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Cannes lines up series of tributes
Two icons of French cinema passed away this year: director Maurice Pialat and producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier. In tribute, on Saturday May 17, the Cannes Film Festival will be showing 1987 Palme d'Or winner, Sous Le Soleil De Satan, the fruit of their collaboration.Then, on Sunday May 18, a ...
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CNC Associates appointed to The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
CNC Associates has been appointed by production company Pembridge Pictures to supervise worldwide marketing, media relations and publicity on the forthcoming adaptation of Thornton Wilder's novel - The Bridge Of San Luis Rey.Written and directed by Mary McGuckian, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey stars F Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, ...
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Cannes 2003 - competition line-up
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Cannes 2003 - competition line-up
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Competition line-up 2003
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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New theatrical distributor launches in Brazil
Brazilian home video distributor Imagem Filmes is venturing into the local theatrical distribution arena. The Sao Paolo-based company will continue to distribute home video product for Lumiere EBA, which has an output deal with Miramax. In recent years, Imagem has been acquiring all rights to a slew of high ...
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US distributors facing p&a cost rises in Argentina
The US majors in Argentina are facing an escalation of print production costs that is forcing them to dramatically reduce their local print runs.There is even talk of some form of strike by US majors in Argentina, where they are obliged to process their prints in a local laboratory, Cinecolor ...
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US distributors facing print and advertising cost rises in Argentina
The US majors in Argentina are facing an escalation of print production costs that is forcing them to dramatically reduce their local print runs.There is even talk of some form of strike by US majors in Argentina, where they are obliged to process their prints in a local laboratory, Cinecolor ...
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Four S.A. majors join Dv8 in digital film initiative
South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank, The National Film & Video Foundation, broadcaster SABC2, and distributor Ster-Kinekor have partnered with Jeremy Nathan's & Joel Phiri's Dv8 films to produce and distribute four digital feature films per year over three years.Dv8, a feature film initiative originally launched at the end of ...
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Babenco's prison drama gets high-profile release in Brazil
Hector Babenco's much anticipated prison drama, Carandiru, opens wide in Brazil on up to 250 prints today, according to Columbia TriStar, Brazil. Co-producer Globo Filmes, the film arm of leading broadcaster Globo TV, has invested nearly $1m in a massive advertising and marketing campaign which will include plugs on some ...
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Father Amaro triumphs at Mexico's Academy Awards
Best Foreign Oscar nominee El Crimen Del Padre Amaro swept Mexico's 45th Academy Awards, the Premios Ariel, winning in nine categories. Carlos Carrera's priest scandal drama took home nine out of its 13 nominations on April 8th, including Best Picture, Director, adapted screenplay, editing, sound and wardrobe design. Actors Damian ...
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Buenos Aires indie fest to feature up to 210 films
The fifth annual Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (April 16 to 26) will feature up to 210 films, up from 150 last year. At least 16 films - limited to first and second-time directors - are in the official competitive section. These include three titles from Argentina: Celina Murga's Ana ...
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Adrian Wootton named CEO of Film London
Adrian Wootton, acting director of the British Film Institute, has been appointed chief executive of Film London, the new body charged with representing and developing the film and media industry in the UK capital.Film London takes over responsibilities of the London Film and Video Development Agency and the London Film ...
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JR Int'l Media brings Caiman's Dream to the US
Chicago-based talent management and distribution company JR International Media has acquired domestic distribution rights to Mexican dark comedy, Caiman's Dream (El Sueno Del Caiman). Jesse Rodriguez, President & CEO of JR International Media, negotiated the deal with the film's worldwide distributor, Carlos Sanchez Sosa of Latina Films, at the Guadalajara ...
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France, Germany, UK record declining cinema admissions
France, Germany and now also the UK are seeing declining admissions in the first stages of 2003.France's national cinema federation, the FNCF, released figures for the first quarter of 2003, showing a 9% decrease in ticket sales compared to the same period in 2002. In February 2002, Asterix And Obelix: ...
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Cohen remakes hardcore anime classic for Distant Horizon
DirectorRob Cohen, whose recent filmmaking credits include the international hits XXX and The Fast And The Furious, is teaming up with Distant Horizon to rework the acclaimedbut controversial 1998 Japanese anime shocker Kite into a live action version that will water down theoriginal's explicit sexual content.Inaddition to signing on direct ...
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Toonz Animation to launch training school
India's Toonz Animation, run by a group of former Disney and Turner executives, is to launch an animation school in May.Based in Thiruvananthapuram, Toonz Animation India was recently ranked among the top 10 animation studios in the world. According to Bill Dennis, president and CEO, the Toonz initiative is aimed ...
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US judge rules against National Amusements, Hoyts cinemas
A US federal judge has ordered two major exhibitors to provide stadium seating to people in wheelchairs, after ruling that both companies had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.Judge William G. Young ruled that National Amusements and Hoyts Cinemas ranked in 2000 among the 10 largest movie exhibitors, discriminated against ...
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Tribeca hosts world premieres of InDigEnt film, restored Leone classic
Kill The Poor, the latest low-budget feature from the festival-winning digitalvideo collective InDigEnt, are among the many additional films that will bereceiving their world premieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in earlyMayDirected by Alan Taylor, whose Palookaville won the award for best first feature atthe Venice Film Festival, Kill ...
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Menemsha takes North American rights on El Bonaerense
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Films has acquired North American rights to Argentine police drama El Bonaerense, the second feature from Pablo Trapero. Menemsha secured all rights (with the exception of pay-TV, which went to HBO) from Wild Bunch/ TVOR.Trapero won widespread critical acclaim with his ...