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Scola's Gente Di Roma to premiere at Viareggio
Renowned Italian writer-director Ettore Scola's new film, Gente Di Roma, is to have its world premiere at the 20th Europa Cinema festival in Viareggio (Sep 20 - 27). Co-produced and distributed by Istituto Luce, Gente Di Roma stars Stefania Sandrelli (The Last Kiss, Un Filme Falado) and Valerio Mastandrea (V-Max) ...
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Fortissimo tests out Spellbound worldwide
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to documentary Spellbound, an account of eight ambitious young finalists in America's national spelling contest. Spellbound is currently on release in the U.S and Canada where it has taken over $5m at the box-office since its premiere earlier this year via Thinkfilm. The ...
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UA options the rights to Snake Hips
United Artists has optionedthe rights to Anna Thomas Soffee's memoir Snake Hips and will develop the project with Hart SharpEntertainment.Published in 2002, SnakeHips is a comic account of the30-year-old authoris life as a relationship ends and she moves back homewith her parents in Virginia, where she reconnects with her Lebanese ...
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Maya team ready Indian Opium tale
The production outfit and director behind the acclaimed Indian film Maya have launched their next project, Opium Royale, which is budgeted at $3.5m. Set to start shooting in India on Jan 15, 2004, Opium Royale is produced by Dileep Singh Rathore and Emmanuel Pappas of Kundalini Pictures and directed by ...
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Istituto Luce buys Good Lawyer's Wife
Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...
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Istituto Luce buys Korea's Good Lawyer's Wife
Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 strikes Paramount output deal
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group has concluded an exclusive output deal with Paramount Pictures for the free TV rights to the US major's films from 2002-2005.The package includes such feature films as Mission: Impossible 3, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Star Trek - Nemesis, The Core, and Changing Lanes ...
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Eagle is top in Italy with New Line's Final Destination 2
New Line'shorror-thriller Final Destination 2 opened number one in Italy through Eagle Pictures at the weekend,grossing $524,377 from 248 screens.The sequelscored a per-screen average of $2,114 and now has an international runningtotal of $39.4m, compared to the original's $59.2m.When Final Destination opened in Italy in Aug 2000 it took$526,231 from ...
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German cinema admissions plummet
Admissions and box-office takings in German cinemas fell year-on-year by 11.3% and 12.5% respectively in the first half of 2003, according to the latest figures from the country's Federal Film Board (FFA).However, German films recorded their highest market share -16.1% - for six years thanks to the huge success of ...
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Deauville unveils American film line-up
The Deauville Festival of American Film (Sept 5-14) has announced its line up and jury for this year's event.The Deauville line-up comprises: Greg Marcks' 11:14; Sundance hit American Splendor from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini; Robert Duvall's latest directing effort Assassination Tango; Wayne Kramer's The Cooler; Dot The ...
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Bond writers pen thriller for Raggy Boy team
The team behind Song For A Raggy Boy - director Aisling Walsh and Danish producer Michael Lunderskov - are linking up again on thriller Return To Sender, which is penned by the two James Bond/Johnny English-writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The cast has yet to be set, but director ...
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Kitano joins Mikado's bumper Venice slate
Italian arthouse distributor Mikado has acquired local distribution rights to Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi, bringing to four the total number of competition films at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival (Aug 27- Sep 6) which the outfit will release in Italy.Kitano directs and stars in Zatoichi, playing the title role of ...
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San Sebastian cherrypicks festival favourites
Making the most of its slot near the tail end of the annual festival calendar, the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) has cherry-picked another top-notch selection of films from other A-list events for its Festivals' Top sidebar showcase, part of the Zabaltegi section.The current ten titles - plus ...
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Publicity veteran Teri Kane joins Rogers & Cowan in New York
Teri Kane has joined Rogers& Cowan as executive vice president of the US entertainment publicrelations and marketing agency's film & digital entertainment group.Based in New York, Kane willbe responsible for the development and implementation of creative mediastrategies for the agency's domestic motion picture business. She takesover from Jeanne Berney who ...
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Spinotti gets Palm Springs retrospective in Nov
Dante Spinotti,the veteran cinematographer who earned two Oscar nominations for The Insider and LA Confidential, is to be the subject of a retrospectivein Palms Springs, California, from Nov 1-2.The two-daystand-alone event features screenings, on-stage discussions, a masterclass bySpinotti and a keynote speech by the acclaimed cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs.The Art OfCinematography: ...
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Russia's Return racks up pre-festival sales
Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev's debut feature The Return has struck two international sales in advance of its competition screening in this year's Venice International Film Festival. All rights for the film have already been sold to distributor Lucky Red for Italy and to Frenetic for Switzerland. Moscow based international sales ...
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Russia's Return racks up pre-Venice sales
Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev's debut feature The Return has struck two international sales in advance of its competition screening in this year's Venice International Film Festival. All rights for the film have already been sold to distributor Lucky Red for Italy and to Frenetic for Switzerland. Moscow based international sales ...
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T3 vaults past $200m, CTFDI cracks $150m
With no majoropenings at the weekend, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines added $16.1m from approximately 6,400screens in 50 territories to raise its international running total (alldistributors) to $219.2m.In territories handled by Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) the sci-fi sequel has grossed $150.3m todate. The film will open in China ...
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Tomb Raider 2 opens top in Germany for Concorde
Paramount's Lara CroftTomb Raider: The Cradle Of Lifecontinued to show good legs on its international roll-out this weekend,launching in nine territories, including a number one bow in Germany throughConcorde.Germany and Switzerland,where the film is handled by Ascot Elite, provided the Jan de Bont film itsfirst non-UIP international launches, taking pole ...
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Warner posts number two in Japan with $5.3m for Hero
ZhangYimou's action film Hero scored an excellent Japanese bow through Warner EntertainmentJapan at the weekend, grossing an estimated $5.3m from 360 screens.The epic drew433,786 admissions and ranked second behind holdover local title, BaysideShakedown 2.According to thedistributor Hero'sopening was 158.6% better than Die Another Day and 289.4% better than The Sum ...