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/ 19 October 2005
TV around the world is starting to ditch humiliation and confrontation in favour of the feel-good factor and good old-fashioned fun. That’s the big message from this year’s influential five-day Mipcom audiovisual trade show which opened its doors on Monday in the ritzy French Riviera resort of Cannes.
The Child, a Belgian drama about a petty thief who sells his baby son, won the Cannes film festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or on Saturday at a red-carpet ceremony. The movie, by director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, triumphed over a field of 20 other pictures by a veteran pack of filmmakers.
When it comes to movies at the Cannes film festival, away from the worthy official screenings things are horrifying. Quite literally. This year has seen a surge in titles promising brain-eating, blood-splattering and nightmare-inducing action in that section of the market where hundreds of movies are on sale.
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/ 24 February 2005
Online games where players battle fantasy creatures in interactive universes, pitting their skills against thousands of others simultaneously, are changing the internet and reaping huge profits for developers. In five years, since Everquest — now owned by Sony Online Entertainment — was launched in 1999, global sales of all video games have reached ,5-billion, outstripping cinema sales.
United States filmmaker Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, a scathing indictment of White House actions after the September 11 attacks, won the top prize on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. Fahrenheit 9/11 was the first documentary to win Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World in 1956.
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/ 2 February 2004
A flood of innovative, user-friendly, small and often eye-catching digital music devices have been launched to bring better sound into cars, mobile phones, portable jukeboxes and even video-games consoles. Phatboxes, Pictones and media handsets were among the new gadgets flaunted at the Midem trade.
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/ 26 January 2004
Digital online music sales are taking off, boosted by the runaway success of Apple Computer’s iTunes launched last year, so the question is, who of the many new competitors will snare the market? Since its launch in the United States last April, iTunes has sold more than 30-million songs.
”If Hollywood makes money, if Bollywood makes money, then why can’t we, in Africa?” asked Robert Kofi Nyantakyi, the head of Ghana’s Gama Film Company.
It starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school: Friends gossip in the cafeteria. A young photographer snaps portraits for his portfolio. A shy girl endures taunts from classmates in the locker room.
About 250 shocked and nauseous guests walked out of the official screening of Cannes Film Festival French entry ”Irreversible” which features an explicit 10-minute rape scene.