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Ghosts Of Mars
Dir: John Carpenter. US. 2001. 98 mins. A sci-fi/horror yarn with a touch of Western thrown in, Ghosts Of Mars has the kind of cheerful genre tackiness that we've come to expect lately from the John Carpenter 'brand.' What it doesn't have, in sufficient quantity at least, is the sort ...
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UK's Film Council says spending under budget
Government-backed UK support body the Film Council has said that it will come in under budget at its first annual review in October after accusations that it exceeded personnel cost by more than 60%.The Film Council, which oversees National Lottery support for film activities, declined to reveal details about how ...
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Just 5% separates all US majors in first half
US box office for the first six months of 2001 is up 7.6% against last year, with strong results from both winter and summer seasons. In addition, the top distributors are all more evenly matched than at any time in the last five years, with the difference between the market ...
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Paradise plans Russian exhibition boom
Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalRussian distributor Paradise Productions is set to become the country's leading exhibitor when it opens its new $3.7m, five-screen multiplex in central Moscow this autumn. Taken together with a single-screen cinema opened in Vyborg last week and two more complexes opening soon in ...
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Lantana lights up Melbourne Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) audiences stuck by their homegrown talent and gave the crown of most popular film to Ray Lawrence's Lantana, which closes the Toronto International Film Festival in a couple of weeks. The next biggest crowd pleasers were, in order, Zacharias Kunuk's Canadian film Atanarjuat The Fast ...
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Germany pioneers new director opportunities
Aspiring film-makers have it good in Germany. "No other country on earth enables so many film-makers to shoot their first film," says Gebhard Henke, head of the film department at the powerful Cologne-based public broadcaster WDR.Indeed, there are so many film prizes and stipends for young screenwriters, directors and producers ...
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Sarajevo anticipates exhibition growth
The number of cinema screens in Sarajevo could more than double by the end of next year if plans to create the city's first multiplex are realised.Bosnian exhibitor-distributor-producer Forum Film Company, which currently operates three cinemas - Apolo, Tesla and Imperial - in Sarajevo, is planning to convert the former ...
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Women directors to open Filmfest Hamburg
Films by two up-and-coming female German directors, Vanessa Jopp and Nathalie Steinbart will open this year's Filmfest Hamburg (September 24-30). Engel & Joe, Jopp's first feature since graduating last year from Munich's Academy for Television & Film with the award-winning Vergiss Amerika (Forget America), will open the festival at a ...
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International box office
Having long since disappeared from most territories The Mexican has made a late summer comeback with a wave of impressive international openings in several major European countries over the weekend (August 16-19). The romantic action comedy, which grossed $66.8m during its domestic run for DreamWorks SKG, opened in Germany and ...
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Toronto World Premieres
26th Toronto Int'l Film Festival-World Premieres and Int'l Sales by ProgrammeGALASDirectorCountryInt'l Sales contactHearts In AtlantisScott HicksUSCastle Rock: (1) 310 285 2300Last OrdersFred SchepisiUKWinchester Films: (44) 20 7851 6505Last WeddingBruce SweeneyCanThinkFilm: (1) 416 488 0037Life As A HouseIrwin WinklerUSNew Line Int'l: (1) 310 854 5811NovocaineDavid AtkinsUSSummit: (1) 310 309 8400SerendipityPeter ChelsomUSMiramaxInt'l ...
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San Sebastian reveals competition line up
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has announced 16 of the films which will compete in the official section of this year's 49th edition, which runs from September 20 to 29. The line-up, which will likely receive at least a couple of last minute additions, has a distinct European flavour. ...
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Audiences rise in the West, decline in the East
The Western European cinemagoing trend is riding a steadily upward curve, while Eastern European admissions continue to decline. In fact, the year-on-year decline in ticket sales between 1999 and 2000 that was experienced in Eastern European markets substantially outstrips the gains enjoyed in the western territories as a whole. While ...
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Gas Attack takes Edinburgh by storm
Topical, highly controversial Scottish production Gas Attack was named Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival closing ceremony on Sunday night. A first feature from former actor and theatre director Kenny Glenaan, it uses a documentary style to tell of a right-wing terrorist attack on the community ...
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Vif International launches German film fund
Potsdam-based Vif International Films has launched its fourth tranche to raise Euro 50m from private individuals each investing a minimum of Euro 25,000 for the financing of internationally marketable feature film and television projects Among the projects set to benefit from this latest Vif fund are Broken Silence director Wolfgang ...
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People's Choice - Euro film award nominations
Forty eight European directors and actors from Jean-Jacques Annaud to Ray Winstone have been nominated for this year's People's Choice Awards which will be presented during the European Film Awards in Berlin on December 1. Cinemagoers throughout Europe will have the chance to vote in three categories "Best European Director", ...
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Ricci joins Granada's Gathering
Christina Ricci has signed to star in The Gathering, a $17m UK supernatural thriller, scheduled to start shooting on Sept 3 for Granada Film and Samuelson Productions. Directed by Brian Gilbert, the film will also star Kerry Fox, and rising UK actors Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane and Simon Russell Beale. ...
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Garci announces The Story Of A Kiss
Popular Spanish director and four-time Academy Award nominee Jose Luis Garci has announced his next feature, The Story Of A Kiss (Historia De Un Beso), set to shoot in northern Spain in October or November.The romantic drama will star Ana Fernandez (Alone), Alfredo Landa, Carlos Hipolito and youngster Manuel Lozano, ...
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Dutch box office on the increase
Cinema admissions in The Netherlands were up year-on-year for the first six months of 2001. Rising 5.7% from 10.6m in the first half of 2000 to 11.2m for the same period this year, ticket sales in the territory continue to show positive growth aided by strong performances from Bridget Jones's ...
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American Pie 2 makes it three in a row
North American youths continued to gobble American Pie 2, keeping the gross-out comedy at the top spot for its third weekend and easily vaulting it over the $100m mark. Its take of $12.9m gives it an estimated 17-day gross of $109.6m. The other sequel of the moment, Rush Hour 2, ...
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Distribution revs Alliance Atlantis revenues
Alliance Atlantis Communications announced a record 91% increase in first quarter revenue at its Motion Picture Group. The big numbers -- $45.6m compared to $23.9m in the first quarter 2000 -- were driven by strong performances at the box office and in home video. In a statement, company CEO Michael ...