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Paris to get new film festival this summer
In conjunction with the municipal government, the city of Paris will inaugurate a new film festival this summer entitled Paris Cinema. The event will run from July 2 - 15 in cinemas throughout the French capital.Director Costa Gavras will serve as President of the organisational board while former Cannes Director's ...
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Cannes 2003 - competition line-up
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Cannes 2003 - competition line-up
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Competition line-up 2003
Chief selector Thierry Fremaux's selection is a robust and wide-ranging mixture of familiar art-house names and Cannes favourites (Blier, Sokurov, Techine, Eastwood, Van Sant and Von Trier) mixed with a few newcomers such as Japan's Naomi Kawase and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan in competition. The Un Certain Regard sidebar as ...
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Zwart quits MGM's Cody Banks sequel
Norwegian director Harald Zwart says he has left MGM's sequel to Agent Cody Banks, according to local paper Dagbladet.MGM had planned to begin production on Agent Cody Banks 2 in London in June, with teen heartthrob Frankie Muniz repeating his teen 007 role in the second instalment of the spy ...
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KWA takes international sales on Carmen
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up Vicente Aranda's ambitious Carmen for international sales, and will give the film its market debut next month at Cannes.Billed as the biggest-budgeted European erotic production of the last ten years, Carmen is produced by Juan Alexander for Spain's Star Line ...
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Kolodner & Melamede launch Salty Features
Former Madstone Films production executives Eva Kolodnerand Yael Melamede have teamed up to launch New York-based production companySalty Features, which has already boarded four projects aiming to showcase"unique vision, strong storytelling and thought-provoking subject matter."The four titlesin development include Bam Bam And Celeste, the first fictional film vehicle for comedian ...
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Hong Kong launches production guarantee fund
In a bid to boost the flagging local film industry, the Hong Kong Government officially launched the Film Guarantee Fund yesterday. The new fund was created to help local companies secure bank loans for film production as well as to establish a solid film-financing infrastructure to facilitate the long-term development ...
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BVI's Jungle Book 2 crosses $60m mark
Buena VistaInternational's The Jungle Book 2 raised its international running total to $60.4m after a$5.9m weekend session.Demonstrating several strong gains amid a sea of mostlymodest drops, the animated family sequel fell 8% on $1.4m in its second weekendin the UK for a $5.5m cumulative score.In Spain it rose14% to $1m ...
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Brazil's Moraes gets short film-maker award in Hollywood
Gustavo Moraeswill receive this year's Fuji Filmmaker of the Year Award at the openingnight gala of the 2003 Short Shorts Film Festival in Hollywood on Apr 29. Thefestival runs from Apr 29-May 1.'Gustavo issuch a talented film-maker and we are so thrilled to be honoring him thisyear,' festival director Douglas ...
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Monk strong in Taiwan day-and-date opening for Fox
In the latest sign ofdistributors stepping up the war against piracy, Fox International rolled outthe martial arts action-thriller Bulletproof Monk in Taiwan on the same weekend it opened in the US.The Asian bow grossed$355,000 on 50 screens for a close second place finish behind Warner Bros'horror film Dreamcatcher.Elsewhere, Just Married ...
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Pandora takes international Sayles rights from IFC
Pandora, the internationalsales arm of Gaylord Films, has acquired international sales rights to JohnSayles' latest film Casa De Los Babys from IFC Productions.Pandora's executivevice president of worldwide sales Shebnem Askin will show footage of the filmto buyers at Cannes next month; the film is being positioned for theVenice/Toronto festival season.Casa ...
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Dreamcatcher rakes in $9.5m, Two Weeks Notice crosses $100m for Warner
The Warner Bros romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice passed $100m at the international boxoffice over the weekend, although complete figures are still unavailable due tothe ongoing Easter holidays in most of Europe.The horror film Dreamcatcher soared, grossing $9.5m and 1.8m admissions from 2,463screens for a $15.7m international total including Village ...
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Johnny English continues international rampage, crosses $50m
Universal's JohnnyEnglish remained the runaway numberone international hit for the second weekend in a row, according to studioestimates released today (Apr 21).The comedy, which stars theBritish comedian Rowan Atkinson as a highly maladroit spy, added a stunning$18.5m from 3,480 theatres in 38 markets for a $50m international running totalafter two ...
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Denys Arcand's Barbarians to invade Cannes'
Although the official line up is not announced until tomorrow, Montreal daily La Presse today reported that Denys Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares will be in official competition at Cannes this year.While the Cannes press office is keeping quiet until tomorrow, if the news is correct it would mark the first ...
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New releases give UK box office a welcome boost
Working Title/UIP hit Johnny English held strong, dropping off just 26% in its second weekend, to retain the top spot against powerful competition from 20th Century Fox's Phone Booth and UIP's own How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.The combined power of the holiday weekend releases (three made the ...
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Pathe UK loses head of development
Matt Gannon has decided to leave his position as head of development at Pathe's UK operation, managing director Francois Ivernel confirmed on Thursday.Although Gannon has developed some of the company's highest-profile productions - including The Magic Roundabout and Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical - Pathe is scaling back its ...
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Vajna and Kassar prepare fantasy trilogy for Sony Pictures
Andy Vajna andMario Kassar's C-2 Pictures, which produced one of the summer's mostanticipated pictures in Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, is preparing an epic fantasy trilogycalled Evermere whichhas landed at Sony Pictures. Describing the project as "Lord of The Rings meets Harry Potter," Vajna told Screen that he thought ...
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Kenneth Rive memorial
On Tuesday next week (April 29) anall-industry event will take place at the National Film Theatre to celebratethe life and work of Ken Rive, who died on December 30 at the age of 84.His involvement in the filmindustry started at an early age when his father went to work in ...
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Anger unleashed in Australia with $2m opening
In the firstmajor international release for its number one US film Anger Management, Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) opened the comedy at number one in Australia on anaggressive $2m.In a raft ofterritory records, this was the second biggest April bow (bettered only by TheMatrix in 1999), thebiggest ever bow for ...