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Period epic Kisna wraps Himalayan shoot
Hindi film producer-director Subhash Ghai has completed a forty-day shoot of his period epic Kisna in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.The US$5m Kisna is the most expensive film made by Ghai's Mukta Arts. The company's credits include Taal, which was the first Indian film to feature in both the ...
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Swedes back English language features
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit six new Swedish feature films and given financial support to Lars von Trier's Manderlay.Colin Nutley's English-language drama The Queen of Sheba's Pearls won most backing. $1.04m (SEK 8m) has been allocated to the film, which is being produced by Maritha Norstedt of Sweetwater ...
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Italian cinema hit by distribution bottleneck
New research shows that 30 completed Italian films are currently in limbo, still searching for a distributor or simply waiting to be released.Among the Italian market's self-described "frozen" films are Egidio Eronico's Rua Alguem, which stars Charlton Heston and F. Murray Abraham, and Fiorella Infascelli's Il Vestito da Sposa with ...
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The Truth About Love located in Bristol
Romantic comedy The Truth About Love, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott and Jimi Mistry, begins filming in the UK this month.Directed by John Hay (There's Only One Jimmy Grimble) and produced by Tracey Adam at Lex Filmed Entertainment, The Truth About Love is billed as a film in which ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Mar del Plata winner
French sales house Wild Bunch has picked up international sales duties on Buena Vida Delivery, the Argentinian dark comedy which won last month's Mar Del Plata festival and the Toulouse festival of Latin American films."We don't often board such obviously cinephile pictures, but we feel strongly that this film will ...
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Italian film suffers domestic box office decline
Admissions to Italian films dropped by almost 50% to 9 million in the eight months from August 1999 to March 2000, according to local trade body Cinetel, compared to 16 million the previous year.Total admissions fell by 1.5 million over the eight-month period, according to Cinetel which monitors 75% of ...
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UK Film Council unveils Development Fund recipients
UK Film Council's Development Fund has unveiled details of its third year of slate funding to a selection of film companies.Recipients include: Fragile Films (£200,000), Ruby Films (£255,000), Tall Stories (£100,000), NFTS (£12,000), Riverchild Films (£65,000), October Films (£90,000), Gruber Films (£100,000) and Recorded Picture Company (£100,000).Little Bird has been ...
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Passion takes Easter box office crown
Newmarket Films' The Passion Of The Christ performed as expected over Easterweekend, resurrecting its box office supremacy as it climbed four places toease past $350m on an estimated $17.1m.Mel Gibson's celebratedaccount of the final hours of Christ's life now stands on $354.9m and is theeighth biggest grossing film ever in ...
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Wellspring boards Cannes-bound Tarnation
US independent distributor Wellspring has come on board JonathanCaouette's acclaimed docudrama Tarnation as co-producer and worldwide distributor.Wellspring will provide completion financing and marketing fundsfor domestic and international release on the picture, which has secured aDirectors Fortnight slot in Cannes next month.The company's worldwidesales division will begin marketing the picture at ...
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50 First Dates enjoys strong weekend in 12 markets for CTFDI
Columbia's romantic comedy 50 First Dates grossed an estimated $6.3m from 1,261screens in 12 markets through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) at the weekend, raising its international running total to $16.1m.Highlights were a third place $3.1m bow in the UK on 419 - astrong holiday opening that should see the ...
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Shaun is a smash for Universal with $3m opening in UK
Universal's horror spoof Shaun Of The Dead opened second in the UK through UIP atthe weekend on an estimated $3m from 358 screens.Meanwhile Dawn Of The Dead, the rather more serious remake of George Romero's seminalgenre title, grossed $210,000 from 200 screens in Mexico, raising its totalafter ten days to ...
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Intertainment/Franchise trial is set to begin on April 20
After more than three years of delays, the claim for damages bythe German media company Intertainment against Franchise Pictures is set to goto trial on April 20 in Los Angeles.At a pre-trial conference on Good Friday, the judge in chargeannounced that the case will be heard by ten jurors. A ...
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Godard's latest gets official screening at Cannes
Master French auteurJean-Luc Godard's latest film Notre Musique will be screened in the official selection but outof competition at Cannes Film Festival, according to organisers, who also enigmatically promised a surprise for Godard on the night of the film's screening.The film is split into threeparts: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Hell ...
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Memories sweeps prizes at Cognac thriller fest
The 22nd annualCognac thriller festival wrapped up on Sunday night with Bong Joon-Ho's MemoriesOf Murder the hands down winner. TheKorean film took the grand prize, the special police prize conferred byprofessional law enforcement agents the Premiere magazine prize and theMediatheques prize.Memories is a poignant look at a special ...
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German box office down in first quarter 2004
Germany's box office saw a fall in admissions and revenuesfor the first quarter of 2004, according to figures collated by EDI Nielsen.Admissions weredown 6.4% from last year's 37.58m to 35.18m in the first three months, whilerevenues slipped 8.6% from Euro 225.68m to Euro 206.27m.Apart from the final part ofthe Lord ...
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Return Of The King is top in Japan for ninth straight weekend
New Line International's The Lord of The Rings: TheReturn of The King continued to rule themall in Japan for the ninth consecutive weekend, adding $1.6m from 589 screensto raise its total there to a superb $86.2m.The trilogyfinale is active in 48 markets on 1,874 screens but figures were hard to ...
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Shaw Communications takes fibre-optic stake
Canadian cable operator Shaw Communications has signed a $270m (C$400m) deal with 360networks, the high-speed fibre-optic network headed up by former Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei. The agreement, which sees Shaw take an $100m equity stake in 360networks, gives the company a significant boost as a high-speed provider to its 1.8 ...
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Stage Beauty gets closing night slot at Tribeca
The worldpremiere of Richard Eyre's period drama Stage Beauty starring Billy Crudup, Claire Danes andRupert Everett will close the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on May 8. It isproduced by Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthalthrough their Tribeca Productions.Stage Beauty is set in 1660s London ...
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Scooby Doo 2 is top of the heap in UK, Mexico
Powered bystrong holds in parts of Europe and Latin America, Scooby-Doo 2: MonstersUnleashed grossed anestimated $15m at the weekend to raise its international running total to$44.2m.The familysequel, which is distributed through Warner Bros Pictures International, stayedtop in its second weekends in the UK and Mexico on $4.2m for $16.5m and ...
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Cinemark sets two new multiplexes in Brazil
CinemarkInternational, one of the leading exhibitors in Latin America that celebratesits 20th anniversary this year, is to open two new theatres in Brazil in May.The MuellerShopping theatre will be located inside an existing five-storey shopping centrein the heart of Curitiba and features an eight-screen multiplex comprising morethan 2,200 seats in ...