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Seres Queridos gears up for Madrid shoot
New talents Teresa de Pelegri and Dominic Harari are due to begin shooting their new feature project, in Madrid this month. The film is co-produced by Tornasol Films (Spain), Greenpoint Productions and the Film Council (UK), Madragoa Productions (Portugal) and the Patagonik Film Group (Argentina). Although essentially a comedy, the ...
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Ribera wraps his third feature in Barcelona
Xavier Ribera has finished shooting his third feature, A + (or Amas) in Barcelona. Boasting a cast of up-and-coming young Spanish stars (Eloy Azorin, Elvira Herreria, Fernando Ramallo, Eloi Yebra, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Moya), and an ultra-cool sound-track, A+ tells the individual tales of three youths, whose paths eventually ...
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UK's Artificial Eye picks up Kiss Of Life
The UK's Artificial Eye has picked up Emily Young's Kiss Of Life, which played in the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes film festival.Artificial Eye have set a December 27 release date for the film, which stars Peter Mullan and Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Kiss Of Life was co-funded by ...
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Spain's Ministry of Culture awards funds to 15 new films
Spain's Ministry of Culture has announced that 15 films from new directors have been selected to receive subsidies totalling Euros 2.5m in 2003. The 15 projects, which have each been granted between Euros 60,000 and Euros 210,000, are unique in that they are all in the hands of new ...
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Brown named head of marketing at UGC cinemas UK
Julia Brown has been appointed head of marketing at UGC Cinemas in the UK and Ireland. She will head up a team of eight and will report to Mike Thomson, the commercial director.Brown will map out the marketing strategy and look at all existing marketing tools for the next stages ...
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Chapman, Greenroom launch PR agency EC2PR
London-based publicist Emma Chapman is setting up a new film PR agency EC2PR, in collaboration with entertainment on-line marketing and PR company Greenroom Digital.Chapman, who was previously at Shine Communications, has recently headed publicity and distribution campaigns for films including Walter Salles' highly anticipated The Motorcycle Diaries, and events including ...
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Britney Baby, One More Time to open Tokyo Gay fest
Britney Baby, One More Time is to open the 12th Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which starts today.Running until July 21, the festival will also feature titles including Nine Dead Gay Guys from the UK, Mango Souffle from India and Girl King from Canada. The closing film will ...
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Valentin to open LA Latino fest
The seventh Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) will kick off on July 18 with a Miramax pick-up, Alejandro Agresti's award-winning Valentin, the tender story of a young boy and his attempts to find surrogate parents. Competing titles at the festival include Radio Favela by Helvecio Ratton (Brazil), Carlos ...
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Sony launches local production initiative in Mexico
Spurred by theglobal success of Oscar nominated El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)has launched a production office in Mexico City and has appointed GabrielRipstein, formerly of Mexican production company Altavista Films and itsdistribution company NuVision, as director of creative affairs. Dubbed ColumbiaPictures Producciones Mexico, the new local ...
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Chilean hotshot aims for international exposure
Chile's hottest film-maker, Jorge Olguin, has signed with Los Angeles-based D-No Entertainment and Genesis Literary Agency for worldwide management and representation respectively.The move comes after Ogluin's second feature, horror film Sangre Eterna, opened in Chile to critical acclaim last October and went on to become the become the biggest box ...
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Argentina's Sun secures slate of hot titles
Buenos Aires-based Sun Distribution Group has acquired all Latin American rights to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's (Amores Perros) first English-language film, 21 Grams, starring Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Naomi Watts. The 18 month old distribution company has also snagged Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, with Jim Carrey ...
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UK cinema admissions on track to be biggest in Europe
Cinema admissions in the UK this year could outstrip all other European countries for the first time, according to industry estimates.According to the latest research in France, local box-office continued its decline in June with a staggering 21% drop-off from 2002's June figures. June saw 11.3 million tickets sold ...
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Euro film alliance lobbies for increased broadcaster investment
At a public hearing held in Brussels yesterday to discuss the review of the TV without Frontiers directive, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) called on the European Commission to propose stronger investment and market access obligations for European films to broadcasters."Today a broadcaster can comply with the TV without ...
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Warsaw salutes Latino cinema
Juan Jose Campanella's Oscar nominated Son Of The Bride from Argentina will open Warsaw 's 4th Latin American Film Festival, the largest showcase of Latino cinema in Eastern Europe. Brazilian hit City Of God by Fernando Meirelles, is set to close the event which runs from June 18 to 29. ...
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Magdalene Sisters wins top jury prize in Newport
Peter Mullan's TheMagdalene Sisters, which walked awaywith the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, continued its winningways on the international festival circuit by being named best feature film bythe jury of the Newport International Film Festival.The MagdaleneSisters, which will bereleased in the US on August 1st through Miramax ...
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Turner Classic Movies launches shorts competition
Turner Classic Movies has launched the TCM Classic Shorts competition, with the awards ceremony to be part of The Times bfi London Film Festival (22 October - 6 November). Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes and Bernardo Bertolucci are just three of the fifteen judges to sit on the competition's panel to ...
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South Africa to make film industry a priority growth focus
Following a visit to Cannes, South Africa's deputy minister of arts and culture has pledged comprehensive support and priority focus for the local film industry.Minister Sonjica said: "Seeing and feeling the vibrant energy at the South African pavilion at Cannes crystallised much of what I have been reading and hearing ...
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Carandiru is Brazil's all-time top grossing local film
Hector Babenco's prisondrama Carandiru has become thehighest grossing Brazilian film of all time in its home territory according tolocal distributor Columbia TriStar. In terms of admissions, it hasjust overtaken 1989's family smash Princesa Xuxa E Os Trapalhoes which attracted 4.018m moviegoers.As of June 1, 2003, Carandiru has raked in $9,053,066 ...
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Taormina announces June festival line-up
The 49th Taormina BNL FilmFest, directed for the fifth consecutive year by Felice Laudadio, will screen 50 feature films during the event's eight days, 10 as world premiers and 16 as international premiers.Announcing the line-up Laudadio expressed his delight at being able to use Taormina with the aim of helping ...
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Latest Cannes sales
Turkish competition film Distant (Uzak) secured itself a US release with a sale to New Yorker, the specialist releasing operation that is now under new management.Korean sales house Mirovision secured a big deal on its hugely ambitious animated film Wonderful Days, selling the $13m-budget picture to Pathe for France and ...