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Massive marketing push for Passion in Italy
Eagle Pictures' head of marketing, Antonio Adinolfi, has spent Euros 2.5m to publicise Mel Gibson's Passion Of The Christ, which is released in Italy today, Wednesday (April 7).The figure, which is huge compared to the usual marketing budget of Italian indie distributors, has been spent mainly on TV advertisements and ...
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Passion passes $100m from 44 international markets
Current global box office king The Passion Of The Christ held onto the top international position last weekend as its international cumulative passed the $100m mark.The film launched well in several territories including France and Spain - where it claimed the top spot having amassed 525,000 admissions. With a total ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - April 7 2004
JAPANPRE-PRODUCTIONASHURAJO NO HITOMI(Shochiku) Int'l sales: Shochiku. Dist (Jap): Shochiku. Samurai action drama. A samurai battles with monsters that haunt ancient capital Edo. Dir: Yojiro Takita. Scr: Masashi Todayama. Main cast: Somegoro Ichikawa. Release date: Spring 2005.Contact: Kiwamu Sato, Shochiku, (81) 35550 1623CHI TO HONE(Be Wild, Artist Film, Asahi Hoso, Eisei ...
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Top producers launch Indian awards ceremony
Indian producers body the Film Producers Guild of India is to launch its own awards ceremony next month.The nominees for the first Apsara FPGI Awards will be announced on May 5 with prizes to be unveiled at a ceremony in Mumbai on May 29.The 50-year old Guild has 153 by-invitation-only ...
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BVIT to sell Miramax reality TV show
Buena Vista International Television, Walt Disney's film and TV sales division, has picked up its first TV product from Miramax Television.BVITV will handle Project Runway, a reality show offering a 'behind the catwalk' look at the fashion industry, and the associated format rights. The US show features supermodel Heidi Klum ...
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Chancellor Schroeder to open Oberhausen short film fest
Germany's Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is to be one of the opening speakers at the 50th edition of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (April 29 - May 4)The opening event will also see filmmakers Wim Wenders, Soenke Wortmann, Romuald Karmakar and Eija-Liisa Ahtila presenting short films which were screened ...
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Mira Nair hatches film deal with Indian poultry giant
Mira Nair's Mirabai Films has announced a partnership with Indian poultry giant Balaji Rao's Bala Entertainment to establish a film production company that will create independent Asian cinema for the world market.The new production company, International Bhenji Brigade, is looking at producing three South Asian or Asian diaspora films over ...
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HBO Films wraps up Mrs Harris
Production has wrapped in Los Angeles on Mrs Harris, starring Annette Bening and Sir Ben Kingsley.The Number 9 Films and Killer Films production is produced for HBO, and is written and directed by playwright Phyllis Nagy.A tale of love and obsession, Mrs Harris explores the story of Jean Harris (Bening), ...
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JAPAN
Both of this week's new releases in the nine-major-cities chart opened strongly, with Something's Gotta Give recording a $41,935 average on 17 screens and Bong Joon-ho's Memories Of Murder, $40,909 on two.Something's Gotta Give was boosted by its raft of awards, particularly the Oscar Best Actress nomination for Diane Keaton. ...
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ROMANIA
In one of the few territories not yet hit by the Passion-fever, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River is performing strongly, pulling together nearly 1,500 admissions over the weekend from a single print.InterComFilm's new release, Peter Pan proved something of a disappointment and so did New Film's How To Deal and Ro-Image ...
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TURKEY
Having struggled to find an audience in many territories Robert Benton's drama The Human Stain has proved particularly popular in Turkey.Although having to settle for second place on opening behind UIP's Along Came Polly, The Human Stain played at 25 fewer screens and boasted a far stronger screen average.The film ...
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Sponsors sign up for Cannes Producers Network
The Cannes Market has attracted a number of sponsors and consultants toits new Producers' Network.The network includes a newrange of facilities and meeting specifically designed to serve the needs ofproducers during the festival and market.Professional partners include theAustralian Film Commission, New Zealand FilmCommission, IFP/New York, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Region Ile ...
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Sponsors sign up for Producers Network
The Cannes Market has attracted a number of sponsors and consultants toits new Producers' Network.The network includes a newrange of facilities and meeting specifically designed to serve the needs ofproducers during the festival and market.Professional partners include theAustralian Film Commission, New Zealand FilmCommission, IFP/New York, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Region Ile ...
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CTFDI's Gothika surges to $6.1m weekend
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) saw its horror thriller Gothika surge to $6.1m on 1,737 screens over the weekend oninternational release, including a strong $2.6m opening in the UK on 306screens for third position in the market.The Halle Berry-starrer hasnow totaled $58.1m in CTFDI territories which consist of all internationalexcept ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg LombardoC;s comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this yearC;sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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Knots to close Gen Art Film Festival on Apr 20
Greg Lombardo's comedy Knots has been named the closing night film of this year'sGen Art Film Festival on April 20 in New York City.The festival which starts onApril 6 is now in its ninth year and was founded in 1996 to showcase emergingUS independent film-makers. Among the films it has ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets Canadian rights to Super Size Me
Alliance Atlantis's OdeonFilms has acquired Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock's Sundance-prize winning SuperSize Me. The deal was negotiated bySpurlock and Odeon president Bryan Gliserman between Sundance and Austin'sSouth-By-Southwest Festival (SXSW).Odeon vice-president ofmarketing and publicity Mark Slone told ScreenDaily that the film was the idealtheatrical documentary release because of its marketability. ...
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Asian territories embrace The Christ
IconEntertainment's The Passion Of The Christ showed that it could play beyond traditional US and European strongholds over the weekend, placing number one in the market in five Asianterritories for Fox International. In South Korea, where 49% of the population is Christian, it amassed a huge $2.3m opening on 157 ...
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French cinema looks to boost profile in China
For the first time ever, Unifrance is to organise a French film Panorama in Beijing (April 8-11) with the aim of boosting the profile of French cinema in China.In conjunction with the Chinese authorities and the French embassy in China, ten French films have been selected by the Chinese Film ...
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Telefilm Canada strikes deal with CAA to boost Canadian films
Telefilm Canada has hired anagent. Canada's public sector film financier has entered an agreement with CreativeArtists Agency (CAA) that could see Hollywood's largest talent agency packagingprojects for production in Canada.According to a leaked memodirected to Canadian producers from Telefilm executive director RichardStursberg, the purpose of the agreement is "to assist ...