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Ana Claudia Talancon to lead in Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, lead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in the first Miravista production, Ladies' Night. Miravista is the pan-regional production company launched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, the media arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.Talancon ...
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Talancon takes lead role in Miravista's Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, thelead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in Ladies' Night,the first production from Miravista, the pan regional production companylaunched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, themedia arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.El Crimen received a ...
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Nicole Mackey joins Capitol Films
Nicole Mackey has joined Capitol Films as head of international sales, replacing Josh Kramer who is relocating back to Los Angeles.Industry veteran Mackey most recently held the position of president, international sales at Stewart Till’s now defunct Signpost Films.Before joining Signpost in 2002, Mackey was president of international sales at ...
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Odeon Cinemas looks likely as Cinven cashes in
Odeon Cinemas, the UK's largest exhibition group, could soon change hands again, with private investment group, Cinven said to be readying a sale.According to reports in Sunday newspaper Business, Cinven is seeking $720m (£450m) for the operation. Odeon operates over 1,000 screens in some 160 sites and lost $11m (£7m) ...
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Three films share Tiger Awards at Rotterdam
Three films shared Tiger Awards at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Friday.Winning the three equal VPRO Tiger Awards were Santiago Loza's Extrano from Argentina, Park Chan-Ok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name (Jiltoo-Neun Na-E Him) from South Korea and Larisa Sadilova's With Love. Lilya (S Ljubov' ...
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Women's Prison wins Amnesty Int'l award at Rotterdam
Women's Prison (Zendan-e Zanan) by Iranian director Manijeh Hekmat has won the first Amnesty International - DOEN Award of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The Jury gave a Special Mention to Bus 174 (Onibus 174) by Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha.Ten films were nominated for the award. The jury consisted ...
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Mexican Sex blockbuster gets Brazilian treatment
Principal photography of the Brazilian version of Mexican blockbuster Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas) kicks off February 1st in Rio de Janeiro The movie boasts a stellar cast led by Murilo Benicio whose credits include Sandra Werneck's Possible Loves and Fina Torres' Woman On Top opposite ...
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IFP unveils US indie slate for Berlin
The IFP/New York hasunveiled a slate of eight films split evenly between documentaries andnarrative features - that it will screen at the upcoming European Film Marketin Berlin as part of the organization's seventh annual showcase of new work. The selections, announcedthis week by IFP/New York executive director Michelle Byrd, ...
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IFP unveils US indie slate for Berlin
The IFP/New York hasunveiled a slate of eight films split evenly between documentaries andnarrative features - that it will screen at the upcoming European Film Marketin Berlin as part of the organization's seventh annual showcase of new work. The selections, announcedthis week by IFP/New York executive director Michelle Byrd, ...
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Specialist Hispanic distributor launches into US
Cinemateca, a new distribution company for Spanish-language arthouse and classic films, kicks off next month in a bid to tap the exploding DVD market in the U.S. where DVD player penetration currently stands at 46% of TV households. The move also comes just as census figures show that Hispanics have ...
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Theatrical distributor Cinemac launches in Colombia
Despite a 40% dip in admissions over the last two years, a new distributor has launched in Colombia in a bid to introduce more independent cinema to the country. Under the banner Cinemac, the new indie plans to release three to four titles a month, starting with Victor Salva's Jeepers ...
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City Of God to open Mar Del Plata festival
Fernando Mereilles' City Of God will open the upcoming Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 6-15), the oldest film festival in the Americas.Artistic Co-ordinator Miguel Pereira announced that Meirelles' critically acclaimed film will screen out of competition, as will the selection for the closing night - Spanish director Carlos ...
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Egoyan heads main competition jury
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the competition.Atom Egoyan - director (Canada), President ...
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Talent Campus unveils programme of events
500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US (32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland ...
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Berlinale Talent Campus reveals programme of events
500 filmmakers from 61 countries will join the Berlinale Talent Campus, a winter academy of filmmaking, from February 10 to 14, 2003. 150 of them are from Germany, others come from the UK (76), Spain (21), the US (32) and France (16) as well as Argentina (6), Israel (5), Poland ...
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Kosslick names international jury of 53rd Berlinale
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has appointed seven members to the International Jury of the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Headed by Canadian director Atom Egoyan, this international group of film experts will select the winners for the Golden and Silver Bears in the competition.Atom Egoyan - director (Canada), President ...
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UK bucks downward trend of European cinema admissions
While cinema admissions fell last year in France, Germany, Spain and Italy, the UK was the only major European market to see growth in ticket sales - and by a hefty 10%-plus.Although official figures are yet to be released for the territory, the UK is likely to register at least ...
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Mexican exhibitors and distributors protest at cinema levy
Major distributors and exhibitors in Mexico plan to file an injunction before the Supreme Court to contest the new public service fee of one peso (10 cents) levied on cinema tickets. Introduced by the country's Congress in an effort to raise funding for local film production, the fee has riled ...
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French director Maurice Pialat dies, aged 77
French filmmaker and actor Maurice Pialat, whose Under Satan's Sun won the Palme d'Or in 1987 (pictured), died on Saturday, aged 77.In a message of condolence, President Jacques Chirac called Pialat a "master of the cinematographic art" who "leaves a deep imprint on the history of French film." "Through his ...
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London film critics opt for All Or Nothing
The nominees have been announced for the 23rd Awards of the London Film Critics' Circle to be held at London's Dorchester Hotel on Wednesday 12th February 2003, in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).The Dilys Powell Award for outstanding contribution to cinema ...