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In The City (En La Ciudad)
Dir. Cesc Gay. Spain, 2003. 110mins.Pleasant, handsome, urbane but quite vacuous, Cesc Gay's second feature film resembles, to a certain extent, the choral dramas of French director Claude Sautet, minus the dynamics and the depth. Revising the thirtysomething formula of American television into an European version shot entirely in Barcelona, ...
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Loving Glances
Dir. Srdan Karanovic. UK/Serbia, 2003. 97mins.Film-maker Srdan Karanovic, a star of the golden age in Yugoslav cinema, makes a well-deserved comeback with this gentle, surreal romance. Absent from the screen for too long, he has left so much unsaid in the 12 years he has been absent that it almost ...
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Former-Venice chiefs plan meeting to 'defend' event's autonomy
Felice Laudadio, the former Venice Film Festival director who is now head of the Taormina film festival, has announced that all the ex-directors of the prestigious event on the Lido will hold a special meeting on Saturday to "defend the autonomy of the Biennale."Those expected to attend the conference will ...
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Saban embarks on ProSiebenSat.1 reshuffle
Haim Saban has embarked on a management reshuffle at ProSiebenSat.1's, four months after taking over the German broadcasting group.SAT.1 managing director Martin Hoffmann, whose future had been subject of much speculation since the summer, has been replaced with immediate effect by Swiss media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski who founded the first ...
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UK Film Council revises producer deal terms
The UK Film Council has revised the terms of its deals with producers when awarding its National Lottery funding after complaints that producers were not receiving a big enough share of profits.The change in funding guidelines will apply to all applications for lottery funding to the organisation's New Cinema Fund ...
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UK on course for 2003 admissions slump
The UK could see its first fall in admissions since 1998 this year, with latest figures suggesting that upcoming releases may be too little too late to claw the territory past last year's record box office results and 30-year admissions high.Two months ago the situation did not look so bad. ...
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European Film Awards adopt English accent
While no film looks likely to sweep the board at this weekend's European Film Awards (Dec 6), a winner has already emerged - the English language. Out of four non-UK nominees for best European film, three are English-language productions. The exception ' Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! ' partly makes ...
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David Hemmings dies on Romania shoot
UK actor David Hemmings, best known as the fashion photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic portrait of Swinging London, Blow-up, has died aged 62.The actor, whose recent credits include Gangs Of New York, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Last Orders and Gladiator, in which he played the master of the games ...
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Jenin Jenin doc banned again in Israel
Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin, about the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp, has once again been banned in Israel.The Supreme Court had ruled on Nov.11 against a decision by the Censorship Board to outlaw the film and cleared it for screenings - but it has now ...
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German media fund beefs up investment slate
German media fund VIP 3, which has raised Euros 170m from private German investors to date this year, is to co-produce new features by Penny Marshall and Gregory Hoblit.The fund will serve as a production partner with Chris Sievernich's Armada Pictures International on Penny Marshall's comedy Family Of The Year ...
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EuropaCorp to produce Jodie Foster's Flora Plum
Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's EuropaCorp. will produce the next directorial project from Jodie Foster. The film, Flora Plum, was originally set up 3 years ago and Foster had begun production only to abandon it quickly due to an accident suffered by then-star Russell Crowe.Crowe will not be ...
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Urdang, Nozik form DV production team Serenade
A group of industry veteransincluding former Robert Redford producing partners Leslie Urdang and MichaelNozik have launched the low budget video production house Serenade Films, based in Los Angeles.Urdang willspearhead the team along with Nozik, One Fine Day director Michael Hoffman and AfterHours producer AmyRobinson. Co-producer Nick Goodwin Self and production ...
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UK's Battsek promoted again at Disney
Industry veteran DanielBattsek has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director forBuena Vista International UK Ltd, Distribution/Production.Battsek will continue tolead BVI's theatrical distribution and marketing operations in the UK as wellas head up BVI UK Comedy Label, which was set up in 1999 and has producedseveral titles including ...
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US VOD service Movielink signs with Sundance Channel
Broadband video-on-demandservice Movielink has signed a deal with Sundance Channel whereby it will offertitles from the new theatrical releasing division Sundance Film Series and theSundance Channel Home Entertainment catalogue.Movielink will also create aSundance Channel branded area on its service, featuring titles from Movielink'slibrary of independent films that will be chosen ...
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Pinto gets animation marketing job at WBITD
Jessica Pinto has beenappointed to the new position of director of animation marketing at Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).Pinto will oversee allcreative aspects of the new international Kids WB! branded programming blocksbeing launched around the world and coordinate sales and marketingpresentations of all animation brands and WBITD titles distributed tointernational ...
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Doordarshan changes name; gains autonomy
Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan will be renamed Prasar Bharati Corporation (Broadcasting Corporation of India) and receive a $250m grant when it becomes a fully fledged autonomous body from April 1 this year.The grant aims to cover the gap in resources Prasar Bharati Corp will meet when it gains autonomy. In ...
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Apted to direct first three episodes of HBO/BBC epic Rome
Michael Aptedwill direct the first three episodes of the upcoming HBO and BBC drama seriescollaboration Rome,which begins shooting in Bulgaria in March and is scheduled to air on HBO andBBC2 in 2005.The series,which marks the first series co-production between the networks, centres on thelives of two ordinary Roman soldiers in ...
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Davis named evp, physical production, at MGM Pictures
Veteran producerAndy Davis has been named executive vice president of physical production atMGM Pictures.Davis willoversee physical production and post-production operations for all filmscreated by the company and immediately replaces Jeff Coleman, who resigned topursue other areas."I'm excitedabout the opportunity to work with multiple film-makers and to develop thoserelationships further," Davis ...
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Showtime brands new theatrical unit for independent films
Showtime Networks has launched Showtime Independent Films, itsfirst foray into financing films directly for the independent theatricalmarketplace.The fledgling outfit has collaborated with specialty producers anddirectors to create three low budget titles that will be presented under thebanner at Sundance, which runs from Jan 15-25, 2004.Jacob Kornbluth's inner city drama The ...