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DreamWorks' latest Woody Allen title, Anything Else, flopped into 12th place on $1.7m. Dividing critics, the comedy which stars Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci was both the weakest and widest of DreamWorks' Allen releases suggesting that a marketing campaign that relied heavily on promoting Biggs and Ricci and downplaying Allen's ...
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Melissa Gilbert re-elected president of SAG
Melissa Gilbert has been re-elected president of the US actors'union Screen Actors Guild (SAG) following a national poll that saw her romphome with 50% of the vote."It is an honour and a thrill to be re-elected," Gilbert said in astatement. "I said at the beginning of the campaign that I ...
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Mill Valley unveils fest programme, 11 world premieres
Eleven world premieres, 14US premieres and tributes to Lili Taylor, Peter Coyote and Denys Arcand areamong the highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs in MarinCounty, California, from Oct 2-12.Featured among the worldpremieres are Brigitte Brault's harrowing examination of life under theTaliban in Afghanistan Unveiled,David Hickson's South ...
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Sundance Channel closes 13-picture deal with Palm
The Sundance Channel has acquired US television rights to 13 filmsfrom Palm Pictures, including Claude Chabrol's drama The Flower Of Evil, Dagur Kar's acclaimed Icelandicdrama Noi The Albino and Mark Moorman's music documentary Tom Dowd And The Languageof Music.Thegroup of films includes Palm's entire 2003 slate as well as several ...
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Pie 3 opens top in Netherlands, Norway for Universal
Universal's AmericanPie: The Wedding scored two stronginternational number one bows at the weekend and, with 38 markets to go, iscomfortably on course to pass $100m.The comedy sequel raised itsrunning total to $71.1m following a $759,000 haul from 92 venues in TheNetherlands and $461,000 from 39 in Norway, which was Universal's ...
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Contentfilm, Alec Baldwin team up for Swimmer remake
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's New York-based production anddistribution outfit ContentFilm is to remake the 1968 drama The Swimmer in conjunction with Alec Baldwin's ElDorado Pictures and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Baldwin will star in the project, reprising Burt Lancaster's roleas an errant suburbanite who returns home one day by swimming ...
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Intermedia's Alexander begins shooting in Morocco
Principal photography hasbegun in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Oliver Stone's Alexander The Great project for Intermedia, which Warner Bros willrelease in the US in November 2004.Colin Farrell stars in thelead role as the all-conquering ancient leader, and the film also starsAngelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto andJonathan ...
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Dolby buys US anti-piracy technology company Cinea
As the Hollywood studiosstep up their war on piracy and the causes of piracy, Dolby Laboratories hasjoined the fray with the acquisition of Cinea, a Virginia-basedcontent-protection and anti-piracy technology company.Cinea will operate as awholly owned subsidiary of Dolby while its staff and offices will remain inVirginia.Cinea chief executiveofficer and founder ...
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Emerging, Digiscreen screen Jackson Hole finalists around US
The Wyoming-based Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is teamingup with New York based Emerging Pictures and Montreal's Digiscreen to show aselection of films nominated as finalists in this year's festival competition,which runs from Sept 22-27.The programmes, which are free, will be screened in participatingdigital venues in California, North Carolina, Nebraska ...
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Franchise takes international rights to Hollywood North
Elie Samaha's LA-based Franchise Pictures has acquiredinternational rights in all media to Hollywood North, Peter O'Brian's comedy that recentlypremiered at Toronto.The film centres on the trials and tribulations of making a filmin Canada and stars Alan Bates, Matthew Modine, Deborah Kara Unger, JenniferTilly, John Neville, Fabrizio Filippo and Joe Cobden.John ...
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Witkins launches new 'boy' video label
Doug Witkins' US gay and lesbian boutique distributorPicture This! Entertainment has launched It's All About The Boy, a new videolabel catering to stories with wider appeal.First up is Denis Langlois' acclaimed French-Canadian drama DannyIn The Sky, which willbe released on DVD and VHS on Nov 25.Newcomer Thierry Pepin stars as ...
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BVI's treasure chest spills over with Pirates, Girls
Pirates Of The Caribbean stayed atop the international charts at the weekend despiteno major openings, adding $20m for a $270.5m running total.In its third weekend in Germany, the Buena VistaInternational (BVI) swashbuckler added $3.6m, dropping 42% for a $25.9cumulative score.Elsewhere, the UK dropped 23% and added $1.4m for $39.5m in ...
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Wellspring pins docu Oscar hope on Girlhood
US distributor Wellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excludingUS television to Liz Garbus' coming-of-age documentary Girlhood and will immediately begin to license thefilm internationally.The film charts the livesof two Maryland girls as they attempt to put their violent past behind them andwill begin its theatrical release in New York on ...
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US/Czech Republic short Most takes top prize at Palm Springs
Bobby Garabedian's US/Czech Republic drama Most, a poignant tale of a railbridge tenderand his son, won the best of festival award as the 2003 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films closed on Sept 22.Andrij Parekh's Ukraine/US sibling drama Dead Roosters won the Future Film-maker Award, whileMimi Gan's Pearl Harbour story ...
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Ondricek to receive ASC International Achievement award in 2004
Miroslav Ondricek, theacclaimed director of photography whose credits include Ragtime, Amadeus and Silkwood, will receive the 2004 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)International Achievement Award in Los Angeles on Feb 8 2004.The award is presented atthe annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards to an individual who, in thewords of the ASC, has ...
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Chicago unveils 94-film lineup, Downey, Hopkins to attend
Robert Benton's The HumanStain and Billy Ray's timely biopicof a plagiarising reporter in Shattered Glass bookend the 39th Chicago International FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 2-16 and features tributes to Benton, RobertDowney Jr and Taye Diggs.Among the roster of 94 filmsfrom 40 countries are Gold Hugo international competition entries Noi ...
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English-speaking directors' bodies club together in new alliance
English-speaking directors'bodies from seven countries including the UK, US and Australia have signed acode of practice asserting the creative and economic rights of film and televisiondirectors.The organisations, whichfeature two UK representatives as well as figureheads from Canada, Ireland andNew Zealand, also agreed to establish an affiliation known as the InternationalAssociation ...
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IFP Market outlines panels, lineup for this week's event
The 25th annual IFP Marketwill run in Manhattan from Sept 21-26, featuring more than 200 screenings inthe Emerging Narrative and Spotlight on Documentaries sections and the NoBorders International Co-Production Market.The event opens with apresentation of Wonderland, JamesCox's account of the fall of porn star John Holmes starring Val Kilmer, andcloses ...
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T3 takes Italy by storm, with $2.6m on 601 prints
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines completed its remarkable run of openingnumber one in every international territory at the weekend as it debuted top inItaly, its final market, on $2.6m on 601 prints.A combined $3.8m weekend grossbrings the film's running total to $267.2m, which comprises mostly ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International ...
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Underworld a triumph for Screen Gems, despite critics
North American audiencescontinued to gobble up the horror genre as Screen Gems' Underworld opened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m.Four of the top five werenew entries, while Woody Allen's Anything Else disappointed outside the top 10. The top 12 filmsgrossed $94m, up 37% against the same period last ...