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Middle Eastern themes dominate Locarno awards
Private, the raw, gritty and uncompromising debut of Italian director Saverio Costanzo, triumphed at the 57th Locarno Film Festival, which wrapped on Saturday night.The tense, intimate drama, confronting an Israeli patrol with a Palestinian family in whose home they have taken cover, may well be too controversial for some, but ...
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Samaha's personal liability to increase in Intertainment case
On Friday in aSanta Ana, California federal courtroom, what may be the biggest bomb in amovie career filled with them was aimed squarely at Franchise Pictures CEO ElieSamaha.That's whenJudge Alicemarie Stotler issued tentative rulings pertaining to next week'sformal judgments in the matter of German rights broker Intertainment GmbH'slawsuit against Franchise.In ...
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Edinburgh replaces 2046 with Untold Scandal
The forthcoming EdinburghInternational Film Festival (EIFF) is to change its closing night film, endingweeks of squabbling and speculation about Wong Kar-wai's2046.In a statement, the EIFF announced that it would replace the previouslyscheduled 2046 with Untold Scandal, a sumptuous 17thcentury retelling of the Liaisons Dangereuses story by hot Korean director E ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings towards $350m for CTFDI
Columbia's Spider-Man 2 is expected to pass $350m byWednesday after adding an estimated $8.7m on 4,900 screens in 64 territories atthe weekend for a $348m international running total.Released through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI), the action sequel took full advantage of the Obonholidays in Japan, which is now the biggest ...
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Bourne Supremacy opens second in UK on $5m
Universal'sthriller sequel The Bourne Supremacy began its international run with anexcellent $5m (£2.7m) debut in the UK on 425 screens through UIP at theweekend.The pictureranked second behind Fox International's I, Robot and took 25% marketshare. The opening gross included $665,000 from previews and was some 50%bigger than the $3.3m debut ...
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Alien Vs Predator slays its rivals to open top on $38.3m
Twentieth Century Fox'shorror thriller Alien Vs Predator opened top at the weekend on anestimated $38.3m, eclipsing opening records for both Fox-owned franchises andmarking the studio's sixth consecutive picture to open on more than $20m.Sanaa Lathan and Raoul Bovastar in Paul W S Anderson's $60m high-adrenaline tale, which pits the twomonster ...
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Alien Vs Predator rules the roost with $38.3m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'shorror thriller Alien Vs Predator opened top at the weekend on anestimated $38.3m, eclipsing opening records for both Fox-owned franchises andmarking the studio's sixth consecutive picture to open on more than $20m.Sanaa Lathan and Raoul Bovastar in Paul W S Anderson's $60m high-adrenaline tale, which pits the twomonster ...
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Witt joins cast of PlesWin's Hollywood Sign
Germany's controversy-courting former ice-skating champion, Katarina Witt, is poised to return to the big screen in The Hollywood Sign. The film is the first to be financed by Eric Pleskow and Leon De Winter's Dutch studio PlesWin Entertainment Group and is the US production debut of Sonke Wortmann, German director ...
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Alien Vs Predator rules the roost with $38.3m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'shorror thriller Alien Vs Predator opened top at the weekend on anestimated $38.3m, eclipsing opening records for both Fox-owned franchises andmarking the studio's sixth consecutive picture to open on more than $20m.Sanaa Lathan and Raoul Bovastar in Paul W S Anderson's $60m high-adrenaline tale, which pits the twomonster ...
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Alien Vs Predator rules the roost with $38.3m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'shorror thriller Alien Vs Predator opened top at the weekend on anestimated $38.3m, eclipsing opening records for both Fox-owned franchises andmarking the studio's sixth consecutive picture to open on more than $20m.Sanaa Lathan and Raoul Bovastar in Paul W S Anderson's $60m high-adrenaline tale, which pits the twomonster ...
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Alien Vs Predator rules the roost with $38.3m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'shorror thriller Alien Vs Predator opened top at the weekend on anestimated $38.3m, eclipsing opening records for both Fox-owned franchises andmarking the studio's sixth consecutive picture to open on more than $20m.Sanaa Lathan and Raoul Bovastar in Paul W S Anderson's $60m high-adrenaline tale, which pits the twomonster ...
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Alien vs Predator
Dir:Paul W S Anderson. US. 2004. 101mins.Withnew backgrounds but the same old bad attitudes, two of 20th Century Fox'ssci-fi icons go head to head in AVP (as the marketing folks havehelpfully abbreviated it), a franchise face-off that looks set to consolidateHollywood's latest genre trend. The match-up, enthusiastically brought to thescreen ...
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NEW ZEALAND 16 August
Walking Tallknocked Hellboy off the top of thebox office chart after only one weekend at the top, just as Hellboy did to The Chronicles Of Riddick the previous weekend, and The Chronicles Of Riddick did to I, Robot on the one before that.But it was a close call. WalkingTall grossed ...
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HONG KONG 16 August
Hong Kong revealedits weakness for cute animals this week as Japanese tear-jerker Quill topped the box office withUS$795,799 from 29 screens.Produced byShochiku and directed by Yoichi Sai, the film is about a Labrador pup who istrained to be a "seeing-eye" dog for a man who is initially reluctant to accepthelp ...
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Tom White
Dir: Alkinos Tsilimidos.Aust. 2004. 106minsWith a standout,hardly-off-the-screen central performance from Colin Friels, Tom Whitecharts the swift descent of its eponymous character from middle-class securityto a desperate life on the streets, utterly broke and hopeless. For his secondfeature, director Alkinos Tsilimidos keeps sentimentality at bay while crediblycharting his protagonist's identity crisis, ...
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Dinard unveils initial line-up of UK films
The fifteenth edition of the DinardBritish Film Festival will see the founding president, Thierry de la Fourniere,hand over to the mayor of Dinard, Marius Mallet.For fifteen years the town of Dinardhas celebrated its own "Entente Cordiale" between the French and British filmindustries and this tradition will be continued between October ...
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AUSTRALIA 16 August
Man On Fire heldon to the top spot for its second weekend on release, taking A$1,112,405 for20th Century Fox from 262 screens. Snapping at its heels was newcomer Walking Tall, which grossed A$1,031,611from 192 screens for the same distributor, and in third place but not farbehind was Columbia TriStar's WhiteChicks, ...
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Reding re-selected for EU media job
Viviane Reding is to keep the audiovisual policyand MEDIA Programme portfolio in the new team of commissioners unveiled by JoseManuel Barroso, President-designate of the European Commission.Reding has been commissioner for Education,Culture, Youth, Media & Sport since 1999 and will now serve as theCommissioner for Information Society and Media. She will ...
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Locarno wrestles with growing pains
The pains ofgrowing up were in abundant evidence this year in Locarno. And if this was notan intentional theme, it reflects the type of film the festival made itsselection from, according to at least two members of the selection committee.A boy is abandonedby his father in Catarina Ruivo's Portuguese Andre ...
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New chief for French Film Commission
France's National FilmCommission (CNF), which promotes location filming in the country, will have anew president in mid-September.Unifrance's deputy generalmanager Patrick Lamassoure will take over from current CNF president BenoitCaron, according to Caron. Lamassoure could not be reached for comment.For his part, Caron, who hasheaded up the CNF since the late ...