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Universal's Bourne is supreme in Australia with $3.4m debut
Universal's spy sequel The Bourne Supremacy scoredthe studio's biggest international debut of the year at the weekend as itopened top in Australia on an estimated $3.4m on 231 screens.The mighty launch through UIP took 52% market share and wasUniversal's sixth biggest ever opening in the territory, grossing 117% more inUS$ ...
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Local features generate buzz as Haugesund wraps
The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund endedits 32nd edition with two awards nights in a row on. On Thursday(August 26) it held the festival prizes, and on Friday (August 27) night dishedout the Norwegian film and TV awards, the Amandas.At the festival's closing ceremony, Erik Poppe's new localdrama Hawaii, ...
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Russian Granny wins top Copenhagen prize
Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami and Hungarian newcomerNimrod Antal might have taken most of the applause at the closing ceremony forthe second Copenhagen International Film Festival, but it was LidijaBobrova's Russian feature debut The Granny which scooped most of the awards.The film took the Golden Swan for best film, best screenplayand ...
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Love rules in Edinburgh
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer Of Love was named as the winner of the Michael Powell Awardfor Best British Film on the closing day (August 29) of this year'sEdinburgh International Film Festival.His intense evocation of the fleeting relationship between twolonely teenage girls saw off competition from the likes of Ae Fond ...
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Evergreen gets AMC digital roll-out
Under what the parties involved describe as a "unique partnership",independent US feature Evergreen will be digitally distributed to 115AMC theatres in 27 major US markets.The family drama, written and directed by newcomer Enid Zentelis,will premiere on Sept 10, being presented digitally using AMC's proprietaryDigital Theatre Distribution System (DTDS).The system eliminates ...
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Indie icon Smith readies The Passion Of The Clerks
Ten years after he burst onto the US indie scene with Clerks,filmmaker Kevin Smith has decided to make a sequel to the now almost legendaryno-budget comedy. Smith will direct The Passion Of The Clerks from hisown screenplay, with principal photography set to begin next January andMiramax set to distribute.Brian O'Halloran ...
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ThinkFilm, New Line Home Entertainment sign US video deal
Independent distributor ThinkFilm has signed a US videodistribution deal with New Line Home Entertainment.Among the first titles to be released on DVD and VHS under the newpartnership will be Stephen Fry's British period drama Bright Young Thingsand Bayambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's German-Mongolian documentary TheStory Of The Weeping Camel.Though the ...
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Exhibition deal to boost arthouse films in South Korea
Koreanfilm import company Sponge and venture capital firm KTB Network are teaming upin a new venture known as 'Cinehue' to give quality non-Hollywoodproduct an enhanced presence on South Korean screens.Thenew distribution line matches the experience of Sponge - which has purchasedKorean rights to over 50 foreign titles including Dogville, Zatoichi,and ...
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Bavaria takes on Midwinter sales
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) is to handle world sales on Serbian director GoranPaskaljevic's latest feature MidwinterNight's Dream which will be in competition at the forthcoming San SebastianFilm Festival.The disturbingand moving film about a man returninghome after ten years of absence to start a new life in today's Serbia starsLazar Ristovski who ...
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Final bids tabled for Odeon cinema chain
The three final bidders for Odeon couldlearn as early as today who has succeeded in buying the UK cinema chain formore than £380m ($683m), according to wire and newspaper reports.U.S. buyout giant Blackstone, Britishfinancier Guy Hand's Terra Firma Capital Partners and Iranian property investorRobert Tchenguiz were all set to submit ...
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Content boards Love's Business
ContentFilm has boarded hot "Costa delCrime" picture The Business, the company announced on Thursday.Directed by Nick Love, the picture is setduring the 80s amongst British ex-pats and criminals in the south of Spain andis being billed as similar in style to Pulp Fiction.Love, who recently shot football hooliganfilm The Football ...
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Kontroll named as Hungarian Oscar contender
NimrodAntal's debut feature Kontroll has been named as the official Hungarianentry for the 77th Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category.Antal's featurefilm was premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes where it won the Prix de la Jeunesse.Since Cannes, Kontroll has been invited to numerous film festivals including ...
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Fox embarks on Dodgeball roll-out
SurpriseUS hit Dodgeball opens in its first major international territories thisweekend and distributor 20th Century Fox will be hoping that star Ben Stiller -whose Starsky And Hutch is now coming to the end of its better thanexpected international run - can drive the film to a strong internationaltotal.Dodgeball'sbroad comedy resulted ...
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Working Title snaps up prize winning Population
Working Title has acquired Nick Ostler and MarkHuckerby's draft sci-fi script Population, one of the winners of the UKFilm Council's 25 Words Or Less development competition.The $30m-plus conspiracy thriller titled Populationenvisages, according to Ostler, "a Britain where the problem of over populationhasn't been solved. It's quite dark."The pair's pitch for ...
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Chiocchi earns creative advertising stripes at Universal
Veteran Hollywood marketing executive Frank Chiocchi has beenpromoted to executive vice president of creative advertising at UniversalPictures.Chiocchi will report to Universal's marketing president AdamFogelson and will oversee all aspects of creative advertising for upcomingUniversal releases including Friday Night Lights, Cinderella Manand American Gangster.Previously serving as senior vice president of creativeadvertising, ...
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Evans to receive Leadership Award at Toronto
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans is to be presented withthe Leadership Award at a gala evening for charity Best Buddies during thisyear's Toronto International Film Festival.The Sept 13 event will see Evans, producer of The Godfatherand Chinatown among other classics, join a list of previous awardwinners that includes Muhammad Ali, ...
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Evans to receive Leadership Award
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans is to be presented withthe Leadership Award at a gala evening for charity Best Buddies during thisyear's Toronto International Film Festival.The Sept 13 event will see Evans, producer of The Godfatherand Chinatown among other classics, join a list of previous awardwinners that includes Muhammad Ali, ...
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The Machinist, Brother To Brother bookend IFP market
Brad Anderson's The Machinist and Rodney Evans' BrotherTo Brother will bookend the 26th annual IFP Market & Conference, whichruns from Sept 19-24 in New York.The Machinist, which stars Batman-to-beChristian Bale and is set to be released in the US through Paramount Classicson Oct 22, will get the Sept 20 opening ...
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DreamWorks COO Hahn's exit fuels succession rumours
Veteran Hollywood executive Helene Hahn is to retire from her jobas DreamWorks' chief operating officer, fuelling speculation that Miramax chiefoperating officer Rick Sands will step in to replace her.While no replacement announcement seems to be imminent, DreamWorksis believed to be negotiating with Sands.Hahn's decision to leave the company she has ...
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Fox, UGC to end French distribution partnership
Twentieth Century Fox and UGC are ending their French theatricaljoint distribution venture UGC Fox Distribution (UFD) and will launch separatedistribution operations in the territory at the start of 2005.In a joint statement, the companies attributed the end to volumeand shifting conditions in the French marketplace."With the number of titles UGC ...