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Erin O'Neil joins Myriad as vp, m'ktg & publicity
Erin O'Neil has been named vice president of marketing and publicity at Myriad Pictures in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for international marketing and publicity campaigns for the company's production and acquisitions slate which includes Chen Kaige's Killing Me Softly, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl and Dan Algrant's People ...
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Imperial renamed Comerica Entertainment Group
Entertainment lending group Imperial Entertainment Group has been renamed Comerica Entertainment Group, following the acquisition of Imperial Bank by Comerica in Jan this year.The completed merger gives the entertainment group, headed by president Morgan Rector, access to increased capital for financing entertainment projects and entities.Comerica Entertainment Group has financed large-scale ...
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Warner Bros promotes Gornell, Nolan, Schneider
Warner Bros Pictures has made three senior promotions in its London-based international marketing division. Con Gornell has been named senior vice president, European theatrical marketing, Conor Nolan has been promoted to vice president European promotions and special events, and Armin Schneider has been named vice president, European publicity. The promotions ...
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The Navigators
Dir Ken Loach. UK-Germany-Spain-Italian-French. 95 mins.Propagating the cause of the working class, Ken Loach's politics are in the right place - but that doesn't necessarily result in powerful film-making, as is evident from The Navigators, his latest foray into left-of-centre ideology, which this time examines the privatisation of the British ...
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Let's Get Skase
Dir: Matthew George. Australia. 2001. 100 mins.The recent death from cancer and emphysema in Majorca of Christopher Skase, fugitive Australian businessman and would-be media mogul (he nearly owned MGM in the 80s), has not stopped the wide local release (October 18, 110 screens) of this loud and rumbustious action comedy ...
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The Man From Elysian Fields
Dir: George Hickenlooper. US. 2001. 105minsThe trials and tribulations of an underachieving novelist provide the basis of The Man From Elysian Fields, a modern morality tale that sustains a dry, playful wit and tight narrative for its first hour before beginning to unravel. Conventional closing stages fail to deliver on ...
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Ghislain Lambert's Bike
Dir: Philippe Harel. France/Belgium. 2001. 115 mins. A lively mock biopic of a failed Belgium racing cyclist, Ghislain Lambert's Bike (Le Velo De Ghislain Lambert) is a broad but entertaining comedy with excellent prospects in French-speaking markets and anywhere where cycling is a national obsession. Care will be needed to ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni to return to directing
Michelangelo Antonioni, the ailing 89-year-old director of Blow Up and Beyond The Clouds, is set to return to the film set after six years to direct one segment of a three-part feature film. Wong Kar-wai and Pedro Almodovar are attached to direct the other two parts of the movie, a ...
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Bonduel to head Pathe distribution and sales arms
Marc Bonduel, formerly CEO of France Television Distribution/President Films, has joined Pathe, where he will head both the French film distribution arm Pathe Distribution and international sales outfit Pathe International.Bonduel, 45, a former CEO of Warner Home Video in France who has headed public broadcaster France Television 's film and ...
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Working Title develops animatronic Rat project
The UK's Working Title Films is developing an untitled family film based on newcomer Billy O'Brien's short film The Tale Of The Rat That Wrote.The story of a rat's adventures in a dark, Dickensian world combines live-action, animation and the animatronics effects from the blockbuster Babe. O'Brien is to adapt ...
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FFF Bayern awards funding for eight projects
New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Oskar Roehler, Doris Doerrie and Gavin Hood, are among eight projects awarded a total of $5.9m (DM 12.6m) production funding by the Bavarian public funder FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF) at its latest session.While the largest sum - $1.4m (DM 3m) - went to Gavin ...
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UK openers score well at home
British films were the toast of the town in the UK this weekend as Enigma and Mike Bassett: England Manager battled it out with holdover The Fast And The Furious and fellow opener The Score to claim top five positions. While unable to pose any threat to Steven Spielberg's fantasy ...
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Lantana opens Brooklyn's New Wave Down Under fest
The film component of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) New Wave Down Under Festival opens with new Australian film Lantana this Thursday (Oct 4). BAM decided that the month-long celebration of Australian arts and culture should go ahead despite the tragic events in New York and Washington of September ...
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Berlusconi acquitted of most charges, some remain
Italy's Supreme Court has acquitted prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi of charges of false accounting during the acquisition of leading film outfit Medusa Film in the late 1980s.The verdict clears Berlusconi of a 16-month prison sentence handed out by a court in 1997. It also confirms an appeals ...
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Soon En Wong named Asian m'ktg director at CTFDI
Soon En Wong has been named marketing director, Asia, for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International. In his new position, Wong will supervise marketing and promotions activities in the region for all titles produced locally by the studio's Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia division.Based in Hong Kong, Wong will work with ...
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Edges Of The Lord opens Hamptons Film Fest
The ninth annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which takes place Oct 17-21 in East Hampton, Sag Harbor and Westhampton Beach in New York, will feature 11 world premieres including opening night film Edges Of The Lord starring Haley Joel Osment and Willem Dafoe and directed by Yurek Bogayevicz. Miramax Films ...
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Showcase Entertainment acquires Frost, Judgment
LA-based Showcase Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to action/horror movie Frost: Portrait Of A Vampire written and directed by Kevin VanHook, and international rights to Christian thriller Judgment.Frost is based on the comic book series Jack Frost also created by VanHook. It stars Gary Busey as a former mercenary who ...
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Laszlo Kovacs wins ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Laszlo Kovacs will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC) at the 16th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 17, 2002, in Los Angeles.Kovacs, who was raised in communist Hungary, came to the US in 1957 as a political refugee. He made his ...
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Moulin Rouge worldwide gross passes $100m mark
20th Century Fox's Moulin Rouge passed the $100m mark at the worldwide box office over the weekend, its total gross reaching $102.257m. Its domestic total after 19 weeks on release is $56.58m The movie opened in Italy, Belgium and Norway over the weekend, taking $0.707m on 150 screens in Italy, ...
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Pliny Porter named production head at Fireworks
Pliny Porter has joined CanWest-owned FireWorks Pictures as head of production and development. He will work with CanWest Entertainment chairman and CEO Jay Firestone and Fireworks president Daniel Diamond in growing the company's production and development activities. He joins the company, which is enjoying current success with Rat Race and ...