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18 Years Later (18 Ans Apres)Dir: Coline Serreau. France. 2003. 90 minsWith 18 Years Later, Coline Serreau has made a surprisingly bland follow-up to her 1985 comedy, Three Men And A Cradle, which mushroomed from sleeper into one of the most successful French films ever, registering 10.25m admissions and taking around $71.75m by today's standards, as well as spawning a hit Hollywood remake (Three Men And A Baby).Coming after her more ambitious 2001 comedy-drama, Chaos, 18 Years La
Angst (Der Alte Affe Angst)Dir. Oskar Roehler. Germany. 2002. 91mins.Too much navel-gazing and too little perspective will make Oskar Roehler's formulaic psycho-drama a hard sell, at home as well as abroad. Unlike his earlier, award-winning Nowhere To Go, which put the tragedy of a disillusioned woman writer in a larger socio-political context, the demise of East Germany, this feature takes as its theme a playwright who has only one concern in life, his own sexual identity and the anguish it cau
Arclight commits to two new thrillersArclight Films has committed to handling international sales on writer/director Glenn Standring's second film, the vampire thriller Perfect Creature, and director Anne Turner's Australian/UK co-production Irresistible. Standring's debut film The Irrefutable Truth About Demons sold around the world and an August shoot is planned for this next one in Dunedin and Auckland, New Zealand. Then the action will move from New Zealand to London for post-production. Ti
Arclight sells MoonlightGary Hamilton's Arclight Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Moonlight, the next film by Paula van der Oest whose last film Zus & Zo is one of the five best foreign language film nominees this year.Moonlight, which Hamilton says will screen at the Cannes market this year, is van der Oest's fourth feature and her first in the English language. A romantic thriller about a 13 year-old girl who falls in love with an Afghan drug dealer, Moonlight recently won t
Bac sees dip in 2002 revenuesJean Labadie's Bac Majestic has announced its 2002 revenues, which registered a 3.5% drop to Euros90.8m for the year.Bac puts the slip down to the tapering off of its exhibition activities: it closed or sold theatres last year in Lille, Brest, Nimes and ParisOverall, exhibition was down to Euros3.2m from Euros6.8m in 2001. This year will also see the company divest of sites in Toulon and Douai.With such hits as 8 Women and The Pianist under its belt, the
BBC sells Sylvia Plath project to Icon for UKBBC Films has sold UK rights excluding free TV to the as yet untitled Sylvia Plath Project to Icon Film Distribution, the film of arm of the UK broadcaster announced on Wednesday.Icon previously acquired Australian rights from sales agent Capitol Films. Currently in post-production, the film was directed by New Zealander Christine Jeffs and stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Plath and Daniel Craig as Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.The project was developed by Alison Owen and BBC Films. Owen pro
BBC Worldwide to co-produce feature documentary with Germany's GreenlightBBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is working on a theatrical version of its acclaimed natural history documentary series The Blue Planet. BBC Worldwide has signed a co-production agreement with German production and international distribution company Greenlight Media to fund the feature length documentary.Greenlight Media will co-ordinate all global sales activities in regard to the TV and video/DVD rights of the film in conjunction with BBC Worldwide.T
Bertolucci tangos with ShoWestExactly three decades after Last Tango In Paris scandalized audiences and censors, Italian maestro Bernardo Bertolucci is still considered too risque for middle America, at least from the evidence of yesterday's sneak preview of his latest film to US theatre owners.After peppering up a ShoWest luncheon audience with excited talk of his upcoming release slate, Fox Searchlight's president of distribution Stephen Gilula then issued a warning to anyone eager to see the first glimpse
Blockbuster-Warner ceasefire spells change for UK film, videoVideo rental giant Blockbuster and Warner Bros this week announced that they had reached an agreement on video rental practices in the UK. The deal is likely to change the structure of the video sector, favouring "sell-through" video and new media at the expense of rentals. The agreement ends an eight month dispute that started last July when Warner announced that it would no longer maintain a "window" between video and DVD releases of its titles into the rental and retail markets.
Brian Rosen to head Australia's Film Finance Corp.It is believed that the Federal Cabinet today approved the appointment of producer Brian Rosen as chief executive of Australia's biggest film investor, the Film Finance Corporation (FFC). He will return to Australia from Los Angeles to take up the highly influential job.For the last decade Rosen has developed projects through Rosen Harper Entertainment, the company he owns in Australia with Richard Harper, and through Classic Films in the US. He has producer credits on about 10
Bulgarian Lovers goes to the USSpanish sales company Grupo PI announced it has closed an all rights deal in the US to TLA Releasing on Berlin Panorama entry Bulgarian Lovers (Los Novios Bulgaros) (pictured).Veteran director Eloy de la Iglesia's first feature film since the 1980's, Bulgarian Lovers tells the story of an affluent Madrid lawyer whose love affair with a young Bulgarian man jeopardises his social standing and ultimately his life.The Madrid-based company says it also sold all rights i
Buyers shoot for UGC's Mike BlueberryUGC International has struck a number of key sales deals on its big-budget supernatural Western, Mike Blueberry, Expanded Reality.The $35m film, directed by Jan Kounen, who previously made the stylish and ultraviolent Dobermann, is the story of a "Wild West" marshal who faces the challenge of a lifetime when his arch enemy steps out of the past. It stars Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis. Blueberry was sold to Central Partnership for Russia,
Cartoon Movie tribute nominees announcedFrance's MK2, Sweden's Folkets Bio and Spain's Grupo Filmax are among seven companies or individuals who have been nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes in recognition of their contribution to the success of feature animation in Europe.The full line-up of nominees are:Didier Brunner (France), 'for producing the greatest number of auteur films over the last five years' Grupo Filmax (Spain), 'for its strategy of production and distribution in Spain' Folkets Bio (Sweden) 'fo
Celestial Pictures launches travelling Chinese film festival in USHong Kong'sCelestial Pictures has launched a traveling US film festival of Chinese martialarts films which kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday and will travel throughuniversities and cinemas in 20 cities the country.The seriestitled Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film features ten classic ShawBrothers films produced between 1966 and 1980 from directors such as ChangCheh, King Hu, Liu Chia-liang and Chu Yuan. The series is presented by the UCLAFilm and Televi
China 'ready' for foreign-owned multiplexesChina's top film executivesays Beijing may soon allow foreign exhibitors to take a majority stake in itstheatre chains and is also actively considering relaxing the country's intricaterules regarding international co-productions.Yang Buting, chief executiveofficer of sprawling entertainment conglomerate China Film Group, told theShoWest convention in Las Vegas yesterday that the Chinese Government was easingits attitude towards foreign partnerships in order to spur more outsideinvestme
Columbia TriStar starts shooting first South Korean productionSilmi Island (working title), Columbia TriStar's first foray into the South Korean production sector, started principal photography on March 1. Fully financed by Columbia for $10m, an unusually high budget by local standards, the Korean-language feature is directed by Cinema Service founder Kang Woo-suk. Kang, a producer and investor who also directed the hit comedies Two Cops (1993) and Public Enemy (2002), is widely regarded as the most powerful figure i
ComandanteDir: Oliver Stone. US. 2003. 99mins.For his first documentary, filmmaker Oliver Stone has chosen, in typically Stone fashion, a controversial subject: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Commandante provides a fascinating look at the man behind the iconic beard and cigar. But the subject is the only controversial thing about the film. Viewers who come looking for the critical edge of Stone the film-maker will be disappointed, for Stone's presence in front of the camera is mor
Cradle 2 The GraveDir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2003. 99mins.Having successfully applied the formula first in Romeo Must Die and then in Exit Wounds, producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak reassemble many of the talents from those two $50m-plus domestic hits for another slick yet moderately budgeted package of hip-hop/martial arts action for Warner. The action feels a little rote this time out, but judging by Cradle 2 The Grave's $17.1m US opening - from 2,625
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Cradle 2 The Grave hip hops to the topWarner Bros' action thriller Cradle 2 The Grave opened in first place over the weekend on $17.1m, according to studio estimates released today (Mar 2). The martial arts-hip-hop picture was the only major bow of the weekend as the studios pace themselves in the run-up to the Academy Awards on Mar 23 and it proved too strong for the competition, keeping DreamWorks' comedy Old School in second place and shunting Fox/Regency's Daredevil into third.However the big story
Deauville Asian festival announces competition filmsThe fifth edition of the Deavuille Festival of Asian Film will kick off next week in the seaside Normandy town. From March 13 to 16 seven films will compete for the Lotus statue with a jury presided by French screenwriter Pierre Jolivet.Other members of the jury include French actresses Clotilde Courau, Sandrine Dumas, actor-directors Jean-Marc Barr and Antoine de Caunes and writer Denis Robert.The competition films are as follows: Japan's Blessing Bell directed b
Denmark's NatFilm reveals fest programmeThe line-up for the 14th edition of Copenhagen's NatFilm Festival (Mar 28-Apr 6) contains 143 features and documentaries, including many of the hottest titles from the recent Berlin Film Festival. The full programme is due to be officially announced tonight (7 Mar) at a pre-launch party and screening of writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen's highly anticipated The Green ButchersJosef Fares' colourfully unrealistic Swedish box-office hit Kops opens the festival, while Mich
Denmark's Steen wins best actress & supporting actress awards - againDanish actress Paprika Steen made awards history on Sunday by winning both best actress and best supporting actress prizes at the Danish film critics' Bodil Awards - having done exactly the same at last month's Danish academy awards, the Roberts.Steen (pictured) and director Susanne Bier took centre stage at Sunday night's Bodil Awards, which are handed out by the Danish association of film critics. Steen secured both the best actress and best supporting actress prizes for Ok
Dentists, Dopamine bookend San Francisco festAlan Rudolph's The Secret Lives Of Dentists has been selected as the opening night film for the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 17. The film, which stars Campbell Scott and Hope Davis, has been well-received at its previous screenings at the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, and is distributed in North America by Manhattan Pictures International. Arclight Films has international rights.The festival will close with another Sundance picture, Mark Decena'
Devil wins top prizes at Czech LionsPetr Zelenka's part-fiction musical documentary Year Of The Devil took top prizes at the Czech Lions, the Czech Film and Television Academy's awards for the best Czech films of 2002, at a ceremony in Prague over the weekend. Zelenka's black comedy won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director - the director's second win in both categories - following up on its win of the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival last July and the main prize at the Triest
DreamWorks considering Cinar acquisitionDreamWorks SKG is one of several companies pondering the purchase of troubled Canadian animation house Cinar Corp, according to a report in Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper. Citing unnamed sources, the report says the studio is in league with California-based investment firm Triyar Capital and Michael Hirsh, the former CEO of Nelvana Limited, the Canadian animation house Hirsh co-founded and later sold to Toronto-based Corus Entertainment. Hirsch left Corus in October 2002 to
Dreamworks joins Prague production influxDreamworks SKG has gone into pre-production in Prague on an untitled teen comedy, formerly called The Ugly Americans. The European road trip movie represents the first shoot in the Czech capital for DreamWorks, previously the only major studio not to have shot a film in the Czech Republic, which has drawn runaway U.S. productions with its skilled crews and low labour costs. The film has gone though a series of working titles, according to Matthew Stillman of Stillking Fil
Echo Lake, Esparza/Katz team to remake 50s classicFilm-maker David Riker (LaCiudad) is to direct a remake of the1953 film Salt Of The Earth, theoriginal release of which was blocked during the McCarthy era, for Echo LakeProductions and Esparza/Katz Productions.The film will be produced byDoug Mankoff of Echo Lake along with Moctesuma Esparza and Robert Katz ofEsparza/Katz Productions and Paul S Mezey who produced La Ciudad. Becca Wilson, daughter of original screenwriterMichael Wilson is co-producing. The film wil
Fireworks scores AFM deals on CoronadoFireworks Pictures closed a host of international sales on its effects-driven action film Coronado at AFM including deals with Manga in Spain, Scanbox in Scandinavia, Europa in Brazil and RCV in Benelux. The film was written and produced by Volker Engel and Marc Weigert, partners in the production company Uncharted Territory and special effects experts who have credits including Independence Day (for which Engel won an Oscar). Boasting 600 special effects shots, th
Fourtou sheds little light on Universal sale progressJean-Rene Fourtou just isn't talking. At a press conference on Thursday night announcing 2002 financial results, the Vivendi Universal chairman stuck to business and refused to be led on any of the burning questions swirling around a possible sell-off of entertainment assets.Regarding offers made by Texas oil man Marvin Davis and on-going discussions with Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone who are interested in buying up all or part of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE), Fourtou said,
France's TPS signs multi-year deal with BVI televisionOne week after Canal Plus struck an exclusive pay-TV deal with Disney for five animated features, rival French satellite platform TPS has signed a multi-year agreement with Buena Vista International Television for live-action films from Touchstone Pictures.The deal is for first window pay-TV and will include major current and upcoming releases and also gives second window pay-TV rights to TPS for Walt Disney features, excluding animation.Films so far in the package are M. Night
Gaga takes Japanese rights to Winterbottom's Code 46Gaga Communications has acquired Japanese rights to Michael Winterbottom's sci-fi Code 46, which is currently in production starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.The deal was sealed with UK-based sales agent The Works at last week's AFM, where Winterbottom's previous film, Berlin winner In This World, was one of the market's strongest selling titles. The story of two Afghan refugees, also sold by The Works, has now gone to a host of territories including France
German actor Horst Buchholz dies, aged 68The German film industry is mourning the passing of actor Horst Buchholz at the age of 68.After appearing at Berlin's Schiller Theatre, Buchholz was discovered by director Julien Duvivier who gave him his first film role in Marianne De Ma Jeunesse in 1955. In the same year, he appeared in Helmut Kaeutner's Sky Without Stars, winning the Best Actor award when the film screened at the Cannes Film Festival. His breakthrough to stardom came after he played the title ro
German film fund awards more than $5m to new projectsNew features by Dennis Gansel, Sherry Hormann, Ben Verbong and three graduation films by students of Munich's Academy for Television & Film (HFF) are among the film projects receiving over Euros 5m from Bavaria's regional film fund FFF Bayern.Olga Film's production of Dennis Gansel's historical drama Napola about the decisions to be taken by a working-class boy who becomes a pupil at a Nazi elite school in 1942 received the largest amount with Euros 1.45m. This was follo
Germany's RTL Group names new CEOGerhard Zeiler has been named chief executive Germany's RTL Group following the exit of Didier Bellens.Zeiler (pictured) will take up his new responsibilities immediately, but will also continue in his current position as CEO of RTL Television, a 100% subsidiary of the RTL Group. Commenting on his appointment, Zeiler said that "heading the only really pan-European audiovisual Group is a tremendous challenge. RTL Group has a wide range of assets in several businesses across a nu
Goodbye, Lenin tops German box office for third week runningWarner Bros-distributed pictures Goodbye Lenin and Two Weeks Notice held on to first and second place respectively in the German charts at the weekend, claiming an impressive 65% market share. Goodbye Lenin, an X-Verleih presentation of an X-Film Creative Pool Production that Warner Bros is distributing in the territory, added another $4m (Euros 3.8m) from 540 prints.Two Weeks Notice took $1.8m (Euros 1.7m) from 261,000 admissions from 716 prints in its thir
Guadalajara unveils Mexican contendersGuadalajara'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: rockumentary Alex Lora: Esclavo Del Rock & Roll and La Pasion De Maria Elena which participated at Sundance in January.Set to have their world premieres a
High-profile speakers lined up for 2nd Inside Pictures training courseFour Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis, Notting Hill producer Duncan Kenworthy and Working Title Films co-chair Tim Bevan are amongst the speakers lined up for the second edition of Inside Pictures, the training scheme set up by former PolyGram Filmed Entertainment chief Michael Kuhn.The scheme, which has secured £350,000 from the Training Fund at UK support body the Film Council, is now fielding applications for the course. The 14 participants will attend
Hoffman gets top honour at San Francisco Film FestivalDustin Hoffman is to receive the Peter J Owens Award at the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 17 - May 1. The Owens Award, named after the local cultural benefactor and longtime festival board member, will be presented to Hoffman at the Film Society Awards Night on Apr 23 at San Francisco's Ritz Carlton Hotel.A tribute to Hoffman has been scheduled for Apr 24, when a retrospective reel and onstage interview will precede a screening of Lenny.
Hong Kong film fest introduces three new international competition sectionsThe Hong Kong International Film Festival (HIFF) is introducing three international competition sections to its 27th edition (April 8-23), marking the first time the event has handed out awards.A section entitled Firebird Awards for Young Cinema will screen 11 first or second productions from new directors, including Blind Shaft, directed by China's Li Yang, Noi Albinoi from Iceland's Dagur Kari and One Night Husband from Thai director Pimpaka Towira. In the Asian
IFM has Grim Weekend at MIP-TVIFM World Releasing, the distribution associate of US/Australian international film and TV sales company IFM Film Associates, has picked up worldwide distribution rights on the horror title Grim Weekend. The picture will premiere at the upcoming MIP-TV in Cannes.Grim Weekend centres on a real estate agent who invites friends and co-workers for a weekend in a remote woodland cabin when an unknown assailant begins to murder the group. The picture was directed by Bob Willems
IMAX launches new system for use in multiplexesIMAX Corporation today (Mar 3) announced a deal with US cinema chain Jack Loeks Theatres to install its first large-format theatre system specifically designed for use in multiplex theatres. The move is a departure from the traditional IMAX format, which required construction of a new theatre. Under the new IMAX MPX technology, a small projection system can be added to an existing multiplex theatre or converted from two adjacent and under-used stadium-seating auditoria in a multiplex.T
Intacto takes top honours at FantasportoJuan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intacto (pictured) picked up best film and best screenplay prizes in the Fantasy Section of the 23rd Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 21 - Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.The UK's Danny Boyle went home with the best director prize for 28 Days Later, with Germany's Robert Schwentke getting a mention for Tattoo. 28 Days Later also won the Melies D'Argent award for the Best European Fantasy Feature in competition at the fest
Italian parliament seeks 'impartial' president for state broadcasterIn an apparent effort to contain ongoing criticism over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sway on state broadcaster RAI, the speakers of the two houses of the Italian Parliament have decided that the network's next president should be appointed from the opposition party.The unprecedented decision (Rai's president and three of its five board members are normally appointed from the governing coalition) followed the resignation last week of president Antonio Baldassarre and remaining boa
Jackass grosses out in the UKIt may feature a man having his nipple bitten by a baby crocodile but Jackass: The Movie's constitution did not prove strong enough to unseat The Ring at the UK box office last week.But Jackass, which entered the chart at number two, still made a remarkable assault on UK cinemas with a three-day gross of $2m. The adaptation of MTV's outlandish cult gross-fest, which had an unexpectedly large opening in the US last year, opened in the UK on 340 sites to an average o
Jagoda In The SupermarketDir: Dusan Milic. Serb-Ger-It. 2003. 82mins.Produced by Emir Kusturica (who has the briefest cameo in the film as a police chief), this oddball siege comedy has many of the Greater Serb's traits: a goofball surreal-symbolic take on Balkan tragedies, characters that slip in and out of caricature, and a delirious Serbian reggae soundtrack courtesy of a local wedding and funerals band. But Jagoda In The Supermarket wears the burden of Serbian history more lightly than, sa
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Latin American films dominate Fribourg competitionMore than half of the feature films showing in the competition of Germany's 17th Fribourg International Film Festival (March 16-23) come from Latin America.Brazil is represented by two films - Jorge Furtado's Two Summers and Eliane Caffe's The Story Tellers - while Argentina has four pictures: Luis Ortega's Black Box, Carlos Sorin's Minimal Stories, Adolfo Aristarain's Common Ground and Cesar Luis D'Angiolillo's Potestad - competing for the fe
Macquarie and Nine launch second production fundAustralia's Nine Network and Macquarie Bank have launched a new production investment fund with the aim of raising at least $12.3m - after the partnership's inaugural fund last year raised $13.3m out of a hoped-for $35m. The Nine Network and Macquarie Bank today (March 4) lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission aimed at raising a minimum of $12.3m (A$20m) through an unlisted managed fund for the production of a portfolio of film and television.
Mar del Plata opens with peace dedicationMar del Plata, Latin America's only A grade film festival, unspooled yesterday (March 6) with the screening of Fernando Meirelles' City Of God. Launching the event, new festival director Miguel Pereira dedicated the event to a celebration of peace. "At a time when we may soon see bombs falling on Iraq, the biggest applause should be for peace," he said. The audience responded with rousing applause; almost as popular with the Argentinian public was the observation by the g
Myriad attracted by MurdersMyriad has picked up all worldwide sales rights to the low-budget film You Can't Stop The Murders, which is being released in Australia on March 13 by BVI and Miramax. The comedy is Anthony Mir's directorial debut and he also appears in the film alongside his long-term stand-up comedy collaborators Gary Eck and Akmal Saleh. Producer Anastasia Sideris did the deal with Myriad after a call from co-president Kirk D'Amico convinced her the sales agent loved rather than needed
Neither For, Nor Against (Quite The Contrary (Ni Pour, Ni Contre (Bien Au Contraire)Dir: Cedric Klapisch. Fr. 2002. 112minsAfter the success of Europudding, the Barcelona-set youth comedy which was the fourth biggest French film at home last year (where it took $16.6m), Cedric Klapisch had a tough act to follow. He does so with Neither For, Nor Against, another ensmeble piece, but one which hives off into a completely different genre: the gangster thriller. Klapisch has avoided being tied down to a certain genre, usually ensemble comedy (Eu
New animation companies launched in Germany, SpainMTM Medien & Television Muenchen, which has been nominated in the Foreign Language Film Academy Award category for Caroline Link's Nowhere In Africa is branching out into animation production.This follows plans by MTM and the animation production house Papa Loewe Filmproduktion to work together on the development of animation films.The first joint project will be the 26-part TV series Antje & Friends, based on an idea by children's author Janosch, which is being pr
New UK tax fund targets transatlantic film distributionWarner Bros. is set to tap into a transatlantic distribution fund being raised through UK tax financing.The scheme is the brainchild of UK tax specialist Scotts Atlantic, which is currently raising the fund from private investors. While Scotts Atlantic was not available for comment, rival tax funds said that the scheme involved Warner Bros. licensing rights to its films to UK investors, who would then pass the films back to the US studio to distribute. The aim is said to provide p&a fu
Portugal's LNK Filmes strengthens its slatePortugal's LNK Filmes has announced a host of acquisitions, further strengthening its market position as well as that of its expanding umbrella holding company JRP.Pick-ups concluded at the AFM, according to commercial manager Luis Froes, who co-handles international acquisitions, include Joel Schumacher's The Phantom Of The Opera, Michael Winterbottom's Code 46, John Boorman's Country Of The Skulls, and Olias Barco's Snowboarder. In Berlin, LNK Filmes took
Producers and directors toast ChicagoFirst-time director Rob Marshall was the surprise winner of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) feature film directing award on Saturday night for his musical Chicago. The DGA honour is regarded by awards watchers as a key indicator of Academy Award success: since 1949 only five winners have not gone on to claim the Oscar statuette.The accolade is yet more good news for the Broadway adaptation, which has gained momentum in steady fashion and this weekend passed $100m at the No
Rotterdam fest acts to avoid Berlin date clashA potentially damaging head-to-head clash between the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals over the dates for their 2004 editions has been nipped in the bud.Following Berlin's announcement this week that its 54th festival will be held from Feb 5-15 (the earliest start for the German festival since its move to February in 1978), Rotterdam's organisers have now decided to bring the 33rd festival forward by a week.Speaking to Screendaily from New York, Rotterdam festival dire
Sex, History and Hinglish - Bollywood's new genresThe failure of several big-budget Indian films last year, both at home and abroad, has forced Indian filmmakers to experiment with new themes. A three-hour, big-budget Hindi movie of boy-meets-girl theme, with top stars, lavish sets, spectacular scenes set in New Zealand and Switzerland and extravagant song-and-dance numbers, costs about $7m to produce. But this kind of cinema that Hindi cinema is famous for worldwide is now struggling for survival. Export is one of the only are
Splendid's Without Apparent Motive is apparently offSplendid Pictures' $38m thriller Without Apparent Motive is not going ahead, certainly in its latest incarnation with director Bille August and stars Richard Gere and Julianne Moore. All three have left the project. The film, which was scheduled to start production in the next few weeks, had secured both Gere and Moore ' both exceedingly hot after their turns in Oscar-nominated films Chicago (Gere) and The Hours and Far From Heaven (both Moore) ' in the lead
Studio production costs soar to record levelsJack Valenti's state-of-the-industry address at ShoWest today (Mar 4) was startling not only for the fact that 2002 admissions were the highest in the US since 1957. Despite stabilising production costs over the past few years, negative cost of films released by members of the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) were up a dramatic $3.9bn in 2002 - an upturn which was only partly offset by a small drop in the average cost of releasing them.In a speech entitled Emerson's Doct
Sumner Redstone eyes selected VU entertainment assetsParamount-owner, Viacom may have emerged as the new front-runner in the race to buy Vivendi Universal's US entertainment assets. Viacom is understood to have focused its interest on Universal Studios and the TV operations, but not Universal Music.Viacom chief Sumner Redstone and Vivendi Universal boss Jean-Rene Fourtou met recently in secret to discuss the options. Fourtou is already holding a bid worth $20bn - including the music business - from Texan oil billionaire Marvin Davis.
Sweden's BUFF festival celebrates 20th anniversarySweden's BUFF, one of Europe's major children's film festivals, is to celebrate its 20th anniversary on March 11-16. The festival, which takes place in Malmo in the south of Sweden, plays an important role as a platform for children's films in the Nordic region. In 2002 the festival had 12,000 visitors.This year, BUFF will screen 91 films from all over the world. Just like at Berlin's Kinderfilmfest, there is a strong showing of Scandinavian children's films. Five out of the ten
Sweden's NonStop acquires host of titles for Scandinavian releaseSwedish acquisitions and distribution company NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian rights to Berlin Golden Bear winner In This World by Michael Winterbottom. Other new acquisitions include audience favourite Whale Rider by acclaimed director Niki Caro, the new Spanish thriller Killing Words, Australian box office hit Crackerjack and Edward Furlong's in Three Blind Mice. Romantic drama Whale Rider, by New Zealand's highly acclaimed Ni
The end of the road for Wim Wenders & Road Movies'The final chapter in the history of Road Movies may have been written with the news of the firing of Wim Wenders as managing director from the company he founded with partners in 1976 to make such classics as Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire and Buena Vista Social Club.A second managing director at Road Movies - Frank Graf - was also given his marching orders, so that the company now has only Das Werk's Joachim Sturmes in the managerial driving seat. According to a re
The One And OnlyDir: Simon Cellan Jones. UK 2002. 91mins. Spectacularly misnamed, The One And Only is anything but exceptional. Instead, it is a feeble cookie cutter comedy which represents a real disappointment given the considerable previous achievements of the talent involved: producer Leslee Udwin (East Is East), writer Peter Flannery (the BBC series Our Friends In The North, Funny Bones) and director Simon Cellan Jones (Our Friends..., acclaimed film d
The Soul Keeper (Prendimi L'Anima)Dir: Roberto Faenza. Italy-France-UK. 2003. 97mins.Italian director Roberto Faenza's first English-language film spins a historical romance out of a footnote in the history of psychoanalysis. By turns involving and frustrating, it demonstrates the danger of a many-handed script which was only translated into English at a fairly late stage. But while the dialogue smacks a little too much of a language-teaching video; strong performances from the two leads, Emilia Fox (The P
The Third Wave heralds Sonet's international ambitionsSwedish production and distribution company Sonet Film has started shooting its first English-language feature film, The Third Wave, directed by Anders Nilsson, who made local box-office hit Executive Protection in 2001.Following Sonet Film's local success both Executive Protection and last year's Everyone Loves Alice, the company has announced that it will focus more on international projects to broaden its target market."The Swedish music industry
THINKFilm buys Scherfig's Berlin hit WilburTHINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to Lone Scherfig's darkly humorous drama Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. The film, which is her English-language debut, is Scherfig's next film after Italian For Beginners, which was a critical and commercial hit around the world including the US. Trust Film Sales handled both films and finalised this sale at the AFM. "Wilbur's perfect balance of comedy,
Venice star Nadia Zandegiacomo dies, age 35Nadia Zandegiacomo of the Venice Film Festival died last week at the age of 35, having succumbed to the cancer that kept her away from the 2002 festival - the first time in ten years that she had not given her invaluable all to the event.Zandegiacomo served as a producers' and filmmakers' liaison under festival directors Gillo Pontecorvo, Felice Laudadio and Alberto Barbera. She will be remembered to all who saw her as the lovely woman wielding a walkie-talkie as she led delegations of
Whale Rider becomes 2nd highest grossing local NZ filmWhale 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 $3.8m Once Were Warriors remains the highest grossing New Zealand film in its home market.Whale Rider Producer and South Pacific Pictures managing director J
Zhou Yu's TrainDir: Sun Zhou. China. 2003. 96 mins.Comparisons will inevitably be made between Chinese mainland romance Zhou Yu's Train and Wong-Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. The photography is stunningly painterly, the narrative has the same suspended, timeless feel and Gong Li changes her skirt almost as often as Maggie Cheung. But in the end, Sun Zhou's feature is to Wong-Kar's contemporary classic what a scenic district train service is to the Orient Express. Good Machi


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Republican Senate hopeful Pat Toomey — who took less than 24 hours to put out a statement after the event that had reporters and pundits writing and blogging like wildfire — is clearly hoping that his response will help differentiate his position on Israel from that of his opponent, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak.
No matter what, Republicans are clearly gearing up to make Israel an issue in the contest.
A number of politicians issued statements addressing last week's actions, which left nine Turks dead and six Israeli soldiers wounded after Israeli commandos boarded a ship aimed at breaking the blockade of Gaza.
"Although much of the world community wants to deny it, Israel has a legitimate right to self-defense, and it is exercising that right in the waters near Gaza," Toomey said in a June 1 statement. "I refuse to join the 'blame-Israel-first' crowd."
His statement came after months of trying to differentiate his stances on Israel and Iran from those of Sestak and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who was defeated last month by Sestak in the Democratic primary.
Toomey, the former president of the conservative Club for Growth, outlined his approach during a speech in Blue Bell last week hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition — his first to a Jewish group since the primary.
As part of his outreach, he's stressing fiscal issues, arguing that the president is taking the country in the wrong direction. Though against abortion, he is focusing less on social issues than did former Sen. Rick Santorum, the last GOP Senate candidate to face voters in a general election. Toomey is also asserting that he represents a better choice when it comes to Israel.
Back in the fall, the former congressman from Allentown — who faces a tough task wooing Jewish voters who regularly shun the GOP — criticized both Democrats for failing to co-sponsor Iran sanctions legislation. (Both said that they wanted to give diplomacy more time, but ultimately voted in favor of additional sanctions.)
Sestak's response to the flotilla incident came four days after Toomey's and followed an inquiry from the Jewish Exponent.
"While the Palestinians have a right to humanitarian assistance, we must not forget that there remain radicals, fueled by organizations like Hamas, who wish Israel's destruction and have no intention of recognizing its right to exist," said Sestak.
In January, the retired Navy admiral was one of 54 Democrats who signed a letter urging the Obama administration to look for ways to ease humanitarian suffering in Gaza without jeopardizing Israeli security. He reasoned that protecting Israel's security is a vital U.S. interest, but so, too, is improving the lives of Gazans.
"Above all, this incident highlights the fact that the status quo is unacceptable, and that the United States must take a lead role in encouraging further dialogue," he said in the statement.
In many ways, the flood of statements from office-holders and candidates, as well as organizations such as the Republican Jewish Coalition and the National Jewish Democratic Council, seemed like scenes from a political rerun. The particulars may have changed, but many of the themes still sound the same.
Time and again, the RJC has argued that it represents the party of moral clarity, viewing Israel as a stalwart ally in the battle against Islamic extremism. The RJC tries to paint Democrats as having abandoned Israel in the name of relativism.
At the same time, the NJDC has repeatedly accused the RJC of seeking to exploit the Israel issue for political gains, and in the process, of weakening the bipartisan consensus of support for the Jewish state.
Records Speak for Themselves
In nearly all recent elections in the Keystone State, the overwhelming majority of Jews has stuck by the Democrats, with a small minority citing Israel as a deciding factor in their votes.
But have recent diplomatic tensions between America and Israel altered the calculus of how events in the Middle East reverberate in a domestic context?
William Wanger, a Blue Bell attorney who serves as lay chair for the local RJC chapter, predicted that with November so far away, the flotilla affair will have little impact on the final outcome. But more broadly, he argued that Israel will play a crucial part in the Senate campaign because many Jews seem so disenchanted with the direction of Obama's Mideast policy.
"I think you will see there is a man who is sympathetic and understanding of Israel, and a guy who has a moral relativistic view of Israel," Wanger said of Toomey and Sestak, respectively.
Mark Aronchick, a Center City lawyer influential in statewide and national Democratic politics, said that it's impossible for a news event of this scope not to resonate in electoral politics.
"It brings to a head what is or should be American policy in the Middle East," he said. The flotilla incident and Gaza blockade are going to work their way in, he said, although "it's important not to overstate it."
Aronchick also noted that while it's fair game for Toomey and Sestak to debate specific policy points, it's wildly inaccurate to portray either candidate as anti-Israel.
Nevertheless, shortly after Sestak's primary win, the RJC circulated a document titled "The Facts on Joe Sestak's Record: Wrong on Israel — Wrong for the Senate."
"There is no question that the record of Congressman Sestak when it comes to Israel is appalling," Matt Brooks, national executive director of RJC, said in an interview.
The RJC's document cites the Gaza letter and Sestak's refusal to sign a congressional letter signed by the majority of Congress that reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Sestak drafted his own letter instead.
Ira Forman, executive director of the NJDC, argued that Sestak's statement on the flotilla incident was not much different from Toomey's. He predicted that efforts to draw distinctions on Israel would fall flat.
"Toomey is not the right type of Republican to get Jewish votes in the state of Pennsylvania. Sestak, given his AIPAC voting record, can't be demonized as a Jimmy Carter," said Forman, referring to the former president's harsh criticisms of the Jewish state. "The result is that Jewish votes are highly likely to be overwhelmingly Democratic."
Sestak supporters say that they've got a ready-made counter to Toomey's claim to the pro-Israel mantle.
During Toomey's three terms in the House of Representatives, from 1998 to 2004, he twice voted against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's top legislative agenda — the foreign-aid bill — which annually provides the Jewish state with more than $2 billion in financial assistance. (Throughout his two terms, Sestak has backed foreign aid.)
When pressed last week at the RJC event, Toomey said that he does not oppose foreign aid in principle. Rather, he objects to the way that dollars have been disbursed and the lack of oversight involved.
Toomey added that he feels Israel no longer needs economic aid, and should simply receive military assistance.

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Olli Maatta wasn't supposed to play for the Penguins this season. Matt Niskanen seemed a likely candidate to get traded last summer because of the salary cap.
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"I think we're confident if that's the way it goes," Niskanen said.
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Are the Penguins still a Stanley Cup team with Niskanen and Maatta in the top four, and Letang out of the lineup?
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Those numbers did not drop even when Niskanen and Maatta were playing 25 minutes per night against the opposition's best line during a stretch in December that saw Scuderi (broken ankle), Martin (broken leg), Letang (elbow infection) and Orpik (concussion) miss substantial time.
Niskanen is playing the finest hockey of his career, and Maatta, at 19, has blown away teammates and coaches with his consistency. The earlier venture into top four minutes only seemed to make the unit stronger.
Fearing that Maatta might wear down later in the season, Penguins coaches' concerns earlier in the campaign have been reduced.
"Olli's progression has been exceptional," assistant coach Todd Reirden said. "He continues to climb. His play in the Olympics (for Finland) has only validated his role."
Niskanen doesn't see his rookie defense partner slowing down.
"Olli's a freak," Niskanen said. "We feel good about what we're doing."
Notes: Reirden, who has been coordinating practices for the non-Olympic Penguins at Consol Energy Center all week, ran a 45-minute workout Thursday.
He said the workouts are a combination of keeping players well conditioned while also dabbling into the finer points of the team's system. The Penguins will practice at 10 a.m. at Southpointe on Friday in a workout that is open to the public.
Reirden moved the practice from 11 to 10 a.m. so that the players and coaching staff can watch Team USA take on Team Canada in the Olympic semifinals at noon.
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The race finished without any disruption amid tight security and despite earlier clashes between police and Shia protesters in villages in the Gulf kingdom.
It was 25-year-old Vettel's second win in four races this year and the 28th of his career as he repeated his victory of 2012.
The German's victory saw him move into sixth on the all-time list of Grand Prix wins taking him past Jackie Stewart.
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May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. It draws attention to the many challenges faced by those who have speech and hearing disorders, whether present from birth or developed over time.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Baseball and the Montreal Expos formally announced Tuesday that the club will play 22 homes games in Puerto Rico next season.
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Gov. Gary Herbert was in California trying to attract business to Utah ("Utah, Virginia mount joint raid on California jobs," Tribune," April 10). Oh, really? What does he figure will attract the workers?
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Our public transportation is a real bonus, if you don't mind spending more for less convenience. But, hey, you can drive your car among some of the worst drivers on the planet.
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My Ride: 06' E46 M3 ZCP
WTT: Turbo E30 AW Coupe
1991 Chassis Alpine White 325i w/ Built M20 Motor
Hot Tanked
Bored +.020
Wiseco Pistons & Rings
O-Ringed Block
Micro-Polished & Balanced Crankshaft
Shot Peened & Aligned Rods
ARP Head Studs
ARP Connecting Rods
Crank Scraper (Dual Scrapper Design)
New Rod Bearings
New Freeze Plugs
New Main Rear Seal & Front Seals
Cold Tanked Head
Street/Track Valve Job
New Valve Guides
Micro-Polished Camshafts
New Cap & Rotor
Spark Plugs
Adjusted Valves
New Aluminum Radiator & Hoses
Forced Induction:
Replica GT35R Turbo
Replica Tial Wastegate
New Tial BOV
AEM Dry-Flow Intake Filter
3" Stainless Steel Down Pipe w/ Double Layered Flex Section
3" Stainless Steel Mandrel Bent Exhaust
200-Cell Magnaflow High Flow Metal Catalyst
Borla Resonator
3" Custom Stromung Built Muffler w/ Single Wall Tips
Modified Ebay Manifold w/ wastegate
Fittings & Routing:
Stainless Steel Braided Oil Lines
Perma-Cool Oil Filter Relocation
Red Horse AN-Fittings for all Oil/Coolant Feed and Drain
Janitorol Double-lock Clamps for Charge Pipes
Engine Management & Tune:
Megasquirt II ECU w/ Innovate Wideband
Fully Street Tuned & 8+ hours Dyno Tuned via Dyna Pack
New OEM Water Pump
New OEM Timing Belt & Tensioner
New Voltage Regulator
Transmission & Bushings:
IE Motor Mounts (Yellow)
Replica B&M Modified Short Shifter
AKG 75D Subframe Bushings
AKG 75D Rear Trailing Arm Bushings
New OEM Transmission Mount
New OEM Clutch & Mater Cylinder
New OEM Shift Bushings & Support (All)
New OEM Center Support Bearing
New Flex Disc W/ Metric Blue Hardware
Clutch Net Race Clutch 3-Puck & Pressure Plate
Clutch Net Lightweight Flywheel
E36 Short Steering Rack
Brakes & Chassis:
UUC Stainless Steel Brake Lines & Clutch Line
Fresh Ate Typ 200 Brake Fluid
New Zimmerman Drilled Rotors F&R
Axxis Ultimate Pads F&R
Reinforced Front Subframe (TMS Kit)
Adjustable Rear Suspension Tabs Welded On (OEM Hardware)
Reinforced Differential Support Bar
New Control Arms (Meyle)
New Rear Wheel Bearings
New Rear Emergency Brake Shoes
Anthracite Carpet Included (Steam Vacuumed - 97% Mint)
Houndstooth Front & Rear Door Panels
Houndstooth Rear Seats (Small rip on the side)
European Side Moldings
Momo Steering Wheel Hub
Personal 330mm Suede Wheel
Works Bell GTC Flip Up
Euro Smileys with TSX Projectors & Phillips 4300k Bulbs & Ballast
Removed A/C Condenser & A/C Filter - Main lines still intact into cabin
What's needed:
Center Console ($20) and Center Air Vents ($5 removed them as I planned to install gauges there)
Front Grill ($40)
Front Strut hat is missing one bolt
Tires are old and don't hold the power, but can still drive the car regularly without any issue.
Speakers (wiring is pre-wired)
Wash and a half day of detailing
Front Passenger side fender has a small dent the size of a tennis ball.
Borla Resonator is scraped on the bottom from a speed bump.
Small puncture on the exhaust tubing by the rear from speed bump.
Notes about the car:
Engine was broken in with Rotella 30w Oil. Flushed once dry prior to initial start. Flushed again after: 5 Minutes of initial break in, first 250 miles, and again after 1000 mile break in. Currently has about 2300 miles on the engine, and 200k on the chassis. Car is rock solid and in mint shape for it's age.
ARP Head Studs were torqued down 3 times, after heat cycles and recently checked again at 65ft/lbs using ARP Lube.
Camshaft bearings were checked to ensure proper bearing clearance via Plastigauge.
Maintained post break in with Castrol Syntec 20w-50 Synthetic.
Castrol Fluid for power steering (small leak should go away with stop leak).
Transmission was also flushed with Royal Purple.
BMW OEM Coolant was used for cooling system.
Brake system is in top notch condition. Rotors don't show any grooves from the 2000 miles of driving.
A lot of smaller items are also new that I didn't bother listing such as wiper, emblems, shift surround, and etc. This car is ready to be driven home with a pair of seats.
Power Output:
@15psi w/ pump gas
307.7wtq @ 4941rpm
303.9whp @ 5319rpm
Engine was overbuilt to handle 20psi reliably and more. Turbo can be upgraded to a real Garret with a properly sized housing as the current A/R is too big (all that was available at the time) for maximum power. Car is very fast already and eats my E46 M3 for lunch, but more power is easily available by turning up the boost.
New owner will benefit greatly from a GC Coilover kit, new wheels and tires, FCAB, LSD, and the remaining interior bits. That is literally all that is needed.
Over $10,500 invested in parts into this car easily. This doesn't account for any of the labor, R&D, and machine hours.
It's also pre-wired with 4 Channel Monster RCA's if you plan to run an aftermarket audio system.
Reason I'm selling this car is that I picked up an E46 M3 and don't have any room for either car anymore so one has to go. This car has been my baby, everything done to the car is not half-assed in any manner. It looks funky right now as it doesn't have a proper suspension or wheels. Literally all the vital components are new as they have only been on the car for less than 3-4 months and most of that time the car has been sitting.
Please only PM me for requests if you are a serious buyer.
Asking Price is $8000, if sold but I'm open to trades within the same price range or + Cash. (E39, E46, E36, or other makes must be RWD)
Serious Inquiries Only 818.746.6997.
Location Southern California, 91307.
*Car is currently sitting under a cover (also included) so I will post up older pictures of the car before I parted the suspension, wheels, seats, and Euro Grills and IS lip. Currently sits on stock suspension, 14" basketweaves and no front Euro Grills.
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Thanks! Still looking for a trade or cash monies!
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My Ride: 325xi 350sc SLK 320
Another fun looking car for sale, lots of cool stuff out there right now. Regrettably I dont even use the three cars I have now that I pedal the 300 yards to work everyday. Great looking car GLWS wish I was in the market.
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new owner with 3 bmw's need help
So I got my first BMW about 1.5 months ago a 91 735IL, I replaced the power steering pump and a aux fan fuse and now it sounds great and runs cool, except when I first start it it runs a little rough..any Ideas on the problem would be helpful.
Then Just last week I purchased a 83 528e everything works on it but the original paint has clear flaking and the seat cushions are pushed through the springs I would guess from heat rot (interior doesnt matter anyhow I have a guy that can do it all for me for a decent price) I paint myself so the paint job won't cost much either but I see a lot of pics that the 528's have nicer kits on them front bumpers and side skirts, where can I get those?
This is where the 3rd car comes into play It is a 83 635 or 633 csi euro, I picked it up because it has some nice wheels on it and the interior is decent but it has the ricaro seats that I think I want for my 528, will the back seat work in a 528 with modification? The other thing the 6 has that I want for something is the engine and manual trans that is in fantastic shape, can that engine go into the 528? After I get the stuff I want off of the 6 I will part it out it has some L front (driver) damage which included the hood, deer sometimes get in the way other than that it is a pretty decent straight clean car.
I have been looking for a couple of hours now for some answers to these q's so if you have an idea or a place to send me let me know. Thanks and appreciate it.
Hi body kits you can buy new, I am not sure where, or I would go to mye28.com and start searching the for sale section. It is the best site for the e28.
Using the rear seats has been done in the e28. I believe that there is a write up on how to do it on mye28.com. As to the engine working. You have a m20 in the 528e and the engine in the 633/635 is a m30. You can use it but you have to swap out the engine, engine harness, ecu, tranny, and drive shaft. You might also have to get another instrument cluster, because the m30 is a much higher rev engine. There are other options that you can do to help with power. You can do the e to i swap, which is taking the top of the 325i engine and putting it on you block. But you do have to shave the head. It will be a 885 casting. You can also turbo the m20 in your car. If you just want more pick up you can change out the diff with the one from the 635, the 535i, 325i, 325e. You have a 2.95 and you will get a 3.25 from the 6 and the 5. You will mostly get a 3.46 from the 3 maybe a 3.73. So those are a few ideas.
If you want to upgrade the brakes you can use the brakes from the e32, the M5, and the e34 540. The other e34 brakes are not as much of an up grade. For all of these cars it is a direct bolt on.
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This article was published 21/6/2011 (2221 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz says "it would be a mistake" for True North Sports & Entertainment to name their new NHL team the Manitoba Jets or Moose or Falcons or whatever the nickname may be, as opposed to the Winnipeg Jets or Moose or Falcons.
"I think that would be a mistake," Katz told reporters this afternoon, referring to the possibility the new club could have Manitoba in the name instead of Winnipeg.
"You check out any (NHL team) in Canada, they're all named after the city. No. 2, when you have any star entertainer come to perform in Winnipeg at the MTS Centre, all night long you will hear 'Winnipeg, how you doing? Winnipeg, it's great to be here.' Those are just facts, and it makes total sense to be Winnipeg."
Katz, however, said nobody has any control over True North's decision to name the team it has purchased for a reported $170 million. The NHL's Board of Governors approved the purchase today.
"For those who paid $170 million, they have the right to name the team whatever they choose and we will support them," said Katz, even though he would prefer Winnipeg, not Manitoba.
"I had season tickets to the Winnipeg Jets. I was there when Bobby Hull signed on Portage and Main to a million-dollar contract, which was unheard of. I was there when we were in the WHA, the NHL. I was there crying with everyone else when they left. And now they're back. So history plays a large role," Katz said.
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Jun 6, 2012 - By Steven R. PeckIt's unconscionable for finance fatcats to try to laugh off a $2-3 billion fiasco
The $2 billion loss by investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase -- and some say it is more like $3 billion -- might affect the average Fremont County citizen in less than obvious ways.
Even if you've never had a bank account there, or have never taken a call from a broker there, or didn't refinance a home mortgage there, it's highly likely that JPMorgan Chase has had a finger or two in your personal finances.
It might be through a credit card, or a mortgage that was sold and resold to or by JPMorgan Chase, or a fund manager's influence in your mutual fund or 401(k) account, or decisions by JPMorgan Chase that affect your retirement fund.
If nothing else, the announcement last month that the finance gorilla has botched things up to the tune of a $2 billion (or $3 billion) loss sent the stock markets tumbling for a couple of days, and that had a negative impact on everything from your credit card interest rate, the future of your mortgage interest rate, even your local bank's confidence in making you a car loan. The global economy affects everybody.
It borders on the unconscionable, then, that so many people in the business community and Congress are trying to laugh this off as no big deal. In hearings Wednesday before the U.S. Senate banking committee, this line of attack was tried again. A billion here, a couple billion there isn't that important, said the fatcats.
The U.S. Comptroller of the Currency begged to differ, citing insufficient management controls at the industry level for conditions which allowed so much money -- investors' money -- to be lost.
The worry, of course, is that before long it won't just be investors' money that is being lost, but taxpayers' money as well if another big federal bailout is sought.
It looks as if JPMorgan Chase isn't in a deep enough mess for that to happen, thank goodness, but the incident and subsequent hearings also point out a fact that many Americans haven't caught on to, namely that many of the supposedly sweeping financial reforms enacted by Congress following the financial collapses of 2008 haven't taken effect while meddlers try to tweak and delay them under pressure from the huge banking interests.
If the reforms had been enacted, said U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, then the latest JPMorgan Chase fiasco might well have been averted.
Regardless, say the uber-rich bankers, don't sweat $2-3 billion. It's insignificant.
Hearing that, it's hard to say which is more troubling about this huge loss, which affected millions of consumers. Is it that the banks are now so huge and so insulated that $3 billion truly doesn't matter, or that the American public is presumed to be willing to swallow "it doesn't matter" as an explanation.
Either way, something is wrong.
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Henry Peach Robinson: Victorian Photographer
Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) was one of the few photographers in nineteenth-century Britain who believed that photography could rival the "greatest" of the arts — oil painting — and he vigorously promoted this idea through his photographs and his writing. Robinson encouraged photographers to plan carefully and to produce images that looked like paintings. Sometimes this would necessitate mixing artificial elements with reality, such as costuming his models and posing them. He also advocated combination printing, a technique by which a photographer composed a complex picture by printing parts of several negatives together. But many critics felt that Robinson's works were dishonest because of their artificiality, and that they would ruin photography's chances to be respected as an art.
This exhibition examines Robinson's entire career. He began as an amateur painter and then later became an artistic and commercial photographer. The exhibition includes over 100 of Robinson's photographs and graphic works taken from the Gernsheim Collection of photographs at the Ransom Center. In his effort to create an artistic type of photography, Robinson based his subjects and compositions upon the themes of popular British genre paintings and illustrations. Throughout the exhibition are many examples of these popular images, reproduced from nineteenth century periodicals. The exhibition also places Robinson's works in the larger context of nineteenth century photography by including over 300 images by other photographers, such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.
— David Coleman, Assistant Curator of Photography & Film
This exhibition is free and open to the public at the Leeds Gallery, Fourth Floor, Flawn Academic Center through December 18. Keepsake booklets are available at the Gallery and at the Ransom Center administrative offices.