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* All filmmakers attending the International Film Festival Rotterdam are invited to a daily drink, organised from 5-6 PM in the top-floor foyer (second floor) of the Schouwburg. So what are you waiting for? Just be there! LP
* Today's No Motion Without Promotion seminar, jointly organised by the European Film Academy and CineMart IFFR, takes place in the Clubroom of the Hilton.
This one-day seminar for film makers and producers will examine packaging, promotion, distribution and marketing. An in-depth case study of the release of Kolya (see page 27) is among the topics on offer. LP
* Other special CineMart events today include the opening lunch (1PM, Hilton Jardin), the Dutch dinner organised by Holland Film (6PM, Pathe Foyer), the IFP Dinner (invitation only), and the CineMart opening party, organised by the Netherlands Film Fund, in the New York hotel. LP
* Sony Pictures Entertainment president and chief operating officer John Calley unveiled a new corporate structure that will leave his own stamp.
The SPE plan will give the company an unusual multileveled collaborative team approach, with nearly all senior film executives reporting directly to Calley, rather than through a series of intermediaries. LP
* Indian director Shekhar Kapur, who attended Rotterdam in 1995 with his controversial Bandit Queen , is to direct Elizabeth I, based on the early life of the 16th-Century English royal. Michael Hirst is currently working with him on the script, with shooting scheduled for this summer. The film will mark Shapur's English language feature film debut. LP
* MGM has acquired North American rights to Sundance winner Hurricane, a coming-of-age tale starring Brendan Sexton III (Welcome To The Dollhouse).
At Sundance, it grabbed the Directors Guild of America's new dramatic directing award, the dramatic cinematography award for director of photography Enrique Chediak and the dramatic audience award, which it shared with Theodore Witcher's Love Jones.
* James Bond will be back in the Royal Navy in the 18th 007 film adventure, on which filming is due to begin within the next two months.
The new film is to be shot in the UK, France and South-East Asia. A theatrical release is currently scheduled for the end of the year. LP
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