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Production division is latest Kinowelt casualty
Cash-strapped Kinowelt Medien's production arm Kinowelt Filmproduktion has become the latest victim of the German media group's radical programme of restructuring.Redundancy slips have been handed out to all of the production arm's employees as well as to co-managing director Ulrich Limmer, whose contract would have been up for renewal at ...
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Stranded
Dir: Luna. Spain. 2001. 101 mins. The undisputed talking point of San Sebastian for all the wrong reasons, this $4.5m English-language space opera is a spectacular misfire on virtually every level. Its first press screening, in the New Directors section, unfolded in stunned silence punctured by incredulous laughter, but the ...
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Constantin/Propaganda joint venture folds
ProCon Pictures LLC, the joint venture launched by Germany's Constantin Film and US production studio Propaganda Films to share the development, financing, production and exploitation of international cinema and TV projects has folded.The joint venture, which was established at the beginning of May 2000 had aimed to produce three to ...
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Fantasy over for Japan's Square film business
Following the US flop of its first feature, the CGI animation Final Fantasy, game maker Square Co. has announced its exit from the film business. The company expects to record a $83m (Y10 billion) net loss for the current fiscal year, ending in March. Expecting big box office from Final ...
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Italy's Mifed boosts its international appeal
As it attempts to recover ground lost to supporters of the rival London Screenings, Mifed has announced an increase in the number of premieres and films screening at the market, as well as several innovations including a convention on international relations, a VIP Lounge and a new market award.Mifed organizers ...
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Garland leaves Universal Studios Networks
Tony Garland has left Universal Studios Networks (USN), where he was president, in order to concentrate on other interests.The long-anticipated move sees Bibiane Godfroid become the unchallenged head of channels and services within the Canal Plus Group, the film and TV arm of Vivendi Universal.In a statement, the company said ...
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Hedwig to open Stockholm film festival
John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig And The Angry Inch will open the competition at the Stockholm International Film Festival, which focuses on new and innovative cinema. Other competitors include Henry Bean's The Believer and Richard Parry's South West Nine, from the producers of Human Traffic. Todd Solondz's Storytelling has a slot ...
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Inch'Allah Dimanche wins top Marakesh award
Inch'Allah Dimanche by Franco-Algerian director Yamina Benguigui was yesterday (Oct 2) named best film at the end of the first Marakesh film festival. The film is the story of a family of Algerian immigrants in 1960s France.The jury rewarded two other films: Andanggaman by Ivory Coast director Roger Gnoan M'Bala ...
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Catch 23 secures credit facility with Comerica
Catch 23 Entertainment, the LA-based production company founded by financier Robert B Sturm, has completed a multi-million dollar credit facility with Comerica Entertainment Group, a division of Comerica Bank Of California.The proceeds from the facility will provide Catch 23 with additional film financing and development capital and will be used ...
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A taste for French films
In recent months French productions have found a lucrative niche at the box office of The Federal Republic of Yugolslavia (FRY), which consists of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, successfully competing with both Hollywood blockbusters and local productions.One reason for this trend is the fact that since the end ...
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Work In Progress (En Construccion)
Dir: Jose Luis Guerin. Spain 2001. 125 mins. A humorous and poetic chronicle of the impact on a working-class neighbourhood of a major construction project, Work In Progress was one of San Sebastian's most original discoveries. Screened to a packed auditorium of over 1000, the film held the audience's attention ...
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Distrib newcomer ThinkFilm calls Time Out for US
ThinkFilm, the fledgling North American distributor that was set up recently by a team of former Lions Gate executives, has acquired US rights to Venice-winning French title L'Emploi Du Temps (Time Out), the second feature film by Human Resources director Laurent Cantet.Since the Toronto film festival some ten companies have ...
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Shine pair re-teams for Oz-UK Love's Brother
Jane Scott and Jan Sardi, the producer and writer of Australian hit film Shine, are teaming up again for the romantic comedy Love's Brother, except that this time it will also be Sardi's directorial debut. Great Scott Productions' producing partner in the official Australian/UK co-production is Sarah Radclyffe Productions.A substantial ...
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Sweden's Film I Vast to sponsor Goteborg festival
Sweden's successful regional fund, Film I Vast has become the new backer of the Nordic Film Award at the Goteborg Film Festival. The award was instigated in 1989 by local newspaper Goteborg Posten, and has been known as the GP's Nordic Award, but from next year's 25th edition it will ...
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Optimism emerges from industry gloom
A sector by sector look at the industry's financial prospects after the impact of the Sept 11 events and the threat of economic slowdown. To be published over the next few days. Part 1: broadcast TV. Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThree weeks on, and like the rest ...
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Greek Summer warms up Other Angle
France’s Other Angle Pictures has picked up Greek Summer, a new project to be directed by Olivier Horlait.
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Serkis, Cave plan motion-capture Opera
Andy Serkis, famous for pioneering motion-capture performance in The Lord Of The Rings, King Kong and the upcoming Tintin films, has revealed he will collaborate with musician Nick Cave on a motion-capture movie of The Threepenny Opera. The Brecht and Weill musical play was first performed in 1928 in Berlin.“It’s ...
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NewsBadge holders breathe sigh of relief as screenings ban is lifted
EFM non-buyer badge holders were relieved yesterday after a stressful couple of days in which they found themselves barred from the competition press screenings.
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NewsHaneke abandons 'old age' project
Oscar-nominated Austrian director Michael Haneke has abandoned his planned film about “humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged” after seeing a Canadian project on a similar subject.
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Arclight harnesses Beresford's Zebras
Arclight Films is in discussions with EFM buyers on the Bruce Beresford project Zebras after picking up international sales rights.