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Dirty Pretty Things, The Woodsman up for Humanitas prize
Dirty Pretty Things screenwriter Steven Knight, Seabiscuit writer Gary Ross and Mean Creek writer Jacob Aaron Estes are among 33contenders from film and television vying for this year's Humanitas Prize.Seven screenwriters in all are nominated for the feature film andSundance feature film categories in the 30th anniversary year of the ...
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Dream options rights to Sampson story Masquerade
Los Angeles-based productionand international sales company Dream Entertainment has optioned the rights tohistorian Alfred F Young's wartime tale Masquerade.The story centres on theexploits of Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man and fought theBritish during the American Revolution and went on to win her battle for aveteran's pension.Dream is ...
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Somersault to open Melbourne festival
Executive director James Hewison announced that newAustralian film Somersault will open the 53rd Melbourne InternationalFilm Festival (MIFF) on July 21 and Thai film Ong Bak from director PrachyaPinkaew will close it 18 days later.Other Thai directors will also have their recent workshowcased in a country spotlight. Australia's longest-running film festivalalso ...
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Toronto launches Talent Lab for local film-makers
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has expanded its professional development offerings with TalentLab Toronto, a series of creative and technical workshops aimed at emerginglocal filmmakers.20 selected filmmakers willparticipate in a curriculum ranging from issues of creative collaboration tomarketing and distribution, all of it conducted by local and internationalindustry professionals.The inaugural three-dayprogramme ...
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SERBIA & MONTENEGRO 17 June
In the overall41% decline of the Serbian-Montenegrin market last weekend, mostly due topresidential elections that took place on Sunday, Kill Bill Vol. 2 failed to beat the two frontrunners of the pastthree weeks.Selling 2,576admissions for the weekend and another 885 at previews, the latest offeringfrom Quentin Tarantino earned a total ...
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Shrek 2 sidesteps Euro 2004
Dreamworks' animated sequel Shrek 2 continues itsgentle international roll out this weekend with a handful of major bows throughUIP - but is sidestepping Europe, which is engulfed by football fever thanks tothe Euro 2004 competition.Shrek 2 firstreceived an international release in five Asian territories at the same time asits US ...
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Winslet heads up Allen's London cast
Kate Winslet, Emily Mortimerand Jonathan Rhys Meyers are confirmed for Woody Allen's thirty-sixth feature.Allen is to start shootingin and around London this month on what will be a rare shoot outside of NewYork."I'm very excited about theprospect of making a film in London," he said. "I have a great admiration ...
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Tarantino arrives for opening of Moscow festival
Director QuentinTarantino has arrived in Moscow for the Russian premiere of his Kill BillVol 2, which opens the Moscow International Film Festival (June 18-27) today.His arrivalyesterday put an end to speculation on whether or not Tarantino would show up.He has been expected at the event several times in previous years, ...
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Baeres celebrates stunning court victory over Samaha
In the end, it was personal.Wednesday's jury verdict infavor of Intertainment Licensing versus Franchise Pictures was a stunningvictory for Intertainment CEO Rudiger "Barry" Baeres in his nearly four yearbattle with one-time close friend turned courtroom adversary, Franchise CEOElie Samaha.The front page stats willshow that the seven week federal civil trial ...
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Football fever fails to ruin Harry's game
Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkabancontinued its unstoppable domination of the international box office, adding afurther 2,070 screens in 16 more territories to gross $66.4m in 40 countriesover the weekend - a slight 24% drop on its opening take.The performance,given the competing appeal of the fine weather across Europe and ...
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MPAA launches new phase of anti-piracy public education campaign
The MPAA is stepping up itsanti-piracy battle in the living rooms and college dormitories of America as itannounced a new phase in its public education campaign this week.The latest move sees aseries of advertisements in daily newspapers, consumer magazines and more than100 college newspapers warning of the perils of illegal ...
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Distributor welcomes McDonald's attack
McDonald's Australia has launched a two-week cinema andtelevision campaign labelling Super SizeMe filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as 'irresponsible' but which will, accordingto the film's distributor, merely boost the film's takings."This is publicity we could never have dreamed ofgetting without them," said Dendy Films general manager Andrew Mackie."What makes it so effective ...
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SF Film moves toward Danish production
The Danish arm of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri, SF Film,has taken the first step towards its long-held ambition of developing its ownprojects by acquiring the film rights to two novels, newcomer Sara Blaedel'scrime story Green Dust and Per HelgeSoerensen's satirical Spin."Our aim is obviously to make a difference in Danish ...
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East European production swings into high gear
Therecent economic boom in Russia has made it easier to finance films - bothprivately and from government funds. Dozens of young new directors are expectedto complete new films by the end of the year with the Russian Ministry ofCulture giving priority to funding debut projects.Butveteran directors in Russia and Poland ...
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Kusturica's Miracle to open Jerusalem Film Festival
Emir Kusturica's LifeIs A Miracle has been selected for the opening night of this year'sJerusalem Film Festival.The screening will take place on July8, at the open airSultan Pool theatre located in the valley separating the new city from the oldone.Kusturica himself has been announced for the Thursday nightevent, in for ...
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UIP returns to Serbia and Montenegro
After a year'sabsence, UIP releases are to be handled by a new distributor in Serbia andMontenegro.UIPs new localdistributor, Taramount Film was launched in Belgrade last week, following thecollapse of Vans, its former principal distributor in the territory.Taramount Film isa sister company of Slovenian Karantanija Cinemas and Croatian VTI, who havebeen ...
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GERMANY 16 June
Its takings may have slipped week-on-week by 35%, but Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban easilyheld on to the top spot with over 1.2m admissions - more than the rest of theTop 15 put together - .and a screen average of $8,018 from its 1,214 screens.The weekend's best screen ...
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ITALY 16 June
While the Italian box office suffered from the start of thebeach-going season, veteran Italian director Fabio Carpi's new film, Le Intermittenze Del Cuore, opened atnumber 11, scoring the third-highest screen average of any film at the weekend.Starring Argentinian actor Hector Alterio, the film, whichis set in Italy, France and Switzerland, ...
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AUSTRALIA 16 June
Harry Potter And ThePrison Of Azkaban grossed nearly A$14.8m from 452 screens on the weekendfor Roadshow. Even taking into account that it was a holiday weekend, afive-day period instead of the usual four, it was an extraordinary result forthe third film of the trilogy. Nothing else came close.There were three ...
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Oz arts minister slow clapped off stage at Sydney fest
Australia's Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport Rod Kempwas slow clapped off the stage prior to this week's Sydney Film Festival worldpremiere screening of the reconstructed version of the 1919 romantic comedy TheSentimental Bloke.Theoutbreak of bad manners appeared to be either cineastes annoyed at thespeeches, invited VIPs and delayed ...