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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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NORTH AMERICA
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, ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael RadfordC;s The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing ceremony of the record-breaking 15th Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival on Sunday(19).In other awards,the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to Yann Samuell'sFrench Film Gala love story, Love ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing night ceremony of a record-breaking15th Palm Springs International Film Festival on Sunday (19).The JohnSchlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to YannSamuell's French Film Gala love story, Love Me ...
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Grams weighs in with powerful $1.1m opening in Italy
Focus Features' 21 Grams got its European campaign off to a flying start at theweekend with a $1.1m third place bow in Italy through Bim Film on 185 screens.Theacclaimed drama was the biggest opener of the weekend and its $6,126 per-screenaverage was the second biggest in the top 20 behind ...
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The Last Samurai passes $150m at international box office
The Last Samurairaised its international running total to an estimated $156.1m at the weekendfollowing a superb $38.7m haul from 31 territories.The Warner BrosPictures International drama opened number one in all five of its new Europeanmarkets and scored several strong results in Latin America and Asia.In a mightysequence of table-topping bows, ...
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The Last Samurai passes $150m at international box office
The Last Samurai raised its international running total to anestimated $156.1m at the weekend following a superb $38.7m haul from 31territories.The Warner Bros PicturesInternational drama opened number one in all five of its new European marketsand scored several strong results in Latin America and Asia.In a mighty sequence oftable-topping bows, ...
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Love Actually nears $150m for UIP
Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually grossed an estimated $3.2m from 19UIP territories to raise its cumulative UIP score to $145m. Including $6.2m fromFrance and $2m from Russia - both non-UIP territories - the film has amassed$153.2m so far.It added $1.1m in the UK for $58.6m in its sixth week and ...
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Return Of The King named PGA champ for 2004
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kingproducers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M Osborne won the Darryl FZanuck Producer of the Year Award at the 15th Annual PGA Awards inLos Angeles on Saturday (17).The New Line fantasy beat strong competition from Miramax's ColdMountain, Warner Bros' Mystic ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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With All Deliberate Speed to launch Discovery Docs banner
Award-winning documentary film-maker Peter Gilbert will direct With All Deliberate Speed (working title) for Discovery Communications' first theatrical release under the Discovery Docs banner.The film will be produced as part of a series of projects in association with Manhattan-based independent studio CameraPlanet and will mark the 50th anniversary of the ...
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Film-makers Alliance, Cinema Libre launch indie video collection
The independent film-making collective the Film-makers Alliance (FA) has partnered up with production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio to launch The Film-makers Alliance Collection, a video label that the partners have styled as a response to the studio-dominated distribution system.The collection's initial slate comprises five festival hits, the first ...