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French revolution at International box office
Regular scrutinisers of the box office charts will discover that the majority of this week's international territories contain a common feature: French productions. While it is common to see the same US titles grace the charts of every territory, it is less usual to see the films of other countries ...
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French revolution at international box office
Regular scrutinisers of the box office charts will discover that the majority of this week's international territories contain a common feature: French productions. While it is common to see the same US titles grace the charts of every territory, it is less usual to see the films of other countries ...
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Mifed to have US and Asian flavour
Italy's autumn film market, Mifed (Oct 28-Nov 1) is set to be a heavily US and Asian dominated affair, according to the latest registrations. The market's organisers also hit back at suggestions that it is an expensive market to attend. Rassegne, the semi-private company that replaced the Fiera Milano as ...
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Political advocate to head Oz producers' body
Joanne Yates' appointment as executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) suggests that the organisation wants to increase its political influence in Canberra, where many regulatory and funding decisions are made.For the past five years Yates has been an advisor to the Democrats, a political party which ...
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Oz AFI awards return to commercial TV
The Seven Network will both produce and broadcast live the Emirates Australian Film & Television Awards at a date yet to be set but timed to take place alongside the annual conference of the Screen Producers Association of Australia, being held in Melbourne from November 14 to 17. It is ...
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Huppert to head Schroeter's next project
Isabelle Huppert, the acclaimed French actress who won the acting Palme at Cannes earlier this year for Austrian film The Piano Teacher, is to head the cast in iconic German director Werner Schroeter's next project. Schroeter's untitled project is the life story, from infancy to 45 years of age, of ...
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Scorsese to present Sokurov's Waterloo
Martin Scorsese is to lend his name to the hugely ambitious new production by Russian auteur Aleksandr Sokurov.Scorsese will "present" Sokurov's Waterloo, a film which will concentrate on Napoleon. The picture is set to be Sokurov's third film in his tetralogy about men in power, after Taurus (which focused on ...
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Thirty film censors gather in Dublin
The Conference of European Classifiers takes place in Dublin 6-8 September after an opening reception hosted by Minister for Justice John O'Donoghue, under whose Government Department film censorship is dealt with in Ireland. Thirty film classifiers - generally known as film censors - are expected to attend from as far ...
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Abel Ferrara's R-X'mas to open Turin
Abel Ferrara's R-X'mas has been set as the opening night film of the next edition of the Turin festival (Nov 15-23). The festival boasts a competition section with a $18,395 (Lira40m) first prize for best feature, a short film competition, an Italian feature competition and the DOC Competition, worth $13,800 ...
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Germany's ProSiebenSat1 and Kirch Media to merge
The executive board of German TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has agreed in principle with Kirch Media to merge the two companies by the end of June 2002. The new entity will be listed on the exchange as Kirch Media, ProSiebenSat.1 according to a statement. Kirch Media is the TV rights trading ...
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Reviews
The Musketeer
Dir: Peter Hyams. US. 2001. 104mins. Though it boasts a potentially interesting international cast and a couple of acrobatic action scenes, The Musketeer is for the most part a muddled and forgettable new version of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale (more usually presented, of course, as The Three Musketeers) that ...
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French films dominate early awards at Venice fest
While the results of the main Venezia 58 and Cinema Del Presente sections were awaited with a sense of bewilderment by some critics, the Venice festival began to unlock some of its secrets. Those secrets had a very French flavour. For films in the main Venezia 58 section, the FIPRESCI ...
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Monsoon, Time Out head surprising Venice winners
Puzzling critics who had expected something more meaty to win, Mira Nair's lighthearted and thoroughly entertaining Monsoon Wedding took the top prize, the Golden Lion, in Venice's traditionally auteur dominated competition section. Meanwhile Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi Du Temps), the story of a man who invents a fictional life ...
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San Sebastian reveals new titles and full jury
Mike Figgis' Hotel and Garry Marshall's Julie Andrews-starrer The Princess Diaries have been added as "special sessions" to the official section of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The announcement, along with three additional films in other sections and the unveiling of the juries, was made in ...
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European Commission reveals film reform strategy
The European Commission today kicked off a year of negotiations between film-makers and law-makers when Viviane Reding unveiled a three point plan for reform. Her main objectives are the rationalisation of national film support systems, new protection for film heritage and a reworking of tax systems. Reding, commissioner for culture ...
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Iwerks Entertainment to merge with SimEx
Large format theatre provider Iwerks Entertainment is to merge with simulation technology company SimEx in a strategic move which will consolidate interests in an increasingly difficult marketplace.Subject to shareholder approval, the agreement will see Toronto-based SimEx acquiring Iwerks in exchange for around $0.63 per share of Iwerks common stock. Shares ...
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Spain to see Sexy Beast - at last
UK-Spanish co-production Sexy Beast has finally secured distribution in Spain with Hispano Foxfilm in a deal negotiated through Fox in the US.Jonathan Glazer's gangster film starring Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley did good business for Fox Searchlight in the US this summer, earning $5.97m in nine weeks on less than ...
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Italy's Saint-Vincent Prize adds TV drama
Italy's Saint-Vincent Prize, a leading festival designed to promote Italian cinema abroad, has announced that for the first time this year it will dedicate a section to the fast-growing field of Italian TV drama.The new TV competition, sponsored by Italy's weekly TV Sorrizi & Canzoni magazine, will be judged both ...
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The Musketeer leaps to top of US Box Office
The Musketeer, an athletic new version of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, led the pack at the North American box office over the weekend as the fall season kicked in. Independently financed by producers Moshe Diamant and Rudy Cohen and Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide, the film grossed an estimated $10.7m ...
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Palm picks up worldwide rights to Sweetie Pie
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Sweetie Pie, a digital feature film which marks the directorial debut of Asher Levin and Cisco Adler who have dubbed themselves The Lost Angels. Levin and Adler also wrote the film, and Adler produced it. Set against the backdrop of Southern ...
