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Pontecorvo classic gets US re-issue via Rialto, Classic Collection
Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers, the legendary re-telling of thestruggle for Algerian independence from France, will be re-released in the USby Rialto Pictures in association with The Classic Collection, a joint ventureof Janus Films and Homevision Entertainment, in January 2004.The film will open in New York, Los ...
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Garlock joins WBPI in new promotions senior vp post
Gene Garlock has been appointed to the new post of senior vicepresident of promotions at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president of marketing at WBPI,Garlock will head up the promotions department with particular focus ondeveloping third-party business tied to international releases.Along with developing and managing ongoing ...
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Zellweger to play Bridget Jones for Working Title
Renee Zellweger has been cast as thirtysomething singleton Bridget Jones in Working Title's adaptation of Helen Fielding's best-selling novel Bridget Jones' Diary.Sharon Mcguire is directing the film from a script by Fielding, Richard Curtis and Andrew Davies. Producers are Jonathan Cavendish and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.Zellweger, ...
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Revolutions to open day and date in 60 territories
Hoping to hit the pirates where it hurts and capitalise on aninternet-savvy global fan base, Warner Bros will open its sci-fi trilogy finaleThe Matrix Revolutions simultaneouslyin 60 territories including the US on Nov 5.Orchestrated in association with Village Roadshow by Warner Bros'president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman and president of ...
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Hausfater lands at Miramax in international role
Industry veteran Jere Hausfater has landed at Miramax Films asexecutive vice president and co-head of Miramax International.Breaking tradition for the company's international arm, he will bebased in Los Angeles but will report to New York-based COO Rick Sands. He willwork alongside Stuart Ford, the Miramax executive vice president who took ...
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Pirates still controls international box office seas
Buena Vista International(BVI)'s Pirates Of The Caribbeanremained the top international film at the weekend as it grossed $13m andraised its international running total to $292m.The highlights wereholdovers in the UK, where in its seventh week the film dropped 12% and added$1.2m for $41.4m, and Germany, where it dropped 24% in ...
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Hollywood independents in shock as MPAA screener ban rewrites Oscar game
Studio-affiliated members of the independent film community claimtheir chances of success in the upcoming awards season could lie in ruins nowthat the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) proposal to abolishpreview screening tapes looks likely to be pushed through this week.The specialized divisions of the studios - Fine Line Features,Focus ...
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Hero scores number one opening in France
Zhang Yimou's action epic Hero opened number one in France at the weekend, grossing$1.9m from 375 theatres. According to executives atUniversal, which distributed the film there after acquiring rights from Focus,the opening was well ahead of the 10 other new entries and comprised 60% of the2000 opening for Crouching Tiger, ...
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NORWAY
The record 100 print release of newcomer Alexander Eik's romantic comedy The Woman Of My Life paid off in the film's first weekend, where it pushed American Wedding down 43% and Pirates Of The Caribbean 30%. Well known for his sure hand at marketing, veteran producer John M. Jacobsen has ...
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GERMANY
Solo Film's Jester Till (Till Eulenspiegel) comfortably exceeded the 100,000 admissions barrier to take $600,187 for 118,687 tickets from 507 prints. The large-scale release of the Euros 15m animation feature by Eberhard Junkersdorf's Munich Animation studio is seen by some observers as something of a turning point for Solo-Film who ...
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The Story Of The Weeping Camel
Dir: Luigi Falorni & Byambasuren Davaa. Mongolia/Germany. 2003. 90mins.One of the few buyer talking points at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, The Story Of The Weeping Camel is an illuminating portrait of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert which recalls everything from Nanook Of The North to Nikita Mikhalkov's ...
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The Rundown
Dir: Peter Berg. US. 2003. 104 mins. Having successfully flexed his muscles in last year's Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King, wrestler-turned-actor The Rock proves in The Rundown that he can also carry a contemporary movie - with a little help from some more experienced co-workers at any rate. This entertaining ...
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Spain gets greenlight for super studio
Spain looks set to gain its biggest ever studio complex after the backers behind the proposed 'Audiovisual City' greenlit the project this week.The complex, newly dubbed "The City of Light" (La Ciudad de la Luz)', is being supported by the Valencia regional government and as-yet-unnamed partners from the 'Spanish and ...
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DENMARK
The release of Christoffer Boe's multiple-award winning feature debut Reconstruction couldn't have bought the publicity up to its premiere if it had wanted to. Just the day before it's release it became the Danish submission for the Oscars; before that it had picked up the Camera d'Or in Cannes and ...
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November (Noviembre)
Dir: Achero Manas. Spain. 2003. 104minsActor-turned-director Achero Manas marks his position as one of the most interesting young filmmakers in Spain with November, but it is unlikely that the film will get him recognition beyond what he gained from his impressive debut Pellet (El Bola). But this well-acted and great ...
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SWEDEN
Mikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) had a tremendous opening weekend with 108,000 admissions on its 95 prints, more than double the take of second-placed, Pirates Of The Caribbean. With more than two million copies sold of Jan Guillou's autobiographical novel from 1981, it wasn't surprising that expectations were high ...
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Calendar Girls back on top
A host of new releases disappointed this week in the UK and Ireland leaving BVI's Calendar Girls unchallenged and able to sweep back to the top of the chart.The comedy drama is showing Billy Elliot-type box office legs and after improving 5% in its second week on wide release over ...
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Top Bollywood producer convicted for Mafia connections
Leading Bollywood film financier Bharat Shah has been found guilty of failing to inform police that the criminal underworld had muscled in on a film he made three years ago. The same court also convicted Chori Chori Chupke Chupke producer, Nazim Rizvi, and assistant Abdul Rahim Allahbux Khan, who have ...
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FERA launches Eastern European branch
The Federation of European Film Directors (FERA) has agreed to set up a regional office in Warsaw to serve the film industry in the new EU member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The new office is to be headed by FERA Vice President, Janusz Kijowski who also heads the ...
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San Sebastian films prepare to roll out across Spain
A swathe of films from last week's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28) will invade the Spanish box office over the next month, but to what extent they will benefit from buzz and media coverage coming out of the event remains to be seen.Certainly one of the most interesting ...