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Hopscotch jumps on Fahrenheit 911
Hopscotch has acquired all Australian and New Zealand rights for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, making it one of the first English language distributors to officially board the new documentary. Moore has already begun to examine the history of anti-American terrorism, trace the business dealings between the Bush and bin Laden ...
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Columbia's Anger manages Sandler's biggest UK opening
Teaming with Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson proved as beneficial in the UK as it did in the US for Adam Sandler as Anger Management scored the comedian's biggest UK release.Columbia TriStar's film took $2.9m (£1.8m) from 431 sites - a strong average of $6,827 - giving Sandler his biggest ...
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Hong Kong's eSun ups Media Asia stake, eyes Golden Harvest
Hong Kong's eSun Holdings is increasing its stake in local film producer and distributor Media Asia Holdings and is also reportedly in informal talks to acquire an interest in rival film studio, Golden Harvest Entertainment.eSun is spending $6.4m (HK$50m) to raise its stake in Media Asia from 35.13% to 49.77% ...
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Kanin wins Kieser Award
Fay Kanin, the EmmyAward-winning American screenwriter who shared an Oscar nomination for thecomedy Teacher's Pet with herlate husband Michael Kanin in 1958, has received the second Kieser Award.Kanin will collect her honour,which is bestowed on writers whose work promotes greater human understandingand appreciation, at the annual Humanitas luncheon. The first ...
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Sydney fights to screen banned Ken Park
The Sydney Film Festival has approached both the State and Federal Government in the hope that Ken Park can be shown twice next week as scheduled, despite the Classification Review Board upholding the Office of Film and Literature Classification's refusal to classify the film.Australian film festivals do not ordinarily have ...
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Higgins joins Intermedia as senior vp of corporate communications & publicity
Dennis Higginshas joined Intermedia as senior vice president of corporate communications andpublicity, where he will oversee all the company's corporate branding andsupervise film publicity.Higgins willalso liaise with distributors of Intermedia's films and work with Intermedia'sMunich-based parent company Internationalmedia on its international marketpositioning. "Intermedia is a growing company and getting someone ...
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New-look Oscar season takes shape
With the new-look,compressed awards season looming on the horizon the last two industry bodieshave set dates for their 2004 ceremonies.The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) will stage its event on Jan 17 at the Century Plaza Hotel in LosAngeles.The new timeframe is aprestigious one for the PGA, falling as it does ...
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Revolution, Sony set Hellboy for prime summer 2004 slot
Revolution Studios announced today (Jun 6) that its comic bookadaptation Hellboywill be released through Columbia Pictures on Memorial Day 2004, a prime summer release slot in late May which has seen launchdates in the past for blockbusters from ET to the new Star Wars trilogy.Based on the Dark Horse comic ...
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Italy's Pesaro festival unveils line-up for 39th edition
Italy's Pesaro Film Festival, dedicated to international independent filmmaking, has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 39th edition, which includes such titles as Kamchatka, the critically acclaimed Argentinian film directed by Marcelo Pineyro. Starring Cecilia Roth and Ricardo Darin, Kamchatka is about a couple who are hiding out from the ...
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Advertisers exploit Czech box-office bonanza
Czech hit Pupendo, combined with the local success of The Matrix Reloaded, have given a welcome boost to the Czech box office, with advertisers investing in local campaigns and sponsorship to an unprecedented degree, according to the Prague Business Journal. "Blockbusters and especially Czech movies have been motivating advertisers ...
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Hello America for Good Bye, Lenin!
Bavaria Film International closed a US deal with Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) for Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! ahead of its winning nine Lolas at this year's German Film Awards on Friday evening in Berlin.Commenting on the deal with SPC, which also took US distribution for Tom Tykwer's Run Lola ...
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McDull excites Annecy animation festival
France's Annecy animation festival wrapped on Saturday night with highest honours going to Tony Yeun's Chinese/Hong Kong co-production My Life As McDull.The film, which will be released theatrically in France on July 2, tells the story of a pig, McDull, who lives with his mother in Hong Kong but dreams ...
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Game, set and match to Becker at German Lolas
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! swept the board at the German Film Awards by picking up a record nine Lolas - seven Golden Lolas with prize-money totalling Euros 560,000 and the two Audience Awards - to add to the Lola that Becker and co-author Bernd Lichtenberg won for Best Filmed ...
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Gutch to launch UK Blast! film division
Former head of the Film Four Lab Robin Gutch has joined UK TV production company Blast! Films to launch a film arm.Gutch, who will sit on the company's board, will develop features and drama projects for the company. Blast! Is known for edgy documentary and docudrama fare such as Penny ...
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Anger burns up the box office with $8.4m for CTFDI
Anger Management scored a couple of record openings for stars AdamSandler and Jack Nicholson as the comedy grossed $8.4m on 3,000 internationalscreens over the weekend, raising its total to $29.1m.Opening in 18 territoriesthe highlights included a number two bow in the UK behind The MatrixReloaded, where Anger Management took $2.8m ...
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Reloaded breaks all-time Japanese opening record
The Matrix Reloaded scored an industry record opening of $18.5m in Japanover the weekend, including previews, as the Warner Bros sci-fi sequel raisedits international total to an estimated $300m.The remarkable Japanese bow(Yen 2.2bn) from 632 screens included the territory's biggest ever previewgross of $7.5m (Yen 892m) from advanced screenings on ...
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Echelon ties up with Newmark for domestic theatrical push
LA-based EchelonEntertainment has formed a domestic theatrical alliance with NewmarkEntertainment to support independent films with aggressive print andadvertising packages.The partners will start withthe offbeat comedy Nobody Knows Anything, which stars an ensemble castincluding Mike Myers, Janeane Garafalo and Virginia Madsen.Newmark/Echelon willguarantee producers full theatrical distribution along with cash for prints ...
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Geoff Stier joins Valhalla as head of production
Veteran producerGeoff Stier has joined Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures asproducer and the company's head of production.Stier willoversee development and production of a slate of film and television projectsincluding comic book adaptation The Punisher for Artisan and super heroine project Flux for Paramount.He will reportdirectly to Valhalla chairman Hurd.'Geoff ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious smashes in at number one
Universal Pictures scoredits second number one bow in three weeks as 2 Fast 2 Furious roared to the top of the table on an estimated$52.1m.The street racing sequel wasthe only new entry to break into a top 10 that contains four $100m-plus films,two of which have grossed more than $200m.Overall ...
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Global film industry losing up to $3.5bn from piracy
The global film industry is currently losing $3bn-$3.5bn per year to illegal piracy operations, according to a new report The Impact Of Piracy On The Film Industry, by UK based management consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche.The new report attributes most of the current loss to "hard copy" video piracy, ie ...