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Working Title readies New Zealand Number
Writer/director Toa Fraser's Number 2 looks like being the first New Zealand film to secure the involvement of Working Title Australia (WTA) - and the third feature since Tim White opened the company's Sydney office in November 2000.While the board of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) has offered its ...
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ITALY Production Listings - October 27 2003
ITALIAN LISTINGS October 27PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Exec prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260AMAMI(Tangram Film) Backer: Fondo di Garanzia (It). Drama about a woman who has recently separated from her husband and realises that she can be ...
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AUSTRALIA
Intolerable Cruelty lead the field with a A$1,916,705 gross from 228 screens on its opening weekend. Putting aside the only IMAX picture in the chart, it also had the best screen average. This positive start, combined with its star power and the good word of mouth surrounding it, indicates a ...
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BELGIUM
Eight new openers in the marketplace could not prevent local hit The Alzheimer Case from claiming its rightful place at the top of the Belgian box office chart last weekend.The psychological thriller has recorded a massive 131,200 admissions after 12 days on release and grossed $930,164 (Euros 786,919). The Alzheimer ...
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Hamptons festival praises Jesus
Screen Door Jesus, a film about faith, religion and race that waswritten and directed by a former preacher who was excommunicated from hischurch, walked away with three jury prizes including the Golden Starfish forbest narrative feature at the 11th Hamptons International Film Festival on LongIsland.Memphis-born Kirk Davis, whostudied filmmaking at ...
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UK's Screen West Midlands launches regional film fund
A £3.3 million pot of film and media funding has been launched by UK regional screen agency Screen West Midlands.The agency, which aims to attract more co-productions and features from across the globe to the region, has split the cash into production funding worth £3 million over 3 years and ...
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Vollmar's My Parents wins Hof prize
Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy student Neele Leana Vollmar was awarded this year's Kodak Eastman Support Award for her short My Parents (Meine Eltern) at this year's Hof International Film Festival (October 22-26).Vollmar joins an illustrious list of previous Kodak Eastman prize-winners such as Oscar winner Caroline Link (Nowhere In Africa), Tom ...
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Italian production round-up
For the latest Italian listings, see International production ListingsA wealth of hotly-anticipated pictures are currently being made in Italy: These include Cuore Sacro, a new picture by Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, whose last two films, Ignorant Fairies and Facing Windows have become local blockbusters. Produced by his regular partners, ...
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NonStop takes on sales for Sonet pair
Film sales agent NonStop Sales has taken on worldwide sales for two Swedish films from Sonet Film - romantic comedy Miffo and children's/family drama Emma And Daniel - The Meeting. Both productions will market premiere at MIFED.Directed and produced by Daniel Lind Lagerlof with production companies Sonet Film and Hagring, ...
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NORWAY
After two weeks at the top of the chart even Mother's Elling had to back down to the attack of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, though it retained its position on the admissions chart (30,652 vs. 29,819) due to its high number of prints. However, Bill's impressive 806 admissions screen ...
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Scary Movie 3 breaks record for October and Miramax
Dimension's Scary Movie 3 galvanised the box office over the weekend with a stunning$49.7m number one opening that was easily the biggest October bow of all time,while Paramount/Mandalay Pictures' epic love story Beyond Borders flopped outside the top 10.The horror spoof averaged $14,189 from 3,503 sites and starsCharlie Sheen, Anna ...
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Irish talent throws weight behind Section 481 campaign
Irish directors and screenwriters have weighed in behind Screen Producers Ireland's (SPI) campaign for the retention of Ireland's Section 481 tax break beyond its December 2004 termination date. Expressing their concern about the expiration of the tax incentive at a Dublin press briefing on Oct 22 were director Neil Jordan, ...
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Wellspring acquires worldwide rights to Stoked
US-based distributorWellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excluding the US, Canada and theCaribbean Basin to Helen Stickler's acclaimed documentary Stoked: The RiseAnd Fall Of Gator.The film charts thetumultuous career of 1980s skateboarding legend Mark 'Gator'Rogowski, whose rise from local hero to international superstar ended ininfamy.The deal was negotiated by Sticklerand ...
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Diggs takes lead role in Armada's Drum
Taye Diggs, whose creditsinclude Chicago, Basic and BrownSugar, has joined the cast of ArmadaPictures' true-life Apartheid drama Drum, which begins principal photography on Nov 7 inSouth Africa.Set in the 1950s, the storycentres on a magazine writer who risks his life exposing the South Africanregime and sparks a popular protest movement.UTA, ...
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Focus to sell Europe on Zhang's latest martial arts epic
Focus Features will handleinternational sales in mainland Europe excluding the UK for Zhang Yimou'sin-production martial arts spectacle, House Of Flying Daggers.Sales on Yimou's firstproject since the action epic Herowill begin at MIFED next month. Producer Bill Kong will collaborate with Focusfor the third time following Heroand Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.The ...
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Weinstein, Bachchan in Mumbai meeting
Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein made a short private visit to Mumbai to meet Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan last week. The details of meeting are not immediately known, although it comes in the same month that Bachchan relaunched his production company AB Corp on 11th October 2003.Weinstein also visited the shoot ...
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Lenin! crosses UK box office landmark
Good Bye, Lenin!, has passed the £1m mark at the UK box office, making it only the seventh European subtitled film in the last ten years to achieve such success, the UK Film Council has revealed. The film's UK release - by UGC Films UK - was supported by the ...
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Top East Euro producers to pitch projects at Cottbus
Fourteen projects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year's two-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 4-5.They include new feature films from: Slovenia's Emotionfilm, producer of Damjan Kozole Spare Parts; the Czech Republic's Negativ, producer of Petr Zelenka's Year Of The Dog; and Slovakia's ALEF Film&Media Group, ...
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Outrage from HFPA, SAG at MPAA's secret deal with Academy
The Hollywood Foreign PressAssociation (HFPA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have strongly condemnedyesterday's (23) exclusive screeners ban U-turn between the MPAA and AMPAS.Under the terms of thebehind-closed-doors deal, a one-year experiment will see VHS tapes go out onlyto those Academy members who sign an agreement pledging to safeguard theirtapes ...
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European Film Academy unveils documentary contenders
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations in its Documentary 2003 - Prix Arte category. The winner will be presented at the European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, December 6 in Berlin.The documentary jury consists of: Alfredo Knuchel, documentary filmmaker, festival programme advisor & journalist, Switzerland; Ben Lewis, producer/director, ...