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BREAKING NEWS: Verdict returned in Intertainment v Franchise case
The jury returned a verdicttoday in the matter of Intertainment vs Franchise Pictures and Elie Samaha in aSanta Ana courtroom today.The jury found in favour ofIntertainment on fraud and breach-of-contract claims. They ruled againstIntertainment on the charges of conspiracy and found Elie Samaha not guilty ofRICO.They dismissed Franchise'sbreach-of-contract claims against ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils European focused competition
The 39th edition of theCzech Republic's Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July2-10) has lined up animpressive number of new European titles for its competition programme with astrong presence from Eastern Europe plus titles from India, Japan and Iran.A few films had already beenannounced, such as Marek Najbrt's black comedy Champions (Mistri) ...
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Starz, RealNetworks team for internet PPV service
UScable programming giant Starz Encore and software house RealNetworks havelaunched an internet-based pay-per-view (PPV) service.The service, dubbed Starz Ticket on Real Movies, willbe a subscription service allowing web users to legally download an unlimitednumber of films for a $12.95 monthly fee.Movielink, the download site launched by five of theHollywood studios, ...
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Day After Tomorrow adds $33.4m for Fox International
The Day AfterTomorrow grossed $33.4mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $238.9m, accordingto updated figures released by Fox International.The picture remained number one in its second weekend inJapan, where it fell 20% and added $5m on 607 screens for $19.4m.It added $2.3mon 319 in its second weekend ...
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Warner confirms Harry as fourth biggest opening in Australia
Warner Bros confirmed that HarryPotter And The Prisoner of Azkabanrecorded the fourth biggest opening of all time in Australia at the weekend asthe family picture raised its overall international total by an estimated$66.4m from more than 9,900 screens in 40 countries to $204.8m.The third Harry Potter instalment took $8.6m on ...
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Screen launches new world prizes with Hollywood Film Awards
ScreenInternational has teamed up with the Hollywood Film Festival and its HollywoodAwards as well as filmfestivals.com to launch the festival's World and Europeancinema awards.A blue ribbonselection committee comprising 20 international judges will select 10 picturesfrom a list of 40 as nominees for the Hollywood World Awards and will nominatea further ...
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Israel's Bonjour wins at Portugal's Festroia
Bonjour M. Shlomi, an Israeli film written anddirected by Shemi Zarkhin, has won the two top prizes - best picture and bestscript - at the International Festroia film festival which wrapped on June 13,at Setubal, Portugal.The coming-of-age story of an adolescent with an uncannygift for cooking who turns out to ...
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Facing Windows, Born Into Brothels are Seattle favourites
The 30th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)closed on Sunday with its annual Golden Space Needle Awards for audiencefavourites at the event.Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Windows was named best film by audiences whileZana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born Into Brothels was named best documentary.Meanwhile in the juried awards, Zak Penn's Incident At ...
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David Picker elected chair of PGA, East
David Picker hasbeen elected chair of Producers Guild of America East and succeeds Nancy Goldman, who willcontinue to serve the guild on the board of governors.Lydia DeanPilcher and Harvey Wilson become the new vice chairs, while Robin Berla andSteven Rosenbaum will represent the "members at large".Under Goldman'sleadership, PGA East's ...
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Counihan takes top film role at Skillset
Oscar winning producer JudyCounihan has been appointed director of film at UK training body Skillset,responsible for driving forward A Bigger Future - the UK Film SkillsStrategy.A Bigger Future, a joint initiative between Skillset and the UK FilmCouncil, is a five year, £50m strategy designed to revolutionise trainingand skills in the ...
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Hafstrom's Derailed lined up for London, NY shoot
Derailed, the English-language debut from the Oscar-nominatedSwede Mikael Hafstrom, is being lined up to shoot in London and New York City,the director told Screendaily.Dimension Films is backingthe film which is scheduled to start shooting in September with Clive Owen inthe lead role."We will be shootinginteriors at a London studio, we ...
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Ealing Studios eyes Eastern European expansion
The UK's Ealing Studios is preparing to expand into EasternEurope.The legendary film studio is part of a consortium planningto bid for Bulgaria's Boyana Film Studios, the Eastern European country'sleading film production complex.The state-owned studio has been for sale for a number ofyears and is now expected to be privatised by ...
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Morrison, Salom promoted to vps at Miramax International
Martha Morrison and JavierSalom have been promoted to vice presidents of international marketing atMiramax FilmsBoth Morrison and Salom willcontinue to work out of Miramax's New York offices and will report to JereHausfater, executive vice president of Miramax International."Martha and Javier both havewhat it takes in the complex arena of International ...
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HONG KONG 15 June
Fox's disaster juggernaut, The Day After Tomorrow, continued its assault at the top of theHong Kong box office, taking US$1.3m from 59 screens in its second week for acumulative gross of more than US$4m.But Korean melodrama Windstruckstill managed to open strongly grossing US$618,131 from 33 screens in its firstseven days. ...
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FINLAND 15 June
As Finland wasn'ttreated to the magic of Harry Potter this weekend, The Day After Tomorrow had no problem staying on top of the chartin front of Troy and the new releaseof Guiliermo De Toro's Hellboy.With just 10 printsthe comic book adaptation performed well if unimpressively with this week'ssecond best screen ...
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NEW ZEALAND 15 June
Harry Potter And ThePrison Of Azkaban's NZ$1.79m gross for its opening weekend is nearly doublethe combined result of the rest of the films in the top 20 chart, and about 75%up on the result for The Day AfterTomorrow two weeks earlier. Roadshow released Harry Potter on a whopping (for New ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Production Listings - June 16 2004
EASTEUROPEAN PRODUCTION LISTINGS - 16 June 2004RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBUMER-2 (BIMMER-2)(STV Film Company, Pygmalion Production) Action movie. ProdS: Sergei Selyanov, Sergei Chlyants. Dir: Pyotr Buslov. Scr:Denis Rodimin, Pyotr Buslov.Contact: MikhailMaltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684-5817MONGOL (GENGHIS KHAN)(STV Film Company). Epic saga about the unknown period of life of Genghis Khanand his love ...
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Kudos teams with Webster for film company
Paul Webster, formerly headof FilmFour, has formed Kudos Film as a joint venture with leading TV dramaproducers Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, joint managing directors ofKudos Film and Television.The new stand-alone companyaims to exploit synergies between TV and film in terms of talent on both sidesof the camera."There is a ...
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Spain's Lauren files for credit protection
Beleaguered Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren AudiovisualHoldings, parent company of Lauren Films and Lauren Distribution, is operatingas normal, despite filing for credit protection late last week.According to sources, the company is now operating strictlyon a cashflow basis as a Barcelona judge attempts to reconcile its debt.But its cinemas remained open at the ...
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UK's Magic Light strikes Isle of Man deal
Martin Pope and MichaelRose's UK production company Magic Light Pictures has struck a developmentpartnership with the Isle of Man.The three-year deal providesMagic Light with overhead and an annual development fund for projects whichwill be co-financed by the Isle of Man.Magic Light was formed lastyear by producers with a focus on ...