate last week organised by l'Atelier Production du ...
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Copenhagen Film Festival sets launch date
After juggling with different launch dates for months the new Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) has set the date for its first edition, Aug13-20 2003. Festival director Janne Giese sees the event as the next obvious step after the success of Danish film in recent years. "It is a patchwork ...
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Koelmels in the home straight
The seemingly never-ending saga of the Koelmel brothers' bid to take over their insolvent Kinowelt empire looks like having been resolved.After a meeting on December 13 between the Koelmels' Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH, the insolvency administrator Wolfgang Ott, representatives of Sparkasse Leipzig and members of the creditors committee, ...
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Cuban Film Institute unveils 2003 slate
The Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) unveiled its slate of films for 2003 at the 24th annual edition of the Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Dec 3-13).ICAIC director Camilo Vives presented seven feature films in development, at least four of which are anticipated to begin shooting in Cuba ...
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Yash Chopra wins India's highest film award
Veteran Hindi film-maker Yash Chopra has been chosen for the highest national award for a filmmaker - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2001. "His films are about love, romance and drama and the stars of his films become icons for film buffs. Chopra has been instrumental in tapping the potential ...
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Gerardmer festival reveals first details of 2003 edition
The Gerardmer festival has announced the first details surrounding its 2003 vintage which will run from January 29 to February 2, 2003. On the jury of the horror film fest are Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his former filmmaking partner Marc Caro along with Brotherhood of the Wolf star Samuel Le ...
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New Hayao Miyazaki film heads Toho line-up
Three new works by Japanese animation powerhouses head Toho's line-up for 2003-2004. Leading the line-up is Howl's Moving Castle, the latest film by Hayao Miyazaki, whose Spirited Away set an all-time Japanese box office record last year and is being tipped for an Academy Award nomination. Based on a 1986 ...
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Avati takes over Cinecitta reins
Veteran Italian director Pupi Avati has been namedpresident of Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of the famed Rome-basedCinecitta Studios where Martin Scorsese shot his Gangs Of New York epic. Avati - whose own credits as a filmmaker include 2001's ICavalieri Che Fecero L'Impresa and upcomingperiod drama Il Cuore Altrove - ...
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AFI names ten best for 2002, omitting Far From Heaven
The American Film Institute(AFI) announced its 10 outstanding motion pictures for 2002 today (Dec 16) andits almanac recording the year's most significant achievements in theworld of the moving image. The selections were made over two days by two juries- one for feature films and one for TV -comprising one chair, ...
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Le Studio grabs Tao for multiple territories
France's Le Studio Canal Plus has caught the deal-making fever present among international buyers at this year's Sundance, snapping up multiple territory rights on Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao Of Steve from Good Machine International.Le Studio has acquired rights for France, Germany, Spain, Benelux and Switzerland to the film, a competition ...
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Jay Sands promoted to senior vice president at CTFDI
Jay Sands has been promoted to senior vice president,international operations, for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI).Sands, who wasmost recently vice president, international operations, for CTFDI, isresponsible for sales administration of Sony Pictures' internationaltheatrical business. His functions include building worldwide data sharingsystems, creating artificial intelligence to support release planning andmonitoring dating ...
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Far From Heaven dominates New York critics awards...
Todd Haynes' homage to1950s melodramas Far From Heavenpicked up five awards including Best Picture of 2002 today (Dec 16) from the NewYork Film Critics Circle, one of the key pre-Oscar indicators of the awardsseason. The 34-member group named the picture's director Todd Haynes asbest director and gave other awards to ...
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BVI tops $1bn in grosses for the eighth year in a row
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has passed $1bn in international ticket sales for thisyear, making it the only distributor to achieve the distinction eight years ina row. In addition three of the 50 titles BVI handled in 2002 - Monsters Inc,Signs and Lilo & Stitch - grossed more than $100m each. Disney/Pixar'sMonsters ...
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Sperry signs with Focus in production and advisory deal
Focus Featureshas entered into a multi-year first-look production deal with veteran filmexecutive Stephane Sperry, Focus co-presidents David Linde and James Schamusconfirmed today (Dec 16). Sperry arrives from his post as co-president ofStudioCanal USA and the Focus deal comprises an exclusive advisory arrangementthat will also involve continued communication with Canal Plus, ...
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Spitfire starts in on The Great War
Intermedia announced today (Dec 16) that Spitfire Pictures, Guy East and Nigel Sinclair's new production company with which it has an overall, non-exclusive deal, is to develop the First World War script The Great War (working title). Larry Ramin, who won an Emmy Award earlier this year for HBO's Winston ...
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Chamber Of Secrets soars on, passes $350m gross
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets maintained the magic with an estimated $42.4m in international ticket sales for Warner Bros over the weekend, bringing its cumulative total so far to a mighty $350m. There were 7.6m million admissions from more than 9,000 screens in 45 territories. In South Korea, ...
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007 breaks industry opening record in Russia, bows big in Australia
Die Another Day kept up the sterling work for Fox International over the weekend and broke a few more records for Fox International with a superb Australian bow that yielded $2.7m from 323 theatres. It was the biggest opening of all time for a James Bond picture in the territory, ...
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The hard facts about soft money
Hard cash may have heavyweight appeal and a sense of immediacy, but it is in increasingly short supply. Patrick Frater examines how soft money has become the currency of choice for the world's independent producers. Over the next weeks, and leading up to the Screen International European Film Finance Summit ...
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Soft Money - The United Kingdom
The UKAn extraordinarily generous public purse is making the UK one of the best options for producers - British and foreign - looking to raise budgets through tax breaks and public subsidy. Adam Minns, Tim Dams and Nick Hunt reportIn the UK, the money raised for film financing through both ...