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Pinewood Shepperton profits surge
Pinewood Shepperton hasposted strong figures for its first interim results since floating in May.The film studio combineposted pro-forma profits of £3.8m for the six months to June, up 31.6% on thesame period last year. Studio facilities' sales rose more than 10%, hitting£11.3 m, on the back of Charlie And The ...
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Toronto announces complete line-up
Films from KevinSpacey, Mike Barker, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Jean Paul Salome and CarloMazzacurati will make their world premiere at the 29th TorontoInternational Film Festival. TIFF took the wraps off its complete line-up at apublic press conference today. Of the 253 feature-length films announced, 100are world premieres, 26 are international premieres and ...
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Japanese studio, broadcaster team for film acquisition
In the first deal of its kind in Japan, Fuji TelevisionNetwork and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) are joining forces toacquire Japanese rights for Kung FuHustle, the latest action comedy by Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow.The partners will buy theatrical, broadcast and home entertainment rights tothe film - the first-ever ...
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Media Asia IPO application investigated
Media Asia Group's proposed listing on theSingapore stock exchange has reportedly been put on hold as the MonetaryAuthority of Singapore (MAS) has requested further information about somemembers of the company's management team.One of Hong Kong's leading production anddistribution companies, Media Asia is planning to raise around US$10m from theIPO which ...
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Celebrated cinematographer joins Verhoeven's Book
Celebrated cinematographer Theo van de Sande has been set asdirector of photography on the forthcoming BlackBook, the new period drama by Dutch master Paul Verhoeven.Van de Sande is a Dutch national who has worked extensivelyon both sides of the Atlantic. His Hollywood credits include Wayne's World, Blade, Big Daddy and ...
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International buyers clamour for Lord Of War
Lord Of War,billed as one of the biggest independent features currently in production inthe world, has relocated to South Africa after two weeks of shooting in NewYork.Executive producer and Arclight Films managing director GaryHamilton says he has already sold the US$50m action thriller starring NicolasCage and Ethan Hawke into "virtually ...
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Pony Canyon takes rights to Spanish Sea
Japan's Pony Canyon has picked up rights to AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated The Othersfollow-up, The Sea Within (Mar Adentro).Starring Javier Bardem in the true story-based tale of aparalyzed man who fought for decades for the right to die, The Sea Within (formerly OutTo Sea) competes at next week's Venice Film Festival.Venice is ...
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Danish veteran returns to Judge
Danish film veteranGert Fredholm, who returned to feature filmmaking after a 20 year hiatus with One Hand Clapping in 2001, is to shoothis new film Dommeren (literally TheJudge).Like Fredholm'scomeback movie it is written and produced by Mikael Olsen and will star PeterGantzler and Jens Okking. It follows a dynamic and ...
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Catwoman raises int'l total to $15.5m for Warner Bros
Catwoman grossed an estimated $3.6m on more than2,300 screens at the weekend, raising the international cumulative total forWarner Bros to $15.5m.Key markets wereGermany, where the picture opened on $1.1m including previews on 510 prints,and Holland, where it opened third on $249,700 on 50.Harry PotterAnd The Prisoner of Azkaban added $3m ...
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Spider-Man 2 passes $360m for CTFDI
Spider-Man 2 passed $360m at the international box officefollowing a $5.8m weekend haul on 3,620 screens through Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI).The action sequel has openedtop in all its 69 markets to date and has amassed a $361.7m internationalrunning total.Elsewhere the live actioncomic book adaptation Hellboy added$2.8m on 1,061 for ...
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Full Toronto line-up 2004
Features are marked with an (F) after the film title.GALA PRESENTATIONSWorld PremiereARSÈNE LUPIN (F)Jean-Paul Salome, France / United Kingdom / Spain / Italy, 2004World PremiereBEING JULIA (F)István Szabo, Canada / United Kingdom / Hungary, 2004World PremiereBEYOND THE SEA (F)Kevin Spacey, United Kingdom / Germany, 2004North American PremiereCLEAN (F)Olivier Assayas, France ...
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Full Toronto line-up 2004
Features are marked with an (F) after the film title.GALA PRESENTATIONSWorld PremiereARSÈNE LUPIN (F)Jean-Paul Salome, France / United Kingdom / Spain / Italy, 2004World PremiereBEING JULIA (F)István Szabo, Canada / United Kingdom / Hungary, 2004World PremiereBEYOND THE SEA (F)Kevin Spacey, United Kingdom / Germany, 2004North American PremiereCLEAN (F)Olivier Assayas, France ...
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Full Toronto line-up 2004
Features are marked with an (F) after the film title.GALA PRESENTATIONSWorld PremiereARSÈNE LUPIN (F)Jean-Paul Salome, France / United Kingdom / Spain / Italy, 2004World PremiereBEING JULIA (F)István Szabo, Canada / United Kingdom / Hungary, 2004World PremiereBEYOND THE SEA (F)Kevin Spacey, United Kingdom / Germany, 2004North American PremiereCLEAN (F)Olivier Assayas, France ...
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UK/IRELAND 24 August
M Night Shyamalan made it four in a row when his latestfilm, The Village, took the lead atthe UK box office when it was released wide across the territory last weekend.Claiming the top spot from last week's leader The Bourne Supremacy - which saw a 34% dropoff from the previous ...
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King Arthur is top international weekend release
King Arthurwas the number oneinternational picture at the weekend, grossing $12.6m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) to raise its cumulative total to $92.4m.Thehighlight was a first place $3.7m debut in Germany on 752 screens.Elsewhere BVI's MNight Shyamalan mystery The Village added $11.7m for an early $14.4minternational running total, driven by number ...
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Garfield, I, Robot do the business for Fox Int'l
Fox International'slive action comedy Garfieldcontinued to perform well at the box office at the weekend, adding $10.7m on3,151 screens for a $49.7m international running total.Key drivers were a$2.5mnumber three debut in Germany on 604 screens, a strong $622,000 first placeopening in Austria on 75, and a $186,000 table-topping launch in ...
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McDonald's adds heat to Super Size Me in UK
Super Size Me directorMorgan Spurlock says a series of national newspaper adverts taken out in the UK by fast food chain McDonald's in response to his filmare both "fantastic" and "laughable"McDonald's has taken out full pageads in The Times, The Guardian, TheIndependent, The Scotsman and TheHerald. The ads, said one ...
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Slovenia has new box office champion
Slovenian comedy CheeseAnd Jam has become the most successful local film of all time in theterritory.The film was directed by Branko Djuric, star of the AcademyAward winning No Man's Land.Cheese And Jam wasreleased on 13 November 2003 and as of 4 August 2004 it has been seen by 153,163 viewers. ...
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UK Film Council celebrates p&a fund success
The UK Film Council isclaiming a success for the first year and a half of its p&a fund forspecialised films, unveiling figures showing that titles backed by the £1m fundhave grossed £15m at the box-office.The fund, which underwroterelease costs on such films as WhaleRider, Goodbye Lenin! and The StationAgent, has ...
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Politics takes centre stage at Edinburgh
Politics - and specifically theimpact of September 11 - has emerged as one of the strong themes among theBritish films showing at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 18-29).Kenny Glenaan's well received Yasmin, which tracks how the attack onthe World Trade Centre alters the world of a non-devout Muslim ...