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London kicks off with In The Cut gala
The Times BFI London Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night (Oct 22) with the Gala Premiere of In The Cut, with director Jane Campion and stars Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo in attendance.The film opened a 16-day long festival which, under artistic director Sandra Hebron, looks to have become ...
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SPAIN
Spanish films continued performing well at the local box office. Comedy Football Days (Dias De Futbol) held steady in third position on its fifth weekend out through Buena Vista International, earning a cumulative Euros 6.55m. The total makes it the second highest grossing Spanish film of the year to date.Paz ...
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Hong Kong industry embarks on mainland China visit
A delegation of the Hong Kong film industry today (Oct 23) begins a three-day visit to Beijing to explore possibilities for closer co-operation with mainland China. Led by Ma Fung-Kwok, vice chairman of Hong Kong's Motion Picture Industry Association and deputy to the National People's Congress, the group consists of ...
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Miramax cleans up at AFM
Miramax International closed most of the world on its latest package of pictures at this year's AFM with many of its usual customers and a new one - recently floated Senator Film in Germany - for Juliette Binoche/Johnny Depp-starrer Chocolat.Miramax has also won an AFMA arbitration against Spain's Aurum Producciones ...
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Beyond Borders
Dir: Martin Campbell. US. 2003. 127 mins. If the sweeping war-torn romance Beyond Borders had been made in the 1940s or 1950s with Ingrid Bergman or Ava Gardner in the lead role, it might have been a beloved classic. But times and tastes have changed. The Angelina Jolie version of ...
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Love Actually
Dir: Richard Curtis. UK. 2003. 129 minsLike a latter-day Frank Capra, Richard Curtis believes in the innate decency of the ordinary individual. His films salute the power of love and the possibility of harmony in a world riven with division. His vision may not be dark or cutting-edge but it ...
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Weinstein, Bachchan in Mumbai meeting
Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein made a short private visit to Mumbai to meet Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan last week. The details of meeting are not immediately known, although it comes in the same month that Bachchan relaunched his production company AB Corp on 11th October 2003.Weinstein also visited the shoot ...
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Irish talent throws weight behind Section 481 campaign
Irish directors and screenwriters have weighed in behind Screen Producers Ireland's (SPI) campaign for the retention of Ireland's Section 481 tax break beyond its December 2004 termination date. Expressing their concern about the expiration of the tax incentive at a Dublin press briefing on Oct 22 were director Neil Jordan, ...
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Lenin! crosses UK box office landmark
Good Bye, Lenin!, has passed the £1m mark at the UK box office, making it only the seventh European subtitled film in the last ten years to achieve such success, the UK Film Council has revealed. The film's UK release - by UGC Films UK - was supported by the ...
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Top East Euro producers to pitch projects at Cottbus
Fourteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year's two-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 4-5.They include new feature films from: Slovenia's Emotionfilm, producer of Damjan Kozole Spare Parts; the Czech Republic's Negativ, producer of Petr Zelenka's Year Of The Dog; and Slovakia's ALEF Film&Media Group, ...
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Framestore CFC opens New York office
London based visual effects, animation and post production house Framestore CFC is to open a New York office devoted to its advertising clients. The new venture will be led by Framestore CFC Board member and advertising head, Jon Collins as its managing director. Framestore CFC are currently in production on ...
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New Zealand to host Women In Film International summit
About 350 delegates will converge on Auckland from April 21-24 next year for the biennial conference of Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI), immediately following a two-day board meeting that will set the agenda for the next 12 months."It will be an exciting blend of networking opportunities and professional ...
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Mayor boosts London Film Festival funding
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced an increase of funding for the London Film Festival (LFF), held this year between Oct 22 and Nov 6. Working with the London Development Agency, the mayor's funding will begin next year, and will be channelled through Film London, which provides dedicated support, ...
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BBC confirms Redbus deal for UK
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK's public broadcasting empire and BBC Films, the Beeb's feature arm, have sealed an eight-picture output deal for the UK with distributor Redbus Film Distribution (RFD).RFD, owned by Redbus Film Group, will also handle video-on-demand rights for the eight titles, all of which ...
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Asian films take top prizes at Norway's Bergen fest
The fourth edition of Norway's Bergen International Film Festival, which wrapped on Wednesday (Oct 22), saw Asian cinema secure the top honours.Yang Li's Chinese Blind Shaft took the main prize, while Sangsoo Im's South Korean A Good Lawyer's Wife won the critics' award. Sixteen films screened in competition.The main prize ...
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Wellspring acquires worldwide rights to Stoked
US-based distributorWellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excluding the US, Canada and theCaribbean Basin to Helen Stickler's acclaimed documentary Stoked: The RiseAnd Fall Of Gator.The film charts thetumultuous career of 1980s skateboarding legend Mark 'Gator'Rogowski, whose rise from local hero to international superstar ended ininfamy.The deal was negotiated by Sticklerand ...
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Focus to sell Europe on Zhang's latest martial arts epic
Focus Features will handleinternational sales in mainland Europe excluding the UK for Zhang Yimou'sin-production martial arts spectacle, House Of Flying Daggers.Sales on Yimou's firstproject since the action epic Herowill begin at MIFED next month. Producer Bill Kong will collaborate with Focusfor the third time following Heroand Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.The ...
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Diggs takes lead role in Armada's Drum
Taye Diggs, whose creditsinclude Chicago, Basic and BrownSugar, has joined the cast of ArmadaPictures' true-life Apartheid drama Drum, which begins principal photography on Nov 7 inSouth Africa.Set in the 1950s, the storycentres on a magazine writer who risks his life exposing the South Africanregime and sparks a popular protest movement.UTA, ...
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Outrage from HFPA, SAG at MPAA's secret deal with Academy
The Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have strongly condemnedyesterday's (23) exclusive screeners ban U-turn between the MPAA and AMPAS.Under the terms of thebehind-closed-doors deal, a one-year experiment will see VHS tapes go out onlyto those Academy members who sign an agreement pledging to safeguard theirtapes ...