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Leigh named as Sarajevo jury president
UK director Mike Leigh is to serve as the president of theInternational Jury at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) (August 20-28).He will be joined in judging up to 10 films from eightcountries - ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria - in the RegionalProgramme by the Tribeca Film Festival's Peter Scarlet, ...
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Riddick has so-so openings in Singapore, Malaysia for UIP
In its first international bows through UIP, Universal's TheChronicles Of Riddickopened fourth in Singapore on $210,000 from 26 screens and second in Malaysiaon $160,000 from 36 screens.Results for the Philippines, where Pioneer is the distributor, willbe reported on Monday (21).The Universal/UIP cumulative total to date is $370,000; Riddick is set ...
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Moland's Teacher set for November start
Acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland'sadaptation of Teacher Pedersen (Gymnaslaerer Pedersen) has set a Nov1 start date, following a substantial$1.5m (NOK10,1m) award from the Norwegian Film Fund.Moland is one of Norway's most acclaimed filmmakers,and his most recent feature The Beautiful Country screened in competition at Berlin this year.Produced by Orjan ...
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HONG KONG 21 June
Media Asiadetective thriller Breaking News,directed by Johnnie To, managed to dislodge TheDay After Tomorrow from the top of the Hong Kong box office, grossingUS$720,270 from 35 screens in its opening week.The film, whichrecently screened in an out of competition slot at the Cannes Film Festival,stars Kelly Chen as a female ...
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FRANCE 21 June
In its second week out,Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains in the top spot withnearly $28m in takings so far. The Coen brothers Cannes competitor The Ladykillers opened strongly with a$6,105 per screen average despite generally poor reviews.Supposed blockbusters TheDay After Tomorrow and Troy arestill at the top ...
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NEW ZEALAND 21 June
UIP's Shrek 2 didconsiderably better in its opening weekend then Roadshow's Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban did during the weekendearlier. There was a difference of only three screens between them. Shrek 2 sold NZ$2,202,050 worth oftickets to 85 screens for a screen average of NZ$25,906 while Harry Potter ...
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AUSTRALIA 21 June
The first outing in cinemas by UIP's Shrek 2 got an amazing response from Australian families on itsfour-day opening weekend, taking A$13,156,604 from 437 screens. By way ofcomparison, Roadshow's Harry Potter Andthe Prisoner of Azkaban took A$14,799,003 a week earlier, but it was on 16more screens and had one more ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match against The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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Edinburgh faces up to studio boycott threats
Edinburgh Film Festival managingdirector Ginnie Atkinson reacted swiftly to weekend press reports thatthis year's event might be damaged by a boycott from three major Hollywoodstudios.Articles suggested thatDisney, Universal and 20th Century Fox would boycott the event in protest atthe city's poor record on combating piracy.An Edinburgh market atIngliston is notorious ...
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Former Vivendi chief Messier taken into custody
Former Vivendi Universalchief Jean-Marie Messier has been taken into custody by French police today(June 21) as part of a probe into stock manipulation.French magistrates are investigatinga massive share buyback in which Vivendi allegedly spent over Euros 1bn to propup its own share price in the weeks following the attacks of ...
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New funding scheme for Welsh film-makers
Welsh media agency,Sgrîn Cymru Wales, has launched a new funding scheme for Welsh filmmakers.The Welsh MicrosScheme - to be financed by The Arts Council of Wales, Film Four and S4C, inpartnership with Sgrîn - is designed to enable the production of two featurefilms with budgets of up to £400,000 each ...
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Irish thriller Freeze Frame wins Taormina
Irish thriller FreezeFrame has scooped the top prize at the 50th edition of the Taormina FilmFestival (June 13-20), which is headed by former Venice artistic directorFelice Laudadio.Written and directed by JohnSimpson, Freeze Frame stars Lee Evans as a paranoid murder suspect whofilms himself around the clock to provide an alibi ...
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RTL's Zeiler named as MIPCOM personality of the year
RTL Group's Chief Executive Officer, Gerhard Zeiler, hasbeen named as the MIPCOM Personality of the Year.GerhardZeiler will receive the award during a gala dinner for industry VIP executivesat MIPCOM.MIPCOM takes place in Cannes from October 4-8.
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Akin's Head-On dominates German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winning Head-On (Gegen DieWand) was the big victor at this year's German Film Awardsin Berlin on Friday evening (June 18).The film bagged five Golden Lolas in total - for bestfilm, best direction, best lead actress (Sibel Kekilli), best lead actor (BirolUenel) and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).Silver Lolas ...
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Moscow Festival gets off to roaring start
The Moscow International Film Festival got off to a roaringstart on Friday night (18 June) with guests Quentin Tarantino, David Carradine,Lawrence Bender and Harvey Weinstein taking to the stage at the Pushkin Theatreto rousing applause.Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol 2 was the opening film and Tarantino kidded the audience about Russianaudio ...
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Tartan stirs up revolution over Nine Songs
British distributor TartanFilms announced yesterday that it intends to sue UK producer Revolution Films over Nine Songs, the sexually explicit relationship movie directed byMichael Winterbottom.Tartan said that it will suefor breach of contract and loss of profits amounting to some $3.6m (£2m) in theUK. Tartan said that it will also ...
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Fahrenheit gets NYC opening early on June 23
Fahrenheit9/11 will open in twoNew York City theatres on Jun 23, two days before Michael Moore's eagerlyanticipated Palme D'Or winner opens nationwide.Lincoln PlazaCinemas in the Upper West Side and Loews Cineplex Village in the East Villagewill screen the picture, which is being released in the US by Lions Gate, IFCFilms ...
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Damon talks of Monster selling points at AFMA production conference
The familiar themes ofchampioning passion projects and sourcing the varied international financingoptions available to independent film-makers dominated AFMA's sixth annualproduction conference in Los Angeles yesterday (17).Speaking on a panel entitledGetting It Done: Producing Against All The Odds, Media 8 Entertainment chairmanand chief executive officer Mark Damon stressed the importance of ...
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Senator shareholders agree restructuring plan
The restructuring plan for the insolvent SenatorEntertainment negotiated its first hurdle at an extraordinary AGM convened bythe court-appointed receiver Rolf Rattunde in Berlin on Thursday (June 17).At the meeting in Hotel Berlin, the shareholdersagreed to a capital reduction of 90% and a subsequent capital increase in orderto clear the way ...
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Fares turns to Beruit for inspiration
Jalla! Jalla! and Kops director Josef Faresis set to make Zozo, a drama inspired by his own life.TheSwedish, Lebanese-born director will be working with a $5.2m (SEK 40m) budget -twice that of Kops - to tell the story of an 11-year-old boy who moves fromBeirut to Sweden.Fares said: "It won't ...