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Mandolin to play first in UK
Universal has moved Captain Corelli's Mandolin from its April release date in the US back to August. The romantic drama, starring Nicolas Cage, was scheduled to open on April 27 in North America, before commencing its international roll-out in the UK on May 4. According to Universal's London office and ...
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Wild Bunch hits the road with The Red Siren
French super-mini Wild Bunch has boarded its second English-language picture The Red Siren (La Sirene Rouge) by rising French filmmaker Olivier Megaton Fontana, a director rated by compatriot Luc Besson as one of the hottest emerging talents in Europe. Megaton's film is a road movie thriller with a heavy accent ...
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Del Toro, Rush join Intermedia's Assumption
Two of this year's Oscar nominees Benicio Del Toro and Geoffrey Rush, together with acting legend Vanessa Redgrave, are all lining up to star opposite Juliette Binoche in Intermedia's period drama Assumption Of The Virgin.Directed by Walter Salles, the film stars Binoche as a nun lured away from her convent ...
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Fortissimo serves up spicy Thai dish
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up a trio of new pictures including Jan Dara, by Nonzee Nimibutr, the Thai director behind last year's pan-Asian blockbuster Nang Nak.His follow-up Jan Dara is a saga of sex, guilt and retribution set in 1930s Thailand which sees a young man return to a ...
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Hudlin to direct Chan in $35m martial arts fantasy
Emperor Multi-media Group (EMG) has signed Reginald Hudlin to direct its Jackie Chan film The Highbinders which, at a suggested budget of $35m, is the most expensive film ever to be financed from Hong Kong. The English-language martial arts fantasy will shoot later in June or July in Hong Kong ...
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Germany's Producers AG expands again
Claus Boje and Detlev Buck's production outfit: Boje Buck Produktion and theatrical distribution outlet Delphi Filmverleih are the latest companies to become partners in the rapidly expanding Producers AG. Producers AG CEO Friedrich-Carl Wachs confirmed last week during the Berlin Film Festival that the Potsdam-based media venture capital company will ...
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Eastern European admissions boom predicted
Box office revenues in Central and Eastern Europe are forecast to soar by 80% over the next four years, notwithstanding the increasing problem of overscreening in many key cities as well as consolidation among some international exhibitors.According to a new report, Cinemagoing: Central and Eastern Europe, published by film industry ...
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Franchise labels latest accusations
Franchise Pictures' chairman Elie Samaha and president/COO Andrew Stevens yesterday responded to the latest charges in the lawsuit against them by Intertainment Licensing, labelling the accusations as "preposterous."Intertainment amended its suit on Tuesday to include Imperial Bank as a defendant, alleging that Imperial not only knew that the budgets on ...
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EuroArts snaps up New York partner
German sales agent EuroArts Entertainment and the New York-based production house Snapper Films have formed a development and production alliance.Under the three-year deal, the two expect to produce at least two English-language pictures a year with budgets in the $5m region. "What we are looking for is films in three ...
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Two new theatrical distributors emerge in NZ
The next two New Zealand films to release locally signal the arrival of two "new" theatrical distributors - or, more accurately, players who have principally been active in video distribution.Mark Galloway's Stage Door Entertainment releases The Price Of Milk on March 1, and Gordon Adam's Metropolis Film releases The Irrefutable ...
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Cinema loyalty pass hits French market shares
French exhibitor Gaumont, severely hit by a slump in cinema ticket sales following the launch of UGC's cinema loyalty pass in March 2000, has seen its revenues slide 15% to $215m in 2000, despite launching its own pass last September, in partnership with Paris exhibitor MK2.Gaumont - which merged its ...
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Sullivan launches feature film division
Canadian TV production and distribution outfit Sullivan Entertainment has launched a feature film division to develop, produce and finance its own productions to be distributed through Sullivan Entertainment International. The division kicks off with The Piano Man's Daughter starring Stockard Channing and Christian Campbell. Whoopi Goldberg is executive producer.The company, ...
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Hannibal takes a large bite out of the UK
Despite Hannibal taking a large bite out of the UK box office over the weekend, four other openers faired well, no doubt owing a debt of gratitude to sell-out screenings of the UIP monster, which turned hungry audiences toward other titles. As reported on screendaily.com yesterday, Hannibal became the highest ...
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Italian domestic films lose flavour
In what has been branded as 'one of the worst years ever' for Italian films at the local box office, national film body, Anica, said that while overall takings increased last year, the box office continued to be heavily dominated by US fare and suffered from a low number of ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival chief to quit
Lizzie Francke, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is to quit after this year's Festival in August - her fifth in charge of programming what has become Britain's leading launch-pad for introducing new local talent.Francke told Screen: "Five is a good round number. I've helped shaped the festival, ...
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Icon launches Australian distribution company
Icon Entertainment, Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's production outfit which successfully launched UK distribution outfit Icon Film Distribution in 1999, is doing the same in Australia - creating a local distribution companyThe Icon offshoot could go up against Village Roadshow as an indie giant if the Australian results of Icon's ...
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Winchester breaks more Hearts with deals
Winchester Films has closed two more major territories on Heartbreakers, the all-star comedy which MGM will release domestically on March 23. Dall'Angelo Pictures has bought Italian rights on the film and Buena Vista International has taken Australian rights. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Jason Lee and Ray ...
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Romero thriller shakes Ricky's Bon Bon
Latin singing superstar Ricky Martin is close to signing to star in his feature film debut in The Assassination - a political action thriller being directed by George A Romero and co-starring Oscar nominee Ed Harris, James Coburn and Anthony Quinn.. Set to start shooting in April, The Assassination is ...
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Miramax resumes love affair with foreign cinema
A noticeably acquisitive Miramax Films is close to domestic deals on two of the hottest non-American titles on the current sales circuit -. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Cannes competition contender Amelie From Montmartre and Tsui Hark's The Legend Of Zu, starring Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon discovery Zhang Ziyi. In both cases Miramax ...
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EM.TV to sell off its 45% stake in TMG
German mediaconcern EM.TV may sell its 45% stake in Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen-Group(TMG) to an external investor, according to the German daily newspaper DieWelt. Until now ithad been assumed that Kloiber, Germany's second most important rights traderafter Kirch, himself wanted to buy back the EM.TV stake, but at a price muchlower ...