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AFM: Lion's Gate picks up Race To Space
Lions Gate Films International has acquired foreign rights to Race To Space, a true story drama about the first chimpanzee in space, which stars James Woods, Alex Linz, Annabeth Gish and William Atherton. Columbia TriStar Home Video has domestic rights to the movie which started principal photography this month with ...
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SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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Vivendi Universal sells Nordic pay-TV unit
Vivendi Universal has struck a deal to sell Canal Plus Television AB, its pay-TV unit in the Nordic region, to a consortium of equity firms for about 70 million euros. Vivendi said the transaction would cut debt at its Canal Plus Group unit by a net amount of Euros 54m. ...
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SWEDEN
Pirates Of The Caribbean refused to give leave from the top spot in Sweden leaving new Hollywood releases Piglet's Big Movie and American Pie: The Wedding to take up positions behind it.This resulted in local hit Miffo slipping to fourth place but it still fared better than the new local ...
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NORTH AMERICA
With no over-achieving new blockbusters to contend with, it was a good time for the smaller independent films to go out a little wider last weekend. Fox Searchlight's acclaimed teen drama Thirteen expanded by 38 into 108 sites and climbed one place to 21st on $624,611 for $1.9m in its ...
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ITALY
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl stormed the Italian box office, grossing an enormous $5.8m (Euro 5.241m) five days after its Italian premiere, making it the biggest opening ever in the territory for its distributor BVI.Days after the movie's star, Johnny Depp's widely publicized trip to ...
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UK Film Council unveils£50m film training overhaul
A £50m overhaul of UK training, including the creation of a string of film schools across the country for creative and business skills, was launched on Sept 10 by support body the UK Film Council and training agency Skillset.The annual package of £10 million for at least the next five ...
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Huelva festival unveils trio of tributes
Bolivian director Jorge Ruiz, Argentine actress Norma Aleandro and Spanish actor Imanol Arias will be the recipients of three tributes planned for this year's 29th edition of the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 8-15).This November will mark new festival director Porfirio Enriquez's first edition since replacing Salvador Augustin in ...
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Piggies hopes to fly with Little Bird
UK production company Little Bird has optioned teen horror novel Piggies as the first title under its recently-launched teen film arm.The book by Nick Gifford follows a youngster who is transported to a parallel world inhabited by vampires. Nahrein Mirza, who heads Little Bird's teen arm, is teaming up on ...
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The Company
Dir. Robert Altman. US-Germany. 2003. 112mins.A feast for balletomanes, but with very little else to offer the rest of the audience, Robert Altman's new film may be a splendid promo reel for Chicago's Joffrey Ballet Company. But do not expect anything like his brilliant forays into American music in Nashville, ...
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Shattered Glass
Dir: Billy Ray. US. 2003. 99 mins.An utterly absorbing dramatisation of contemporary true events, Shattered Glass is a welcome reminder of the serious-minded venture that was once more prevalent in mainstream American cinema. A modern morality tale that reflects the clash between ambition and integrity, it recalls the kind of ...
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Scott prepares to embark on Crusades epic
Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott has confirmed that his next project will be the historical epic The Crusades.Speaking in London on Sept 9 after a BAFTA screening of his latest film Matchstick Men, Scott said he planned to begin filming early next year in Spain and North Africa.Despite the sensitive ...
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Exorcist prequel books into Cinecitta for major reshoot
The Exorcist: The Beginning has booked in for a five to six week reshoot at Rome's Cinecitta Studios next month, following director Paul Schrader's sudden dismissal from the movie after an alleged conflict with his producers at Morgan Creek. Carol Andre-Smith, director of international marketing at Cinecitta confirmed that re-shoots ...
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Spacey's Sea heads up Element X debut slate
Beyond The Sea, Kevin Spacey's story of legendary crooner Bobby Darin, is amongst the titles on the debut slate of Element X, the London-based international sales company set up by former FilmFour executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner.Principal photography on the Anglo-German co-production starts in October in Europe. The film ...
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UK's Skills Investment Fund may become obligatory
The Skills Investment Fund, the UK fund for training made up of voluntary contributions from local productions, may become obligatory under plans being discussed with the Government.Stewart Till, who is deputy chairman of support body the UK Film Council and training agency Skillset, which administers the fund, told Screendaily that ...
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French box office buoyed by August figures
France's National Cinema Centre has released figures for August box office which add up to good news for the local industry. Following a rotten year for movie going, numbers were up in August by 5.2% compared with last year.August saw 14.1 million tickets sold making it one of the best ...
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Rome plays host to cloistered screening of Gibson's Passion
Special projects require special tactics. And there can be few films requiring such an approach as Mel Gibson's $25m religious tract The Passion.Gibson's company Icon Entertainment and ICM, the Catholic activist superstar's agent, are carefully selecting distributors for what it already knows is inflammatory and difficult material. On the eve ...
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Rappeneau romance gets Oscar nod
Veteran directorJean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage has been selected as France's contender for the foreign-languageOscar. Thefilm, which stars Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen, Yvan Attal,Gregori Derangere andGerard Depardieu, is a romantic drama set against the period when France was losing ground in WWII. The director, who previouslydirected foreign-language box office champion Cyrano ...
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France names Bon Voyage its Oscar contender
Jean-Paul Rappeneau's BonVoyage will be France's entry intothe Oscar race this year. The National Cinema Center announced Wednesday theselection of Rappeneau's film as its choice for a potential nomination by theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The film, produced by ARPSelection's Laurent and Michele Petin was released in France under ...
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Toronto: Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...