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Franchise sells five to HBO Asia
Franchise Pictures, the LA production powerhouse behind box office hit The Whole Nine Yards, has signed an exclusive five picture deal with HBO Asia.The films in the package are The Whole Nine Yards, Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta, The Pledge starring Jack Nicholson, Get Carter with Sylvester Stallone and The ...
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Cat beats Mansion by a whisker
Universal's The Cat InThe Hat stayed top by a whisker overthe holiday weekend, adding an estimated $25.6m for $77m in its second weekwhile Buena Vista's The Haunted Mansion opened second on $25.3m.Three other openers gracedthe top ten with varying degrees of success as the top 12 films combined forthe second ...
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Universal celebrates $15.4m gross for Love Actually
Universal's Love Actually grossed an estimated $15.4m through UIP from 2,300sites in 18 countries over the weekend to raise its international cumulativetotal to $48.7m.The romantic comedy stayedtop in its second week in the UK, adding $8.4m from 477 sites and dropping 11%including previews (25% excluding) for a magnificent $25.9m running ...
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CTFDI opens Bad Boys II top in Japan, SWAT top in Australia
Entering the final stretch of an international campaign that beganin July, the action sequel Bad Boys 2 opened top in its final market of Japan at the weekend onan estimated $3.5m.Executives at ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) expect the film to prosper inJapan going into the holiday season and in ...
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Lanzarote wraps with flurry of deals
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 27-29) closed its fifth annual edition on Saturday with general consensus that the event has consolidated as an important concentrated showcase of Spanish cinema for buyers from Europe and Latin America.Despite the presence of almost a third fewer buyers this year, 60 in ...
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Checkpoint walks off with top IDFA prize
Israeli director Yoav Shamir has won this year's $15,000 (Eu12,500) Joris Ivens Award at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) for his documentary film Checkpoint.The competition jury, led by German film-maker Monika Treut, also awarded a special jury prize to Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's The Corporation.Meanwhile, Erik Gandini's ...
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Berlinale unveils Competition five
Romauld Karmakar, Ron Howard, Annette K. Olesen, Vinko Bresan and Manuel Gutierrez Aragon have seen their latest films chosen by The Berlinale to play in its official Competition - a full two months before the festival starts (5-15 Feb, 2004).The initial five films, which run the gamut from tragic love ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - Dec 1 2003
AUSTRIA - December 1IN PRE-PRODUCTIONCRASH TEST DUMMIES(Amour Fou Filmproduktion) Co-prod: Catpics Co-productions (Switz). Backers: OFI, ORF, Filmfonds Wien. A Romanian couple are stranded in Vienna without any money, drift apart and have both changed when they are finally reunited. Prods: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu. Dir/scr: Joerg Kalt. DoP: Eva Testor. ...
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First-time directors line up for autumn shoots
For full current listings click here A host of projects by first-time directors went before the camera this autumn. For a start, Tatiana Brandrup has just returned from three weeks of shooting in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for her feature debut Caucasian Business (Kaukasischer Coup) with Italian For ...
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Russian Train rides off with Thessaloniki prizes
Russian feature The Last Train (Posledniy Poezd) by Alexei German, Jr swept the floor at the 44th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 21-30).The son of the celebrated director of Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapschitz, German's film tells the story of a German military doctor stranded in ...
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Rai Trade strikes Caterina sales
Rome-based sales agent Rai Trade has closed a host of sales on current Italian box office hit Caterina Goes To Town (Caterina Va in Citta).Sales chief Sesto Cifola has sold the comedy to France's Pretty Pictures and Cinemien who picked up the film for Benelux. Additional sales have been sealed ...
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Dorff, Cleese star in first ever internet movie
The first feature film produced exclusively for global internet distribution is set to go into production next week. Quantum Project will star Stephen Dorff, Fay Masterson and John Cleese and marks the directorial debut of Oscar winning production designer Eugenio Zenetti (What Dreams May Come, Restoration, Last Action Hero).Produced by ...
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NETHERLANDS
Life at sea proved attractive in the Netherlands last weekend as hit animated film Finding Nemo and seafaring adventure Master And Commander all but drowned local family title Kees De Jongen.Washing up in eighth place for UIP, Andre van Duren's film about the life of a Dutch boy in ...
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Celluloid seals deals for Bellocchio's Buongiorno
French sales house Celluloid Dreams has notched up a raft of sales on Italian kidnap drama Buongiorno Notte by Marco Bellocchio.Celluloid only picked up the film after its premiere at the Venice festival but took it to Mifed where deals were completed with Les Films de l'Elysee (Belgium), Contact ...
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France's Cesars moves date to avoid Oscar clash
France's equivalent to the Oscars, the Cesars, is to hold its ceremony a week early to avoid a clash with the Academy Awards on Feb 29.The Cesars will now be held on Feb 21. Nominations are due on Jan 23. The 29th edition will, as usual, be aired unencrypted on ...
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Dublin fest to expand for second edition
The Dublin International Film Festival has announced a significant expansion of its programme for its second edition which takes place from 12-22 February next year.Supplementing principal sponsorship from local distiller Jameson are home entertainment chain XtraVision, ice-cream manufacturer HB and media partner The Irish Times. The Arts Council, which provided ...
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BELGIUM
While the Belgian chart was dominated by new openers Finding Nemo and Master And Commander another, less internationally well received, opener made an impression further down the chart.The now infamous Gigli, recently voted the second worst film of all time by members of the Yahoo! My Movies website, landed in ...
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France's Vladimir Perisic wins Festival of Film Schools' prize
Vladimir Perisic of France's FEMIS won the VFF Young Talent Award for his 31-minute short Dremano Oko at this year's International Festival of the Film Schools in Munich (November 27-30).The other awards included: the Student Camera Award for Dutch DoP Martijn van Broekhuizen's cinematography on Jiska Rickels' Days Under (NFTA); ...
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Rebic's Donau, Duna... secures Sundance berth
Goran Rebic's waterborne road movie Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea has been invited to screen in the World Cinema section of next year's Sundance Film Festival (Jan 15-25).Starring Otto Sander and Robert Stadlober, the co-production by Austria's Lotus Film and Wega Film has previously been shown at San Sebastian and ...
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GSC beefs up Malaysian multiplex presence
Malaysia's film distributor and exhibitor GSC is adding a second cinema outlet on the island of Penang with the launch of a $4.7m (RM18m) 12-screen multiplex on 11 December. The new cinema is sited at Gurney Plaza shopping mall with more than 1,800 seats, making it the largest cinema in ...