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Venice 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 ...
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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 ...
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VUE bidding down to two: NBC and Cablevision-Bronfman
Following a hotlyanticipated board meeting on Tuesday, Vivendi Universal announced it wouldenter into further negotiations with the two primary bidders for its USentertainment assets.As previously reported, thetwo remaining bidders are General Electric's NBC which, should it prove thewinner, would form an association between NBC and Vivendi UniversalEntertainment (VUE) to become ...
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Palm/Arthouse kicks off new production drive
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures and its in-house label Arthouse Films haveacquired the remake rights to Jimmy Wang Yu's classic 1975 martial artsfilm, Master Of The Flying Guillotine.The acquisitionheralds a partial shift back into development and production for Palm Pictures,which made several films in 1998 and plans to unveil a 2004 slate ...
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The Human Stain to open Chicago Film Festival
RobertBenton's eagerly awaited drama The Human Stain will open the 39th Chicago InternationalFilm Festival on Oct 2, after which there will be a tribute to the celebratedwriter-director.In addition someof this year's most acclaimed festival titles from around have beenunveiled as a selection of films that will screen at the event, ...
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Dimension's Spy Kids 3 gets special family screening at Venice
Director Robert Rodriguezand Salma Hayek will present a family screening of Dimension Films' Spy Kids3-D: Game Over at the Venice FilmFestival on Aug 28 that Miramax has offered to mark the event's 60thanniversary. Rodriguez and Hayek arealready scheduled to be in Venice for the world premiere of Once Upon A ...
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San Sebastian unveils New Directors contenders
The 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has announced the first titles set to compete in its Zabaltegi sidebar for the New Directors prize.First or second works are eligible, and aside from the Zabaltegi titles announced today several more in the Official Section and Latin Horizons sidebar will also compete ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - August 28 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalSOUTH KOREA - August 28PRE-PRODUCTIONBARAM-UI JEONSEOL(Film Mania) Budget: $2.3. Backer/int'l sales/dist: Cinema Service. Black comedy about a man who takes up ballroom dancing and falls in love. Scr/dir: Park Jeong-woo. Main cast: Lee Sung-jae, Park Seol-mi. Shooting from late September. Contact: Cinema Service, (82) 2192 8733CHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Drama ...
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New film studio launches in South Korea
Art Service, a division of South Korean major Plenus Entertainment, has unveiled Korea's latest and most technologically advanced studio complex in Paju, a city outside of Seoul located close to the North Korean border. The Art Service Studios presently consists of three sound stages and various amenities, with post- ...
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UK's Carlton Cinema channel set for cable launch
UK digital terrestrial channel Carlton Cinema is launching on cable on March 1 in a move that will increase its subscriber base by 1.5 million viewers. The 24-hour film channel, owned by UK media group Carlton Communications, has concluded agreements with UK cable operators Cable and Wireless, NTL, Telewest and ...
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Mumbai film production continues after bomb attacks
This week's terrorist attack in Mumbai, the film capital of India, has so far had little direct impact on the Indian film industry.Two car bombs exploded in the heart of the city on Monday Aug 25, killing at least 50 people.Filmmakers said business was continuing as usual and actors have ...
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Danish Film Institute takes on key staff
The Danish Film Institute has hired three new film commissioners in charge of development and production support. Dola Bonfils and Morten Hartkorn, who both have a background in documentary filmmaking, will be handling short- and documentary films, while Nikolaj Scherfig joins the recently appointed Lene Hansson in the feature film ...
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UNITED KINGDOM
Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool made a splash in the UK this week. A strong average of over $5,000 per location saw the director give its distributor UGC Films another hit following last year's 8 Women. That film was the then-fledgling UGC's second release and grossed only slightly less then ...
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The Night We Called It A Day
Dir: Paul Goldman. Australia. 2003. 95mins.Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour of Australia is the stuff of legends. During his first gig he quipped that local female journalists who had been writing racy copy about his sexlife were "buck-and-a-half hookers". Not keen on criticism from overseas guests - even from showbiz royalty ...
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Chokher Bali: A Passion Play
Dir. Rituparno Ghosh. India. 2003. 167mins.This adaptation of the novel written by India's Nobel prize winner Rabindranath Tagore in 1902 tries to expand the story of "four young people trapped in a tangle of sensuality" (in Tagore's words) into a larger parable on the state of women in general and ...
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The Miracle Of Bern (Das Wunder Von Bern)
Dir. Sonke Wortmann. Germany, 2003. 117mins.Covering similar grounds to Fassbinder's celebrated The Marriage Of Maria Braun but in a vastly different fashion, Sonke Wortmann's new film goes back to portray a moment in history that has been for many analysts, the milestone marking the beginning of Germany's post-World War Two ...
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Russia bankrolls Moscow Heat
Russian body builder and actor Alexander Nevsky begins shooting a landmark production in Moscow this week.His new film, Moscow Heat, marks the first time a Russian production, backed by Russian money, has hired a predominantly American cast and crew and brought them to Moscow to make a film.Nevsky who has ...
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San Sebastian to showcase controversial docs
Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex And Lucia) will present his new documentary about life in Basque country as one of five charged "special screenings" lined up for the Zabaltegi section of the 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).La Pelota Vasca, La Piel Contra La Piedra mixes hours of ...
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Schuster teams with Ster-Kinekor for Shucks
Leon Schuster, South Africa's highest grossing local star, has signed a deal with leading South African distributor/exhibitor Ster-Kinekor for his latest outing Oh, Shucks, I'm Gatvol. The exclusive theatrical/non-theatrical and broadcast deal marks a return for Schuster to Ster-Kinekor, the local distributor who was responsible for a number of his ...
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Taiwan producer targets Golden Horse awards
Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) is wrapping up three films at a total budget of $6.6m (NT$225m)In recent years Taiwan's film output has dwindled dramatically to around 10 films a year, compared to around 80 films a year in Hong Kong.The three films from CMPC are Alex Yang's Taipei ...