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Newmarket makes it four with Whale Rider
Marking its fourth film acquisition in the last two weeks, upstart US distribution outfit Newmarket Films has acquired all North American rights to Whale Rider, Niki Caro's magical fable from New Zealand, which won the AGF People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend.The film, which world ...
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Together (Han Ni Zai Yiki)
TOGETHER (HA NI ZAI YI QI)Screened at Toronto (Masters)Dir: Chen Kaige. China. 2002. 116mins.US buyers scrambled to buy Chen Kaige’s latest Chinese film when it world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival - and it’s easy to see why. Wearing its heart on its sleeve, Together is a crowd-pleasing ...
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Irish Film Board backs Chosen Few
The Irish Film Board (IFB) has offered production finance loans to four companies in its latest funding round: Treasure Films for The Chosen Few; Subotica Films for Shiney's Head; Magahy & Co for Timbuktu and Wide Eye Films for Running 2 Stand Still. Chosen Few, written by Joe O'Connor and ...
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Hong Kong film industry hammers out crisis proposals
The creation of a Hong Kong Film Commission - centralising all of the territory's film support mechanisms - was one of the key proposals to emerge from a crisis conference held by the Hong Kong film industry yesterday (September 18).Conference delegates also suggested that the Hong Kong government underwrite bank ...
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Grimond parts company with Vivendi Universal
Vincent Grimond has left Vivendi Universal, the latest in a line of senior French executives to part with the troubled media concern.Grimond, the former chairman and CEO of production and distribution division StudioCanal, moved over to Los Angeles in January 2001 following the Vivendi-Universal-Canal Plus tie-up under Jean-Marie Messier. With ...
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Open Hearts, The Sea do storming business in the Nordic region
US blockbuster Signs may have dominated many of the bigger European territories, but in the Nordic countries two home grown titles are generating big returns.In Denmark, Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's new film Open Hearts (Elsker Dig For Evigt) (pictured), which screens in competition at San Sebastian this week, has again ...
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Critical acclaim boosts Irish film industry
After languishing in the doldrums for several years, things are beginning to look up for Irish film. Several local productions are about to start shooting and a slew of Irish helmed projects are hitting the world's cinema screens.Neil Jordan's latest film, The Good Thief, is getting raves. Similarly Jim Sheridan's ...
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UK government backs festival to promote EU enlargement
The UK Government is spending£12,000 to back a London film festival showcasing Eastern European film - in a bid to help raise awareness of the planned enlargement of European Union in 2004. The New Europe Film Season opened at London's Barbican Screen on Thursday (19 September).According to a Foreign Office ...
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Bill Butler wins ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Veteran cinematographer BillButler will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award presented annually to 'an individual who has created adistinguished and enduring body of work'. He will receive his tributeduring the 17th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awardscelebration on Feb 13, 2003, in Los Angeles.Butler has over 70 featurecredits ...
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PGA announce Celebration Of Diversity
The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) is to hold a brand new annual Celebration Of Diversity in LosAngeles to honour the contributions of African Americans, Asians, Latinos, gaysand lesbians and women to the industry. The event will take place on Oct 28 andwill honour Ang Lee, Danny Glover, Moctezuma Esparza, Marian ...
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Paradox Lake wins Athens festival
Paradox Lake, an American independent production by Polish-born, first-time director Przemyslaw Shemie Reut was named best film at the 8th Athens International Film Festival, which wrapped yesterday (Sept 19). The film, which received the Audience Award accompanied by a Euros6,000 prize, beat competition including Gus van Sant's Gerry John Sayles ...
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Hong Kong heavies to lobby China for better access
Golden Harvest chairman Raymond Chow, China Star's Charles Heung and Peter Lam of Media Asia are among the high-level delegates joining a networking mission to Beijing next month to discuss co-operation between Hong Kong film-makers and their counterparts on the mainland.Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC), the ...
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Hopper, Griffith will do it their way in Sinatra Down Under tale
Screen legend Dennis Hopper will play Frank Sinatra, Melanie Griffith his girlfriend and David Hemmings his lawyer in new film The Night We Called It A Day, which goes into production in Sydney on Oct 21 directed by Paul Goldman.The core of the story, however, belongs to Joel Edgerton. He ...
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Gibson's biblical Passion story will unscroll in ancient tongues
Seven years after winning two Oscars for his epic battle movie Braveheart, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is going behind the camera for a highly ambitious picture about the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.After cartwheeling into a press conference at Rome's Cinecitta Studios with Neapolitan dwarf actor ...
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Village Roadshow unloads 50% interest in leading Korean exhibitor
Australian exhibition giant Village Roadshow announced the long-anticipated sale of its 50% stake in leading Korean cinema circuit CGV for $81m (A$150m). Korean partner CJ Entertainment, which has operational control of the company, will retain its 50% share.The stake was bought by venture capital firm Asia Cinema Holdings, a ...
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Marrakech left deserted by Scorsese, Almodovar
The embarrassing absence ofboth Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar from this year's secondMarrakech International Film Festival stole much of the limelight away from anotherwise glittering event where an outdoor public screening of David Lynch'ssexually-charged Mulholland Drivefurther raised the temperature in this Islamic hot zone.On the eve of King MohammedVI presenting ...
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Mad Pix, Madrid Film team for new digital lab
Spain's mostestablished film laboratory Madrid Film and Das Werk-backed post-productionhouse Mad Pix have created a new digital laboratory to be housed between thecurrent Madrid headquarters of the two companies.Speaking at the SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), the companies said they hadinvested an initial Euros 2m in synchronizing their installations ...
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peppermint takes worldwide rights to When Pigs Fly
peppermint, the worldwidedistribution company that recently underwent a management buy-out from HelkonMedia AG, has acquired worldwide rights outside Germany, Austria andGerman-speaking Switzerland, on San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept19-28) competition entry Pigs Will Fly.The film, directed by EoinMoore, tells the story of Laxe, a Berlin policeman, who embarks on a ...
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Columbia TriStar holds on to Father Amaro
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International has taken up its first-look option to distributeMexican box office hit The Crime Of Father Amaro (El Crimen Del Padre Amaro) worldwide outside North America and Spain.Sal Ladestro, Columbiasenior vice president of marketing and distribution, acquisitions and localproductions, confirmed the move Friday at the San Sebastian ...
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Altman's ballet Company does trans-Atlantic pas de deux
Veteran US director Robert Altman's new feature The Company is to be the first project backed in a new joint venture between German private media fund CP Medien and the Los Angeles/Munich-based production outfit SRO Entertainment.Written by Barbara Turner, The Company charts the ups and downs of life for members ...