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Spring, Summer proves a winner at Las Palmas
Kim Ki-Duk's South Korean festival favourite Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring won best film and cinematography prizes at Spain's fifth annual Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 12-20).Recuperating from the shock of the March 11 Madrid bombings, which saw opening night festivities cancelled, the festival picked up steam during the ...
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Birmingham IMAX cinema to re-open over Easter
The IMAX cinema in the UK city of Birmingham is to re-open over Easter after closing at the end of 2003 after massive losses.The giant 50x70ft Imax cinema, based at the Millennium Point, was forced out of business at the end of December when Cinegrand Birmingham, the UK company running ...
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Irreversible faces second Oz ratings review
Australia's Classification Review Board is to re-examine the "R18+" rating given to director Gaspar Noe's Irreversible next Monday despite the film having been on release for six weeks.George Papadopolous, general manager of the film's distributor Accent Film Entertainment, told ScreenDaily.com that the Australian Family Association had applied for a review ...
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UK video industry bankrolls anti-piracy outfit
The UK video industry has raised £1.2m to bankroll a new company to help fight piracy.The Industry Trust for IP Awareness Ltd has been registered as a non-profit making company with the objective creating a fighting fund to tackle copyright theft, which it says is costing the film and video ...
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Unifrance returns to UK with French Film Season
French film export body Unifrance has unveiled the programme for its annual promotional event in the UK, the Renault French Film Season.In partnership with the French Institute of London and exhibitor UGC UK, Unifrance will underwrite a tour of the UK by four French films that are soon to start ...
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Winterbottom signs on to shoot Goal!
Michael Winterbottom is set to direct Goal!, the first film in a trilogy that follows a Latino soccer player as he moves to the UK to play for one of the territory's top-flight Premiership teams.The second and third films in the trilogy will follow the player as he moves to ...
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Newmarket goes Bush-whacking with Sayles
Indie hothouse NewmarketFilms has acquired North American rights to John Sayles' Silver City, a star-studded political satire about the state ofAmerican democracy that will be released this autumn to coincide with the final weeks of this year's USpresidential race.Written, directed and editedby John Sayles, Silver City wasproduced by Maggie Renzi ...
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Crossroads acquires Acts Of Charity script for Winter to direct
New York-based commercials,music video and movie producer Crossroads Films has optioned rights to thescreenplay Acts Of Charity by UKscreenwriter Chips Hardy and Alex Winter, the London-based film-maker who isalso attached to direct the film.Alan Rickman is attached toplay the role of British ex-pat journalist in the film which follows the ...
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Myriad promotes Rappaport, Chiu, Chordia
Los Angeles- and London-based MyriadPictures has made three promotions, according to a statement from presidentKirk D'Amico.JC Rappaport has beenpromoted from manager of acquisitions to director of acquisitions anddevelopment in the company's LA office; Linda Chiu, also in the LA office, hasbeen promoted to creative executive, international production. Both will reportto ...
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Williams-Jones re-surfaces at Miramax International
Michael Williams-Jones, theveteran distribution executive who left United International Pictures (UIP) totake a self-imposed sabbatical, is back in the picture and has taken thepresident job at Miramax International.Based out of the company'sLondon offices, Williams-Jones will oversee the marketing and distribution ofMiramax's films outside North America and will report to co-chairmen ...
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Valenti: Hollywood's global ticket take passes $20bn
The worldwidetheatrical marketplace was worth an unprecedented $20.5bn in ticket sales forthe US studios and their affiliates, declared MPAA chief Jack Valenti on theopening day of ShoWest exhibitors' convention in Las Vegas.With worldwideadmissions dropping 5% last year, Valenti also acknowledged that thisrecord-breaking dollar figure came as a result of rising ...
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Almodovar enjoys career-best Spanish opening
Pedro Almodovar scored his best ever opening in Spain at theweekend when Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) grossed an estimated $1.6m and 245,000 admissions from 158prints in his home country.The El Deseo production, which will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, was released through Warner BrosPictures International and ...
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Fuse secures US distribution
The Global Film Initiative, the US organisation set up to promotecross-cultural understanding through cinema, has picked up Pjer Zalica'saward-winning Bosnian comedy-drama Fuse, which has been selected for the 33rd New Directors/NewFilms series in New York.Set in the devastated Bosnian settlement of Teanj twoyears after civil war has ravaged the former ...
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IMAX signs deal with Showplace Cinemas to open theatre in Indiana
IMAX Corp has signed a dealto open an IMAX theatre in one of Indiana-based Showplace Cinemas' multiplexesin Evansville, Indiana.The opening is expected totake place in November at a specific location to be announced shortly and willemploy the company's unique MPX theatre system.The MPX technology allowsmultiplex operators to instal an IMAX ...
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BKN International raises $60m from IPO
Children''s animation producer and distributor BKN International raised $59.5m (euros61.2m) from its IPO on Frankfurt''s Neuer Markt last week. The German subsidiary of US concern BKN Inc will use a portion of proceeds from the sale to increase its European production capacity by opening a European studio with facilities in ...
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Disney's Brother Bear claws in $200m
An estimated $10.1m international weekend haul propelled Disney's BrotherBear past $200m inworldwide ticket sales, making it Disney's 16th animated title to reach themark.The picture raised its international running total to $115.5m andhas taken more than $85m at the domestic box office.Weekend business was fuelled chiefly by a $4.7m number one ...
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ITALY
Penelope Cruz has scored an impressive double whammy, starring in the top two films at the Italian box office: Medusa's Italian-language picture Don't Move, and Columbia Tristar Italia's Gothika.Actor-director Sergio Castellitto's Don't Move took the number one spot on its second weekend, grossing an extra $1,769,784 which brings the Italian-Spanish ...
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While the top three spots remained in the hands of Spykids 3D: Game Over, Brother Bear and The Young Olsen Gang Rocks, a fourth family oriented film, Cheaper By The Dozen, managed to push Something's Gotta Give from fourth to sixth.Disappointingly, despite a solid screen average and highly favourable reviews, ...
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Film journalist named new director of Sydney film fest
Film journalist for The Australian newspaper, Lynden Barber, is the new director of the 2005 and 2006 Sydney Film Festival, taking over from Gayle Lake on July 1 after the completion of this year's event.Announcing the appointment, festival president Cathy Robinson said there had been "an exhaustive search in Australia ...
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Viacom extends TV accords in China
Viacom, the media conglomerate that owns Paramount, Blockbuster, MTV and CBS, announced that it had reached several new agreements with Chinese partners covering programming, production and information technology.The agreements follow a week-long tour of China by veteran Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone. However, Redstone failed to obtain the extension to the ...