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Metrodome acquires UK rights to pair of films
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired UK rights to TheAssassination of Richard Nixon and Private for its 2005 slate.The Assassination of Richard Nixon played in UnCertain Regard at Cannes this year. It was directed by Niels Mueller andwritten by Mueller together with Kevin Kennedy, and stars Sean Penn, NaomiWatts and Don ...
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Glickman sounds the piracy alarm in his first public address
Dan Glickman, the new chief of the Motion Picture Association ofAmerica (MPAA), warned yesterday (8) that the US film industry faced calamityunless the studios tackled online piracy immediately."Illegal piracy of movies over the internet poses the greatestexisting threat to the motion picture industry," Glickman said in his firstpublic address since ...
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Biondo joins Infinity in business and legal affairs
John Biondo hasjoined the Los Angeles-based production and financing company Infinity Media asvice president of business and legal affairs.Biondo will beresponsible for structuring and negotiating production and distribution dealswith domestic and international parties for all Infinity productions.His other dutiesinclude negotiating contracts with talent and other general corporate and legalmatters. Biondo ...
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Amazon.com launches shorts series with Scott brothers' RSA
Amazon.com has partneredwith Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA USA production company and creativeagency Fallon Worldwide to launch the short film series Amazon Theatre.Starting today (9) andcontinuing each Tuesday for the next four weeks, Amazon will release a newtitle exclusively to Amazon.com customers, viewable either on the gateway pageor as a ...
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Spacey, Neeson, Jackson, Linney among Palm Springs honourees
Kevin Spacey, Samuel LJackson, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney will each be honoured at the upcoming16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan8 2005.Spacey, who directed andstars in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea, will collect the Sonny Bono Visionary Award forActing, Directing and Producing, ...
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Kosslick 'confident' Berlinale will meet sellers demands
The Berlinale is"absolutely confident" that it will be able to cater for theincreased demand from sales companies at the European Film Market (EFM) nextFebruary in its "transition year" before moving into its new venue atthe Martin Gropius Building from 2006.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, festival director Dieter Kosslick said that"if the ...
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TLA buys US DVD and video rights to Maura-starrer La Promesa
TLA Releasing has acquired US DVD/VHS rights at AFM to HectorCarre's psychological thriller La Promesa.The picture stars Carmen Maura as an abused wife who flees herhusband to start a new life as a nanny in what may be a haunted house.Maura is best known as the star of a number ...
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CTFDI's Resident Evil sequel shines in Spain, Italy openings
Horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse opened top in Spain at the weekend,grossing $2.5m on 349 screens through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).The result was 38% ahead of the 2002 original's debut. The pictureopened second in Italy on $1.7m on 250, some 73% ahead of Resident Evil. Overall the picture added ...
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Eagle takes Italian rights to The Saint
EaglePictures has picked up Italian distribution rights to The Saint, a Euros10m English-language picture starring Bad Boys II's Jordi Molla.The historic action movie, which is written and directedby Italy's Antonello Bellucco, tells the story of Saint Antonio of Padua, apriest who was born in Lisbon and died in 1231 at ...
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Thessaloniki unveils festival line-up
TheThessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up for thisyear's event (Nov 19-28).The Festival celebrates its 45th anniversary with a 180 plusstrong programme representing 40 nations and kicks off with a double billopening.French star Isabelle Huppert, will present the worldpremiere of her latest film Les Soeurs Fachees directed by ...
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AUSTRALIA 9 November
Australia's tastefor Asian action films has matured to such a point that Zhang Yimou's Hero had no trouble at all topping thebox office chart on its opening weekend. It grossed A$2,258,748 from 165screens for BVI, giving it a screen average of A$13,689, which was far ahead ofanything else in the ...
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NEW ZEALAND 9 November
Taxi tried veryhard to accelerate past last weekend's box office topper Shall We Dance' but just missed out.Shall We Dance'took NZ$158,393 from 58 screens for BVI in its second weekend on releasecompared to Taxi's NZ$157,427 on 23less screens for 20th Century Fox. Taxi's screen average was the highest in the ...
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SWEDEN 9 November
Though AVPcouldn't shake As In Heaven from thetop of the Swedish chart, it did get a better screen average ($5,160) from its65 prints and grossed a solid $372,436.Collateralcontinued to do well on third, while PopularMusic dropped to sixth having grossed $2.4m and last week's new localrelease Fourteen Sucks (Fjorton Suger)to ...
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GERMANY 9 November
UIP's release of 7 Dwarves attracted another 1.2m cinemagoers in its second weekendto bring the admissions tally up to 3.5m so far and a box office gross of$26m-plus.The comedy, which is already now moresuccessful than Otto's previous film outings - Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm and Otto- Der Liebesfilm -, again ...
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UK/IRELAND 9 November
Few other distributors stood a chance as UIP laid siege tothe UK box office last weekend. The chart shows that the distributor shot newtitle The Grudge into the top spot,dethroning stablemate Shark Taleafter three weeks. However, the UK is the only territory where UIP holdstheatrical rights.The Grudge claimed$4.2m (£2.3m) off ...
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Salvatores begins shoot on psychological film noir
Oscar winnerGabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo)has started shooting his latest film, a psychological film noir entitled Quo Vadis, Baby'Produced byMaurizio Totti's Colorado Film, the Euros 3m picture is adapted from theeponymous novel by Grazia Verasani. Its title is inspired by Marlon Brando'sfamous line in Last Tango In Paris.Quo Vadis, which Salvatores is ...
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Turin unveils competition line-up
David Gordon Green's Undertowis among the films that will compete at the upcoming Turin Film Festival (Nov12-20), Italy's leading festival for emerging and cutting-edge talent.The festival will kick off with John Sayle's Silver City and will close with theinternational premiere of Hong Kong director Benny Chan's New Police Story.The Asian-heavy ...
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Illusive Tracks takes double top at Nordic Film Days
The Swedish film IllusiveTracks (Skenbart) by Peter Dalle proved a big hit with both the jury andaudience at this year's Nordic Film Days in Luebeck.The jury gave the Euros 12,500 NDR Promotion Prize toDalle's "frivolous black comedy" for an "excellent screenplay[which] forms the basis for an exceptionally good cast and ...
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French producers hit by Warner funding wrangle
In the ongoing battle between the local film industry and 2003Productions, some producers and France's film board, the CNC, are starting tofeel the pinch.On Friday, the Administrative Court of Paris announced it would cancelthe approval of eligibility for state funds given by the CNC to producers ofJosiane Balasko's latest film, ...
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Powerhouse weekend for UIP at UK, Germany box office
US horror hit The Grudge opened top in the UK on $4.1m (£2.2m) including previews of$736,000 (£396,000) at the weekend, according to estimates released bydistributor UIP.By way of comparison the Dawn Of The Dead remake opened in March on $3m ($1.6m) at339 sites, and The Ringopened in 2003 on $3m ...