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Family titles win international audiences over Easter
Family titles enjoyed strongturnouts internationally over the Easter weekend, led by 20th CenturyFox's Robots, which opened in 12 new territories to hold onto secondplace.Robots enjoyed new number one launches in Australia, taking$1.9m (A$2.5m), and Argentina, where over 140,000 bought tickets over theweekend for a $0.33m (pesos 0.95m) gross. It also ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Berlin winner U-Carmen
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights (outsideof South Africa) to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of the Carmen opera, which won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.Nelleke Driessen, Fortissimo co-managing director, and NicoleMackey, senior vice president international sales, saw the film in Berlin. Mackey said, ...
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Weinstein Co reveals debut slate
As Harvey andBob Weinstein ride out their contractual term as Miramax co-chairmen under the Disney umbrella, their main focus must now surely lie with the inauguralslate for their new venture, temporarily called The Weinstein Company.While the brothers are obliged to oversee all the unreleased Miramax titles inthe pipeline until their ...
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Duck Season flies off with Mexican Oscars
FernandoEimbcke's Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) has won 11 Ariel awards atMexico's Oscar-equivalent ceremony. Eimbcke, who made his directorial debut with the work, wentinto the night with 12 nominations and took home best film, director, actor andactress along with best screenplay (for Eimbcke himself), cinematography,music, sound, art design, best first ...
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European indie players move into profit
Three European independentfilm outfits - Germany's Constantin and the UK's Civilian Content and Metrodome- unveiled positive financial results for 2004 this morning (March 30).Leading German producer anddistributor Constantin Film announced 2004 net profits of $9.1m (Euros 7m) onrevenues of $319.8m (Euros 246.9m). This compared with a net loss of $12.8m(Euros ...
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Jordan readies Our Lady for FilmFour
FilmFour,the film division of broadcaster Channel 4, and production company Wild Child Films haveacquired the rights to the novel Our LadyOf The Forest, with Neil Jordan to direct.ConorMcPherson, best known for the acclaimed play The Weir, wrote the screenplay, based on David Guterson's novelabout a troubled teenage girl who claims ...
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Showtime lines up first six films in Masters Of Horror series
ShowtimeNetworks, IDT Entertainment's New Arc Entertainment, Industry Entertainment andNice Guy Productions have announced the first six titles in their Masters OfHorror series by acclaimedgenre filmmakers, set to begin production in Vancouver in April.John Landis (AnAmerican Werewolf In London) will direct Deer Woman starring BrianBenben, which Landis co-wrote with his son ...
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2nd annual Syracuse fest in US has international flavour
A total of 126 independent features from 23 countries areset to screen at the second annual Syracuse International Film and VideoFestival (SIFVF), which runs from Apr 28-May 1 in New York.Features include Rainbow, Gao Xiasong's Chinese drama exploring the repercussions of theJapanese invasion, Teco Benson's Nigerian feature Six Demons, and ...
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Turtles are back in CGI animated feature film
Imagi Serviceshas signed animation veteran Kevin Munroe to write and direct a newCGI-animated feature-length version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.This is thefirst feature project to revisit the global Turtles brand since 1993, when NewLine released Stuart Gillard's live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in the US.Munroe is currently inpre-production on ...
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Barbieri to direct Em for LA-based Freedom Films
Actor turnedproducer Brian Presley's LA-based production company Freedom Films hasannounced its first two projects, the dramas Em and El Camino, which are both scheduled to startfilming this summer.The tragicromance Em will bedirected by Tony Barbieri, and produced by Presley, Johnny Martin of MartiniFilms, and Ted Melfi of Goldenlight Films, with ...
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Nair begins The Namesake for Searchlight
Principal photography hasbegun in New York and Calcutta on Fox Searchlight's drama The Namesake, which Mira Nair is directing from the novel of thesame name by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.The story follows the trialsand tribulations of a boy and his parents as they relocate from Calcutta to ...
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Goldwyn buys domestic rights to Charm School
Samuel GoldwynFilms has acquired North American rights to Randall Miller's romantic comedy MarilynHotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, which screened in the Premieres strand at Sundance thisyear.Samuel Goldwyn Films plans a late summer 2005 release forthe star-laden ensemble, which tells the story of a widower's promise to find adying man's ...
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Meditation expert sets up LA production company Pippala
Productionexecutive Tinker Lindsay and meditation expert Peter Russell are kicking offtheir new Los Angeles-based development and production company PippalaProductions with the spiritually themed Becoming Buddha.The partnershave completed the screenplay and secured initial development funding on theproject, which is currently out to directors, investors, and other key players."The projectrequires a special ...
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Valiant effort for UK animation at Easter box office
UK animation hopeful Valiant had to settle forfifth place in the UK box office charts over the Easter holiday weekend.The first CGI feature to be made in the UK put in acreditable performance - considering the warm weather and stiff competition -taking $2m (£1.1m) including $253,788 (£136,020) of previews.With schools ...
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Robots tops international box office with $17.1m haul
Fox International's animatedfeature Robots pipped Hitch to the post as the number one international title of the weekend as it grossed an estimated $17.1m on 5,179 screens in 41 territories to raise its early international running total to $44.2m.The picture opened top in Australia on $1.9m on 387 screens (the ...
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Hustle, 2046 tie at Hong Kong Film Awards
This year's Hong KongFilm Awards was a straight tie between Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and WongKar Wai's 2046, with eachwinning six prizes. Kung Fu Hustle took home the top honour of best film and the bestsupporting actor award for Yuen Wah. It also swept the awards for best actionchoreography, ...
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Guess Who wins US Easter box office battle
The broad appeal of Sony'scomedy Guess Who packed too muchof a punch for Warner Bros' poorly received comedy sequel Miss Congeniality2: Armed And Fabulous at the Easter weekend,opening top of the North American charts on an estimated $21m.Ashton Kutcher and BernieMac's banter in the loose remake of 1967's epochal Guess ...
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Guess Who beat Bullock to the top of the box office
The broad appeal of Sony'scomedy Guess Who packed too muchof a punch for Warner Bros' poorly received comedy sequel Miss Congeniality2: Armed And Fabulous at the Easter weekend,opening top of the North American charts on an estimated $21m.Ashton Kutcher and BernieMac's banter in the loose remake of 1967's epochal Guess ...
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MTV, A Film strike Asian film deal
MTV and leading Dutchdistributor A Film have struck a wide-ranging licensing and co-branding dealcovering Asian films.The deal sees MTV in theNetherlands and Flanders buy rights to a slate of some 50 Asian genre titlesfrom A Films and has the music channel adopt Asia Mania, a home entertainmentlabel spanning the catalogues ...
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Spike Lee readies Brazilian music documentary
Spike Lee is to turn documentarian for his next venture behind the camera. Lee is to direct Fusion, a music picture being billed as the director's answer to Buena Vista Social Club.The picture, which will go before the cameras in late May and early June, is a highly polished coverage ...