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Polar Express opening is less than Incredibles
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...
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The Incredibles maintains super-hero pace
Pixar's The Incredibles, distributed in the US through Buena Vista, beat off thechallenge of Warner Bros' The Polar Express to stay top with an estimated $51msecond weekend haul that raised its running total to $144.1m.Polar Express, a 50/50 co-venture between Warner Bros and Steve Bing'sShangri-La Entertainment that cost $165m to ...
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Hotel Rwanda books second major audience prize at AFI FEST
Having already scored the prestigious audience award at theToronto International Film Festival this year, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda won the same prize at AFI FEST, the LosAngeles International Film Festival, which wrapped up this weekend.It beat out such crowd-pleasers as A Very Long Engagement,House Of Flying Daggers, Bad Education and ...
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Sitges unveils festival line-up
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, ThePhantom Of The Opera, Christopher Smith's Creep and JohnnieDepp-starrer Finding Neverland will comprise the gala screenings of theupcoming International Film Festival of Catalunya (Dec 2-11), better known asSitges.Located just outside Barcelona, Sitges plans to tie in itsclosing weekend events with the December 11 ...
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Seed Of Chucky
Dir:Don Mancini. US. 2004. 87mins.Poor old Jennifer Tilly. She was turned into a doll in Bride Of Chucky,the 1998 revival of the Child's Play horror franchise, and now shesuffers even worse indignities in the follow-up. It wouldn't be so bad - forTilly or the audience - if Seed of Chucky, ...
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Darwin's Nightmare, Melancholia win at CPH:DOX
The second edition of Copenhagen's international documentaryfilm festival CPH:DOX wrapped on Saturday night when it split its Euro 5,000main prize between Hubert Sauper's Austrian Darwin's Nightmare and PirjoHonkasalo's Finnish Three Rooms of Melancholia.Darwin's Nightmare show how Russian pilots fly armsto Africa and return to Europe with expensive fish, which could ...
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Italy's Sky Cine Classics acquires Granada package
Granada International hassold a package of classic movies to newly launched Italian channel Sky CineClassics.Thirty films from GranadaInternational's British movie portfolio will be airing shortly on the newchannel, which is part of the Sky Italia platform. Classic movies, from the Korda, Rank and ITC film collections arepart of the deal ...
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McGuckian lines up eclectic cast for Rag Tale
Five weeks of principal photography begins today (Nov 16) inLuxembourg and London on writer/director Mary McGuckian's (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Best) contemporary urban satire Rag Tale.Set in the ruthless world of British tabloid newspapers,McGuckian will produce and direct from her own original story.Heading the international cast are Simon ...
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Day And Night disqualified from Swedish awards
Danish writer-director Simon Staho's Swedish-languagearthouse hit Day And Night has hit a serious snag on its way to Sweden'snational film awards.Lauded by Swedish critics and starring a number of thecountry's biggest stars including Mikael Persbrandt, Pernilla August, MichaelNyqvist, Lena Endre and Fares Fares, the film has nevertheless beendisqualified from competing ...
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Young Adam dominates Scottish BAFTAs
Young Adam dominatedthe Scottish BAFTA Awards held on Sunday, winning a clean sweep of the majorprizes.DavidMackenzie's adaptation of the Alexander Trocchi novel set in 1950s Scotland wasawarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Tilda Swinton and Best Actorfor Ewan McGregor.SergioCasci won the Screenplay award for the comedy American Cousins ...
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Emperor signs output deal with News Corp's Star
Hong Kong production andsales outfit Emperor Motion Pictures(EMP) has signed a three-year multi-territory output deal with News Corp's StarChinese Movies channel covering Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, the Philippines andSingapore.Under the terms of the deal,Star will have exclusive Mandarin and Cantonese pay-TV rights to all upcomingfilms produced by EMP and JCE ...
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Festival invitations to determine German film funding
The participation ofGerman films at 17 international festivals from Annecy to Zlin will now berecognised as an additional criterion for accessing "reference"production funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA).When the new German Film Law (FFG) came intoeffect at the beginning of this year, producers were informed that aninvitation to ...
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01 Distribution roars for Benigni's Tiger
RaiCinema label 01 Distribution has taken Italian distribution rights to Tuscancomic Roberto Benigni's upcoming film, The Tiger And The Snow. As aresult it can be expected to see asignificant jump in its 2005revenues.Theannouncement yesterday by Benigni's production outfit Melampo Cinematograficaand Rai Cinema marks the end of a protracted battle among ...
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Polanski praises Prague as Oliver Twist wraps
Roman Polanski concluded filming Oliver Twist in the CzechRepublic yesterday (Nov 15).Principle photography began at Prague's Barrandov Studio in July2004. The director was enthusiastic about shooting in Barrandov's stagesand on the nearby back lot, where Czech crews built the London and villagesets."I have worked in practically all the studios of ...
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Marrakech festival unveils 14 title competition line-up
The 4th MarrakechInternational Film Festival (Dec 6-12)has selected 14 films to play in its maincompetition.The films range from highprofile US fare such as Alexander Payne's Sideways to Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's PerfectCrime and Sengalese director OusmaneSembène's Moolaade.A high proportion of thecompetition films are also by first time directors, ...
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Newmarket, The Works take Tristram Shandy rights
London based sales outfit The Works has taken internationalrights to Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy, while Newmarket Films has picked up distributionrights for North America.Based loosely around Laurence Sterne's Englishliterature masterpiece, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the project is a comic, post modern take onthe construction of a ...
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Echelon closes AFM deals on Mantis, Fish
Los Angeles-basedproduction, distribution and sales house Echelon Entertainment has sold rightsto certain territories on Marc Levie's Belgian thriller Praying Mantis and Brian Austin Green's US romantic comedy FishWithout A Bicycle.BRAVO/Canada bought non-exclusiveCanadian television rights for one year to Praying Mantis, which tells of a woman who develops the instinctsof a ...
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Record-breaking Incredibles conquers Taiwan, Sweden
TheIncredibles began itsinternational roll-out through Buena Vista International (BVI) with a $5.8mweekend haul that featured number one debuts in all its markets and a raft ofrecords to boot.The latest Pixar title, which is already within spittingdistance of $150m in the US after its second weekend, scored the biggest everopening for ...
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Mercier leaves Indie Circle for new role at Warner Bros
Christophe Mercier has been appointed to the newly createdposition of vice president of speciality films at Warner Bros PicturesInternational.Based in London,Mercier will report to the respective heads of European marketing anddistribution based in London and to the head of the overall division inBurbank, California.Mercier'sprimary function will be to identify and ...
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Alien Vs Predator fights past $60m for Fox
FoxInternational's action sequel Alien Vs Predator grossed an estimated $4.9m on 2,136screens in 27 markets at the weekend to raise its international running totalto $60m.Elsewhere, Foxcomedies Dodgeballand Garfield areapproaching the end of their runs and have amassed $51m and $119m respectively.The sci-fithriller I, Robot currentlystands on $198.6m and Fox International ...