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HUNGARY
Only three of last week's eight new releases made it into the weekend box office top ten, the most popular of them being a French comedy Tais Toi, directed by Francis Veber and starring Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu.Last week's surprise disappointment was Gary Ross' Seabiscuit which failed to ...
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Employee Of The Month
Dir: Mitch Rouse. US. 2004. 97 mins.Few films deserved a slot in the Sundance Film Festival less than the repellent Employee Of The Month, a bungled attempt to blend gross-out comedy with double-cross heist thriller which had buyers walking out and audiences shaking their heads in dismay in Park City.Despite ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
The trio at the top of the Serbian-Montenegrin chart has not changed since the last weekend in spite of two new openers.The Return Of The King still reigns with 10,292 admissions for the weekend and now has grossed a total of $589,531 and Mona Lisa Smile is holding strong after ...
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France Television slashes film sales arm
France Television Distribution Cinema, the film sales and acquisitions arm of public broadcaster France Television, is to cease its international sales activities in the coming weeks according to sources close to the situation.France Television Distribution currently has two sales teams, one for TV and one for film. The film team ...
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Gothenburg emerges into Cold Light with record sales
When Sweden's leading film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, opened its box office earlier this month, business was brisk. It sold a record 30,000 tickets on its first day - including all the tickets to opening film Cold Light by Hilmar Oddsson as well as several other screenings.Not a bad ...
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Mexican stand-off as Guadalajara faces up to rival festival
Mexico is poised to have two major film festivals slated just a month apart.The 19-year old Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Film Showcase (March 19 to 25) could get upstaged by a new film event in Mexico City to run from February 19 to 29.Dubbed the Mexico City International Contemporary Film ...
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Swiss tune in to Jagged Harmonies
Dominique de Rivaz's Jagged Harmonies - Bach vs Frederick II (Mein Name Ist Bach) has won the top award at the Swiss Film Prize 2004.Sold internationally by Bavaria Film International, de Rivaz's feature debut won in the best film category. It had its world premiere at last August's Locarno International ...
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Nemo to swim past $500m barrier
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives are saying Finding Nemo should pass $500m at the international box office by Friday (Jan 23) after last weekend's $7.3m haul raised its total to $496.9m.The animated hit had a chance of reaching the half-billion milestone last weekend but ultimately it was New Line International's ...
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Max acquires international rights to Lepage's Moon
Montreal-based Max Films hasacquired international rights to Robert Lepage's Far Side Of The Moon (La Face cachee de la lune) from Alliance Atlantis. The film, based onwriter-director-star Lepage's stage piece, will have its international premierein Berlin's Panorama section. Shot on HD, it will screen in 35mm and HD, thefirst time ...
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Suzhou
Dir: Lou Ye. China-Germany. 1999. 83 mins.Prod cos: The Coproduction Office, Essential Film, Dream Factory. Int'l sales: The Coproduction Office (+49 30 3277 7879). Prods: Nai An, Philippe Bober. Scr: Lou Ye. DoP: Wang Yu. Prod des: Li Zhuoyi. Ed: Karl Riegl. Music: Jorg Lemberg. Main cast: Zhou Xun, ...
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Woodsman, September Tapes score Sundance sales
One of the Sundance FilmFestival's most acclaimed competition entries this year - Nicole Kassell's TheWoodsman - was sold yesterday toNewmarket Films for North America for a figure in the $1.2m range.The deal, closed yesterdayafternoon, was the end of a bidding war between six buyers for thecontroversial title which tells the ...
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LA manager D'Andrea joins Edmonds Entertainment
LA-based manager/producerAlex D'Andrea has joined Edmonds Management, bringing with him a client rosterthat includes Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Young (who appears in the upcoming featureThe Girl Next Door) and director Gillies Mackinnon (Hideous Kinky).D'Andrea most recentlyserved with ADA Entertainment and prior to that was a manager at Seven SummitsPictures and Management, ...
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Russia's Cinema Park opens its first multiplex in Moscow
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, got its ambitious two-year theatreexpansion underway yesterday (22) with the opening of a nine-screen Moscowmultiplex.More than 600 peopleattended the opening of Cinema Park at Kaluzhskaya, which coincided with therelease of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.The ...
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Sony Classics takes on North American rights to Zelary
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has acquired North American rights to Ondrej Trojan's Zelary, the Czech World War II epic which is this year'sCzech Republic entry for the best foreign language film Academy Award.The deal was struck betweenSPC and Neil Friedman of Menemsha Entertainment who had previously soldTrojan's production Divided We Fallas ...
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WGA announces ten screenplay nominees
The Writers Guild of America(WGA) nominees for best original screenplay have been announced as GurinderChadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra for Bend It Like Beckham, Steven Knight for Dirty Pretty Things, Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridanfor In America, Sofia Coppola forLost In Translation and TomMcCarthy for The ...
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US box office revenues to pass $10bn by 2006, says report
Box officerevenues in the US are predicted to pass $10bn for the first time ever in 2006,according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.This figurecompares with $8.7bn in ticket revenue for 2003 and is expected to grow to$11bn by 2008. Most of the gains will come from higher ticket ...
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Cabin Fever's Roth steps into The Box for Camelot
Following the acquisition of its Sundance hit Garden State, Camelot Pictures is to finance and produce The Box, a psychological thriller written by Richard Kelly (Donny Darko) and Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) that Roth is set to direct.Kelly and Sean McKittrick's fledgling Darko Entertainment will produce with Camelot founders Gary ...
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Rappeneau races ahead with Bon Voyage at Cesars
Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage has emerged as the front-runner for France's Oscar equivalent, the Cesars, with 11 nominations.The nominees for the awards were announced this morning (Jan 23) by the newly installed president of France's Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, Alain Terzian.Bon Voyage, a picaresque tale set against ...
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Caine to receive BAFTA fellowship award
Academy Award-winning actor Michael Caine is to receive this year's Fellowship Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).The award, last year bestowed upon actress Elizabeth Taylor, will be presented at the BAFTA film awards ceremony on April 9 at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.Caine, who won ...