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Cannes unveils 'classical' competition line-up
Dominik Moll's Lemmingwill open the 58th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). George Lucas' StarWars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith, which had been widely tipped asthe opening film, will instead premiere out of competition in Cannes on May15, three days ahead of its French opening on ...
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Newcomers dominate Un Certain Regard selection
Cannes's Un Certain Regardsidebar has unveiled a line-up dominated by festival newcomers - and a numberof high profile veterans. Of the 21 directors invited to UnCertain Regard, only four have ever been selected for Cannes before. Each ofthose four has had their previous work in the main competition.Announcing the line-up,festival ...
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Dream picks up Naomi Watts Sundance comedy
Ehud Bleiberg and Yitzhak Ginsberg's LosAngeles-based production and sales house Dream Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to Scott Coffey's comedy Ellie Parker and will begin sales at Cannes.Ellie Parkerpremiered in dramatic competition at Sundance and stars Naomi Watts as anaspiring actress who goes to great lengths to realise her dream ...
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Court rules that Pianist producer must go to jail
A Warsaw court ruled this week that the Polishco-producer of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and executiveproducer of Roman Polanski's The Pianist must immediately start servinghis two-year prison term for his role in a bribery scandal that touched thehighest levels of government.In December, a panel of three judges sentenced Lew Rywin,59, ...
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Taiwanese, Belgian films share top Istanbul prize
Istanbul International Film Festival closed on Saturday(April 16), splitting its main prize, the Golden Tulip award, between Gilles'Wife by Belgium's Frederic Fonteyne and CafeLumiere by Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien. The jury, which was headed by director Jane Campion,considered 13 films in competition.Gilles' Wife portraysa love triangle in France in the 1930s. ...
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Willemsen parts company with Maurits Binger Institute
In a surprise move, it was announced last week that DickWillemsen's contract as director of the Maurits Binger Film Institutewill not be renewed. Willemsen is on six month's notice and will be leavingthe Institute in early August.Founded in 1995, the Amsterdam-based Binger Film Instituteoffers project-driven training for screenwriters, directors, producers ...
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Exhibition boom fuels Russian box office
Box office receipts in Russia and theCommonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are growing impressively, according tolatest figures.The winter release season (from 26 November 2004to 27 February 2005) saw a total gross of $78.5m, 42.2% higher for the periodyear-on-year, according to Russian Film Business Today.Observers say the growth is a result ...
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Peet joins the Cusacks in Meyjes-directed drama for New Line
Amanda Peet is in final negotiations to sign on to The MartianChild for New LineCinema. The film is an adaptation of a short story by sci-fi writer DavidGerrold that is due to begin shooting in Canada next month.Studio sources confirmed that Joan Cusack boarded the project lastweek, joining her brother ...
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Ousted Puchon director launches rival festival
The ongoing controversy surrounding Korea's PuchonInternational Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has taken a new turn, with thefestival's former director and programmers announcing a rival event to takeplace in Seoul over the same week.The 'Real Fantastic Film Festival' will run inJuly on one-twentieth the budget of its larger rival, and will ...
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Ireland launches new documentary film fund
The Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Film Board (IFB)have called for applications to a new production fund entitled Documenting theArts. The fund is intended to finance five or six new documentaries per year. A maximum of Euros 90,000 will available per documentary andIFB participation will be triggered by ...
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Final MGM release Amityville has strong $23.3m opening
MGM's swansong release The Amityville Horror opened top of the North American chartsat the weekend, dominating a lackluster weekend as it grossed an estimated$23.3m.The $19m MGM/Dimension Films picture stars Ryan Reynolds andMelissa George as an ill-fated couple who move into a haunted house. AndrewDouglas directed the remake of the 1979 ...
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Horror strikes at the US box office with $23.3m opening
MGM's swansong release The Amityville Horror opened top of the North American chartsat the weekend, dominating a lackluster weekend as it grossed an estimated$23.3m.The $19m MGM/Dimension Films picture stars Ryan Reynolds andMelissa George as an ill-fated couple who move into a haunted house. AndrewDouglas directed the remake of the 1979 ...
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Interpreter translates into international hit with $9.3m weekend
Universal's thriller The Interpreter got off to a strong start through UIP atthe weekend, grossing an estimated $9.3m from 15 launches for a $10minternational running total including Greece, which opened last weekend.Buoyed by a hectic publicity tour that took star Nicole Kidman toAustralia, UK and Germany, and director Sydney Pollack ...
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Bond Watch Brosnan out of the running
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005 - although it is stilluncertain who will play 007 in the film.With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on thelatest information. Here, ScreenDaily.com alleviates some of theconfusion by ...
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London set for epic Star Wars marketing push
In a world first, the UCIEmpire cinema in London's Leicester Square is set to screen all six of the StarWars films back to back on May 16 - three days before the global release ofStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith.Distributor 20thCentury Fox is organising the event as ...
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UK launch for post-production trainee scheme
Industry-backedpost-production alliance the Post Production Training Initiative and trainingagency Skillset have launched a trainee scheme for post production staff.Titled First Post, theinitiative will be open to up 25 trainees at companies in London and aims tohelp employers provide structured development for runners. The deadline for applicationfrom companies is April 29. ...
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German funder doles out Euros 4.5m to int'l projects
New feature films by Lone Scherfig, Hans Weingartner andOskar Roehler are among 21 projects backed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburgwith over Euros 4.5m in its latest funding session.Euros 400,000 was awarded to Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfigfor her World War II drama Good, based on C.P. Taylor's play, which willbe produced at Berlin ...
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Metrodome makes most of Assassination
TheUK launch last weekend for Niels Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon gave the film its strongest opening in any territory so far.The film, which stars SeanPenn, took $295,761 through 66 cinemas - a far higher total than it achieved onits US launch on December 29 last year. In the ...
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Chow, cast members, to attend Sony/MTV Hustle party at Cannes
Sony PicturesReleasing International and MTV Networks Europe are teaming up at Cannes tohost a party in honour of the martial arts romp Kung Fu Hustle.Writer/director Stephen Chow will attend the event on May14 at Le Palais Oriental, along with cast members Tin Kai Man, Chan Kwok Kwan, Lam Tze Chung, ...
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Cinelink unveils Balkan project shortlist
CineLink,Sarajevo Film Festival's annual script development program and co-productionmarket for feature-length fiction films, has announced this year's selection.CineLink's remitis to foster films from the Balkan region with the potential for theatricaldistributionThe jurycomprised Ludmila Cvikova, programmer of the Rotterdam International FilmFestival; Christina Kallas, the artistic director of screenplay developmentfunding programme Balkan ...