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Matrix Reloaded confirmed for Cannes
Likely to deliver some of the most spectacular images on the Croisette this year, Matrix Reloaded has been confirmed as receiving a place in the Cannes Festival's official selection.The film, which is the second installment of the Matrix trilogy and is directed by the Wachowski brothers, will be given a ...
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UK Film Council takes over BFI exhibition function
The British Film Institute's exhibition department is to be closed and its functions taken over by the UK's Film Council.According to local reports from the BBC, the BFI is to close its programming unit, which supplies support to regional film theatres for the screening of arthouse product.According to the BBC, ...
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Strand takes North American rights to A Thousand Peace Clouds
Santa Monica-based Strand Releasing has snapped up North American rights to award-winning Mexican gay drama A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle The Sky (Mil Nubes De Paz Cercan El Cielo) by Julian Hernandez. Hernandez, who also wrote the screenplay, recently took home the Best Director and Best Sound awards for his ...
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Encuentros Iberoamerican market feels the effects of war
As expected, the war in Iraq had an impact on Encuentros, the first Iberoamerican market (March 21-25) held during Mexico's Guadalajara Film Festival. However, despite several last minute cancellations, the market reported 180 attendees. With a shoestring budget of $120,000, Encuentros had to overcome several problems. Gripes ranged from scarce ...
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BVITV appoints Alison Homewood
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has appointed Alison Homewood as vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa, it was announced by Tom Toumazis, vice president and managing director, BVITV. Homewood will report directly into Toumazis and joins BVITV from BBC Worldwide where she was deputy managing director ...
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Documentaries dominate Guadalajara awards
Documentaries swept the awards at the18th Guadalajara Mexican Film Showcase which ended March 27th, reflecting the sorry state of fiction feature filmmaking in Mexico last year.Best Picture winners (ex aqueo) Marcela Arteaga's Recuerdos and Mercedes Moncada's La Pasion De Maria Elena split a cash prize of $9,300 (100,000 pesos). ...
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Oscar winners get box-office boost
Following their Oscar wins, at least three films are to be re-released internationally: Spirited Away goes out on 800 screens in the US; The Pianist goes out on 60 screens in Italy and Nowhere In Africa gets a 100-screen re-release in Germany.In Italy, The Pianist, which was first released in ...
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Altavista/NuVision scales down production, distribution
Hard times and a string of box office disappointments has led topMexican production house Altavista Films (producer of Amores Perros) and sister regional distributioncompany NuVision to streamline operations. CEO Monica Lozano who reports toFederico Gonzalez Compean, the head of their parent company Estudio MexicoFilms, is now in charge of both ...
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DVD market overtaking VHS
Representing more than 50% of total European video sales, 2002's European DVD sales are estimated to be 20% ahead of 2001 at some Euros 11bn, according to the International Video Federation.In addition, the number of DVD players doubled last year, going from 13.5 million in 2001 to approximately 28 million ...
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Irreversible passed uncut for UK video, DVD release
Following its uncensored release in UK cinemas, Gaspar Noe's controversial Irreversible has been passed uncut for video and DVD release by the British Board of Film Classification. The film has been given an '18' certificate, but it will also contain consumer advice on the strong language, nudity and violent ...
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Alfonso Cuaron's production company unveils new titles
Anhelo, the film production company forged by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and partner Jorge Vergara, has unveiled three international projects in the pipeline. Cuaron and Vergara initially launched Anhelo to produce the Cuaron-directed international hit Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently in the running for a best screenplay Oscar. ...
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Indian cinema goes digital
Indian film processing giant, Adlabs has partnered with Singapore's GDC Technology to install digital projectors in 400 Indian cinemas by April 2004, with a target of creating 1,500 e-cinemas in India by 2007.GDC Technology is part of the Global Digital Creations Holdings Group. It was set up in 2000 by ...
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Kusturica joins Chereau as Cannes jury president
Emir Kusturica has been appointed president of the short film and Cinefondation jury for the forthcoming Cannes festival (Festival de Cannes). A Cannes regular, Kusturica is one of only a handful of directors who have twice won the festival's Palme d'Or - in 1985 for When Father Was Away On ...
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Warner Bros exits Australian exhibition joint venture
Village Roadshow and Greater Union today announced plans to acquire Warner Bros.' one-third stake in their Australian multiplex joint venture for approximately $61m (A$100m).The original joint venture between the three companies opened its first multiplex cinema in Australia in 1988 and now operates 319 screens in 29 multiplexes across mainland ...
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UK's Odeon cinema chain sold for $690m
The UK's Odeon cinema chain has been bought by a syndicate led by German investment bank WestLB for $690m (£431m).In addition to a 25% equity stake, WestLB will take on £330m of debt, which it will refinance and securitise against future cinema ticket sales. The other members of the consortium ...
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NuVision strikes deal with US Hispanic specialist Venevision
In what may signal the end of its plans to start up a US distribution company, Mexico-city based regional distributor NuVision has sold a package of titles produced by its sister company Altavista to Venevision International, a Spanish language distributor based in Miami. For the moment, Venevision has limited its ...
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Paulo Valente named MD of Universal Pictures Brazil
Universal Pictures International has named Paulo Valente as managing director of Universal Pictures Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, Valente will report to Wayne Borg, vice president, Universal Pictures, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The appointment is effective 24th March 2003.Valente succeeds the present MD, Marc Caux, who successfully ...
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Guadalajara unveils Mexican contenders
Guadalajara's 18th Mexican Film Showcase (Mar 21-27) has unveiled the official entries to its Mexican and Iberoamerican sections. Fifteen Mexican films have made the cut. With the exception of El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, none of the titles have yet been released in Mexico. Two documentaries are in the list: ...
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Whale Rider becomes 2nd highest grossing local NZ film
Whale Rider has become the second highest grossing New Zealand film in its home market.The film has grossed over $3.3m after four and half weeks, overtaking the previous number two picture What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted', also produced by South Pacific Pictures. With a local take of more than ...
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Russian company seeks investors for major cinema chain
A start-up Russian company is seeking investors for a multiplex cinema circuit that it claims will control 30% of a market that could be worth $1bn within eight years.According to local media reports, Alexander Timofeyev, co-founder of Investkinoproyekt, which owns one Russian cinema, said he and his partner Vladimir Murov ...