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Upbeat Constantin raises targets for 2004
German producer-distributor Constantin Film hasraised its sales forecast for 2004 to at least Euros 200m.The move came after Constantin posted a 175%year-on-year increase in sales for the first six months of this year. In the period up toJune 30, the Constantin Group achieved sales of Euros 99m, compared to Euros36m ...
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Civilian Content secures $13m in tax funding
In a welcome boost after itsNew Zealand period piece River Queen stalled mid-shoot, UK media concernCivilian Content aims to double its production levels this year after securinga $12.9m (£7m) tranche of funding.The publicly-listed companyhas accessed the production funding through its partnership with financierSureFire, which has raised the money through UK ...
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Miracle works for audiences at Melbourne
Cannes competitor Life Is A Miracle, set in Bosniaand directed, co-produced and co-written by Emir Kusturica, was the mostpopular feature at this month's Melbourne International Film Festival.Runner up in the vote by audiences was The Life And DeathOf Peter Sellers, directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring festival patronGeoffrey Rush in ...
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UK's Screen East names Crown as production chief
Oscar-nominated film and TV producer Sheryl Crown has joinedScreen East, the Screen Agency for the East of England, as its Head ofProduction.In 2000, Crown received an Oscar nomination for the Welshfeature film Solomon And Gaenor.She also produced Marc Evans first feature, House of America. Crown has worked at the BBC ...
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UK's Screen East names Crown as production chief
Oscar-nominated film and TV producer Sheryl Crown has joinedScreen East, the Screen Agency for the East of England, as its Head ofProduction.In 2000, Crown received an Oscar nomination for the Welshfeature film Solomon And Gaenor.She also produced Marc Evans first feature, House of America. Crown has worked at the BBC ...
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Gayner comes aboard Arenas as svp marketing
LeAnne Gayner has joined the diversified Latino entertainment andmarketing outfit Arenas Entertainment as senior vice president of marketing.Gayner previously served at Artisan Entertainment and will setabout working on the company's slate of upcoming releases, which includesNicotina starring Diego Luna that is set to open in the US on Aug 20, ...
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King Arthur raises international cume to $71m for BVI
King Arthur wasspoiling for a fight at the weekend, grossing an estimated $12.2m through BuenaVista International (BVI) to raise its international running total to $70.8m.A couple of strong number one European debuts drove weekendbusiness as the epic took $2.6m on 403 screens in Spain and $1.8m on 210 inRussia.Elsewhere BVI's ...
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Columbia TriStar sets Oct 5 for Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD release
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will release Fahrenheit 9/11on DVD and video in the US on Oct 5.The home entertainment release looks likely to keep the bandwagonrolling following a spectacular US theatrical run through Lion's Gate Films,IFC Films and The Fellowship Adventure Group.Michael Moore's picture opened on Jun 23 and went ...
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Yes claims $1bn value in run-up to float
UK video-on-demand pioneer Yes TV yesterday said that it believes it is worth more than $1bn, although it has less than 1,500 subscribers.The valuation came as Yes unveiled details of its planned flotation on the London stockmarket and said that its shares will be priced in the 225p-275p range. That ...
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Vampire hunter trio joins BloodRayne
Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen have joined thecast of BloodRayne, Uwe Boll's video game adaptation set to begin principalphotography in Romania later this month.All three willplay vampire hunters alongside T3 star Kristanna Loken, who plays the titlerole of a half-human, half-vampire who roams the world eliminating evilsupernatural forces.Ben ...
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Five filmmakers to benefit from IFP/New York doc grant
IFP/New York isto allocate seed funding worth a total of $50,000 to five documentary projectsthrough the relaunched Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund.Oriana Zill & Marco Williams' Banished: How Whites DroveBlacks Out of Town in America, Marlo Poras' Gambian Marriage, Judith Helfand'sHeat Wave: An Unnatural Disaster, Diane Bernard's The Lord Of Light, ...
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I, Robot crosses $100m for Fox International
Fired up by a raft of strong holds, Fox International's I, Robotwas once again the biggest international picture around as it crossed $100m atthe weekend.The sci-fithriller grossed an estimated $18.8m from 5,350 international screens toelevate its international running total to $108m.Key markets were the UK, where I, Robot fell 39% ...
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Azkaban conjures up $500m at international box office
Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban crossed $500m at the international box office at theweekend, becoming the 10th picture to reach the milestone and Warner Bros'third biggest picture of all time behind the two previous Potter instalments.Azkaban grossedan estimated $5.6m with 602,000 admissions on more than 2,000 screens in 47territories ...
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Forgiveness
Dir. Ian Gabriel. SouthAfrica, 2004. 112mins.There are two thingsgoing for Ian Gabriel's feature film debut Forgiveness. The first isthat it comes from South Africa, which promises to be the film festival flavourof the year (after a competition premiere at Locarno it plays in Toronto's South Africa: Ten YearsLater sidebar next ...
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DENMARK 17 August
Though admissions again were up (45,8%) from last year, itstill wasn't evident on the chart as no films did better than fair. The Chronicles Of Riddick only made itinto third with its 30 prints. Adding one more print, Fahrenheit 9/11 easily took the highest screen average again withDKK42,071. However, Nordisk ...
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SWEDEN 17 August
Nothing changed at the top of the Swedish chart, where I, Robot and King Arthur's high number of prints kept them in front of DaneSimon Staho's Swedish-language drama DayAnd Night, but the latter increased its screen average to $3,991 - the bestthis weekend. Best newcomer was teenage comedy Mean Girls ...
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Switzerland's national film fund to be reviewed
Pascal Couchepin, head of Switzerland's Federal Departmentof Home Affairs (EDI) has commissioned an independent report on the running ofSwitzerland's national film funding programme at the Federal Office for Culture(BAK).The report, to evaluate BAK's criteria for grantingsubsidies, comes after previous criticisms by Couchepin of "lack oftransparency" and "too large a bureaucracy" ...
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Malaysian films aspire to international market
Following the local commercial success of Pontianak HarumSundal Malam, Malaysian writer/director Shuhaimi Babas is preparing a($526,000) RM2m sequel with her own company Pesona Pictures producing.Pontianak, which tells the story of a female banshee fromlocal folklore, was the first local film to break the taboo of the horror genrewhich was banned ...
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McKellen joins Magic Roundabout cast
Ian McKellen has joinedKylie Minogue and Robbie Williams in voicing Pathe's $20m CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Having played the wizardGandalf in The Lord Of The Rings, theOscar-nominated actor will be playing a less stereotypical wizard in thefeature version of the kids' TV show.His character is Zebedee, a moustachioed jack-in-a-box ...
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A Paradise Under The Stars
Dir: Gerardo Chijona. Cuba/Spain. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Wanda Film, Institute Of Art And Film Cuba. Int'l sales: Wanda Film. Exec prods: Evelio Delgado, Puy Oria. Prods: Camilo Vives, Jose Maria Morales. Scr: Gerardo Chijona, Luis Aguero, Senel Paz. DoP: Raul Perez Ureta. Art dir: Erick Grass. Ed: Rori Saenz ...