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El Deseo links with MediaPro for production expansion
The Almodovar brothers' El Deseo company has signed a wide-ranging co-production pact with Spanish media group MediaPro which will allow both companies to expand their current production activities. The deal was announced this weekend at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ...
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Russian leading man, crew members feared dead
Sergei Bodrov Jr is missing, feared killed, after being caught in an avalanche in Southern Russia on Saturday.The 30 year-old star, who was most recently seen in his father Sergei Bodrov's Venice competition film The Bear's Kiss, was filming near the village of Karmadon, North Ossetia, on Friday when a ...
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XXX marks the spot in Russia as action thriller takes $1.2m
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) enjoyed a superb number one opening for its action thriller XXX in Russia over the weekend, taking $1.2m from 162 prints. The picture went out on the widest ever release in the territory, which is starting to yield promising returns for distributors. The opening ...
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Banger Sisters continues Searchlight run of success
MGM's Ice Cube comedy Barbershop remained a cut above the rest in its second week, holding on to top spot with a $13.3m haul according to studio estimates released today. The picture's 36% drop-off, impressive for an urban comedy, and $38.9m cumulative score was more good news for beleaguered studio ...
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AUTO FOCUS
Screened at Toronto (Special Presentation)Dir: Paul Schrader. US. 2002. 104minsDirector Paul Schrader mixes a potentially lethal cocktail of sex, celebrity and scandal in Auto Focus, a solid, absorbing but far from completely compelling biography of troubled 1960s TV star Bob Crane. Greg Kinnear does a fine job of capturing the ...
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CNC calls for urgent reform of production funding
Expansion of the SOFICA tax schemes, additional regional funding and a restructuring of contributions from the video-DVD sectors could deliver an additional Euros80m-Euros100m to the French production sector. Those are among the urgent measures in support of the struggling independent production sector recommended by a lengthy study delivered to government ...
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New BSkyB channel to have heavy film accent
Films will form an integral part of a new entertainment channel to be launched by UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB under the aegis of Dawn Airey, who was appointed managing director of Sky Networks over the weekend.Airey, currently chief executive of Channel 5, will join BSkyB in early 2003 in a ...
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Home Road Movies scoops Cartoon d'Or
UK animator Robert Bradbrook was named the winner of the 12th Cartoon d'Or for his 12-minute mix of 3-D computer animation and live action Home Road Movies. The prize, which provides the winning film-maker with Euros25,000 pre-production aid to begin work on a more ambitious project, was awarded to Bradbrook ...
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Disney, Modern Times launch channel
The Nordic region is to get its own version of the Disney Channel, following an agreement between Walt Disney Television International (WDTV-I) and Swedish giant Modern Times Group ( MTG).The channel - the 21st of its kind worldwide - will launch in early 2003 on MTG's Viasat satellite platform. WDTV-I ...
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Hungary's porno-music drama Mix wraps in Budapest
"Music, love, porn", is how writer-director-producers Steven and Robert Lovy describe their latest film, Mix, that has just finished shooting in Budapest. The film's main character is a talented, American teenager who, following his father's wish, is preparing to become a pianist while secretly cherishing plans to become a DJ. ...
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Szolnok adds Eastern market to festival mix
The town of Szolnok in eastern Hungary will next week (Oct 1-6) host its annual International Film Festival of Fine Arts along with an international film market. The festival, founded over thirty years ago, includes 130 films in competition across three categories: documentary, experimental and animation. Thirty features and shorts ...
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Greek Wedding woos UK weekend audiences
My Big Fat Greek Wedding, earned $2.3m (£1.5m) in three days, when it opened in the UK, the first major territory outside the US for the indie box office sensation.Playing at 341 sites for a strong average of $6,857 the comedy, which is directed by Joel Zwick and stars Nia ...
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Croupier team re-unite for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the film which sees the re-teaming of Croupier director Mike Hodges and its acclaimed star Clive Owen, started production on location in the UK and Wales yesterday (Monday 23 Sept).The contemporary thriller, billed as Hodges' first exploration of the world of crime since his 1971 ...
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Monsters Inc claims monster record on US home entertainment debut
Monsters, Inc. last week became the latest title to claim a record in the US home entertainment market, when it notched up sales of $85m on its first day on release. Some five million VHS and DVD copies of the title were sold last Tuesday, with a 60%-65% sold on ...
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Four bidders line-up E2bn bids for KirchMedia
Four different consortia have tabled bids worth up to Euros2bn for the bulk of KirchMedia's television and film rights.A consortium including Germany's Commerzbank and Sony's Columbia TriStar is reported to have offered Euros 2bn, as has another consortium whose members include German publishers Axel Springer and Bauer Verlag and HVB ...
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Avrio gives push to Maximum Surge
Avrio Filmworks Releasing has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the sci-fi feature Maximum Surge. The film, directed by Jason Bourque is an action feature about a computer designer who must battle an artificial intelligence programme inside a virtual reality game he previously created. Maximum Surge stars Walter Koenig, Yasmine ...
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Go gets Golden Star at Marrakech Int'l film festival
Japanese director Isao Yukisada's (pictured) Go has been awarded the top prize, the Golden Star (Etoile d'Or), at the second Marrakech International film festival.The prize was presented by Emmanuelle Beart on Sunday 22 Sept at the closing night ceremony in a spectacular open air cinema specially created within the ruins ...
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Fox's Perdition enjoys powerful international openings
Fox's Road To Perdition took another $5.2m from 2,000 screens over theweekend to raise its cumulative international total to $22m. In a mightyLondon-only debut the Depression era gangster picture grossed $393,000 from 32screens in the UK for a $12,283 average. It expands to 390 screens across thecountry on Friday September ...
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Goldmember dazzles in Australia with $3m gross
NewLine International's (NLI) Austin Powers In Goldmember scored the 12th highest opening in Australia overthe weekend as it stormed to number one with a $3.07m gross from 329 screens.Averaging a terrific $9,330, the third instalment in the Austin Powers comedy franchise was also the third highest openingfor distributor Roadshow. Goldmember ...
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Polish festival warms to Day Of The Freak
Despite a funding crisis in the Polish film industry that has cast doubts on the future of the event, the 27th annual festival of Polish Feature Film (17-21 September) in the Baltic coast resort of Gdynia managed to field a competition programme of 21 new features and a special new ...