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Warriors to open Mumbai festival
Mumbai's International Film Festival will open on Nov 20 with He Ping's Warriors Of Heaven And Earth, the Chinese language film co-produced by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia.In all, 80 films from 28 countries including Shekhar Kapur's Four Feathers will be screened during the seven-day international event. A highlight this ...
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Franchise, RPC settle over Scheherazade; Franchise gets rights
The dispute between RecordedPicture Company and Franchise Pictures which erupted at MIFED over MichaelApted's Scheherazade project hasbeen settled, and the film is now in Franchise's domain. Recorded issued a statementtoday saying that "Recorded Picture Company and Hanway Films are pleased toconfirm that they have reached a mutually acceptable understanding with ...
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CTV shareholders resist takeover
CanWest Global Communications and Electrohome Broadcasting, both shareholders in Canada's biggest broadcaster CTV, are resisting telco BCE's proposed $2.3bn takeover of the company.CanWest, Canada's second-largest private broadcaster which holds nearly 10% of CTV and Electrohome, which holds 12.1%, have both indicated they would prefer a stock swap over BCE's proposed ...
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In America audience favourite at AFI FEST in LA
Los Angeles AFI FEST endedon Sunday night with Jim Sheridan's In America the winner of the audience award for best featurefilm.Amanda Micheli's DoubleDare (US) was the audience winnerfor best documentary, while Sikander Goldau's Fragile (Germany) won best short film.Among the celebrities whoattended the festival were Robert Redford, Quentin Tarantino, Denys ...
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Michael Douglas to receive HFPA's Cecil B DeMille award during Globes show
Michael Douglas has beennamed recipient of the 2003 Cecil B DeMille Award from The Hollywood ForeignPress Association, to be presented at the 2004 Golden Globe Awards ceremony onJan 25 next year.Announced at a pressconference yesterday morning by actress Brittany Murphy, the honour was givento Douglas for his "outstanding contribution to ...
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Spirit Horse plans new studio facility south of LA
LA-based Spirit HorseEntertainment, run by Michelle Hartly and Shari Hamrick, has announced plans tobuild a new film, TV and commercial production studio facility south of LosAngeles in San Marcos.The studio, designed to havea fully operational backlot and six sound stages, is being developed byAlliance Holdings, a group consisting Spirit Horse, ...
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Years joins marketing & publicity team at WBITV
Chandra Years has been nameddirector, publicity and marketing services, at Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITV). She will work closely withWBITV's marketing, publicity and servicing operations on campaigns, frominitial concept to delivery. She will also be part of the team responsible for organizingWBITV's activities at MIP, MIPCOM and NATPE as well ...
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Focus Features appoints Karpen its new COO
Andrew Karpen has joinedFocus Features as chief operating officer. Reporting to co-presidents DavidLinde and James Schamus, Karpen will be responsible for the company's worldwidefinance, daily operations and strategic planning.Based in Manhattan, Karpenwill join the company's executive committee, which he will co-chair with Focusexecutive vice president, business affairs, Avy Eschenasy. In ...
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ITALY
UIP's Love Actually stormed to number one at the Italian box office, grossing $2,221,520 from 357 screens on its first international opening as it posted an impressive screen average of $6,223.The Hugh Grant vehicle took the crown from Warner Bros's The Matrix Revolutions, whose earnings tumbled a depressing 51% ...
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GERMANY
Matrix Revolutions may have held on to the top spot for a second weekend, but the Warner Bros release saw admissions slide by 60% compared to the opening four days and the chances of matching the performances of the first two Matrix films fading into the distance. The German-US co-production ...
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Gothika
Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz. US. 2003. 99 mins.Featuring Halle Berry in her first solo-starring role, this latest offering from Joel Silver's mid-budget Dark Castle label is a creepy if rather one-note chiller blending the old-fashioned scare tactics suggested by its title with elements from the new wave of Asian horror. Warner ...
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The Statement
Dir: Norman Jewison. Canada/France/UK. 2003. 120 mins. As enticingly cast and classically executed as it is, there's something naggingly unsatisfying about The Statement, a religio-political thriller directed by Norman Jewison and adapted by Ronald Harwood from the acclaimed 1996 novel by Canadian author Brian Moore. Co-produced by a string of ...
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April strikes major Oz film financing deal
Sydney outfit April Films has struck an deal with investment bank Babcock & Brown to finance around two films a year for the next five to seven years. The films are likely to be in the US$5.7m-21.4m (A$8m-30m) budget range. The deal is highly significant for the cash strapped Australian ...
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UK/IRELAND
Roger Michell's British drama The Mother saw a good start in the UK this week, which saw few openers in the wake of last weekend's Matrix release.With a screen average of $4,744 (£2,813) the film, about an older woman's belated revolt against a life of quiet desperation achieved through a ...
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Celador chief steps back, hands over reigns to Lux
Celador founder Paul Smith, who recently steered the TV production company behind Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' into features, is stepping back from the day to day running of the company.Smith will continue to head the company as executive chairman but is handing over hands-on management to former Channel ...
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UK's Soda Pictures gulps down arthouse pair
UK distributor Soda Pictures has picked up UK rights to Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music In The World and Damian Kozole's Spare Parts.Maddin's film, which made its North American premiere at Toronto earlier this year, stars Isabella Rossellini as a legless beer baroness who holds a worldwide contest to perform ...
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Spanish directors join forces for oil spill disaster film
Following in the tradition of recent festival favorites like 11'09'01 or Ten Minutes Older, Spain is about to embark on its own collaborative feature film about the massive oil spill last year off the northwest coast of Galicia.Tentatively titled Nunca Mais (Never Again), the activist slogan which arose in response ...