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Taormina's 50th anniversary dates announced
Taormina Festival Chief Felice Laudadio has announced that the 50th edition of the international event will take place from June 11th to 19th 2004. "The earlier dates worked very well this year, and films such as Phone Booth and Identity, which received their Italian premiere in Taormina, went on to ...
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Venice competition films fuel buyer action
Two films in the Venice competition have been logging strong buyer interest and notching up sales even before their world premieres later this week. Russian first film The Return, directed by Andrey Zvyagantsev, has added deals with France's Ocean Films and The Netherlands' Contact Films to previous licence agreements signed ...
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Competition films fuel buyer action
Two films in the Venice competition have been logging strong buyer interest and notching up sales even before their world premieres later this week. Russian first film The Return, directed by Andrey Zvyagantsev, has added deals with France's Ocean Films and The Netherlands' Contact Films to previous licence agreements signed ...
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China shatters Tomb Raider 2 release hopes
Paramount's action sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life has been banned from playing in cinemas in China.Chinese government censors are said to have rejected the film because they felt it inaccurately portrayed the country.A number of scenes from the Tomb Raider sequel are thought to have upset ...
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Berri's San Antonio restarts after summer hiatus
After a rocky start, Asterix producer Claude Berri is pressing ahead with shooting on his next big budget film. San Antonio, an adaptation of the cult book series by Frederic Dard, has gone through a series of changes both behind and in front of the camera.Shooting originally began on the ...
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Lipshy leaves Intermedia to become financial controller at Myriad
Former Intermedia Films' financial executive Amy Lipshy has beenhired for the newly created position of financial controller at financing,production and worldwide sales house Myriad Pictures.Based in Los Angeles, Lipshy will report directly to Myriad chieffinancial officer Jon Shiffman and will oversee general accounting functions,production accounting, quarterly financial reporting, financial planning ...
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German exhibitors step up UIP boycott
A group of German exhibitors are continuing their boycott of UIP releases because of the introduction of a new rentals system by the distributor.Members of the interest group Interessengemeinschaft 47.7 (IG 47.7) - which represents medium sized German exhibitors - boycotted UIP's release of American Pie: The Wedding over the ...
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IFC Films steps into the Void
IFC Films has acquired all North American rights to TouchingThe Void, Oscar-winningdirector Kevin MacDonald's true-life mountaineering drama that will screen atthe Telluride and Toronto festivals.Based on the memoir of the same name by the renowned mountaineerJoe Simpson, the film recounts a 1985 attempt by Simpson and Simon Yates toscale the ...
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San Sebastian lifts its Latin Horizons
The 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the plethora of Latin American and Spanish films that make up its Latin Horizons, Made In Spain and Films In Progress sections.The newly-created Latin Horizons (Horizontes Latinos) section separates out Latin American films from the former, all-encompassing Made In Spanish section, ...
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AUSTRALIA box office 01/09/2003
Finding Nemo's extraordinary Australian opening is believed to be the ninth biggest opening weekend ever, although this has yet to be confirmed by distributor BVI. Over the four-day weekend to August 31 it took A$8,038,861 and, despite being on a massive 399 screens, its screen average was A$20,148. Besides the ...
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Postponed Filmart attracts increased interest
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC) has unveiled details of this year's Filmart (September 24-26), which looks set to be the biggest yet, despite being postponed for three months due to the SARS outbreak.According to the TDC, the number of exhibitors registered to attend has increased by 26% to ...
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Cool reception for Italian film law
A new Italian law, which the government hopes will revolutionise the public funding of local film, has met with a lukewarm reception from local filmmakers.The legislation, unveiled by cultural affairs minister Giuliano Urbani at the weekend, proposes to limit the public funding of local films in a bid to ensure ...
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Cool reception for Italian film law
A new Italian law, which the government hopes will revolutionise the public funding of local film, has met with a lukewarm reception from regional filmmakers.The legislation, unveiled by cultural affairs minister Giuliano at the weekend, proposes to limit the public funding of local films in a bid to ensure more ...
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DENMARK
Not much changed at the Danish box-office this week where Tomb Raider 2 managed to stay on top with Bruce Almighty, and new releases Hollywood Homicide and Buffalo Soldiers failed to attract Danish audiences. Overall the weekend saw a massive 46.9% drop in box office gross from last year. Only ...
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SARS-effect still disrupting production
Two big-budget Hong Kong projects - Time Breaker, which is set to star Jackie Chan, and Hua Mulan, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh - have been delayed, partly due to the impact that SARS has had on production in mainland China.Media Asia's US$40m Time Breaker, which was scheduled to ...
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Everett, Watson dive into The Woods with Fellowes
Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Rupert Everett will lead the cast in Julian Fellowes' directorial debut, A Way Through The Woods.Watson, who starred in Lars Von Triers Breaking The Waves, takes the role of Anne, happily married to James( Wilkinson,) until the arrival of Bill (Everett) turns their idyllic village ...
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Hong Kong's JCE Movies unveils first project
Jackie Chan is set to star in an untitled police action film which will be the first fruit of a joint venture production company established by the Hong Kong star and local tycoon Albert Yeung.The film, which is scheduled to start shooting at the end of this month, will be ...
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HONG KONG
Hong Kong comedy Dragon Loaded 2003 has had one of the strongest openings of the year for a locally-produced film, grossing $1.09m in seven days from 38 screens. The film beat the openings of both Pirates Of The Caribbean, which came in second with $714,583 from 35 screens, and Korean ...
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ITALY
The Hulk grossed a huge Euros 2.8m for UIP on its opening weekend in Italy, taking an impressive screen average of Euros 6,345 from 441 screens.The second highest new entry last weekend was Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran, whose release distributor Lucky Red timed to coincide with the ...
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NETHERLANDS
Lars Von Trier's Dogville impressed in The Netherlands over the weekend claiming the second highest screen average, behind chart leader Pirates Of The Caribbean. The drama played on just 15 prints for A-Film Distribution, the country's biggest independent distributor.Elsewhere in the chart, children's films saw a boost with local favourite ...