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GenArt launches new award, names festival committee
Top brass at national artsand entertainment body Gen Art are ringing the changes with new programming, anew festival committee and an inaugural award at the upcoming eleventh AnnualGen Art Film Festival (GAFF).For the first timeorganisers at the festival, which is scheduled to run from Apr 5-11 2006, willpresent the juried ...
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WBPI's Goblet exceeds weekend estimates
Harry Potter And TheGoblet Of Fire exceeded weekendestimates issued by Warner Bros Pictures International and in fact grossed$97.4m for a magnificent early $209m international running total.Combined with the $200m+domestic tally the fourth instalment in the children's franchise now stands atmore than $409.7m worldwide after two weekends.Goblet Of Fire opened in ...
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Harry dominates Thanksgiving box office in US
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire crossed $200m on its 10th day to produceanother unbeatable weekend that is poised to enter the record books as thesecond biggest Thanksgiving weekend in history.The fourth instalment in Warner Bros' family franchise added anestimated $54.9m over three days and $81.3m over the five-day ...
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Fire set to burn in Japan, Italy and Spain
That old HarryPotter magic is back andwill continue to cast its spell over worldwide audiences this weekend as WarnerBros Pictures International (WBPI) unleashes the picture in a slew ofterritories.The fourthinstalment in the children's fantasy series exploded onto the global stage lastweekend and swept past the $100m international running total mark ...
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District 13 goes to US via Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights toPierre Morel's futuristic crime thriller District 13 (Banlieue 13), which attracted close to 1 million admissions in its native France.The film is co-written and produced by Luc Besson.Magnolia plans aspring 2006 release for the story, set in the Paris ghettos around 2010 ...
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Dream picks up worldwide rights to I Am
DreamEntertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Dorota Kedzierzawska'sPolish-language title I Am (Jestem),which premiered recently at Toronto.The LosAngeles-based company plans to self-distribute the film in the US for the firsttime in its history.I Am tells the story of an orphaned boy insearch of life and identity who finds love with ...
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THINKFilm, Screen Media buy Loverboy
THINKFilm inpartnership with Screen Media Films has acquired North American theatricalrights to Kevin Bacon's Loverboy, which premiered at Sundance in Jan this year and stars Kyra Sedgwickas an obsessive mother.THINK plans aspring release to coincide with the launch of the second season of Sedgwick'stelevision crime series The Closer.Based on Victoria ...
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Dimension picks up domestic on Dead Or Alive
Dimension Filmshas acquired acquired North American distribution rights from Constantin toCorey Yuen's video game adaptation Dead Or Alive.The long-gestating project is based on Tecmo's game andfollows three women as they fight their way through a martial arts contest.Devon Aoki,Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Jaime Pressly, Eric Roberts andnewcomer Holly ...
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Sundance Channel licenses two docs from Film Sales Co
The Film SalesCompany has licensed US rights to two documentaries to the Sundance Channel- Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez' Nicaraguan El Immortal and David Redmon's Mardi Gras: MadeIn China.El Immortal premiered at the Sundance Film Festivaland went on to play at Berlin. It explores the effect of the Contra/Sandanistacivil war through the ...
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Hill to get retrospective at French Cinematheque in LA
Walter Hill willintroduce a special screening of The Driver as part of an 11-picture retrospectiveat the French Cinematheque in Los Angeles.The event kicksoff on Nov 19 and features such titles as Southern Comfort, 48 Hours, TheWarriors and The LongRiders.Hill's creditsinclude Last Man Standing, Undisputed and Will Bill. The retrospective will ...
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Film Source picks up Indian epic Time Heals
Alex Massis' Florida-basedmarketing and sales company The Film Source has picked up for worldwiderepresentation Ravi Ojha's Indian epic Time Heals.The picture centres on modern-day lovers who discover theymay be the reincarnation of star-crossed freedom fighters struggling againstBritish rule in India.Kalidas Ojhaproduced the picture, which stars Koneenica Banerjee, Saswata Chatterjee andVictor ...
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Torres, Pardue star in Gossner's South Of Pico
Gina Torres andKip Pardue are heading the cast of US drama South Of Pico, which has started shooting on LosAngeles under first-time feature director Ernst Gossner.Inspired by trueevents, the story tracks four seemingly ordinary people in Los Angeles whoselives are changed when they witness the accidental death of an 11-year-oldgirl.Paul ...
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Harry's Goblet runneth over in US on $101.4m...
As expected Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fire paralysed thecompetition at the weekend with a staggering estimated $101.4m three-day haulthat swatted away concerns over the higher PG-13 rating and surely exceededeven the expectations of Warner Bros.The result is the biggestopening in the franchise to date and will remain so even ...
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...and brings in mighty $80m haul in 19 international territories
Just as it did in North America, Harry Potter And The Goblet OfFire re-wrote the recordbook with a superlative international launch that generated an estimated $80mfrom 5,300 prints in 19 countries.The fourth instalment in the children's franchise opened numberone in all its markets, led by an industry best UK debut ...
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10 films make animated feature shortlist
Ten pictureshave made the Academy Awards' animated feature shortlist and will vie for thethree coveted nominee slots to be unveiled on Jan 31 2006.The pictures areChicken Little, Gulliver's Travel, Hoodwinked, Howl's Moving Castle,Madagascar, Robots, Steamboy, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Valiant and Wallace & Gromit: The CurseOf The Were-Rabbit.Of these, onlyGulliver's ...
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Goblet Of Fire prepares to light a fire under box office
Warner Bros Pictures International unleashes Harry Potter AndThe Goblet Of Fireday-and-date with North America in a number of key territories this weekend, 17months after launching the last instalment The Prisoner Of Azkaban.The fourth episode in J KRowling's fantasy saga is set to roll out in Germany on Nov 17, followed ...
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Favela, Brand win top IDA honours
Matt Mochary and JeffZimbalist's Oscar shortlisted cultural activism story Favela Rising and Rachel Boynton's expose of Bolivian politicalintrigue Our Brand Is Crisis havebeen awarded joint top honours in the International Documentary Association's(IDA) feature competition. The filmmakers will collecttheir prize at the 21st Annual IDA Awards Gala Benefit on Dec 9 ...
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Pressman revives Mutant Chronicles with Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane will star in thelong-in-development sci-fi environmental thriller The Mutant Chronicles for Pressman & Company based on ParadoxEntertainment's board game of the same name. The UK's Simon Hunter willdirect the project after Ed Pressman financed a $70,000 seven-minute trailedshowcasing the young filmmaker's talents and screened it for Jane, other ...
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GreeneStreet reteams with Polson on Tenderness
GreeneStreet Films isreuniting with Swimfan directorJohn Polson on the upcoming thriller Tenderness. Principal photography isscheduled to begin in early 2006 on the adaptation of Robert Cormier's novelabout a teenage serial killer and the 16-year-old runaway seduced by his charm.GreeneStreet will financeand is serving as producer along with Howard Meltzer of ...
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IFC offers ten minutes of Manderlay on iPod
IFC Films has launched anovel long-lead marketing strategy for Lars von Trier's Manderlay by offering the first 10 minutes of the filmexclusively for iPod users. The clip will becomeavailable on Nov 18 as the distributor aims to generate world of mouth on thesecond instalment in the Danish enfant terrible's USA ...