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Filmfest Dresden suffers unexpected funding cut
This year's Filmfest Dresden has been dealt a financial blow by the city hall just three weeks before the opening of the international festival of animation and short films on April 13.The City of Dresden has slashed its support for the 2004 edition by 40%, leaving the festival with a ...
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Oscar names its 2005 dates: Feb 27 is the big night
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has setits key dates for next season with the 77th Academy Awards scheduled to takeplace on Feb 27 2005 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Nominationballots will be mailed on Dec 27 2004, the polls will close at 5pm PST on Jan15 2005 ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed scampered to the top of the US charts with $29.4m at the weekend, averaging a healthy $8,888 from 3,312 sites. Family specialist Raja Gosnell's follow-up to his 2002 original didn't come close to that picture's $54.1m opening weekend, although it didn't open in a lucrative summer ...
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ScreenDaily.com launches exclusive International Box Office chart
ScreenDaily.com today launches a new and exclusive International Box Office chart, to complement the existing 25 global box office charts. These continue to be constantly updated on the site.The new chart comprises the very latest box office data from more than 60 international territories and is accompanied by a commentary ...
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Ritchie Boys gets world premiere at Hot Docs
Christian Bauer'sCanada-Germany coproduction The Ritchie Boys, the story of German Jews who formed an eliteintelligence unit for the US Army during WWII, will make its world premiere atthe 11th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.The festival, North America'slargest film event devoted to non-fiction fare, will present the worldpremieres of a ...
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Cianciotta returns to distribution at Canada's Capri
Gabriella Martinelli's CapriFilms has appointed exhibition and distribution veteran Tony Cianciotta aspresident of its new distribution division, Capri Releasing.The Toronto-based shingleannounced its first release: Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, for which Cianciotta picked up Canadian rights atBerlin from Films Transit. The documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger and BruceSinofsky, chronicles the ...
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JAPAN
In the box office battle between Disney's bears and Shochiku's dog, the latter again emerged victorious for the second week running.Helmed by Yoichi Sai, a director better known for his excursions into the underworld and, on TV, his pungent wit, Quill grossed $883,396 on 17 major urban screens, compared ...
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Scooby Doo 2 races out of the gate with $4.1m
The family sequel Scooby-Doo2 grossed an estimated $4.1m in ninemarkets through Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend.Highlights of the limitedday-and-date release with the US, where the picture opened top on an estimated$30.7m, included a superb $369,016 from 35 screens in Singapore (includingpreviews) and $267,285 from 105 in Sweden. Both ...
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King continues to rule, takes $5m over weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $5m from 2,225 screens in 57 markets at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $717.9m.Combined with its $374.6mdomestic gross, The Return Of The King has racked up $1.1bn in worldwide ticketsales.The picture added $1m in ...
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50 First Dates scores big in Australian debut for CTFDI
A$2.2m number one Australian opening for Fifty First Dates was the highlight of Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International's (CTFDI) weekend.Theromantic comedy recorded the biggest ever opening in the market for AdamSandler and overall grossed $2.6m in its markets, raising its early internationalrunning total to $4.7m.PeterPan grossed $2.2m for a $50.3mindustry-wide cumulative ...
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Nowhere In Africa producer goes it alone
Peter Herrmann, producer of Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa has left MTM Medien & Television Muenchen to set up his own production outfit.The new company Peter Herrmann Filmproduktion (PHF), which plans to focus on producing German films with international financing, already has two projects in development.Herrmann acquired the ...
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Astro poised to enter China Pay-TV market
Through Celestial Pictures, its 100% owned subsidiary in Hong Kong, Malaysia's pay-TV operator Astro All Asia Networks is poised to replicate its popular Celestial Movies channel in China.According to William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, the company is waiting for a decision on landing rights in China. If approved, Celestial ...
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BVI's Bear hugs on to top spot in Spain, Germany
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Brother Bear added $10.2mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $129.8m.Key drivers in the picture'sbountiful haul were a number one $2.6m bow in Spain on 401 screens for theindustry's biggest ever spring release and the third biggest animated bow everbehind Finding Nemo and Tarzan.It ...
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Santiago cleans up at Fribourg
Peruvian director Josue Mendez was the big winner at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival, picking up four awards including the International Jury's Regard D'Or for his Dias De Santiago.The Jury, under Argentine filmmaker Eliseo Subiela, unanimously recognised "the cinematographic quality of this first work as well as the actor's ...
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Venice date shift expected
The Biennale is expected to hold the next edition of the Venice Film Festival from Sept 1 to 11, 2004, moving its dates back a few days from its usual slot in order to provide a more lucrative platform for Italian independent distributors to release their autumn titles. Its 2004 ...
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Sofia Meetings develop second film projects
One of the highlights of the recent Sofia International Film Festival was a session of second films pitching as part of the Sofia Meetings.Twelve projects were invited to the event, which was attended by such decision-makers as Renate Roginas from Eurimages, The Coproduction Office's Philippe Bober, Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, ...
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Gaiss promoted to director of publicity at Fox International
Martin Gaiss has beenpromoted to director of publicity at Fox International, where he will continueto devise and implement strategy and events and develop his responsibilities innew media and creative online publicity.Gaiss, whose campaigncredits include Titanic, The Full Monty, the X-Men franchise andthe upcoming The Day After Tomorrow,is based in Los ...
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Germany's X-Filme scores double top
Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool and its distribution arm X Verleih have been named Germany's most successful production company and distributor of 2003 when the German Federal Film Board (FFA) handed out Euros 15.9m retroactive "reference" funding.The box-office success last year of Good Bye, Lenin!, Liegen Lernen and the ...
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Nina's Tragedies to open US Israel Film Festival
Savi Gabizon's Nina'sTragedies will open the 20th annualIsrael Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US that runsin Los Angeles from Apr 29-May 13 and this year focuses on coming-of-agestories and the decay of the kibbutz system.All in all 37 Israelinarrative features, documentaries and shorts will screen ...
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Beloved, Oscar-winning Ustinov dies in Switzerland aged 82
Sir Peter Ustinov, the double Oscar-winning British actor, writer,raconteur and humanitarian, has died aged 82.According to reports, Ustinov passed away on Sunday aftersuffering a heart attack at his Swiss home.Over the course of an acting career spanning seven decades heimbued a variety of roles with his trademark wit and irascible ...