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The Wooden Camera
2003 Dir: Ntsuaveeni Wa Lurili. UK-Fr-South Africa. 90mins.Brazil has enjoyed five Oscar nominations thanks to City Of God, a tale of a camera-toting good guy caught in the crossfire of gang-warfare in Rio's favelas. The Wooden Camera, the story of a video-toting South African boy with choices to make, has ...
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SWEDEN
The Return Of The King fought off more resistance this weekend at the Swedish box-office where it withstood the new releases of The Last Samurai and the new installment in the seemingly never-ending family series Lilla Jonssonligan.Though both films had impressive screen averages, The King's massive 150 prints kept it ...
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WHV reshuffles senior global personnel
Warner Home Video (WHV) hasshuffled several key personnel in a bid to reallocate its global resources tomeet the changing demands of the marketplace.Mark Horak becomes executivevice president and general manager for Canada, Latin America and Australia,Jeffrey M Brown becomes senior vice president of worldwide marketing, PhilippeCardon is named senior vice ...
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FINLAND
Close to nothing changed at the Finnish box-office chart this weekend, as Minna Virtanen's erotic drama Addiction (aka Restless 3) stayed on top in front of The Return Of The King, which it toppled last week.Though it dropped 31%, it retained the best screen average on its 43 prints. Though ...
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Cinar woes continue with fresh revelations
The beleaguered Cinar Corp issued a warning late Friday that its financial statements for fiscal 1997, 1998 and the three reported quarters of 1999 "should not be relied upon".The company said in a news release that it "appears likely" that its audited financial statements will need to be restated for ...
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Peep 'TV' Show
Dir: Yutaka Tsuchiya. Japan 2004. 98mins.A portrait of alienated cyber-youth, Peep 'TV' Show is so much of the moment - so hyperbolically trendy, even - that it risks becoming dated overnight. But as a fiction with a quasi-documentary flavour, Yukata Tsuchiya's panorama of a voyeuristic technological culture makes for revealing ...
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Odyssey to sell One Perfect Day
UK sales company Odyssey Entertainment has taken on worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to One Perfect Day.A portrait of dance party culture, the film is directed by first time director Paul Currie and produced by Australia's Lightstream Films.One Perfect Day tells the story of Tommy Matisse, a gifted ...
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Blockbuster quits Hong Kong market
High rents and rampant piracy have forced video rental giant Blockbuster to quit the Hong Kong market and scrap plans to expand into mainland China.The company will close its 24 Hong Kong outlets as their leases expire over the next 18 months and lay off 200 staff, according to a ...
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Distant Lights wins German critics prize
Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale 2003 competition entry Distant Lights (Lichter) was the big winner at this year's German Film Critics Awards, winning the prizes in the categories of Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Editing.The Awards were presented during a gala ceremony at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in ...
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Jackie Chan's son joins Twins Effect II cast
Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan, is making his feature acting debut alongside his father in Emperor Multimedia Group's The Twins Effect II (working title) - the sequel to last year's blockbuster action comedy - which is scheduled to start shooting next week.The US$10m martial arts action adventure reteams Hong Kong ...
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Japanese 2003 box office lifted by Shakedown effect
Bayside Shakedown 2, Katsuyuki Motohiro's comic thriller about feuding cops in Tokyo's trendy bayside district, topped the Japanese box office in 2003, according to figures from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren).BS2 grossed $163.7m (Y17.35bn) following its July 2003 release -- a record for a Japanese live-action film.The ...
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Trio win Rotterdam Tiger Awards
International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) has awarded its three Tiger Awards to films from Taiwan, Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Directors Lee Kang-sheng (The Missing), Sredjan Vuletic (Summer in the Golden Valley) and Jan Krüger (En Route) received the awards worth Euros 10.000 at the Friday night (Jan 30) at the closing ...
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Thai studio readies Ong Bak sequel for March shoot
Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International has unveiled details of the second film from Ong-Bak star Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew, in which the Australian underworld gets a taste of Thai-style kickboxing.Called Tom Yum Goong, after the spicy Thai soup, the US$4m action comedy is scheduled to start shooting in ...
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Hiding emerges as Gothenburg winner
The overall theme of Sweden's major film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, was the blues, but after its 27th edition, there was nothing to be blue about but the weather.Early estimates indicate an increase in the already impressive admission numbers, and so did the number of attendees for the festival's ...
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Bangkok has teething troubles but shows potential...
The Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF), which ended today (Feb 2), still has a long way to go to fulfil its ambitious remit, but this year's event was a spirited affair that promised greater things for future editions.Organised for the second time by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the ...
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Bzz, Suburbanites win at Brussels Animation fest
Short animated features Bzz, directed by Benoit Feroumont, and Suburbanites, directed by Stefan Vermeulen, emerged as the big winners at the Brussels Animation Festival (Feb 29 - March 11).Bzz was awarded the First Prize from the French-speaking community, worth BFr100,000, and the Freezeframe prize, worth BFr150,000. Vermeulen's Suburbanites picked up ...
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...as Barbarian Invasions takes top prize
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions was awarded the Golden Kinnaree for best film in the International Competition at this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Jan 22-Feb 2) while the best director prize went to Jim Sheridan for In America.The Golden Kinnaree for best actor was shared by the three leads ...
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Take My Eyes takes Spanish prize
Director Iciar Bollain's domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes fulfilled expectations as the big winner at Spain's 18th annual Goya Awards this weekend, taking home seven of nine nominations including best film, director, original script, actor, actress, supporting actress and sound.The uncompromising film was an appropriate mascot for a ceremony ...
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You Got Served races ahead over Superbowl weekend
Screen Gems' hip-hop drama You Got Served took advantage of the quiet Superbowlweekend, opening top on an estimated $16m.Paramount's high school drama The Perfect Score opened fifth on $5m while WarnerBros' crime caper The Big Bounce flopped in 12th place on $3.3m.You Got Served stars Omarion, Marques Houston and Omarion'sfellow ...