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Zee launches English-language movie channel
Indian broadcaster Zee Network launched two 24-hour satellite channels on Saturday (March 18) - an English-language entertainment channel, called Zee English, and an English-language film channel, Zee Movies.Zee has acquired more than 700 films from US and UK companies for the launch, including Warner Bros International Television, MGM and CBS ...
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Spearritt moves from S Club 7 to Seed Of Chucky
HannahSpearritt, the British actress formerly with pop group S Club 7, has joined thecast of Focus Features' Seed Of Chucky, which began filming in Romania earlier this week.Spearritt made herHollywood debut in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London opposite Frankie Muniz for MGM whichopened in the US last weekend.The fifthinstalment ...
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Madstone launches film school editing programme with 50 hours of a real film
New York-basedentertainment company Madstone has launched a film school editing programmethat will allow students to experiment on footage from Aaron Woodley's upcomingcoming-of-age drama Rhinoceros Eyes.The picture,which is the first to emerge from the Madstone Directors Programme and won the2003 Toronto Film Festival Discovery Award, will serve as the basis for ...
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Film-makers Alliance sets US DVD date for Madison
The Film-makersAlliance has acquired US rights to Erik Moe, Peter Rudy and David Fleer's awardwinning comedy No Sleep 'Til Madison and will release it straight to DVD in April.The picture stars comedian Jim Gaffigan and won theSundance Channel Emerging Film-maker Award at the St Louis International FilmFestival.The storycentres on an ...
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Chokher Bali opens second Indian Film Festival in LA
The secondIndian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) kicks off on Apr 14 with the LApremiere of Rituparno Ghosh's period piece Chokher Bali (A Passion Play) and closes on Apr 18 with SudhirMishra's drama Hazaron Khwaishen Aisi (A Thousand Dreams Such As These).All in all thefestival will screen 25 pictures ...
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Initial, Intermedia part ways after two-year marriage
Initial Entertainment Group and Intermedia are finally partingcompany following an agreement whereby Initial president Graham King andpartner and chief operating officer Colin Cotter will acquire Initial fromIntermedia through their investment company Parliament Pictures.As a result of the amicable deal Initial will no longer be anIntermedia subsidiary. Both Initial under King ...
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Young Adam branded with NC-17 by MPAA
Sony Pictures Classics will release an uncut NC-17 version ofDavid MacKenzie's drama Young Adam in the US next month following yesterday's failed eleventh hourbid to overturn the restrictive rating.The picture's veteran British producer Jeremy Thomas flew fromLondon to attend a special LA screening and appeal hearing before the MotionPicture Association ...
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Dawn Of The Dead
Dir: Zack Snyder. US. 2003. 100mins.It may not have the intensity and satirical touch that made George Romero's original Dawn Of The Dead a modern horror classic. But this 're-envisioning' of Romero's 1979 cult favourite by commercials director Zack Snyder at least partially makes up for the lack with a ...
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POLAND
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ racked up a running total box office gross of $3,822,060 in its second week at number at the Polish box office.An earlier announcement that the Pope had seen the film undoubtedly boosted box office in the highly Catholic country.But Polish contemporary romance Nigdy ...
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Taking Lives
Dir: DJ Caruso. US. 2004. 103 mins.Serial killer thrillers don't come slicker than this good-looking Montreal-set production from Mark Canton and Warner Bros. Boasting a stellar cast led by the larger-than-life Angelina Jolie, Taking Lives is an enjoyable studio outing in the vein of Copycat or The Bone Collector but, ...
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The Ladykillers
Dir: Joel & Ethan Coen. US. 2004. 104 mins.After the Coen Brothers' unmemorable Intolerable Cruelty last year, The Ladykillers represents another awkward fusion of their distinctive style and studio-originated material. More suited to their sensibilities than the fizzy screwball high-jinks the brothers attempted to whip up in Cruelty, The Ladykillers ...
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Hoyts South America takes on Kushner-Locke titles
Exhibitor Hoyts General Cinema (HGC) South America has agreed to handle Latin American distribution of several titles from Phoenix World Investments (PWI), the Chile-based outpost of US independent producer-distributor Kushner-Locke. The deal calls for the distribution of PWI films in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, starting with Very Bad ...
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Rozier to be Critics Week patron
Jacques Rozier, the Frenchdirector who was one of the founding fathers of the Nouvelle Vague, has beenappointed patron of the Critics' Week (13-21 May) sidebar for the forthcomingCannes film festival.As patron Rozier willsupport and advise the event and on Monday 17 May lead an organised debate withthe directors whose films ...
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Saved! will open New York Gen Art festival on Apr 14
The Ninth Annual Gen ArtFilm Festival will open on Apr 14 with the New York premiere of BrianDannelly's dark comedy Saved!starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin.The American independentfestival runs until Apr 20 and will showcase New York premieres of sevenfeatures and seven shorts. The closing night film will ...
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Belleville. Belvaux, Coninx among Belgium's Plateau nominees
Organisers at the FlandersInternational Film Festival Ghent (FIFF) have announced the nominees for theJoseph Plateau Awards 2003. All titles are Belgian shorts and features and musthave been released in Belgian theatres between Jan 1 and Dec 31 2003.The Joseph Plateau ceremonywas launched under the auspices of the FIFF to honour ...
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Spanish film-makers pin hopes on incoming Socialists
The Spanish film industry, as surprised as the rest ofsociety by the upset in last week's national elections, is lookingforward to positive changes under a new Socialist government.But with only vague electoral promises and the generous filmpolicies of the party's prior 14-year reign to go on, the industry mustnow wait ...
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UK exhibitors talk up prospects for 2004 box office
A marked optimism for cinema's prospects in 2004 wasevident among UK exhibitors and distributors who attended last week's 7thNational UK Cinema Industry Conference in London (March 18).Good news for the UK industry came in the first sessionwhich looked at areas such as marketing, audience tastes and the admissionsblip of 2003.Tomas ...
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Mar del Plata celebrates Buena Vida
Latin America's only A grade film festival, Mar del Plata inArgentina, wrapped on Saturday (March 20) with the prize for best film, theGolden Astor, going to a local picture, Buena Vida Delivery.Leonardo Di Cesare's directorial debut, which received backingfrom the Argentinian film institute (INCAA), Film Sud in France and the ...
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...and mulls shifting dates to November
Mar del Plata, Latin America's only A grade film festival,is considering shifting its dates from March to November, according to festivalchief Miguel Pereira.The festival, which wrapped its 19th edition on Saturday,finds it difficult to attract the films they want, says Pereira, as it issandwiched between Berlin and Cannes in the ...
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Malaga opens with Violet Gaze
The Violet Gaze willinaugurate the 7th annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 23-May 1),which is also set to honour director Fernando Trueba, distributor EnriqueGonzalez Macho and actress Geraldine Chaplin.Directed by Nacho Perez and Jesus Ruiz (Marta AndSurroundings), Gaze (La Mirada Violeta)stars Cayetano Guillen-Cuervo in a story of female infidelity, ...