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Collateral damages Village reign
Thefive week reign of BVI's The Village over the international chart endedthis week as UIP's Tom Cruise starrer Collateral moved to the head ofthe pack.Aseries of new number one bows in Europe, including France, Belgium, TheNetherlands and Poland boosted Collateral into the lead. Collateral launchedinternationally the same week as The ...
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BBC Films chief warns of UK cash flow crisis
BBC Films chief David Thompson has warned that the UK film industry isfacing a cash flow crisis during pre-production.Thompson this week called for an emergency meeting with producers andfinanciers which would be open to the British industry to discuss the problem.He warned that the failure of financiers to underwrite the ...
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Korea resolves foreign Oscar controversy
Afterprotracted deliberation which has caused considerable controversy at home,South Korea has chosen Kang Je-gyu's Korean War film Tae Guk Gi torepresent the country in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar competition.A special5-person jury appointed by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) decided on Sept 22to conditionally recommend Kim Ki-duk's award winning ...
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De La Iglesia wraps The Child's Room
Alex de la Iglesia will wrap shooting next week on the firstin a landmark series of six genre TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed "Filmsto Keep You Awake."Theseries is the first of its kind in Spain. Filmax is presenting thetitles to buyers this week at Mipcom. Other directors involved ...
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MGM wraps up Bond deal with France 2
Frenchnational broadcaster France 2 has announced the acquisition of the JamesBond catalogue of films from MGM.Thecatalogue represents 20 films which will begin airing in 2006. The deal marks areturn to France 2 for the Bond series which aired on the channelroughly ten years ago.In theintervening time, leading private network TF1 ...
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France outlines strategy to bring shoots back home
The newlyinstalled chief of France's National Film Commission, Patrick Lamassoure,presented his strategy for the coming year at this week's MIPCOM, putting afocus on bringing film shoots back home.France has suffered from a spate of runaway production inthe past few years. But, thanks to the country's recently implemented taxcredit scheme, the ...
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Warner strikes package deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution hassigned an exclusive, multi-year free television deal with Russia's statebroadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerly called RTR).The deal sees TV Channel Russia get the terrestrialtelevision rights to a slate of current and upcoming feature films, including HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Matrix Revolutions, Troy, ...
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Toubon re-elected as Eurimages chief
JacquesToubon, the former French minister of culture, has been re-elected as presidentof film support body Eurimages.The re-election took place thisweek in Istanbul at Eurimages' 91st management board meeting.Toubon, who was first appointed in November 2002, now has another two-yearterm. Normal Eurimages rules only allow a president to be re-elected once.Although ...
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Cinematheque Ontario's Quandt wins prize from Japan Foundation
James Quandt, the seniorprogrammer of Cinematheque Ontario, has been awarded the Special Prize for Artsand Culture from The Japan Foundation.The honour recognizesQuandt's extensive scholarly work in Japanese cinema, from monographs onJapanese film masters, such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Shohei Imamura and KonIchikawa, and numerous individual and overview retrospectives that have touredinternationally.In ...
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BSkyB says Yes with Buena Vista, Warner
BSkyB could be the next major player to invest in UK video-on-demand (VoD) pioneer Yes Television. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph the News Corp subsidiary BSkyB is preparing to take a stake in Yes, which is currently in the middle of an £800m flotation on the London ...
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Moody Street, IPW snare Delpy for Lucy Keyes
Julie Delpy is in finaltalks to star in the psychological thriller The Legend Of Lucy Keyes, which writer/director John Stimpson will directwhen shooting begins in Massachusets on Nov 1.Inspired by a well-knownMassachusetts legend, the story chronicles the experiences of a damaged familythat relocates to a home in rural New England ...
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WBITD signs free-TV deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) has signed an exclusive, multi-year freetelevision deal with Russia's state broadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerlyRTR).The deal means TV ChannelRussia acquires terrestrial television rights to a slate of current andupcoming features, including Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, TheMatrix Revolutions, Troy, The Last Samurai, and ...
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Participant teams with THINKFilm on Arna's Children
Los Angeles-based productioncompany Participant Productions has acquired all US rights to Juliano Mer Khamis'sactivism documentary and Tribeca winner Arna's Children, and will partner with ThinkFilm on the New Yorkrelease on Oct 8.The film chronicles Arna MerKhamis, the Jewish-born activist who married a Palestinian Arab and spent herlife campaigning for human ...
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AFI FEST to screen 135 features during AFM
24 world, 11 North Americanand 28 US premieres are among the line-up of 135 features, documentaries andshorts from 42 countries announced for the upcoming AFI FEST presented by Audi,which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 4-14.International featurecompetition, international documentary competition, Asian New Classics,European Showcase and the Latin Cinema Series are ...
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Loncraine steps in to Warner/VRP thriller Wrong Element
Richard Loncraine has stepped in to direct the thriller TheWrong Element starringHarrison Ford and Paul Bettany, which Warner Bros Pictures and Village Roadshow Picturesare co-financing.Mark Pellington had previously been attached to direct but pulledout after a family tragedy.Based on Joe Forte's screenplay, the story centres on a securityexpert who must ...
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PGA to take legal action against phoney producer credits
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) said yesterday (6) that itwould immediately begin to seek court injunctions against studios anddistributors who engaged in the increasingly prevalent use of counterfeit"produced by" credits.Speaking at the Los Angeles launch of the Truth In Creditscampaign, PGA president Kathleen Kennedy said the PGA was no ...
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INTERNATIONAL 7 October
Thefive week reign of BVI's The Village over the international chart endedthis week as UIP's Tom Cruise starrer Collateral moved to the head ofthe pack.Aseries of new number one bows in Europe, including France, Belgium, TheNetherlands and Poland boosted Collateral into the lead. Collateral launchedinternationally the same week as The ...
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Erratum: Turtles Can Fly
On September 15, ScreenDaily.com reported that USrights to San Sebastian prize winner Turtles Can Fly had been sold toNew Yorker by Bac Films. This was then repeated in the weekly magazine editionof Screen International on September 24.Screenwould like to point out that this information was incorrect, and we would liketo ...
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Euros 50m German fund lines up US indie projects
US independent producers Inferno Distribution, Bob YariProductions and Internationalmedia are being lined up as possible sources ofprojects for a new Academy Film Fund launched by ABN Amro's private bankDelbrueck Bethmann Maffei (DBM).The Academy Film Fund aims to have a volume of at leastEuros 50m and would finance the production of ...
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Five Children And It
Dir: John Stephenson. UK. 2004. 89mins.A well-produced children's film based on the novel by Railway Childrenwriter E Nesbit, Five Children And It feels out of sync with theentertainment tastes of today's family audiences. Relentlessly pleasant anddevoid of any tension in the plot, it deliberately flies in the face ofcontemporary culture ...