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Being Julia to open 29th Toronto International Film Festival
Istvan Szabo's period comedy Being Julia, starring Annette Bening andJeremy Irons, will open the 29th Toronto International Film Festivalon Sept. 9.The selection was widely anticipated givenproducer Robert Lantos' long-time association with Toronto; this will be theninth Lantos-produced picture to open the event. Based on the novel Theatre by W. Somerset ...
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UK Production Listings - June 29
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS PRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATEFACTORY(Warner Bros) Dir: Tim Burton. Cast: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore.Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1932 562 611DIZZY HEIGHTS(Theta Films [South Africa], Samson Films [Eire]) Budget: $6m. Backer/int'lsales: Vine International. Romantic comedy. What do ...
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Japan's Short Shorts festival gets Academy accreditation
The Short Shorts FilmFestival, Japan's largest short film showcase, has received accreditation fromthe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Beginning with this year'sShort Shorts Award winner Redd Barna by Norwegian film-maker Terje Rangnes, the film that receives thefestival's top prize will be eligible for Oscar nomination."This is a great honour ...
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New Line teams with Samsung for two-year promotional alliance
New Line Cinema has signed atwo-year non-exclusive promotional alliance with Samsung Electronics, whichkicked off earlier this month with an integrated online campaign for the studio'snew romance The Notebook.The comprehensive agreementencompasses product placement and theatrical and home entertainment promotionsthat will see the studio incorporate Samsung products into its pictures, andoffer exclusive ...
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Kearey gets key marketing post at United Artists
Rebecca Kearey has been hired as vice president of marketing forUnited Artists, and moved from London to take up her Los Angeles-based postearlier this month.Kearey will be responsible for overseeing all of the division'stheatrical marketing campaigns and will report directly to UA president DannyRosett and MGM president of worldwide marketing ...
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Brother To Brother, Drag Kings get audience vote at Frameline
Frameline28, the 28th SanFrancisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, closed on Jun 27 witha gala screening of Angela Robinson's D.E.B.S. and a raft of awards.The audience award for bestfeature went to Rodney Evans' Harlem Renaissance drama Brother To Brother, while audience award for top documentary was awardedto Sonia Slutsky ...
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Six Quebec films get Telefilm Canada backing
Telefilm Canada hasannounced it will be backing six Quebec-based feature projects in the comingyear under the Canada Feature Film Fund. The projects, four French-language,one in English and one in Mandarin, include two international coproductions andan adaptation of an acclaimed novel by Quebecois journalist and author Gil Courtemanche.Un Dimanche A Kigali ...
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PGA Awards to take place on Jan 22, 2005
Next year's Producers Guildof America (PGA) awards will take place in Los Angeles on Jan 22, 2005.Nominations will beannounced on Jan 5 and both the nominations and awards ceremonies will takeplace at the Century plaza Hotel.For the first time next year'sevent will include the Producer of the Year in Variety ...
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Nordic Film & TV Fund secures backing till 2009
Thefuture of the 14 year-old Nordic Film & TV Fund has been secured by a newagreement between the Nordic ministers of culture. The deal, which was signedin Reykjavik last week, runs until the end of 2009.The foundation of the Fund was shaken earlier this year whenthe four private Nordic TV-stations ...
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Schalah Mitchell joins Denmead Marketing as account manager
Schalah Mitchell has joined Denmead Marketing's Los Angelesoffices as an account manager handling international theatrical publicitycampaigns.Reporting directly to Denmead Marketing president Nikki Parker,Mitchell will oversee campaigns for the company's roster of clients thatincludes Initial Entertainment Group, Senator International and Lions Gate FilmsInternational, among others.Upcoming pictures for Denmead include Initial's The ...
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Thirty buyers lined up to attend Munich Previews
FineLine, Miramax, France's MK2, Sweden's Nonstop Entertainment, Hungary's BudapestFilm and Australia's SBS are among over 30 international film distributors andTV film buyers attending the Export-Union of German Cinema's Munich Previews,which are being held for the first time during the Munich Film Festival fromJune 27-30.Othercompanies confirmed as coming to Munich are ...
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Azkaban scores third biggest industry opening in Japan
Fuelled by a massive Japan bow at the weekend, Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkabanadded an estimated $40.9m from more than 9,200 screens in 50 countries to raiseits international running total to $321.7m.Alfonso Cuaron's acclaimed third episode in the hit children'sfranchise took a staggering $17.5m (Y1.9bn) from 782 screens in ...
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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Copenhagen festival names Szabo as jury chief
Acclaimed Hungarian director Istvan Szabo will be presidingover the competition jury at the second Copenhagen International Film Festival,which unfolds in the Danish capital between Aug 19-29.The 66-year old filmmaker (Being Julia) is joined by Scottish director David Mackenzie (YoungAdam), US-Israeli director Eytan Fox (WalkOn Water) and Romanian actress MaiaMorgenstern (The ...
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FilMart News: Deals and speeches lift FilMart's final June edition
Hong Kong's Filmart (June 23-25) closedon a rousing note on Friday with rallying cries from industry leaders andfurther details of next year's mega-event, Entertainment Expo Hong Kong 2005.Sellers agreed that they had seen fewer visitors from the US and Europe, possibly an effect of timing thatreflected the proximity to Cannes ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 makes box office history
Fahrenheit 9/11 opened top on $21.8m at the weekend according to studioestimates, a stupendous result for the Palme d'Or winner as it became the firstdocumentary ever to debut at number one.The result already appears to have passed the total theatricalgross of Michael Moore's previous work, the Oscar winning Bowling ForColumbine, ...
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9/11 beats White Chicks to the top of US box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 followed up its Palme d'Or triumph andcritical adulation with a stunning US box office victory at the weekend as itopened top on an estimated $21.8m.No documentary has ever opened number one here until now, and thepicture's opening salvo may already have passed the $21.6m final gross ...
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Mighty weekend for Shrek 2
Shrek 2 saw anothermighty weekend for UIP as it rolled out in five new territories claiming numberone positions and records as it went.The animated sequel added $31.5m this weekend from holdoversand the new territories: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Indonesia and the UnitedArab Emirates, and has already earned $68m for UIP - ...
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FRANCE 28 June
The boywizard continues his reign at the top of the French box office taking nearly anadditional 1 million admissions in its third week.WarnerBros. French comedy Double Zero tookin a healthy 657,945 in its first outing. The 007 spoof had a strong per screenaverage at $7,465 per screen. Karin Viard and ...