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AFMA board undergoes international makeover
AFMA says its new board of directors is the most internationalyet, with eight of its members from companies headquartered outside the US.Yesterday, at the organisation's annual membershipmeeting, five executives were elected to the board for the first time.They are: Wouter Barendrecht from Fortissimo Sales(Netherlands/Hong Kong), TF1's Patrick Binet (France), Nicolas ...
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NORTH AMERICA
DreamWorks' latest Woody Allen title, Anything Else, flopped into 12th place on $1.7m. Dividing critics, the comedy which stars Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci was both the weakest and widest of DreamWorks' Allen releases suggesting that a marketing campaign that relied heavily on promoting Biggs and Ricci and downplaying Allen's ...
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AUSTRALIA
The very strong screen average of A$11,206 for the opening weekend of Columbia TriStar's Bad Boys II wasn't quite enough to push BVI's Pirates Of The Caribbean off the top of the mast. The Boys grossed A$3,059,117 and the Pirates grossed A$3,476,680, but it was only Pirates' second weekend and ...
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Besson's Europa takes on Thai boxing drama
Luc Besson's Europa Corp has acquired a slew of territories, including North and South America and most of Europe, to Thai action title Ong-Bak - Muay Thai Warrior, starring hot new action hero Tony Jaa (aka Panom Yeerum). Directed by Prachya Pinkaew for Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International, the film ...
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Cape Town studio project gets greenlight
Dreamworld Film City, a consortium headed by leading South African film producer Anant Singh, has won the bidding to establish a world-class studio facility in Cape Town. The consortium, which was shortlisted with five other bidding groups by the provincial government of the Western Cape and the City of Cape ...
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Golden Leopard rewards Salvatores, launches film classes.
The second edition of the Golden Leopard Prize was awarded to director Gabriele Salvatores (I'm Not Afraid) on Sept 20, for his 'continuing research of new expressive forms and styles.'The ceremony was held at La Colombaia, Luchino Visconti's villa on the island of Ischia, near Naples. The prize was established ...
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French directors embark on US educational programme
Seven illustrious Frenchdirectors are embarking upon a new US initiative entitled On Set With FrenchCinema in which they will give aspiring US film-makers a series of lectures ontheir professional experience.The series kicks off inLos Angeles on Oct 6 with Regis Wargnier, while the New York events will startwith Claude Miller ...
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Melissa Gilbert re-elected president of SAG
Melissa Gilbert has been re-elected president of the US actors'union Screen Actors Guild (SAG) following a national poll that saw her romphome with 50% of the vote."It is an honour and a thrill to be re-elected," Gilbert said in astatement. "I said at the beginning of the campaign that I ...
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NEW ZEALAND
Sequels rule OK. Or maybe not. Someone must have decided to nominate the weekend as a haven for sequels because UIP's Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life, Fox's Legally Blonde 2 and UIP's Rugrats Go Wild all opened. But none of the brands were strong enough to ...
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SWITZERLAND
Mike Eschmann's teen-comedy Ready, Steady, Charlie! (Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!) became the all-time biggest local opener in Switzerland when it took the lead on an unprecedented 49 prints in the German region of the country attracting over 70,000 admissions after a large wide-spread marketing and media blitz.This included a premiere in ...
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Mill Valley unveils fest programme, 11 world premieres
Eleven world premieres, 14US premieres and tributes to Lili Taylor, Peter Coyote and Denys Arcand areamong the highlights of the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs in MarinCounty, California, from Oct 2-12.Featured among the worldpremieres are Brigitte Brault's harrowing examination of life under theTaliban in Afghanistan Unveiled,David Hickson's South ...
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Sundance Channel closes 13-picture deal with Palm
The Sundance Channel has acquired US television rights to 13 filmsfrom Palm Pictures, including Claude Chabrol's drama The Flower Of Evil, Dagur Kar's acclaimed Icelandicdrama Noi The Albino and Mark Moorman's music documentary Tom Dowd And The Languageof Music.Thegroup of films includes Palm's entire 2003 slate as well as several ...
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Pie 3 opens top in Netherlands, Norway for Universal
Universal's AmericanPie: The Wedding scored two stronginternational number one bows at the weekend and, with 38 markets to go, iscomfortably on course to pass $100m.The comedy sequel raised itsrunning total to $71.1m following a $759,000 haul from 92 venues in TheNetherlands and $461,000 from 39 in Norway, which was Universal's ...
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Irish producers step up campaign to save Section 481
Industry body Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has warned that many of the country's film graduates face unemployment or will have to emigrate to find work should the Irish government proceed with the abolition of the Section 481 tax incentive in December 2004.As part of its campaign to sway Government thinking ...
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Contentfilm, Alec Baldwin team up for Swimmer remake
Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's New York-based production anddistribution outfit ContentFilm is to remake the 1968 drama The Swimmer in conjunction with Alec Baldwin's ElDorado Pictures and Vincent Farrell's Iron Films.Baldwin will star in the project, reprising Burt Lancaster's roleas an errant suburbanite who returns home one day by swimming ...
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Intermedia's Alexander begins shooting in Morocco
Principal photography hasbegun in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Oliver Stone's Alexander The Great project for Intermedia, which Warner Bros willrelease in the US in November 2004.Colin Farrell stars in thelead role as the all-conquering ancient leader, and the film also starsAngelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto andJonathan ...
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French animator takes Cartoon D'Or prize
French filmmaker Sandra Desmazieres' first animated film Sans Queue Ni Tete won this year's Cartoon D'Or, which includes Euros 15,000 from the European Union's MEDIA Programme in pre-production aid to begin work on a feature film or TV series project.Desmazieres' six-minute painting on paper film about a woman's nonsensical and ...
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Dolby buys US anti-piracy technology company Cinea
As the Hollywood studiosstep up their war on piracy and the causes of piracy, Dolby Laboratories hasjoined the fray with the acquisition of Cinea, a Virginia-basedcontent-protection and anti-piracy technology company.Cinea will operate as awholly owned subsidiary of Dolby while its staff and offices will remain inVirginia.Cinea chief executiveofficer and founder ...
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Emerging, Digiscreen screen Jackson Hole finalists around US
The Wyoming-based Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is teamingup with New York based Emerging Pictures and Montreal's Digiscreen to show aselection of films nominated as finalists in this year's festival competition,which runs from Sept 22-27.The programmes, which are free, will be screened in participatingdigital venues in California, North Carolina, Nebraska ...
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Austrian directors threaten to boycott Diagonale festival
Internationally renowned Austrian filmmakers Michael Haneke (Time Of The Wolf), Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days), Barbara Albert (Boese Zellen) and Ruth Beckermann (Homemade) have added their voices to the Austrian film community's growing chorus of disapproval about the planned re-positioning of next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz.Last ...