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Barbara Windsor wins Women in Film and TV lifetime award
Barbara Windsor is to be awarded the Working Title Films Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Five Women in Film and Television Awards (WFTV).The annual awards ceremony celebrates the achievements of women in all aspects of the British film and television industry and will be held on the Dec 5 ...
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Japanese studio abandons move plans
Game maker Namco has abandoned its plan to move the studio of film subsidiary Nikkatsu from its current location in a Tokyo suburb to a new site in Yokohama. The plan, announced by Namco president Masaya Nakamura in July 2001, called for the construction of a new studio on a ...
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Italians protest against Rai 'censorship'
Italian composer Nicola Piovani and Nobel winning playwright Dario Fo were among more than 15,000 people who attended a live show at the weekend to protest against censorship at Italian state broadcaster RAI.The show was conducted by local comic Sabina Guzzanti, whose satirical TV programme was closed down by Italian ...
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McKellar cranks up Childstar
Principal photography is underway in Toronto for Don McKellar's second film, Childstar through Toronto-based Rhombus Media. Written by McKellar and Michael Goldbach, the comedy features an ensemble cast including McKellar, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Rendall Dave Foley, Gil Bellows, Brendan Fehr, Kristin Adams, Peter Paige, Noam Jenkins, Alan Thicke, Eric ...
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Koelmels face charges for bankruptcy delay
The spectre of the former Kinowelt's demise is coming back to haunt brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel with news that Munich's public prosecutor's office may bring charges against the brothers for delaying the declaration of the bankruptcy of Kinowelt Medien.The prosecutor's spokesman Anton Winkler told the news weekly Focus that ...
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Independent coalition sues MPAA over screener ban
A group of independent film-makers including Robert Altman, Christine Vachon, John Sloss, Ted Hope and John Penotti has teamed up with IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York to file a lawsuit against the MPAA in an effort to have the screener ban lifted immediately.The move comes as the dust was starting ...
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Jones appointed senior programmer at IFP LA Film Festival
Doug Jones has been appointed senior programmer at the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year runs from June 17 to June 26. He will work year-round with the festival's programming director Rachel Rosen.The festival, formerly the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, was taken over by IFP/Los Angeles in ...
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Revolutions takes fast declining $21.5m over third weekend for Warner
The Matrix Revolutions slowed down in its international run over its third weekend in theatres, taking an estimated $21.5m in 94 territories for a cumulative total to date of $230.2m.It appears that the film will stop considerably short of the $454m international total scored by its predecessor Reloaded.In Japan, the ...
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JAPAN
Michael Winterbottom's In This World led all new openers with a screen average of $36,760. Distributor Amuse, now merged into Toshiba Entertainment, saturated leading Tokyo art theatres with trailers prior to the November 15 opening at the Cine Chanter theater in Tokyo and the Kannai MG theatre in Yokohama. Also, ...
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ITALY
Robert Rodriguez's gun-slinger Once Upon A Time In Mexico knocked Love Actually off the top spot at the Italian box office over the weekend, grossing a strong $1.8m from 283 screens for BVI.The Johnny Depp vehicle, which premiered to much publicity at the Venice Film Festival in September, scored an ...
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Michel Vaillant
Dir: Louis-Pascal CouvelaireLuc Besson is backseat driving again. The latest model to roll off his EuropaCorp action movie assembly line is called Michel Vaillant, the name of a champion race car driver who is indeed valiant on wheels or off but who won't keep the ghost of Steve McQueen up ...
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GERMANY
Finding Nemo exceeded even the wildest hopes of exhibitors, who are in desperate need of a good fourth quarter, by scoring over 2m admissions (without previews) and Euros 13.3m in box office takings from its 1,004 prints. Not only was the Buena Vista release the best opening of 2003 ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - Nov 25 2003
AUSTRALIA - November 25PRE-PRODUCTIONIRRESISTIBLE(Irresistible Films, Kennedy Mellor, Spice Factory, Movision Entertainment) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, Movision. Int'l sales: Arclight. Dist: Palace (Aust/NZ), Momentum (UK), Blue Star (Italy). Psychological thriller. Sophie Hartley is convinced she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her ...
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Busy new year ahead for Oz production
For full current production listings click hereThere are just four films in production in Australia for the next three months, The Human Touch, some of which has already been shot in France, The Oyster Farmer, Ten Canoes and the Kennedy Miller animation Happy Feet. There may be an unknown ...
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DENMARK
Though Finding Nemo had no problem hanging on to the top spot this week, with twice the screen average of two new releases Love Actually and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this weekend's box-office total was down no less than 51,8% from last year. Matrix Revolutions continued its rapid retreat from the ...
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Teze returns to TFI as film sponsorship chief
Former TF1 International executive Perrine Teze is to head up a new film sponsorship division at TF1 Publicite.Teze, who has been on maternity leave for the past six months after helping to oversee the birth of TFM - the film division's joint distribution venture with Miramax - will work in ...
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Schultze sweeps Stockholm festival prizes
The 14th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday night, showered most its awards on German newcomer Michael Schorr for Schultze Gets The Blues.The picture won best film, best actor, best script and writer-director Schorr was also named best debutant. The film, which previously screened in ...
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Full Monty writer sparks off British Muslims drama
Simon Beaufoy, the writer of This Is Not A Love Song and The Full Monty, has tackled the experience of British Muslims post-September 11 in Spark, a drama which started shooting this week for Channel 4.The production is UK director Kenny Glenaan's follow-up to Gas Attack, a controversial asylum-seeker ...
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Blair Witch hits $100m internationally
The gang-busting opening of The Blair Witch Project in Italy has pushed the release of the spook-fest to $100m on the international circuit. This brings the micro-budgeted production to a huge worldwide total of $240m and confirms its position as the most profitable film ever.The film's opening three-day weekend in ...
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New Line plunges back into German funds
New Line Cinema has again joined forces with German private fund specialist Hannover Leasing (HL) to raise up to Euros 100m for a raft of international English-language features.The latest fund, MERADIN Produktions GmbH & Co. KG, which is being co-initiated by HL with the Stuttgart-based financial investment company DaimlerChrysler Services ...