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Rotterdam revamps festival programme sections
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is to introducethree new programme sections to replace the Main Programme Features and HubertBals Fund Harvest sections during its upcoming 34th edition (Jan 26 - Feb 6,2005).'Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang' groups films bypromising talents and offers an overview of recent developments withinindependent ...
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Warner Bros makes history with first ever foreign production co in China
Warner Bros Pictures hasannounced the first ever Sino-foreign joint venture film company Warner ChinaFilm HG Corporation in partnership with China Film Group and Hengdian Group.The company will produce Chinese-language films, TV films and animated product.The announcement was madetoday (Wednesday) in Beijing by Yang Buting, chairman of China Film Group, XuYongan, ...
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A Good Woman
Dir: Mike Barker. UK-It.2004. 93minsA light souffle of a film, AGood Woman takes a decent stab at transferring Oscar Wilde's enduring play LadyWindermere's Fan from Victorian England to 1930s Italy. The crisp wit andsly social satire are a little lost in translation and the stellar cast are notalways at ease ...
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MIP-TV: Delon, Belmondo sign up for TF1 drama
French broadcaster TF1 has unveiled two big-budget television mini-series, to be produced by regular producing partner GMT, which are set to star big-screen talents, Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo.Delon will star as a Marseilles cop in La Trilogie De Marseilles, an adaptation of three best-selling French crime novels, Total ...
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HUNGARY 14 October
With the Septemberrush over, a very modest weekend at the Hungarian box office was dominated by The Village which held onto its leadposition in the third week of its release with just over 12,000 admissions.None of last week'snew releases could outdo this performance, both UIP-Duna Film's The Stepford Wives and ...
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Indian government sacks film censor
The head of India's FilmCertification board Anupam Kher has been sacked by the government and replacedby actress Sharmila Tagore.Appointed for a three-year tenure,Kher has been chief censor for just one year and had recently cleared twocontroversial films, a documentary on the Gujarat riots, Final Solutionsby Rakesh Sharma, and Michael Moore's ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - October 15
IRELAND October 13PRE-PRODUCTIONDEAD LONG ENOUGH(Grand Pictures) Budget: £1m.Backers: Irish Film Board, NIFTC, Arts Council of Wales, Section 481, S&L.Romantic comedy based on the novel by James Hawes. Prods: Michael Garland, PaulDonovan. Dir: Tommy Collins. Cast: Angeline Ball. Shooting in Donegal, NorthernIreland and Wales from late November 2004 - January 2005.Contact: ...
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Ealing moves closer to buying Bulgarian studio
Britain's Ealing Studios hastaken a step towards buying leading Bulgarian film studio Boyana Film.The home of the EalingComedies has become the first candidate to be approved by the country'sprivatization agency to enter the preliminary round of bidding. Up for grabs isa 95 per cent stake in the state-owned company.Crucially, the ...
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MIFED winds down midway through market
MIFED wound down to a virtual halt by midday on Thursday(Oct 15), one and a half days before its official end, leaving those remainingto reminisce about the market's good old days, and many more utterly confusedabout what will happen next year.Several sellersreported that sales have been good. Rai Trade sales ...
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Irish production sector gears up for revival
It certainly felt like the slowest year on record. Only oneor two films went into production in Ireland between January and the last daysof August.Everyone seems to have a different explanation - thefaltering dollar; a hiatus brought about by last year's uncertainty about thefuture of the Section 481 tax break ...
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Vanity Fair to open India film festival
The 35th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) (Nov29-Dec 9) will open with Vanity Fair, directed by Indian born film-makerMira Nair. The government backed film festival is being held in Goa for thefirst time.Neelam Kapur, director of the film festival told ScreenDaily.com,"IFFI will reflect India's identity in the world of ...
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Shochiku launches fund for ninja action feature
Shochiku, one of Japan's leading film producers anddistributors, is to launch a film fund to underwrite the production of Shinobi,a ninja action film starring Joe Odagiri (Bright Future) and YukieNakama (Game, Trick).The film, which is directed by Ten Shimoyama (Muscle Heat),will begin principal photography on October 18, with release in ...
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Rai Trade racks up sales on Argento's Hitchcock
Rai Trade has made a raft of sales at MIFED on cult directorDario Argento's upcoming film, Do You Like Hitchcock'.Argento's thriller, which is currently in post-production,has been made specifically for the TV, DVD and video markets. Under a projectmasterminded by Argento himself, Do You Like Hitchcock will be part of ...
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MIP-TV: Japan's Tohokushinsha takes ITC classics
UK-based TV distributor Carlton International Media (CIM) has sealed a $3m licensing deal with Japan's Tohokushinsha Film Corp covering broadcast, video and merchandising rights to a package of films and TV programming from the ITC library.Titles included in the deal range from movie classics such as The Boys From Brazil, ...
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Soda Pictures buys UK for Head-On, Brothers
Soda Pictures has acquired the UK/Eire distribution rightsto Fatih Akin's Berlin winner Head-On and Susanne Bier's San Sebastianprize winner Brothers. Both films will premiere in the UK at the LondonFilm Festival later this month.Soda Pictures plans to release Head-On in the UK on 18 February 2005 andBrothers in early spring.Soda ...
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DTS opens Hong Kong office under Kin Chan
California-based technologycompany Digital Theatre Systems (DTS) has opened its newest global office inHong Kong to coordinate company activities in the Asia-Pacific region.The company has hired KinChan as director of business development for Greater China to overseeoperations from Hong Kong and focus on business development in the GreaterChina area, including China, ...
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Jeunet, Rappeneau, Besson among French directors on US university tour
Olivier Assayas, Luc Besson,Claire Denis, Benoit Jacquot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Paul Rappeneau willtake part in the second edition of On Set With French Cinema, organised byleading universities in association with Unifrance and the French Ministry ofForeign Affairs.From Oct 18-Nov 22 thefilmmakers will present and discuss their features with fine art ...
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Shark Tale set for big openings in UK, Germany, France
DreamWorks'Shark Tale is set to make a big splash this weekend with a trio of major European launches that should boost the picture's $20.9m international running total (Oct 11).Shark Tale opened in France on Oct 13 and Germany a day later, with the UK set for Oct 15. The picture ...
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Damon exits Media 8, sets up new production outfit
Industry veteran Mark Damonhas officially left Media 8 Entertainment as chairman and chief executiveofficer and is assembling a Los Angeles-based production company to focus onindependent projects.Damon, whose production anddistribution outfit MDP joined Canada-based Behavior Communications in 1998 toform MDP Worldwide and changed its name this year to Media 8, parts ...
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IDA names nominees in 20th annual documentary achievement awards
Joe Sinofsky and JoeBerlinger's Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jehane Nujaim's Control Room are among nominees for the International DocumentaryAssociation's 20th Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards.Other contenders in thefeature category include Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer, BeingDorothy, Born Into Brothels, The ...