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UK cinema admissions hit 30-year high
UK admissions hit 87.7 million over the first half of 2002, the highest level for thirty years, putting the UK box office on course for yet another year of impressive growth.According to figures released by the Cinema Advertising Agency (CAA) admissions between January and the end of June were up ...
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Spain's Manga seeks investor for $19.5m capital increase
Spanish distributor Manga Films is seeking an investor to provide a capital increase of $19.5m to finance its local expansion plans.Manga president Luis de Vals, told Reuters that the addition of a new major shareholder would herald a consolidation of the company's activities with the objective of expanding in ...
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Sums begin to add up as UIP spreads Fears in Europe
Paramount's latest Jack Ryan title The Sum Of All Fears received a promising, if somewhat subdued, European launch at the weekend in France and Belgium.In Belgium the action thriller exploded into first place over its five-day opening with a strong $187,931 (Euros 189,998) from 54 screens for a healthy average ...
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Giffoni's youth jury captivated by Scars
Norwegian director Lars Berg's Scars, a film about a young boy who uncovers a series of painful truths about his family, scooped the top prize at the 32nd edition of the Giffoni Film Festival, Italy's pre-eminent event dedicated to youth-oriented films. The movie's lead actor, Eirik Evjen, also won the ...
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British Board of Film Classification names new president
Quentin Thomas (pictured), a civil servant knighted for services to the Northern Ireland peace process, will succeed Andreas Whittam Smith as president of the British Board of Film Classification.Thomas, who led the team which first met Sinn Fein following the 1994 cease-fire, stressed the need for the self-funded body to ...
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Korean cinemas exceeding local quota requirements
Korean cinemas are screening local films at a record-setting pace, exceeding requirements of the nation's Screen Quota System for the second year on record and raising issues of 'cultural exception'. According to Korea's Coalition for Cultural Diversity in Moving Images (CMDI), which independently monitors the activities of 617 screens nationwide, ...
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Japan banks on period dramas to woo international market
Japan is targeting the international market that swooned over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, with at least seven new youth-oriented period dramas in various stages of production.Following 1999's boardroom coup, Shochiku's new management team, led by Nobuyoshi Otani, has dramatically beefed up the company's slate and is now investing $35m to ...
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Italy's summer releasing strategy needs marketing support
While Italy's box office figures slumped in mid-July as temperatures soared and millions of Italians hit the beaches, a deeper analysis reveals that the local industry's effort to establish a 12-month box office season has all the potential to be a success - as long as it is supported by ...
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Seven groups submit KirchMedia takeover bids
An offer of $2.6bn emerged as the highest of seven bids submitted by separate consortia offering to take over the insolvent KirchMedia, a meeting of the concern's creditors was told yesterday. Some creditors had hoped for bids to reach $3.5bnCommenting on the range of bids, KirchMedia managing director Wolfgang van ...
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NYC's No Borders co-production market unveils full line-up
A total of 36 projectshave been accepted into No Borders, the international co-production section ofthe IFP Market that will run from Sept 27-Oct 4 in downtown Manhattan. In additionto the 13 previously-announced international entrants, No Borders will includenew works from US indie veterans Jay Craven and Barbara Hammer, the firstdocumentary ...
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UK's Channel 5 acquires Columbia TriStar slate
UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 has struck a multi-million pound deal to acquire Columbia TriStar's 2002/3 slate of films, including Men In Black II, Spider-Man, Terminator 3 and XXX.Reportedly worth $31.1m (£20m), the deal also includes Black Hawk Down, Charlies Angel's 2, Stuart Little 2 and The Panic Room. ...
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Germany's Helkon Media files for insolvency
Germany's Helkon Media AG has filed for insolvency proceedings at the Munich insolvency court, the company said today (August 2).The insolvency is expected to be one of the largest of the Neuer Markt companies, amounting to hundreds of millions of Euros. The move was a shock to staff, who were ...
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The Star (Zvezda)
Dir. Nikolai Lebedev. Russia. 2002. 97mins.Russian production company Mosfilm has every right to be proud of the technical standards achieved by its patriotic saga The Star - but that's about all it can be proud of. Adapted from a novel by Sergei Kazakevich, the son of a Jewish teacher who ...
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Fledgling US digital cinema circuit targets foreign film suppliers
Foreign films that arestruggling to find a theatrical footing in the US may soon be able to accessthe American marketplace via a budding new exhibition circuit that is thebrainchild of a New York digital film studio.Manhattan's EmergingPictures is targeting international producers and film exporters as potentialsuppliers to an alternative chain ...
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Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher to premiere at Toronto
Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington's directorial debut, makes its world premiere as a gala presentation at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to newcomer Derek Luke in the title role, Antwone Fisher stars Joy Bryant, Salli Richardson and the Academy Award-winning Washington.Antwone Fisher is based on the true story ...
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The Works boards Whale Rider
London-based sales outfit The Works has boarded Whale Rider, a drama set in the Maori community and written and directed by Memory And Desire's Niki Caro. Delivered in August, the $4.6m (NZ$10m) film is based on the novel by New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera (The Matriach, Tangi). It tells ...
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Sponsorship issues cause Berlinale retrospectives organiser to quit
Wolfgang Jacobsen, organiser of 12 retrospectives and 15 homages for the Berlinale since 1990, has stepped down from his position, citing "a series of conflicts" about the structure of the collaboration with the festival's TV sponsorsReplacing him, this year's retrospective, on FW Murnau, will be overseen by Hans Helmut Prinzler, ...
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Seven titles selected for this year's Australian Movie Convention
Australian teen comedy Blurred, which is being released by Becker locally in October, and 8 Femmes, which Dendy is releasing during the peak December period, are among seven films to be screened to hundreds of exhibitors at the annual Australian International Movie Convention, to be held from August 13-17 on ...
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Rudy Tjio joins ottfilm's development and acquisitions team
Veteran film buyer Rudy Tjio has joined the development and acquisition division of Christoph Ott's distribution outfit ottfilm.Tjio, who had previously worked as a film buyer for over ten years at Prokino and then six years at TiMe Medien (until May 2002), told Screendaily.com that he will be responsible for ...