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Fortissimo hooked on Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes. Written and directed by Jarmusch, Coffee & Cigarettes will screen in Official Selection out-of-competition in Venice and as a Special Presentation in Toronto next month. Sales have already been completed for France (BAC Films), Italy (BIM) and ...
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Sky Italia pledges to invest in Italian film
In a move that will boost the confidence of the Italian film industry, Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge has announced that Rupert Murdoch's new Italian pay-tv platform will invest Euros 50m each year into the Italian film industry. "Sky believes that Italian cinema is a key element of its programming ...
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Venice jury members set
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the jury members for both its competitions, confirming that veteran Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli will head the jury of the traditional Venice 60 competition (ScreenDaily.com Aug 12)Joining Monicelli, who received Venice's Golden Lion award in 1959 for his classic film The Great War, will ...
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Bruce Almighty has scored the third largest opening ever in Argentina, after The Matrix Reloaded and Spider-Man. The comedy opened on Aug 14 for the long five-day weekend where Monday was a holiday to mark the day of Saint Martin, Argentina's liberator. The comedy broke BVI's own record set by ...
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Buddy, Slim Susie set for pan-Nordic releases
Morten Tyldum's romantic comedy Buddy and Ulf Malmros' Swedish black gangster comedy Slim Susie (Smala Sussi) are both to receive pan-Nordic releases via distribution major Sandrew Metronome.Very few Norwegian films get released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland with 2001's box-office hit Elling an exception to the rule. Swedish films ...
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Buddy, Slim Susie set for pan-Nordic releases
Morten Tyldum's romantic comedy Buddy and Ulf Malmros' Swedish black gangster comedy Slim Susie (Smala Sussi) are both to receive pan-Nordic releases via distribution major Sandrew Metronome.Very few Norwegian films get released in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland with 2001's box-office hit Elling an exception to the rule. Swedish films ...
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New arthouse distributor launches in Mexico
Daniel Birman, a co producer of Mexico's all time blockbuster The Crime Of Father Amaro and partner Fernando Alanis have founded a new arthouse distributor in Mexico. Called Film House, the new company will aim to acquire 10 to 12 titles a year. "We'll be on the lookout for arthouse ...
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New arthouse distributor launches in Mexico
Daniel Birman, a co producer of Mexico's all time blockbuster The Crime Of Father Amaro and partner Fernando Alanis have founded a new arthouse distributor in Mexico. Called Film House, the new company will aim to acquire 10 to 12 titles a year. "We'll be on the lookout for arthouse ...
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Norway's BV Film International files for bankruptcy
Norwegian industry veteran Bjorg Veland has filed a petition for bankruptcy for her distribution company Media West, formerly called BV Film International. A separate company from her sales outfit BV International Pictures, BV Film has had to close down after a disagreement over royalties on one unnamed film. Among ...
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Twin Sisters selected as Dutch Oscar candidate
Sleeper hit Twin Sisters (De Tweeling), directed by Ben Sombogaart, has been chosen as the Dutch contender in the best foreign language category at the Oscars.Twin Sisters is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by author Tessa de Loo, and deals with the relationship between twins Anna ...
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Ireland's Breathnach cranks up comedy caper
Irish director Paddy Breathnach (Ailsa, I Went Down, Blow Dry) gets back behind the camera on 25 August on the caper comedy Man About Dog, set in the Irish greyhound racing milieu. The film will shoot for seven weeks on location in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow and Belfast.Written by Pearse Elliott, ...
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Japanese goverment lines up behind local film
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs has set aside $2.14m (Y250m) to back a series of measures aimed at supporting the Japanese film industry.The money will principally be spent on four initiatives: financing the first feature film of two young directors who have won prizes at film festivals and contests; financing ...
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Pusan unveils New Currents jury
Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie (The Oak) has been invited to serve as the chairman of the New Currents jury at the 8th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) in South Korea. A competitive category for first and second-time Asian filmmakers, the New Currents section has in past years recognised the ...
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Distant, Reconstruction win top Fipresci prizes
Cannes prize-winners Distant (Uzak) and Reconstruction will take home the top FIPRESCI prizes from next month's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Cannes grand jury and best actor prize-winner Distant, from Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, was selected best film, while Denmark's Christoffer Boe was chosen for the best director ...
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Germany's Splendid posts improved figures
German licence trader Splendid Medien has posted sales revenues of Euros 20.5m for the first half of 2003, slightly up on 2002's Euros 19.8m.The provosional consolidated earnings for the first six months amounted to Euros -1.7m, an improvement on last year's result of Euros -9.6m.According to provisional figures, the most ...
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Italian distributors binge on Venice titles
The race among Italian distributors to acquire local rights to Venice competition titles is fast reaching its peak as arthouse outfit Lucky Red announced that it will be the local distributor behind Noemie Lvovsky's Venice 60 title Les Sentiments, new Italian distribution label Esse & Bi acquired local rights to ...
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Italian distributors binge on competition titles
The race among Italian distributors to acquire local rights to Venice competition titles is fast reaching its peak as arthouse outfit Lucky Red announced that it will be the local distributor behind Noemie Lvovsky's Venice 60 title Les Sentiments, new Italian distribution label Esse & Bi acquired local rights to ...
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Reviews
Sexual Dependency (Dependencia Sexual)
Dir. Rodrigo Bellott. Bolivia/USA, 2003. 105 mins.What festival can resist the temptation of a film-making debut from a 25-year-old Bolivian director - especially when it is shown on a split screen and has a title like this to boot' Even if Rodrigo Bellott's debut does not deliver as much ...
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The Medallion
Dir: Gordon Chan. US/HK. 2003. 90mins.The Medallion is for die-hard Jackie Chan fans only. Thankfully, for Columbia TriStar, they number in the millions so this scatter-brained action comedy, known as The Highbinders in earlier incarnations, should do respectable international trade. But prospects are bleak for even a modest North American ...
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Venice festival opens with tasty spread
At a time when the usefulness of film festivals is becoming a topic of hot debate, Venice has a chance to blow everyone's socks off. The 60th running of the festival gets underway today with a screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else and continues with a line-up that is both ...