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IFP/New York moves Gotham Awards to Dec
IFP/New York has moved tobolster the awards season credibility of its annual Gotham Awards by switchingthe gala date from September to December and introducing two new awards.The 14th Annual GothamAwards will take place on Dec 1, when for the first time awards will bepresented for best feature and best documentary.In ...
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LA-based Blacklight Films launches stock footage library
Industry veteran LouisSchwartzberg, whose directorial debut America's Heart And Soul is due to go on limited release through Buena Vistaon Jul 2, has launched a stock footage library within his production companyBlackLight Films.The new resource includesmore than 4,500 scenes of natural beauty and indigenous peoples from around theworld, including 350 ...
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Niehuus named executive director at German funding body
Berlin-Brandenburg production community has welcomed thenaming of Kirsten Niehuus as the executive director with responsibility forfilm funding at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (the public fund which supportedKevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea andHans Weingartner's The Edukators.last year) from November 1, 2004.A qualified lawyer, Niehuus previously served as legalcounsel at Senator Film and the ...
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Germany sees box office revival
Germany's box office has made a welcome recovery since Mayafter a year-on-year decline in admissions and revenues for the first quarterof 2004, according to EDI Nielsen.In April, EDI reported that admissions were down 6.4% fromlast year's 37.58m to 35.18m in the first three months, while revenues slipped8.6% from Euros 225.68m ...
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Restored classic, period piece are toast of Sydney
The 85-year-old Australian silent film The SentimentalBloke, directed by prolific pioneer filmmaker Raymond Longford, anddirector Ondrej Trojan's Czech Republic/Austria/Slovakia period film Zelarywere the audience favourites at the Sydney Film Festival's two key venues.The festival wrapped on Saturday June 26 and organisers saythat the 132,500 admissions represented a 9% increase on ...
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Six composers named for Sundance Lab in July
The Sundance Instituteyesterday (29) named the six participants in its 7th Annual Sundance InstituteComposers Lab, which is due to run from Jul 20-Aug 4.This year's Composers LabFellows are Peter Fitzpatrick, Aiko Fukushima, Joseph Julian Gonzalez, GaryLouris, Raz Mesinai and Michael Torke.The two-week lab falls underthe aegis of the Institute's Film ...
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Home entertainment to drive growth of film industry
The global film business,driven by an expanding home entertainment sector, is set for annual growth of7.5% over the next five years. By 2008 it will be worth $108bn, compared with$75bn last year, according to consultancy and research firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PWC) in its annual Global Entertainment & Media Outlook (2004-2008).The growth that ...
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Sony, IMAX to remaster Spider-Man 2 for large screen format
IMAX Corp and Sony are in talks to digitally remaster and convert Spider-Man2 for the big screenformat, with a release scheduled for mid-July.If the deal is truck, this would be the first time the studio haspartnered with IMAX Corp, which teamed up with Warner Bros on the last two Matrix ...
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Lions Gate reports $94.2m loss
Lions Gate Entertainment recorded a $94.2m net loss for the fiscalyear ended March 31 2004 compared to $1.1m net income a year before, due inlarge part to the costly acquisition of Artisan and marketing expenses on aslew of fourth quarter releases.Revenue for the year amounted to $384.9m compared to $293.1m ...
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UK/IRELAND 30 June
Although six new titles made the UK top 20 this weekend thereal star was Shrek 2 despite being aweek from launch. The animated sequel raked in $10m (£5.5m) of previews overSaturday and Sunday which will be included in next week's opening weekendgross.The presence of Shrek2 had a devastating effect on ...
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NORTH AMERICA 30 June
There must have been much pulling of hair and gnashing ofteeth at the neophyte right-wing outfit Move America Forward this weekfollowing the stunning number one opening of Fahrenheit 9/11. The conservative activists' were left with egg ontheir faces after a spectacularly ill-judged strategy unwittingly helpedMichael Moore and the "coalition of ...
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Day After Tomorrow flies past $300m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow has reached $302.7m at the international box officeafter adding $13.7m from 6,447 screens in 56 territories through FoxInternational at the weekend.Roland Emmerich'seco-disaster picture added $2.7m in its fourth weekend in Japan for a $34.6mcumulative score and second place behind the record opening of Harry PotterAnd The ...
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UK censor appoints successor to Duval
UK censor the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)has named David Cooke as its new director.He will take up the post in September when the currentdirector, Robin Duval, retires.Cooke is currently Associate Political Director at theNorthern Ireland Office and has a wide experience of regulatory policy andpractice in broadcasting, drugs, ...
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Film director Lee replaced as Korean culture minister
Film director Lee Chang-dong (Oasis), who has served as South Korea's Minister ofCulture and Tourism since February 2003, was replaced on Wednesday in a cabinetreshuffle.The move, which was widely expected, sees Chung Dong-chaetake over leadership of the Ministry.The 50-year old Chung worked as a journalist for many years beforeserving as ...
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Telespan 2000 readies Other Side Of The Bed sequel
Independent production company Telespan 2000, headed byTomas Cimadevilla, has confirmed it is to go ahead with the sequel to TheOther Side of The Bed (El Otro Lado de La Cama).The original film was the highest-grossing Spanish film of2002, netting $15.1m at the box office and headlining Paz Vega amidst anensemble ...
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Ansorge joins Anglo-Indian outfit Inspired Movies
Peter Ansorge, former head of dramaat UK broadcaster Channel Four, has joined Inspired Movies as commissioning editor/executiveproducer in charge of new film projects.Inspired Movies, an Anglo-Indian companybased in the U.K., is currently in production with Take 3 Girls, itsfirst English language film, starring Charlie Brooks (in her first role sinceleaving ...
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Roaring start for France's Fete du Cinema
France's 20thannual Fete du Cinema promotion got off to a roaring start on Sunday with arecord score of 1.5 million admissions - up 60% over last year's first daytake.In Paris, 315,000 tickets were soldrepresenting the best opening day in the past decade. Despite beautiful weatheracross the entire country, moviegoers came ...
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Dawn nears $20m in Universal/UIP territories
Strike Entertainment/Universal'sDawn Of The Dead remake isapproaching $20m at the international box office after adding $388,000 from 293screens in 11 territories through UIP at the weekend.The $19.5m internationalrunning total rises to $36m for all distributors. Dawn Of The Dead has seven more UIP markets to open, starting withBelgium on Jun ...
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GERMANY 29 June
The highest new entry this week - and the film with thehighest screen average ($4,263) - was Tobis Film's release of Mindhunters which grossed over $660,000in its first four days, but the German box office is still dominated by the toptwo films - Harry Potter 3 and The Day After ...
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ITALY 29 June
A massive nine new films were released in Italy at theweekend, but none of them left a mark on the box office as Italians largelycontinued their tradition of steering clear of cinemas when temperatures soar.While Harry Potter 3 dropped a further 61% at the weekend,the highest new entry (and one ...