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Cruz steps up to Castellitto's Don't Move
Penelope Cruz has signed to star in Italian-Spanish co-production Don't Move (Non Ti Muovere) for actor-turned-director Sergio Castellitto. The film, which begins shooting in Rome on July 28, would mark Cruz's first Spanish co-production since 2001's No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios) and her third film in Italian. ...
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Israeli Cinemas to slash ticket prices
Israeli Theatres Cinemas has announced a reduction in ticket prices across its entire circuit for the whole summer season (until end September) and for all shows, by 22.5%.Instead of the present $7.50 the price of a single ticket will be $5.80 for the period. Israeli Cinemas, one of the ...
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Imax reveals screen plans for Disneyland Paris
Imax Corp and French exhibitor EuroPalaces have signed an agreement to open an Imax 3D cinema at Disneyland Resort Paris, the 47th Imax cinema in Europe.The facility, which will be located within Disney Village and is set to open in June 2004, is expected to showcase Imax DMR films, that ...
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Pandora to produce Nalin's Valley Of Flowers
German production house Pandora Filmproduktion, producer of Indian director Pan Nalin 2002 feature debut Samsara, are to team up again for his next project Valley Of Flowers which is set to go into production in the Himalayas, Tokyo and a Cologne studio from summer 2004.Currently budgeted at around Euros 4m ...
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Reloaded swipes another $14.7m for Warner
The MatrixReloaded kept up itsfine international form over the weekend as it grossed an estimated $14.7m from6,700 international screens and drew 2.5m admissions.The sci-fisequel's international running total is now $377m.The film held onto its number one position for the third consecutive week in Japan, adding$6.4m (Yen 763m) from 630 ...
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Williams to get career achievement award at Chicago Film Festival summer gala
Robin Williams will be presented with a career achievement awardat the 40th Chicago International Film festival's annual summer gala on Jul 17.Organisers plan a retrospective of Williams' work, which includesan Oscar winning turn in Good Will Hunting and acclaimed performances in Dead Poets Society and Good Morning, Vietnam."There are only ...
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Cinemark opens three new multiplexes in Latin America
CinemarkInternational, one of the leading Latin American exhibitors, has opened threenew stadium-seating theatres in Southern Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica.The Galerias Boulevardsite in Southern Mexico's Tuxtla Gutierrez region is an eight-screen, 1,850-seatcomplex and the first to open in the city of Chiapas.It was built incooperation with the existing Liverpool site, ...
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My Architect wins feature prize at new US doc festival
NathanielKahn's My Architect won the inaugural Sterling Award for a feature film at theSilverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival.More than 70films screened at the festival, a joint venture between the American FilmInstitute and the Discovery Channel, which ran from Jun 18-22 at the SilverTheatre And Cultural Centre in Silver Spring, Maryland.My ...
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The Hulk explodes with five number one openings in Asia
The Hulk grossed an estimated $3.1m from 325 theatres in fivenumber one Asian openings over the weekend, complementing Universal'stable-topping bow in the US.In Hong Kong it took$700,000 from 39 venues, which Universal claimed was roughly twice as much asthe opening for Gladiator andjust ahead of X2: X-Men United.Universal scored its ...
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Break A Leg wins audience prize at CineVegas
Monika Mitchell's drama Break A Leg won the Audience Award for best featureat the fifth CineVegas Film Festival, which ran from Jun 13-21. In Break A Leg, John Cassini stars as a frustrated actor who decides to takematters into his own hands and make his dreams of success come true. ...
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Eliasoph named new head of Warner China
Ellen R Eliasophhas been appointed to the new post of managing director of China at Warner BrosPictures International.Eliasoph willset up and run a company office in Shanghai, from where she will oversee thesubsidiary's Beijing office as well as its Hong Kong-based productionsand acquisitions staff.Herresponsibilities will include supervising the studio's theatricaldistribution ...
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Sony revamps worldwide financial services dept
As part of itsongoing drive to consolidate marketing and distribution, Sony PicturesReleasing's (SPR) financial services department is expanding to handleservices including accounts receivable and worldwide collection.Eileen Lomis,senior vice president of worldwide theatrical financial administration for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, will oversee the division'sexpansion.Lomis, a 25-yearveteran of Columbia, TriStar and ...
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2 Fast, two French ride into UK cinemas
Following four weeks under the reign of The Matrix Reloaded UK audiences finally elected a new box office champion this week with 2 Fast 2 Furious taking pole position. The fast-paced UIP action vehicle helped rev up the total box office for the UK/Ireland top 15 by 12% on the ...
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Barbarian Invasions to open Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has announced some of its major titles at this year's eventwhich runs Sept 4-14. Denys Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) which was in competition at Cannes will open thefestival, continuing the tradition of a Canadian film being the opening nightgala presentation.Three gala presentationswere also ...
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Four bidders make formal offers for Vivendi Universal Entertainment
Four bidders met the June 23 deadline for proposals to buy all or part of Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets.Given that Vivendi Universal issued prospectuses of financial information for Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) to six would-be acquisitors, the shortlist holds no major surprises.Oil billionaire Marvin Davis, who previously offered $15bn, has ...
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80 Days provides boost to regional German economy
Frank Coraci's Around The World In 80 Days is expected to generate an economic 'effect' of 4,000% on the Euros 500,000 production funding granted by the regional Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, with turnover of Euros 20m in the region.The $110m-plus Walden Media production spent eight weeks shooting at the Babelsberg Studios and ...
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Hong Kong banks on post-SARS box office recovery
Now that the SARS outbreak appears to be under control, Hong Kong exhibitors are hoping that a strong summer line-up of foreign and local releases will restore the box office to pre-SARS levels.Hong Kong box office receipts plummeted by around 47% during the peak of the crisis in March but ...
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Release of Otomo's Steamboy delayed
The makers of Steamboy, the $20m animated feature by Katsuhiro Otomo, have delayed the film's release date from October to sometime in 2004. Announced at a press conference on June 19, this decision leaves a huge hole in distributor Toho's autumn schedule. The film, Otomo's first full-length theatrical feature in ...
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Sweden's Elina wins in Spain, by Jove
Swedish film Elina, As If I Didn't Exist picked up the top Golden Moon of Valencia prize in the feature film competition of Spain's Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 14-21), which also hosted tributes to Thomas Vinterberg, Richard Lester and Piotr Dumala. Director Klaus Haro (pictured) took home the ...
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Scott Caan's Dallas 362 wins top prize at CineVegas
Scott Caan's Dallas 362 took the Critics Award and Juliette Marquis, the star of ThisGirl's Life won aspecial Newcomer Actor Award at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival, which closed on Saturday (Jun 21).Dallas 362is a semi-autobiographical account exploring the dynamics of the modernAmerican family and the search for belonging. ...