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Art Port, Peacock acquire rights to Marilyn doc
Maine-basedValhalla Productions has sold theatrical, home video/DVD and television rightsto the documentary Marilyn's Man to Art Port in Japan and television and video/DVD rights toPeacock Films in Australia and New Zealand.Bothacquisitions were made at AFM and facilitated by independent films distributorITN Distribution.Written,directed and produced by Valhalla Productions owner Schani Krug, ...
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Avi Arad to receive Showmanship award at ShoWest
Marvel Studioschief Avi Arad will receive the inaugural Robert W Selig Showmanship Award forAchievement in Film-making at the ShoWest opening day luncheon hosted by LionsGate Films and display technology company Christie in Las Vegas on Mar 23.Lions Gate willscreen its comic book adaptation The Punisher, which Arad produced with Gale ...
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Focus celebrates $100m with Lost In Translation
Focus Features' Lostin Translation, which wonwriter-director Sofia Coppola a best original screenplay Oscar, has passed$100m in worldwide ticket sales.The picture hasgrossed $44.2m at the domestic box office from a 26-week run and taken morethan $56m internationally.Theinternational total is certain to increase considerably when Lost InTranslation opens inJapan, where the story ...
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Polly comes along in France, Spain and Italy
A strongJapanese bow this upcoming weekend should be enough to push Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) animated hit Brother Bear past $100m in international ticketsales.The picture hasamassed $95.8m and executives will be hoping for a strong bow in Japan, whichcan be a highly accommodating animation market as evidence by Finding Nemo's number ...
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Hackford's Ray Charles biopic goes to Universal
Universal Pictures hasacquired worldwide distribution rights to the musical biopic Unchain MyHeart: The Ray Charles Storystarring Jamie Foxx and has scheduled an Oct 29 domestic release.Produced and financed byPhilip Anschutz's Crusader Entertainment, Unchain My Heart: The Ray CharlesStory charts the legendary singer'slife from the time he went blind as a ...
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Universal postpones Cinderella Man release to March 2005
Universal Pictures has postponed until Mar 18 2005 the release of Ron Howard's Depression-era boxingdrama The Cinderella Man starringRussell Crowe and Renee Zellweger.The picture, which is beingco-financed with Miramax Films, was set to be one of Universal's key awardspictures with an end of year domestic release planned.The delay follows from ...
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Spanish industry suspends business after terror attacks
Cinema is the last thing on anyone's mind in Spaintoday. The media sector responded to yesterday's terrorist attacks withthe same solemnity and solidarity that has characterised national - andinternational - response to the tragedy.Spain awoke Thursday morning to news that ten bombs hadexploded on four packed commuter trains travelling into ...
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Roadshow pounces on Libertine, Dahlia
Roadshow Film Distributionhas signed up to handle the release of three high-profile films for Australiaand New Zealand: The Black Dahlia, The Libertine and Havoc.Brian De Palma's TheBlack Dahlia is from SignaturePictures International and is an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel about thedeath of an actress in LA in the ...
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Hush Hush Baby (Shouf Shouf Haibibi)
Dir: Albert ter Heerdt. The Netherlands. 2004. 88minsThe ever expanding borders of the European Union have pushed immigration to the top of the political agenda. Hush, Hush Baby touches on some of the serious global issues surrounding the topic but is generally happy to settle for broad, knockabout comedy and ...
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Dir: Michel Gondry. US. 2004. 108minsScriptwriter Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation) and director Michel Gondry go a long way in their new film toward rehabilitating themselves after their disastrous previous collaboration, Human Nature, but the conspicuously brilliant Kaufman, especially, still seems too smart for his own good.The concept behind Eternal Sunshine Of ...
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Sverak to follow Kolya with Dark Blue World
Czech director Jan Sverak is gearing up to shoot World War II drama Dark Blue World (Tmavomodry Svet), his first film since 1996 foreign-language Oscar-winner Kolya.The $6m film, which cranks up next week, is about Czech pilots in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during WWII. The script was written by ...
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Scott Free develops Elegance
Scott Free, the production company owned by Ridley and Tony Scott, has hired Christopher Monger to adapt Kathleen Tessaro's novel Elegance.Published in the UK by Harper Collins, Elegance follows an American woman in London who follows the advice in an old A-Z of etiquette and style by a renowned French ...
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Wellspring gets US on Seducing Doctor Lewis
US distributor Wellspringhas picked up all US rights to Jean-Francois Pouliot's Canadian hit SeducingDoctor Lewis (La Grande Seduction), which won the World Cinema Audience Award atSundance 2004.Wellspring's head ofacquisitions Marie Therese Guirgis negotiated the deal with Matt Littin ofCinetic Media, who represented producers Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal of MaxFilms.The ...
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Argentinian president to combat Hollywood 'Goliath'
The president ofArgentina, Nestor Kirchner, announced a raft of government measures to supportthe local film industry yesterday at the Mar del Plata International FilmFestival.In an emotivespeech delivered to an emphatically enthusiastic audience, in which heportrayed Argentinian cinema as a David locked in a heroic struggle withHollywood's Goliath, the popular president ...
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Count To 100 triumphs at BUFF children's fest
In its first festival appearance Linda KrogsoeHolmberg's Danish feature debut Count To 100 this weekend was selected as the bestyouth-children's film at the 21st BUFF, Malmoe's international filmfestival for children and young people.The newcomer took the award in tough Nordic andinternational competition with Petter Naess' Just Bea and Teresa Fabik's ...
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Spanish industry joins weekend protests against terrorism
Spain's media sector came to a halt this weekend,responding to last week's terrorist attacks with the same solemnity andshock that has characterised national - and international -response to the tragedy.Celebrities such as Pedro Almodovar and Javier Bardem wereamong the more than two million people who gathered in an anti-terroristdemonstration in ...
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Italian cinema wins Euros 80m cash injection
The Italian government has approved an emergency decree topour an extra Euros 80m into the local cinema industry, which will be largelydestined for production and will free at least 80 state-funded films fromlimbo.Around 80 films are believed to have been greenlit in 2003for state funding for production, but have still ...
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Yuzna embarks on Rottweiler shoot
Director Brian Yuzna has begun shooting on Rottweiler, his latest contribution to Filmax's FantasticFactory genre division.The film will shoot for seven weeks in and around Barcelona.The story follows a young man who,following his escape from an EU prison in Spain for African immigrants, setsout to find his lover. Hot ...
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Jet Set producers ready cult French surf comedy
DirectorJames Huth will begin shooting comedy Brice De Nice in mid-April in Nice and Biarritz.The film is based on a character created by comedian Jean Dujardin who hasbecome something of a cult figure in France in recent years.Brice DeNice is a hapless surfer - he can barely even swim - ...
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Rickman signs for Manchester United Ruined My Life
AlanRickman, Derek Jacobi, Jason Isaacs, Janet McTeer and Henry Goodman are set tostar in Manchester United Ruined My Life, the feature debut of director Mark Brozel.The adaptation of Colin Shindler's best-sellingnovel is a rites of passage story about a Jewish boy in 50s and 60s Manchester,growing up under the shadow ...