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Critics Week favours tough eclectic mix
Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes - which is to be given a special screening - will be the token British film in a wide-ranging Critics Week line-up which includes no other English-language title. The sidebar, which runs 10-18 May and is managed by France's film critics' union, has picked a ...
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Shore, Fridriksson top debut UK slate for F.&.M.E.
New films by Get Real director Simon Shore and Icelandic maestro Fridrik Thor Fridriksson head the debut slate of F.&.M.E. (UK), the new British outpost of German group F.A.M.E.F.&.M.E. (UK), which is managed by Mike Downey and production head Sam Taylor, has unveiled a line-up of five new features it ...
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Coote spearheads Intertainer's VOD launch in Asia
Intertainer Asia, the licensee of US VoD service Intertainer Inc., will launch a broadband entertainment-on-demand network with Singaporean telco SingTel at the end of May and is pursuing similar launches in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan.Executive Chairman Greg Coote told Screen Daily that the Singapore-based company is market ...
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Bridget director takes new aim at Austen
Sharon Maguire, whose debut feature Bridget Jones's Diary this weekend became the biggest UK opener ever, is to direct Mail, a modern-day Jane Austen-style comedy of manners for the UK's Archer Street. Set in Boston, the project sees Maguire return to the fertile ground of her debut, itself based on ...
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Showtime buys 20-film ITC package from Carlton
US pay TV network Showtime Networks has bought the domestic premium TV broadcast rights to a package of more than 20 pictures from Carlton International's ITC library. Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement, Showtime will have premium TV rights to films such as On Golden Pond, Sophie's Choice, Farewell ...
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Natural Nylon boards Mahowny as UK co-producer
UK production outfit Natural Nylon has boarded Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny, currently shooting in Canada, as UK co-production partner. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver and John Hurt, the drama is now a UK/Canada co production between H20 Motion Pictures (Canada), Alliance Atlantis (Canada) and Natural Nylon (UK). Producers ...
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Post-Crouching Columbia backs four new Asian films
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia - the Asian local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment - has announced four new films which it will finance in 2001.The Hong Kong-based company, headed by managing director Barbara Robinson, has enjoyed enormous success since it was launched in early 1999 with Ang Lee's ...
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CNAC funding quest stymied by Venezuela govt
Maurice Reyna, appointed president of Venezuelan film institute Centro Nacional Autonomo de Cinematografia (CNAC) in February, has lost the first round of his battle with the Chavez government for more support. The Caracas government approved CNAC's 2001 budget of $1.07m (761m) Bolivars) yesterday (April 17), an amount Reyna declared completely ...
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Australia rings the changes to awards rules
Starting this year, films will only qualify for Australia's principal awards system if they have had a theatrical release in the previous year. Until now eligibility for AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards has instead been on the basis of when a film was made, often resulting in released pictures being ...
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Microsoft agrees to EC cable conditions
A European Commission (EC) antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's investments in European cable companies has been wound down after the company promised to modify existing technology pacts with two digital cable operators.'Microsoft has agreed to modify its relationship with two partner companies in order not to exercise undue influence over their ...
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Assante, Forster, Caruso head Promark action trio
Arman Assante, David Caruso and Robert Forster head the casts of a slate of new action-thrillers unveiled by film and TV group Promark Entertainment. All three pictures will be co-produced with German post-production powerhouse Das Werk, marking the first time that the two companies have co-operated on a creative level ...
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NonStop subscribes to Swedish Dream
Sweden's NonStop Sales has secured rights to Swedish feel-good movie, Dream, from new production outfit Finalcut Entertainment. The English-language romantic comedy-drama, which was shot on location in Sheffield, and London on a $3.5m (SKR35m) budget, stars UK veterans Sinead Cusack and Philip Martin Brown as well as EastEnders TV actor ...
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Bille August seduced by Lola's Maid Of Buttermere
Spanish producer Lolafilms has signed two-time Palme d'Or winner Bille August to direct The Maid Of Buttermere, a long-gestating period love tale set in England's Lake District.No cast has yet been confirmed for the film, which was written by Raymond Khoury as an adaptation of a novel by intellectual, TV ...
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Branagh plays Russian Czar in star-heavy Napoleon
Kenneth Branagh will join the already stellar cast of the Ffr250m French mini-series Napoleon, an English-language co-production which unites seven countries and will start shooting May 21. Produced by French big-budget TV drama specialist GMT Productions , previously responsible for Monte Cristo and Les Miserables, the four-part historical drama is ...
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Russian studios consider privatisation options
Russia's film studios are considering turning themselves into private companies following the signing of a new decree by President Vladimir Putin.Putin this week signed two controversial decrees that lay down a strategy for the future of the Russian film industry and pave the way for the creation of a National ...
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Hong Kong legends light up Filmko's debut slate
New films by leading Asian directors Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Stanley Kwan top a debut slate unveiled by Hong Kong-based production newcomer Filmko Pictures. The company, which is headed by Alex Wong and directors Derek Yee and Jacob Cheung, was set up last August with the aim of expanding ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils initial film selections
Czech title Angel Exit, directed by Vladimir Michalek, will screen in competition at this summer's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the event has revealed. Luminaries expected to travel to the historic spa town include celebrated director Emir Kusturica, who is to screen his music documentary Super 8 Stories. The festival, ...
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This week's Screen International
In this week's Screen InternationalNewsHow Viacom's decision not to sell Blockbuster represents a strong vote of confidence in the home video market - despite, or because, of the impact of DVD. How DreamWorks' extension of its distribution deal with Universal Studios surprised everyone - especially Warner Bros.Focus: Taboo breaker"A hustler ...
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Cannes Competition and Un Certain Regard lists
2001 CANNES COMPETITION:Opening film (in competition): Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann (Dist: 20th Fox)Desert Moon Shinji Aoyama (Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams)Mulholland Drive David Lynch (Int'l sales: StudioCanal)The Man Who Wasn't There Joel Coen (Int'l Sales: Good Machine)Shrek Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson (Dist: DreamWorks SKG)L'Eloge ...
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Nouvelle Vague meets New Vanguard on Croisette
This year's Cannes Film Festival presents an intriguing clash between enfant terribles of world cinema past and present, as old guard auteurs take on a bevy of recent Croisette favourites plus a smattering of unknown quantities and the first ever Hollywood animation in competition.The Official Selection, as ever an annual ...