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Spirited Away wins Cambridge audience prize
Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning Spirited Away picked up the audience award at the 23rd Cambridge Film Festival, which wrapped on July 20.The Japanese animated feature polled over 700 of the 4000 votes cast by festival goers to win the Q103 People's Choice Award. Spirited Away goes on general release in the ...
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Limited releases and holdovers make The Hulk somewhat green
Ang Lee's The Hulk topped the UK/Ireland chart this week but had a less spectacular opening than might have been hoped.The UIP-distributed comic-book film's $5.6m (£3.5m) from 500 venues opening weekend gross included three days of previews at some 450 sites. Without the inclusion of the $2.1m (£1.3m) generated from ...
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AOL TW sells DVD business for $1.05bn
Toronto-based Cinram International will pay $1.05bn to acquire the DVD and CD manufacturing and distribution businesses of AOL Time Warner in the US and Europe. The deal, which should close in Autumn 2003, includes exclusive long-term agreements with Warner Home Video, Warner Music Group and New Line Cinema to manufacture, ...
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Little Polar Bear sequel among films to get German funding
The sequel to the 2001 hit animation feature Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) and new films by Grill Point's Andreas Dresen, Mostly Martha's Sandra Nettelbeck and Sonnenallee's Leander Hausmann are among the projects receiving a total of Euros 3.2m from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in its ...
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Ribera wraps his third feature in Barcelona
Xavier Ribera has finished shooting his third feature, A + (or Amas) in Barcelona. Boasting a cast of up-and-coming young Spanish stars (Eloy Azorin, Elvira Herreria, Fernando Ramallo, Eloi Yebra, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Moya), and an ultra-cool sound-track, A+ tells the individual tales of three youths, whose paths eventually ...
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Saban resurfaces in KirchMedia bidding
It could be the comeback of the year. Six weeks after making an eleventh hour exit from the bidding for the insolvent KirchMedia, US media tycoon Haim Saban could be back in the picture.According to German press reports this weekend, Saban has rallied the support of a group of financial ...
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UK lottery franchises get extensions
The UK Film Council has granted extensions to two of the three National Lottery franchises - The Film Consortium and Pathe Pictures - to spend their remaining lottery grants.The third franchise, DNA Films, is still negotiating with the council but the talks are part of a more complicated deal between ...
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Krishna Shah launches three Indian features
Hollywood-based Indian filmmaker and former Double Helix head Krishna Shah has announced a slate of three films in Mumbai. Shah and his brother Himanshu Shah have launched a Mumbai-based production company, Movie Moghuls and have announced the production of Aasman Ke Heere (Diamonds In The Sky) an English and Hindi ...
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Triumph for Nina's Tragedies at Jerusalem film fest
Nina's Tragedies a bittersweet comedy by Savi Gabizon and produced by Gabizon and Anath Assouline, won the Wolgin Award for Best Israeli feature film at the Jerusalem Film Festival. The award was accompanied by a $40,000 prize, to be divided equally between the director and producers. The film collected two ...
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Multiple Taj Mahal films line up for release
Warner Bros is currently looking at making a Hollywood version of the story of the Taj Mahal. The project is already in pre-production, based on a script by screenwriter Kamran Pasha. Warner Bros executive Aditya Sood is working on the project and Trilogy Entertainment is to produce the film.The story ...
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Seres Queridos gears up for Madrid shoot
New talents Teresa de Pelegri and Dominic Harari are due to begin shooting their new feature project, in Madrid this month. The film is co-produced by Tornasol Films (Spain), Greenpoint Productions and the Film Council (UK), Madragoa Productions (Portugal) and the Patagonik Film Group (Argentina). Although essentially a comedy, the ...
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Italian Job gets to work in Italy
With 2003's sequel-saturated summer showing that, in some cases, sequels are not proving as successful as hoped, another staple of production schedules, the remake, is witnessing a Hollywood-style makeover.Increasingly branded as re-imaginings rather than remakes - a phrase used extensively in the marketing of Tim Burton's 2001 Planet Of The ...
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Full Throttle tops $100m for CTFDI, while T3 races past $50m
Charlie's Angels: FullThrottle passed $100m at theinternational box office on Saturday (19), its 24th day of release, continuingits strong momentum from last weekend.Overall the action sequeltook $17m for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) from amassive 6,140 screens in 56 territories for a $109.4m running total.The only new major territoryof ...
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Spain's Ministry of Culture awards funds to 15 new films
Spain's Ministry of Culture has announced that 15 films from new directors have been selected to receive subsidies totalling Euros 2.5m in 2003. The 15 projects, which have each been granted between Euros 60,000 and Euros 210,000, are unique in that they are all in the hands of new ...
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Columbia Asia takes world rights to Sylvia Chang's 20:30:40
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (CPFPA) has acquired worldwide rights to Taiwanese feature 20:30:40 directed by and starring Sylvia Chang.The romantic drama, which is currently in post-production, also stars Lee Sin-Je and Rene Liu who won best actress and best supporting actress respectively at this year's Hong Kong Film Awards ...
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Woody Allen's Anything Else to open Venice
Woody Allen's Anything Else will open the 60th Venice International Film Festival which runs from Aug 27th to September 6th, organisers announced.The festival-shy director has also confirmed that he will attend the movie's world premiere on the Lido - the first time he will have attended the festival."I'm looking forward ...
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UK's Artificial Eye picks up Kiss Of Life
The UK's Artificial Eye has picked up Emily Young's Kiss Of Life, which played in the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes film festival.Artificial Eye have set a December 27 release date for the film, which stars Peter Mullan and Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Kiss Of Life was co-funded by ...
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Maurice Jarre to receive award at Flanders film festival
Veteran French composer Maurice Jarre will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's World Soundtrack Awards during the Flanders International Film Festival (FIFF) in Ghent (October 7-18 2003).The composer of scores for such films as Doctor Zhivago, Dead Poets Society and Ghost will be presented the award "for his ...
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Bad Boys II does wicked business for Columbia
Columbia's Bad Boys II swaggered its way to the top of the table over theweekend on an estimated $46.7m, some three times bigger than the original's$15.5m bow in 1995.The sequel reunites directorMichael Bay with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as fast-talking narcotics cops,this time on the trail of a Miami ...
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Korea's Save The Green Planet wins PiFan festival
Local Koreanpicture, Save TheGreen Planet took multiple honours at the closing ceremony of the 7thPuchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) this weekend.The film, a first- feature directedby Jang Jun-Hwan, won the Best of Puchon award for bestfeature and also the Citizen's Choice public prize. Save The Green Planet is a ...