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Mar Del Plata triumphs despite troubles
The new Mar Del Plata festival administration led by National Film Institute (INCAA) director Jose Miguel Onaindia and artistic director Claudio Espana struggled against logistical problems that threatened to disrupt the otherwise successful event that wrapped on March 17.The festival boasted nearly 30,000 admissions sold during the first three days. ...
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Dir: Sharon Maguire. UK. 2001. 90minsTBC.Bridget Jones's bestselling diaries made the fictional thirtysomething singleton Britain's most successful under-achiever of recent years, and the screen version of her intimate journal bears all the signs of becoming the UK's biggest film hit since Notting Hill. Domestically, massive advance publicity and media attention ...
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Filmax restructures Spanish animation division
Following the lead of its successful start-up genre division The Fantastic Factory, Spain's Filmax Group has initiated a restructuring of its animation division, newly dubbed Filmax Animacion.Under the direction of Paco Rodriguez, former head of Spanish rights and production house PPM Multimedia, Filmax's animation division will incorporate three main areas.The ...
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British Short Film Festival axed
The 14 year-old British Short Film festival is to close after the event's title sponsor, BBC Television, withdrew funding.The move comes as recently-installed BBC director general Greg Dyke is under pressure to cut costs from the government. The BBC has backed the annual event since it launched in 1987.Festival director ...
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Internet merger provides Giants with new beanstalk
Afterspending a year making a noise at international film markets through blanketadvertising campaigns and huge slate announcements, David Dadon's GiantsEntertainment has been sold to a tiny publicly-quoted Internet company that hasbeen operating until now as a minor-league entertainment-themed portal.The merger with Hollywood Partners.com Inc - no relation to the German ...
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Duke Nukem enters a new big screen Dimension
Duke Nukem is coming to a much bigger screen near you now that Dimension Films has acquired the movie rights to the video game phenomenon from Larry Kasanoff and his Threshold Entertainment. In his feature film debut for the Miramax genre label, Duke assumes the role of Earth's best defense ...
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First Run adds Fighter to arsenal of US releases
New York'sFirst Run Features has acquired the US rights to Amir Bar-Lev's Holocaust-themeddocumentary Fighter in a licensing agreement struck with The Independent FilmChannel's Next Wave Films. A theatrical release has been penciled in forthis autumn.Fighter has won awards at the leading festivals around the world, including the Hampton's Film Festival(Audience ...
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Executive Suite
Vincent MaravalThe founder of Wild Bunch, which has handled some of the most distinctive films of recent years, including Eureka, pictured, explains how a "research department" has become one of the world's hottest sellers and producers.Why did you start Wild Bunch'We wanted to do sales differently. Historically the international ...
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Village Roadshow, Network Ten see venture fail
The ambitious internet leisure site SCAPE has gone into voluntary administration only 18 months after Village Roadshow and Network Ten negotiated the joint venture. The news was announced in a joint statement to the Australian Stock Exchange today. The first such formal coupling between a broadcaster and an entertainment giant ...
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Irish singer makes acting debut in Time Machine
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Samantha Mumba will make her feature film debut starring opposite Guy Pearce in the DreamWorks/Warner Bros sci-fi project The Time Machine, which is currently shooting in New York and Los Angeles. Mumba, best known for her hit Gotta Tell You, joins a cast that also includes Jeremy Irons, ...
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Seven Network pulls out of Asia TV service
The Seven Network has dumped the Asian satellite service Australia Television (ATV), which it took over from public broadcaster the ABC in 1997. It made the move despite being chosen in favour of five other tenderers to revamp the service with Federal Government money.The announcement drew a new round of ...
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The Film Company boards Russell's Louse Of Usher
London-based sales outfit The Film Company has boarded Ken Russell's The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher as international sales agent, handling all rights.The film, an update of Edgar Allen Poe's story, is currently being shot on digital video by Russell, who also produces through his Gorsewood Studios outfit. Seminal ...
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China and Taiwan dominate popular Fribourg
Films from China and Taiwan were particularly strong at the 15th edition of Fribourg's festival dedicated to films from Asia, Africa and Latin America, which registered a record attendance of some 22,000 festival-goers between 11-18 March.The International Jury awarded its Grand Prix "Le Regard d'Or" to Yi Yi (A One ...
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Australia's cinema wars move into the courtroom
Reading Entertainment Australia is heading for the courts over the issue of access to first-release films according to The Age newspaper. Using its Market City cinema site in the heart of Sydney as its latest battle arena, it is claiming in the Federal Court that Roadshow Film Distributors is in ...
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Pan-European Animation training network planned
The MEDIA Programme-supported initiative Cartoon signed an agreement with a group of animation schools at this year's Cartoon Movie financing market in Babelsberg to create a European training network .Announcing the new venture, Cartoon's Corinne Jenart explained that the network initially consists of eight schools of animation which will collaborate ...
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Exit Wounds
Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2001. 100 mins. Looking to make a comeback after a run of commercial disappointments, Steven Seagal teams up on Exit Wounds with action king producer Joel Silver and hot rapper DMX. It's a canny move which should bring in both older white males and younger black ...
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Von Trotta's comeback to be backed by Hamburg/TMG
The Women of Rosenstrasse, Margarethe von Trotta's first feature film since 1994's The Promise, is to be the first project to be co-produced by Studio Hamburg's feature film production arm Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion (SHLF) with Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG) as part of their recently signed three-picture deal.The Trotta ...
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Luhrmann's Can-Can opens Cannes
Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 9th where it will screen in competition, festival president Gilles Jacob confirmed on Tuesday.The 20th Century Fox picture, which stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, will screen as an international premiere. The studio also announced that, based ...
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Anime finds French-speaking home through Pathe
Manga Entertainment, the Japaneseanimation specialist, has signed a home entertainment distribution dealthroughout many of the world's French-speaking territories withPathé Distribution of Paris.Under the deal, Pathéwill dub Manga's anime DVD and VHStitles into French and distribute in France and territories such as Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Africa.Manga, no relation to the ...
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Biopic planned of Joy Division's doomed frontman
The film rights to a book about the life and suicide of Ian Curtis, the singer/songwriter who fronted theManchester pop group Joy Division, has been snapped up the same New York productioncompany that made Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Jonathan Nossiter's Sundance-winning debut SundayAndrew Fierberg and Amy Hobbyof Double A Films ...