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Hide And Seek discovers winning form
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Submarine drama triumphs at Russian Oscars
VladimirKhotinenko's 72 Metres, about a Russian submarine crew strandedbelow sea, has won the best film prize at the Golden Eagles, Russia'sequivalent of the Oscars.Theannual awards ceremony was presided over by its founder and Russian Oscarwinner, Nikita Mikhalkov.Controversially,Russian blockbuster Nightwatch failed to score a nomination in the bestfilm category. Produced by ...
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Eastwood raises his Oscar prospects
Clint Eastwood was votedbest director by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) at the weekend for MillionDollar Baby, strengthening his claim on next month's Academy Award.The DGA honour is a key indicator of Oscar success, with 50 out of 56recipients going on to win it since the inception of the ...
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LA memorial service for Jorge Gallegos this Friday
A "Celebration Of Life"memorial service will be held for Jorge Gallegos on this Friday Feb 4 at 11amat the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.Mr Gallegos died tragicallywhile on holiday in Thailand on Dec 26 as a result of the tsunami disaster.He was a veteran in theworld of independent film ...
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On The Outs leads Slamdance winners
A highly successful Slamdance that produced record attendance and severalmajor deals closed on Saturday (29) as LoriSilverbush and Michael Skolnik's drug drama On TheOuts won the Grand Jury SparkyAward for Best Narrative Feature and the corresponding audience award,while Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett's hoaxer study AbelRaises Cain took the Grand ...
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Russia's Return wins BBC Four prize
Russian drama The Returnhas been named winner of the BBC Four World Cinema Award.Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return previously won the 2003 Golden Lion award at theVenice Film Festival. The prize was presented at an awards ceremony held in Londonon Thursday and hosted by Jonathan Ross.
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Sundance: Focus cements Brick purchase
Focus Features has landedits second major acquisition in four days at Sundance, sealing worldwide rights to Rian Johnson's award-winning Brick, a neo-noir set in a contemporary US high school .Buyers had been tracking the film all week but Focus's persistence finally won out hours before Brick went on to ...
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Audiard's Beat leads Cesar nominations
JacquesAudiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped leads the nominations for this year's Cesar Awards.Theremake of James Toback's 1978 film Fingers was nominated in 10 categories, including Best Picture and BestDirector. The film's stars Romain Duris and Niels Arestrup scored nods for Best Actorand Best Supporting Actor respectively, while Linh-Dan ...
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Giffoni chief named general director of Italy's AIP
Giffoni Film Festival chief Claudio Gubitosi has been namedgeneral director of AIP, the Italian film organisation which overseespromotional body Filmitalia as well as the Mifed film market.Envisaged as an outfit similar in scope to Frenchpromotional body Unifrance, AIP was created in 2003 by Cinecitta Holding andFiera di Milano.As well as ...
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Allen's Melinda to open first Glasgow festival
Woody Allen's MelindaAnd Melinda will open the first Glasgow World Film Festival on February 9. The event, sponsored byGlasgow City Council and Visit Scotland, will screen seventy films over thefollowing eight days closing with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic onFebruary 17. Highlights include recentAmerican box-office success Coach Carter with Samuel ...
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Top Korean distributor drops assassination drama
A South Korean political drama that is dividing audienceson the same scale as Fahrenheit 9/11 has been dropped just ahead of itsFebruary 3 release by distributor CJ Entertainment.The President's Last Bang by Im Sang-soo --director of Venice entry A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) - is a creativeretelling of the hours ...
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Economic boom sees surge in Russian cinema building
The number of modern cinema screens in Russia is expectedto nearly triple to 1,900 by 2009, according to research published this week.DodonaResearch's report CinemagoingRussia says that the growth in newshopping complexes is providing locations for entertainment facilities andunderpinning a rapid expansion in the cinema sector.Several operators have successfully raised investmentfinance ...
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Wild Bunch unveils European Film Market slate
French sales and distributionoutfit Wild Bunch has lined up several new titles ahead of next month'sEuropean Film Market in Berlin.The company has taken worldrights, outside France, to competition title The Wayward Cloud bydirector Tsai Ming-Liang. Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.comthat the Taiwanese-Chinese-French co-production, which juxtaposes colourfulmusical scenes with ...
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Mighty Celt to open Dublin festival
The worldpremiere of Pearse Elliott's The Mighty Celt will open the DublinInternational Film Festival on February 11, it was announced at the programmelaunch this week (Jan 26). Elliottpreviously wrote Man About Dog, also produced by Treasure Entertainment,which was the highest earning local film at the Irish box office last year.The ...
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Heidi producers option Roman Mysteries
The British productioncompany behind Heidi, the family film remake which Warner Bros isreleasing in July, has optioned The Roman Mysteries, an 18-book seriesset in first century Rome.Martyn Auty and Ian Gordon,partners in Suitable Viewing, have optioned the books with Dashiell Productionsto adapt into a family film. Written by Caroline Lawrence, ...
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Sundance: Par Classics goes Ballroom dancing
Paramount Classics andNickelodeon have teamed up to buy worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand toSlamdance opening night picture Mad Hot Ballroom, on a day that produced a raft of major deals atSundance (27).In three North American acquisitions Samuel Goldwyn Films and RoadsideAttractions picked up Pretty Persuasion, THINKFilm took The ...
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Belgrad, Tolmach named Columbia production presidents
DougBelgrad and Matt Tolmach have each been promoted to president of production atColumbia Pictures following three of the most successful years in the studio'shistory.Both senior executives have extended their contracts until 2008 and willcontinue to report to Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairmanAmy Pascal.In the two years since Belgrad ...
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Int'l box office preview: Ray prepares for wide release
Universal's Ray stands to benefit from its six Academy Awardsnominations earlier this week with a full-on assault through UIP in a raft ofmajor markets this weekend.The picture opened on an Australian national holiday on Jan 26 and Russia a daylater, and follows up with debuts in Spain on Jan 28 ...
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Indie Circle takes up Smoking
IndieCircle, the pan-European distribution consortium, has pre-boughtmulti-territory rights to Thank You For Smoking, a black comedysatirising the tobacco industry. Thefilm is sold internationally by US-UK combine ContentFilm International and isa co-production between ContentFilm and Room 9 Entertainment. Directed by JasonReitman, it went into production earlier this week.TheIndie Circle deal means ...
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Jobson wraps A Woman In Winter
Richard Jobson is finishing theHD feature A Woman In Winter, which shot in Edinburgh and stars Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, French actress JulieGayet and newcomer Jamie Sives.The story involves a destructive love affair between an astronomer and a mysteriousFrench photographer.Regular Jobson collaborator Chris Atkinsand Hamish McAlpine serve as producers on ...