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28 titles join Nielsen EDI's international $100m club
UIP picked up ten Nielsen EDI International Gold Reel awards, which are given to distributors with films grossing more than $100m internationally, at the Cinema Expo exhibitor's conference in Amsterdam. UIP's $100m-plus grossers included A Beautiful Mind, Shrek and Bridget Jones's Diary. "They are the bedrock of the industry and ...
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And Now... Ladies And Gentlemen
Dir: Claude Lelouch. France. 2002. 135 mins. His Palme D'Or in 1966 for A Man And A Woman notwithstanding, Claude Lelouch has never been a critics' favourite and his latest offering, unveiled to the press in Cannes to sniggers and walk-outs, was no exception. And indeed even the director's fans ...
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Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiao Yao)
Dir: Jia Zhang-Ke. China 2002. 113 mins. CompetitionA film about teenage aimlessness that evokes its subject only too well, the third feature by Jia Zhang-Ke, director of Xiao Wu and Platform, is a loose, funky digital venture that undoubtedly feels as if it captures the authentic beat of contemporary Chinese ...
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Can DreamWorks' Spirit run free at the international box office'
DreamWorks SKG's latest animated effort, Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, made its European debut in Germany this week, its first major international territory, but can the 2D-film finally give the company an international triumph over rival studio, and animation giant, Disney'Spirit, distributed internationally by UIP, is DreamWorks first animated title ...
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10
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami. Iran/France 2002. 94 mins. In competitionA defiantly no-frills exercise even by his ascetic standards, 10 is Abbas Kiarostami's triumphant vindication of digital video's potential to produce a kind of cinema that cannot be achieved by other means. This is screen minimalism at its most uncompromising: 10 sequences ...
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Cinema Expo seminar poses the $10bn digital question
It may have been the first major picture to be shot entirely with high-end digital technology, but the release of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones has seen the film projected at cinemas around the world using considerably less digital equipment.Episode II has been released on only ...
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No Man's Land producer to head Locarno festival jury
No Man's Land producer, Cedomir Kolar is to head the jury for the upcoming Locarno film festival (Aug 1 -11), while the event's "Indian Summer" retrospective will include Rajiv Menon's Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Finding One's Self (Kandukondain Kandukondain), and politically active Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen's ...
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Ketan Mehta to produce The Rising, raise $12m via IPO
Veteran Hindi film producer and director Ketan Mehta has announced plans to produce a three-part international English-language feature titled The Rising based on the 1857 revolt of the Indian forces against the British Raj. Mehta, chairman and managing director of Maya Entertainment Ltd (MEL), told Screendaily that the company is ...
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Jingle Ma to direct Jackie Chan in $40m Titanium Rain
Media Asia has lined up hot Hong Kong director Jingle Ma to direct its $40m Jackie Chan vehicle Titanium Rain.The futuristic action title is set in China, the US and Japan and is being scripted in both English and Mandarin. Production is scheduled to start next March for release during ...
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Sales agents, distributors awarded MEDIA cash
The UK's FilmFour, Pathe International, Bavaria Media and Adriana Chiesa Enterprises are among 18 European sales agents granted over Euros 700,000 in financial support by the European Union's MEDIA Plus programme to promote the trans-national distribution of European films. MEDIA's sales agent support scheme works in two phases. Firstly, there ...
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Strong overseas film sales reported by troubled FilmFour
On the eve of what many expect to be a dramatic re-focusing on lower-budget films made for the local market, the UK's FilmFour has underlined its international strengths with a host of overseas sales.Sales arm FilmFour International is closing US deal with Sony Pictures Classics on Cannes title Once Upon ...
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Hong Kong's Panorama signs library deal with Japan's Shochiku
Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment has signed an output deal with Japan's Shochiku giving it exclusive video rights to the studio's back catalogue of around 4,000 films. The five-year deal, unveiled at FilMart on Thursday, includes titles such as the hit Tora-San comedy series, Yoji Yamada's 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief ...
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Alternative cinema content remains an unexploited revenue stream
Alternative content has long been a holy grail for exhibitors, with the potential to create new profit streams - which can even amount to as much as 19% of revenue. And despite the fact that no solid market for alternative content - be it sporting events, rock concerts or other ...
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Myriad backs Bombay Ice, ropes in Burton, Willing
Myriad Pictures has optioned Leslie Forbes' novel Bombay Ice and has closed a deal with Mark Burton, the producer of Cherish who himself has close ties to India, to produce it. Nick Willing (Dr Sleep, Photographing Fairies) is in negotiations to write and direct the film.A murder mystery set in ...
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Men In Black II
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld. US. 2002. 82 mins. The invigorating burst of zany energy that made sci-fi comedy Men In Black the surprise smash of the 1997 summer season was never going to be easy to reproduce. So it's hardly surprising that Men In Black II feels more slight and less ...
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FilMart wins broad delegate approval
This year's Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (FilMart) ended on an upbeat note on Friday (June 28) with many delegates agreeing that the event was busier and had attracted a broader mix of participants than in previous years."We've seen more buyers from more countries and the prices being ...
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Independent Feature Project reveals 13 No Borders titles
The Independent Feature Project (IFP) has announced the international projects which will take part in the 2002 No Borders Co-Production Market, to be held between Sept. 27 - Oct. 4 in New York City.Thirteen international projects have been announced for No Borders, which takes place during the IFP Market. ...
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Spain's Plural Entertainment close to taking 80% of Tesela
Spanish production house Plural Entertainment is rumoured to be closing a deal to buy out an 80% share of up-and-coming Madrid-based producer Tesela PC.The transaction would provide Tesela with a direct link to heavyweight Spanish media and publishing conglomerate Grupo Prisa, which owns 100% of Plural Entertainment.Tesela was launched in ...
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AMW announces Lord Of The Rainy Season as Franco-Thai co-production
AMW International, an independent Thai media group, used Hong Kong's FilMart to launch its new film Lord Of The Rainy Season. The project is based on Claire Keefe-Fox's historical novel of the same title Le Ministre Des Moussons documenting France's first official foray into Asia and the meeting between explorer ...
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Applause to give an encore to horror hit The Eye
Hong Kong production house Applause Pictures has added several new projects to its development slate including a sequel to its recent horror film The Eye which grossed a healthy $1.8m (HK$13.8m) at the local box office in May and June.Thailand's Pang Brothers will again direct and are currently scripting the ...