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Hong Kong's largest studio gets greenlight
The largest movie studio to be built in Hong Kong has been given the greenlight to begin construction at the end of the year.Shaw Brothers has been waiting for a permit to jointly develop two pieces of land on which to build the state-of-the-art Movie City. The first piece ...
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Proliferating producer credits weave tangled web
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalEverything about the summer hit Pearl Harbor was big: the scale of the production, the array of special effects, the breadth of the marketing and the cast of thousands who got a producing credit on the film. Pearl Harbor's credit roll includes six ...
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US theatres raise $5m for Sept 11 charities
Tuesday's Victims' Benefit Day at the Movies - on which theatre owners and distributors donated all ticket and concessions sales to Sept 11 charities - raised over $5m for disaster relief.50 percent of the proceeds collected will be donated to the American Red Cross and 50 percent will be donated ...
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Winchester's Last Orders goes to Sony Classics
Winchester Films has closed a multi-territory deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) on Fred Schepisi's Last Orders which had its world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. SPC bought the film for North America, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.The film, which was well-received by critics and ...
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Don't Say A Word
Dir: Gary Fleder. US. 2001. 111mins.As generic as its title suggests, Don't Say A Word is a routine psychological thriller, elevated by Michael Douglas' strong presence and expert acting as an eminent yuppie shrink whose eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped by a British villain. Lacking in-depth characterisation or any feeling for ...
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Zoolander
Dir Ben Stiller. US 2001. 90 min.Profoundly silly but sporadically entertaining, Ben Stiller's Zoolander is an extremely slight and goofy farce of the fashion industry, this time around targeting male rather than female models. Based on the character that Stiller and MTV Movie Awards writer/producer Drake Sather created for the ...
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Berlin Festival launches German section for public
Next February's Berlin film festival (Berlinale) (Feb 6-17, 2002) will boast a new section highlighting German films that have particular flair or unusual and outstanding characteristics. The new section, Perspectives Of German Cinema will screen about ten contemporary films culled from the feature, documentary and experimental branches. The new section ...
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Academy Awards race starts to take shape
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThe warm-up for the race for the Oscars began this week as two UK prestige pictures - Iris and Charlotte Gray - received official US release slots in December, joining what is fast becoming one of the most competitive seasons in years.On Dec ...
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TV commercials break out into feature films
Start-up Danish production outfit, FilmPeople, has begun production on its first independent project, Polle Fiction (pictured), a feature comedy based on a TV commercial. This is only the second feature to be based on a television advertisement concept, although it is the first to go into production; as Rowan Atkinson's ...
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Cannes extends an olive branch to UK
When not one new UK feature was selected for the Cannes Film Festival this year, it caused an outburst of national soul searching. Now the British film industry has been thrown an olive branch by the festival's artistic director Thierry Fremaux.Fremaux says he wants to appoint a British correspondent who ...
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Momentum picks up UK rights for The Son's Room
Momentum Pictures has picked up all UK rights to Nanni Moretti's Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room.The story of a middle class Italian family dealing with the death of their son will have its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on Nov 17, with Moretti attending. Momentum bought the ...
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Rival UK TV stations share Disney film output
UK terrestrial broadcasting rivals BBC and ITV have struck a joint film rights deal to acquire Disney's theatrical output from 2000. Under the deal with Buena Vista International Television, UK commercial broadcasting network ITV has picked up the rights to titles including Unbreakable, Gone In 60 Seconds, Scary Movie, Coyote ...
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BBC and HBO to co-produce Churchill war serial
The UK's BBC Films and US cable network HBO are to co-produce a UK-shot war serial about Winston Churchill's isolation in the run-up to the second world war. Currently in pre-production at Shepperton Studios, A Lonely War is to star Albert Finney as Churchill and Vanessa Redgrave as his wife. ...
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Henry sentenced for fraud against Village Roadshow
Ross Andrew Henry, former chief financial officer of Village Roadshow's US subsidiary, has been sentenced to 30 months jail by the US District Court in Los Angeles after pleading guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and "deprivation of honest services", according to Reuters news service. Henry wired money, supposed ...
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Spirited breaks Japan's all-time admissions record
Spirited Away, the Hayao Miyazaki animation that has led the Japanese box office since its release on July 20, has set a new all-time admissions record for the territory, with 16,878,000 tickets sold as of September 26. The previous record was held by Titanic with 16,831,000 admissions after 62 weeks ...
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Local films fly the flag in Ireland and France
A string of high profile Irish and French productions, both in recent weeks and upcoming, are showing strength in their respective local markets. Showing a seasonal release pattern in spring and autumn for both territories, local films seem to be taking full advantage of the downtime between the power of ...
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EM.TV and ProSiebenSat.1 see income fall
German film rights trading group EM.TV has announced a 2001 first-half operating profit (EBIT) of $53.4 million (DM114m) and a pre-tax loss of $59.5m (DM127m).In a statement, the company said that it had total sales in the first half of $443.8m (DM947m). The pre-tax loss included interest charges of $130.8m ...
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Executive overhaul redirects UK's Film Consortium
Chris Auty has replaced Richard Holmes as managing director of Civilian Content as the UK media concern slashes back in-house production and development and focuses on financing and international sales at its National Lottery franchise, The Film Consortium.Holmes is understood to have clashed over film-making styles with Auty, also chief ...
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Taxi Para Tres is San Sebastian surprise winner
Chilean director Orlando Lubbert was the surprise winner Saturday Oct 28, at the 49th annual San Sebastian International Film Festival, walking away with the Golden Shell award for best film for the little-known A Cab For Three (Taxi Para Tres). Jury president Claude Chabrol's reading of the top prize was ...
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Luna Rossa (Red Moon)
Dir: Antonio Capuano. Italy. 2001. 117mins. "The only way you can control people", says the Mafia boss, "is if they know you can kill them anytime you want". This upbeat moral epigram could provide the poster tag for Antonio Capuano's new film, which screened in the main competition at Venice. ...
