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ThinkFilm takes Nixon for North America
Torontoand New York-based THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to NielsMueller's debut The Assassination Of Richard Nixon and will release thepicture in New York and Los Angeles on Dec 29.TheCannes competitor will screen as a special presentation at the upcoming TorontoInternational Film Festival, and is based on real events surrounding ...
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HUNGARY 31 August
Hungarian audiences were ready for new releases last weekendwhen four of the week's five new titles made it into the top ten.Following strong previews, Garfield came out on top with over 60,000 admissions taking itstotal over the 100,000 mark.Halle Berry's Catwomanshowed no strength in the duel of the cats and ...
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Alexandria' New York
Dir: Youssef Chahine.Fr-Egypt. 2004. 128minsDuring the past few years, veteran Egyptian directorYoussef Chahine has courted controversy with his comments relating to the 9/11terrorist attacks on America.On-screen, Egypt,his contribution to the 11'09''01 - September 11 project portrayed anArab director being refused entry to New York, facing the ghosts of a dead ...
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Simon to represent Netherlands at Academy Awards
Simon, the newfeature by director Eddy Terstall, has been selected as the Dutch entry for theOscars next year in the best foreign film category. The production will alsoopen the 24th Dutch Filmfestival on September 22.The film is produced by Imko Nieuwenhuijs for productionhouse Spaghetti Film. The screenplay is written by ...
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Spider-Man 2 makes history in Indonesia
ColumbiaTriStar's Spider-Man 2 has become the first film in Indonesia's history tocross the Rp21bn ($2.3m) mark, beating theprevious record of Rp20,982,496,000 set by 20thFox's Titanic in 1998.Thesequel clung onto the top spot for three consecutive weeks after it opened onJune 30 on 42 prints.Brett Hogg, Buena Vista Columbia TriStar general ...
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Hong Kong-Chinese JV to build post-production facility
Hong Kong'sMandarin Entertainment is setting up a joint venture with China's HengdianGroup to build a film processing and post-production facility at Hengdian FilmCity in Zhejiang province near Shanghai.The US$14.5m(RMB120m) facility will provide a full range of post-production servicesincluding film processing and duplication, editing, sound mixing, subtitlingand special effects. Spread over ...
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Mila From Mars delights Sarajevo
Bulgarian first-time filmmaker Sophia Zornitsa's Mila From Mars (Mila Ot Mars) was thesurprise winner of the Euros 25,000 Best Film Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival's Regional Competition, beating offopposition from the festival audience favourites of Albanian Gjergi Xhuvani's Dear Enemy (I Dashur Armik) and CroatianArsen Anton Ostojic's A Wonderful ...
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Ireland's cinema admissions hit all-time high
The largest player in the Irish cinema advertising market,Carlton Screen Advertising, has reported an all-time high of 1.9m admissions inthe Republic of Ireland for the month of July. This compares with 1.6madmissions for the same month last year, a rise of 18%.Shrek 2 and Spiderman 2, aided by some bad ...
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Russian fighter jet company backs $10m action film.
Russianmilitary aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi is backing a new $10m Russian actionmovie Mirror Wars starring MalcolmMcDowell and other Hollywood actors.Mirror Wars producer Oleg Kapanets declined to put afigure on Sukhoi's financial involvement, however, the company's investment issaid to be "substantial." TheEnglish-language film is produced by the LA and Moscow based Kremlin ...
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Cineart set to shoot Chytilova's Eden
Prague-based production outfit Cineart Production is developing the next feature from veteran Czech filmmaker Vera Chytilova - the $450,000 (CKR15m) Expulsion From Eden - which is set to shoot this summer.The project is a tragi-comedy revolving around a medical doctor who is given money by the Russian mafia to make ...
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NEW ZEALAND 31 August
While UIP's The BourneSupremacy, in its first weekend in the charts, took about 10 times morerevenue than second placed Fahrenheit9/11, the documentary did climb two places despite being in its fifth weekon release.The Bourne Supremacygrossed NZ$618,691 from 54 screens, registering a screen average of NZ$11,457,while Fahrenheit took NZ$68,712 from19 screens ...
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GERMANY 31 August
This year's top film so far - German blockbuster (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 - mayhave clocked up over 1,000 more admissions than King Arthur but had to contend with second place based onbox-office takings. Six weeks into release for Constantin Film, the film parodyis still showing on 937 screens ...
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Newmarket takes domestic rights to three from Trust
Newmarket Filmshas acquired North American rights to a trio of Scandinavian pictures fromTrust Film Sales - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue, In Your Hands, and Daybreak.Natasha Arthy'sDanish bittersweet romantic comedy Old, New, Borrowed And Blue won the 2003 Grand Jury Award in the AFIFEST's International Feature Competition; it stars Sidse ...
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Cannes premiere Cronicas seals US deal with Palm
Palm Pictureshas picked up North American and Caribbean rights to Sebastian Cordero's Spanish-languagecrime thriller Cronicas,which is set to receive its North American premiere at Toronto after a worldpremiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.Palm plans a second quarter 2005 release followed by DVDroll-out later in the year.Cronicas centres on a ...
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BVI passes $1bn gross mark for tenth consecutive year
Fuelled by suchhits as Finding Nemoand Brother Bear,Buena Vista International (BVI) has passed $1bn in international tickets salesin record time this year, becoming the first distributor to achieve the feat in10 consecutive years.BVI passed the milestone on Aug 22, continuing a streakthat started in 1995,since which time it has amassed ...
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Foxx, Knightley, Shrek 2 join Hollywood Film Awards lineup
Jamie Foxx willreceive the Hollywood Breakthrough Male Performer Award and Keira Knightley theHollywood Breakthrough Female Performer Award at the 2004 Hollywood FilmAwards.DreamWorks'animated hit Shrek 2will be honoured with the Hollywood Animation Award at the awards gala on Oct18.Foxx currentlystars opposite Tom Cruise in the DreamWorks thriller Collateral and is already ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Toronto Midnight lineup
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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Heavenly results from Passion US DVD release
The US DVD/VHSrelease of The Passion Of The Christ on Aug 31 already appears to be mirroring the picture'sremarkable theatrical release earlier this year, selling more than 2.4m unitsby lunchtime.According todistributor Fox Home Entertainment the release has bucked the trend oftraditional retail patterns, with most consumers buying an average of ...
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DENMARK 1 September
Thoughlocal critics were praising Brothers,the new film from the multiple-award winning filmmaker Susanne Bier, as herbest so far, audiences seemed to have been slightly distracted by thisweekend's many other offerings. It did oust I,Robot from the top spot with its solid if unimpressive DKK23,223 from 60prints, but Fahrenheit 9/11 on ...
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NORWAY 1 September
Therelease of three big American films was more than the Norwegian musical This Is The Song You Need (Alt For Egil)could withstand, dropping 44% to fourth behind The Village, Garfield and Fahrenheit9/11.The newlocal release of Torun Lian's The Color OfMilk, based on her own book about a 12 year-old girl ...