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Berlinale lines up New Hollywood 1967-1976 retrospective
The Berlinale has lined up a Retrospective called "New Hollywood 1967 - 1976. Trouble in Wonderland" for its 2004 edition. The Retrospective will screen 66 films: from Arthur Penn's gangster ballad Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and Robert Kramer's study of a generation Milestones (1976).D. ...
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AUSTRALIA
UIP's Intolerable Cruelty held on to the top spot in its second weekend and BVI's Kill Bill Volume 1, which has been on screens for three weekends, clawed its way back up to second position. That meant displacing Roadshow's Freddy vs Jason, which actually dropped two places to fourth position ...
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Australia's Ocean splits in two
After three and a half years together as partners, Jonathan Shteinman and Emile Sherman are dissolving their Sydney-based sales agency and distribution/production outfit Ocean Pictures. Both of them are now setting up their own seperate distribution/production entities.The first film under the Sherman Pictures banner is likely to be theatre director ...
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France's CNC awards screenwriting prize to Mihaileanu
France's national cinema centre, the CNC, has awarded its prize for best screenwriter of 2003 to Radu Mihaileanu. The award went to the Romanian writer for his film Va, Vis Et Deviens which was written in collaboration with Alain-Michel Blanc.Va, Vis Et Deviens is about an Ethiopian child adopted by ...
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Camara Oscura to open Sitges
Catalan newcomer Pau Freixas' Camara Oscura is set to open the Sitges International Film Festival, which this year has pushed its dates back to run Nov 27 - Dec 7.Greg Marcks' US-Canadian co-production 11:14, starring Hilary Swank, Rachel Leigh Cook and Patrick Swayze, will close a high-profile line-up unveiled on ...
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UK launches review of co-production treaties
The UK government today launched a review of its international co-production treaties in a bid to crack down on filmmakers accessing tax relief while only spending a small proportion of the budget in the country.The culture department, which will carry out the review with support body the UK Film Council, ...
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JAPAN
The strategy of releasing a made-for-Japan version of Kill Bill Vol. 1 is paying off big time in the world's second largest film market. The film scored a rousing $1,960,630 on 20 major city screens for a $79,564 screen average. This compares with Y74,370,200 ($670,002) on the same number of ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Calendar Girls showed amazing resilience in its fourth weekend by reclaiming the top spot from S.W.A.T, which is on 13 more screens and only in its second week. The gap between them only amounted to NZ$5,000 but Calendar Girls' highest-in-the-chart screen average indicates there is a lot more life in ...
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SWEDEN
As the top of the Swedish chart remained all but unchanged for another weekend with the two local hits Evil and The Third Wave in front, the new release of Kjell-Aake Andersson's drama comedy Let's Play House (MammaPappaBarn) confirmed how difficult it has been a many of the new local ...
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UK/IRELAND
The Halloween weekend was ably represented in the UK last weekend when the remake of 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre launched into second position with $2.3m (£1.4m).Including preview figures of $118,908 (£70,037) the film, which stars Jessica Biel as a young woman who, with a group of friends, ...
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Bad Boys 2 steals another $6m for CTFDI over weekend
Bad Boys 2 grossed $6m over the weekend to raiseits international running total to $109.8m.The actionsequel, which was released by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI), added $1.9m from 646 screens in its third weekend in France, dropping33% for $10.1m and second place.In Germany inits fourth weekend it added $1.2m from ...
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Beatty, De Laurentiis, Cameron get honours at 2003 PGA Awards
Warren Beatty will receive the Milestone Award, Dino De Laurentiisthe David O Selznick Achievement Award Theatrical Motion Pictures and JamesCameron the Vanguard Award at the upcoming 15th Annual Producers Guild ofAmerica (PGA) Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 15 2004.Previous recipients of the Milestone Award - the PGA's mostprestigious honour ...
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Moviehouse takes on ivans xtc sales ahead of Mifed
London-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up international rights to ivans xtc, the edgy tale of a fast-rising Hollywood agent from Candyman director Bernard Rose.Moviehouse will launch the film at MIFED, where it will also screen recently completed Blind Flight following its world premiere at the London Film Festival. ...
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Arclight takes on hot ensemble pic for MIFED
Sydney- andLA-based Arclight Films has acquired international rights to ensemble crimedrama Crash featuringHeath Ledger, Brendan Fraser, Eva Mendes, DonCheadle, Forest Whitaker and Thandie Newton.The film isbeing produced by Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari's Bull's Eye Entertainment andfinanced by Yari's Stratus Film Company. Shooting is set to start on Dec 9 ...
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Arclight takes on hot ensemble pic from Bull's Eye
Sydney- andLA-based Arclight Films has acquired international rights to ensemble crimedrama Crash featuringHeath Ledger, Brendan Fraser, Eva Mendes, DonCheadle, Forest Whitaker and Thandie Newton.The film isbeing produced by Cathy Schulman and Bob Yari's Bull's Eye Entertainment andfinanced by Yari's Stratus Film Company. Shooting is set to start on Dec 9 ...
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UK film industry exports slip back
UK film product's net surplus fell 23% last year to £187m, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics.Exports fell from £700 million in 2001 to £657 million, while imports rose slightly from £456 million in 2001 to £470 million.But the figures still left the film industry with ...
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Disney signs Brother Bear film-makers to their next film
The threefilm-makers behind Buena Vista's animated feature Brother Bear, which grossed $18.5m at the weekend(Oct 31-Nov 2), have signed a deal to make their next feature for Walt DisneyFeature Animation.Directors AaronBlaise and Robert Walker and producer Chuck Williams will reprise their roleson an unspecified project for the studio. All three ...
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Boll buys film rights to Dungeon Siege game
Germanproduction company Boll KG has acquired theatrical and related merchandiserights to the fantasy video game Dungeon Siege from Gas Powered Games.Executiveproducer and director Uwe Boll expects to begin filming toward the end of 2004and said the budget will be in the $50m range. Dan Sales' Interactive FilmSales International owns foreign ...