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Teen comedy Formula cracks Taiwan box office
Taiwanese teen comedy Formula 17, produced by start-up production company Three Dots Entertainment, has surpassed expectations for a local film over its opening weekend in Taipei, achieving a screen average of US$11,777 (NT$387,660) - the highest among all new releases.Following its premiere at the Taipei Film Festival on March 22, ...
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Tribeca snags Cholodenko, Burns world premieres
LisaCholodenko's latest Cavedweller,Ed Burns' Looking For Kitty andDavid Duchovny's directorial debut House Of D starring Robin Williams will have their worldpremieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival which takes place May 1 to 9.Allthree films are featured in the Spotlight section unveiled yesterday, whichfocuses on the work of movie stars ...
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Morante named as mistress of Cannes ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Morante named as mistress of ceremonies
Italian actress Laura Morante will act as mistress of ceremonies for the 57th Cannes Film Festival which begins on May 12.Morante succeeds Monica Bellucci who held the post last year.Her duties will include opening and closing the official competition and welcoming jury president Quentin Tarantino on the first night of ...
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Sundance Channel, Wellspring team up for Cho's third concert film
US pay-cable network TheSundance Channel and independent theatrical and video distributor Wellspringhave teamed up to acquire distribution rights to Margaret Cho's latest comedyfilm Revolution (pictured).Sundance will air the worldpremiere of the film on June 19 as part of its Out Loud programming month andWellspring will then release it on home ...
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Japan's Klockworx makes entry into US distribution
Japanese distributor TheKlockworx Company is boldly stepping into the US distribution market, teamingup with US independent Pathfinder Pictures to buy and release films in the US.Klockworx plans to acquirebetween 20 and 30 films for theatrical and DVD release in its first year ofoperation, about half of which will go theatrical. ...
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Faithless Games wins Plzen Czech film fest
Michaela Pavlatova's Faithless Games was the winner of the GoldenKingfisher Award for Best Feature Film at this year's Finale Festival of Czech Films in Plzen (29 March - 4 April)The festival's International Jury called Faithless Games "a well-crafted work reflecting the unpredictable aspects of everyday life." The film had previously ...
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GERMANY
A ridge of high pressure over Central Europe brought a spate of unexpected warm spring weather over the weekend. Consequently, cinemagoers disappeared into the beergardens rather than the cinemas and the result was seen in the lower overall attendance.Disney's Brother Bear held onto the top spot for a third week ...
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As Italy braces itself for the release of The Passion Of The Christ on April 7, five new films opened at the box office last weekend, although none of them garnered a warm reception during what turned out to be a particularly lukewarm weekend.Columbia Tristar's Peter Pan opened at number ...
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Tarantino plots anime prequel to Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino isconsidering a continuation of his Kill Bill epic by writing and producing an anime prequel whichtells the early life story of Bill before the fatal events in his two-volumepicture.Tarantino said he wouldwrite and oversee the picture and David Carradine would voice Bill. The filmwould be animated in the ...
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Media Programme, Eurimages merger 'inevitable'
Jacques Toubon,head of the Eurimages production aid scheme, thisweek told Screendaily.com that mergerwith the Media programme may become "inevitable".The former French culture minister said that such a move could be a consequence ofthe imminent enlargement of the European Union (EU)."Soon the MEDIAProgramme and Eurimages' membership will overlap, with the consequence ...
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Netherlands gets 1 More Film distributor
The rapidly changing Dutch distribution scene this week sees the launch of one more distribution company, appropriately called 1 More Film.The company is headed by Wallie Polle and Suzan van der Veen, both recently with The Netherlands' leading distributor A-Film. Polle is an industry veteran who has previously worked at ...
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Polly takes another $5m for Universal, Dead opens well in Mexico
UniversalPictures/UIP opened hit comedy Along Came Polly in eight more territories this weekendincluding Korea, Russia and Sweden for an estimated total of $5m at 2,000 sitesin 32 countries.Theinternational total on the film is now $69m, with ten more territories still toopen including New Zealand and Panama next weekend.Polly's holdovers included ...
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Miramax takes Stratus' Hostage for North America
MiramaxFilms has acquired North American rights to Hostage, the Bruce Willis action thriller financed byStratus Film Company and scripted from his own novel by Robert Crais.FlorentSiri (The Nest) is directing thefilm, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles, and Stratus, Equity Picturesand Cheyenne Enterprises are the production entities. The film's ...
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Goldmann named president of Atmosphere Entertainment MM
Bernie Goldmann has beennamed president of Mark Canton's LA-based Atmosphere MM Entertainment. He willoversee Atmosphere MM's film and TV development and production activities, willtake an equity stake in the company as well as a seat on its board ofdirectors.A former president ofproduction for Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment, Goldmann most recentlyproduced ...
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British Film Institute unveils plans to 'open up'
The British Film Institute (bfi) is to receive one of thebiggest shake-ups in its 70-year-history.Following a nine month internal review, chairman AnthonyMinghella and Director Amanda Nevill have announced a series of initiatives to"open up" a cultural organisation which, though widely respectedworldwide, has developed a reputation for being aloof and too ...
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Wolfe steps up US theatrical, buying Thoughts, City
California-based USindependent Wolfe is continuing its expansion into theatrical distribution withthe acquisition of Achim Von Borries' German drama Love In Thoughts which made its world premiere at the Sundance FilmFestival and Spanish director Cesc Gay's latest picture In The City.The 20 year-old company hasbeen established as a video company of ...
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Haneke plans Paris shoot for Cache
Director Michael Haneke will begin shooting his latest film,Cache, in Paris on July 5, moving on toAustria where it will be completed in early September.The film stars Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as ahusband and wife caught in a story of intrigue and revenge.Auteuil is Georges, a TV presenter who ...
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Czech film funder faces reduced revenues
The lower house of the Czech parliament voted March 31 to reduce advertising on public network Czech Television, fuelling film industry fears that a major source of financing is drying up.Czech Television spokesman Martin Krafl told ScreenDaily.com that if the upper house and president approve the measure, "We will lose ...
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Warner wins international weekend with Scooby off the leash
WarnerBros opened Scooby Doo 2 in 27markets over the weekend for an estimated total of $15.5m from 3,800 screens.After two weekends on release, the film has now taken $17.7m.Thefilm opened top in the UK, with an estimated $6.3m, more than double the secondfilm in the country The Passion Of The ...