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Matrix Reloaded confirmed for Cannes
Likely to deliver some of the most spectacular images on the Croisette this year, Matrix Reloaded has been confirmed as receiving a place in the Cannes Festival's official selection.The film, which is the second installment of the Matrix trilogy and is directed by the Wachowski brothers, will be given a ...
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Cendres Et Cachotteries wins grand prize at Paris fest
The 18th Paris Film Festival closed Tuesday night with Cendres Et Cachotteries (pictured) by Alice Nellis taking home the Grand Prize. Madame Brouette from Senegalese director Moussa Sene Absa earned two awards, the special jury prize and the best actor statue for Aboubacar Sadikh Ba.American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal won the ...
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US judge rules against National Amusements, Hoyts cinemas
A US federal judge has ordered two major exhibitors to provide stadium seating to people in wheelchairs, after ruling that both companies had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.Judge William G. Young ruled that National Amusements and Hoyts Cinemas ranked in 2000 among the 10 largest movie exhibitors, discriminated against ...
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Toonz Animation to launch training school
India's Toonz Animation, run by a group of former Disney and Turner executives, is to launch an animation school in May.Based in Thiruvananthapuram, Toonz Animation India was recently ranked among the top 10 animation studios in the world. According to Bill Dennis, president and CEO, the Toonz initiative is aimed ...
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Korea's Good Fellas targets Vietnam for multiplex growth
Good Fellas, a Korean exhibition company, is to open its second cinema in Vietnam in May with a dozen more in the pipeline, confirming Vietnam as one of the most promising, untapped international cinema markets.The new venue, to be part of the company's Diamond Cinema (DMC) joint-venture multiplex chain, will ...
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Dobermann director plans eco-friendly documentary series
Jan Kounen, the French director behind the stylish and hyper-violent 1997 comic-book adaptation Dobermann, is to show another side of his character with the launch of a new series of spiritual and eco-friendly documentaries. Kounen, who is just completing post-production of Blueberry, a stylised fantasy Western, that weighs in ...
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Production starts on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Principal photography gets underway today (Friday) in Madrid, on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, a Spanish-French-UK co-production being sold internationally by Senator International.The film's star-studded cast is headlined by Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Kathy Bates. Irish director Mary McGuckian (This Is The Sea) wrote the screenplay and ...
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Canadian exports break C$100m barrier
Canadian film and video exports surpassed the C$100 million mark for the first time in 1997-1998, according to a report from Statistics Canada.Sales agents' foreign sales of Canadian film and video productions reached a record C$101.2m ($70m). The figures excluded productions distributed directly by film and video producers.Meanwhile, the strong ...
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UK Film Council takes over BFI exhibition function
The British Film Institute's exhibition department is to be closed and its functions taken over by the UK's Film Council.According to local reports from the BBC, the BFI is to close its programming unit, which supplies support to regional film theatres for the screening of arthouse product.According to the BBC, ...
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Tribeca hosts world premieres of InDigEnt film, restored Leone classic
Kill The Poor, the latest low-budget feature from the festival-winning digitalvideo collective InDigEnt, are among the many additional films that will bereceiving their world premieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in earlyMayDirected by Alan Taylor, whose Palookaville won the award for best first feature atthe Venice Film Festival, Kill ...
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Miramax bulks up on Chinese video rights
Miramax Films and Hong Kong-based content providerCelestial Pictures have signed a long-term deal giving the US mini-major aswathe of video and video-on-demand (VoD) rights to numerous titles within the renowned Shaw Brotherslibrary as well as English-language remake rights for two Chinese films.Under the deal, Miramax has video distribution rights for ...
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The Punisher catches Dream star
Thomas Jane, currently starring in Warner Bros' Dreamcatcher,has signed to play the lead role in Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios' superheroadaptation The Punisher.Set to start shooting in July with a view to a Summer 2004 release,the project is the latest example of the joint venture between Artisan andMarvel to develop, ...
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Basic
Dir: John McTiernan. US 2003. 95mins In a rather odd coincidence of timing, US majors have released three military-themed thrillers in the space of a month: Tears Of The Sun, The Hunted and, now, Basic. More of a whodunnit than the previous two, Basic finds action-director McTiernan (Die Hard) ...
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The Core
Dir: Jon Amiel. US. 2003. 136 mins. This end-of-the-world action opus is an efficiently executed but unexceptional popcorn flick, which will fail by a long way to produce the big box office numbers its studio maker Paramount Pictures designed it to. The Core's biggest problem is that it falls squarely ...
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UK's easyCinema to test low-cost cinema concept
Ending months of speculation, the UK's easyCinema has leased the first site in the roll-out of its innovative low cost cinema concept: UCI's 10-screen multiplex, The Point in Milton Keynes. EasyCinema, part of Greek entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou's no-frills empire easyGroup, will sell tickets for as low as 20p if booked ...
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Pater Familias
Dir: Francesco Patierno. Italy. 2003. 94mins.For really vibrant Italian cinema, it is not a bad idea to look away from the industry hubs of Rome and Milan. Naples, in particular, has built a healthy homegrown scene around such directors as Mario Martone (L'Amore Molesto) and Antonio Capuano. Newest boy on ...
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Jungle Book sequel gets German boost
Buena Vista International's belated sequel to 1967's animated classic The Jungle Book scored a strong launch in Germany last weekend to take that country's top chart position.With 472,521 tickets sold the four-day (March 27-30) opening weekend take of $2.6m (Euros 2.4m) from 668 screens The Jungle Book 2 scored a ...
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Korean mega-merger cancelled
South Korean major CJ Entertainment announced on April 4 that it had called off its proposed merger with rival studio Cinema Service, which would have created the Korean film industry's biggest-ever company.Disagreements over price are reported to be the primary reason for the cancellation, although a change in fortunes for ...
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Gimenez Cacho joins Almodovar's Bad Education
Actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho (pictured) looks set to take the third lead role in Pedro Almodovar's forthcoming Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) alongside Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal and Spaniard Fele Martinez.According to reports in both the Mexican and Spanish press, Gimenez Cacho will play a priest who re-encounters a former ...
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Hong Kong's Universe sets sights on mainland market
So far the killer virus that has recently hit Hong Kong doesn't appear to be affecting production. Several studios, encouraged by the growing potential of the mainland market, are continuing to line up busy production slates for the coming months. Universe International Holdings plans to put into production at least ...