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Winchester to acquire Cobalt Pictures
The UK's Winchester Entertainment has agreed in principle to acquire Cobalt Pictures from owners and founders John Muse and Alton Irby, Winchester announced to the stock exchange on Tuesday.Winchester and Cobalt have agreed non-binding heads of terms and the transaction is subject to due diligence and an acquisition agreement. The ...
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Nowhere In Africa producers team for Sergeant Pepper
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen and Constantin Film, who were co-producers on Caroline Link's Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, are teaming up for Sandra Nettelbeck's second German-language feature Sergeant Pepper after her international hit Mostly Martha.The comedy about an unusual friendship between a six-year-old boy and a talking dog called Sergeant ...
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Magdalene Sisters wins top jury prize in Newport
Peter Mullan's TheMagdalene Sisters, which walked awaywith the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, continued its winningways on the international festival circuit by being named best feature film bythe jury of the Newport International Film Festival.The MagdaleneSisters, which will bereleased in the US on August 1st through Miramax ...
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Japan acts to protect copyright of Golden Age directors
Japan has passed a revised Copyright Law extending copyright protection for movies and animated films from the current fifty years to seventy following the date of release. The new law goes into effect in January.The Japanese film industry has campaigned long and hard for this revision. The copyrights on films ...
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Cult French comedy heads for big screen
Camera Cafe, a comedy program that airs before the nightly news on French channel M6 will make a leap to the big screen in 2004. Created by and starring Bruno Solo and Yvan Bolloc'h, the show - which has been sold widely around the world - is a comedic look ...
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Danes launch FilmFyn regional fund
New Danish regional fund FilmFyn launches this week with a budget of US$2.7m (DKR17m), which will be divided among three to four feature films annually at least until 2006. The first regional fund of its kind in Denmark, FilmFyn is modelled on the hugely successful Swedish regional fund, Film I ...
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EasyCinema runs into UK exhibition difficulties
easyCinema, the UK no-frills exhibitor which sells tickets for as low as £0.20, has secured a range of previously-released titles from Warner Bros, including the first two installments of the Harry Potter franchise. But none of the titles are first-run, and all are available on DVD and video in the ...
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Edinburgh unveils first festival titles
British premieres of Cannes competition entry Swimming Pool, Jim Sheridan drama In America and Lucas Belvaux's La Trilogie are among the first titles confirmed for the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival which runs August 13-24. Adding to its previously announced retrospective devoted to French master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot, the ...
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Reloaded grabs another $22m for $347m total
Warner Bros International's The Matrix Reloaded grossed an estimated $22m over the weekend, raising its projected cumulative score to $347m.In its second weekend in Japan the sci-fi sequel took around $9m (Yen 1bn), representing a 20% drop-off from the record opening weekend.It was the third or fourth biggest second weekend ...
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Seattle audiences give Whale Rider its top awards
The 25-day Seattle International Film Festival ended its run yesterday with audience awards - aka the Golden Space Needle awards - going to Niki Caro's Whale Rider as best film and Caro as best director. Whale Rider, which is now on release in the US through Newmarket Films, was also ...
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Cage gets lifetime award at Chicago Film Festival
Nicolas Cage is to receive the Career Achievement Award at the 39th Chicago International Film Festival's Summer Gala on Jul 19.Cage won the best actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1996 for which he also won the Golden Globe, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film ...
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Back to the top for Pixar megahit Nemo
Buena Vista/Pixar's underwater adventure Finding Nemo resurfaced at the top of the chart over the weekend, grossing an estimated $29.2m going into its third week on release.The animated yarn has amassed $192.3m and is expected to finish in the $275m-$300m range, which would surpass the Pixar record set in 2001 ...
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Salvatores wins Italy's Nastro D'Argento for best director
Gabriele Salvatores scooped Italy's prestigious Nastro D'Argento (Silver Ribbon) prize as best director for I'm Not Scared, during a ceremony held on Saturday night in Taormina's ancient Greek amphitheatre.Adapted from author Niccolo' Ammaniti's hit novel, I'm Not Scared tells the story of a young boy in a desolate Southern Italian ...
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Topeka tops Huesca's short film competition
Spain's 31st annual Huesca Film Festival closed Saturday night with three-minute dialogue-free Topeka taking the top prize and the various short film competition juries coinciding on many of the other main awards.Basque native Asier Altuna won the international jury's top prize, worth Euros 6,000, for his three-minute dialogue-free Topeka. France's ...
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Hopkins misses Maui festival tribute
A last minute family emergency forced Sir Anthony Hopkins to cancel his trip to the fourth Maui Film Festival this weekend, where he was due to collect the Silversword Award Tribute. "We wish Sir Anthony well and would love to present the award to him next year," Barry Rivers, executive ...
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Martin Sorrell's WPP invests in Spain's MediaPro
Multinational communications giant WPP has taken a 30% stake in growing Spanish media firm MediaPro. The remaining 70% of the company remains in equal parts with MediaPro's three founding partners: Jaume Roures, Gerard Romy and Jose Maria Benet. The value of the WPP sale was not revealed. MediaPro president Roures ...
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Korean film-makers rage against quota threat
The South Korean film community has reacted strongly to statements from Korea's Ministry of Finance & Economy calling for the reduction or abolition of the nation's Screen Quota system. In a hastily-arranged press conference on June 12, a coalition of directors, actors, and producers issued a sharp rebuttal to ...
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Scott takes Tristan And Isolde to Prague in August
Ridley Scott's Tristan And Isolde is set to go into production in the Czech Republic at the end of August.The film is a co-production between Quality International and ApolloMedia/ApolloProMedia, UK-based MFF and Filmgroup 111 Prague. Moshe Diamant is set to produce and Ridley Scott oversee as Executive Producer. Kolin Luxembourg ...
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Banff winner tipped for US theatrical run
A feature-length version of documentary Chavez - Inside the Coup, the critically acclaimed winner of the top award at this week's Banff television festival, is under negotiation for a US theatrical release says its producer, David Power of Ireland's Power Pictures. Speaking to Screen Daily, David Power said that theatrical ...
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UK tax funds bankroll Bauer Martinez slate
UK tax financier Tower Film Productions has partnered with fellow funding operation UKFS to bankroll a slate of films involving Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Ringo Lam, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Gina Gershon and Dominique Swain.Most of the titles are being produced through Philippe Martinez's US-based Bauer Martinez. Tower chief executive Stephen ...