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David Mackenzie's acclaimed beat adaptation Young Adam received its world box office debut this week in The Netherlands.Launching for independent distributor Three Lines Pictures, the smallest of the territory's distributors, the film got off to an inauspicious start over its four-day opening. However the 12 screen release had already taken ...
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NEW ZEALAND
BVI's animated hit Finding Nemo spent its second week at the top of the New Zealand chart this week despite only opening on Sep 4. The Pixar film managed to take the top spot the previous weekend (Aug 28-31) off previews alone. This week's official launch saw it gross more ...
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2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice 2003 festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival is classy Toronto prequel
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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Venice festival shakes off some of its detractors
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger. Itwould ...
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Venice festival winners list
Venice 2003 - MainCompetition (Venice 60), feature filmsGolden LionTheReturn (Ozvrasnje) Dir: Andrej ZvjagintsevGrandJury Prize (Silver Lion)Le Cerf-Volant Dir: RandaChahal SabbagBest direction (Silver Lion)Takeshi Kitano for ZatoichiSpecial prize for an individualcontributionMarco Bellocchiofor the screenplay of Buongiorno, Notte Coppa Volpi forbest actorSean Penn in 21 Grams Coppa Volpi forbest actressKatja Riemann in ...
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Venice festival sees Return to form
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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Suite Habana, Open Range bookend 51st San Sebastian
Cuban-Spanish co-production Suite Habana and Kevin Costner's Open Range will open and close, respectively, the 51st edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Open Range will screen out of competition. James Ivory's Le Divorce will inaugurate the parallel Zabaltegi section, closing with Zhang Yimou's Hero.The festival also unveiled ...
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Italian BO up 8%
Italy's state-owned ditribution outfit, Istituto Luce, has bought local distribution rights to Babak Payami's hard-laboured Upstream title, Silence Between Two Thoughts, which the director managed to smuggle out of Iran after local authorities had confiscated his 35mm film.'My film's negative was confiscated by Iranian authorities, and it was a hard ...
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Italian BO jumps 8 per cent
The Italian box office grossed Euros 307,701,166 in the first eight months of this year, marking a rise of 7.79% compared to the same period last year, according to national film body Anica. According to Cinetel, which monitors around 75% of screens in the country, admissions between January and August ...
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Sony warns against movie piracy
Sony vice chairman and the chief of its entertainment operations Sir Howard Stringer today warned of the growing threat of online movie piracy from broadband-connected homes, as the entertainment giant announced plans for its own legal online music service.Speaking to Sony dealers in Paris, Sir Howard said that more than ...
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Award-winning Bosnian directors ready new English features
Award-winning Bosnian directors Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) and Pjer Zalica (Fuse) are preparing English-language features as their next projects. Tanovic, who received the Foreign Language Oscar for No Man's Land last year, is preparing the spy love story Ship High In Transit for shooting from December in Morocco with ...
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Wenders back on the road...
Wim Wenders has won back control of Road Movies, the production outfit he sold to the now insolvent German media group Das Werk.Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, his partner in a new venture set up last year, Reverse Angle Production, have secured ownership of Road Movies Factory and will rename it ...
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...and behind the camera for InDigEnt
Wim Wenders will direct the 12th, as yet untitled, project forInDigEnt, the digital video collective created by New York-based IFCProductions' Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan, producer-director GaryWinick and Cinetic Media's John Sloss.Principal photography is scheduled to begin later this month inLos Angeles.This is the first time InDigEnt has teamed up ...
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Five Euro distribs form Indie Circle buying pool
Five European distribution companies have pooled ther resources to create a jointly-owned film acquisition service. The pool, dubbed Indie Circle, will have its offices in Paris and be headed by Christophe Mercier (see Screen International Sept 05 edition for profile).The five distributors are A-Film from the Netherlands, Cineart (Belgium), Frenetic ...
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Vivendi mulls sale of UGC cinema stake
Vivendi Universal, the French group that earlier this week agreed to merge with NBC to create a $40bn media colossus, is understood to be planning to sell half of its stake in the UGC cinema circuit. A consortium of minority shareholders brought to the table by the Verrechia family, looks ...
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BVI passes the $1bn mark in 2003 - already
Buena Vista International (BVI) passed $1bn in internationaltickets sales at the weekend, the ninth consecutive time it has achieved thefeat - a record for any studio international arm. Fuelled by the success of Bruce Almighty, Pirates Of TheCaribbean, Jungle Book 2and Finding Nemo, BVIreached the milestone in record time.The chief ...
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Fox turns searchlight on UK
Creating the most potent UK-based, studio-backed outfit in London after Working Title Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures and UK National Lottery franchise DNA Films have finally unveiled their $50m joint venture to make British films over the next five years.The deal marks an ambitious bid to turn DNA into a longterm ...
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UK skills fund tops£2m
The Skills Investment Fund, the UK fund for training made up of contributions from local productions, has topped £2 million.Dan Films' The Republic Of Love became the 149th feature to contribute to the fund, which was launched at the end of 1999 to address skills gaps and shortages within the ...