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Bill starts second international onslaught
This weekend revenge is a dish best served hot asMiramax's Kill Bill Vol 2 opens wide infive major international markets within a week of its table-topping US bow.QuentinTarantino's sequel opened in Germany and Australia on Apr 22 and goes out inthe UK and Italy on Apr 23 - all through ...
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Green Butchers director prepares follow-up feature
Award winning Green Butchers writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen is readying his next feature, an as yet untitled comedy drama.Veteran producer Tivi Magnusson is currently in the final stages of financing the film, which has been nicknamed AT3. It will be the third installment in the Danish director's trilogy ...
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MPAA hails worldwide anti-piracy raids
MPAA chiefs have hailed a series of worldwide anti-piracyraids that resulted in the seizure this week of tens of thousands of titles foronline use worth at least $50m.Operation Fastlink launched on the morning of Apr 22 in 27US states and ten other countries including the UK, Germany, France, Hungaryand Singapore.Undercover ...
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Video Island DVD service strikes UK Post Office deal
UK online DVD rental service Video Island has signed a dealwhich will allow the service to be promoted in many of the UK's 17,000post offices.The exclusive partnership deal was signed withPostmasternetwork, a commercial group which supports local Postmasters. 90% ofPost Offices are run independently by local Postermasters.Postmasternetwork members will promote ...
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Critics' Week unveils competition line-up
The organisers of Cannes' Critics' Week announced their line-up on Thursday in Paris for the 57th Cannes Film Festival ( May 12-23).Seven films from five different countries will have a shot at the prize with a predominance of works coming from France (see full list below). Included among the competitors ...
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Critics' Week unveils line-up
The organisers of Cannes' Critics' Week announced their line-up on Thursday in Paris for the 57th Cannes Film Festival ( May 12-23).Seven films from five different countries will have a shot at the prize with a predominance of works coming from France (see full list below). Included among the competitors ...
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Berlin festival confirms 2005 dates
The Berlin Festival has confirmed its dates for next year as 10-20 February, 2005.The festival said that many of the new elements it initiated this year had been a success and will be continued at the next Berlinale.These include the 14plus section of the Kinderfest sidebar, the Berlinale Special section, ...
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Emmett/Furla acquires Contract script for Millenium deal
Randall Emmett and GeorgeFurla's Emmett/Furla Films has acquired the rights to Stephen Katz and JohnDarrouzet's thriller screenplay The Contract.This will be the firstproject on a new slate of 10 pictures to be handled under the extendednon-exclusive international distribution deal with Millennium Films, reportedhere last week (Screendaily.com, Apr 15).The Contract is ...
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Best Of Youth director cooks up Kipling drama
Hot Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana, whose last film, The Best of Youth, won Un Certain Regard last year and has swept all the Italian awards, is currently preparing his next film.A drama named Quando Sei Nato (literally, When You Were Born), it is inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure ...
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Princess Diana crash feature readied by French producers
French producers Pierre Kubel and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar have purchased the rights to Laurence Cosse's award-winning novel The 31st of August 1997 (Le 31 Aout 1997) which they will adapt for the big screen in the coming year.The titular date was the day that Princess Diana died in a car accident ...
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Passion faces up to post-Easter decline
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ retained its lead over the international chart for the post-Easter weekend, largely because it played so wide across the international marketplaceThe film also took the opportunity to pass the $200m mark and has a few territories, including Japan, still to open. However the ...
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ROMANIA 22 April
Following an weak period at the Romanian box office, last weekend saw an impressive number of admissions, the two main attractions being Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ and 21 Grams, but most other films also improved on their previous performances.The Passion which features one of Romania's bestselling acting ...
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FRANCE 22 April
Jean-Jacques Annaud's tiger tale Two Brothers remains in the top spot this week with a mere 17% drop off from its first week. Along with the number two film Les Choristes - which jumped 4% on last week and whose soundtrack is selling on a par with that of 2001 ...
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Saved! wins top jury award at New York's Gen Art Film Festival
Brian Dannelly's dark comedySaved! won the Acura Grand JuryFeature Film Award for $10,000 at the closing night ceremony of the 9th AnnualGen Art Film Festival in New York.The Acura Grand Jury ShortFilm Award and $5,000 went to Jessica Weigmann for Gardening Tips ForHousewives.Meanwhile the Gen Art filmBUZZ Audience Award for ...
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Spyglass closes five-year credit facility with JPMorgan Securities
Spyglass Entertainment andJPMorgan Securities have closed a $250m five-year revolving credit facility,which will enable Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum's production powerhouse tofinance production or acquisition of approximately five theatrical releases ayear, including pictures under its non-exclusive first-look production andco-financing pact with Columbia Pictures.In a joint statement Barberand Birnbaum said: "John ...
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Noeltner unveils new sales outfit CMG, first film Hoodwinked
Edward Noeltnerhas officially launched his new company Cinema Management Group (CMG), anLA-based sales outfit which kicks off with one of the firstindependently-financed 3-D animated movies Hoodwinked: The True Story Of RedRiding Hood.Noeltner, whowas most recently senior vice president, international distribution, at MiramaxFilms, has hired Judy Hart Perrault who has been ...
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Noeltner unveils new sales outfit CMG, first film Hoodwinked
Edward Noeltnerhas officially launched his new company Cinema Management Group (CMG), anLos Angeles-based sales outfit which kicks off with one of the firstindependently-financed 3-D animated movies Hoodwinked: The True Story Of RedRiding Hood.Noeltner, whowas most recently senior vice president, international distribution, at MiramaxFilms, has hired Judy Hart Perrault who has ...
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Lassally launches LA management and production outfit Kustom
Tom Lassally launched hisfilm and television management and production company Kustom Entertainmentyesterday (April 21), naming Marc Forster's recently wrapped Stay as its first feature and announcing a host of talentunder its wing.Lassally, who shepherdedmore than 25 features including Heat and The Hudsucker Proxyduring his eight-year tenure as executive vice president ...
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500,000 admissions for Italian film without a distributor
An Italian film without theatrical distribution entitled Il Natale Rubato (The Stolen Christmas) has become a sensation, after it emerged that the self-financed picture has already racked up a massive 500,000 admissions in Italy on an "underground" exhibition circuit.While a recent report revealed that 30 Italian films are currently in ...
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Yet another film distributor launches in the Netherlands
"Born out of necessity" is how producer Els Vandevorst describes the expansion of her production company Isabella Films into theatrical distribution.Dutch feature Het Zuiden (South) is the second film Isabella has released theatrically this year following Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love. Vandevorst served as one of the producers on ...