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StudioCanal bows to audience demands
Abstracted from this week's Screen International France's StudioCanal has tightened up its production policy, and is putting a fresh accent on popular comedy films.Former concert promoter Frederic Sichler - who replaced Studio Canal chief executive Richard Lenormand in February - has made a number of key changes since taking over.In ...
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Andersson embarks on Second Floor follow-up
Following the success of his last film, Songs from the Second Floor -winner of the Cannes' Jury Prize three years ago - Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson has started shooting his latest feature after receiving $673,000 (SEK5m) from the Swedish Film Institute this week.Roy Andersson told ScreenDaily.com that he expected ...
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Rings embarks on global weekend box office assault
New Line International's fantasy trilogy has begun its final global assault this weekend as The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King opens in 28 territories.The third and final instalment in Peter Jackson's acclaimed J R R Tolkien adaptation went out on a total of 5,475 screens in ...
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Budapest Film nails Hungarian rights to Passion
Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of Christ will get a Hungarian release one month after its US debut courtesy of the country's premiere art house distributor, Budapest Film which yesterday announced most of its 2004 distribution slate. The company hopes the contentious film will outperform its most successful foreign ...
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Third Harry Potter to get simultaneous IMAX release next summer
Harry Potter is heading tothe really big screen. The third installment of Warner Bros' franchise,Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, will be released on Imax screens simultaneous with the conventional theatricalrelease in June 2004.The decision is a vote ofconfidence from Warner Bros, in the wake of successful Imax releases ...
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Telepiu, net operations add to Canal Plus loss
Michael Haneke, the Austrian director whose film The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) scooped three of the top awards at Cannes last week, has set his next project as a series for television. The series Das Weisse Band (literally The White Band) will be produced for state broadcaster ORF and shot ...
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Warm day for Cold Mountain with Globe nominations
Miramax'shomeric American Civil War drama Cold Mountain led the 61st Golden Globe nominationstoday (Dec 18) with eight nods including best drama, actor, actress, directorand screenplay, while Focus Features' dreamy Tokyo romance Lost InTranslation and Warner'smurder drama Mystic River followed on five each. The Globes are voted on by the 90-member ...
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$57.6m in opening day for the King in 18 territories
With Friday andthe weekend still to come, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has already broken a slew ofinternational opening day records as the New Line International title grossedan estimated $23.5m in its first day in 17 territories and $34.1m in the US.All in all thefinal ...
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Australia's John Curran signs on with Endeavor
Award-winning Australianwriter and director John Curran, whose latest film is the drama We Don'tLive Here Anymore, hassigned for representation with Endeavor.The film starsLaura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Watts and will premiere in competition atSundance in January.Curran's creditsinclude the relationship drama Praise, which won the best director award from the ...
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Warner prosecutes German man with camcorder
In a move that demonstratesstudio resolve to stamp out piracy, Warner Bros Entertainment has begun legalaction against a cinema-goer for illegally camcording The Matrix Reloaded.A German man wasdetained while copying the film with a personal camcorder at a cinema in Munichafter he was spotted by cinema staff wearing night goggles.The ...
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Frameline & Horizons name four gay and lesbian grant-winners
San Franciscoorganizations Frameline and Horizons have announced recipients of the 2003Horizons/Frameline Completion Fund, established more than 10 years ago to helplesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media artists with the final stages ofproduction.This year, thefund received more than 80 submissions and awarded $15,000 in completion fundsto the following four projects:Screaming Queens: ...
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Huth steps down from Germany's Senator
Hanno Huth is to step down from his board position at Senator Entertainment on Dec 31 and plans to set up his own production outfit in the New Year.Huth says he wants to concentrate on hands-on film production again after being immersed in management tasks at Senator since it launched ...
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Berlinale unveils first Panorama titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has unveiled the first films to play in its programme at next year's festival (Feb 5-15).Almost a third of next year's selection has now been confirmed, following screenings in Asia, North and South America, as well as Europe.According to the Panorama organisers, this year's main programme ...
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Elephant to self-destruct in France
French distribution and production company MK2 is to send Cesar Award voters a self-destruct DVD of Gus Van Sant's Elephant.With fears of film piracy on the increase, the use of such a DVD has been widely debated. However, this is understood be the first time that a self destruct screener ...
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Danish Film Institute greenlights family films
The Danish Film Institute has greenlit two animated and one live action film aimed at family audiences.The latter is the third instalment in the popular My Sister's Kids series, based on a string of films from the late 60s. My Sister's Kids In Egypt received $1.2m and as the title ...
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Golden Harvest readies China multiplex
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment has signed a deal with developer China Resources Holdings to open a 12-screen cinema in the MIXc shopping mall in Shenzhen, southern China.The first phase of the development, including seven screens and around 1,200 seats, is expected to open by Christmas next year. The second ...
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HBO to launch Spanish-language channel in the US
HBO plans to launch a Spanish-language multiplex channel, HBO Latino, in the US by autumn 2000.The new channel is aimed the growing Spanish-speaking audience in the US. According to the network, 19% of Hispanic households subscribe to HBO and Latinos make up 11% of its subscriber base."HBO Latino fits perfectly ...
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Global demand for French film slips back
Global demand for French films this year fell for the second successive year in a row, according to the latest figures from Unifrance, the French film export body.French films attracted a projected 48m admissions in 2003, taking roughly Euros 240m in box-office.The numbers are down compared to 2002's 55 million ...
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Italian industry denounces Venice political interference
Italy's national association of independent film directors and producers, API, has released a strongly worded statement denouncing political interference in the Venice Film Festival. API also urged Biennale president Franco Bernabe' not to resign from his position.API's move comes after culture minister Giuliano Urbani failed to reconfirm Venice artistic director ...
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Another Mulisch novel set for feature treatment
French production company Nord-Ouest has bought the film rights to the novel The Procedure, written by Dutch author Harry Mulisch.Previous books by Mulisch have resulted in features such as The Discovery of Heaven (2000), directed by Jeroen Krabbé, and the Oscar winning The Assault (1984), directed by Fons Rademakers. The ...