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Damon exits Media 8, sets up new production outfit
Industry veteran Mark Damonhas officially left Media 8 Entertainment as chairman and chief executiveofficer and is assembling a Los Angeles-based production company to focus onindependent projects.Damon, whose production anddistribution outfit MDP joined Canada-based Behavior Communications in 1998 toform MDP Worldwide and changed its name this year to Media 8, parts ...
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Jeunet, Rappeneau, Besson among French directors on US university tour
Olivier Assayas, Luc Besson,Claire Denis, Benoit Jacquot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Paul Rappeneau willtake part in the second edition of On Set With French Cinema, organised byleading universities in association with Unifrance and the French Ministry ofForeign Affairs.From Oct 18-Nov 22 thefilmmakers will present and discuss their features with fine art ...
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Shark Tale set for big openings in UK, Germany, France
DreamWorks'Shark Tale is set to make a big splash this weekend with a trio of major European launches that should boost the picture's $20.9m international running total (Oct 11).Shark Tale opened in France on Oct 13 and Germany a day later, with the UK set for Oct 15. The picture ...
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DTS opens Hong Kong office under Kin Chan
California-based technologycompany Digital Theatre Systems (DTS) has opened its newest global office inHong Kong to coordinate company activities in the Asia-Pacific region.The company has hired KinChan as director of business development for Greater China to overseeoperations from Hong Kong and focus on business development in the GreaterChina area, including China, ...
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Wellspring to handle Palindromes in North America
Wellspring has acquired allNorth American rights to Todd Solondz's latest film Palindromes and plans a theatrical release in April 2005.Ellen Barkin, Stephen AdlyGuirgis, Richard Masur and Debra Monk star in the tale of a 12-year-old girlwho runs away when her parents thwart her plans to become pregnant.The picture was produced ...
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TLA picks up two Danish films on day one at MIFED
TLA Releasing has hit theground running at MIFED, picking up US home entertainment and television rightsto the Danish action comedies In China They Eat Dogs and Old Men In New Cars.Both stories follow theblood-soaked trail of a hapless, slightly psychopathic criminal. In ChinaThey Eat Dogs (1999) centres on abotched bank ...
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Warner strikes new deal for seven-screen Beijing multiplex
Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC) continued to increase itsstake in the Chinese exhibition sector with the announcement yesterday (Oct 12)that it and Guangzhou Jin Yi Film and Television Investment Co have agreed toform a joint venture company to build a multiplex theatre in Beijing with WBICserving as the majority partner.New ...
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BVI takes another $4.5m from The Village including $1m in Greece
Buena Vista International's mystery The Village raised its international running totalby an estimated $4.5m to $121.5m at the weekend, powered by a record debut fordirector M Night Shyamalan in Greece.The picture opened top in the Mediterranean territory on $1m, morethan twice as big as the director's previous biggest launch for ...
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I, Robot still top in Japan as Fox International passes $1bn
Fox International executivessaid yesterday (11) the distributor passed $1bn in ticket sales this year,adding that further details would be released later this week.Sci-fi thriller I, Robot, one of Fox International's key drivers in 2004, added anestimated $2.8m on 761 screens at the weekend for a $182.6m cumulative total.The picture stayed ...
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AFM reports record numbers of films, exhibitors
A record 435films including a record 278 market premieres are confirmed for the 25th AFMwhich takes place Nov 3 to 10 in Santa Monica, said organizing body IndependentFilm & Television Alliance (IFTA) yesterday.The line-upincludes 38 titles in official selection at the AFI FEST, the annual event withwhich AFM teams up ...
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Eternal Sunshine opens strongly in France with $0.88m for UIP
Focus Features' romance Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind became writer Charlie Kaufman's biggestinternational hit at the weekend as it opened in France through UIP on a strong$880,000.The picture has amassed $24.2m from all its territories to date,passing Kaufman's previous record of $23.5m set by Being John Malkovich, with openings ...
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CTFDI passes $1bn total gross for third consecutive year
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), theinternational distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), passed$1bn in ticket sales on Saturday (9) for the third consecutive year and the fifth in total.Combined with the domestic division, which has also passed themilestone this year, SPE has grossed more than $2.043bn in 2004.CTFDI ...
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Australian 24-hour film-making festival launches first event in the US
The creators of Australian 24-hour filmmaking festival The ShootOut are launching their first American version in Colorado on Oct 22.Shoot Out Boulder entrants will have 24 hours in which to write,cast and shoot a short film without any editing that must be no longer thanseven minutes. Prizes will be awarded ...
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Shark Tale adds $31.7m at North American box office
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated movie added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first ...
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Machuca wins audience award, Seven Times Lucky jury prize at Vancouver
Andres Wood's Chilean drama Machuca has won the AGF People's Choice Awardfor Most Popular International Film at the Vancouver International FilmFestival.Fran'ois Prevost and Hugo Latulippe's Tibetan refugee documentary WhatRemains Of Us (Quebec)shared the Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film with LeanneAllison and Diana Wilson's Being Caribou (British Columbia).The ...
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Shark Tale continues to thrash the competition
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first for ...
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Trigger Street Independent launches TV arm
Trigger Street Independent(TSI), the low budget production outfit announced in Toronto last month byKevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti's TriggerStreet Productions, has launched itstelevision arm.The new entity kicks offwith the production of two pilots, the scripted half-hour comedy Hell OnWheels written and executiveproduced by Laura Kightlinger for IFC, and the reality ...
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Bryce Dallas Howard named Rising Star at Palm Springs
Bryce Dallas Howard willreceive the Rising Star Award at the 16th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival (PSIFF) awards gala in Palm Springs on Jan 8 2005.Howard is the first honoureeto be named and receives her award in recognition of her standout feature debutperformance in M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Village.She ...
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Man On Fire spreads to UK, Spain & Brazil for Fox
Fox International'skidnapping drama Man On Fire getsa major push this weekend with openings in the UK, Spain and Brazil that shouldboost its $19.4m overall international running total.The picture goes out on Oct8 in all three markets, opening on 310 prints in the UK, 300 in Spain and 127in Brazil. Decent ...
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AFI FEST to screen 135 features during AFM
24 world, 11 North Americanand 28 US premieres are among the line-up of 135 features, documentaries andshorts from 42 countries announced for the upcoming AFI FEST presented by Audi,which runs in Los Angeles from Nov 4-14.International featurecompetition, international documentary competition, Asian New Classics,European Showcase and the Latin Cinema Series are ...