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Hyde Park signs output deals in five territories
Ashok Amritraj and David Hoberman's Hyde Park Entertainment has concluded a slew of output deals in smaller territories, sealing the patchwork of worldwide deals on its upcoming slate.Warner Nu Metro has signed a two-year, ten-picture deal with the company in South Africa; three-year deals have been closed in Israel with ...
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Teen horror novel Scared Stiff comes to the screen
LosAngeles-based production house Puzzle Box Productions is teaming up withauthors Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner to adapt their Scholastic Booksteen horror bestseller Scared Stiff for the big screen.The story involves a brotherand sister who live above their parent's mortuary business and work together tostop the corpse of a vengeful mass ...
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Menemsha picks up US rights to Machuca
Neil Friedman's MenemshaFilms has picked up US distribution rights to Chile's Oscar entry Machuca which played in Directors Fortnight at Cannes thisyear as well as at Edinburgh, Pusan, Vancouver and Montreal.Directed by Andres Wood,Machuca is set in Santiago, Chile, in 1973 and tells the story of thefriendship between two eleven ...
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Kimmel signs sales partnership with Capitol
Sidney Kimmel's Los Angelesand New York-based production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has signed anon-exclusive foreign sales partnership with Capitol Films in time for AFM.Capitol will represent NickCassavetes' drama Alpha Dog,starring Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone, aswell as the Julianne Moore/ Billy Crudup romantic comedy Trust The ...
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DreamWorks Animation raises $812m in IPO
In the first initial publicoffering by a major studio in seven years, DreamWorks Animation raised $812myesterday (26), far higher than analysts expected.While the projected range of shares was $23 to $25 per share, theIPO priced shares at $28 per share, according to reports.Riding high on the recent success of Shrek ...
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NORWAY 28 October
The pairing of Cruise and Foxx made Collateral the big winner at the Norwegian box-office this weekend,where it took an impressive NOK44,012 screen average from its 35 prints.The second highest average belonged to Before Sunset (NOK38,088), which, however, only managed to get into 15th spot with itsjust five prints.While most ...
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French engage with Amelie follow-up
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's highlyanticipated Euros 45m A Very Long Engagement scored the fifth bestopening day of the year when it was released in France on Wednesday (Oct 27).With 220,821 tickets soldthroughout the country on 707 screens, the wartime epic had the best opening of2004 for a French film.Compared with other filmslaunched ...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
Dir: Beeban KidronUK-US-Fr 2004 107minsBridget Jones is back, as fretful and neurotic as ever,in an expertly crafted (if rather soulless) sequel which is likely to hit allthe right buttons for Working Title. Renee Zelwegger again excels as the podgy,thirtysomething London singleton with the ineffably messy love life. She is fedplenty ...
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HUNGARY 28 October
Despite five new films hitting the screens in Hungary lastThursday, not one of them could capture the admissions' top spot, a positionsecured by the Bruce Willis comedy TheWhole Ten Yards in its second week of release.Collateral faredbest of the newcomers coming in second place but with less than 19,000admissions on ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 October
Albeit off thechart, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11became the first documentary to achieve $100m from international markets duringlast week. The film added $392,745 over the weekend with Japan and recentlaunch territory Hong Kong currently providing the highest numbers. The filmhas taken $100.8m and may get some boost still from next week's ...
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Kidman in talks with Aardman for Flushed Away
Nicole Kidman is in talks tostar in Flushed Away, the next title to roll out of the multi-pictureanimation deal between the UK's Aardman Animations and DreamWorks SKG.Kidman is likely to play astreet-smart sewer rat named Rita, with Hugh Jackman voicing Roddy, a posh ratwho is swept out of his penthouse ...
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Spanish film stays alive with Art Of Dying
Domestic productions continue to hold their own at the Spanish box office. Last week, two Spanish films opened in the top ten, one of which - Aurum Producciones' teen horror flic The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir) - nabbed the number two spot, beaten only by awards-laden American ...
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Amazonas festival to open with ecological drama
TheAmazonas Film Festival (Nov 26 - Dec 1) will open with ecological adventuretale Taina 2 - A New Amazon Adventure by Mauro Lima in Manaus, Brazil.The filmis the story of a young Indian girl facing up to a dangerous gang who smuggle rare specimens of Amazon fauna.Thefestival was created by ...
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BAFTA voters prepare for 'mystifying' campaign season
BAFTA voters are preparing for 'mystifying' campaignseason in the UK following the delay in plans to distribute anti-piracy DVDplayers to every BAFTA member.The move has led to predictions in certain quarters thatthe late arrival of the DVD players will cause a repeat of last year's chaosamong film voting members as ...
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Direct Cinema 'godfathers' lined up for IDFA fest
FrederickWiseman, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Robert Drew, thelegendary 'godfathers' of the Direct Cinema movement, are all toattend the seventeenth IDFA, the world's biggest documentary festival, inAmsterdam next month.They will be taking part in a special debate about thelegacy of Direct Cinema, which revolutionised documentary in the 60s ...
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Int'l buyers snap up Pobby & Dingan rights
On the eve of the AFM,pan-European buying group Indie Circle has picked up its highest-profile filmto date. It snapped up multi-territory rights to Pobby & Dingan, thefantasy drama directed by The Full Monty's Peter Cattaneo.The picture is handled by UKsales and finance outfit Renaissance Films which also struck deals with ...
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One Last Dance begins in Singapore
Production begins next week on One Last Dance,a Hong Kong-set gangster picture which is already attracting internationalinterest.The $2.5m film has an unusual cast of co-producersincluding Mediacorp Raintree Pictures of Singapore, China's Ming Productionsand A-Film of The Netherlands.Shot in Cantonese and directed by Brazilian-AmericanMax Makowski, One Last Dance is described by ...
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Italian government launches private equity film fund
In a highly ambitious move,the Italian government is launching a private equity fund to support theItalian film industry.Cinefund will have a targetbudget of Euros 50-70m per year, to be spent on 30 to 40 Italian films andco-productions 'with high box office potential.' The fund will investan average of Euros 1-2m ...
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Mueller warns Biennale he needs full control over festival
Veniceartistic director Marco Mueller is warning the Biennale that he needs to havefull control over the next film festival, "or he will be better off beinga full time producer again.""The mishap that happened at this year's eventdidn't have anything to do with the number of films in the festival. There ...
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Warner Int'l promotes Zeitz to vice president
Jeff Zeitz has been namedvice president of business systems planning at Warner Bros PicturesInternational.Zeitz will continue toreport to executive vice president of operations and finance Angelina Speareand will be responsible for daily oversight of the system's initiatives and identifybusiness opportunities.He will continue tocollaborate with senior management to establish project priorities ...