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While UIP's romantic comedy Along Came Polly held onto the top spot in its second week with a respectable 30% slip from its launch it was Icon's drama 21 Grams that proved the real triumph in the UK last weekend.The film presents three story lines constantly interlinking and which jump ...
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Ster-Kinekor targets black audiences for South African growth
South African broadcasting and cinema group Primedia, owners of distributor/exhibitor Ster-Kinekor has announced improved figures with revenue up 15.1% to $135m (R898.6m) and pre-tax profit growing 39% to $20m.The film division lifted revenue 5.6% to $13.6m thanks to a higher contribution from Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment.But overall operating profits were down ...
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Beyond sells Good Woman to Japan
Beyond Films, the London-based, Australian-owned sales agent, has wrapped up a large number of deals on its AFM slate.Mike Barker's Scarlett Johansson-starring, Oscar Wilde adaptation A Good Woman was sold to Gaga Communications for Japan, Prooptiki for Greece, Bergvik for Iceland, Gulf Films for the Middle East, LNK Audiovisuais for ...
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Veteran Italian producer juggles historic biopics
Renowned Italian executive and line producer Mario Cotone is currently developing two major international multi-million dollar projects that will both be backed by RAI and are set to shoot next autumn.The first is a long-gestating $25m movie about Matteo Ricci, a 16th century Italian Jesuit missionary and scientist who lived ...
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Return Of The King gets int'l boost from Oscar wins
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is bearing down on $700m at the international box office after raisingits running total by $9.4m from 3,547 screens in 60 markets at the weekend to$679.4m.Peter Jackson's trilogy finaledropped 27% in its fourth weekend in Japan, adding $4.7m ...
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'Courageous' doc wins top Diagonale prize
Martin Bruch's documentary handbikemovie was the surprise winner of this year's Euros 19,000 Diagonale Grand Prix in Austria, which was sponsored by the Land of Styria and Kodak.Bruch, who has multiple sclerosis and uses an adapted wheelchair, filmed handbikemovie with a camera attached to his bicycle helmet. It shows the ...
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Von Trier's Dogville takes Danish critics' prize
Lars von Trier was back with a vengeance in Copenhagen on Sunday night, where the Danish film critics gave out their prestigious Bodil Awards.With Dogville singled out as the best film he became the first filmmaker to win the coveted award five times - despite missing out with his two ...
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Stalins gets senior vp stripes at MGM International TV Dist'n
Carolyn Stalinshas been promoted to senior vice president of international televisiondistribution at MGM.Stalins, whooversees distribution in the UK and France for MGM's features and televisionseries, NBC's television series and the catalogues of MGM/UA, Orion, Polygramand NBC, will continue to report to Gilberte DeTurenne, senior vice president andmanaging director of Europe."For ...
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Duffy doc Overnight sold to THINKFilm
THINKFilm hasacquired all North American rights to Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana'sdirectorial debut Overnight, which was a midnight screening at Sundance this year and causeda stir for its warts-and-all portrait of an upstart film-maker in theindependent film business.First screenedin a longer cut at the Seattle International Film Festival last ...
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Garner named ShoWest female star of tomorrow
Jennifer Garner,who will next star in 13 Going On 30 for Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, has beennamed ShoWest 2004 Female Star of Tomorrow."Jennifer Garner has already taken the world by storm onthe small screen and we can only imagine what great success lies in store asshe begins to conquer ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 9 2004
SPAIN - March 9PRE-PRODUCTIONNever Again (Nunca Mais)(Producciones do Pais Nunca Mais, MediaPro) Budget: Euros 620,000. Feature-length film made up of short films about the Prestige oil spill off Spain's Galicia coast. Exec prods: Suso Iglesias, Carlos Ares, Andres Mahia, Xose Castro, Jose Manuel Blanco. Dirs/scr: Gracia Querejeta, Joaquin Oristrell, Daniel ...
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Singapore set as host for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) AwarY
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Singapore set as venue for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held on
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Singapore set as host for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held on May 22 in Singapore.The IIFA presentationceremony launched four years ago at London's Millennium Dome and is thehighlight of a three-day show honouring the best of Indian cinema.The IIFA Weekend will runfrom May 20-22, culminating in the fifth IIFA Awards ...
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AUSTRALIA
The Passion Of The Christ took A$2,095,841 from 151 screens to retain first place in the chart during its second four-day weekend on release. This was about two thirds of the gross of the corresponding period a week earlier from a screen count that rose by six prints.Speaking of prints, ...
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Brother Bear has huge openings in Italy, Israel for BVI
Buena Vista International's (BVI) animated picture Brother Bear is closing in on $100m at theinternational box office thanks to a record-breaking $6.6m weekend haul thatraised its running total to $95.8m.The picture opened top in Italy on $2.7m from 439 screens, whichwas the second biggest animated bow ever behind BVI's Finding ...
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Emily Olsen named corporate PR head for Samy Boy
Emily M Olsen, the founder of StellarQuest Public Relations andConsulting, has been named director of corporate communications for Samy BoyEntertainment and its affiliated companies.Olsen, with the support of fellow new hire Shannon Loughead, willoversee branding and marketing for Samy Boy Entertainment, Element Films,Shelter Supper Club, The Gate, Sam Nazarian's personal ...
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UK cinema outlook remains positive
The UK's cinema industry remains on track to deliver 200 million cinema-goers - and £1bn at the box office - by 2008, according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.The report put last year's drop of 8.5 million admissions down to the exceptional product line-up of the previous year ...
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Dead, Lives get extended sneak peaks in US
Demonstrating a new twist on the theatrical marketing model,Universal and USA Network are teaming up to screen an unprecedented telecast ofthe uncut first 10 minutes of the forthcoming horror remake Dawn Of The Dead in the US.Meanwhile Warner Bros and Village Roadshow are preparing to air the firstnine-minutes of the ...
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Dutch film finance scheme faces extinction
The Dutch ministries of Finance and Economic Affairs have stated they are no longer willing to provide funds for film production.From 2005, film policy will become an exclusively cultural affair, under the aegis of the ministry of Culture. In effect this means that state support for film will fall from ...