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Primer claims Alfred P Sloan prize at Sundance
First-time director ShaneCarruth collected the Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance on Saturday (24) for histhriller Primer.The prize carries a $20,000award and goes to a film that either focuses on science or technology as atheme or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.This year's jury, comprisingNeil LaBute, ...
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Along Came Polly opens top in Australia for Universal
Universal's comedy AlongCame Polly got its international campaign off to a strong start inAustralia through UIP at the weekend, opening top on an estimated $1.9m from193 sites.The film will open in therest of the world over the next three months, starting with Portugal on Feb 6.The dance drama Honeyraised its ...
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Homework, Monster Road among top Slamdance honorees
KevinAsher Green's sensual drama Homework has won the 2004 Slamdance GrandJury Sparky Award for best narrative feature, while Brett Ingram's profile oflegendary animator and Frank Zappa collaborator Bruce Bickford in MonsterRoad won the equivalent documentary prize.Inother awards at the weekend ceremony, the Grand Jury Sparky Award for bestnarrative short went ...
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Nemo to swim past $500m barrier
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives are saying Finding Nemo should pass $500m at the international box office by Friday (Jan 23) after last weekend's $7.3m haul raised its total to $496.9m.The animated hit had a chance of reaching the half-billion milestone last weekend but ultimately it was New Line International's ...
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US box office revenues to pass $10bn by 2006, says report
Box officerevenues in the US are predicted to pass $10bn for the first time ever in 2006,according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.This figurecompares with $8.7bn in ticket revenue for 2003 and is expected to grow to$11bn by 2008. Most of the gains will come from higher ticket ...
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WGA announces ten screenplay nominees
The Writers Guild of America(WGA) nominees for best original screenplay have been announced as GurinderChadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra for Bend It Like Beckham, Steven Knight for Dirty Pretty Things, Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridanfor In America, Sofia Coppola forLost In Translation and TomMcCarthy for The ...
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Cabin Fever's Roth steps into The Box for Camelot
Following the acquisition of its Sundance hit Garden State, Camelot Pictures is to finance and produce The Box, a psychological thriller written by Richard Kelly (Donny Darko) and Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) that Roth is set to direct.Kelly and Sean McKittrick's fledgling Darko Entertainment will produce with Camelot founders Gary ...
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Russia's Cinema Park opens its first multiplex in Moscow
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, got its ambitious two-year theatreexpansion underway yesterday (22) with the opening of a nine-screen Moscowmultiplex.More than 600 peopleattended the opening of Cinema Park at Kaluzhskaya, which coincided with therelease of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.The ...
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LA manager D'Andrea joins Edmonds Entertainment
LA-based manager/producerAlex D'Andrea has joined Edmonds Management, bringing with him a client rosterthat includes Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Young (who appears in the upcoming featureThe Girl Next Door) and director Gillies Mackinnon (Hideous Kinky).D'Andrea most recentlyserved with ADA Entertainment and prior to that was a manager at Seven SummitsPictures and Management, ...
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Nemo takes another $7.3m for BVI, poised to cross $500m
Finding Nemo is closing in on $500m at the international boxoffice following a $7.3m weekend haul in all its territories that raised thefilm's running total to $496.4m.Executives at Buena VistaInternational expect the smash hit to pass the half-billion mark by Saturday(24).Elsewhere for BVI, BrotherBear continued its impressive runwith a record-breaking ...
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Skyy Vodka names finalists in contest to shoot short in 72 hours
Ian Harrington, Chris Lopataand Abdallah Omeish have been named as finalists in the inaugural Skyy Short FilmProject: One Script, Three Different Film-makers, Three Very Different Films toshoot in New York City this spring.The trio beat off pitchesfrom hundreds of aspiring film-makers following the event's launch at Sundancelast year and must ...
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2004 Sundance/NHK winners unveiled
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia, Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know and Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand have won the 2004 Sundance/NHK InternationalFilm-makers Awards.Each winner will receive$10,000 and a guarantee from Japanese public broadcaster NHK to buy theJapanese television rights upon completion of the project, as well asyear-round financing ...
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Fox's Dozen lifts international haul to $8.4m
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2m at the weekend from 610 screens in five markets, raising its international running total to $8.4m.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World added $1m from 877 in 25 markets to elevate its total in Fox markets to $67.2m. Including ...
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Return Of The King crosses $500m overseas
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King was due to pass $500m in international ticket sales yesterday, a littleover a month after the film began its blockbusting run on Dec 17.The final part of PeterJackson's Tolkien adaptation grossed $23.1m from 8,104 screens in 54territories at ...
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FIlm competition to raise Black Aids awareness
BlackEntertainment Television, the Black AIDS Institute and the Kaiser FamilyFoundation, a lobby group that focuses on public health issues, have set up theRap-It-Up/Black AIDS Short Subject Film Competition.The competition is designedto raise awareness of AIDS among black communities in the US and is open topeople of all ethnicities to submit ...
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Comedies are enjoying a purple patch at the US box office these days so it was little wonder that Universal's Along Came Polly dethroned The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.New Line's fantasy epic is fading fast in its fifth week but that still shouldn't diminish Polly's ...
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Oliver Stone to receive top Bangkok career prize
Oliver Stone will receive a special Golden Kinnaree award for career achievement at the 2004 Bangkok International Film Festival.Stone will collect the honour at the event's Jan 31 awards gala, towards the end of the 14-day festival which runs from Jan 22-Feb 2."We are thrilled that we may honour Oliver ...
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Latter Days sparks TLA, Madstone war of words
A war of words has erupted between TLA Releasing and Madstone Theatres after the exhibitor cancelled the upcoming Salt Lake City run of C Jay Cox's directorial debut Latter Days, which deals in part with the life of a gay Mormon missionary.TLA Releasing lambasted the move at a Sundance press ...
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IFM picks up Deadly Deceit
AntonyGinnane and Ann Lyons' US-Australian international film and television salescompany IFM World Releasing has picked up world distribution rights to ChrisPhilpott's thriller Deadly Deceit,which will premiere at the American Film Market next month in Santa Monica.Billed as an updatedmorality tale, Deadly Deceitcentres on a bet by a handsome stranger that ...
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York Entertainment picks up Lexie, Evicted
Los Angeles-based production and distribution outfit York Entertainment has picked up two titles for home video distribution in the second quarter.Lexie is scheduled for release on Apr 20 and centres on the intrigue that surrounds a music producer's efforts to get back in the game. It stars Cindy Herron Braggs, ...