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All articles by Staff reporters – Page 29
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Dubbed Shoe gets world premiere
The most successful German film of all time Der Schuh Des Manitou (Manitou's Shoe) got its English-language version world premiere at AFI FEST in Los Angeles last night.Following its box-office record in Germany, where it attracted nearly 12 million viewers and some $60m, Michael Herbig's irreverent comedy has been sold ...
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Metro Tartan drops Ken Park after restaurant punch-up
Distributor Metro Tartan has cancelled its UK release of Larry Clark's film Ken Park following a restaurant brawl at the weekend between Clark and Metro Tartan CEO Hamish McAlpine.McAlpine and Clark were dining together at the weekend, just ahead of the release of Ken Park at the London Film Festival. ...
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Italy, Iceland bring list of foreign language Oscar hopefuls to 40
Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio from Italy and Baltasar Kormakur's The Sea (Hafid) from Iceland have brought the current number of national submissions for the best foreign language Oscar to 40.Pinocchio, which has grossed a phenomenal $24.3m in just five weeks on release in Italy, is the most expensive film ever ...
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Industry jury still out on MIFED's future
If anything concrete could be learned from this year's MIFED it was that the jury is still out on whether the Milan event should be replaced as the pre-eminent movie market of the autumn.And there was even less consensus among buyers and sellers over whether their business calendar should be ...
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Industry jury still out on MIFED's future
If anything concrete could be learned from this year's MIFED it was that the jury is still out on whether the Milan event should be replaced as the pre-eminent movie market of the autumn.And there was even less consensus among buyers and sellers over whether their business calendar should be ...
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MIFED deals
Korea's CJ Entertainment struck its first ever Mexican sale when it sold drama The Way Home to Cine Video Y TV. Paramount Classics opens the film in neighbouring US on Nov 15. CJ, which had amassed over $1m of sales revenue by day four of the MIFED market, had another ...
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Serial killer on the loose for Dream
Dream Entertainment has concluded a slew of deals on David Jacobson's crime drama Dahmer, the true story of the controversial serial killer which has grossed more than $6m in the US.Dream co-founder Ehud Bleiberg sold the film to Les Films de L'Elysee for France and all French-speaking territories including Belgium, ...
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Focus knows how to deal
Focus Features co-president David Linde has unveiled major territory deals on How To Deal, the latest production from Ted Field and Scott Kroopf's Radar, a coming-of-age romance starring Mandy Moore. Roadshow Film Distributors has taken the film for Australia and Paradiso for Benelux alongside Radar partners Lauren Film in Spain, ...
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MIFED hit by crime spree
Burglars struck in Pavilion 8 at MIFED over the weekend, stealing laptop computers, wallets and a Palm Pilot from at least two companies. The losses will be covered by the market's insurance policy, says the MIFED organisation.As misfortune would have it, however, the robberies occurred just days before members of ...
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MIFED hit by crime spree
Burglars struck in Pavilion 8 at MIFED over the weekend, stealing laptop computers, wallets and a Palm Pilot from at least two companies. The losses will be covered by the market's insurance policy, says the MIFED organisation.As misfortune would have it, however, the robberies occurred just days before members of ...
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Argentinian entrepreneur launches Madrid film empire
Armed with seed capital of $20m-$25m, Madrid-based Argentine entrepreneur Pablo Larguia is launching a new vertically integrated entertainment empire, Innova Networks.The former founder and chief executive of Human Resources software technology company Bumeran.com has immediate ambitions to build multiplexes across Spain. To launch in January 2003, Innova Networks's intended scope ...
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Spider-Man VHS & DVD sales spin $190m record revenues
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is celebrating today after scoring the biggest ever video and DVD release of all time over the weekend with Spider-Man. The release broke first day sales records on Friday with seven million units (combined VHS and DVD) sold and more than 11 million units are estimated ...
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Tongue-twisting challenge faces Oscar foreign language selectors
Some two dozen countries have now unveiled their entries for next year's best foreign-language Oscar, a race that has already thrown up some intriguing choices including an English-language film, The Touch, as Hong Kong's preference, and a Hungarian entry that is entirely dialogue free. The UK, meanwhile, has submitted a ...
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Hong Kong submits English-language film for best foreign-language Oscar
Hong Kong has presented the Academy Awards with an interesting test case, by submitting Peter Pau's The Touch as its official entry for the best foreign-language Oscar, despite the fact the film is predominantly English-language.The body responsible for the nomination process - the Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong ...
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Media Asia's Mifed slate gets boost from Tong, Chan
Hong Kong's Media Asia has unveiled three new projects, to start shooting in the first half of next year, and confirmed that Stanley Tong will direct its big-budget Jackie Chan action vehicle, Titanium Rain. Tong previously directed Chan in his first three stateside hits - Supercop, Rumble In The Bronx ...
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Stanley Tong, Gordon Chan join Media Asia slate
Hong Kong's Media Asia has unveiled three new projects, to start shooting in the first half of next year, and confirmed that Stanley Tong will direct its big-budget Jackie Chan action vehicle, Titanium Rain. Tong previously directed Chan in his first three stateside hits - Supercop, Rumble In The Bronx ...
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Latin American scripts win through at MPA Development Workshop
Screenplays from Mexico, Chile and Uruguay beat 16 other contenders at the Feature Film Project Development Workshop and Competition 2002 organized by the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) in Miami. The winning scripts were Enemigos Intimos (Intimate Enemies) by Ana Carolina Rivera Gonzalez (Mexico), El Bano Del Papa (Daddy's Bath) ...
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Kamchatka selected as Argentina's Oscar contender
Argentina has submitted Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka to compete for a best foreign film Oscar. Kamchatka beat strong contenders led by Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas, Adolfo Aristarain's Lugares Comunes and Pablo Trapero's El Bonaerense. Trapero's gritty police drama played successfully in Cannes' Un Certain Regard while Lugares Comunes and Historias Minimas ...
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FilmFour's Motorcycle Diaries shoots across Latin America
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries has started shooting in Argentina. The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) as the young Che, rising young Argentinean actor Rodrigo de la Serna (Same Love, Same Rain) as Alberto and Mia Maestro (Frida, Hotel, Timecode) as Chichina Ferreyra. Shooting ...
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Sony to increase investment in China
Sony is to invest over $100m in production of Chinese movies, according to group chief executive Idei Noboyuki.Idei announced the proposals, according to Reuters, during a visit to Beijing on Monday. "In the next three years, Sony will invest about $100m in the Chinese movie industry," he said. It will ...