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Koch Lorber signs multi-picture video/DVD deal with Empire
DVD label Koch Lorber Filmshas signed an exclusive multi-film deal with Manhattan-based Empire Picturesthat includes the license of US home video rights to eight films.Titles include PatriceChereau's erotic drama Intimacy and Diane Kurys' romantic period drama Children Of The Century starring Juliette Binoche.The parties also agreed onan output deal for ...
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BAFTA/LA ups its fellowship funds at UCLA
BAFTA/LA hasincreased its fellowship at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television tohelp the school reach its $1m funding target for next academic year.Each yearBAFTA/LA sponsors a UK student studying film and television at UCLA and thepledge was announced at a special breakfast yesterday (Jun 3).In a statementBAFTA/LA chairman ...
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Lorenzo Soria elected new president of HFPA
Lorenzo Soriahas been elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)for 2003-04.Soria has been amember for 14 years and writes for Italian daily newspaper La Stampa and weeklynews magazine L'Espresso.He will presideover the HFPA's 61st Golden Globe Awards, which will take place in Los Angeleson Jan 25 2004.The new ...
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Streep, Quaid, Latifah win gay and lesbian honours at Outfest
Meryl Streep,Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah are among those receiving the third annualScreen Idol awards for their portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered roles in feature films at this year's Outfest, the LA gay andlesbian film festival which is this year in its 21st year.Organisers hopeto present the accolades at ...
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Cinecitta lines up workshops for US film students
The Cinecitta Studios inRome will host three film-making workshops this summer in association with LosAngeles' USC school of Cinema-Television, to run from Jul 7-Aug 15.The credited courses willcover aspects of production, the links between Italian and American cinema andscreenwriting. This is the second consecutive year that Cinecitta is stagingthe course.Students ...
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Zarpas joins Evolution Management to build production slate
Former Scott Free co-president Chris Zarpas was today (Jun 4)named manager of management and independent production company EvolutionManagement.Zarpas will focus on Evolution's writer and director client baseand help develop the company's production slate.He most recently had an overall producing deal with televisionstudio New Dominion Pictures and prior to that was ...
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Universal's 8 Mile stays on top in Japan
Even a typhoonwas not enough to dislodge Universal's 8 Mile from its number one berth in Japan,where in its second week the film grossed $1.7m from 235 venues.The drama slipped a mere 23% and has taken $6m in theterritory. Overall the film's international running total is $116.3m.The spy-spoof JohnnyEnglish grossed ...
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Bruce has almighty international openings for BVI
In its first wave ofinternational openings Bruce Almighty grossed $5m over the weekend, scoring three number one bows andbreaking several records along the way.Distributed through BuenaVista International the comedy opened in Italy on a terrific $3.8m from 353screens, scoring the biggest ever bow for star Jim Carrey.In Singapore the film ...
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X2 takes another $5.5m for Fox
X2: X-men United grossed just over $5.5m on 4,670 international screens over theweekend to raise its running total to $177.1m.Fifth week highlights include $600,000 from 430 screens in France(38% drop) for a $16.8m cumulative score and $289,000 from 297 in Spain for$10m (also a 38% drop).In Mexico the sci-fi sequel ...
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Wellspring acquires US rights to two Cannes titles
US distributor Wellspring has acquired US rights to two filmswhich played at this year's Cannes Film Festival - Alexander Sokurov's FIPRESCIprizewinner Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold, winner of the Jury Prize in the UnCertain Regard section.Both acquisitions continue Wellspring's association with thefilm-makers, following its US release of ...
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US FCC relaxes media ownership rules
Deregulation opponents saw their concerns swept aside today (Jun2) as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to relax mediaownership rules.In a three-to-two ruling the FCC allowed the US networks to extendtheir ownership of television stations anywhere in the United States to reach amaximum 45% of the national audience.Previous rules had ...
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Matrix Reloaded hits $250m in third week int'l box office
The Matrix Reloaded grossed $56m in 62 countries over the weekend, according to estimates released by Warner Bros. The sci-fi sequel's total now stands at $250m in its third week in international markets. Figures for the opening in Indonesia will become available on Monday. However, the film is expected to ...
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Disney/Pixar's Nemo finds new animated BO record
Finding Nemo's $70.6m domestic number one bow rewrote the record books over the weekend as the Disney/Pixar collaboration scored the biggest opening ever for an animated film. The superb three-day estimated total overtook the previous high-water mark set by Pixar stablemate Monsters, Inc, which opened on $62.5m in Nov 2001. ...
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Spruill heads up Kodak's Entertainment Imaging division
D Brian Spruill has beennamed vice president and general manager of worldwide sales operations andmarketing for Kodak's Entertainment Imaging division.His role includescoordinating the work of four strategic product groups and the company'sworldwide sales and marketing operation.Spruill has held a number ofsales, marketing and strategic planning management posts since joining Kodak ...
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Finding Nemo sinks the competition
Disney/Pixar's FindingNemo made a splash overthe weekend as it scored the biggest ever bow for an animated film, opening onan estimated $70.6m.The latest pieceof wizardry from Pixar, the studio behind Monsters Inc and Toy Story, was doused in critical praise andaveraged $20,924 from 3,374 venues.It is the fifth consecutive number ...
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Bowling rolls past $50m worldwide gross
AllianceAtlantis Communications' Oscar winning documentary Bowling ForColumbine has passed$50m at the worldwide box office.MichaelMoore's controversial anti-gun diatribe has grossed more than $21m in theNorth American market, where it was distributed by United Artists, it ranks asone of the most successful documentaries of all time.Internationallythe records have tumbled. After Alliance Atlantis ...
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Paillard says Cannes Market a success, 7% increase in participants
Jerome Paillard,executive director of the Cannes Market, reported a 7% increase of overallparticipants at this year's event with 7,880 compared to 7,368 in 2002.Notableincreases came from Spain, which accounted for a 26% rise in participants, theUK (21%), Germany and France (both 12%).Paillard saidthe number of overall buyers fell by 6% ...
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Spitfire addicted to Korean thriller remake
Guy East and NigelSinclair's Spitfire Pictures and Roy Lee and Doug Davison's VertigoEntertainment are teaming up to produce Addicted, a remake of KM Culture's Korean thriller Jungadok.Michael Petroni, whosecredits include Queen Of The Damned and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, will adapt the screenplay from the original.Addicted is a ...
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8 Mile opens at number one in Japan
Opening in its final territory over the weekend, Universal'sdrama 8 Mile went straight to number onein Japan with a gross of $2.2m from 233 sites. The film's international runningtotal is now just over $113m.As expected, given the widespread youth appeal of its lead star Eminem, the film's Japanese opening drew ...
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MGM severs Fox video ties in four territories
Spurred by strong projected growth for international DVD playersales, MGM Home Entertainment has reclaimed full control of its distributionoperations in the UK, Australia, France and Germany.The decision to recapture distribution in theseterritories is consistent with MGM's contractual option to reclaim back-roomfunctions as part of its international distribution agreement with TwentiethCentury ...