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Adam & Paul takes top Galway honours
Adam & Paul, the new debut feature film fromIrish commercials director Lenny Abrahamson, ran away with the Best FirstFeature Award at Sunday's closing event for the Galway Film Fleadh.The Porridge Pictures film, which was produced by JonnySpeers and written by lead actor Mark O'Halloran, had its world premiere inGalway on ...
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Mirren to be honoured with Britannia Award by BAFTA/LA
Helen Mirren will receiveBAFTA LA's Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in InternationalEntertainment at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 4.Mirren can currently be seenopposite Robert Redford in Fox Searchlight's kidnap drama The Clearing, and is filming the contract killer thriller Shadowboxer opposite Cuba Gooding Jr.A veteran of ...
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Azkaban, Troy now in Warner's top five international hitlist
Warner Bros confirmedyesterday (12) that Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Troywere the studio's fourth and fifth biggest international releases of all timerespectively.Azkaban reached $405.3m at the international box officefollowing a $21.7m weekend haul and lies behind the first two Harry Potterinstalments and The Matrix Reloadedin Warner Bros' ...
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Radclyffe options best-selling Edge Chronicles
UK producer Sarah Radclyffehas optioned 10-book children's fantasy series The Edge Chronicles.Jigsaw Films, the productionlabel for family films that Radclyffe runs with Courtney Pledger and BillGodfrey, aims to turn the series into a studio-level family action-adventurefranchise.The story of a younglibrarian knight, which Jigsaw optioned with support body the UK Film ...
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Mythos Studios starts production on Poetry Slam doc
Mythos Studios, the filmmaking arm of Austin, Texas-based advertising agency GSD&M, has begunproduction on the poetry slam documentary Slam Channel.Executive producer TimMcClure is collaborating with producer and co-directors Mike Henry and KyleFuller of Confessions Multimedia and producer Chris Ohlson of 824 Pictures.Scheduled to open nextspring, the picture follows a team ...
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Years takes up European marketing job at WBITD
Chandra Yearshas been promoted to vice president of European marketing at Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The Burbank-based Years will relocate to London to overseeWBITD's marketing, publicity and servicing executives and staff throughoutEurope, and support WBITD's European sales executives on marketing campaigns.She willcontinue to report to Lisa Gregorian, senior vice president ...
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Walden ties up five family pictures with Fox
Twentieth Century Fox andWalden Media have signed a five-picture production and distribution deal inwhich Fox will handle worldwide releasing on all titles.The slate includes threepreviously announced adaptations of acclaimed children's novels - Wendy Orr's Nim'sIsland, Katherine Paterson's BridgeTo Terebithia and Lois Lowry's TheGiver - and Kate DiCamillo's BecauseOf Winn-Dixie and ...
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Unifrance re-elects Menegoz as president
MargaretMenegoz has been re-elected president of Unifrance Film International, theFrench film export support body.Menegoz was appointed acting president in Februarylast year following the sudden death of Daniel Toscan Du Plantier. Unanimouslyelected, Menegoz now has a two year mandate.Theorganisation has three vice-presidents: head of the feature film producerscommittee Philippe Carcassonne of ...
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KOREA Production Listings - 13 July 2004
SOUTH KOREAN LISTINGSPRE-PRODUCTIONKIDARI AJEOSSI(Well Made Entertainment) Co-prod: Yu-bin Pictures. Backer/dist: CJEntertainment. Drama about a disadvantaged woman who goes through universityand beyond thanks to the help of a nameless benefactor. Exec prod: ParkDong-ho. Dir: Gong Jeong-shik. Main cast: Ha Ji-won, Yeon Jeong-hoon. Shootingfrom July.Contact: CJ Entertainment, (82) 2 726 8291SAGWA(Chungeorahm) Dist: ...
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DENMARK 13 July
Spanish-German co-production FoodOf Love (Manjar Amor) saw a strong limited performance in Denmark thisweek. The drama, which stars veteran British actress Juliet Stevenson and KevinBishop (L'Auberge Espagnole), landed in 18th place off just two prints.The film's screen average of $2,400 ranked as sixth best of the weekend on apar with ...
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Oh Happy Day to open Hamburg Festival
Hella Joof's Danish gospel comedy Oh Happy Day willbe the opening film of this year's Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 23-30).Oh Happy Day is beinghandled internationally by Nordisk Film International and will be released inGermany on December 30 by MFA.
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Spider-Man 2 scores $53m haul in 50 territories
Spider-Man 2 smashed through $100m during its secondinternational weekend as it grossed an estimated $53m on 6,754 screens in 50territories for a $115.7m running total.The arachnid spun superbopenings through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) inJapan, Germany and Scandinavia and enjoyed several strong holds including aremarkable performance in Brazil.It opened ...
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Harry cracks the $400m barrier for Warner International with $20.3m weekend
Warner Bros' Harry PotterAnd The Prisoner Of Azkaban passed$400m at the international box office at the weekend after an estimated $20.3mhaul on more than 6,700 screens in 51 countries.The family picture's grossis now an estimated $403.8m and weekend magic was driven by a mighty $8.9mthird weekend haul on 757 screens ...
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UK drives European DVD bonanza
When it comes to the success of DVD in Europe, sales andpenetration are being driven by the UK - but the continent's Easterncountries are still playing catch up.Speaking at Screen International's LearningLessons: Europe And The US seminar, JeanPaul Commin, president of industry body the International Video Federation,said that in 2003, ...
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VoD roll out threatened by DVD boom
The take-up of video-on-demand and other digital contentdelivery services could be slowed because of the ongoing strength of DVD profitmargins, delegates at Screen International's DVD: The Home Cinema Summiton Thursday (July 8) were told.On some European services, a movie via video on demand cancost as low as Euros 3 - ...
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Leigh to nominate Katrin Cartlidge bursary recipient
UKdirector Mike Leigh will nominate the recipient of a bursary from the recentlyfounded Katrin Cartlidge Foundation at the forthcoming Sarajevo Film Festival.Leigh, who is serving as the president of the festival'sinternational jury this year, will announce his choice on August 24 before agala screening of his film Career Girlswhich featured ...
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Film piracy business set to increase
Screen International's DVD: The Home Cinema Summit last week revealed the growing threat of piracy to the film industry's bottom line.According to Thomas Dillon, the Motion Picture Association's (MPA) legal counsel for anti-piracy, Europe, Middle East & Africa, seizures of pirate DVDs rose from 7.5m in 2002 to 16.5m in ...
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UK producers express Development concerns
The UK's production community has issued an urgentcall to public funding body the UK Film Council to revise its ambitious"Slate Development Scheme." A strongly worded statement circulated byproducers' trade body PACT has expressed fears that the Film Councilplans will "destabilise the market."PACT's release -issued after a special meeting of itsmembers ...
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MPAA survey concludes that one in four internet users has downloaded film illegally
A survey of internet use in eight countries conducted by the MPAAand online research company OTX has revealed that nearly one in four users haveillegally downloaded a film at some point.Researchers interviewed respondents in the US, UK, Germany,France, Italy, Australia, South Korea and Japan, and found that on average 24%of ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to Nobody Knows, Edukators
IFC Films has picked up USdistribution rights to two award-winning pictures that screened in competitionat Cannes this year, Kore-eda Hirokaza's Nobody Knows and Hans Weingartner's The Edukators.International sales for bothtitles are being handled by Celluloid Dreams.Nobody Knows is styled as a heartbreaking and humorous account ofthe daily lives of four ...