![The Brightest SunScreen[Courtesy HKIFF]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/3/5/0/1448350_thebrightestsunscreencourtesyhkiff_312678.jpg)
Small MPU – Page 1529
-
News
Japan's DirecTV swallowed up by larger rival
Hughes Electronics' Japanese pay-TV platform, DirecTV, is merging with SKY PerfecTV in a move that marks DirecTV's effective withdrawal from the Japanese market after an unsuccessful three-year struggle to catch up with its larger rival.The deal was negotiated by DirecTV majority shareholder Hughes and the leading shareholder group of SKY ...
-
Reviews
The Missing
Dir. Lee Kang-Sheng. Taiwan. 2003. 84 min.Sharing the top award in Pusan's New Currents competition, the debut of actor Lee Kang-Sheng as writer and director indicates beyond doubt that he shares the visual and spiritual world of his mentor and friend, Tsai Ming-Liang, in whose films he has regularly appeared ...
-
News
NORDIC Production Listings - October 20 2003
DENMARK - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONBOELLE BOB OG SMUKKE SALLY(Grasten Film) Family musical based on popular characters from the 1980s. Prod: Regner Grasten. Dir: Martin Schmidt. Scr: Gunnar Geertsen. Shoots in 2004.Contact: Regner Grasten, Grasten Film, (45) 39 63 44 24EUROTRH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euro1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). ...
-
News
UK Production Update - October 20
UK Production Update - October 20IN PRODUCTION:CREEP (Dan Films, Zero West [Ger]) Backers: UK Film Council's Premiere Fund, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalia (NRW). Int'l sales: Capitol Films. Dist: Pathe (UK), X-Filme (Ger). Horror film set in subterranean London. London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) ...
-
News
UK Production Update - July 26
UK Production Update - July 26 2004See also International Production ListingsIN PRODUCTION:THE DARK ((Impact Pictures, Constantin Film) Backers: Constantin Film, the UK Film Council. Int'l sales: Constantin Film, Summit Entertainment. A gripping supernatural chiller about a series of mysterious occurrences that befall a young family who move to a remote ...
-
News
NEW ZEALAND
Calendar Girls held on to the top spot in its second week with a gross of NZ$274,119 from 38 screens against two challengers that couldn't be more different. But beware of taking the results on face value because it is very messy at the top of the chart this week. ...
-
News
ITALY
UIP's Intolerable Cruelty has charmed the Italian box office, where it opened at number one on 330 screens grossing a massive screen average of $9,233. While the film's star George Clooney graced the covers of weekly Italian magazines, Intolerable Cruelty earned a huge $3,059,641, squeezing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ...
-
News
BELGIUM
Local title The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) saw a massive response in Belgium over its five-day opening for Kinepolis Film Distribution/RCV.Selling nearly 60,000 tickets from its 34 screens the psychological thriller took $348,074 (Euros 299,344) over the five-day weekend (Oct 15-19) and $387,286 (Euros 333,066) including previews.By the close ...
-
News
Film industry 'little to fear from internet piracy'
According to a new report from the Informa Media Group titled ‘Film on the Internet’, peer-to-peer piracy and CD/DVD burning will result in relatively limited losses for the film industry - and in fact, Hollywood will thrive from the internet.As global internet access spreads, the value of relatively underused ‘soft’ ...
-
News
Germany mulls plans to boost film exports
Germany's State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss has proposed increasing the German Export Union's budget from Euros 3.5m to Euros 5.8m and revamping it as central service agency to promote German films abroad.The new agency would be called German Films - Service and Marketing and would be part of a ...
-
News
News Corp, Yahoo! in talks about alliance
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has reportedly held talks with Internet portal Yahoo! about a wide-ranging alliance under which the two companies would take financial stakes in each other's assets.Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang has met News Corp president and COO Peter Chernin several times in recent weeks, according to an article ...
-
News
Runners hits Red Light again
Going full throttle to become the most calamitous British production of the last 12 months, Red Light Runners is battling to patch together its financing so shooting can resume this week.The UK-based car chase heist film, starring Michael Madsen and Harvey Keitel, was about a month into its shoot when ...
-
News
Creep cranks up in London
Shooting began yesterday (Oct 20) on Creep, a horror film set in subterranean London starring Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, The Bourne Identity).The debut feature of Chris Smith, Creep is produced by Julie Baines and Jason Newmark of Dan Films (The Cat's Meow, Summer Things, Butterfly Kiss) and will shoot ...
-
News
Paramount plans Japanese theme park
Paramount Pictures is planing to build a theme park in Hisayama - a town on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu. Hisayama mayor Katsushige Saeki announced the plan at a special town assembly session on October 16. According to the mayor, Paramount intends to build on a 50 hectare site ...
-
News
BSkyB revamps Sky Movies service
BSkyB has unveiled plans to revamp its Sky Movies service, which include the addition of a World Cinema strand to showcase films such as Y Tu Mama Tambien and Good Bye, Lenin!The weekly World Cinema strand will play on the Sky Cinema channel where it will present films from around ...
-
News
Sheridan's In America wins top Flanders prize
Jim Sheridan's In America won best film at the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which focuses on the impact of music on film-making, while Im Sangsoo was named best director for A Good Lawyer's Wife.Other prizes at the Fiapf recognised event, which wrapped on Saturday, included best music for ...
-
News
Ruiz honoured by Mannheim-Heidelberg festival
Chilean-born screenwriter, film and theatre director Raoul Ruiz is to receive the Master of Cinema Award at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Nov 20-29).The honour comes days after Ruiz was selected as Filmmaker in Focus at next year's Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 21 - Feb 1, 2004).The award ...
-
News
Haifa names No Longer 17 as best film
Itzhak 'Tzeppel' Yeshurun's No Longer 17 won the best Israeli film prize at the 19th Haifa Film Festival (Oct 11-18), with Yoav Kosh taking top honours for the cinematography of Life Is Life by Michal Bar Adam. Hallelujah, a satire on the 1979 Eurovision song contest, was elected best TV ...
-
News
Amenebar, Piccioni, Ruiz win Eurimages backing
New features by Alejandro Amenabar, Giuseppe Piccioni and Raoul Ruiz are among the 12 European co-productions supported with over Euros 4.6m by the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages in its latest round of funding.Three projects - Amenabar's Spanish-French-Italian co-production Mar Adentro, Piccioni's Italian-German co-production La Vita Che Vorrei ...