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France faces film release bottleneck
Between Jan 19 and Feb 2, noless than 48 films will be released in France. Among them: Closer, TheAviator, Vanessa Paradis-vehicle Mon Ange, Buena Vista France's LaMarche De L'Empereur and EuropaCorp.'s Danny The Dog. This glut of films hasrekindled the long-debated issue of how to give films a chance to ...
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Recycle marks new direction for Universe, Matching
The Pang brothers latesthorror film Recycle, now shooting in Thailand, marks the beginning of along-term co-operation between Hong Hong's Universe International Holdings andThailand's Matching Motion Pictures.The $5m picture reunitesDanny and Oxide Pang with Lee Sin-je, star of their international breakout hit TheEye. Lee plays a writer who discovers that events ...
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Vasquez, Tellis join IS in key marketing, distribution posts
Trish Vasquez (pictured) and DeborahTellis have joined IS Film Distribution as vice president of marketing andpublicity and director of distribution respectively.Based in Santa Monica,Vasquez will assume leadership of the marketing department, managing creative, promotionaland publicity campaigns for all theatrical releases. She will report to IS FilmDistribution president Kaye Cooper-Mead.Tellis will ...
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AUSTRALIA 17 January
Elektra secured third place for the four-day weekend toJanuary 16 after 20th Century Fox premiered it on 226 screens around thecountry. The A$1,711,680 gross gave it a screen average of A$7,574, second onlyto UIP's Meet The Fockers, which has lead the chart for four consecutiveweekends. Third on the measure ofscreen ...
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NEW ZEALAND 17 January
The two openers in the topfive on the weekend were BVI's Finding Neverland, which grossedNZ$200,127 from 34 screens to grab third place and 20th Century Fox release FlightOf The Phoenix, which was snapping at its heels with NZ$190,986 from 40screens. These two films also secured the biggest screen averages in ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - January 17
JAPAN - January 17 PRE-PRODUCTION TOUCH (Toho)Dist (Jap): Toho. Based on a hit comic book, a feel-good love story of highschool students. Prod: Hideyuki Honma. Dir: Isshin Inudo. Main cast: MasamiNagasawa . Shooting starts in Japan in late March 2005.Contact: Toho, (81) 33213 6821 YAMATO (OTOKOTACHI NO YAMATO)(Toei)Dist (Jap): Toei. ...
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Russian box office surges over 40% in 2004
The Russian box office grew by 41% to $268m lastyear, while admissions surged to 76.5m according to latest figures.The figures, relating to November 2003-November 2004, were announced by trade magazineKinobusiness. Topping the local box office was Russianproduced sci-fi hit Night Watch which broke all previous Russian boxoffice records with over ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market shortlists 30 projects
New feature films by David Mackenzie and SergeiBodrov are among 30 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented at theBerlinale's second Co-Production Market over two days from February 13-14.The line-up of 30 official projects includesthree from this year's edition of Rotterdam's CineMart under the banner of the'Rotterdam-Berlinale Express' initiative ...
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Abbey Road film festival set for March
Abbey Road Studios, theLondon recording studios immortalised by The Beatles' Abbey Road album,has launched the Abbey Road Film Festival.The event will run from Mar19 to Apr 3 at the studio, showcasing films scored at Abbey Road such as RaidersOf The Lost Ark, The Last Emperor and Gangs Of New York. ...
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The Aviator, Sideways win top film Globes
The Aviator and Sideways took three and two film awards apiece at tonight's (16) 62nd Golden Globes, earning respective honours for best drama and best musical or comedy.Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx cemented their status as Academy Award frontrunners with acting wins for The Aviator in the drama category and ...
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The Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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False start for otherwise promising Bangkok film market
The second edition of theBangkok Film Market (BFM) gets underway tomorrow (Tuesday 18) after a falsestart today.Organisers of the olderBangkok International Film Festival had previously advertised the market asrunning from 17-21 Jan, but with only days of advanced notice, pushed back theofficial start of the event by a day. This ...
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UK's b.TWEEN festival unveils cross-platform development lab
b.TWEEN the internationalFestival of Future Entertainment 2005, which celebrates interactive creativeprojects on TV, mobile, the web, DVD and video games, has announced this year'sconfirmed speakers and festival events.The festival, which runs14-18 February at Doncaster college in the UK, comprises a three-daycross-platform development lab and a two-day conference. The development lab ...
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Hungarian film week to open with Dallas Pashamente
The 36th edition of theHungarian Film Week will kick off on February 2 with the screening of directorRobert Pejo's Berlinale Forum contender Dallas Pashamente. The Film Week's competitionprogram will feature twenty-one Hungarian productions, ten of which havealready been released theatrically in the country. The remaining eleven will bepremieres. The program ...
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Snowland world premiere opens Max Ophuels festival
Hans W. Geissendoerfer's Snowland(Schneeland) receives its world premiere today as the opening film of thisyear's Max Ophuels Prize Film festival in Saarbruecken (January 17-23) ahead ofthe drama's German theatrical release by Kinowelt on January 20 and theinternational premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.The dramatic love story,which stars Maria Schrader (Rosenstrasse), ...
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Incredibles, National Treasure each add $10m for BVI
The Incredibles and National Treasure each took an estimated$10m for Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, raising theirrespective international running totals to $335.5m and $120m.National Treasure scored a pair of number one debuts in Holland andGreece with respective $1.4m and $655,000 launches.After one month theadventure has amassed $12.6m in ...
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Ocean's Twelve passes $150m for Warner Int'l; Alexander opens top in eight
Ocean's Twelve raised its international cumulative total to $152.5mfollowing an estimated $9.6m weekend haul through Warner Bros PicturesInternational on 4,600 prints in 55 countries.The caper sequel isscheduled to open in Japan on Jan 22 and in the UK on Feb 4.Alexander grossed $6.4m from 1,358 prints in 12 territories, powered ...
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Hustle passes $50m, Closer storms Europe for SPRI
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) opened Closer at number one in five out of sevenmarkets at the weekend as the picture's allure proved irresistible in Europe.The torrid drama ranked topin the UK on $3.1m on 276 screens, and the four other number one debutsoccurred in Germany on $2.3m on 474, the ...
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Coach Carter benches Meet The Fockers in US
Paramount's true-lifebasketball drama Coach Carter knocked off Meet The Fockers toopen top over the three-day portion of Martin Luther King Day weekend on anestimated $23.6m.While Fockers slippedto second place for the first time in its record-breaking four-week run, WarnerBros' family comedy Racing Stripes opened in third place on $14m, andTwentieth ...