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Rings, Nemo close in on $500m international haul
This upcoming weekend offers the mouth-watering prospect of two possible $500m international results as Finding Nemo and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King each close in on the half-billion mark.While there is no doubt both titles will do it, Buena Vista International's (BVI) animated hit seems ...
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Spanish cinema stuck in 'vicious circle' says Academy
Spanish cinema is stuck in a "vicious circle" of debility and dependence, the Spanish Cinema Academy suggested in its annual report on the local film sector, presented on Thursday in Madrid.The so-called "Crisis" of Spanish film production - the title of last year's report - is far from resolved, ...
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Carandiru to open Argentina's Mar Del Plata
Carandiru, Brazil's official entry to the Oscars, will open Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival, slated to run from March 11th to 20th.Pupi Avati's Heart Is Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) will close the Latin American A-listed festival.Carandiru director Hector Babenco is Argentine-born and is best known for directing Oscar-nominated ...
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Danish Bodil Award nominations reveal some surprises
This year's Danish film critics' nominations for the Bodil awards reveal some unusual differences from those selected by the Danish Film Academy for The ROBERTS.Common to both, Per Fly's The Inheritance led the field with Lars von Trier's Dogville. Both films were nominated as best film, best actor (Ulrich Thomsen ...
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Croff confirmed as Biennale boss
As expected, Italian culture minister Giuliano Urbani confirmed on Thursday the appointment of Davide Croff as the new president of the Biennale, the organization that runs the Venice Film Festival. (See ScreenDaily.com, Jan 15)Croff's appointment will now have to be ratified by the both the parliament and the senate's cultural ...
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Lakeshore dives into Romania with Cave
Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems have settled on Romania as the location for the shoot of their action-thriller Prime Evil aka Cave.The picture, which is scheduled to shoot from March, had long been pencilled in to use East European locations. Lakeshore recently settled on Romania and has begun constructing sets ...
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Cinema Service splits from Plenus parent
Cinema Service, one of the two major distributors that dominate the South Korean film market, has announced plans to separate from its parent company Plenus Entertainment.In a public announcement to the Korean KOSDAQ stock exchange, Plenus Entertainment announced, "A formal separation with Cinema Service [...] is currently underway, and the ...
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Vinterberg, Almodovar win Euro i2i backing
New features by Thomas Vinterberg, Pedro Almodovar, the Brothers Quay, Jonathan English and Charles Dance are among 59 European film and TV projects supported with over Euros 2.3m by the European Commission's i2i Audiovisual scheme.The new scheme was launched last July to help production companies access external funding from banks. ...
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Kenny, Abad promoted at Warners Bros Int'l TV
SimonKenny has been promoted to executive vice president, Europe, and Jose 'Pepe'Abad has been promoted to the new post of senior vice president, SouthernEurope, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).Kenny,who joined WBITD as senior vice president, Europe, last year, will continue tooversee the company's European sales force based in ...
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Kenny, Abad promoted at Warner Bros Int'l TV Distribution
SimonKenny has been promoted to executive vice president, Europe, and Jose 'Pepe'Abad has been promoted to the new post of senior vice president, SouthernEurope, at Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD).Kenny,who joined WBITD as senior vice president, Europe, last year, will continue tooversee the company's European sales force based in ...
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Art Directors Guild announces nominations
TheArt Directors Guild (ADG) has announced its nominations in two film categoriesfor its upcoming Eighth Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards.Theperiod or fantasy film nominees include Ben Van Os for Girl With A PearlEarring, Lily Kilvert for The Last Samurai, Grant Major for TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of ...
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Bim chief awarded France's Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
Valerio De Paolis, head of Italian arthouse distribution outfit Bim, has been awarded one of France's highest cultural honours for tirelessly promoting French culture in Italy through the distribution of dozens of Gallic films.De Paolis will receive the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et Lettres award in Paris on Monday January ...
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Aurum shows Spanish Passion for Gibson epic
Spanish distributor Aurum has nabbed all local rights to Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion Of Christ.The film will premiere in Spain on April 2. Despite the widespread use of dubbing in Spain, it will be released according to Gibson's wishes in original version with subtitles to highlight the original use ...
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Whitaker, Balaban board freedom project for Sundance Channel and Court TV
ForestWhitaker and Bob Balaban are the first two film-makers to join The FirstAmendment Project, a four-part series of half-hour films by the SundanceChannel and Court TV.Setto air in August 2004, the series invites film-makers to reflect on the notionof freedom in daily life and the challenges of protecting the values ...
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Spain's Plural embarks on US Justice shoot
Spain's Plural Entertainment has begun shooting in Miami on Justice For All (Justicia Para Todos), the first Spain-produced fiction series wholly designed for, shot and broadcast in the US.The one-hour dramatic series will be broadcast during prime-time on Univision, giving it a potential audience of 40 million.The series is set ...
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Admissions to French films slip back in 2003
Reflecting the downturn at the French box office in 2003, French films took 60.6m admissions during the year - a 6.2% drop from 2002.However, according to new figures from French film body the CNC, the market share of French films held firm at 34.8% - slightly up on 2002's 34.2%.Nineteen ...
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Top Japanese broadcaster unveils film ambitions
Japan's leading TV broadcaster Fuji TV is aggressively expanding its business into film production and foreign film acquisitions.This summer, Fuji TV enjoyed enormous box office success with Bayside Shakedown Two: The Movie, which grossed $142.5m at the domestic box office -setting an all-time biggest box office record for Japanese live-action ...
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Spacey's Sea wins Babelsberg backing
Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea has become the first film production to benefit from the State of Brandenburg's guarantee scheme.With the state-backed guarantee as a security, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) will put up Euros 4.8m towards the film's $ 20m-plus production costs through a loan from ...
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Samaria set for Berlin competition
Controversial director Kim Ki-duk's 10th film Samaria has been selected to screen in the competition section of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, according to local press reports in South Korea.Berlin is expected to announce further elements of its competition line-up today (Jan 15). Other titles tipped at press time ...