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NEW ZEALAND
At its first official opening weekend at the box office - audiences were first warmed up on previews - Columbia TriStar's Mona Lisa Smile has pushed The Passion Of The Christ off the top spot with a gross of NZ$309,933 from 53 screens.The Haunted Mansion's NZ$259,523 gross from 50 screens ...
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Bosnian crime movie gets top prize at Bermuda Film Festival
Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletic's Sarajevo-set crime caper SummerIn The Golden Valley haswon the jury prize for best narrative feature at the seventh Bermuda InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)."The film is very lyrical, but also very tough," narrativefeatures jury chair Willem Dafoe said in a statement. "It is poetic but notsentimental. Even though ...
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Constantin bullish about future despite 2003 losses
Despite posting earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of Euros -11.8m in the 2003 financial year, German producer-distributor Constantin Film is upbeat about its future performance and predicts sales growth of 55% for 2004.In its annual financial statement for 2003, Constantin reported a 13% decrease in consolidated sales from 2002's ...
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Tribeca unveils May festival lineup, 30 world premieres
30 world premieres willscreen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from May 1-9 in NewYork City and for the first time includes the NY, NY Features and NY, NYDocumentaries sections among the five competition strands.Overall 65 films from around the world have been culled from arecord 3,300 submissions, ...
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Spain's Golem joins DVD alliance Cameo Media
Spanish arthouse distributor Golem Distribucion has joined start-up DVD distribution alliance Cameo Media as an equal partner.The Golem addition rounds out Cameo's direct line to product from some of Spain's leading independent distributors and producers, including Alta Films, Wanda Films, Tornasol Films and Continental Producciones.The companies are all equal partners ...
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Directors Ratner, Craven, Toback attend Brown's Ivy Film Fest
Students on thecampus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, have put together animpressive array of guests and films for their upcoming Ivy Film Festival whichruns Apr 9 to 11.Directors Wes Craven, Brett Ratner and James Toback and AmericanSplendor icon HarveyPekar will speak alongside CAA agent Roy Ashton, Greenfield Productions'director ...
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Singapore unveils world's first digital multiplex
Singapore exhibitor Eng Wah Organization is on target to roll out the world's first full digital multiplex, strengthening Singapore's reputation as a pioneer in digital cinema technology.Installation of 2K digital screens at a five-screen multiplex of Eng Wah is near completion. The five digital cinema screens supplied by Barco are ...
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Myriad takes on Meltdown, Evel for MIP
Continuing a move into TV distribution, Myriad Pictures has beenretained as international sales agent on the telefilms American Meltdown for ApolloScreen and Evel for sister company ApolloProScreen.American Meltdown is set for broadcast on the FX Network this summer and tells thestory of a gang of ex-US Marines who commandeer a ...
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Script Factory launches training scheme for film professionals
Screenwriting organisation The Script Factory is launching SCENE insiders, a new international training programme for European film professionals at the Edinburgh, London and Warsaw International Film Festivals in 2004 and at Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2005.SCENE insiders is targeted at directors, producers, distributors, readers, developers and story editors from the ...
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BULGARIA
Clearly not content with her double-whammy at the Italian box office last weekend, Penelope Cruz achieved the same feat in Bulgaria, albeit with a different headliner.Fanfan La Tulipe, which opened last year's Cannes Film Festival, launched into the top spot for distributor Van Kris on five screens. Gerard Krawczyk's remake ...
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Studios hit as UK gov't outlaws p&a tax schemes
US studios including Walt Disney, Miramax and Universalhave been stopped from accessing an estimated £400 million in UKtax-based funding to underwrite their p&a costs through another loophole intax regulations.Hardon the heels of closing down production funds on February 10, the InlandRevenue today extended its tightening up of tax rules to ...
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HONG KONG
Horror sequel The Eye 2, produced by Hong Kong's Applause Pictures, has outperformed the original film in its opening week, grossing US$741,729 from 40 screens.Directed by the Pang Brothers, The Eye 2 stars Shu Qi as a pregnant woman who starts to suffer from terrifying hallucinations. Eugenia Yuan and Thai ...
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German DVD outfit wins backing to increase acquisitions
Leading German DVD company e-m-s new media has been granted a Euros 5m extension of its credit line by principal banker Dortmunder Volksbank. The money will help finance the acquisition of new film rights to add to its 400-title library.In addition, the previously short-term overdraft facility of Euro 3.5m has ...
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Singapore admissions to rise as censorship laws relax
Cinema attendance is expected to rise significantly in Singapore thanks to the launch next week of a new ratings system.In a move to further ease the country's strict censorship laws, Singapore's Board of Film Censors is due to creates a new category of M18 for viewers aged 18 and above.Currently ...
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Chomet secures Dimension backing for Scottish animation
Belleville Rendez-Vous director Sylvain Chomet has confirmed plans to set up his own animation company, Studio Django, in Edinburgh, Scotland.The first two productions announced by Studio Django are 2D project Barbacoa and an unnamed 3D project in collaboration with Miramax division Dimension Films. Dimension chairman Bob Weinstein flew the Chomets ...
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Oz's FFC bankrolls December Boys, Wolf Creek
The Film Finance Corporation (FFC) has agreed to invest in two new Australian films, the 1960s drama December Boys to be directed by LA-based Rod Hardy, and the low-budget digital horror film Wolf Creek, by first-time writer/director Greg McLean.December Boys has been adapted from Michael Noonan's novel by Marc Rosenberg ...
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Happy Day for Danish gospel comedy
MFA has acquired the German and Austrian rights to Hella Joof's as yet unfinished Danish gospel comedy drama Oh Happy Day from Nordisk Film International Sales. Earlier this year Ascot Elite picked up Swiss rights to the film.The buy was made based on a 10-minute promo, as the film won't ...
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Sundance Institute unveils first documentary grants for 2004
Eleven feature-length documentaries covering subjectsas diverse as women prisoners in Yemen to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocidewill receive a total of $395,000 in the first round of grants awarded by theSundance Institute Documentary Fund for 2004.The fund was set up in 2002 as a result of a gift by ...
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Spider-Man 3 to hit theatres on May 4, 2007
Spider-Man 3 is a go. Sony Pictures vice chairman Jeff Blakeshowed a new trailer to Spider-Man 2 last night and announced that Spider-Man 3 would open in US theatres on May 4, 2007 with TobeyMaguire and Kirsten Dunst in the roles of Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson and SamRaimi once ...
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Magnolia acquires US rights to Al-Jazeera doc Control Room
Magnolia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Jehane Noujaim'sControl Room, abehind-the-scenes look at the Al-Jazeera network's coverage of the recent Iraqwar and the criticisms it faced for its coverage.Magnolia will open the documentary in New York in mid-May followedby a nationwide release. Control Room premiered at Sundance earlier this year.The ...