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Messier lands without a parachute
Former Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier hasgiven up his bid for a $25m severance package from the company, after beingforced by US regulators to relinquish claims to such a golden parachute.Messier had been seeking indemnities he believed owed to himfollowing his resignation in 2002. After a New York court upheld ...
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Return Of The King surges towards $500m
After just a fortnight intheatres, New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King already ranks as the fifth most successful globalrelease of 2003 after The Matrix Reloaded, Finding Nemo, PiratesOf The Caribbean and its immediate predecessor The Two Towers. It will only be a matter of ...
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Love Actually raises international tally to $120m
Universal's Love Actually added an estimated $10m from 2,300sites in 31 countries through UIP at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $113m.The figure rises to $120m including France, where the filmhas taken $5.5m and is distributed through Studiocanal, and Russia, where ithas taken $1.5m to date.In Australia the ...
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Keil exits Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The German film industry has been rocked by the news thatKlaus Keil is to exit his post as chief executive of the regional public filmfunding body Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB) on 31 March 2004.Keil, who became the head of FBB when it was created by thefederal states of Berlin and Brandenburg ...
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Hong Kong star Anita Mui dies suddenly
Anita Mui Yim-Fong, an icon of the Hong Kong entertainmentindustry, died yesterday aged 40, from the side effects of cancer.Mui, who had a career that spanned twodecades, reached the top of both the music and film industries and came to beregarded as a national treasure. She drew plaudits from across ...
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Nemo takes global box office crown
Finding Nemo became the biggest global release of 2003 in the last weekend of the year as it added $25.5m from international markets to raise its worldwide tally to $745m.By Dec 29 the animated hit had amassed $405m at the international box office, which combined with the $340m domestic gross ...
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German film critics announce award nominations
Distant Lights (Lichter) by Hans-Christian Schmid, Pigs Will Fly (pictured) by Eoin Moore and Wolfsburg by Christian Petzold are among the films nominated for this year's German Film Critics Awards.The complete line-up of nominations in the four categories are:Best Feature FilmPigs Will Fly, dir: Eoin MooreDistant Lights, dir: Hans-Christian SchmidAngst, ...
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Nathalie
Dir. Anne Fontaine. France 2003. 105 mins.Following on from Dry Cleaning and How I Killed My Father, the two films which established her as one of the most interesting French filmmakers of the current generation, Anne Fontaine again goes out to explore the troubled subconscious of the prim, apparently self-satisfied ...
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UK Production Listings - January 2 2004
UNITED KINGDOM - January 2 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE AMERICAN(CTB Film Company, Tartan Films) Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Cast: Michael Biehn. Shooting in New York and Siberia.Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400BATMAN - INTIMIDATION GAME(Warner Bros) Exec prod: Larry Frankau. Prod: Emma Thomas. Dir: Christopher ...
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UK Film composer Wiseman awarded MBE
Film and TV composer/conductor Debbie Wiseman has been awarded an M.B.E in the Queen's New Years Honours Lists 2004 for services to the film industry.Wiseman has composed over 150 scores for film and television productions including Wilde, Haunted, Before You Go, P.O.W., Judge John Deed, Tom & Viv, The Secret ...
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Brazil's SBT fights ratings battle with movie slot
Competition is hotting up in the Brazilian free TV market with number two broadcaster SBT taking on leading station Globo by launching a prime-time film slot on Friday evenings, to be fed with product from its recently-signed output deals with Warner Bros and Disney.The slot will be in addition to ...
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Refn to revisit Pusher
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will return to his roots with a follow-up to his 1996 debut and breakthrough film Pusher.Shooting from late January, Pusher II will see the local heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen (Open Hearts, The Green Butchers, King Arthur) reprise his role from the first film, but this time ...
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New Nordic films line up for Gothenburg
Eight new Nordic features have been selected for the Nordic Film Award at Sweden's major film festival in Gothenburg (Jan 23 - Feb 2).The films come from all over the region, and include a number of first time directors. The festival will open with the international premiere of Hilmar Oddsson's ...
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Master And Commander, Young Adam lead London award noms
Master And Commander and Young Adam lead the nominations for this year's London Film Critics' Circle Awards.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World received six nominations including film of the year, best director, best actor for Crowe and best British actor for Paul Bettany.Meanwhile, Young Adam leads the ...
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Towne teams with Carlton for another remake of The 39 Steps
The Oscar winning writer and director Robert Towne (Chinatown,Shampoo) has signed adeal with Carlton International Media to remake The 39 Steps, John Buchan's classic thriller that wasfirst filmed, famously, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.Towne will write and direct thestory about a man who becomes embroiled in a complex murder plot ...
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Watts, Johansson, Ferretti and Sheldon join Palm Springs Film Festival honours list
Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson, production designer DanteFerretti and writer Sidney Sheldon will receive special honours at the upcoming15th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's awards gala on Jan 11.Watts, who has already been nominated as best lead actress of 2003by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and other bodies for her ...
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Love Actually nears $55m in UK, scores big in Korea
Love Actually has become Working Title's second biggest and Universal's thirdbiggest film ever in the UK as it climbed 25% in its seventh week on anestimated $2.1m for a mighty $54.1m running total, ranking third.The romantic comedy - released by Universal through UIP in mostcountries - also ranked third in ...
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Nemo rises to number 11 of all time after bonanza Christmas
Finding Nemo added a little over $22m at the weekendto raise its international cumulative score to more than $440m, according toearly estimates from Buena Vista International (BVI).The latestfigures elevate the animated hit to the 11th biggest ever internationalperformer ahead of Spider-Man, which managed $418m. Nemo's $780m global box office ranks ...
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Return is still king of the box office
New Line's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is expected to pass $300m any day now in North Americafollowing an estimated $30.8m third weekend haul that boosted its domesticgross to $291.9m.Internationalresults are even more impressive as the fantasy finale raised its tally to astaggering $385m, which combines ...
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Splendor gets best film vote from National Critics
American Splendor was voted best film of 2003 at the 38th NationalSociety of Film Critics Awards on Saturday (Jan 3), while Bill Murray won bestactor for Lost In Translation andCharlize Theron took actress honours for her acclaimed performance in Monster.Clint Eastwood was namedbest director for Mystic Riverand best foreign film ...