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Coach Carter too strong for Meet The Fockers
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 ...
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Hulbert quits as president of Disney TV
David Hulbert has quit histwin jobs as head of Walt Disney Television International and Buena VistaInternational Television. The sudden move sparks a substantial reorganisationof the division. Hulbert's role will be splitbetween John Hardie, who is promoted toexecutive vice president/managing director, Branded Television, Europe MiddleEast Africa, and Tom Toumazis, promoted to ...
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Downfall dominates Bavarian Film Awards
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Hitlerdrama Downfall was the big winner at the weekend's Bavarian Film Awardstaking home prizes in three categories.Constantin Film's BerndEichinger received the Euros 200,000 Producers Award, while Best Actor honourswent to Bruno Ganz for his performance as Adolf Hitler in his last days in thebunker under the centre of ...
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UK's Celador Films commissions stress management comedy
The UK's Celador Films'Christian Colson and Ivana MacKinnon have commissioned first-timewriter-director Ben Gregor's script, Principles Of Calmness. The deal, brokered byGregor's agent Jago Irwin at PFD, sees Gregor currently workshopping the firstdraft of his script before it goes to second draft and then into production.Principles Of Calmness is a comedy ...
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Gerardmer names Levinson president of 12th edition
The 12th annual FantasticFilm Festival of Gerardmer has named Barry Levinson as its jury president. Thefestival, which brings together a mix of horror and fantasy films, will runfrom January 26 -30 in the French town of Vosges.Other members of the featureand short films juries include director Laurent Bouhnik, writer Eric ...
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Tsunami effect spreads across international territories
SouthernThailand (where popular tourist destinations Phuket, Kao Lak and Phi Phi Islandare located) was hit hard by the Boxing Day tsunami. Whilethe Thai people are generally in mourning, the cinemas are still doing briskbusiness, as reflected by the strong box office of two local titles. Jaew,a new action comedy produced ...
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France's Rezo launches long-awaited int'l sales arm
French producer and distributor Rezo Films will bring to fruition a long-gestating plan to expand into international sales at this weekend's Rendez-Vous of French cinema, as well as at next month's Berlin Market.The new Rezo Films International operation will handle eight to ten feature films a year, in an equal ...
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File-sharing debate needs balance, says OECD
Mathilde Eriksson The promise of file-sharing technology should not be lost inthe raging debate about piracy according to a report from delivered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment(OECD). Instead governments need to considerlegislation that strikes a balance between the protection of suppliers and theability to exploit the technologies, the ...
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Spanish producers banking on repeat business
Shooting begins next Mondayon The 2 Sides Of The Bed, the sequel to Spain's 2002 box officegargantuan The Other Side Of The Bed.It is just one of severalsequels in the works in Spain, including the third in Santiago Segura's runawayTorrente series and plans for a follow-up to 2004 hit Isi ...
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Korea's Kim Ki-duk shoots The Bow
South Korean director KimKi-duk has opened shooting on his 12th feature film, a low-budget production tobe titled The Bow.Following a highlysuccessful 2004 in which he won Best Director awards at Berlin and Venice for SamaritanGirl and 3-Iron respectively, Kim began shooting his latest workwith little fanfare on a remote island ...
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Random Harvest teams with Hammer, Winston on horror deal
In a move underliningthe growing market for quality, low-budget horror, British production andfinancing outfit Random Harvest is starting a new Enterprise InvestmentScheme (EIS) Company, Harvest PicturesIII, with Hammer Films and LA-based Stan Winston Productions.Harvest Pictures IIIwill back new horror films from Hammer, Stan Winston and Four Horsemen Films(Random Harvest's genre ...
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Seven films shortlisted for makeup Oscar
The Aviator,De-Lovely, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Hellboy, Lemony Snicket'sA Series of Unfortunate Events, The Passion Of The Christ and The Sea Inside are the seven pictures that will beconsidered by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences for bestachievement in make-up.Ten-minute clips of each contender will ...
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FRANCE 14 January
Alexander rode to the top of the chart with over half amillion admissions in its debut week. The film pushed Ocean'sTwelve down to number two where it has taken more than $19m. French film LesSoeurs Fachees jumped up to number 3 from the fifth spot last week butstill lost 19% ...
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HONG KONG 14 January
National Treasure dislodged Stephen Chow's mega-hit Kung-fu Hustlefrom the top spot at the Hong Kong box office after a two-week reign.Distributed by Buena Vista's local partner, Intercontinental Film Distributors,the action adventure grossed US$816,527 from 40 screens. In its third week, Kung-fuHustle added US$662,721 from 63 screens bringing its cume to ...
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Film-makers and artists group together in Macrocosm production collective
A consortium of independent filmmakers and creative artists calledMacrocosm will launch at Sundance on Jan 24, with the aim of bringingindependent projects to stage, screen and television.The group's inaugural and self-financed project Hot Chicks, a live action feature based onreligious comic book tracts by Jack Chick and featuring segments by ...
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Drake leads management buyout of Senator International
Senator International president Joe Drake announced yesterday (Jan13) that the company's senior management has bought out Senator's US operationsfrom parent Senator Entertainment and lender Deutsche Bank and named the newcompany Mandate Pictures.Drake, head of production Nathan Kahane and chief financialofficer Brian Goldsmith are the principal owners of the company, with ...
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Independents should make more musicals, urges new coalition
A new coalition has called upon independent filmmakers to makemore musicals following a decision not to reactivate the Original Musical Oscarcategory at next month's 77th Academy Awards.The Coalition of the Musical's Indie Musical Challenge has alreadydrawn support from Team America: World Police co-creator Matt Stone, and thecoalition's Dan Mirvish wants ...
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Sony gets set to Hustle in South Korea
Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) comedy action hit KungFu Hustle will pass $50mthis weekend with a much anticipated launch in South Korea.The picture has blazed a record-breaking trail through a slew ofAsian markets and taken $49m to date. It was due to open in South Korea on Jan13 on 180 ...
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Polish cinema admissions soar by 40%
Poland has recorded aphenomenal box office increase of 43% during 2004 - from $103.4m (Zlotys324.3m) in 2003 to $148m (Zlotys 464.2m) last year.Admissions saw a similarleap, from 20033s 23.8 million admissions to 33.3 million in 2004, a 40% hike.With a total population of 38.6 million people there is still a ...
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Fiennes to star in Coetzee adaptation Disgrace
Australian productioncompany Wild Strawberries has secured Ralph Fiennes to play the lead in itsfeature adaptation of 1999 Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace, writtenby J M Coetzee. The politically chargedstory will be filmed in South Africa, where it is set. Fiennes will play atwice-divorced academic in Cape Town who retreats to ...