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Weir to receive Schlesinger BAFTA/LA award
Peter Weir will receiveBAFTA/LA's John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence atthe 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.'We are delighted tobe honoring director Peter Weir, who has made some of the finest films of ourtime,' BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said in a statement.'His films, including Witness,Dead ...
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UK's Rabiger gets IDA Preservation & Scholarship Award
Film-maker andeducator Michael Rabiger will receive the 2003 International DocumentaryAssociation (IDA) Preservation and Scholarship Award at the body's annual awardsin Los Angeles on Dec 12.The honour isawarded to an individual or organisation that, in the words of the IDA'spresident Michael Donaldson, has made "substantial and enduring contributionsto non-fiction film-making"."Michael Rabigerhas ...
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Hollywood nine commit to MPAA screener ban
The seven major studios,their subsidiaries and DreamWorks and New Line will not send out preview"screener" tapes this awards season after committing to a MotionPicture Association of America (MPAA) anti-piracy drive.The move was announced today(Sept 30) by MPAA president Jack Valenti, who cited a "determinedcommitment to combat digital piracy and to ...
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Gordon moves to Columbia, brings in Toho-Towa
Mark Gordon, the veteranproducer whose credits include Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, is in final negotiations to sign a first-look deal with ColumbiaPictures, a deal which would involve Japanese major Toho-Towa which had backedGordon in his former venture Mutual Film Co.Gordon, whose output dealwith Fox ended earlier this year, ...
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Revolutions to open day and date in 60 territories
Hoping to hit the pirates where it hurts and capitalise on aninternet-savvy global fan base, Warner Bros will open its sci-fi trilogy finaleThe Matrix Revolutions simultaneouslyin 60 territories including the US on Nov 5.Orchestrated in association with Village Roadshow by Warner Bros'president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman and president of ...
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Pontecorvo classic gets US re-issue via Rialto, Classic Collection
Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers, the legendary re-telling of thestruggle for Algerian independence from France, will be re-released in the USby Rialto Pictures in association with The Classic Collection, a joint ventureof Janus Films and Homevision Entertainment, in January 2004.The film will open in New York, Los ...
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Garlock joins WBPI in new promotions senior vp post
Gene Garlock has been appointed to the new post of senior vicepresident of promotions at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president of marketing at WBPI,Garlock will head up the promotions department with particular focus ondeveloping third-party business tied to international releases.Along with developing and managing ongoing ...
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Hollywood independents in shock as MPAA screener ban rewrites Oscar game
Studio-affiliated members of the independent film community claimtheir chances of success in the upcoming awards season could lie in ruins nowthat the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) proposal to abolishpreview screening tapes looks likely to be pushed through this week.The specialized divisions of the studios - Fine Line Features,Focus ...
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Pirates still controls international box office seas
Buena Vista International(BVI)'s Pirates Of The Caribbeanremained the top international film at the weekend as it grossed $13m andraised its international running total to $292m.The highlights wereholdovers in the UK, where in its seventh week the film dropped 12% and added$1.2m for $41.4m, and Germany, where it dropped 24% in ...
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Hero scores number one opening in France
Zhang Yimou's action epic Hero opened number one in France at the weekend, grossing$1.9m from 375 theatres. According to executives atUniversal, which distributed the film there after acquiring rights from Focus,the opening was well ahead of the 10 other new entries and comprised 60% of the2000 opening for Crouching Tiger, ...
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Hausfater lands at Miramax in international role
Industry veteran Jere Hausfater has landed at Miramax Films asexecutive vice president and co-head of Miramax International.Breaking tradition for the company's international arm, he will bebased in Los Angeles but will report to New York-based COO Rick Sands. He willwork alongside Stuart Ford, the Miramax executive vice president who took ...
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Fox faced with $100m LXG lawsuit from Poll, Cohen
Martin Poll, the veteranproducer of The Lion In Winterand Love And Death, andscreenwriter Larry Cohen have filed a $100m lawsuit against Fox Entertainmentclaiming its summer release The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG)stole their idea.Papers lodged at the USDistrict Court in Los Angeles on Sept 25 cite infringement of copyright andclaim ...
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S.W.A.T. dethrones Bayside Shakedown 2 in Japan
S.W.A.T. scored two number one openings in Asia over theweekend as it went out in its first major markets.The police thriller grossedan estimated $3m in Japan and became the first film in nine weeks to dethrone BaysideShakedown 2.The Yen114.3m openingcompares to Yen92m for XXX andYen107.7m for The Bourne Identity,which were ...
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Six new film-makers awarded prizes as IFP/New York Market closes
Benno Schoberth headed up aroster of six emerging film-makers honoured at the 2003 IFP/New York MarketAwards on Sept 25, winning the work-in-progress completion award in theemerging narrative category for the inner-city drama Shelter.The Screenplay Award went toTanya Steele for The Parachute Factory, the story of two teenagers on the run ...
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The Rundown another number one opening for Universal
Universal'saction extravaganza The Rundownslammed its way to the top on $18m at the weekend, confirming The Rock's earlypromise as a charismatic star with box office brawn. Theformer wrestling star - who uses his real name Dwayne Johnson these days -stars as a mercenary who gets caught up in the Amazon ...
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Mexico targets UK, Pirates eyes $300m haul
Sheer momentum should ensure another strong international box office haul for Pirates Of The Caribbean this upcoming weekend as it closes in on $300m.The swashbuckling blockbuster has no major bows but will look to more impressive holdovers to boost its $275m international running total for Buena Vista International (BVI).BVI opens ...
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Cooler, Human Stain bookend brimming Hamptons festival
The East Coast premiere of Wayne Kramer's Las Vegas-set casinodrama The Cooler willopen the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 22-26and closes with the East Coast premiere of Robert Benton's drama The HumanStain.All in all there will be 22 world premieres at this festival thattakes place in ...
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Giannetti named Columbia exec-vice president of production
Andrea Giannetti has been named executive vice president of production at Columbia Pictures. Giannetti, who reports to co-presidents of production Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, most recently spearheaded development and production on Once Upon A Time In Mexico and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. She is currently working on Tim Burton's ...
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NYC's Guggenheim mounts huge Fellini retrospective
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will launch a retrospectiveof Federico Fellini's films and rarely seen drawings next month to coincidewith the 10th anniversary of the great director's death.Included in the three-month show are newly restored printsand a section devoted to Fellini's art that includes caricatures he drew as ayoung ...
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AFMA board undergoes international makeover
AFMA says its new board of directors is the most internationalyet, with eight of its members from companies headquartered outside the US.Yesterday, at the organisation's annual membershipmeeting, five executives were elected to the board for the first time.They are: Wouter Barendrecht from Fortissimo Sales(Netherlands/Hong Kong), TF1's Patrick Binet (France), Nicolas ...