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Signpost strikes first look pact with Cougar Films
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has formed its first long-term production deal in the UK, striking a first-look pact with Cougar Films, the fledgling film production outfit of leading UK TV producers Sophie Balhetchet and Lynda La Plante.The first project to be developed under the deal is Click, a romantic comedy ...
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Bollywood shocked by mafia connections
Mumbai police today released audio tapes of conversations between an alleged member of the underworld and leading Bollywood film directors and actors The police say the recorded conversations, between the alleged Karachi-based don Chhota Shakeel, actor Sanjay Dutt, directors Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Gupta and producer Harish Sugandh, reveal that ...
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High Court backs UK government tax clamp down
Highlighting the controversial clamp down in UK tax regulations this year, the High Court has upheld a decision by the Government to reject applications from the Peakviewing group of companies.The Department for Culture, Media & Sport said that the film and TV concern had been producing "thousands of five minute ...
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Heavy security surrounds Jerusalem Film Festival
Despite heavy security measures that resulted in a number of venue changes and the absence of the US majors - the 19th Jerusalem Film Festival proceeded without any major hitches.While there were cancellations and no-shows - Shapira Films, one of the leading Israeli distributors, among them - the festival maintained ...
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The Sea Watches (Umi Wa Miteita)
Dir: Kei Kumai. Japan. 2002. 119mins.Based on a script by Akira Kurosawa, The Sea Watches (Umi wa Miteita) tries for a Kurosawa look, using the master's continuity drawings and production notes in telling its story of 19th-century era prostitutes. The director, however, is Kei Kumai, a veteran known abroad for ...
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Goldmember adds even more heat to the weekend
Despite facing fierce competition from the hottest weekend in the UK so far this year, the day-and-date launch of Austin Powers In Goldmember gave a smouldering performance at the box office.The comedy, the third in star Mike Myers' and director Jay Roach's franchise, took a massive $8.76m (£5.6m) from 446 ...
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Winchester Entertainment's Gary Smith cleared by UK financial watchdog
Winchester Entertainment chief Gary Smith (pictured) has been cleared by UK watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) following an investigation into his sale of shares on the eve of a profits warning in February.The FSA told the publicly-listed company that it had found no evidence of insider dealing or market ...
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Venice 59 and Controcorrente line-up
VENICE 59In CompetitionBear's Kiss Dir: Sergei Bodrov (Germany/France/Spain/Italy/Sweden)Fuehrer Ex Dir: Winfried Bonengel (Germany)The Best Of Times (Meili Shiguang) Dir: Tso-Chi Chang (Taiwan)The Hours Dir: Stephen Daldry (USA)Un Monde Presque Paisible (On The Brink Of Peace - unofficial English title) Dir: Michel Deville (France)Naked (Nackt) ...
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Bollywood hits lead re-scheduled International film festival of India
Bollywood hit Dil Chahta Hai (pictured) and winners of the 49th National Film Awards Dweepa and Chandni Bar are among the 20 feature films selected from 96 entries to be screened at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in New Delhi in October 2002. The other feature films selected ...
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Japan's film industry sustains growth - over three years
Sustained by the twin engines of multiplex growth and the popularity of anime titles, Japan's film industry has enjoyed a three-year period of growth, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Total revenues from film production and distribution and video sales have risen 5.7%, from $4.2bn in ...
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Bill Paxton's directorial debut opens 16th Int'l Fantasy Filmfest
Actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut Frailty opens this year's 16th International Fantasy Filmfest, which hits Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne and Hamburg before its finale in Berlin next month.The critically acclaimed film, which stars Paxton as a God-sent serial killer, features among a total of 63 films. Highlights include the international ...
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HBO's Real Women goes theatrical after all via Newmarket start-up
Only two months after HBO Films president Colin Callender publicly reconfirmed that all its movies would premiere on the HBO channel in North America, the company has announced that it will release crowd-pleasing festival favourite Real Women Have Curves in theatres this October. The film will be a joint distribution ...
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Alberto Barbera is guest director at Telluride Festival
Alberto Barbera, the former director of the Venice Film Festival, will serve as guest director of this year's Telluride Film Festival which kicks off in the Colorado mountain resort on Aug 30 and goes through to Sept 2.Serving as a key collaborator in all the festival's programming decisions, Barbera joins ...
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Selick to direct Coraline for Mechanic's Pandemonium
Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium Films has acquired film rights to the horror fantasy novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman and hired Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James And The Giant Peach) to direct it. The novel, published in the US on July 2 by HarperCollins Children's Books, is the story of ...
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Plowright, Caviezel join cast of Walden's I Am David
Walden Media, Cary Granat's production company which is owned and backed by The Anschutz Company, has cast Joan Plowright and Jim Caviezel in I Am David, its film of the classic Anne Holm novel which has begun shooting in Bulgaria.The story of an 11 year-old boy's escape and journey across ...
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Full Frontal
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2002. 101mins.With a string of commercial successes and a best director Oscar safely under his belt, Steven Soderbergh should perhaps be forgiven for a brief lapse into self-indulgence. But that doesn't make it any less disappointing to see the director of sex, lies and videotape expend ...
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International film buyers target Locarno film festival
Over a dozen new international buyers - from Japan's Asmik Ace to Norway's Oro Films and the UK office of Unversal Pictures - are attending the Locarno International Film Festival for the first time this year; clear evidence of the festival's increasing market relevance.According to Industry Office co-ordinator Nadia Dresti, ...
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Hong Kong's B&S to join growth enterprise market with 100 million shares
Producer-distributor B&S Films has unveiled plans to join the long list of Hong Kong film companies listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).The company will place 100 million shares at 50 HK cents each for a listing on August 6. Chairman Siu Luen Fat said the move would help B&S ...
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Shrek co-director Andrew Adamson signs to The Lion, The Witch...
Andrew Adamson, the co-director of last year's CGI animated smash Shrek for DreamWorks SKG, has signed to direct The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, the first ever live action film of the CS Lewis book for Cary Granat's New York-based Walden Media. Walden optioned the seven-part book series The ...