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Deauville Asian festival enjoys Holiday Dreaming
Fu ChanHsu's Holiday Dreaming took the main prize at the 7th annual DeauvilleFestival of Asian Film which wrapped on Sunday. The Taiwanese film is a first effort from Fu-Chun Su andis a nostalgic look at youth. The film was also the recipient of the critics'prize.The jury prize went to This ...
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Fox takes the top spot at US box office with Robots
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Sony Pictures Classics swallows Jordan's Breakfast
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American, LatinAmerican, German and South African rights to Neil Jordan's latest film, BreakfastOn Pluto.Breakfast On Pluto is Jordan's second adaptation ofa novel by Patrick McCabe following on from his award-winning 1997 effort, ButcherBoy. Starring Irish trio Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and BrendanGleeson as well ...
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Kiarostami set to shoot next film in Italy this summer
Abbas Kiarostami has announced that he plans to shoot afilm in Italy this summer.'Iwill shoot one film in Iran and I will make one in Italy this summer,' theIranian director said at a conference in Rome, where he is promoting Tickets,the picture he co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach.Kiarostamisuggested ...
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Thai production powerhouse unveils 2005 slate
Following a successful firstyear of operation, Thai production powerhouse GMM Tai Hub has unveiled aline-up of 10 genre-driven films directed by young talent for 2005. Headed by CEO VisutePoolvoralaks, Thailand's best-known producer, GMM Tai Hub was created last Junewhen GMM Pictures, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin merged. It produced ...
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Films In Progress announces 2005 line-up
FilmsIn Progress, the joint completion financing initiative of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival and the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouse,has unveiled the seven titles screening in the seventh edition March 17-18 inToulouse.The titles were selected from among 47 entries from acrossLatin America. They will screen for producers, distributors, labs,broadcasters, ...
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Dedicated Scandinavian film channel set for launch
A team of Scandinavian producers headed by NielsAalbaek Jensen is planning to launch a pay-TV film channel dedicated toScandinavian film.The channel will play no US films or commercials -just Scandinavian features, documentaries and short films. The new channel, which will be co-owned by theproducers and Aalbaek Jensen, is close to ...
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Hitch has new dates, Robots hits Mexico
Hitch will be the one to beat in theinternational marketplace this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) executives line up two more major market openings with the firmintention of keeping it in pole position.Last weekend'smuscular $21m haul saw the romantic comedy storm to number one overall anddominate a raft of ...
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Noyce, Slovo team for Working Title's Hot Stuff
Nearly 20 yearsafter A World Apart, the acclaimed film about her relationship with hermother - a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who was killed by a parcel bomb -writer Shawn Slovo is revisiting South Africa's last two turbulent decades.Slovo, the daughterof Ruth First and leading ANC figure Joe Slovo, has teamed with ...
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ShoWest awards watch: Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams has been named ShoWest 2005 supporting actress of the year and will collect her award at the closing night ceremony in Las Vegas on Mar 17. McAdams will next be seen opposite Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in the New Line comedy The Wedding Crashers and Wes Cravens' ...
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Caplan named as UK Film Council's Premiere Fund chief
The UK Film Council hasappointed Sally Caplan to replace Robert Jones as chief of its high-profileNational Lottery fund for commercial films, the Premiere Fund.Caplan, currently presidentof Icon Film Distribution in the UK, told staff on Friday that she was takingthe position, which puts the well-liked executive in charge of the ...
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Nolte, Mechlowicz head Peaceful Warrior cast
NickNolte has been cast in the key role of Socrates in Peaceful Warrior, a movie based on Dan Millman's bestsellingself-help novel Way Of The Peaceful Warrior which went into production this week.Hejoins Scott Mechlowicz, Amy Smart and Agnes Bruckner in the cast. Victor Salva(Jeepers Creepers and JeepersCreepers 2) is directing ...
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Fourtou to step down from Vivendi Universal
Vivendi Universal chairmanJean-Rene Fourtou will leave his post this spring he affirmed Thursday during apress conference to report the company's 2004 results.Fourtou took over the reinsof Vivendi Universal from controversial former chairman Jean-Marie Messier whowas forced out in mid-2002. Under Fourtou's stewardship, the company has soldoff many of its assets, ...
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Alliance Atlantis MPD unveils 2004 revenue hike
Alliance Atlantis' incometrust Motion Picture Distribution has recorded a 27% increase in its revenuefor 2004. The rise, from $340m(C$410.5m) in 2003 to $433m (C$522.5m) in 2004, came from strong results acrossthe breadth of the company's holdings in Canada, the UK and Spain. Canadian operations recordedtheir fourth consecutive year as the ...
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Baby rides Million Dollar Oscar wave
Just as a bestpicture Oscar win can mean so much at the domestic box office, so it serves toboost a picture's international prospects. Million DollarBaby's night of triumphon Feb 27 has already had significant ramifications for its international roll-outthrough Lakeshore Entertainment and there are no signs of letting up. Since ...
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Pathe's Chorus tunes into changing UK market
When Pathelaunches The Chorus (Les Choristes) into the UK on Friday, itwill do so in a way unthinkable for a foreign language film just a few yearsago.For a start, thefilm is launching at approximately 65 locations, a scale of release that wouldhave seen as wildly over-optimistic back in the 1990s.The ...
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Chartier sets up new sales company with Devlin
International sales veteran Nicolas Chartier has teamed up with Dean Devlin'sproduction house Electric Entertainment to form the international sales company VoltagePictures.Voltage will pick up films for international sales as well as handling Electric's film and television slate, including TheTriangle, which is setto premiere in the US on the Sci-Fi ...
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Universal promotes Cole to senior vp, media
Suzanne Cole has beenpromoted to senior vice president of media at Universal Pictures, and willserve as chief strategist for media planning for film marketing campaigns andfor Universal Studios Home Entertainment releases.Cole, who willreport directly to Universal Pictures Marketing president Adam Fogelson, joinedUniversal as vice president of media in 1999.Since then ...
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Hit Danish director readies supernatural Island
Nikolaj Arcel, the Danish director of local smash King'sGame, is to shoot action adventure The Island Of Lost Souls thisJune. Produced through Zentropa and Nimbus Film, Island Of LostSouls is a supernatural family film in the vein of Steven Spielberg'searlier work. Unusually for a Danish film, nearly 20% of its ...
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Mar del Plata kicks off in face of economic troubles
Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival kicksoff its 20th anniversary edition today (March 10-20) with a line-up boastingmore than 300 titles.Thisyear the sole FIAPF-accredited A-grade festival in Latin America will also hostthe first annual Mercosur Film Market (March 14-19), sponsored by Al-Invest,Europe's MEDIA Programme and the local Exportar Foundation."The ...