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Initial, Intermedia part ways after two-year marriage
Initial Entertainment Group and Intermedia are finally partingcompany following an agreement whereby Initial president Graham King andpartner and chief operating officer Colin Cotter will acquire Initial fromIntermedia through their investment company Parliament Pictures.As a result of the amicable deal Initial will no longer be anIntermedia subsidiary. Both Initial under King ...
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Rozier to be Critics Week patron
Jacques Rozier, the Frenchdirector who was one of the founding fathers of the Nouvelle Vague, has beenappointed patron of the Critics' Week (13-21 May) sidebar for the forthcomingCannes film festival.As patron Rozier willsupport and advise the event and on Monday 17 May lead an organised debate withthe directors whose films ...
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POLAND
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ racked up a running total box office gross of $3,822,060 in its second week at number at the Polish box office.An earlier announcement that the Pope had seen the film undoubtedly boosted box office in the highly Catholic country.But Polish contemporary romance Nigdy ...
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Burt & Raquel together again in Forget About It
Filming is underway inArizona and New Jersey this week on Beverly Hills Film Studio's (BHFS) UScomedy adventure Forget About It,starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Charles Durning.Styled as Grumpy Old Men meets Analyze This, Forget About It centres on an East Coast wiseguy whose efforts tostick to the straight and ...
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Singapore to host India's international Academy Awards
Singapore is to host the fifth International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards on May 22.The IIFA Awards, which are designed to raise the international profile of Indian film, have previously been held in London, Sun City in South Africa, the Genting Islands in Malaysia and Johannesburg.Stars from both Indian and ...
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Van Peebles gets ShoWest international lifetime award
Melvin Van Peebles will receive the ShoWest 2004International Lifetime Achievement Award, completing a distinguished talentroster set to appear when the Las Vegas industry convention runs from Mar22-25.Van Peeblesfamously directed and starred in the 1971 blaxploitaiton picture SweetSweetback's Baadasssss Song and his other credits include the 1968 drama The Story Of ...
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Germany's Senator holds crisis talks with banks
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is to hold talks with its financing banks in a bid to save the company from collapse.The move was announced yesterday when the Berlin based company said it had to write-off the value of some of its film assets and investments - a move which could ...
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Parliament ratifies Belgian tax shelter
Members of the Belgian parliament yesterday unanimously voted in favour of the country's proposed tax shelter scheme (see ScreenDaily.com 8 Jan 2004)The scheme, which took practical effect from Jan 1, permits reductions in corporate tax bills in return for guarantees on production spending in Belgium.Investors are able to enjoy a ...
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Wu joins Genz's Chinaman in Denmark
Los Angeles-based Chinese actress Vivian Wu has agreed to play the female lead in Henrik Ruben Genz' Danish comedy drama Chinaman, which shoots in Copenhagen from April 16 for seven weeks.Wu, who was born in Shanghai in 1966, had her acting breakthrough in The Last Emperor (1987).She will appear opposite ...
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France's Spring cinema promotion attracts 2.5 million
France's annual Spring promotional drive 'Printemps Au Cinema' clocked up 2.5 million spectators, who took advantage of the cut-price ticket offer at cinemas across the country.The three-day figure meant no change compared with the 2003 promo drive and was a touch disappointing after a strong start on Sunday, when numbers ...
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Silver Bullet to open Bucharest Studios in April
Romanian production company Silver Bullet Film is to open new studio facilities in the country at the end of April.Work began on Bucharest Studios, situated in Romania's capital, at the beginning of February. Initial work is underway on a 1000 square metre sound stage, which is expected to be operational ...
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Comment: UK tax changes hit middlemen
The UK government has overhauled tax-based funding for films by cutting out the middlemen.Still no doubt smarting from the negative press over last month's clamp down on GAAP funds, finance minister Gordon Brown this week set out to tighten up a sector where some funds, he said, were abusing the ...
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Lantern Lane to handle US distribution of Seeing Other People
Lantern Lane Entertainmenthas picked up US distribution rights to film and television companyPariah's romantic comedy Seeing Other People, which recently earned a US Comedy Arts Festivalbest actress prize for Julianne Nicholson.A limited US release isplanned in New York, Los Angeles and two additional markets on May 7, expandingto other cities ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
In spite of its gradual decline, Robbery Of The Third Reich is still stealing most of the Serbian-Montenegrin box office. In its fourth weekend, the local blockbuster sold another 20,297 admissions and remained unchallenged in the top position with a total gross of $669,716 for Mirius.Tuck opened Something's Gotta Give ...
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King continues to return, rising 11% in 12th weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is on the cusp of $700m at the international box office as thepicture's recent Academy Awards triumph powered another strong weekend.The picture grossed $10.7mfrom 3,151 screens in 61 markets - an impressive 11% rise in its 12th weekend ...
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Arclight takes on two pictures from Cecchi Gori
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational rights to two titles from Gianni Nunnari's Los Angeles-based Cecchi GoriPictures - family movie My Weststarring Harvey Keitel and David Bowie and the period drama Canone Inverso, which stars Hans Matheson and Gabriel Byrne.Arclight willtake both titles to MIP-TV in Cannes, which the company is attending ...
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New UK distributor builds release slate
Enjoy Cinema Ltd., the new UK theatrical distribution outfit set up earlier this year by Simon Gosling (ex-HanWay), has announced details of its first acquisitions.To mark the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid, Enjoy is to release Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land in the early summer. Based on the novel ...
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Elwes, Heard join cast of Millenium's thriller Edison
Cary Elwes andJohn Heard have joined the cast of Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films'journalism thriller Edison, which stars Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J and JustinTimberlake and began production on Saturday in Vancouver.The storyfollows a young journalist (Timberlake) who teams up with a reporter (Freeman)and the district attorney's ace ...
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UA takes up Turturro's Romance And Cigarettes
United Artistshas picked up rights in North America, Australia/New Zealand and South Africato Romance And Cigarettes which is scheduled to start shooting in New York this month.The movie iswritten and directed by actor John Turturro and features an ensemble castincluding Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore,Mary-Louise Parker and ...
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Mumbai cinemas threaten permanent closure
Over 900 cinemas in Mumbai and the surrounding Indian state of Maharashtra have threatened to close indefinitely on March 19 in protest against the government's entertainment tax policy.The call for action was sounded by the Cinematograph Exibitors' Association of India (CEAI) president Nester D'Souza and Theatre Owners' Association (TOA) president ...