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Butterfly's Tongue
Dir: Jose Luis Cuerda. Spain. 1998-99. 95mins. Prod co: Sogetel, Las Producciones Del Escorpion. Domestic dist (Sp): Warner Sogefilms. Int'l sales: Good Machine International, tel: (1) 212 343 9230. Exec prods: Fernando Bovaira, Jose Luis Cuerda. Scr: Rafael Azcona based on three stories by Manuel Rivas. DoP: Javier Salmones. Prod ...
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UK's Home Entertainment Corp. reports increased profits
Home Entertainment Corporation, the UK company that operates the Choices Video retail chain, reported half year pre-tax profits up 9% at $8.24m (£5.37m) on turnover that increased 24% to $158m (£103m).The company, which floated on the AIM tier of the UK stockmarket last October, said that the transition from VHS ...
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Artistic director, Moritz de Hadeln in his own words
"When I was growing up in Florence, we did not have any air-conditioning, so two or three evenings a week we used to go to an outdoor cinema with our mother. As an act of rebellion, I told my parents I wanted to become a film-maker. I started out as ...
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Japan's Sony Pictures turns cinemagoers into film bookers
Japan's Sony Pictures is to overturn the established practice of film programming by inviting audiences to chose which movies to screen - and at which venues, as well as at what times.Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) will launch a new service offering special screenings of Sony films, based on Internet polls. ...
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Scottish Screen appoints new Chair
Ray McFarlane has been appointed as the new Chair of Scottish Screen.Currently senior director of business banking at the Bank Of Scotland, she replaces James Lee whose four year term of office ended in May. McFarlane has been a member of the Scottish Screen Board since its inception in 1997 ...
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Vancouver film festival launches screenwriting prize
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival is to introduce a new local screenwriter's cash award.The $7,700 Citytv Western Canada Screenwriters Award will be presented annually to a film from western Canada, with this year's winner, selected by the Canadian Images jury, to be announced at the Closing Gala Awards Ceremony ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...
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Dinard festival unveils Hitchcock contenders
Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham and Jim Groom's Room 36 are the first three films to be given confirmed competition slots at the forthcoming Dinard Festival Of British Film (3-6 Oct).These and three more yet to be announced films will compete for the Hitchcock d'Or ...
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Venice gets going: Hot deals, hot air, hot under the collar
In a late deal sealed just on the eve of the Venice Film Festival's opening ceremony, Rome sales outfit Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picked up international distribution rights to two Italian films: Piergiorgio Gay's competition title La Forza Del Passato and Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli's Due Amici, Italy's contender in ...
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Festival gets going: Hot deals, hot air, hot under the collar
In a late deal sealed just on the eve of the Venice Film Festival's opening ceremony, Rome sales outfit Adriana Chiesa Enterprises picked up international distribution rights to two Italian films: Piergiorgio Gay's competition title La Forza Del Passato and Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli's Due Amici, Italy's contender in ...
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The Red Siren
Dir: Olivier Megaton. France. 2002. 108 mins.A blandly conventional English-language actioner featuring good and bad mercenaries battling it out across Europe to retrieve a 12-year-old runaway, The Red Siren seems more like a spin-off of a Luc Besson formula thriller than a screen adaptation of a cult French suspense novel, ...
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The Last Great Wilderness
Dir: David Mackenzie. UK. 2002. 90minsAn idiosyncratic combination of stalled road movie and psychological drama, The Last Great Wilderness marks a promising feature debut from director David Mackenzie. The dry, dark wit and unpredictable nature of the narrative reveal it to have more in common with the sensibility of early ...
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Sogepaq takes int'l rights on Mondays In The Sun
Spanish distribution house Sogepaq will handle international sales on San Sebastian International Film Festival competition entry Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol).Directed by Fernando Leon (Barrio), the film stars Spanish actor Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Dancer Upstairs) as an unemployed man struggling alongside his peers to ...
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One Hour Photo develops snappy int'l debut
An impressive debut in Spain last weekend bodes well for the international box office potential of Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo.Released in Spain simultaneously with the US, 20th Century Fox launched the title on a conservative 180 Spanish screens on Aug 23, achieving a strong three-day opening gross of ...
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UK gets new film classification category
UK censor the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is to relax its 12 certificate, introducing a new advisory 12A label from tomorrow (30 August), bringing the territory into line with the rest of Europe and the US.The new rating will enable children under 12 to watch 12A certificate films ...
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Montreal to get yet another major film studio
Montreal is set to be home to another major film studio development, a $25.6m (C$40m) full-service facility backed by Los Angeles-based WonderWorks Entertainment Group, Avondale Pictures and Quebec architectural firm Smith & Koenka. The new 210,000 sq. ft. studio, to be called WonderWorks Montreal will be situated on a 4-million ...
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Star Line, Parallel, Planet team for Aranda's Carmen
Madrid-based producer Star Line has signed up the UK's Parallel Pictures and Italy's Planet Pictures to co-produce the long-planned ambitious new feature film version of Carmen.The Euros 7m-plus film, from director Vicente Aranda (Juana La Loca), will begin principal photography in Andalusia on September 16 with actors Paz Vega (Sex ...
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Bright Young Things finds new home at Civilian Content, Icon
Stephen Fry's EvelynWaugh adaptation Bright Young Things is expected to be one of the first projects to re-surface after theclosure of the UK's FilmFour.The 1930s-set satire with JudiDench and Peter O'Toole is finalising a deal with Civilian Content, parent ofUK National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium, and the UK arm ...
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K-19 forces Intermedia into new profits slump
Intermedia has issued its second profit warning this year following disappointing US box office results for K-19: The Widowmaker, the Harrison Ford picture on which the company raised its direct distribution risk.In January the company announced that it would miss its 2001 forecast, a profit warning that clouded its tie-up ...
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The Illustrated Family Doctor gets the greenlight
Acclaimed commercials, short film and documentary director Kriv Stenders has finally got his dark and irreverent debut feature The Illustrated Family Doctor over the financing line. He wrote the script in conjunction with David Snell, author of the novel on which it is based.The commitment of UK-based sales agent ...