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Latvian, Croatian films tie for best film prize in Denver
Rich Devaney's debut feature and inner city drama BrooklynBound won the Emerging Filmmaker Award andDanny Schechter's WMD: Weapons Of Mass Deception took the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentaryat the 27th Starz Denver International Film Festival.LailaPakalnina's Latvian school-set drama Python tied for the Krzysztof Kieslowski Awardfor Best Feature Film with ...
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Bush's Brain to screen pre-election on Sundance
Bush's Brain, the profile of George W Bush's chiefpolitical strategist Karl Rove, will screen on the Sundance Channel on the eveof the presidential election on Nov 1.Directed andproduced by Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob, the documentary is basedon the bestselling book by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater.Bush's Brain ...
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Reynolds, Reeds leave Curb to start Fabrication
KjehlRasmussen's fledgling Hollywood-based distributor Fabrication Films has pickedup its first two features for worldwide distribution and will bring them to theAFM in Santa Monica next week.The company,which plans to distribute six to nine titles a year including US theatricalreleases, has acquired all worldwide rights to Jay Anania's mystery Her NameIs ...
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BVI's King Arthur rules in China
King Arthur, which has been a star performer forBuena Vista International (BVI) this year, scored the distributor's thirdbiggest ever debut in China at the weekend.The epicadventure opened on an estimated $870,000 on 335 screens, ranking behind PearlHarbor and Pirates OfThe Caribbean in theall-time opening pantheon.Overall thepicture grossed $1.5m for a ...
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MGM teams with NTV-PLUS in Russia channel
MGM Networks hasannounced a deal with Russia's largest Pay-TV provider NTV-PLUS to localise anddistribute a Russian-language version of the MGM channel to NTV-PLUS'direct-to-home subscribers.The agreementfollows the launch in 2002 of MGM Channel in the former Soviet Union countrieson a number of cable and MMDS systems."We have beenassiduously trying to expand ...
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I, Robot takes Italy by storm with $2.8m opening
I, Robotis fast approaching the $200m milestone for Fox International following astrong Italian debut that raised the international running total to $193m.The sci-fi thriller grossed an estimated $2.8m on 456 Italianscreens for an unconfirmed first place.After an excellent run in Japan that saw it stay top for fiveconsecutive weeks, I, ...
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Myriad acquires world on Holland's Beethoven
Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights toAgnieszka Holland's love story Copying Beethoven, starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.The story centres on a love affair between the composer and hisyoung assistant as he completed work on his last major piece, Symphony No.9.Michael Taylor and UK-basedDavid Pupkewitz serve as producers ...
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Shall We Dance' opens top in Australia
Miramax's romantic comedy remake Shall We Dance' began its international roll-out with astrong $1.5m number one opening in Australia through Buena Vista Internationalat the weekend.The picture, which stars Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez andclimbed to third in the US charts this weekend, grossed AU$2.1m on 231 screens.Shall We Dance' is ...
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Universal's Bourne opens top in Germany
A number one $2.9m debut inGermany on 528 screens was the key driver as Universal's The BourneSupremacy raised its internationalrunning total through UIP to an estimated $85.5m.The German launch claimed21% market share as it eclipsed Shark Tale in its second weekend by 31%, opening 12% bigger than The BourneIdentity in ...
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Freestyle buys into Hamptons prize winner Riley
Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban's fledgling USdistributor Freestyle Releasing has acquired all North American rights fromVisualeyes Productions and Jellyworks to Eddie O'Flaherty's directorial debut FightingTommy Riley.CURB Entertainment will handle international sales on the title,which won the Kodak Award For Cinematography at the 12th annual at the HamptonsInternational Film ...
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Most High, Capricciosa are top winners at Hamptons
Reza Bagher's Swedish drama Capricciosa won the Golden Starfish Award for BestInternational Film at the 12th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Marty Sader's drug drama Most High won Best Narrative and Leslie Sullivan's A Touch OfGreatness took the SpikeTV Best Documentary Award.The Golden Starfish Short Film Award went to Gary ...
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The Forgotten opens top in Spain and Mexico for CTFDI
Revolution Studios' supernatural mystery The Forgotten launched well in its first marketsthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), opening topin both Spain and Mexico on $1.4m on 262 screens and $1m on 300 respectively.Smaller launches in Taiwan,where it ranked top on $320,000 on 19, and South Africa, where it opened ...
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Levinson, Goldberg reteam to form DVD distributor Tango
UK industry veterans Paul Levinson and Warren Goldberg havelaunched DVD distributor Tango Entertainment, which will acquire product in allgenres for North America and the UK, with the aim of offering everything fromcut-price to star-driven titles.The company is currently based out of Santa Monica and London,with plans to open an East ...
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Columbia bears Ghost House's The Grudge to a wide audience
Ghost House Pictures' Japanese horror remake The Grudge, released in North America by ColumbiaPictures, scored the second biggest October debut of all time as it opened topon an estimated $40m, dethroning DreamWorks' animated hit Shark Tale in its fourth weekend.The Grudge drew mixed reviews but averaged an excellent $12,326 on ...
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Grudge gives Ghost House, Senator Int roaring start
Ghost House Pictures' Japanese horror remake The Grudge, released in North America by ColumbiaPictures, scored the third biggest October debut of all time as it opened topon an estimated $40m, dethroning DreamWorks' animated hit Shark Tale (the second biggest Oct opening of all time) in its fourth weekend.Rated a teen-friendly ...
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Fox International passes $1bn for fourth time
Powered by mightyperformances from The Day After Tomorrow, I, Robot and Garfield, Fox International passed $1bn in 2004 ticket sales this week.As of Oct 21, thedistributor reported a $1.07bn overseas gross, marking the fourth time it haspassed the milestone following 1998, 1999 and 2002.The road to $1bn began inearnest with ...
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Focus brings three new third-party films to AFM...
Focus Featuresis bringing three new high-profile acquisitions to AFM in Santa Monica nextmonth, namely Danis Tanovic's Hell, Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life Of Words, and Ol Parker's Click.Focus will handle all international sales on the features,which are currently in production, and will commence sales at the market, whichruns from Nov ...
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...while African American specialist Lee signs with Focus
DeaconEntertainment producer Damon Lee, whose credits include the comedy UndercoverBrother, has signed afirst-look deal with Focus Features.Focus presidentof production John Lyons and vice president of production Kahli Small will workclosely with Lee to develop such Deacon projects as the comedy Holidaze, written by Richard Murphy. Focus willhold worldwide rights to ...
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AVP, Alfie released in UK against Shark Tale
Fox International's AlienVs Predator and Paramount's remakeof comedy-drama Alfie face theunenviable task of trying to dethrone DreamWorks' box office champion SharkTale when they open in the UK on Oct22.The animated hit opened toplast weekend on $13.6m and will take some beating. AVP goes out wide on 470 prints and Fox ...
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William Greaves gets career award from IDA
William Greaves, thechronicler of African-American history whose credits include Ralph Bunche:An American Odyssey and FromThese Roots, will receive theInternational Documentary Association's (IDA) 2004 Career Achievement Award ata ceremony in Los Angeles on Dec 10."William Greaves has madeunique and important contributions to advancing our understanding andappreciation of humanity and the African-American ...