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Palace backs next film by Japanese Story trio
Palace Films has committed to the Australian release of comedy/drama Driving Back To Dubbo from the Melbourne-based team behind this year's Un Certain Regard entrant Japanese Story.It will be the third film from director Sue Brooks, writer Alison Tilson and producer Sue Maslin. The debut film for all three ...
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Optimum boards untitled Shane Meadows feature
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up Shane Meadows' new untitled feature, which started shooting this week in the North of England. The film, which stars and is co-written by long-time Meadows collaborator Paddy Considine, has no set script and was developed through a series of rehearsals and improvisations. The ...
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Constantin Film reports decreased sales, improved earnings
Constantin Film has announced increased earnings for the first quarter of 2003 ahead of a May 10 meeting to decide on a response to the takeover bid from Highlight Communications.Earnings improved by Euros 600,000 over the first quarter of 2002 to Euros 1m, but sales fell 35% from 2002's Euros ...
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Dark Lady Of DNA could be follow-up film to Whale Rider
New Zealand's South Pacific Pictures (SPP) is developing a feature based on the book by Brenda Maddox about the life of Rosalind Franklin, whose work was essential to the discovery of DNA. The book, which is titled Rosalind Franklin, The Dark Lady of DNA, discusses how Franklin got no recognition ...
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BAFTA re-schedules 2004 film awards
BAFTA has changed the date of its film awards next year to avoid a clash with The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual nominees' lunch, held in Los Angeles.The BAFTAs were originally set to take place on Sunday February 8 next year, but with the nominees' lunch scheduled ...
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3D films enter new box office dimension
TwoImax large-format 3D films, T-Rex: Back To The Cretaceous and Space Station, passed box office milestones this week, havingearned $75m and $50m respectively. Releasedin 1998, T-Rex remains thehighest grossing 3D film while Space Station, released in 2002, continues its position as thefastest-growing 3D film.WhileSpace Station's 55 weeks at thebox office ...
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Fireworks acquires Nola for US release
Fireworks Pictures has acquired US theatrical rights to theromantic comedy Nola,which premiered at the second Tribeca Film Festival this week and will bereleased in theatres in the autumn.The deal was negotiated by Andrew Herwitz of The FilmSales Company and Bob Aaronson, vice president of acquisitions andco-productions at Fireworks Pictures.Based on ...
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Myriad beefs up London operation with double hire
Bolstering its London operation, production and distribution company MyriadPictures has hired former Winchester executive Christine Howard as head of international business affairsand Alice Weston, formerly at Universal, as sales executive. Both appointments come asthe London office expands its role as a stand-alone production and acquisitionsentity led by Marion Pilowsky, head ...
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Monarch targets drug-free 'urban' titles for US video
Monarch Home Video (MHV) has signed a four-film deal with Tim Reid's Obsidian Home Entertainment to supply four urban comedies, all of them purposefully free of drug references or excessive violence.The deal starts on June 24 with the release of Tim Reid's For Real, a romantic comedy set in the ...
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EasyCinema finds film programming not so easy
The UK's controversial easyCinema venture - which will sell tickets for as low as £0.20 and have no concessions stand or box office - has secured four titles from Pathe for the opening of its first cinema in Milton Keynes on May 23. But the company is now planning to ...
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Miami Gay & Lesbian festival names winners
Mark Rucker's murder comedy Die Mommie Die and Geoff Sax's nineteenth century lovestory Tipping The Velvet took top honours at the Fifth Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian FilmFestival, which ran from April 25-May 4.The best documentary award went to Even Benestad's profile of histransvestite father in All About My Father, ...
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Fantasporto gears up for 2004 edition
Portugal's leading film festival, Fantasporto, is already revving engines for its 24th edition in 2004 (Feb 20-28), to be followed immediately by a year-long celebration of the event's 25th anniversary.The fantasy-focused event has announced retrospectives of three classic British actors of the genre: Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Chistopher Lee. ...
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Local comedy to open 50th Sydney Film Festival
The Honourable Wally Norman, a film that continues Australia's long comedy tradition of the underdog succeeding against all odds, is the opening night film of the 50th Sydney Film Festival. Kevin Harrington (The Dish) is in the lead role of Wally, who is accidentally nominated to run for Federal Parliament.The ...
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Hating Alison Ashley gets greenlight
Australia's Film Finance Corporation board yesterday agreed to finance the feature Hating Alison Ashley to be directed by Rod Hardy from a script by Christine Madafferi. The teen comedy is an adaptation of Robin Klein's award-winning coming-of-age novel of the same name.Film Victoria is also contributing funding and a significant ...
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Odyssey to bring high-profile slate to Cannes
Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment is heading to Cannes with a bustling slate including two new additions - The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and Samantha Morton, and The Blue Afternoon, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Olivier Martinez and Sam Neill.The Libertine stars ...
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Cast set for Nine Queens remake
Recent Oscar nominee John C.Reilly (Chicago) and Mexican actor Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) are pairing up for the English-language remake of Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas), the Argentinian heist film that marked the directorial debut of Fabian Bielinsky. To be re-titled Criminal, the remake will also star Maggie ...
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Sarajevo festival to launch CineMart-inspired CineLink
This year's Sarajevo Festival (August 15-23) will be launching its CineLink project which has been inspired by Rotterdam's CineMart.CineLink is being organised in cooperation with the Rotterdam festival to bring key producers, sales agents and public funders to meet regional filmmakers.Screenplays from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro ...
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New UK sales company Element X teams with Visionview
Former FilmFour executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner have launched their own sales outfit, Element X, with a non-exclusive relationship with leading UK tax financier Visionview.Gold and Brenner expect to handle up to eight titles in their first year, with budgets up to $25m. Both Element X and Visionview will ...
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Terence Davies' Sunset Song to shoot this summer
Terence Davies' adaptation of the classic Scottish novel Sunset Song is on track to start shooting on location in Scotland from August or September, according to producer Bob Last.A global casting search is under way for a lead actress and Last will announce funding partners at Cannes. Scottish Screen has ...
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Ford spearheads beefed up Miramax International
Miramax co-chief of acquisitions Stuart Ford (pictured) will now wear a new corporate hat as head of a bolstered Miramax International. Three other New York executives have also been promoted at the international division, all in an effort to keep up with the complexities of selling and distributing films overseas.As ...