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Warner Bros' release of British thriller Young Adam saw a good turnout last weekend when it claimed the eighth spot in the UK/Ireland chart from 133 locations. It was an ambitious gamble for the distributor, which financed David Mackenzie's adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, which appears to have paid off.The ...
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Sharif to be feted at AFI FEST, Minghella to show 20 mins of Mountain
Omar Sharif will be honouredat the upcoming AFI Festís annual tribute on Nov 11 in Los Angeles.'A Tribute To Omar'will feature clips, anecdotes, an on-stage discussion and a retrospective ofhis films including J Lee Thompson's Mackenna's Gold (1969), William Wyler's Funny Girl (1968), Youssef Chahine's The Blazing Sun (1954) and ...
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San Sebastian films prepare to roll out across Spain
A swathe of films from last week's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28) will invade the Spanish box office over the next month, but to what extent they will benefit from buzz and media coverage coming out of the event remains to be seen.Certainly one of the most interesting ...
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Advanced set for merger with Fast TV Server
After months of negotiations to find a partner, German licence trader Advanced Medien has announced the signing of a draft merger agreement with fellow Munich-based company Fast TV Server.The main purpose of the merged company will be to further develop and market Fast TV Server's products, which include hard disk ...
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Miravista becomes official Disney production label in Latin America
Miravista has now become the official film production label of Disney in Latin America following the dissolution of its Spanish partner, Admira. The media division of Spanish telco giant Telefonica has been axed as part of the media divestment strategy spearheaded by Telefonica president Cesar Alierta. Telefonica still has media ...
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Weir to receive Schlesinger BAFTA/LA award
Peter Weir will receiveBAFTA/LA's John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence atthe 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 8.'We are delighted tobe honoring director Peter Weir, who has made some of the finest films of ourtime,' BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said in a statement.'His films, including Witness,Dead ...
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UK distributors urge common policy on BAFTA screeners
Senior industry figures have called for all UK distributors - including those operating independently of the Hollywood studios - to agree a common line on whether or not to send out screening tapes to BAFTA members this year.The call follows Tuesday's controversial announcement by the Motion Picture Assocation of ...
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Top Bollywood producer convicted for Mafia connections
Leading Bollywood film financier Bharat Shah has been found guilty of failing to inform police that the criminal underworld had muscled in on a film he made three years ago. The same court also convicted Chori Chori Chupke Chupke producer, Nazim Rizvi, and assistant Abdul Rahim Allahbux Khan, who have ...
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FERA launches Eastern European branch
The Federation of European Film Directors (FERA) has agreed to set up a regional office in Warsaw to serve the film industry in the new EU member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The new office is to be headed by FERA Vice President, Janusz Kijowski who also heads the ...
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Screen moves UK Film Finance Summit to larger venue
Screen International has moved the venue of its forthcoming UK Film Finance Summit because of a surge in registration numbers for the event.Nearly 300 film professionals have already registered for the Summit which will take place on the same date - Oct 16 - but at a larger venue, the ...
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UK's Rabiger gets IDA Preservation & Scholarship Award
Film-maker andeducator Michael Rabiger will receive the 2003 International DocumentaryAssociation (IDA) Preservation and Scholarship Award at the body's annual awardsin Los Angeles on Dec 12.The honour isawarded to an individual or organisation that, in the words of the IDA'spresident Michael Donaldson, has made "substantial and enduring contributionsto non-fiction film-making"."Michael Rabigerhas ...
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Hollywood nine commit to MPAA screener ban
The seven major studios,their subsidiaries and DreamWorks and New Line will not send out preview"screener" tapes this awards season after committing to a MotionPicture Association of America (MPAA) anti-piracy drive.The move was announced today(Sept 30) by MPAA president Jack Valenti, who cited a "determinedcommitment to combat digital piracy and to ...
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Berri takes over as France's Cinematheque chief
Following several months of upheaval, France's Cinematheque has elected renowned director/producer Claude Berri as its new president. The Cinematheque plays a similar role as the AFI in the US and holds France's national film archives.The Cinematheque has been on shaky ground this year thanks to administrative differences between culture minister ...
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Bolivia celebrates box office smash with Dependency
A Bolivian /USco production is making box office waves in Bolivia. Already dubbed theBolivian Titanic,Rodrigo Bellott's Sexual Dependency beat US blockbusters Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at the local box office over the weekend. With just twoprints, the teen drama attracted 360,000 admissions in ...
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Evil a smash at the box office and Sweden's Oscar submission
Sweden namedMikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) its submission for this year's foreignlanguage Oscar yesterday, the weekend after it opened in Sweden with a dazzling108,000 admissions (SKR1.1m) on 95 prints.The gross wasdouble the take of the second film on the chart Pirates Of The Caribbean, reflecting the fact that the ...
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Gordon moves to Columbia, brings in Toho-Towa
Mark Gordon, the veteranproducer whose credits include Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, is in final negotiations to sign a first-look deal with ColumbiaPictures, a deal which would involve Japanese major Toho-Towa which had backedGordon in his former venture Mutual Film Co.Gordon, whose output dealwith Fox ended earlier this year, ...
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NETHERLANDS
Independent distributor Upstream saw a strong turn out for Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without A Past when it opened on a mere 13 screens.The second part of the director's acclaimed 'Finland' trilogy, about a man with amnesia following an assault, trying to put his life back in order while living ...
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Revolutions to open day and date in 60 territories
Hoping to hit the pirates where it hurts and capitalise on aninternet-savvy global fan base, Warner Bros will open its sci-fi trilogy finaleThe Matrix Revolutions simultaneouslyin 60 territories including the US on Nov 5.Orchestrated in association with Village Roadshow by Warner Bros'president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman and president of ...
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Oscar winning outfit lines up Nowhere In Africa sequel
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen is planning a sequel to its Oscar-winning production of Caroline Link's Nowhere In Afrika (Nirgendwo In Afrika) and an international children's TV series based on the film.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, producer Andreas Bareiss revealed that MTM is developing a feature film based on Nowhere In ...