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European Film Academy announces documentary prize nominees
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for European Documentary 2002 - Prix Arte, which will be presented, in association with Arte at the European Film Awards ceremony on Saturday 7th December in Rome.The Academy also announced the names of the jury, which will convene later this month in ...
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Linda Seifert launches independent management company
The UK's Linda Seifert of London-based agency Seifert Dench Associates is setting up her own independent management company, Linda Seifert Management.Joining Seifert in the new venture are former Seifert Dench Associates agents Edward Hughes and Craig Smith plus more than forty writers, directors and producers from Seifert's client roster.Linda Seifert ...
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Two titles share China's top film honours
Yang Yazhou's Pretty Big Feet and military drama Charging Out Amazon by Song Yeming, were jointly awarded best film at the 22nd Golden Rooster and One Hundred Flowers Awards - China's top film honours - which took place in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province on Tuesday night.The best director prize was also ...
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Hero gets the Chinese Oscar nod, opens today to qualify
Zhang Yimou's highly-anticipated $31m martial arts epic, Hero, has been selected as China's candidate for the best foreign-language Oscar.The film is opening today (Oct 24) for a seven-day qualifying run on a single screen in southern China. In order to qualify for next year's Oscars, the picture must receive a ...
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Thailand's Mon-rak Transistor joins strong list of Asian foreign-language Oscar submissions
Thailand has chosen Mon-rak Transistor, the third film from hot Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, as the country's official submission for the best foreign-language Oscar.Produced by Cinemasia and Five Star Productions, the film is a genre-defying tale of an aspiring folk singer who is forced to abandon the love of his ...
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Hong Kong government plans film guarantee fund
The Hong Kong government has issued a consultation paper proposing the establishment of a Film Guarantee Fund to help local companies obtain bank loans for film production.The paper suggests that $6.4m (HK$50m) of the existing $12.8m (HK$100m) Film Development Fund should be used to guarantee loans to filmmakers from banks ...
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French porn ban could cost national film industry dear
Appearing late at night exclusively on encrypted channels, pornographic films have been a staple of the French pay-TV scene since Canal Plus launched in 1984. Now elements of the political establishment and the broadcast regulator, the CSA, are considering banning X-rated films from television. The Association of Cable and Satellite ...
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Jackie Chan, Arclight join EMG's Twins Effect
Jackie Chan has joined Hong Kong pop idols Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung in the cast of Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect.In addition, EMG announced that Sydney-based production and sales house, Arclight Films, will represent the film, which started shooting in Hong Kong on Tuesday, in all territories outside ...
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Hollywood Hong Kong scoops record number of Golden Horse nods
Fruit Chan's Hollywood Hong Kong has scored a record number of nominations - 14 in all - for the 39th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars, including best picture, best director, best actor for Glen Chin and best actress for China's Zhou Xun.The film, which beat Crouching Tiger, ...
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Padre Amaro goes to the Oscars
Carlos Carrera's El Crimen Del Padre Amaro has been selected to represent Mexico at the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The controversial priest scandal drama was widely anticipated to win the nomination given its critical acclaim and record-breaking success at the Mexican box office. Diana Bracho, president ...
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Universal moves into China with $900m theme park
Universal Studios has signed a preliminary agreement with one of China's largest tourism enterprises, Beijing Tourism Group (BTG), to build a $900m theme park in the Chinese capital, according to Hong Kong daily the South China Morning Post.The proposed park is subject to approval from the Chinese government's State Development ...
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Golden Harvest returns to production after nine-month gap
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment plans to return to production next month following a nine-month hiatus with a romantic comedy, My Lucky Year, to star Tony Leung Chiu Wai and hot up-and-coming actress Miriam Yeung.Vincent Kok is attached to direct the film which is scheduled to start shooting at the ...
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Berlinale unveils first Talent Campus
The first Berlinale Talent Campus will take place from February 10 to 14 during the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival at the House of World Cultures Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg's Prof. Klaus Keil and U.K. Film Council's Paul Trijbits, is inviting up-and-coming filmmakers from ...
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Home-grown films find growing success in Argentina
In the past month, local films accounted for 20% of total admissions in Argentina - a phenomenon few countries can boast against the assault of Hollywood titles. Argentineans have always displayed a healthy interest in their national output. However, the release of various strong local titles emerging at around the ...
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Berlinale appoints new Kinderfilmfest director
Thomas Hailer has been appointed director of the Kinderfilmfest (children's film festival) of the Berlin International Film Festival. Long-time Kinderfilmfest collaborator Maryanne Redpath is deputy director.Together with the director of the section, an advisory selection committee will be responsible for the programme. Alongside Redpath, Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick will ...
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UK film industry accounting methods criticised
The way in which financial performance is measured in the UK film and television industry should be given a total overhaul, according to a new report from business and financial advisers, Grant Thornton.The report entitled "What happened next'", reviews the accounting policies of 177 UK film and TV companies and ...
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European cinema admissions see double-digit growth during 2002
The international growth in cinema admissions during 2001 seems to be continuing this year, according to new research, with double digit growth rates in a number of major European markets.Latest figures from industry research publication, Screen Digest, show that cumulated admissions in eight major territories are up by 12.2% for ...
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Colombia's 19th film festival of Bogota kicks off
Colombia's 19th Festival De Cine de Bogota kicks off today (October 8) with a strong selection of recent films from Latin America and other parts of the world. This year showcases Chilean cinema with such acclaimed titles as Negocio Redondo directed by Ricardo Carrasco (pictured), Times Up by Cecilia Barriga, ...
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Hong Kong's Celestial signs distribution deal with Intercontinental
Hong Kong's Celestial Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Intercontinental Film Distributors for the video release of its 760-title Shaw Brothers library in Hong Kong and Macau. Celestial is spending about $14.7m (HK$115m) on restoring and digitally re-mastering the library which contains classics such as The One-Armed Swordsman and ...
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China's film industry reforms stalled in run-up to Party Congress
With all policy decisions and initiatives on hold until after the Communist Party's 16th National Congress next month, it looks as if China's long-awaited second distributor won't be launched until the beginning of next year at the earliest.The new entity, which is set to break China Film Corp's monopoly in ...