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Harryhausen, Linklater, Lurie shorts among Sundance selection
Short films from RichardLinklater, actress Illeana Douglas and Lord Of The Rings star Sean Astin are among the 90 shorts programmedat next year's Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off Jan 16 in ParkCity, Utah.Culled from a record 3,345submissions, the narrative and documentary titles will screen before featuresand as part of ...
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Palm Springs throws spotlight on Bollywood
The Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival will focus its Spotlight strand on Bollywood nextmonth, featuring a series of North American premieres that kicks off on Jan 12,2003 with the Indian foreign language Oscar entry, Devdas. The epic tale of star-crossed lovers is due to beattended by director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and ...
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Spyglass finds a new home at DreamWorks
Spyglass Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures announced today (Dec 9) that they have signed an exclusive first-look, non-exclusive production deal. The two parties are already in production on Seabiscuit starring Jeff Bridges and Tobey Maguire, which chronicles the life of the legendary racehorse. Gary Ross is directing the currently-shooting picture which ...
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Girl From Paris goes to US through Philos
Fledgling US distributorFilms Philos has acquired Christian Carion's directorial debut TheGirl From Paris (Une Hirondelle AFait Le Printemps) for NorthAmerican release in spring 2003. The story centres on a young woman'sefforts to start over as a farmer in the French Alps and is told from theperspective of the girl and ...
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Bond returns to the top, Analyze That limps into second
Die Another Day continued its yo-yo cycle with a $13m haul in its third week that took it back to the top for MGM, according to studio estimates released yesterday (Dec 8). The 20th James Bond instalment has now amassed $120.4m and is expected to become the biggest grossing Bond ...
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Reynolds, Suchet star in Foolproof for Alliance Atlantis
Ryan Reynolds and David Suchet are to star in William Phillip's thriller Foolproof, which has started principal photography in Toronto for Alliance Atlantis and Atom Egoyan's EGO FILM ARTS. Reynolds, whose credits include National Lampoon's Van Wilder and upcoming The Wedding Party, will play a theoretical heist mastermind who is ...
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National Board Of Review chimes with The Hours
In the first barometer of the North American awards season, the National Board of Review (NBR) announced its 2002 winners today (Dec 4), with Stephen Daldry's star-studded drama The Hours taking 2002 Best Film Of The Year. The results were a triumph for Miramax Films which co-financed The Hours and ...
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Focus lures ex-Miramax marketing chief Brooks
David Brooks,the former executive vice president and co-head of marketing at Miramax Films,has joined Focus Features as its president of marketing. Brooks will be based in New York, where he will be responsiblefor overseeing the company's worldwide marketing activities as Universal'sspecialty arm. His appointment is effective immediately.Announcing themove, Focus co-presidents ...
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Woo presents first US showing of Melville's uncut Le Cercle Rouge
Director JohnWoo is to present the new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's LeCercle Rouge, theclassic 1970 heist thriller that will be seen in US theatres for the first timein its complete and original French-language version early next year.Rialto Pictures,which enjoyed considerable success in the US with the re-issue of Jean LucGodard's ...
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Bangkok Int'l film festival announces line-up and new competition
The 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) has announced a line-up of more than 70 films from more than 35 countries and a new award, the Golden Kinnaree. In addition, event organisers said yesterday (Dec 2) that there would be five world premieres and 15 Asian premieres. Gangs of New ...
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Fox takes $31.6m over weekend from 19 countries with Die Another Day
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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Sundance announces 2003 Premieres, World Cinema titles
Sundance 2003'sstar-studded festival programme will officially open in Salt Lake City on Jan16th with Levity, thedirectorial debut of Hollywood screenwriter Ed Solomon that headlines Billy BobThornton as a released murderer on the road to redemption. The festival endsten days later.Other highlights in thePremiere section, which was announced yesterday alongside the ...
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SPE notches up the biggest studio gross record
Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE) has broken the industry's all-time record forworldwide box office receipts in a calendar year with $2.75bn in sales, thestudio said today (Dec 2). The performance beats the previous mark of $2.68bnset by 20th Century Fox in 1998, when that studio distributed Titanic internationally.In a statementissued today SPE ...
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The world is wild about Harry: 11.2 million admissions over the weekend
The records continued to tumble for Warner Bros as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets passed $200m in international ticket sales over the weekend, amassing an estimated $56.8m from 11.2 million admissions on 8,201 screens in 32 territories. The sequel has an estimated $208m international and $408m worldwide total ...
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Signature Theatres' Harris named 2003 ShoWester
Philip Harris III, the founder of Signature Theatres and current vice chair of the finance committee at the National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO), is to be named ShoWester of the Year at next year's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas running March 3 to 6."Phil Harris has quickly emerged as ...
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Sundance unveils 'challenging' 2003 selections
Sundance Film Festivalprogramming director Geoffrey Gilmore promised next year's influentialevent would feature "among the most provocative and challenging films wehave ever seen at the festival" even in the face of all the commercial hardships that independent filmmakers are currently confrontingUnveiling the Dramatic andDocumentary Competitions, as well as the films that ...
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Submissions from 54 countries named eligible for foreign Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted its list of submissions for the Foreign Language Film Award category after eligibility concerns forced committee members to delay publication by one week. While the 54-strong list - a record number of submissions that beats last year's mark by three ...
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Harry and 007 clean up over Thanksgiving
Several tried but ultimatelyno newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over thethree-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions overthe full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released today, ChamberOf Secrets took ...
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Potter and 007 clean up at Thanksgiving box office
Several tried but ultimately no newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over the three-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions over the full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released ...
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Anomalies delay foreign language Oscar announcement
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has delayed naming its list of official entries for the 2003 foreign language Oscar category in order to clear up anomalies over submissions from Afghanistan, Palestine, Hong Kong and the UK. The list was expected to go up on the Academy's official ...