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Simonds signs first-look deal with Panther studio MGM
The PinkPanther producer RobertSimonds, who began his career as a production trainee at MGM, has returned tothe studio with a first-look deal.First up will be a remake of the 1968 family comedy Yours,Mine & Ours, which originally starredLucille Ball and Henry Fonda.Simonds has justwrapped production on The Pink Panther, which ...
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Sci-fi spoof shakes up international rankings
Stellar openings in three territories saw sci-fi spoof comedy (T)RaumschiffSurprise - Periode 1 gain second place on the international chart - thehighest placing a non-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen Internationallaunched its exclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria ...
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MGM staunches red ink, stays mum on 007
Dropping no hints about sales talks or the identity of the nextJames Bond actor, MGM announced second quarter results that revealed adrastically reduced net loss and $33.6m in net cash from operating activities.Second quarter revenues fell from $487.7m for the sameperiod last year to $406.1m.Second quarter 2003 results were boosted ...
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It's Mueller time: Venice overflows with US talent
The Venice Film Festival (Sep 1-11) has unveiled an eclecticline-up which features a strong US contingent, celebrated European auteurs and,following in the footsteps of Cannes, the Lido's first animation in competitionin thirty years.In presenting the line-up on Thursday in Rome, thefestival's new artistic director, Marco Mueller, singled out the strength ...
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Payne to receive Vision Award from Film-makers Alliance
Academy award nominatedwriter/director Alexander Payne will receive the Film-makers Alliance's 5thAnnual Vision Award at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in LosAngeles on Aug 18."Alexander Payne is afilm-making humanist who allows us to experience his joyously idiosyncraticstories and characters from a compassionately humorous and distinctlyinsightful perspective," Jacques Thelemaque, co-founder of ...
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Earth And Ashes, Missing feted at Cinefan
Afghan-French co-production Earth And Ashes (pictured),directed by Atiq Rahimi, and The Missingfrom Taiwan's Lee Kang-sheng were jointly awarded best film at the sixthedition of Cinefan (July 16-25) which wrapped in Delhi on Sunday night.Earth And Ashes, amoving portrayal of the devastating impact of war on an old man and hisgrandson, ...
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Colosimo, McKenzie sign on for Australian-UK co-production
Vince Colosimo (Lantana,Chopper) and Jacqueline McKenzie (RomperStomper, Angel Baby) are to star in director Peter Cattaneo's UK/Australianco-production Pobby And Dingan forsales agent Renaissance Films.The drama starts its eight-week shoot from August 19. Thesetting is the remote Australian opal town of Coober Pedy and filming will alsotake place in the city ...
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Boy Eats Girl on starter course in Dublin
Production has begun on the first Irish feature to film inthe Republic of Ireland this year. Element Films', Boy Eats Girl, reunites producer Ed Guiney with director StephenBradley his former partner in Temple Films which developed and producedBradley's debut film, Sweety Barrett.A comedy horror tale of a date that goes ...
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Holm, Broderick, Hoffman, Parker round out Candy cast
A glitteringsupporting cast has been finalised for the currently-shooting big screenversion of US TV comedy hit Strangers With Candy. Called, not surprisingly, StrangersWith Candy: The Movie,the film is a prequel to the series about a 46 year-old former junkie andprostitute who returns to high school in a bid to start ...
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Sundance Documentary Composers Lab kicks off next week
The Sundance Institute hasnamed the five documentary film-makers and six composers who will take part inits second Documentary Composers Lab.Participants will spend fivedays from Aug 1-5 at the Lab, a convergence of the Institute's Documentary FilmProgramme and Film Music Programme in which composers and film-makerscollaborate under the guidance of industry ...
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Euro producers lobby German finance minister
The European Motion Picture Producers' Association (EMPA) iscalling for Germany's Minister of Finance Hans Eichel to change the MediaDecree's regulations governing international co-productions as a matter ofurgency.According to EMPA, the Media Decree, as it now stands, makesit impossible for foreign producers to co-produce with Germany.While German producers participating in internationalco-productions ...
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Venice unveils 'pre-screenings' event
As part of a new drive to boost market interest in theVenice Film Festival, around 30-40 international buyers are expected to beinvited to the Venice pre-Screenings, which will take place on the Lido fromAugust 30 to September 1.The pre-Screenings will be managed by AIP (AudiovisualIndustry Promotion), the new organisation formed ...
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Saved! team sets up next picture at Sobini Films
Brian Dannelly is attachedto direct Sobini Films' romantic comedy The Guided Man, which is being fast-tracked for an early 2005start.Based on L. Sprague DeCamp's 1952 novel, the story centres on a timid social speaker who enlists theaid of a revolutionary service that allows another person to speak through him.Mark Amin ...
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UK/IRELAND 28 July
The advertising may announce that Thunderbirds Are Go! butthe box office results suggest they aren't going very far.In need of its own international rescue, Jonathan Frakes'film grossed a so-so $2.5m (£1.35m) over its opening weekend includingpreviews. Without the previous weekend previews, which represented $0.5m(£0.29m) of the total takings, the actual ...
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SWEDEN 28 July
The newrelease of Jerry Bruckheimer's KingArthur, which stars Hollywood's favorite Swede Stellan Skarsgaard as thevillain, easily cut into the top spot on the Swedish chart this weekend. With astrong $6,643 screen average on its 95 prints, Arthur dethroned Spider-Man 2 after three weeks at the top.Meanwhilelocal newcomer Anette Winblad's coolly ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 July
Stellar openings in three territories saw interstellar spoofcomedy (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1gain second place on the international chart - the highest placing anon-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen International launched itsexclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria thelatest ...
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ITALY 28 July
Another slow mid-summer weekend at the Italian box officesaw just two new releases: Mediafilm's House Of The Dead and IstitutoLuce's A Good Lawyer's Wife.Dead opened on 99screens at number three but failed to toppleeither The StepfordWives or Timeline. The picturegrossed $231,601, scoring a solid average of $2,339 per screen.Istituto Luce ...
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Montreal under fire from Telefilm Canada, SODEC
Serge Losique, the mercurialand controversial director of the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), hasreceived an ultimatum. He and the organization he has lead for 28 years mustsubmit to the scrutiny and standards of Telefilm Canada and its Quebec counterpart,SODEC, or lose the C$1m of the agencies' joint subsidy to a ...
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Docs on Kerry, gay marriage, Rwanda premiere at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival will present 11 world premieres, including new works from GeorgeButler, Peter Raymont and Don Boyd, as TIFF announced the bulk of its Real ToReel documentary programme.Butler's Going Upriver The Long War Of John Kerrychronicles the career of the current US Democratic presidential nominee, whileRaymont's Shake Hands ...
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Police question Taxi 2 director Krawczyk
The director of Taxi2, GerardKrawczyk, was put under police examination last week for involuntarymanslaughter following the lethal accident causing the death of a cameraman onAugust 16, 1999 during the shooting of the film produced by Luc Besson, accordingto judiciary sources.Alain Dutartre,41, died from head injuries hours after a Peugeout 406 ...