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Saved! will open New York Gen Art festival on Apr 14
The Ninth Annual Gen ArtFilm Festival will open on Apr 14 with the New York premiere of BrianDannelly's dark comedy Saved!starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin.The American independentfestival runs until Apr 20 and will showcase New York premieres of sevenfeatures and seven shorts. The closing night film will ...
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Belleville. Belvaux, Coninx among Belgium's Plateau nominees
Organisers at the FlandersInternational Film Festival Ghent (FIFF) have announced the nominees for theJoseph Plateau Awards 2003. All titles are Belgian shorts and features and musthave been released in Belgian theatres between Jan 1 and Dec 31 2003.The Joseph Plateau ceremonywas launched under the auspices of the FIFF to honour ...
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Spanish film-makers pin hopes on incoming Socialists
The Spanish film industry, as surprised as the rest ofsociety by the upset in last week's national elections, is lookingforward to positive changes under a new Socialist government.But with only vague electoral promises and the generous filmpolicies of the party's prior 14-year reign to go on, the industry mustnow wait ...
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UK exhibitors talk up prospects for 2004 box office
A marked optimism for cinema's prospects in 2004 wasevident among UK exhibitors and distributors who attended last week's 7thNational UK Cinema Industry Conference in London (March 18).Good news for the UK industry came in the first sessionwhich looked at areas such as marketing, audience tastes and the admissionsblip of 2003.Tomas ...
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Mar del Plata celebrates Buena Vida
Latin America's only A grade film festival, Mar del Plata inArgentina, wrapped on Saturday (March 20) with the prize for best film, theGolden Astor, going to a local picture, Buena Vida Delivery.Leonardo Di Cesare's directorial debut, which received backingfrom the Argentinian film institute (INCAA), Film Sud in France and the ...
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...and mulls shifting dates to November
Mar del Plata, Latin America's only A grade film festival,is considering shifting its dates from March to November, according to festivalchief Miguel Pereira.The festival, which wrapped its 19th edition on Saturday,finds it difficult to attract the films they want, says Pereira, as it issandwiched between Berlin and Cannes in the ...
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Malaga opens with Violet Gaze
The Violet Gaze willinaugurate the 7th annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 23-May 1),which is also set to honour director Fernando Trueba, distributor EnriqueGonzalez Macho and actress Geraldine Chaplin.Directed by Nacho Perez and Jesus Ruiz (Marta AndSurroundings), Gaze (La Mirada Violeta)stars Cayetano Guillen-Cuervo in a story of female infidelity, ...
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Berlin winner Head-On hits Turkish box office jackpot
Turkish-Geman director Fatih Akin's Golden Bear winner Head-On(Gegen Die Wand) has hit the box-officejackpot in Turkey registering 65,547 admissions in its first week of release.The film is being distributed by RFilm through Warner Bros.Turkey on 55 prints in 10 cities such as Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and smallercentres like Antalya, Bursa, ...
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CTFDI rake in $5.5m from Gothika including top slot in Netherlands
The thriller Gothika added $5.5m from 1,700 screens in 30 markets through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $44.5m.Highlights were a marginal 3% drop in its second weekend inGermany, where the picture added $1.7m for $3.9m and ranked third behindopeners Brother Bearand ...
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De Ida Y Vuelta wins best picture at Guadalajara
Maria del Carmen de Lara's En El Pais De No Pasa Nada made a sweep of major awards at the 15th Mexican film showcase in Guadalajara (March 10-16), although it was Salvadar Aguirre's De Ida Y Vuelta that won the official jury prize for best picture.En El Pais was awarded ...
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Polly is top in Taiwan, Argentina for Universal, strides past $50m
Universal's romantic comedy Along Came Polly passed $50m in international ticketsales at the weekend as it added an estimated $8.8m through UIP from 2,600dates in 24 markets for a $53.1m running total.It opened top in Taiwan on $150,000 from 16 screens in the capitalTaipei and top in Argentina on the ...
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Fox reaps Passion benefits with massive Latin American weekend
The Passion Of The Christ enjoyed a mighty series of openings in Latin Americathrough Fox International at the weekend, grossing an estimated $10.2m overalland scoring a number of records in the process.Mel Gibson's epic accountof the final hours of Christ's life opened top in all its markets, led by asuperb ...
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Christ beaten by the Undead at the box office
StrikeEntertainment's zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead roared into life at the weekend as itopened number one for Universal Pictures on an estimated $27.3m, knocking ThePassion Of The Christfrom its top berth as that picture closed in on $300m in its fourth week.Elsewhere WarnerBros serial killer thriller Taking Lives opened ...
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Paramount steps in for DreamWorks on Ask The Dust
ParamountPictures is stepping in to replace DreamWorks as the domestic distributor onRobert Towne's Ask The Dust which is being financed with German media fund VIP andLondon's Capitol Films. Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek are scheduled to star.Paramount is infinal negotiations to board the film which is being produced by Tom ...
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Media 8 boards Wayne Kramer's Running Scared
Media 8Entertainment, the sales and co-financing outfit behind Oscar-winner Monster, has agreed to co-finance, along with VIP Medienfonds, RunningScared, the new filmfrom The Coolerdirector Wayne Kramer.Paul Walker isin final negotiations to head the cast of the $12m film which is a PulpFiction-style ensemblecrime movie following an assortment of characters trying ...
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France Telecom and Canal Plus merge cable ops
Canal Plus and FranceTelecom have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to combine theirFrench cable networks in a sign of further upheaval in the troubled sector.The groups says that mergingtheir cable operations NC Numericable and France Telecom Cable, respectivelythe country's third and second largest networks, would "create the conditionsfor the ...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Dir: Raja Gosnell. US. 2003. 93 mins.The sequel to Warner's surprisingly powerful summer 2002 hit Scooby-Doo adds more characters and more effects to the formula first used to turn the long-running Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon into a live action feature - and it also delivers more genuine fun than its painfully ...
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AUSTRALIA
Three new films failed to dislodge two Icon films, The Butterfly Effect and The Passion Of The Christ, from the top two spots in the charts and had to settle for third, fourth and fifth in the popularity stakes.The opening trio was UIP's Paycheck, which took A$756,656 from 192 screens, ...
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FRANCE
Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller opened strong in Along Came Polly this week with nearly half a million tickets sold - narrowly beating out French romance Une Vie A T'Attendre which did nearly as well on slightly fewer screens. The Thierry Klifa directed film boasts a stellar cast with Nathalie ...
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GREECE Production Listings - March 22 2004
GREECE - March 22PRE-PRODUCTIONBLUE DRESS (TO GALAZIO FOREMA)(The Greek Film Centre, NIK-S Movies) Co-prod: Tania Bokomilova Prods (Bulgaria). Budget: Euros 900,000. Backers: Eurimages, ET1 Greek Public TV. Int'l sales: The Greek Film Centre. Social drama. A man who decides to change sex and has to bear with the ensuing dramatic ...
