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Scorsese to present The Leopard at Lake Placid
Martin Scorsese will presenta special screening of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard at this year's Lake Placid Film Festival which takesplace June 2 to 6.Scorsese will talk about thefilm which will then screen in a restored version which runs to 180 minutes.The director has always cited Visconti's 1963 epic as one ...
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AUSTRALIA
Two high-profile family-friendly openers, UIP's The Cat In The Hat and Roadshow's Scooby-Doo 2, failed to make a dent in the popularity of 50 First Dates, despite the latest Adam Sandler romantic comedy being on fewer screens and in its second week.50 First Dates grossed A$2,573,524 from 286 screens, The ...
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Karma proves a winner at Hong Kong Film Awards
Running On Karma, directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, scooped three prizes including best film at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night, while To was awarded best director for cop drama PTU.An action adventure film that ruminates on reincarnation and destiny, Running On Karma also picked ...
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Hellboy scores heavenly bow for Revolution and Sony
Itwas another strong weekend at the North American box office, with overallticket sales for the top 12 films up 39% from the same weekend last yearcontinuing an upward trend on 2003 for the sixth consecutive weekend.RevolutionStudios' well-reviewed comic book actioner Hellboy directed by Guillermo Del Toro opened at number onewith ...
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Warner Bros strikes mobile distribution deal with Vodafone
Warner Bros. Online and mobile phone company Vodafone have signed a distribution deal which will bring Warner Bros. Entertainment brands as well as current information on upcoming projects to Vodafone customers across the world.The global agreement covers 16 countries. Initially, Warner Bros. Online will provide Vodafone with games, screensavers, alerts ...
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High Point strikes MIP-TV deals on feature slate
At the recent MIP-TV, UK sales house High Point Films And Television secured a number of deals for its feature film slate.Dutch blockbuster Peter Bell was sold to Belgium's VRT, Hungary's (HBO) and TV Markiza of the Slovak Republic. TV Markiza also picked up another Dutch film, Bella Bettien, while ...
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DENMARK
Denmark's first CGI movie, Terkel In Trouble was directed by Stefan Fjeldmark, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen and Thorbjorn Christoffersen. The $1.2m film is based on a story written by the Danish comedian Anders "Anden" Matthesen and is a production by Thomas Heinesen for Nordisk Film Production, in collaboration with A-Film.Released on ...
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German network cuts acquisition spend, ups film support
ARD, Germany's public broadcasting network plans to cut its spending on film production and acquisition by Euros 100m over the next four years from 2005.Speaking to the German news agency dpa, Hans Wolfgang Jurgan of the film licensing subsidiary Degeto Film said that the present annual expenditure of Euros 240m-250m ...
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Call to cancel Stuttgart film festival
The future of next year's Filmfest Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg looks uncertain after comments by Gabriele Roethemeyer, chief executive of the MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg fund and managing director of the festival's organising body.Speaking to the local newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung on the eve of this week's International Animation Film Festival, Roethemeyer said that she wouldn't ...
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Marshall to get career tribute at Tribeca Festival
The world premiere of GarryMarshall's comedy Raising Helenstarring Kate Hudson at the Tribeca Film Festival will kick off a tribute tothe veteran director on May 2.The screening will befollowed by an on-stage interview and Q&A session with Marshall, whosecredits include Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and Runaway Bride."We are honoured ...
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Feature collaboration just the ticket for Loach, Olmi, Kiarostami
International festival favourites Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi and Abbas Kiarostami are teaming up to direct a single feature film entitled Tickets.The three veteran directors co-wrote the screenplay, which takes place on a train from an Eastern European country to Rome's Termini station. The film is expected to start shooting on ...
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Malaga film festival unveils competition line-up
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 23 - May 1) has unveiled its full competition line-up for this year's seventh edition, where actress Geraldine Chaplin, director Fernando Trueba and distributor Enrique Gonzalez Macho will receive tributes.The 16 films in competition offer a broad selection of the current Spanish film ...
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France gets new Culture Minister
Following France's recent elections which saw the upheaval of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government and a resurgence of the conservative right, culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon is on his way out after only two years in office.Replacing Aillagon is Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, a former deputy minister of European Affairs in ...
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OZ and NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - April 2 2004
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALANDAUSTRALIAPRE-PRODUCTIONDECEMBER BOYS(Becker Films) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, South Australian Film Corporation. Int'l sales: MBM (German-speaking territories), Aura Entertainment (rest of world). Dist: Becker (Aust/NZ). Drama. Four orphans go for a holiday by the sea. Friendships are tested and new alliances made when rumours emerge that two ...
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Michael Grade appointed chairman of the BBC
Michael Grade, the former chief executive of Channel 4, has been appointed chairman of the BBC.Grade heads UK studio group Pinewood Shepperton, which he announced only this week would float this year on the London stock exchange.Grade is a former controller of BBC1 and director of BBC television programmes and ...
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Shoots attracted to new studios, locations and low costs
For full Australia and New Zealand production listings, click HEREMany internationally known women adorn the cast lists of Australia's upcoming films, although not all of them are known for being on the big screen.Rachel Hunter, who plays a caravan park Goddess and mother to an indeterminable number of children ...
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Wild Bunch ready to drop lawsuit over revolutionised Che
WithSteven Soderbergh stepping to replace Terrence Malick as the director of Che, this re-written biopic about the Cubanrevolutionary Che Guevara may prove an easier sell on the international market,believes its relieved Paris-based sales agent Wild Bunch.Malick'sabrupt departure last month from Che in order to focus more immediately on The New ...
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International executives lead New Zealand film school
Fortissimo Film Sales' Wouter Barendrecht, German-based producer-distributor Karl Baumgartner, UK-based producers Judy Counihan and Rosa Bosch and The Warrior producer Bertrand Faivre are amongst the tutors at this month's Film Business School In New Zealand.Twenty-one New Zealand producers have been selected to attend the five-day course, the first time that ...
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FRANCE
Les Choristes remained at number 1 this week with only a 4% drop off its first week out.New entry, Enki Bilal's Immortel, an eerie mix of sci-fi and animation, landed at number 2 with a strong $7,112 per screen average.Viggo Mortensen actioner Hidalgo opened at number 3 with disappointing results ...