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Golden Harvest, China Film launch joint venture
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest is setting up a joint venture with mainland entertainment conglomerate, China Film Group Corporation, to co-finance and distribute Chinese-language films.The new venture, which is expected to be operational early next year, intends to finance films produced by mainland production companies and distribute them both in China ...
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Swords drawn for EFA's Prix Screen International
Eightfilms will compete for the 2003 Prix Screen International, the European Film Academy's award for bestnon-European film.TheEFA award, whose selection and nomination procedure is made in co-operationwith Screen International, seessamurai sword epics from two continents take on a diverse field that includes ablockbusting animation and some of the most acclaimed ...
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Matrix Revolutions gets off to storming start
The global day-and-date release of The Matrix Revolutions got off to a storming start yesterday (Nov 5), according to unofficial early estimates compiled by ScreenDaily.com.UK and Ireland estimates show the final instalment in the Wachowski Brothers' trilogy performing well ahead of the previous film The Matrix Reloaded, which opened in ...
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ICELAND
Scary Movie 3 enjoyed virtually complete domination at the box office - racking up a screen average more than three times its closest competitors, and pushing Kill Bill, Intolerable Cruelty, The Rundown and Spy Kids 3D down the chart. Though Calendar Girls opened on 6th, little else changed in ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Radovic's Small World has crossed the 100,000 admissions mark after enjoying the fourth weekend in a row on the top of the chart. The local road comedy has now grossed $259,261. Otherwise, there have not been many changes at the chart - the other local favourite Almost Totally Ordinary ...
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SWITZERLAND
Landing at fifth place in the chart for the German-speaking region of Switzerland, German title The Miracle Of Bern saw a strong launch in the territory.The film, which continues to reign in Germany, took $112,282 (SFR 149,896) from 25 screens in the region for a $4,491 average for Filmcoopi Zurich ...
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SWITZERLAND
Landing at fifth place in the chart for the German-speaking region of Switzerland, German title The Miracle Of Bern saw a strong launch in the territory.The film, which continues to reign in Germany, took $112,282 (SFR 149,896) from 25 screens in the region for a $4,491 average for Filmcoopi Zurich ...
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Aardman embarks on lengthy Curse shoot
The UK's Aardman Animation (Chicken Run) has started production on its latest clay-animation feature project, The Curse Of The Wererabbit.Rumoured to cost $50m, the Dreamworks SKG financed feature will take 18 months to shoot and is set for a September 2005 release. 180 people are currently working on the film ...
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Winkler to get ASC's Board Of Governors Award
Irwin Winkler, theOscar-winning producer and director whose credits include Rocky, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, will receive the 2004 American Society of Cinematographers Board ofGovernors Award at the 18th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 8 2004.The annual honour is theonly ASC award for non-cinematographers and goes to ...
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Raggy Boy to find new home in Winchester
The UK's Winchester Entertainment will be handling sales at Mifed on Aisling Walsh's Irish-set period drama, Song For A Raggy Boy, having taken over the sales mandate from Spain's Lolafilms.At press time, Winchester was poised to sign the deal that sees it take over the sales role from Lolafilms, which ...
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Song For A Raggy Boy to find new home in Winchester
The UK's Winchester Entertainment will be handling sales at Mifed on Aisling Walsh's Irish-set period drama, Song For A Raggy Boy, having taken over the sales mandate from Spain's Lolafilms.At press time, Winchester was poised to sign the deal that sees it take over the sales role from Lolafilms, which ...
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Showtime rescues controversial Reagans miniseries from CBS
US pay-TV network Showtime has jumped in to acquire the television rights to The Reagans after its Viacom stablemate CBS bowed to Republican pary pressure and opted against airing the four-hour mini-series on Nov 16.James Brolin andJudy Davis star as the former president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in ...
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TV chief quits Germany's ProSiebenSat.1
Dr. Ludwig Bauer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media's board member with responsibility for television, has left the company "due to differing views on the future strategic direction of the company".Bauer, who had worked at the ProSiebenSat.1 Group since 1992 in various posts including head of programmes and managing director at Kabel 1, was ...
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Gijon festival unveils 200 film line-up
Spain's indie-oriented Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 20-28) has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 41st edition, featuring some of the year's top festival prize-winners and talked-about international titles.More than 200 films will air over nine days at the popular event, which has seen a 50% increase in public attendance ...
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More US critics protest MPAA screener ban
The Chicago Film CriticsAssociation have joined their Los Angeles counterparts is suspending theirend-of-year critics awards in protest over the decision by the Motion PictureAssociation of American to prevent screener tapes from being seen at home by anyoneexcept Oscar voters.A statement from the Chicagocritics explained that their association was "disturbed by ...
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Camel to open Munich Film School Festival
Munich Television & Film School students Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's critically feted documentary The Story Of The Weeping Camel will open the International Festival of the Film Schools in Munich (Nov 27-30).The festival is returning to its traditional November dates after being held as a parallel event of June's ...
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FAME takes over Miracle Productions
Film and Music Entertainment, Inc is to acquire Miracle Productions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Miracle Entertainment, Inc. The acquisition is valued at $4,000,000 and includes script options, rights to production fees, U.S. and foreign distribution rights on various films in development, as well as other assets. Miracle will ...
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ITALY
Venice Golden Lion winner The Return opened with a bang at the Italian box office, where it earned $161,313 from just 30 screens. Particularly impressively, newcomer Andrei Zvygatinsev's study of rebellion against parental authority - which is Russia's Oscar candidate - scored a massive screen average of $5,002 for Andrea ...
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SPAIN
Fresh from its best director and public's prize wins at the Montreal Film Festival, new Spanish release Planta 4a took in Euros 541,643 on its opening weekend from just 100 prints through Buena Vista International. The receipts represent a screen average of Euros 5,416 - the second highest of the ...