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European Pitch Point jury selects 12 best scripts
Twelve screenwriters and their projects have been chosen from 160 submitted to participate in next month's European Pitch Point.Screenwriters from the UK, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sweden are among the final 12 whose projects were selected from 160 submitted from all over Europe to participate in next year's European Pitch Point ...
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Grill Point leads German critics' award nominations
Andreas Dresen's Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) has picked up nominations in three of the four categories for this year's German Film Critics Award.Grill Point, which received the jury's Grand Prix at the last Berlinale and a Silver Lola at the German Film Awards, has been nominated in the Best Feature ...
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Bomb threat escalates for Korea's CJ Entertainment
Police in Seoul are searching for a man who sent a mail bomb to the head offices of CJ Entertainment as part of an extortion scheme. The small explosive, concealed inside a book addressed to CEO Lee Kang-bok, caused minor burns to Lee's hands and forehead.A note pasted on ...
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Czech cinema admissions continue gradual increase
The Czech Republic registered an estimated 10.7 million cinema visits during 2002, compared to 10.4 million in 2001 and 8.3 million in 2000, according to preliminary results of the Czech Union of Film Distributors (UFD).The biggest increases in cinemagoing were seen in Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove and Ostrava where ...
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The Two Towers continues record-breaking int'l run
The records continued to fall to The Lord Of The Rings as the second week of The Two Towers theatrical run came to a close.The fantasy sequel has already passed the $200m box office mark both from international territories and separately in North American. With $414m recorded by year's end, ...
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Shine's film arm put on Ice
The core film executives at Elisabeth Murdoch's UK company Shine Entertainment are launching independent production outfit Ice Productions following the closure of Shine's film arm.Shine has handed over the rights to its film slate to its former head of film, Erica Motley, who will head Ice. The former HBO executive ...
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Hard Goodbyes: My Father (Diskoli Aporcheretismi: Babas Mou)
Dir. Penny Panayotopoulou. Greece/Germany, 2002. 108 min.A coming-of-age story that is richer and more original than most, Penny Panayotopoulou's first feature film effort is the most accomplished Greek film offering of this year. First unveiled in Locarno, where 10 years-old Giorgos Karayannis walked away with an acting award, it also ...
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Equilibrium
Dir: Kurt Wimmer. US. 2002. 107 mins.You could call Equilibrium a poor man's Minority Report. Or, for that matter, a poor man's Fahrenheit 451, 1984 or The Matrix. Unimaginatively derivative and silly without being fun, this sci-fi thriller from Miramax's Dimension label comes equipped with a mid-level Anglo-American cast but ...
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Warner scores its biggest ever international year with $1.6bn in 2002...
Harry Potter became 2002's highest grossing film internationally in what was the final triumph in a record year for Warner Bros Pictures.The company saw its best year of all-time at the international box office in 2002, pulling in $1.6bn and beating its previous record of $1.34bn, set in 2001, by ...
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Amitabh Bachchan rescues Bollywood box office
Bollywood may be the biggest producer of films in the world but the ratio of hits to flops in 2002 made depressing reading. In one of the worst years in the history of the local film industry, 2002 saw the release of 132 films out of which 124 failed to ...
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Artisan, Intertainer join forces for digital film
Artisan Entertainment has signed an agreement with broadband content provider Intertainer to jointly develop, produce and distribute five feature-length films to be shot and edited completely in the digital format. Intertainer will show the films on its entertainment-on-demand service while Artisan will retain domestic rights. The features, which will have ...
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Kaurismaki tops Finnish award nominations
Aki Kaurismaki can no longer be said to be an unrecognised filmmaker in his native Finland after his award-winning The Man Without A Past became his most successful film at the local box-office ever and picked up the highest number of nominations for the local film awards: the Jussi. Best ...
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Three films break box office records in Australia
Several box office records have been broken over the Christmas/New Year holiday period in Australia. The Two Towers notched up the biggest ever opening week and Bowling For Columbine the biggest opening week for a documentary. And, as the year closed, Crackerjack became the highest grossing Australian film for 2002.After ...
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World premieres dominate Rotterdam's Tiger Award competition
This month's International Film Festival Rotterdam will showcase eight world premieres in its centrepiece section, the VPRO Tiger Award Competition.Titles debuting in the 14-film competition include Eliane Caffe's Brazilian-French film Jave Valley (Os Narradores De Jave); China's Welcome To Destination Shanghai (Mu Di Di Shanghai), directed by Andrew Cheng; and ...
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Billy Elliot delivers ratings success for BBC
The BBC scored a spectacular hit with Billy Elliot on New Year's Day, with the in-house production becoming the most popular film on TV during the Christmas period across all channels.The BBC Films and Working Title Films collaboration recorded 12.2 million viewers, pushing the BBC's The Mummy, which attracted 10.7 ...
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Third Danish film confirmed for Berlin's Kinderfilmfest
Danish animator Jannik Hastrup's latest feature-length animation, The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), has become the third Danish film to be confirmed for the Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest. The film had its world premiere in France and Benelux on Dec 18 as L'enfant Qui ...
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Daldry, Nolan get honours at Palm Springs Film Fest
Hotshot UK director Stephen Daldry will be honoured as international film-maker of the year at this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival during the festival's gala ceremony on Saturday (Jan 11).Daldry's second film The Hours, which was nominated for seven Golden Globes last month, will be screened in Palm Springs ...
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The Two Towers towers over the competition
New Line's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stayed atop of the competition in its third week in North American theatres with a $25.7m haul that gives Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptation a mighty $261.7m running score, according to studio estimates released on Sunday (Jan 5). The second instalment ...
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Harry Potter sweeps past $500m
Warner Bros Pictures, celebrating its biggest international gross of all time in 2002, scored its first triumph of the new year as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets whipped past the $500m mark at the box office over the weekend. Already the fifth biggest international grosser of all time, ...
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The Pianist sweeps National Society Of Film Critics awards
Roman Polanski's The Pianist swept the board at the National Society Of Film Critics awards voted on by 55 US film critics at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City on Saturday night. The film won best picture, best director, best screenplay and best actor categories, continuing the divided awards season ...