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Vargas Llosa named as San Sebastian jury chief
Writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been named as the jurypresident at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept17-25), which has closed its official line-up with the announcement of specialscreenings, awards and juries.The rest of the official selection jury comprises YaminaBenguigui, Tom DiCillo, Marta Esteban, Laura Morante, Eduardo Serra and ...
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AUSTRALIA 6 September
Two of the three most popular films in cinemas on theweekend are openers. They are BVI's TheVillage, which grossed A$3,117,621 from 290 screens, and Columbia TriStar's13 Going On 30, which grossedA$1,783,128 from 221 screens. Separating them was UIP's The Bourne Supremacy, which sold A$2,585,052 work of tickets to 311screens on ...
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HONG KONG 6 September
Columbia TriStar's Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchidtopped the box office in a lacklustre week with US$444,729 from 22 screens.Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook, distributed in Hong Kongby Intercontinental Film Distributors, took US$100,949 from five screens whichgave it the second highest screen average of the week. The other new openers ...
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A Love Song For Bobby Long
Dir:Shainee Gabel. USA. 2004. 119mins.Oldtrooper Travolta meets rising star Johansson in A Love Song For Bobby Long,a fragile but charming slice of New Orleans bohemiana. It was a nice idea togive the on-screen stand-off between their two characters (he a washed-up,alcoholic former university professor; she a stroppy school dropout with ...
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Finding Neverland
Dir: Marc Forster. US.2004. 101mins.It may have been given atitle more redolent of a cheesy TV movie, but anchored by another knockoutperformance by Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland is destined to get plentyof big screen attention later this year.Miramax Films can count onrunaway word-of-mouth and big-time returns both on awards podiums ...
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The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
Dir: Alejandro Amenabar.Spain. 2004. 127mins.Though Alejandro Amenabar's new film screened only athird of the way into the Venice festival, the gut feeling after the earlypress screening on the Lido was that we had just been watching the Leone D'Oro.Still only 32, Amenabar proves with this moving study of a quadraplegic ...
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Record summer for German box office
Germany has witnessed a box office boom over the summermonths, with new figures showing admissions and takings to be at an all timehigh for the key May-August period.Box office takings of Euros 302.7m and admissions of 51.8mare more than 30% higher compared to the same period last year (Euros 216.6mand ...
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Turkey, UAE 'fastest growing' Middle East markets
Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are the fastest growingcinema markets in the Middle East region, according to a new report by DodonaResearch.Expansion in screen numbers in Turkey (by 179% to 945) andthe UAE (almost fourfold to 142) over the 1995 to 2003 period was the catalystfor rapid growth in ...
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Japan readies World War II dramas
Japanese studios are readying a spate of action filmscentred on World War II.Back in the mid-1990s Japanese studios also released anumber of films commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.Many were produced or directed by members of the war generation and looked backon the fallen much ...
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Vanity Fair
Dir: Mira Nair US/UK2004 140 minsAdapting classic Nineteenth Century novels for the screenis invariably a thankless task. If filmmakers are too brutal paring down bookswhich run to hundreds of pages, they risk straining out the wealth of detailand description which makes the originals memorable in the first place. Ifthey're not ...
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Danish broadcaster TV3 backs first ever feature
MTG owned Nordic broadcaster TV3 has backed its first everfeature film, the romantic comedy Nynne, which starts shooting inCopenhagen from Oct 18.The $2.4m (DKK14,5m)project, which is based on the local bestseller Nynne's Diary,has had a number of different producers, writers and directors attached overthe year, but now heads for the ...
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AusFILM recruits Fox Studio Australia chief
Fox Studios Australia chief executive Michael Harvey hasbeen named deputy chair of AusFILM, the organisation responsible for attractinginternational production to Australia.Ian Robertson, of Sydney law firm Holding Redlich, remainschair.Two new board members have also been appointed: Helene Nicolfrom Melbourne-based television commercials production house Great SouthernFilms, and Greg Smith, director of ...
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UGC acquires Gaumont's Antwerp multiplex
French exhibition giant UGC is buying rival Gaumont's 17-screen multiplex in Antwerp, Belgium for $22m (FFr150m), as part of its Europe-wide expansion plan kickstarted by the acquisition of the UK's Virgin circuit last year.UGC currently has two multiplexes in Brussels but plans to increase this number to five by next ...
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01 Distribution in Flux with acquisitions trio
Exactly three years after it launched its 01 Distributionlabel at the Venice Film Festival, Rai Cinema is lining-up what it describes asits hottest slate to date.New acquisitions include Lakeshore's Sci-Fi movie AeonFlux, which Charlize Theron was shooting inGermany until she suffered a neck injury a few days ago, forcing the ...
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The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) review
Dir: Alejandro Amenabar.Spain. 2004. 127mins.Though Alejandro Amenabar's new film screened only athird of the way into the Venice festival, the gut feeling after the earlypress screening on the Lido was that we had just been watching the Leone D'Oro.Still only 32, Amenabar proves with this moving study of a quadraplegic ...
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...as Japanese enfant terrible aims to rival Potter
Japan's Kadokawa Pictures is to remake the 1968 YoshiyukiKuroda hit The Big Spook War (Yokai Daisenso) with director TakashiMiike at the helm.Announcing the film at the Kadokawa Daei Studio, Kadokawapresident Tsuguhiko Kadokawa said it was the first instalment in a series thatwill "rival Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings ...
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Lido laggards plunge Venice into chaos
There could hardly be a more telling sign of the glamour overload on the Lido this year than watching Johnny Depp work the crowds in front of the red carpet at the bleary eyed time of 2.15 am just before the screening of Miramax's Finding Neverland, which started around two ...
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Riddick raises int'l total to $44m
The Chronicles Of Riddick added $6m through all distributors at the weekend on2,100 screens in 22 territories for a $44m international cumulative total. TheUIP-only total comes to $30.5m and there are six territories still to open.The chief highlight was a$2.4m first place launch in Germany on 396 screens. In a ...
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Garfield is top cat in Spain with $4m launch
Fox International's Garfieldenjoyed a superb $4m number one launch including previews on 349 screens inSpain at the weekend, the highlight of an $8.4m weekend haul from 3,406 screensin 41 markets that raised the comedy's international running total to $77.7m.Dodgeball grossed $2.6m on 564 screens for $10.6m. It added$2.1m on 314 ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...