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Jackson says Hobbit on hold for three years
Lord Of TheRings director PeterJackson has said he will not start shooting an adaptation of J.R.RTolkein's The Hobbit for several years.Asked how longit would take to begin shooting the prequel to the Rings trilogy, Jackson said:"Three or four years would be accurate." Jackson was inSydney to talk to fans about ...
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Fox's Robots tops US box office with $36.5m weekend
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Wade joins Palmer to form Runaway film division
Producer Todd Wade has teamedup with Linda Palmer to form a feature film division at Palmer's LosAngeles-based commercials outfit Runaway Productions.The partners plan to produce between three and four low tomoderately budgeted titles each year with the first project, thriller Look @Me, set to begin filmingin Los Angeles later this ...
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Fabrication buys worldwide rights to Conversations
Los Angeles-based sales company Fabrication Films haspicked up worldwide rights to Hans Canosa's drama Conversations With OtherWomen, which was shotentirely in split-screen and stars Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.The story centres on a perilous love affair between two people whomeet at a friend's wedding reception.GordonStreet Pictures' Ram Bergman, whose ...
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McInnis steps down from Slamdance Film Festival
Kathleen McInnis is steppingdown from her role as Slamdance Film Festival director, following theevent's most successful incarnations back in January."We wish the best forKathleen," festival co-founder and president Peter Baxter said in astatement. "We have been fortunate to enjoy a great working relationshipwith her, and we were happy for the ...
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Mann cinemas sets out 3D digital plans with Real D
Southern California UStheatre chain Mann Theatres will today announce today [March 14] that it haschosen Los Angeles-based Real D as its exclusive delivery system for digital 3Dentertainment throughout the theatre chain.Mann Theatres' Grauman'sChinese Complex, locaed in Hollywood, will host the Real D flagship theatre andwill open to the public in ...
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Iger appointed Eisner's successor at Disney
Disney president Robert Iger has been chosen to succeed MichaelEisner as chief executive of the media conglomerate, according to an announcementby the company yesterday [13].Iger's appointment follows more than a year of speculation andrumour at the studio, which at times has reached the depths of muck-racking morecommonly associated with a ...
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Fox takes the top spot at US box office with Robots
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Glickman to kick off movie convention Showest
When the annual ShoWest convention opens in Las Vegas today [March14], the vast floors and ballrooms of the Paris and Bally's hotels will bebuzzing with talk of the standard issues that have beset the industry in recentyears - piracy and digital cinema roll-out.Yet there is another key element that distinguishes ...
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Kisk launches P&A fund for limited releases titles in US
New York-based entertainmentbusiness company Kisk Media Group International, which has satellite offices inthe UK and New Zealand, has launched the Kisk Media Group Prints &Advertising Fund I.The Fund is open toqualified independent producers with completed films budgeted at up to $8m thathave a distribution contract in place or one pending. ...
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Hitch romances $30.1m out of 42 markets for Sony
Hitchremained the top international picture over the weekend as the romantic comedyadded an estimated $30.1m on 4,640 screens in 42 markets for a $65.5minternational running total.Key drivers were a powerful $8m number one debut in the UK on 709screens including previews that raised the total after last weekend's exclusivedebut to ...
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Unleashed (Danny The Dog)
Dir: Louis LeterrierFr-UK. 2005. 103mins.The latest action vehicleto roar off the assembly line at Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, Unleashed -known in France as Danny The Dog - is a wonky mixture of bone-crunchingviolence and mawkish sentiment. It casts martial arts star Jet Li as asub-human fighting machine who finds that music ...
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Adam and Paul
Dir:Lenny Abrahamson. Ire. 2005. 86mins.Imaginea full-length Laurel and Hardy film set in Dublin's junkie netherworld andscripted by the bastard son of Samuel Beckett. If you like the sound of that,then you'll love Adam and Paul, Irish commercials director LennyAbrahamson's first feature.Abrahamsondoes a grand job, but it's scriptwriter and co-star Mark ...
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Junebug
Dir: Phil Morrison. 2005.US. 102mins.Actress Amy Adams pullsoff a small miracle in Junebug, an ensemble comedy-drama about whathappens when a golden boy-turned-prodigal son brings his cosmopolitan bridehome to meet his working class North Carolina family.Adams (The Wedding Date)takes centre stage as Ashley, a sweet, naive Deep South chatterbox whoinstantly idolises ...
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Arclight takes on Dragon Squad rights
Arclight Films has picked up international rights excludingAsia to Dragon Squad, a US$4.5m martial arts action film which marks thefirst time that Steven Seagal has produced an Asian picture.The film, produced by Hong Kong's Visualizer FilmProductions, starts shooting March 23 with Daniel Lee directing and ChinKar-lok as action director. Seagal ...
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Deauville Asian festival enjoys Holiday Dreaming
Fu ChanHsu's Holiday Dreaming took the main prize at the 7th annual DeauvilleFestival of Asian Film which wrapped on Sunday. The Taiwanese film is a first effort from Fu-Chun Su andis a nostalgic look at youth. The film was also the recipient of the critics'prize.The jury prize went to This ...
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Tarr's Man From London shuts down
The ManFrom London has been shut down in Corsica following three weeks ofshooting. A French-German-British-Hungarian co-production, theEuros 5m film was adapted from a Georges Simenon novel. It had already fallenten days behind schedule when the plug was pulled, according to Agence FrancePresse.Directedby Bela Tarr, the film was to be co-produced ...
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Coppola embarks on Marie-Antoinette shoot
Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette has officiallybegun shooting at the Palace of Versailles just outside Paris. The new film from the director of Lost In Translationwill shoot entirely in France for 11 weeks before heading to the USfor post-production.Kirsten Dunst stars as Marie-Antoinette, the Austrian whobecame Queen of France and was beheaded ...
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Von Trier turns his hand to sitcom writing
Palme D'Or winning directorLars von Trier is taking a short break from film production to write for aDanish TV sitcom.The Danish director hasagreed to pen an episode of Clown, a critically acclaimed sitcom fromtwo of Denmark's top stand-up comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam.The first draft of the scriptis ready ...
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Kiarostami set to shoot next film in Italy this summer
Abbas Kiarostami has announced that he plans to shoot afilm in Italy this summer.'Iwill shoot one film in Iran and I will make one in Italy this summer,' theIranian director said at a conference in Rome, where he is promoting Tickets,the picture he co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach.Kiarostamisuggested ...