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Capitol heads for Hollywood Hong Kong
UK sales house Capitol Films has boarded Hong Kong art-house star Fruit Chan's forthcoming Hollywood Hong Kong, picking up rights outside Asia. Within Asia the film continues to be sold by Carrie Wong's Golden Network.Set to premiere in the main competition section in Venice next month, the film is the ...
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Farrell to return to Ireland for Intermission
Having exploded onto the Hollywood scene with upcoming US titles such as Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and Bruce Willis WW2 drama Hart's War, red-hot Irish actor Colin Farrell is likely to return to home-grown features on Dublin-set ensemble piece Intermission.The 25 year-old actor, who this week purportedly landed $5m to ...
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Parole Officer checks in at the UK box office
UK TV comedian Steve Coogan launched himself on the big-screen at the weekend with The Parole Officer. Pulling in a strong $1.3m (£902,028) from 288 sites, the comedy saw a site average of $4,468 - better than either Jurassic Park III or Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.Arriving at number five ...
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Schneider quits UPC as results disappoint again
Mark Schneider is to stand down as chairman and chief executive of UPC, the troubled company that is Europe's largest cable network operator. His move follows the announcement of second quarter results that sent the shares on another slide. The company reported an improvement in its operational result, but the ...
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Apes, AI grosses stack up in weekend int'l release
20th Century Fox's Planet Of The Apes continued to open around the world over the weekend, bringing its total gross to $47.17m after three weeks of release, while Warner Bros bowed AI Artificial Intelligence in Korea and Mexico, bringing its overseas total to $68.1m from just three territories.Planet Of The ...
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Chan to return to Ireland for Shanghai Knights
Jackie Chan had only just arrived in Dublin to begin shooting on The Highbinders when he revealed that he is already planning a return visit to film the sequel to Shanghai Noon.His presence in Ireland was a curious story to begin with; he is making the biggest Hong Kong movie ...
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Perugorria and Flores sign up to Resentment
Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria (Strawberry And Chocolate) and Spanish pop star Lolita Flores have signed on to star in director Miguel Albaladejo's next film Rencor (Resentment) for co-producers Iconica, Zebra, Alta Producciones and Trivision.Shooting gets underway in Spain on August 20 with co-star Elena Anaya (Sex And Lucia, Fading Memories). ...
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Oz movie convention boasts stellar line-up
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush will accept the international star of the year award during Australia On Show, the first night of the 56th Australian International Movie Convention, being held at Queensland's Gold Coast from Aug 14 to 18. Eric Bana will be named the Australian star of the year for his ...
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UK's Optimum acquires two titles
UK independent distributor, Optimum Releasing has acquired Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Julien Temple's Pandaemonium.The distributor, headed by Will Clarke, is taking over Pandaemonium from the ailing Downtown Pictures, which was to release the picture in May but was forced to secure a Creditors Voluntary Agreement to pay ...
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StudioCanal sees film boost half-year revenues
Vivendi Universal's European film and television production and distribution subsidiary StudioCanal has posted a 20.3% hike in revenues for the first half of 2001, mostly due to revenues from new films, which grew by 51% compared to the same period last year.StudioCanal's consolidated revenues reached Euros 179.9m, (including Euros 165.2m ...
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Sarajevo festival boasts broad film selection
Films by Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls), Joel Coen (The Man Who Wasn't There) and Jafar Panahi (The Circle) are among the films screening in the Panorama sidebar of this year's Sarajevo Film Festival which opens on August 17 with an open-air screening of Cannes prize-winner No Man's Land.Other Panorama ...
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Argentine cinemas hit by national economy slump
Argentina's deepening economic crisis is cutting heavily into the national box office, with earnings for the territory's biggest cinema operator, Village Cinemas South America, expected to be down 10% on last year, according to company president Eduardo Novilla Astrada.In its third year of economic gloom, Argentina's cinema business - long ...
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Amelie gets push from Momentum for UK record
Having already established a cult profile by opening the Edinburgh Film Festival, UK distributor Momentum Pictures is hoping to propel Amelie From Montmartre into the UK record books by supporting its 78-print October release with a p&a budget in the region of $853,000 (£600,000)."We believe Amelie is going to be ...
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Bac Majestic sees first half revenues jump 21.2%
Bac Majestic has seen its 2001 first-half revenues jump 21.2% to Euros 39.7m. This is good news for the French distributor and exhibitor which was floated on the French equivalent to the Nasdaq a year ago and has seen its shares dip 80% since then.Distribution and sales, which represent 85% ...
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Tube and Talisman announce co-production deal
Tube Studios of Montreal and Talisman, a U.K.-based entertainment company, announced Aug. 8 that they are about to finalise an international co-production agreement to co-develop, finance and produce a slate of film and television properties valued at an estimated US$200 million."Both Tube and Talisman share a common vision and commitment ...
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Russia's Vyborg Film Festival kicks off
The director's chair of the 9th Vyborg Film Festival (11-18 August) has been left vacant this year in homage to former festival director and highly respected Russian film director Savva Kulish who passed away in June of this year. Kulish whose career spanned more than 30 years had lately turned ...
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Online cinema ticketing takes off
US online ticketing service MovieTickets.com has announced that it has sold over 2 million online movie tickets since the service launched in spring 2000. The company, which sells tickets for leading theater chains throughout the US and Canada, represents approximately 80% of North America's online movie screens. It is also ...
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Canal Plus gets 75% of Polish sat-TV platform
Canal Plus is to end up owning three quarters of a new Polish satellite-TV platform, according to the terms of an agreement signed today (Aug 10) with Dutch cable empire UPC.The widely anticipated deal (Screendaily, Aug 6) sees UPC's Wizja TV platform merged with Canal Plus' Cyrfa+ platform and the ...
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Fox and Nokia take Apes mobile
20th Century Fox International has agreed a deal with Nokia, the mobile communications company, to promote the international release of Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes. The deal will offer owners of Nokia mobile phones in Germany, the UK and Italy unique screensavers and film logos on their phones via ...
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Four more join Meera Syal's Anita & Me
Max Beesley, Kathy Burke, Ayesha Dharker and Lynn Redgrave have joined the cast of Anita & Me, an East Is East-style comedy adapted from the book of the same name by UK writer, actress and comedian Meera Syal.Icon Film Distribution has UK rights for the film, budgeted at under $4.3m ...