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CMC to adapt 1940s classic Love In A Fallen City
Taiwan's CMC EntertainmentGroup is to adapt Eileen Chang's classic 1940s novella Love In A Fallen City.The $6m production is set to shoot next July from a script by Ang Lee's CrouchingTiger collaborator, Wang Hui-ling.CMC, currently midwaythrough shooting Su Chao-pin's $4.8m supernatural thriller Silk, hassigned Blue Gate Crossing's Yee Chih-yen to ...
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War takes over the world with $34.6m day one gross
The highly anticipated Warof the Worlds has opened with anestimated first-day worldwide gross $34.606m, comprising $21.256m from 3,908theatres in North America and $13.35m from 46 international territories.Rob Friedman, vice chairmanof domestic distributor Paramount Pictures Motion Pictures Group, said thestudio was 'ecstatic' about the figures for Wednesday screenings ofthe Tom Cruise-Spielberg ...
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Canada's cinema admissions drop after ten years on the increase
Canadian cinema attendancedropped 4.6% in 2003-2004, the first reduction in ten-year upward trend, accordingto an industry survey released by Statistics Canada. More crucially, profits wereoff by 15.8% despite a rise in average admission price, which rose 2.5% toC$7.45. Part of the downturn may be a reflection of the SARS scare ...
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Admissions plummet as heatwave plays part in Fete du Cinema
The 21st edition of France'sFete du Cinema has recorded a 25% drop in attendance from the previous year.The three-day event logged 3.2 million admissions across the country.Although the figure is amean drop from 2004 ' a record year ' it marks a 7% improvement on 2003. Althoughit is possible that ...
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Griffin Dunne signs on for Auster feature
Griffin Dunne has joined the cast of Paul Auster's upcoming directorial effort The Inner Life Of Martin Frost while renownedcomposer Philip Glass has also signed on to score.The film, produced by Paolo Branco, Auster and Peter Newman, is being handled by Branco's Gemini Films for international sales. Rounding out the ...
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Hong Kong's Pang Brothers begin Ghost House horror pic in Canada
Kristen Stewart, the teenageactress who played Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room, is heading the cast of Ghost House Pictures'upcoming, untitled horror movie directed by Oxide and Danny Pang. The filmstarted shooting this week in Saskatchewan, Canada.Dylan McDermott, PenelopeAnn Miller and John Corbett co-star in the film which is written ...
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National Lampoon family brand begins first film in LA
National Lampoon Clubhouse,a new family brand created by National Lampoon Inc and Lorenzo Doumani'sMajestic Entertainment, has started production in Los Angeles on its firstproduction National Lampoon Clubhouse's Trick Or Treat.The film is a familyHalloween comedy about a 15 year-old boy spending the fateful night at homebabysitting his younger siblings who ...
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Picturehouse boards Genghis Khan epic
Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has announced that Picturehouse - HBO and New Line Cinema's newly-formeddistribution venture - has picked up the North American rights for Sergei Bodrov's forthcomingfeature film Mongol - TheEarly Years Of Genghis Khan. This follows sales to the Benelux, Brazil and Australia & New Zealand.The news ...
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Da Vinci Code kicks off in Paris
Shooting hasbegun in Paris on Ron Howard'sadaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel The DaVinci Code.On Wednesdaynight, a crew worked at the Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendomewhere the lead character played by Tom Hanks is awoken by a phone call from thepolice, kicking off the action.On Thursdaynight, cast and crew ...
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Splendid's Klein teams up with Doc Hollywood Studios
Splendid Film CEO AndreasKlein has teamed up with LA-based production outfit Doc Hollywood Studios toassist in the development and production of two films over the next two years.As part of the arrangement,Klein will advise Doc Hollywood Studios CEO Steven Saxton in the developmentand management of a $50m film finance gap ...
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War of the Worlds invades international marketplace
War of the Worlds takes its turn invading the globalmarketplace this weekend, with UIP giving the Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruisesci-fi adventure a 78-territory, 8,200-print international launch. Expectations are high that the Paramount/DreamWorksco-production, which opened in North America on Wednesday (June 29) to get ajump on the July 4 holiday weekend, will ...
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Cine-Expo: Herbie revs up Disney's attempts at international record
Disney-branded films are heading for 18 months ofunprecedented success in the international market, delegates to Cinema Expo inAmsterdam have been told.The company did a record-breaking $1.7bn of business in 2004but Mark Zoradi, president of Buena Vista International is promising biggerthings to come.The key to the predicted run will be this ...
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Cine-Expo: Warner Bros pledges to be the 2005 hit factory
Warner Bros had pledged that its strategy of a tighter slate ofbigger films will deliver exhibitors the box-office success they crave thisyear.Speaking before the first European screening of Tim Burton'sCharlie And The Chocolate Factory at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam yesterday, Warnersenior vice president for European distribution, Monique Esclavissat said thecompany ...
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Paris opens $17m fund to documentaries
The Ile de France Commission,which encompasses Paris and its environs, has made its Euros 14m ($17m) purse available to documentary makers for the first time.The announcement was made at the Sunny Side Of The Doc documentary market in Marseilles on Wednesday.The programme will enabledocumentaries to benefit from aid previously earmarked ...
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Sith breaks all-time preview record in Japan for Fox
20thCentury Fox has recorded record-breaking previews of Star Wars: Episode III:Revenge Of The Sith in Japan, wherethe film opens on July 9. The previews grossed $4.59m ('495m), higher than theprevious record held by The Matrix Reloaded at $3.52m ('416m).Episode I's preview grosses reached $2.35m ('285m), while EpisodeII topped that at$3.01m ...
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Latin American productions boosted by Berlinale fund
Planned productions fromLatin America have attracted most support at the latest funding session of theBerlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF). Five features and one distributioncampaign will share Euros 195,000 ($235,445) from the body's latest round of awards.Fund manager Vincenzo Bugnostressed: 'The majority of the submissions came from Latin America for thefunding ...
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Paradiso renews output deal with Wild Bunch
Netherlands-based distributor Paradiso Filmed Entertainment has announcedthe renewal of its output deal with French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch.Encompassing the theatrical release in Belgium and the Netherlands of 25titles including George Romero's Land Of The Dead, Thomas Clay's TheGreat Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael, Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming Pan'sLabyrinth and ...
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Three Dots makes a Catch with new distribution outfit
Taiwan's Three DotsEntertainment has joined forces with new production and distribution companySerenity Entertainment International to produce Catch, the latestfeature from Formula 17 director DJ Chen.The $700,000 production,which will begin shooting in Taiwan next month, sees Chen re-team with Formula17 star Tony Yang, who will play a movie extra.Last year Yang ...
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Rourke, Nighy, McGregor enlist for Stormbreaker
An impressive cast isgathering for the $40m-plus teen superspy adventure Stormbreaker, whichbegins shooting in the Isle of Man next week.Alex Pettyfer (pictured), who was TomBrown in UK TV series Tom Brown's Schooldays, will play 14-year-old specialagent Alex Rider. Mickey Rourke will star as Alex's nemesis, megalomaniacbusinessman Darrius Sayle. Bill Nighy ...
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Mehta's long-in-the-making Water to open Toronto
Deepa Mehta's long-sufferingdrama Water has been selected asthe opening night gala at the 30th Toronto International FilmFestival. It was one of eleven world premieres announced at TIFF's openingpress conference Tuesday. Also making their worldpremieres are three Special Presentations: Anand Tucker's Shopgirl, based on the novella by Steven Martin, starringMartin opposite ...