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Canada's Telefilm announces management restructure
Canada's film and television development agency Telefilm has appointed three new management executives as part of plans to improve its "decision-making, processes and overall performance" announced by executive director Richard Stursberg at Banff in June.Paris-based director of Telefilm's European office, Sheila de La Varende moves to a new position of ...
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Festival brims with high-profile world premieres
The 27th Toronto International Film Festival has announced another slew of world premieres, including titles from such leading filmmakers as Joel Schumacher, Neil Jordan, Robert Duvall, Phillip Noyce, Jim Sheridan and Paul Schrader .At the final press conference before the festival rolls Sept. 5, programming director Piers Handling and managing ...
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German pay-TV network attracts 20 takeover suitors
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has sent out preliminary sales brochures on Premiere to over 20 as-yet-unnamed parties in a bid to secure take-over bids for the ailing German pay-TV platform.The groups, understood to include financial, venture capital and other media concerns, have between 2-3 weeks to submit provisional offers for ...
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San Sebastian unveils director's award line-up
Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the 20 titles that will compete for the New Director's Award at this year's 50th anniversary edition (Sept 19-28).The award, sponsored by telecoms provider Jazztel, comes with a purse of Euros 150,000, touted by San Sebastian organizers as the highest prize of ...
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Han Entertainment's The Touch shows eastern promise
Despite stiff competition from Spider-Man, Han Entertainment's The Touch is continuing to perform strongly in China, where it has grossed $2.7m (RMB22m) after 18 days (August 1-18) from 162 screens. However, the action adventure, which was released day and date in four Asian territories to outsmart mainland pirates, will need ...
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Red Light Runners shelves plans to raise UK tax vehicle funds
Red Light Runners, the crime thriller that recently made headlines when it announced a cast including Michael Madsen and Minnie Driver, is understood to have shelved plans to raise its budget through UK tax financing vehicle the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).The film, which is understood to have sent at least ...
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Goldwyn acquires Mexican priest scandal smash for US
Samuel GoldywnFilms has acquired North American rights to Mexican priest-scandal drama TheCrime Of Father Amaro (ElCrimen Del Padre Amaro),which has already been a controversy-fueled smash hit in its home country. The film is slated for US release in late 2002.The $1.8m dramabroke weekend opening records in Mexico after it debuted ...
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New York festival line-up draws heavily on Cannes favourites
The full line-up has beenannounced for the prestigious New York Film Festival, whose 40thedition will kick off on Sept 27 with the North American premiere of AlexanderPayne's About Schmidt, for whichactor Jack Nicholson is already drawing considerable Oscar buzz, and close onOct 13th with Talk To Her, the latest film ...
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Lions Gate picks up wrestling doc
Lions Gate Films has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to the wrestling documentary Beyond The Mat directed by Barry W Blaustein. The film, which has been selected as one of the 12 semifinalists in the Best Documentary Academy Award Feature category, follows some of the wrestling world's most popular ...
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IFC shuts down micro-budget production arm
IFCEntertainment announced that its low-budget Los Angeles-based production armNext Wave Films is to immediately cease operations as a separate divisionwithin the company. The closureprompted a warning from outgoing Next Wave president Peter Broderick, who saidthere was a "crisis" in independent film distribution that wasstopping most independents from reaching their target ...
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Effects gurus launch Uncharted Territory production outfit
The Academy Award-winning special effects team of Volker Engel (Independence Day) and Marc Weigert today announced the formation of their new production company, Uncharted Territory. Based in Los Angeles, the duo plan to make story-driven motion pictures with cost-effective blockbuster effects. Uncharted Territory's first feature, the action adventure Coronado,recently wrapped ...
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Moonstone to handle Kaige's Together for worldwide sales
MoonstoneEntertainment announced today that it will start representing Chen Kaige's Together for worldwide sales ahead of its galaworld premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival. The latestfeature from Kaige, whose previous credits include the Miramax-released Farewell,My Concubine - willshowcase under the festival's Masters Series banner on September 10 and ...
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Out Of Control
Director: Dominic Savage. UK. 2002. 90 minsAn angry, nihilistic drama told with gut-renching conviction, Out Of Control confirms writer-director Dominic Savage as the standard bearer for the raw, social realist traditions established and refined by Ken Loach and the late Alan Clarke. A largely improvised story intended for transmission on ...
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Lantana
Ray Lawrence's critically-acclaimed second feature, Lantana, continued to take Europe by storm at the weekend opening on a platform 16 prints in the UK this week with a resounding $142,409 (£92,566) for distributor Winchester.Scoring a massive per site average of $8,900 the Australian title, which features an ensemble cast including ...
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Iran acts on domestic film crisis
The dire predicament of Iran's domestic film production and exhibition industry was highlighted this week when deputy minister of culture Hassan Pezeshk revealed a dramatic fall in domestic box-office which has reached such lows that Iranian citizens spent an average of just 40-minutes last year at the cinema.At a meeting ...
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Edinburgh: UK creative talent back on song
What a difference a year makes. Last year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there was much talk of a British section that was considered lightweight and lacking in quality. Inevitably, it was seen as a reflection on the whole industry.This year, Morvern Callar, All Or Nothing, Heartlands and My ...
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Antonio Banderas firmly in Tarantula's web
Antonio Banderas reiterated his interest Thursday in taking a starring role in futuristic film noir Tarantula for director Pedro Almodovar.Speaking at a press conference in Madrid for Imagining Argentina, the film he is currently shooting in Spain and Argentina, Banderas said he had Tarantula scheduled for 2004 in his busy ...
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Asian films dominate Sitges sidebar
Asian films form the bulk of titles screening in the animated features sidebar Anima't at the forthcoming Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).Anima't will also feature more than fifty short films in competition and an homage to Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, whose multiple award-winning Spirited Away (Sen To ...
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DreamWorks threatens legal action over web domain name
Hollywood entertainment studio DreamWorks is threatening an India internet design firm with the legal action for registering the domain name webdreamworks.com.DreamWorks is understood to have instructed lawyers to give the Indian firm - which touts itself as a "full-service design and development company" - just fifteen days to surrender the ...
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Golden Globes spin for Beauty
DreamWorks SKG's American Beauty heads the list of nominations for the Golden Globes with a total of six nods.The Sam Mendes-directed comedy Beauty beat both Michael Mann's The Insider and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr Ripley by just one nomination. All three are in the hunt for the best picture ...