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Venice engulfed by protesters and ticketing chaos
The screams of the crowds and paparazzi who met AlPacino's arrival at the Venice Film Festival at the weekend almost paledin comparison to the chaos and ruckus caused by Italian anti-globalisationactivists, temporary workers in the French entertainment industry, and theBiennale's ticketing system that went completely haywire causingdouble-booking and massive delays ...
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Vargas Llosa named as San Sebastian jury chief
Writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been named as the jurypresident at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept17-25), which has closed its official line-up with the announcement of specialscreenings, awards and juries.The rest of the official selection jury comprises YaminaBenguigui, Tom DiCillo, Marta Esteban, Laura Morante, Eduardo Serra and ...
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Rank puts Deluxe up for sale
The UK's Rank Grouphas put its Deluxe Film and Deluxe Media division on the block after profitsfell by nearly a third at the division.Chief executive Mike Smithsaid the board in principle believed it would be an opportune time to divestthe Deluxe units. Profit at the division, which replicates and distributesfilms, ...
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Nair develops Namesake project
In Venice for the festival screening of Vanity Fair, Mira Nair has revealed details of her next project, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Namesake.The novel tells the story of a Calcutta family who leave India to come to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the US in ...
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Medusa unveils 'selective' slate
Italy's leading producer and distributor, Medusa, islining up a selective slate of new productions and acquisitions, which includeDanny Boyle's Toronto-headed title, Millions, and Robert Altman's Paint.Medusa vice-president Giampaolo Letta said the Fininvest-ownedcompany recently picked up local rights to Millions, which is sold by Pathe International.The Rome-based outfit has also bought ...
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Garfield is top cat in Spain with $4m launch
Fox International's Garfieldenjoyed a superb $4m number one launch including previews on 349 screens inSpain at the weekend, the highlight of an $8.4m weekend haul from 3,406 screensin 41 markets that raised the comedy's international running total to $77.7m.Dodgeball grossed $2.6m on 564 screens for $10.6m. It added$2.1m on 314 ...
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Riddick raises int'l total to $44m
The Chronicles Of Riddick added $6m through all distributors at the weekend on2,100 screens in 22 territories for a $44m international cumulative total. TheUIP-only total comes to $30.5m and there are six territories still to open.The chief highlight was a$2.4m first place launch in Germany on 396 screens. In a ...
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AUSTRALIA 6 September
Two of the three most popular films in cinemas on theweekend are openers. They are BVI's TheVillage, which grossed A$3,117,621 from 290 screens, and Columbia TriStar's13 Going On 30, which grossedA$1,783,128 from 221 screens. Separating them was UIP's The Bourne Supremacy, which sold A$2,585,052 work of tickets to 311screens on ...
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HONG KONG 6 September
Columbia TriStar's Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchidtopped the box office in a lacklustre week with US$444,729 from 22 screens.Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook, distributed in Hong Kongby Intercontinental Film Distributors, took US$100,949 from five screens whichgave it the second highest screen average of the week. The other new openers ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Italian sleeper hit After Midnight wins US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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Sleeper hit After Midnight secures US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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Cannes' Jacob awarded top Italian honour
The Italian government has awarded Cannes Film Festivalpresident Gilles Jacob one of the country's highest honours, to thank himfor "everything that he has done over the years" for Italy andItalian cinema.Jacob received the prestigious Gran Ufficiale dellaRepubblica Italiana award on the Lido, during a solemn ceremony which wasattended by Biennale ...
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Bacon's Loverboy drops out of Deauville competition
The Deauville Festival ofAmerican Film, which kicks off on Friday, has substituted one of itscompetition films.Rather than screening KevinBacon's directorial debut Loverboy, Omar Naim debut feature The FinalCut, will be shown instead.Reasons for the last minutechange were not given. The Final Cut stars Robin Williams, JamesCaviezel and Mira Sorvino. Bacon ...
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King Kong goes before the cameras
Director Peter Jackson and actors Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody,and Jack Black faced the media yesterday at Jackson's Wellington studio complexto mark the beginning of principal photography on King Kong.Camerasofficially roll on Monday on the remake of the 1933 classic, which is beingfinanced by Universal Pictures and will be released on ...
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Broderick launches website of political cinema
Peter Broderick,the head of Paradigm Consulting and former president of Next Wave Films, haslaunched the political cinema resource website Films To See Before You Vote.The siteprovides information on current and previous documentary and narrative releasesand advice on arranging screening parties."It's impossibleto claim any longer that politics is box office poison ...
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Celluloid Dreams goes on The Take
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...