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UK Film composer Wiseman awarded MBE
Film and TV composer/conductor Debbie Wiseman has been awarded an M.B.E in the Queen's New Years Honours Lists 2004 for services to the film industry.Wiseman has composed over 150 scores for film and television productions including Wilde, Haunted, Before You Go, P.O.W., Judge John Deed, Tom & Viv, The Secret ...
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German film critics announce award nominations
Distant Lights (Lichter) by Hans-Christian Schmid, Pigs Will Fly (pictured) by Eoin Moore and Wolfsburg by Christian Petzold are among the films nominated for this year's German Film Critics Awards.The complete line-up of nominations in the four categories are:Best Feature FilmPigs Will Fly, dir: Eoin MooreDistant Lights, dir: Hans-Christian SchmidAngst, ...
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Nemo takes global box office crown
Finding Nemo became the biggest global release of 2003 in the last weekend of the year as it added $25.5m from international markets to raise its worldwide tally to $745m.By Dec 29 the animated hit had amassed $405m at the international box office, which combined with the $340m domestic gross ...
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Hong Kong star Anita Mui dies suddenly
Anita Mui Yim-Fong, an icon of the Hong Kong entertainmentindustry, died yesterday aged 40, from the side effects of cancer.Mui, who had a career that spanned twodecades, reached the top of both the music and film industries and came to beregarded as a national treasure. She drew plaudits from across ...
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Love Actually raises international tally to $120m
Universal's Love Actually added an estimated $10m from 2,300sites in 31 countries through UIP at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $113m.The figure rises to $120m including France, where the filmhas taken $5.5m and is distributed through Studiocanal, and Russia, where ithas taken $1.5m to date.In Australia the ...
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Keil exits Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The German film industry has been rocked by the news thatKlaus Keil is to exit his post as chief executive of the regional public filmfunding body Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB) on 31 March 2004.Keil, who became the head of FBB when it was created by thefederal states of Berlin and Brandenburg ...
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Return Of The King surges towards $500m
After just a fortnight intheatres, New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King already ranks as the fifth most successful globalrelease of 2003 after The Matrix Reloaded, Finding Nemo, PiratesOf The Caribbean and its immediate predecessor The Two Towers. It will only be a matter of ...
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Messier lands without a parachute
Former Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier hasgiven up his bid for a $25m severance package from the company, after beingforced by US regulators to relinquish claims to such a golden parachute.Messier had been seeking indemnities he believed owed to himfollowing his resignation in 2002. After a New York court upheld ...
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Return Of The King still rules them all with 12-day $223.7m total
New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return OfThe King became the second fastest film of all time to pass $200m over arecord breaking Christmas weekend at the box office, staying top in its secondweek on $51.2m for an estimated $223.7m running total.Peter Jackson's trilogy finale passed $200m on ...
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Mona Lisa Smile gives Julia Roberts her biggest bow in Mexico
Julia Roberts scored her biggest ever debut in Mexico at theweekend as Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) opened MonaLisa Smile on an estimated $1m.In its first international release the romantic comedy wentout on 230 prints and ranked third behind The Lord of The Rings: The ReturnOf The King and ...
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Screen International's Review of the Year 2003
2003 was the year that Old Europe, to steal from Donald Rumsfeld's war cry, took a reality check in preparation for the New. Local film support apparatuses were re-engineered, national boundaries questioned and distribution-led cinema more fully embraced. Vivendi finally surrendered Universal and with it Europe's ill-advised claim to studio ...
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Berdugo named head of French film exporters
Raphael Berdugo, head of Roissy Films, was last week unanimously elected president of the executive board of ADEF, the association of independent French film exporters. Berdugo has a mandate for two years and heads a committee that also includes Daniela Elstner of Les Films du Losange, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Films ...
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Romania set to privatise state-owned cinemas
Romania is expected this week to unveil details of the privatisation of a significant number of state-owned cinemas.The move was revealed by Decebal Mitulescu, director general of the National Centre of Cinematography (CNC), the state-body which has regulatory, funding and administrative functions similar to the French organisation with the same ...
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Twin Sisters producer readies five strong slate
Successful Dutch production house IdtV Film, the company behind local box office smash and Oscar hope Twin Sisters, has lined up a slate of five new features. Two of the projects from the Amsterdam based company are international productions. Batavia is billed as an epic about the disastrous seavoyage of ...
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AUSTRALIA
UIP's Peter Pan was the most popular film in its opening weekend at the Australian box office, although its gross was a slightly underwhelming A$1,507,592 from 269 screens. This result was surprising given the extra publicity generated by it being shot in Australia by Australian expatriate director P J Hogan. ...
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DENMARK
At the Danish box-office it wasn't just the predictable third instalment of The Lord Of The Rings, The Return Of The King, which enjoyed record-breaking success, with the re-releases of the two first films also finding places in the chart.However, their screen averages were not too impressive as was the ...
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HONG KONG
Media Asia's Infernal Affairs III kicked off the Christmas box office season with a stellar US$2.14m in its first six days. The film grossed HK$3.22m on its opening day (Dec 12), smashing several records including the biggest non-weekend opening of the year.The highly-anticipated conclusion to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's ...
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NEW ZEALAND
New Zealanders' overwhelming sense of pride in and ownership of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy was good news for the opening of the final instalment, The Return Of The King, which did an extraordinary NZ$2.6m last weekend.To put this in perspective, it accounted for more than 75% of the ...