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GERMANY 26 January
The third instalment of theWesley Snipes Blade franchise - Blade: Trinity - blasted intolast weekend's Top 15 with over $ 4.3m from 524 screens, followed by MartinScorsese's multi-Oscar nominated The Aviator which grossed over $ 2mfrom 318 prints to enter the chart at No. 2. Trinity's 512,540 admissions in its ...
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ITALY 26 January
Although six new titles werereleased in Italy last weekend, the country's top three releases remainedunchanged for the second week running.Warner Bros's Alexanderheld firmly onto its number one position, with a strong screen average of$6,100 and an impressive running gross of $7,663,628. UIP's Bridget Jones:The Edge Of Reason grossed an extra ...
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Sundance: Lions Gate stumps up $4m for Hard Candy
Lions Gate Films has sealed itssecond major deal in two days, paying $4m for worldwide rights excluding theUK, Spain and Australia to David Slade's hot psychological thriller HardCandy.UK rights sold to Redbus for approximately $0.75m, and Icon andAurum acquired Australian and Spanish rights respectively for $0.5m each.The first Slamdance sale ...
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Anytime strikes Asian VoD deal with US studios
Singapore-basedvideo-on-demand company Anytime has signed content supply deals with three USstudios, resulting in what it claims is the largest single offering in Asia ofHollywood product for VoD.The three deals with Twentieth Century Fox, Sony PicturesTelevision International and Warner Bros International Television Distributionjoin an existing supply deal with Universal Pictures. The ...
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And the Oscar reactions are...
"BringingThe Aviator to the screen took years of effort by an extraordinary groupof individuals, and I am thrilled that so many of the people who poured theirheart into the film have been recognised by the Academy," Martin Scorsesesaid after The Aviator earned 11 Academy Award nominations this week,including a sixth ...
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Rotterdam festival to offer downloads of arthouse films
The InternationalFilm Festival Rotterdam is launching an experiment next week that will see itdistribute arthouse films over the internet. Twenty formerIFFR festival hits will be available for download, including Fernando Meirellesand Nando Olival's Domesticas, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Abouna and Carlos Marcovich's Who The Hell Is Juliette'.The site, www.tigeronline.nl,is being launched by ...
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Euro money underpins Oscar hopefuls
With Howard Hughes, ClintEastwood and Ray Charles in the running, this year's Oscarhopefuls read like a list of American icons. But the Oscar nominations unveiled today are as much a testament to European filmfinancing as to the acting and directing skills of Martin Scorsese, LeonardoDiCaprio and Eastwood.More than ever, USfilmmakers ...
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Alexander soars past $100m in international markets
Following a dazzling international run that hasyielded more than three times the domestic gross, Alexander passed the $100mmilestone at the weekend with an estimated $9.5m haul from approximately 2,900screens in 54 territories.The picture's international running total now stands at $103m, powered by animpressive $2.9m (Euros2.2m) number one hold on 500 ...
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Sundance names 2005 Mark Silverman Fellow
American Gunco-producer Ted Kroeber has been named the recipient of the 2005 Mark SilvermanFellowship for New Producers at the fifth annual Producers Brunch at Sundance.Kroeber will receive a $5,000 cash grant to be used in pre-production and willbenefit from the services of an advisory committee of five workingprofessionals throughout his ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - January 25
PRE-PRODUCTIONAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl] Art Oko Film [Ger]) Co-prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget:Euro5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany) and Moviehouse(UK). Thriller. Exec prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk.Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr: Agatha Dominik,Robert Newton. DoP: Elemer Ragalyi. Prod des: Michael Pickwood. ...
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The 77th Adacemy Award Nominations
The 77th Academy AwardNominations BEST PICTURETHE AVIATORFINDING NEVERLANDMILLION DOLLAR BABYRAYSIDEWAYS ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLEDon Cheadle - HOTEL RWANDAJohnny Depp - FINDINGNEVERLANDLeonardo DiCaprio - THEAVIATORClint Eastwood - MILLIONDOLLAR BABYJamie Foxx - RAY ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLEAlan Alda - THE AVIATORThomas Haden Church -SIDEWAYSJamie Foxx - COLLATERALMorgan Freeman - MILLIONDOLLAR ...
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Aviator dominates 77th Academy Award nominations
Martin Scorsese's TheAviator has emerged as the clear front-runner for the 77thAcademy Awards with 11 nominations, ahead of Finding Neverland and MillionDollar Baby which bagged seven nods apiece.The nominations wereannounced this morning in Los Angeles and also saw Ray receive six nodsand Sideways rewarded with five. All five of these ...
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Macy, Elliott et al join Thank You For Smoking
William H Macy and Sam Elliott are among sevenactors that have joined the cast of Room 9/ContentFilm's satirical comedy ThankYou For Smoking,which began principal photography in Los Angeles yesterday (24).Adam Brody, Cameron Bright, David Koechner, JK Simmons, and Kim Dickens arealso among the new arrivals on set, joining the previously ...
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Dalecarlians named best film at Swedish Film Awards
Despite an Academy Award nomination today, eight local award nominations and 1.2 million admissionsin Sweden, last year's local box office champion As It Is In Heaven didn't wina single Swedish Film Award (Guldbagge) at a ceremony held last night inStockholm.Instead, Tomas Alfredson'sfour hour's drama Four Shades Of Brown and first- ...
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Katja von Garnier to direct Lakeshore's Blood And Chocolate
Germandirector Katja von Garnier has signed on to direct Lakeshore Entertainment's BloodAnd Chocolate, it was announced today byLakeshore's Tom Rosenberg.Produced by Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi with Daniel Bobker, the film isset to start shooting this spring.Set inEastern Europe, Blood And Chocolate is the story of Vivian Gandillion, anineteen year old ...
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Lions Gate buys world on Sundance urban doc Rize
Thetaste for street culture and urban storytelling continued to drive the earlydeals at Sundance yesterday (24) as Lions Gate Films acquired all worldwiderights to Rizeby David LaChapelle.The documentary centres on a former children's entertainer who opens an academydevoted to clowning and krumping, an emerging dance form out of South CentralLos ...
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Sundance, Docurama launch DVD doc collection
Sundance Channel and documentary DVD label Docurama willlaunch the Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Documentary Collection on Apr 26with The First Amendment Project, thefirst of six titles a year culled from the channel's library.The First AmendmentProject is a series of films in thefirst-ever programming partnership between Sundance Channel and Court TVexploring ...
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Douglas to co-produce Racing The Monsoon in India
Indian film financiersSahara One Motion Pictures and Percept Picture Company have announced that theywill be the primary backers of the Michael Douglas project Racing TheMonsoon - acting as co-producers with Douglas's production company FurtherFilms.The film will be shot in theAmby Valley near Mumbai - a luxury resort created by Sahara ...
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Paris screenings end on optimistic note
The Paris Screenings(Rendez-Vouz du Cinema Français) (21-24 Jan) ended yesterday with sellers incautiously optimistic mood and a culture minister set on rolling back thebarriers to business development.At a cocktail reception atthe Musee d'Orsay, minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres left little doubt thathe will stand up to more conservative elements of ...
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Hong Kong industry urges anti-online piracy action
Hong Kong's film, TV and music industries have jointlycalled on the government to address the growing problem of online piracy whichthey say is "threatening the very survival" of the territory's content supplyindustries.Thecall was made at a symposium held by the Film, Television and RecordingIndustries' Copyright Concern Group on Sunday (Jan ...