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Haynes' Heaven replaces Daldry's Hours; three more titles added
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Venice loses The Hours, adds three more titles
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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Koelmel brothers back in control at Kinowelt with E32m bid
Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel are back in the driving seat at Kinowelt after their bid to take over the running of the group's core interests was accepted by a committee of creditor banks. At a meeting in Munich on Friday (August 9) insolvency administrator Dr Wolfgang Ott, acting for ...
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The Longing tops Locarno winners
Scots-born, German director Iain Dilthey's austere The Longing (Das Verlangen) was the surprise winner of this year's International Competition in Locarno. Dilthey's graduation film from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy won the top award of the Golden Leopard/Grand Prize of the City and Region of Locarno, with a purse worth CHF ...
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$46m triumph for Revolution's XXX
Revolution Studios' Vin Diesel action vehicle XXX blew away the competition over the weekend, opening top of the charts with an estimated $46m haul. Directed by Rob Cohen, who worked with Diesel on the 2001 hit The Fast And The Furious, XXX's gung-ho tale of an extreme sports junkie hired ...
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MIIB posts second biggest opening ever in France
Men In Black II (MIIB) recorded the second highest opening of all time in France over the weekend, taking a superb $10m from 916 screens for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), according to estimates released today. The sci-fi sequel trails only Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone in the ...
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Case Study
For the past decade or more, media pundits have become entranced with the image of an interactive television enabling couch potatoes to order up a movie and a pizza from a menu of screen offerings.So it seems only appropriate then that the man most responsible for making that Jetsonian vision ...
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Donostia-San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebar
The Donostia-San Sebastian Film festival (19-28 Sept) has announced the line-up for this year's Festival's Top strand, part of its Zabaltegi sidebar.According to San Sebastian organisers, the Festivals' Top section has been chosen to feature the most interesting films previously shown at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Sundance. Festivals' ...
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AIME TON PERE
Gerard Depardieu re-teams with son Guillaume for a powerhouse two-hander that will appeal to upscale arthouse audiences, writes Sheila JohnstonAIME TON PEREReviewed by Sheila Johnston in LocarnoScreened in CompetitionDir: Jacob Berger. Fr/Switz/Canada/UK. 2002. 100 mins. Two powerhouse performances drive Aime Ton Pere (provisionally entitled A Loving Father in the UK), ...
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Peppermint sold to management
Peppermint, the TV licence trading arm of the beleaguered Helkon group, has been sold to its management.The deal, sees the 51.1% interest held by wholly owned subsidiary Helkon International Production, sold to Peppermint's management for an undisclosed sum. The company is now 100% owned by its management.The disposal was approved ...
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RFD to gain from UPI exodus
The bulk of top flight theatrical distribution executives at Universal Pictures International, including distribution head Chris Bailey, are expected to move en masse to ambitious UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution (RFD).Additionally, the company is understood to be finalising high-profile acquisitions including David Mamet's State And Main following its high-profile pick ...
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Third consortium joins KirchMedia race
A group that includes existing minority shareholders has become the third party to enter the bidding for the core assets of insolvent German media outfit KirchMedia.The group, which is understood to have submitted a bid of around Euros2.5bn ($2.44bn) includes Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holdings, investment bank Lehman ...
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Cinecitta launches Masterclass, USC summer workshop
Famed Romestudio facility Cinecitta Studios has launched two new educational initiatives- a lecture series featuring more than 20 film-makers and technicians whohave worked at the studio and a six-week summer workshop at the studio forstudents at the University Of Southern California (USC) School OfCinema-Television.In addition,Cinecitta has hired executive producer and ...
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Transmission Films launches first phase in online distribution system
New York-basedTransmission Films has launched a high-speed download system on its online filmdistribution site today (Aug 12), marking the first phase in thecompany's launch strategy. Transmission offers an online forum forindependent and foreign feature films for access by the online film-viewingcommunity while planning to create a revenue stream for film-makers ...
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Vivendi shares slide on asset valuation doubts
Shares in Vivendi Universal slipped nearly 5% today (Aug 12) as fresh doubt emerged about its asset valuations.The shares fell to Euros16.19 after a report in financial daily La Tribune quoted an unnamed stock market analyst who said that Vivendi could devalue its internet assets by around Euros 400-500m and ...
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KirchMedia to merge sports and film rights
KirchMedia's managing director sports rights, Dr Alexander Liegl has quit the insolvent German media group ahead of plans to merge its film and sports rights businesses under the management of one director.Kirch said Liegl will leave the company "with immediate effect," adding that his departure was "at his own request ...
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Tomorrow La Scala withdrawn from Edinburgh
Francesa Joseph's debut feature Tomorrow, La Scala! has been withdrawn from its UK premiere slot at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 14-25).Well received at Cannes, the film centres on small operetta company's staging of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in a maximum-security prison. It is understood an unresolved copyright ...
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TV-Loonland to acquire majority stake in Metrodome
European media group TV-Loonland (TVL) is to acquire a majority stake in UK DVD and video distributor in a bid to boost the fortunes of its nascent home entertainment business.In a complex deal Metrodome will acquire TVL subsidiary rights-holding company Loonland Home Entertainment Ventures Ltd for£1.25m which will be paid ...
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The Deserted Valley takes Melbourne first
Vietnamese director Pham Nhue Giang's The Deserted Valley (Thung Lung Hoang Vang) from Vietnam has won the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival's first FIPRESCI (Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique) and FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Prize. The film was included in the International Forum of this year's Berlin ...
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Flach Pyramide picks up Suddenly
Flach Pyramide International (FPI) has picked up international distribution rights on Argentinian director Diego Lerman's feature debut Suddenly (Tan De Repente) which had its world premiere in competition in LocarnoShot in black-and-white, Suddenly follows a solitary and straight-laced young shop girl travelling to the countryside to Buenos Aires where she ...