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Indican takes US rights to Two Men Went To War
Indican Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the UK comic drama Two Men Went To War.The film is an Ira Trattner Production for Little Wing Films directed by John Henderson and co-written by Richard Everett and Christopher Villiers.The deal was struck after the film screened at the recent Hollywood ...
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ITALY
Robert Rodriguez's gun-slinger Once Upon A Time In Mexico knocked Love Actually off the top spot at the Italian box office over the weekend, grossing a strong $1.8m from 283 screens for BVI.The Johnny Depp vehicle, which premiered to much publicity at the Venice Film Festival in September, scored an ...
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JAPAN
Michael Winterbottom's In This World led all new openers with a screen average of $36,760. Distributor Amuse, now merged into Toshiba Entertainment, saturated leading Tokyo art theatres with trailers prior to the November 15 opening at the Cine Chanter theater in Tokyo and the Kannai MG theatre in Yokohama. Also, ...
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D-Cinema set to drive doc theatrical boom
A group of European distributors is banding together to give documentaries wider theatrical play through use of digital exhibition technology. The initiative, European DocuZone (EDZ), will link distributors, institutions and some 175 screens in eight countries to create a digital network capable of giving documentary films simultaneous releases across the ...
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Australian Film Commission slams AFMA
The Australian Film Commission has slammed the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA) for its lack of support in the free trade agreement currently being negotiated with the U.S."If they actually represented the interests of independent producers around the world as they claim, they would be supporting Australian producers, not the ...
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'Original' Diagonale squares up against 'official' Diagonale
The supporters of Austria's 'original Diagonale' have unveiled their plans for a four-day event in Graz between March 3-7, 2004 while the 'official' Diagonale O4 under the management of Tillmann Fuchs and Miroljub Vuckovic seems to be on the verge of imploding."The 'original Diagonale' will take place because it has ...
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Lescure returns with AnnaRose production outfit
Former Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure has announced the launch of a new film production and distribution company as well as a London-based capital development outfit.According to reports in the French media, his production outfit is called AnnaRose and is named after his young daughter. Two film projects are being ...
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Australia's FFC unveils studio model financing plan
Australian funding body the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) is to adopt a studio model when funding local films as part of a radical overhaul of its investment procedures.Chief executive Brian Rosen said that the FFC will choose films to fund and will then work alongside filmmakers to secure marketplace interest. ...
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Working Title Dancing with trio in production
With East Is East director Damien O'Donnell starting up principal photography on Inside I'm Dancing in Dublin, Working Title Films has no less than three features in production at once.Inside I'm Dancing, an Elling-esque tale of two young disabled men outwitting the system which stars Romola Garai, James McAvoy and ...
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South Korean quota system wins temporary reprieve
South Korea's filmmakers have secured a temporary respite in their efforts to maintain the nation's Screen Quota system. In a press conference on November 21, members of the South Korean film industry announced the results of a three-hour meeting with Korean president Roh Moo-hyun concerning the quota issue. ...
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Cat In The Hat jumps to the top with $40.1m
Universal Pictures' Dr Seuss adaptation The Cat In The Hat opened at the top of the box office over the weekend with an estimated $40.1m gross, some $15m less than its 2000 predecessor How The Grinch Stole Christmas.The dismally reviewed fantasy kids movie, produced by Imagine Entertainment and backed by ...
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Japanese studio abandons move plans
Game maker Namco has abandoned its plan to move the studio of film subsidiary Nikkatsu from its current location in a Tokyo suburb to a new site in Yokohama. The plan, announced by Namco president Masaya Nakamura in July 2001, called for the construction of a new studio on a ...
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Website plans to boost Taiwan films abroad
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) is gearing up for a re-launch of its website Taiwancinema.com as the definitive guide to the local film industry in a bid to further promote Taiwan-made films in the international market.The re-launch is scheduled on 7 January 2004, by which the Chinese-language website will be ...
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Love Actually storms UK box office
Richard Curtis' directorial debut Love Actually took the UK by storm this weekend, opening at number one and grossing a massive $11.34m (£6.7m) from 477 locations.Screening on approximately 775 prints, the weekend takings - which included previews of $1.7m (£1m) - scored the biggest ever opening for UK distributor UIP.Love ...
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Italians protest against Rai 'censorship'
Italian composer Nicola Piovani and Nobel winning playwright Dario Fo were among more than 15,000 people who attended a live show at the weekend to protest against censorship at Italian state broadcaster RAI.The show was conducted by local comic Sabina Guzzanti, whose satirical TV programme was closed down by Italian ...
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Barbara Windsor wins Women in Film and TV lifetime award
Barbara Windsor is to be awarded the Working Title Films Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Five Women in Film and Television Awards (WFTV).The annual awards ceremony celebrates the achievements of women in all aspects of the British film and television industry and will be held on the Dec 5 ...
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McKellar cranks up Childstar
Principal photography is underway in Toronto for Don McKellar's second film, Childstar through Toronto-based Rhombus Media. Written by McKellar and Michael Goldbach, the comedy features an ensemble cast including McKellar, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall Dave Foley, Gil Bellows, Brendan Fehr, Kristin Adams, Peter Paige, Noam Jenkins, Alan Thicke, Eric ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Roadshow's The Matrix Revolutions comfortably beat the competition to retain the top spot in its third weekend on release, showing more resilience than in some other markets. UIP's Love Actually put in a strong performance to secure second place, despite only being on previews. It grossed NZ$212,718 from 45 screens ...
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Barenholtz et al buy movie rights to comic strip AstroCity
Ben Barenholtz,Kurt Busiek and Jonathan Alpers have teamed up to form the partnership PanamaLeo LLC and acquired all film rights to the comic book series AstroCity.AstroCity, whichdebuted in 1955 at Image Comics, is the brainchild of Busiek and tells storiesof humans living in a wildly superhuman world. Busiek will be ...