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Plum teams up with Madstone to find new talent
Plum Pictures, the fledglingproduction company founded by Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray and DanielaSoto-Taplin, has teamed up with New York-based integrated entertainment outfitMadstone to uncover talent and projects for the latter's Directors Programme.Plum will relocate toMadstone's corporate offices in Manhattan as part of the move and will work onthe Directors Programme ...
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Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...
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FINLAND
The top of the Finnish chart saw little change this weekend with Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean staying ahead of stablemate Piglet's Big Movie and local comedy Pearls And Pigs (Helmia ja sikoja).While Perttu Leppaa's local film boasts a better screen average of 471 admissions than Piglet, and went ...
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ICELAND
Despite dropping 40% from its premiere weekend, the third installment of the American Pie-series, American Pie: The Wedding, managed to stay on top of the Icelandic chart in front of new releases The Italian Job and Daddy Day Care. Other than that there was little change at the top, where ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Daddy Day Care remained unbeatable in its fourth week at the Serbia and Montenegro box office, having sold another 8,601 admissions to gross a total of $95,000 (SD 5.6m) for distributor Tuck. This week's new competitors, the same distributor's Hollywood Homicide and Pro Vision's Taxi 3 failed to unseat the ...
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SPAIN
Fox's Sean Connery-starrer The League Of Extraodinary Gentlemen did extraodinarily well in its opening weekend in Spain, its first major European territory. The success could bode well for future openings on the continent, which continue with a 95 print launch in The Netherlands this weekend.Pirates Of The Caribbean held steady ...
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Mummy star returns to South Africa for Forgiveness
The Mummy star Arnold Vosloo is to return to his native South Africa to star in Forgiveness, which is written by prolific scribe Greg Latter (Mr. Bones) and to be directed by acclaimed commercials director Ian Gabriel.The film is the second to come out of South Africa's Dv8 initiative, which ...
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Cobalt takes on sales for Bali - The Bombing Of Paradise
UK based sales agent Cobalt Pictures is to handle international sales on Bali - The Bombing Of Paradise, a new feature about the November 2002 terrorist bombings on the Indonesian island.The film is the first production from UK-based New Concept Development and will be produced by Alain Gottesman, president of ...
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Cohn buys up Yellow Handkerchief remake rights
Japan's Shochiku has sold remake rights for The Yellow Handkerchief, a well-remembered 1977 hit by Yoji Yamada, to veteran producer Arthur Cohn (Behind the Sun, Central Station). Cohn intends to start filming next year, for release in 2005. Cast and crew have yet to be announced. Based on a story ...
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Phantom Of The Opera sets Pinewood date
The Phantom Of The Opera, thought to be the largest independently-financed UK production ever, starts shooting on Monday at Pinewood Studios.The adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is to shoot for 16 weeks under director Joel Schumacher. Gerard Butler, the 33 year-old Scottish actor from Tomb Raider 2 and Richard ...
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Deauville endures midweek quiet spell
Following the presence of several big name stars over the weekend, the shores of Deauville are much quieter five days into the 29th annual Deauville Festival of American Film.Celebrities who made the trek to Normandy early in the festival included Harrison Ford, Roman Polanski, Tobey Maguire, John Cusack, Jason Biggs, ...
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Europa targets Japan with Vaillant world premiere
Europa Corp. has announced the world premiere of Michel Vaillant which is set for November 8 at the Tokyo International Film Festival.The film is adapted from the comic books by Jean and Philippe Graton about a race car driver. The books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Vaillant ...
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Goal! scores as FIFA lends support
International footballing body FIFA is to lend its support to Goal!, the ambitious football trilogy being put together by Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender and Milkshake Films.Full details of the co-operative agreement between FIFA and the film's producers are set to be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday in ...
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UK Film Council unveils£50m film training overhaul
A £50m overhaul of UK training, including the creation of a string of film schools across the country for creative and business skills, was launched on Sept 10 by support body the UK Film Council and training agency Skillset.The annual package of £10 million for at least the next five ...
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NORTH AMERICA
With no over-achieving new blockbusters to contend with, it was a good time for the smaller independent films to go out a little wider last weekend. Fox Searchlight's acclaimed teen drama Thirteen expanded by 38 into 108 sites and climbed one place to 21st on $624,611 for $1.9m in its ...
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Mongrel gets Canadian rights to My Architect
Mongrel Media has acquiredall Canadian rights to Nathaniel Kahn's feature length documentary MyArchitect which is the story of theillegitimate son of famed architect Louis I Kahn as he searches the world foranswers to his father's mysterious life.Kahn, who died bankrupt andalone in Pennsylvania Station in 1974, is considered by many ...
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Toronto: SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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Huelva festival unveils trio of tributes
Bolivian director Jorge Ruiz, Argentine actress Norma Aleandro and Spanish actor Imanol Arias will be the recipients of three tributes planned for this year's 29th edition of the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 8-15).This November will mark new festival director Porfirio Enriquez's first edition since replacing Salvador Augustin in ...
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ITALY
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl stormed the Italian box office, grossing an enormous $5.8m (Euro 5.241m) five days after its Italian premiere, making it the biggest opening ever in the territory for its distributor BVI.Days after the movie's star, Johnny Depp's widely publicized trip to ...