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Wenders tipped to get back his old company
Wim Wenders and Peter Schwartzkopff, who jointly founded Reverse Angle Production in Hamburg last autumn, are now favourites to retrieve Wenders' old production company Road Movies from the insolvent Das Werk group, according to Germany's Die Welt.The daily newspaper reported at the weekend that Das Werk's insolvency administrator Holger Lessing ...
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Korean mega-merger cancelled
South Korean major CJ Entertainment announced on April 4 that it had called off its proposed merger with rival studio Cinema Service, which would have created the Korean film industry's biggest-ever company.Disagreements over price are reported to be the primary reason for the cancellation, although a change in fortunes for ...
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Constantin Film confirmed as Germany's top producer, distributor
Constantin Film confirmed its leading position as Germany's top production house and distributor by walking away with almost a third of the Euros 22.6m retroactive "reference" funding handed out by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The box-office success last year of such (co) productions as the Oscar-winning Nowhere In Africa, ...
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L'Homme Du Train joins Monsieur Hire for Leconte remake
Not one, but two films by French director Patrice Leconte are set for English-language remake treatment. According to multiple US sources, Leconte's most recent effort, The Man On The Train (L'Homme Du Train) is poised to be set up via Warner Bros, while earlier drama Monsieur Hire is likely to ...
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ICM to open new UK literary division in London
International CreativeManagement (ICM), the LA talent agency is opening a new London office calledICM Books to be based in Soho Square. Not to be confused with the UK agency runby Duncan Heath, the new division of the Hollywood agency is designed to buildon its reach in the New York book ...
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Maid In Manhattan is J Lo's number one international movie
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International's (CTFDI) MaidIn Manhattan became thehighest grossing international film starring Jennifer Lopez over the weekend.The romantic comedy added $4.3m on 2,200 screens in internationalmarkets for a $45.3m running total, surpassing the star's previous best of$42.6m for 2000's The Cell.So far the film has reachednumber one in ...
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France, Germany, UK record declining cinema admissions
France, Germany and now also the UK are seeing declining admissions in the first stages of 2003.France's national cinema federation, the FNCF, released figures for the first quarter of 2003, showing a 9% decrease in ticket sales compared to the same period in 2002. In February 2002, Asterix And Obelix: ...
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Las Palmas awards top prize to Mr & Mrs Iyer
India's Aparna Sen (pictured) picked up the gold prize for best film for Mr & Mrs Iyer at the fourth annual International Film Festival of Las Palmas (March 28-April 5), which also hosted the first edition of the EuroForum Co-Production Market.Organisers of the first annual three-day EuroForum said that despite ...
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Barbara Rudnik to head PLANET documentary prize jury
German actress Barbara Rudnik (pictured) has been named chairperson of the international jury for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.The other members of the jury are Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christian Frei (War Photographer), European Film Award winner Andres Veiel (Black Box BRD) and veteran Polish filmmaker-writer Andrzej Titkow.The prize, which ...
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Phone Booth tops lacklustre box office
The delayed Foxthriller Phone Boothrang up a modest $15m number one opening gross over the weekend as box officefigures were sluggish for the fourth weekend in a row. Despite two other largeopeners following close behind in second and third places, the general lack ofinspiring films compounded the "war effect" as ...
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Cohen remakes hardcore anime classic for Distant Horizon
DirectorRob Cohen, whose recent filmmaking credits include the international hits XXX and The Fast And The Furious, is teaming up with Distant Horizon to rework the acclaimedbut controversial 1998 Japanese anime shocker Kite into a live action version that will water down theoriginal's explicit sexual content.Inaddition to signing on direct ...
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Jungle Book sequel gets German boost
Buena Vista International's belated sequel to 1967's animated classic The Jungle Book scored a strong launch in Germany last weekend to take that country's top chart position.With 472,521 tickets sold the four-day (March 27-30) opening weekend take of $2.6m (Euros 2.4m) from 668 screens The Jungle Book 2 scored a ...
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US judge rules against National Amusements, Hoyts cinemas
A US federal judge has ordered two major exhibitors to provide stadium seating to people in wheelchairs, after ruling that both companies had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.Judge William G. Young ruled that National Amusements and Hoyts Cinemas ranked in 2000 among the 10 largest movie exhibitors, discriminated against ...
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Toonz Animation to launch training school
India's Toonz Animation, run by a group of former Disney and Turner executives, is to launch an animation school in May.Based in Thiruvananthapuram, Toonz Animation India was recently ranked among the top 10 animation studios in the world. According to Bill Dennis, president and CEO, the Toonz initiative is aimed ...
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Production starts on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Principal photography gets underway today (Friday) in Madrid, on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, a Spanish-French-UK co-production being sold internationally by Senator International.The film's star-studded cast is headlined by Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Kathy Bates. Irish director Mary McGuckian (This Is The Sea) wrote the screenplay and ...
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Dobermann director plans eco-friendly documentary series
Jan Kounen, the French director behind the stylish and hyper-violent 1997 comic-book adaptation Dobermann, is to show another side of his character with the launch of a new series of spiritual and eco-friendly documentaries. Kounen, who is just completing post-production of Blueberry, a stylised fantasy Western, that weighs in ...
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Korea's Good Fellas targets Vietnam for multiplex growth
Good Fellas, a Korean exhibition company, is to open its second cinema in Vietnam in May with a dozen more in the pipeline, confirming Vietnam as one of the most promising, untapped international cinema markets.The new venue, to be part of the company's Diamond Cinema (DMC) joint-venture multiplex chain, will ...
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Miramax bulks up on Chinese video rights
Miramax Films and Hong Kong-based content providerCelestial Pictures have signed a long-term deal giving the US mini-major aswathe of video and video-on-demand (VoD) rights to numerous titles within the renowned Shaw Brotherslibrary as well as English-language remake rights for two Chinese films.Under the deal, Miramax has video distribution rights for ...
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The Punisher catches Dream star
Thomas Jane, currently starring in Warner Bros' Dreamcatcher,has signed to play the lead role in Artisan Pictures and Marvel Studios' superheroadaptation The Punisher.Set to start shooting in July with a view to a Summer 2004 release,the project is the latest example of the joint venture between Artisan andMarvel to develop, ...
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UK's easyCinema to test low-cost cinema concept
Ending months of speculation, the UK's easyCinema has leased the first site in the roll-out of its innovative low cost cinema concept: UCI's 10-screen multiplex, The Point in Milton Keynes. EasyCinema, part of Greek entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou's no-frills empire easyGroup, will sell tickets for as low as 20p if booked ...