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Daiei brand to become extinct
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing president Tsuguhiko Kadokawa has announced a reorganisation of the company's film businesses and a relaunch on April 1 under the name Kadokawa Pictures.The reshuffle, which will merge film-related subsidiaries of Kadokawa Holdings with film producer and distributor Kadokawa Daiei, will result in the extinction of the Daiei ...
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Luppi begins shooting directorial debut
Federico Luppi, Argentina's most internationally renowned actor, began shooting his directorial debut in Spain last week.Written by Luppi's wife Susana Abascal, the drama titled Pasos is co-produced by San Sebastian-based Igeldo Communicaciones. Igeldo also co produced Chilean drama B Happy, set to have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Forum ...
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Don Bird joins DTS as vice president of marketing
Don Bird has joined digitaltechnology company DTS as vice president of marketing, where he will overseemarketing and branding activities for all areas of the company's entertainment,technological and corporate business.Bird brings with him morethan 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of technicalproducts for the entertainment industry.Prior to DTS, ...
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The Return graced with Golden Eagles
Despite being snubbed by the Oscars, director Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Return swept to victory at the second edition of the Golden Eagles, one of Russia's two top film awards.At a ceremony held Saturday night at the Mosfilm Studios the country's National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the ...
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A Tale Of Two Sisters takes top prize at Gerardmer festival
The 11th annual FantasticFilm Festival of Gerardmer drew to a close Sunday night with A Tale Of TwoSisters taking the Grand Jury Prize.The South Korean film by KimJee Woon is a psychological thriller set in a very dysfunctional family thatwas roundly considered the most terrifying of all eight competition filmsdespite ...
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FRANCE
The combination of Julia Roberts and La Joconde weren't enough this week to unseat Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai now in its second week at number one.Mona Lisa Smile opened at number two with a respectable 337,134 admissions on a relatively low 394 screens for a film starring the world's ...
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Muxmauschenstill wins Max Ophuls Prize
Marcus Mittermeier's feature debut Muxmauschenstill, which will be screening in the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino, was the big winner at this year's 25th jubilee edition of the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival (26 January - 1 February, 2004) for newcomer German-language cinema in Saarbrücken.The black comedy by Berlin-based Schiwago Filmproduktion ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
As expected, The Return Of The King dominated the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for the fifth weekend in a row - attracting 5,451 tickets (down 50%) to add to its massive cumulative gross of $622,213 for Tuck.Tuck also opened The Rundown with 4,472 tickets and $12,485 - giving the company the top ...
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NORWAY
Despite a number of new releases, the top five spots of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged with The Last Samurai in front of Petter Naess' Just Bea.However, the latter dropped only 5% and performed almost as well, despite the limiting 15 label it received from local censors. Julia Roberts' considerable ...
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You Got Served races ahead over Superbowl weekend
Screen Gems' hip-hop drama You Got Served took advantage of the quiet Superbowlweekend, opening top on an estimated $16m.Paramount's high school drama The Perfect Score opened fifth on $5m while WarnerBros' crime caper The Big Bounce flopped in 12th place on $3.3m.You Got Served stars Omarion, Marques Houston and Omarion'sfellow ...
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Trio win Rotterdam Tiger Awards
International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) has awarded its three Tiger Awards to films from Taiwan, Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina.Directors Lee Kang-sheng (The Missing), Sredjan Vuletic (Summer in the Golden Valley) and Jan Krüger (En Route) received the awards worth Euros 10.000 at the Friday night (Jan 30) at the closing ...
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France's CNC outlines Soficas spending for 2004
France's national cinema centre, the CNC, has announced figures for Sofica funds to be pumped into production in 2004.There are currently nine such tax shelters which collected Euros 40.99m in 2003. Under their obligation to invest 90% of annually raised funds, the Soficas will invest Euros 36.89m.In 2002 Euros 35.14m ...
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Berlusconi government boosts support for Italian film
A report has surprisingly revealed that while the Italian government upped its investment in Italian films by 34.8% last year compared to 2002, private investment in local titles dropped a worrying 5.25%,The Italian film industry invested a total of Euros 301.7m in films in 2003, up 8.68% on the previous ...
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Canadian production 'under siege', says report
Competition from off-shore shooting destinations trying to lure US projects is causing concern amongst Canadian producers, according to the annual report issued by the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.Foreign-financed shoots spent US$1.42bn in 2001-2002, nearly 40% of the country's total production volume of US$3.7bn.Although there was an increase of ...
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Monster launch for new German theatrical player
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media is to launch its own in-house theatrical distribution arm 3L Filmverleih to release the Oscar-nominated Monster for which it holds the German language rights.The new outfit is expected to handle between five and eight releases each year, with Monster being the first 3L ...
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Pixar files for divorce from Disney, relationship to end in 2006
Pixar and Disney broke off talks to extend their existingfive-film deal yesterday (29), leaving the animation cash-cow free to enterdiscussions with other studios competing to distribute its titles beginning in2006.After completing the final two films under the current agreementwith Disney - The Incredibles in 2004 and Cars in 2005 - ...
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Newmark/Echelon acquires A Tale Of Two Pizzas
Production, financing,international sales and distribution house Echelon Entertainment has acquired Vincent Sassone's romantic comedy A Tale Of Two Pizzas.Newmark/Echelon Entertainment Group plans a domestic releasebefore the summer.Set in Yonkers, New York, the story centres on two families whofeud over a secret pizza sauce recipe and stars Vincent Pastore (TheSopranos) and ...
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Gaumont realigns with Columbia TriStar for French distribution alliance
Columbia TriStar Films France and French studio Gaumont haveformed Gaumont Columbia TriStar Films in a deal that will see the new entitydistribute in France all films produced and acquired for France by SonyPictures Entertainment, Columbia TriStar and Gaumont.Headed up by Columbia Tri Star International's current presidentEric Brune, the joint venture ...
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Thai studio readies Ong Bak sequel for March shoot
Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International has unveiled details of the second film from Ong-Bak star Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew, in which the Australian underworld gets a taste of Thai-style kickboxing.Called Tom Yum Goong, after the spicy Thai soup, the US$4m action comedy is scheduled to start shooting in ...