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Early audience demand for Fahrenheit has echoes of Passion fever
In a move reminiscent of the demand that engulfed Mel Gibson's ThePassion Of The Christearlier this year, the US distributors of Fahrenheit 9/11 have set up a freephone number andwebsite to handle group and advance ticket sales.The toll-free number for the group sales programme began operatingon Jun 7, advising callers ...
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Italian producers await frozen state funds
GianniProfita, the head of the Italian government's Film Department, has declaredthat the country's new film law will be implemented 'within weeks',thereby freeing funds for Italian production which has stagnated in recentmonths.Italianproducers have recently complained that the state film commission has not metfor months to greenlight local films for state funding. ...
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Kaufman to bring Sunshine to Karlovy Vary
The39th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July2-10) hasattracted a number of celebrity guests to this year's event.Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is expected to present MichelGondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which screens in theHorizons sidebar, while screen veterans Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel willintroduce the films in ...
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Working Title finds its Darcy
Working Title Films hasfinally found its Darcy. The UK powerhouse has cast rising British actorMatthew Macfadyen as the arrogant but eligible male lead in its upcoming JaneAusten adaptation Pride And Prejudice.Macfadyen will star oppositeKeira Knightley, who plays the central Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. The other Bennet sisters will include TheLibertine and ...
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French cinema admissions recover
Theatrical admissions inFrance are running at levels 11% higher than last year according to latestfigures.According to the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) some 83.5 millionstickets were sold in the five months to the end of May 2004. And over a runningyear the figures are 183 million, a 3% improvement ...
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Rome on hiatus after sets flooded in Bulgaria
Production on HBO'sambitious epic miniseries Romehas ground to a halt following the flooding of newly-built sets in Bulgaria.An HBO spokespersonconfirmed yesterday that the production, which is based at Cinecitta Studios inRome, has been on hiatus for three-to four weeks."They were meant to go toBulgaria, but weather precluded that, because the ...
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Horizon sells Miike's One Missed Call to North America
Rob Straight'sVancouver-based international sales outfit Horizon Entertainment has sold allUS and English speaking Canadian rights on Japanese horror master TakashiMiike's One Missed Call to MediaBlasters.The New York-baseddistributor plans platform releases in New York and Los Angeles with a nationalroll-out to follow in major cities throughout North America.Horizon Entertainmentpresident Straight negotiated ...
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Annaud's Two Brothers kicks off Maui Film Festival
Jean-Jacques Annaud's animal adventure tale Two Brothers will kick off the fifth annual Maui FilmFestival at Wailea on Jun 16, a five-day jamboree that runs until Jun 20 andincludes a heady brew of outdoor screenings, world-class culinary events andfilm-maker panels.Two Brothers will be followed by Tod Williams' relationship drama The ...
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Azkaban, Tomorrow set to dominate world screens this weekend
Twentieth Century Fox's The Day After Tomorrow will comfortably pass the $200mmilestone this weekend, with Warner Bros' third Harry Potter instalment rapidly gaining ground closebehind.The eco-disaster picturehas amassed $199.9m since its day-and-date release two weekends ago. No majormarket bows remain through the studio's international arm Fox International,however strong continued business ...
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Jury begins deliberations in Franchise/Intertainment lawsuit
The jury retired yesterdayin the Intertainment vs Franchise lawsuit which has become one of the longestand most high-profile spats in the history of the international film business.The nine largely retiredand/or unemployed jurors from Orange County, California will now attempt tofind the truth among the arcane intricacies of loan documents and ...
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Berlinale mourns passing of Werner Gondolf
The Berlinale is mourning the passing of Werner Gondolf, thefestival's chief programmer for over 30 years, at the age of 61 after a longillness.In a tribute, festival director Dieter Kosslick said Gondolfwas "an institution at the Berlinale and nobody knew its ins and outs aswell as he did. Respected by ...
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Sundance Institute unveils details of inaugural documentary labs
The Sundance Institute hasunveiled details and participants in its first Documentary Film Editing andStory Laboratory, which is scheduled to take place from Jun 20-25.Seven fellows have been selected to participate in the five-dayprogramme, including directors, editors and producers from four projects thathave previously received funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary ...
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Palm Springs short festival & market institutes ten film-making prizes
The Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films & Film Market will hand out 10student film-making awards at its upcoming event, which runs from Aug 31-Sept6.The winner of the KodakAward for Best Student Cinematography will receive an invitation to attendCannes next year and present their work in Kodak's Emerging FilmmakerProgramme.Consideration criteriainclude ...
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Serkis reteams with Jackson for role in King Kong
Andy Serkis, who earnedplaudits and a cult following for his portrayal as Gollum in Peter Jackson's LordOf The Rings trilogy, is reunitingwith the Oscar winning director on King Kong for Universal.Serkis will play two rolesin the production, which is due to begin in New Zealand in August. He will playa ...
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Alliance Atlantis buys Canadian rights to 9/11
Bob and Harvey Weinstein'sfledgling Fellowship Adventure Group has sold all Canadian rights to MichaelMoore's Fahrenheit 9/11 toAlliance Atlantis.Alliance Atlantis willrelease the film theatrically across Canada on Jun 25, the same day the PalmeD'Or winner is due to be released in the US through Fellowship Adventure Group,Lions Gate and IFC Films."We ...
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Fox International hires new evp of creative advertising Camp
Michael Camp has been named executive vice president of creativeadvertising at Fox International.Camp will be responsible for creating and executing all creativeadvertising campaigns for the studio's domestic and international theatrical andhome entertainment divisions.Jim Darbinian, senior vice president of creative advertising, andvice president Ann Murphy will report directly to Camp, whose ...
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Animation director Selick aligns with Vinton Studios
LA-based animation house VintonStudios has signed award-winning film-maker Henry Selick as supervisingdirector.Selick will play a key role on Vinton's creative team as theanimation studio moves into feature film production.Having joined the company on May 17, Selick will set aboutdirecting the studio's CG short Moongirl and develop features.Selick'sdirecting credits include Tim ...
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The Works unveils Cannes competition deals
London-based sales house TheWorks has struck a raft of deals out of last month's Cannes festival on its twocompetition titles, Clean and TheConsequences Of Love.Clean, forwhich Maggie Cheung won best actress, went to LNK for Portugal, Lumiere forBenelux, PCV for Greece and Cyprus, Imovision for Brazil and Intersonic forHungary and ...
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Wellspring closes eight more Tarnation sales
Wellspring hassold all rights to Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation in eight territories, including the keymarkets of France, Italy and Japan.The documentarysold to Nippon Herald in Japan, Cinema Nouvelle Generation Distribution inFrance, Mikado Film in Italy, Seville Pictures in Canada, Lumiere in Benelux,Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia ...
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Roadside plans pre-election release for same-sex marriage doc
RoadsideAttractions has picked up North American rights to Jim de Seve's timelysame-sex marriage documentary Tying The Knot and plans to release it in October priorto the 2004 Presidential election.The picture was produced by 1,049 Films and chroniclesthe last three years of the battle for legalisation waged by gays and lesbians,who ...