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Melbourne film festival flies patriotic colours
The opening night of the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will feature the work of two hometown talents, Sue Brooks' Cannes competition feature Japanese Story and Adam Elliot's 22-minute claymation Harvie Krumpet.Japanese Story stars Toni Collette, Matthew Dyktynski and Gotaro Tsunashima in the Australian outback and was been picked ...
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Cinema Expo warned: piracy 'ain't getting better'
Pirated DVD copies of Hulk went on sale in a small Scottish market two weeks ahead of the film's US June 20-22 opening weekend.A copy of Hulk DVD was brandished by Spencer Mott, director of operations for anti-piracy body FACT at a Cinema Expo seminar this week titled Piracy: It ...
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Winchester Entertainment results 'not pleasing'
The UK's Winchester Entertainment has posted its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2003, with turnover at £5.1m, down from £6.5m in 2002, and a pre-tax loss of £11.2m, up from £8.3m in 2002. This resulted in a loss per share of 40.2p. But the company, listed on ...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Dir: Mike Hodges. USA/UK. 2003. 103 mins Midway between a psychological thriller and a tough action movie, with a touch of existential soul-searching but never really making up its mind which way to go, Mike Hodges' new film looks better than it actually is and promises much more than it ...
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Alex & Emma
Dir: Rob Reiner. US. 2003. 96 mins Rob Reiner, of course, earned his romantic comedy spurs with When Harry Met Sally. And Kate Hudson showed a talent for the genre in last winter's $100m-plus US grosser How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. But neither director nor star manages ...
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Alex & Emma
Dir: Rob Reiner. US. 2003. 96 mins Rob Reiner, of course, earned his romantic comedy spurs with When Harry Met Sally. And Kate Hudson showed a talent for the genre in last winter's $100m-plus US grosser How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. But neither director nor star manages ...
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Moodysson returns to Sweden with Terrorists
Less than ten months after the Swedish premiere of Lilya 4-ever, Lukas Moodysson returns to local cinemas with another controversial film.His latest project Terrorister - En Film Om Dom Domda (Terrorists - A Film About Those Who Were Sentenced) is a gritty and unflinching documentary about some of the young ...
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Pineapple Bun Prince to follow animated McDull
Bliss Concepts, the Hong Kong animation house behind popular animated feature My Life As McDull, is producing a second film - Pineapple Bun Prince - which it plans to release in Hong Kong this Christmas.The first McDull movie, directed by Toe Yuen and written by Brian Tse, recently scooped the ...
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French cinema promotion event attracts decreasing numbers
France's three-day Fete du Cinema, when ticket prices are reduced by some 60%, saw ticket sales falling to 3 million, down from last year's 3.6 million. With the current downturn in French cinema -going, the results are perhaps less surprising.. Ticket sales for the first six months of 2003 are ...
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Finalists selected for Sarajevo's CineLink market
Vedran Fajkovic's Bosanski Ionac and Namik Kabil's Zadnji Dan are among six projects selected by producers Cedomir Kolar and Behrooz Hashemian and sales agent Philippe Bober to be presented at Sarajevo Film Festival's first CineLink Market from August 20-22.The complete line-up of the six finalists is:Bosanski Ionac - Vedran FajkovicGola ...
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Cologne conference hands out annual awards
zero film's Martin Hagemann and Thomas Kufus, producers of Max Faerberbock's September and Alexander Sokurov's Father And Son, are the winners of this year's Producers Award at the Cologne Conference.The Casting Award went to casting director Sabine Schroth, whose credits include international productions The Name Of The Rose, Homo Faber ...
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Distributor resistance could force easyCinema out of business
UK no-frills exhibitor easyCinema has admitted that it could be forced to close its flagship Milton Keynes cinema and exit the exhibition business if it continues to experience difficulties in securing first run titles.easy - which has no concessions stand or box office and offers tickets online for as low ...
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Palm Springs moves short film festival to Sept
The Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films is abandoning its traditional August slotand will run this year from Sept 16-22 in Palm Springs.Explaining thedecision in a statement, festival director Kevin McGuire said: 'We arelooking to offer greater educational opportunities for students and Septemberis a better month for schools to participate ...
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Where A Good Man Goes
Dir: Johnnie To. Hong Kong-China. 1999. 86 mins.Prod co: Milky Way Image. Int'l sales: Milky Way Image. Prods: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai. Scr: Yau Nai-Hoi. DoP: Cheng Sui Keung. Ed: Chan Chi Wai. Main cast: Lau Ching-wan, Ruby Wong.A delightfully off-beat crime comedy, unusually set in Macao, Where A Good ...
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New York Film Critics move awards to Dec 15
The New YorkFilm Critics Circle (NYFCC) will announce its awards on Dec 15 at the MuseHotel in New York.The awards willbe given out at the group's annual awards dinner on Jan 4 2004 at Nochein Manhattan.'2003 hasalready proven to be a great year for films of all kinds, and we're ...
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Robert Greenblatt named president of entertainment at Showtime
Veterantelevision executive Robert Greenblatt is joining US cable giant ShowtimeNetworks as president of entertainment.Greenblatt willstart work at his Los Angeles offices on Jul 14 and will oversee creative andprogramming activities on all existing and planned channels.In addition hewill supervise original productions, acquisitions, scheduling and businessaffairs and have direct involvement in ...
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Mark Gill negotiates to leave Stratus for Warner Bros
Mark Gill, the formerpresident of Miramax LA and currently a partner in Stratus Film Company, is infinal negotiations to leave Stratus and take the helm at Warner Bros'long-in-the-works specialized division. Warner confirmed reports inthe Hollywood trade press yesterday that Gill is in talks for the job, but saidas yet that ...
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China to lift quota restrictions for Hong Kong films
The Hong Kong and Chinese governments are close to signing a trade agreement that could give Hong Kong movies greater access to the mainland market, according to Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa in a statement made on Wednesday night. Senior officials from Hong Kong and the mainland are scheduled ...
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New deputy MD appointed at Columbia TriStar Germany
Gerd Bender, sales director for Columbia TriStar Film in Germany since 1990, has been promoted to deputy managing director, by Martin Bachmann, the new managing director of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's (CTFDI) German operation. Bender will also continue in his capacity as sales director. "I have known Gerd since ...
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Pippin to get the Miramax musical treatment
Miramax Films, which earlier this week announced that it hadsecured film rights to one of Bob Fosse's classic stage musicals DamnYankees, has picked uprights to another - Pippin.Pippin,which has never been filmed before, charts the life of the eponymous son ofCharlemagne who dabbles in sex, politics and war before realising ...