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Gaumont pins hopes on future film output
French major Gaumont is pinning its hopes on a string of forthcoming films to improve its bottom line - after revealing that it had lost millions of Euros on its latest film at the French box office.On Monday, the company unveiled a net loss of Euros 2.6m in the first ...
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Tartan swoops on ten pictures at Pusan
Tartan Films of the UK has had a busy time at the Pusan festival and PPP market, picking-up ten pictures from Korean and Hong Kong sellers.Heading the slate in terms of art-house prestige is probably 2046, Wong Kar-Wai's long awaited treatise on post-handover Hong Kong life. The company enjoyed great ...
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$43bn NBC Universal is born
Vivendi Universal today (Sept 8) announced it had signed a definitive agreement with General Electric to merge its US entertainment interests (VUE) with GE's NBC. As expected, the new company will be called NBC Universal and will be 80% owned by GE with 20% held by the shareholders of VUE.In ...
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Arcand's Decline is born again
In the wake of its highlysuccessful sequel, The Barbarian Invasions, the original 1986 film The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire has suddenly been given a new leaseon life in the marketplace. Both films were directed by Quebec auteur DenysArcand.The Decline Of The AmericanEmpire, nominated for foreign-languageOscar in 1997 has just been ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Alliance Atlantis' much-hyped local Canadian release Foolproof did not live up to the box office expectations generated by its title. Backed by a C$2m P&A campaign and released through the company's Odeon Films subsidiary on nearly 200 screens across Canada, the light-hearted caper movie earned a paltry $230,312 for a ...
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Lansbury gets BAFTA/LA Lifetime award
Angela Lansbury will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awardfor Lifetime Achievement in film and television at the 12th Annual BritanniaAwards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.Lansbury, who earned three Academy Award nominations for roles in TheManchurian Candidate, ThePicture Of Dorian Grayand Gaslight,received BAFTA's Silver Mask for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and a ...
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Lansbury gets BAFTA/LA Lifetime award
Angela Lansbury will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awardfor Lifetime Achievement in film and television at the 12th Annual BritanniaAwards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.Lansbury, who earned three Academy Award nominations for roles in TheManchurian Candidate, ThePicture Of Dorian Grayand Gaslight,received BAFTA's Silver Mask for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 and a ...
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Bad Boys II has explosive UK launch
Columbia TriStar's explosive blockbuster Bad Boys II crashed onto UK screens last weekend to hijack the top spot with an impressive $5.3m (£3.2m) from 383 sites. This included $700,338 (£420,203) of previews from 350 sites on Thursday Oct 2.The sequel, which re-teams stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith with director ...
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Bertolucci ready to plunge into Hell And Paradise
Bernardo Bertolucci, whose erotic Venice Film Festival title TheDreamers is to be releasedin Italy this weekend, looks set to finally start shooting his long-awaitedpicture about 16th century Italian composer Gesualdo da Venosa.Although he first announced plans to make a movie aboutGesualdo way back in 1997, the Oscar-winning director said he ...
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DENMARK
As Pirates Of The Caribbean sailed back into the top spot past last week's chart topper The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which dropped a massive 42% - the new release of Aage Rais Nordentoft's well received youth film 2 Moves One Pass carved a solid if unremarkable 17,020 admissions on ...
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Movielink hoards Italian titles for Internet viewing
Broadband video-on-demand service Movielink has acquired Internetrights to a selection of Italian films from Intramovies, the internationaldistributor that represents rights to several major Italian film libraries.The first 25 subtitled films are expected to be ready for downloadin November and include and Marco Tullio Giordana's crime drama I CentoPassi, Francesco Nuti'scomedy ...
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HUNGARY
It was a sad weekend for new releases at the Hungarian box office. Sean Connery and His League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen clearly didn't prove winners standing against the American Pie wedding party. On an impressive thirty copies the adventure didn't even make 33,000 in admissions.Director Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men also ...
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SPAIN
Among the slew of Spanish films set for release this month, Vicente Aranda's Carmen was one of the most anticipated and, accordingly, one of the most promoted. The sexy, $11.5m drama starring Paz Vega and Leonardo Sbaraglia opened strong in second position with Euros 1.14m off 180 copies, replacing Football ...
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Germany sees summer admissions plunge
German cinemas registered 14% fewer admissions and a 15% drop in box-office takings in the third quarter of 2003, compared to the same period 12 months ago, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI.Cinemas reported Euros 159.8m in revenues and 28.4m tickets sold between June 30 and September 28, with ...
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Afghanistan becomes Unveiled at Mill Valley
In a stirring plea to the international community at the weekend, one of the women journalists behind the documentary Afghanistan Unveiled used the film's world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival to urge for more aid work in the war-torn country."The international aid organisations need to extend their coverage ...
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Pieces Of April stirs Mill Valley emotions
Peter Hedges' emotional on-stage interview after the Oct 4 screening of his dysfunctional family drama Pieces Of April provided one of the early highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which in its first weekend offered a heady mix of passion and personality that confirmed its status as a ...
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Arclight engrossed by Chan's New Police Story
Arclight Films has picked up international sales rights to the new Jackie Chan vehicle which currently goes under the working title of New Police Story.The film is produced by JCE, a new company formed by Jackie Chan and his regular business and investment partners Willie Chan (no relation) and Solon ...
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Bollywood megastar arises from bankruptcy
Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan is to relaunch the operations of his film production company Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd. on Oct 11 in Mumbai. The company, which was declared bankrupt in 1999, will now be known as AB Corp and will launch a new Hindi film, directed by Indian filmmaker Raj ...
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Feature producers to benefit from Enterprise Australia
Several feature film producers are among the 16 selected to participate in the inaugural Enterprise Australia, the Australian version of the workshop which UK management consultants Olsberg SPI have already conducted in Europe. It is aimed at equipping Australian producers with the business skills to make their companies globally competitive ...