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FIFE 2004 Application Form
FILM INDUSTRY FOOTBALL EVENT 2004THE DEN, MILLWALL FOOTBALL CLUBSUNDAY 23rd MAY 2004ENTRY FORMPlease complete and return the form, by post or fax, to:Chris HiggsFIFE 2004NCH85 Highbury ParkLondon, N5 1UDFax: 020 7704 7063Please enter my team at £1,000. I understand that teams will be sold on a first come first served ...
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Find out about FIFE
Find out about FIFEThe Film Industry Football Event (FIFE) is an annual 5-a-side football tournament, open to people who work in the UK film industry.Now in its seventh year, FIFE has raised more than £200,000 towards the work of NCH, one of the UK's leading children's charities.Firmly established as one ...
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Who's already involved'
Who's already involved'The following Film Industry companies have already entered teams for the 2004 tournament' why not join them'UIPThin Man FilmsWorking TitleTiger Aspect ProductionsUniversal Video InternationalCreative PartnershipBuena Vista Home EntertainmentNFTSReprisal FilmsFirst Foot Films LimitedFreud CommunicationsMomentum PicturesEmpire DesignSamuelson ProductionsAon Entertainment Risk ServicesWarner Home Video (UK) LtdPicture Production CompanyGlasgow Film OfficeUK Film ...
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NCH, the children's charity
NCH, the children's charityNow in its seventh year, FIFE has raised more than £200,000 towards the work of NCH, one of the UK's leading children's charities.NCH supports the most vulnerable children, young people and their families so that they have the opportunity to reach their full potential.NCH improves the lives ...
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Sogecable seals PPV deal with DreamWorks
Spanish audiovisual group Sogecable has flexed its acquisition muscle by signing a 16-picture agreement with DreamWorks SKG giving it pay-per-view (PPV) rights for its digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital (CSD). Among the titles included in the deal are multiple Academy Award nominee American Beauty, The Prince Of Egypt, The ...
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Man On Fire blazes to the top of the box office for Fox
Revenge sagas continued todominate the box office as Twentieth Century Fox's Man On Fire opened top on an estimated $23m, narrowly edging outColumbia/Revolution's romantic comedy 13 Going On 30 in second place on $22m.If the figures hold and Man On Fire has indeed won what the media has lamelybeen talking ...
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UIP has $3.2m weekend with Strike's Dawn Of The Dead
Strike Entertainment's horror remake Dawn Of The Dead grossed an estimated $3.2m through Universal/UIPfrom 1,200 screens in 14 countries at the weekend, raising its internationalrunning total to $7.6m, excluding $10.1m in the UK where it was releasedindependently through Entertainment.The picture opened on $700,000 from 164 screens in Spain, tyingfor third ...
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Another $6.1m for Scooby as Warner sequel tops $75m
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed grossed an estimated $6.1m at theweekend, raising its international running total to $76.7m for Warner Bros.In its fourth week in the UK the picture added $1m from 471screens for a $25.8m running total there. France added $1.2m from 576 in itsthird week for $7.5m and Italy ...
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Strange Crime (Sotto Falso Nome)
Dir:Roberto Ando. It-Switz. 2004. 105 mins.Asurprise choice as closing film for this year's Cannes Critics' Week, StrangeCrime is a frustratingly unresolved erotic thriller about false identityand dark secrets from hardworking Italian indie director Roberto Ando. Mostmemorable for its steamy sex scenes between Daniel Auteill and Anna Mougalis,which take us back ...
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Fremaux defends Cannes' Ma Mere snub
Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremauxformally denied allegations Friday which had been lodged by producer PaoloBranco regarding the absence of his film, Ma Mere, in the officialselection.Branco, who is no stranger to Cannes havingproduced competition films such as Raoul Ruiz's Le Temps Retrouve and CeJour-la and Manoel de Oliveira's Je Rentre ...
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NEW ZEALAND 26 April
The NZ$555,222 gross for Starsky& Hutch on its opening weekend was the biggest at the New Zealand boxoffice since The Last Samurai opened over three months ago. TheBVI/Miramax comedy went out on 48 screens, considerably less than the screencount of each of the next four films in the chart.Starsky & ...
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Polanski unveils Oliver Twist cast
Roman Polanski introducedthe press to the lead actor for his upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' OliverTwist in Paris yesterday. After a search that included drama schoolsthroughout England, ten year-old Barney Clark will play Twist alongside Ben Kingsleyas Fagin.The virtually unknown youngman's previous experience includes two television roles in the UK. ...
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Metzstein begins Guy X shoot in Iceland
Jason Biggs, NataschaMcElhone and Jeremy Northam are to star in Guy X for young Britishdirector Saul Metzstein, who made his mark with 2001's well-received LateNight Shopping.The black comedy is beingproduced by Film and Music Entertainment with Spice Factory, tax-basedfinancier Movision, National Lottery franchise The Film Consortium and itssister sales company ...
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Distance takes top Silver Screen award in Singapore
Turkish director Nuri BilgeCeylan's Uzak (Distance) emerged as the main winner at the Silver ScreenAwards of the 17th Singapore International Film Festival, bagging three majorprizes in the Asian feature film category.Beating 12 other contenders,Uzak was named the Best Film, with Ceylan winning Best Director andMehmet Emin Toprak earning Best Actor. ...
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Low budget comedy is the toast of Istanbul
A tiny coming-of-age comedy,bearing the unlikely title of Boats Out Of Watermelon Rinds, shot on ashoestring budget with a cast of unknowns in a remote corner of Anatolia,turned out to be the real discovery of this year's Istanbul Film Festival.Ahmet Ulucay'sautobiographical first film, shot on digital video, surprisingly stole theshow ...
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DENMARK 26 April
The second volumeof Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill had what it took to oust the hitanimated Terkel In Trouble from the top of the Danish chart, with amuscular 746 admission screen average on its 28 prints.While Terkeltook second spot, the local action comedy The Good Cop dropped no lessthan 47% in ...
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Internationalmedia negotiates $18m credit line
Internationalmediahas negotiated a credit line of up to $18m over a 12 month period with aprivate US investor group to reduce its bank liabilities and finance pre-production for upcoming film projects,among other things.This latest move was revealed on the publication ofInternationalmedia's 2003 figures which saw its performance affected"disproportionately" by the ...