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Chinese pair to open Hong Kong Festival
The Hong Kong Arts Development Council has unveiled the line-up of the 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival (April 6-21) which includes Oscar winner The Barbarian Invasions and the winner of last year's Palme d'Or, Gus Van Sant's Elephant.In total, around 300 movies from more than 40 countries will screen ...
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Mueller confirmed as Venice festival chief
As expected, former Locarno and Rotterdam festival chief Marco Mueller has been appointed artistic chief of the Venice Film Festival.Rome born Mueller will replace Moritz de Hadeln, the British-born Swiss national who became the first non-Italian to run the world's oldest festival when he was appointed in 2002 on a ...
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CTFDI, Edko reconfigure Hong Kong partnership
Columbia TristarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) has dissolved its joint distributionventure in Hong Kong with Edko Films and named Edko its sole agent anddistributor in the market.Edko/Columbiageneral manager Li Chow will relocate to Beijing to oversee mainlanddistribution of the studio's pictures, while Edko chief Bill Kong will overseedistribution activities in Hong ...
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AFMA launches production loan guarantee scheme
The American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) has clinched a major new independent financing initiative, reaching agreement with Export-Import Bank Of The United States (Ex-Im) to furnish US AFMA members (producers and lenders) with film production loan guarantees.The agreement is revolutionary in that it guarantees the production loan and not the ...
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filmBUZZ claims festivalgoers are key arthouse audience
A report published yesterday(March 4) by the independent film research and tracking specialist filmBUZZreveals that festival-goers are a core constituent of arthouse audiences andplay a key role in those pictures' box office success."In our exit surveys at filmfestivals we discovered that audiences members' demographics closely mirrorthose of arthouse patrons," filmBUZZ ...
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Berlinger signs two-book deal on career, Metallica
Award-winningdocumentary film-maker Joe Berlinger has signed a two-book deal with StMartin's Press for the worldwide publishing rights to Metallica: ThisMonster Lives andBerlinger's memoirs Murder, Music & Mayhem: A Filmmaker's Mid-Career Report.Metallica:This Monster Lives isbased on Berlinger's experiences filming the legendary heavy metal band in Metallica:Some Kind Of Monster,which IFC Films ...
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Berry named ShoWest female star of the year
Halle Berry, whowill next appear as the lead in Warner Bros' Catwoman, has been named ShoWest female star ofthe year."Halle Berry is a classic," Mitch Neuhauser, co-managingdirector of the Las Vegas event, said in a statement."From theexcitement of the worldwide smash X2: X-Men United to the torment of this past ...
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Highpoint adds Advanced Warriors
UK sales house High Films& TV has picked up Advanced Warriors, a DVD movie directed by AndrewDymond of Bristol-based Lightworx Media.Inspired by the novels ofIan Livingstone, the picture adopts the tree format where every decision-makingopportunity is accompanied by a menu of options with different outcomes.Audiences are required to participate and ...
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Starsky & Hutch
Dir: Todd Phillips. US. 2003. 100 mins.Hollywood's infatuation with the cheesy classics of 1970s American TV continues with an action comedy take on Starsky & Hutch that plays for laughs more than thrills and gets just about enough of them to, in all probability, keep the affair going for at ...
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South Of The Clouds (Yun De Nan Fang)
Dir: Zhu Wen China. 2004. 100mins.Zhu Wen began his working life as a factory engineer before deciding, 10 years ago, that stories were his real metier. After four short story collections, a novel and two film script collaborations (he was one of three credited screenwriters on the Zhang Yuang prison ...
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AFM: Gemini Films scores with Ma Mere
French sales house GeminiFilms enjoyed strong sales at the American Film Market on its Christophe Honoretitle Ma Mere and on forthcoming Andre Techine picture Changing TimesMa Mere was sold to CNC (Benelux), Mont Blanc (Switzerland),Italian International Films (Italy), Audiovisual (Greece), Paradise (Russia),Shani Films (Israel), Filmax (Spain), Alfa Films (Argentina), Independenta(Romania) ...
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Lords lash out at tax loophole closure
Thecontroversy over the government's decision to close down film taxloopholes last month erupted in the House of Lords this week.LabourGovernment spokesman Lord Davies came under fire yesterday as the House OfLords debated the film tax crisis. An array of Tory peers queued up to attacklast month's abrupt decision by the ...
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Dir: Guy Ferland. US 2004. 87 minsThe original Dirty Dancing made a star of Patrick Swayze, became one of the surprise hits of the late 1980s and grossed an $163m worldwide. Set in the Catskills in 1963, it introduced a predominantly female audiences to the catchphrase "Nobody puts Baby in ...
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Hidalgo
Dir: Joe Johnston. US. 2003. 135mins.After getting bumped last year from Disney's fall slate, reportedly due to an overabundance of horse movies, the family-targeted action-adventure Western Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen in his first post-Aragorn turn, arrives amid press reports questioning the authenticity of the film's real-life protagonist, one-time cowboy and ...
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Ireland records best ever month at the box office
Ireland recorded its best month ever at the box office in January 2000 with admissions reaching a staggering 1.9 million, up 23% on January 1999. Admissions in Dublin in January were up 30.5% on the previous year.The top ten titles during the month were Angela's Ashes, Sleepy Hollow, The World ...
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StudioCanal parts company with Schmidt
Michel Schmidt, deputymanager of France's StudioCanal, has left the company.At present, there is noreplacement for Schmidt and his next steps are not known. Neither Schmidt norStudioCanal chose to comment on the departure although it is understood that itwas based on a mutual agreement.Schmidt joined Canal from hispost as head of ...
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Mabius, Ironside prey upon Payne's Reeker
Eric Mabius and Michael Ironside have signed on to thehorror film Reeker, which was writtenand is being directed by David Payne for Payne and Tina Illman's TheInstitution and Amanda Klein and Michael Nash's Primal Pictures.Mabius featured in Resident Evil and the upcoming Resident Evil: Apocalypse, while Ironside had a role ...
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Coen, Redler team up on prison thriller Breakback for Millennium
Chris Coen of Halcyon Entertainment and Dan Redler of Dan Redler Entertainment are teaming up to produce the $20m prison thriller Breakback for Avi Lerner's Millennium Films.Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Peter Wetherell will serve as executive producers on the picture, which is based on a screenplay developed by ...
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Disney looks to UK tax funds to support distribution costs
Walt Disney Studios isbelieved to be the latest Hollywood major to tap a UK tax-based fund tounderwrite their distribution costs.The studio is finalizing apact to licence about eight films to the Timeless Releasing scheme devised byUK tax financier Future Film in a deal understood to be worth up to £200m.The ...
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Stillking opens Cape Town production office
Prague based production service company Stillking Films hasopened an office in Cape Town, South Africa.The move highlights the growing importance of South Africaas an international film location. Stillking is the Czech Republic's topproduction services company, working on films such as The Bourne Identity (Universal), Shanghai Knights (Disney), Van Helsing (Universal), ...