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Linda Tizard tipped to become FFC boss
The close-knit Australian film industry is awash with talk that Linda Tizard is to become the new chief executive of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), arguably the most influential film job in the land. But the FFC says that no selection has yet been made and no ministerial stamp given, ...
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Helkon sells TV prod unit and distributor Solo Film
Helkon Media has now offloaded its interests in the TV productionsubsidiary Sonne, Mond + Sterne Film- und Fernsehproduktions and distributorSolo Film Verleih.The 75.6% stake in Sonne, Mond + Sterne has been acquired by itsmanaging director Erwin Kraus, while Solo Film's managing director PeterHeinzemann has taken over all of the shares ...
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Limey, Election lead IFP race
The nominations for the 15th annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards were announced last week, with Steven Soderbergh's The Limey and Alexander Payne's Election leading the field with five apiece.The Spirits, which now take place in Santa Monica the day before the Academy Award ceremony, have grown in prestige in recent ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Man Without A Past, Ramsay get new FIPRESCI prizes
The Man Without A Past (Miles Vailla Menneisyytta) will receive the Best Film of the Year and UKdirector Lynne Ramsay the newly-created New Director of the Year awards fromthe International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) at the opening ceremonyof this month's San Sebastian International Film Festival.The prizes are selected by ...
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Beta Cinema adds Baader, Scherbentanz to sales slate
Beta Cinema, the feature film division of Beta Film, has picked upinternational rights to Christoph Roth's controversial biopic Baaderwhich won the Alfred Bauer Prize at this year's Berlinale and received a stormyinternational premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a 15-minute shorter version last month. "The new version of ...
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Hong Kong exhibitors slash ticket prices
Hong Kong cinemas are slashing ticket prices for the second time this year after a disappointing summer in which box office takings slumped by 36%The Hong Kong Theatres Association announced that 51 of HongKong's 60 cinemas will cut admission prices to $3.20 (HK$25) every Tuesday and Wednesday for the next ...
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura steps down at Warner Bros
Lorenzo diBonaventura has stepped down from his corporate position as executive vicepresident, worldwide motion pictures, at Warner Bros to become an independentproducer for Warner Bros Pictures. He has been co-president or president ofproduction at the studio since 1996 and is one of the best-known productionexecutives in Hollywood."I lovefilmmaking, but the ...
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BVI's Insomnia wakes up UK box office
Buena Vista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with its Alaskan-set thriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m) over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the number one slot in the chart. The latest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previous title ...
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Bernabe adds voice to Venice modernisation calls
Franco Bernabe, the new head of the Biennale, which operates all theVenice arts festival, yesterday added his voice to the calls for modernisationof the film event. Bernabe, one on Italy's most senior business leaders,having run petrochemical giant ENI and Telecom Italia, likened the Venice FilmFestival to the World Economic Summit ...
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Insomnia wakes up UK box office
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored a hit this weekend with itsAlaskan-setthriller Insomnia. Opening with an impressive $1.8m (£1.16m)over the three-day weekend, the film saw off all comers to claim the numberone slot in the chart. Thelatest film from British director Christopher Nolan (whose previoustitleMemento grossed $2.4m for Pathe in 2000 ...
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The Nearest To Heaven (Au Plus Pres Du Paradis)
Dir: Tonie Marshall. Fr-Can-Sp. 2002. 97mins.Tonie Marshall's latest outing proves again that no amount of screenplay physics can make up for a lack of chemistry between leading man and leading lady. And the pairing of Catherine Deneuve-William Hurt, however intriguing it looks on paper, fizzles and dies in this flat ...
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Kinowelt moves East
German mini-studio Kinowelt has moved into Eastern Europe by setting up Kinowelt Hungary and is aiming to have distribution operations in Poland, Estonia and Lithuania. It is also positioning itself to capitalise on the growing DVD market.Kinowelt subsidiary Kinowelt International (KI) pacted with Hungary's Budapest Film to launch Kinowelt Hungary ...
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Friday Night (Vendredi Soir)
Dir: Claire Denis. France. 2002. 88mins.A man and a woman, complete strangers, meet by chance in Paris and, after the briefest of verbal exchanges, end up having long, passionate sex. But don't be fooled: Friday Night (Vendredi Soir) is as much about traffic jams and unfamiliar neighbourhoods as it is ...
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Far From Heaven
Dir: Todd Haynes. US. 2002. 107 mins.In painstakingly recreating the style and mood of a Douglas Sirk melodrama, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven attempts to show that prejudice is as rampant in the complacent America of the new millenium as it was behind the twitching net curtains of Sirk's affluent ...
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De Hadeln gets to choose if he stays on
Discussion of whether stand-in artistic director Moritz De Hadeln will be allowed by Biennale organisers to keep the top job has been the favourite rumour throughout Venice this year. But the decision could be in his own hands.It is neither clear that the former Berlin and one-time Locarno chief has ...
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Mifed anticipates expanded 2002 market
"Mifed is going to be bigger than last year," said Giusepe Zola, president of Fiera Milano operator Rassegne, yesterday (Wed). "Sales companies are concentrating their efforts on Mifed. This means they recognise the important role the event has as a showcase for their products," said Rassegne managing director Manlio Armellini, ...
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Danish film industry accepts government cutbacks
Denmark's new right-wing cultural minister, Brian Mikkelsen, is to cut direct government support for film by $3.2m. However, protest and resistance on the part of the Danish film industry remains uncharacteristically absent.The total amount of direct government funding will drop from 2002's $50.3m (DKR375.9m) to 2003's $47.1m (DKR352.3m) according to ...
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Sitges reveals full competition line-up
Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale, Oxide and Danny Pang's The Eye and David Cronenberg's Spider are among the films lined up to compete in the Official Fantastic Section of next month's Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).The full line-up includes the following 25 titles:A Snake Of June (Rokugatsu ...