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San Sebastian to feature Bertolucci tribute
The 48th San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30) will host a tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci which will feature screenings of all of his films as well as several documentaries about him and his body of work. Coinciding with the film's 25th anniversary, Bertolucci's Novecento will be given a special ...
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Hellboy
Dir: Guillermo del Toro. US. 2003. 122 mins.Their web sites have been spreading pre-release buzz for weeks and comic book geeks won't be disappointed when Guillermo del Toro's handsome and long-awaited big screen take on artist Mike Mignola's Hellboy opens in the US this weekend. Whether broad mainstream audiences will ...
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... but faces opposition in France
French exhibitor MK2 has refused to program Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ when it is released by Quinta Distribution on Wednesday. Marin Karmitz, president of the successful cinema circuit, told Agence France Presse that he considers the film "fascist, antisemitic and of an unheard violence.""To watch a man ...
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NEW ZEALAND
At its first official opening weekend at the box office - audiences were first warmed up on previews - Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile has pushed The Passion Of The Christ off the top spot with a gross of NZ$309,933 from 53 screens.The Haunted Mansion's NZ$259,523 gross from 50 screens ...
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FRANCE
The Jacques Perrin produced Les Choristes opened in the number one spot scoring nearly 1 million admissions in its first week. The film is a sort of Mr Holland's Opus starring Gerard Jugnot which Miramax will handle stateside. Malabar Princess jumped to number 2 from the third spot last week ...
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BVITV closes raft of deals at MIP-TV
Buena Vista International Television, the rights sales arm of Walt Disney, has announced a string of deals at this week's MIP-TV programmes market (29 Mar-2 Apr).With Russian broadcaster CTC it concluded a multi-year deal covering feature films, series and TV movies. Films covered by the deal hail from the Walt ...
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Germany's X-Filme scores double top
Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool and its distribution arm X Verleih have been named Germany's most successful production company and distributor of 2003 when the German Federal Film Board (FFA) handed out Euros 15.9m retroactive "reference" funding.The box-office success last year of Good Bye, Lenin!, Liegen Lernen and the ...
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Nowhere In Africa producer goes it alone
Peter Herrmann, producer of Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa has left MTM Medien & Television Muenchen to set up his own production outfit.The new company Peter Herrmann Filmproduktion (PHF), which plans to focus on producing German films with international financing, already has two projects in development.Herrmann acquired the ...
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Sofia Meetings develop second film projects
One of the highlights of the recent Sofia International Film Festival was a session of second films pitching as part of the Sofia Meetings.Twelve projects were invited to the event, which was attended by such decision-makers as Renate Roginas from Eurimages, The Coproduction Office's Philippe Bober, Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, ...
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Santiago cleans up at Fribourg
Peruvian director Josue Mendez was the big winner at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival, picking up four awards including the International Jury's Regard D'Or for his Dias De Santiago.The Jury, under Argentine filmmaker Eliseo Subiela, unanimously recognised "the cinematographic quality of this first work as well as the actor's ...
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Astro poised to enter China Pay-TV market
Through Celestial Pictures, its 100% owned subsidiary in Hong Kong, Malaysia's pay-TV operator Astro All Asia Networks is poised to replicate its popular Celestial Movies channel in China.According to William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, the company is waiting for a decision on landing rights in China. If approved, Celestial ...
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DENMARK
The fact that Viggo Mortensen is half Danish paid off this weekend as he easily raced Hidalgo into the top spot in front of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.Despite only having 19 prints, Hidalgo's impressive screen average was more than twice that of the sequel's high 50 prints.Surprisingly the directing debut ...
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Venice date shift expected
The Biennale is expected to hold the next edition of the Venice Film Festival from Sept 1 to 11, 2004, moving its dates back a few days from its usual slot in order to provide a more lucrative platform for Italian independent distributors to release their autumn titles. Its 2004 ...
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King continues to rule, takes $5m over weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $5m from 2,225 screens in 57 markets at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $717.9m.Combined with its $374.6mdomestic gross, The Return Of The King has racked up $1.1bn in worldwide ticketsales.The picture added $1m in ...
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Independent producers and MPAA settle over screeners
The Coalition of IndependentFilmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York have dropped their antitrustlawsuit against the MPAA following the Hollywood lobby group's de factorevocation of the screener ban.All parties have agreed todismiss the pending Antidote Int'l Films Inc et al v MPAA litigation in aconfidential settlement.The case was originallyfiled last November ...
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Gaiss promoted to director of publicity at Fox International
Martin Gaiss has beenpromoted to director of publicity at Fox International, where he will continueto devise and implement strategy and events and develop his responsibilities innew media and creative online publicity.Gaiss, whose campaigncredits include Titanic, The Full Monty, the X-Men franchise andthe upcoming The Day After Tomorrow,is based in Los ...
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Scooby Doo 2 races out of the gate with $4.1m
The family sequel Scooby-Doo2 grossed an estimated $4.1m in ninemarkets through Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend.Highlights of the limitedday-and-date release with the US, where the picture opened top on an estimated$30.7m, included a superb $369,016 from 35 screens in Singapore (includingpreviews) and $267,285 from 105 in Sweden. Both ...
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Nina's Tragedies to open US Israel Film Festival
Savi Gabizon's Nina'sTragedies will open the 20th annualIsrael Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US that runsin Los Angeles from Apr 29-May 13 and this year focuses on coming-of-agestories and the decay of the kibbutz system.All in all 37 Israelinarrative features, documentaries and shorts will screen ...
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BVI's Bear hugs on to top spot in Spain, Germany
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Brother Bear added $10.2mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $129.8m.Key drivers in the picture'sbountiful haul were a number one $2.6m bow in Spain on 401 screens for theindustry's biggest ever spring release and the third biggest animated bow everbehind Finding Nemo and Tarzan.It ...