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BVI's Finding Nemo continued to dominate the Spanish box office over the weekend, raking in Euros 3.9m off 383 copies after its record opening for BVI and as an animated film in Spain of Euros 4.68m last weekend.Columbia TriStar's SWAT placed second with Euros 1.75m off 403 copies, followed closely ...
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A Touch Of Spice (Politiki Konzina)
Dir. Tassos Boulmetis. Greece. 2003. 108 mins.A natural crowd pleaser and by far the most successful Greek picture of the year (where it has outgunned the likes of Pirates Of The Carribean with 1m admissions since it opened in late October), this ode to traditional Balkan cuisine and its Ottoman ...
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Mona Lisa Smile
Dir: Mike Newell. 2003. US. 117mins.Mona Lisa Smile is a not-bad movie that is, alas, fatally at war with itself. On the one hand, it's a well-acted, convincingly-mounted period piece set in smug, elitist Wellesley College in 1953 that takes up, far more seriously than anyone had a right to ...
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Something's Gotta Give
Dir: Nancy Meyers.US. 2003. 123mins.In this terrific new romantic comedy, writer-director Nancy Meyers (The Parent Trap, What Women Want) has given Jack Nicholson the Christmas present of a lifetime. Turning to her (and his) advantage the actor's off- and on-screen persona as skirt-chaser who specialises in younger women, Meyers ...
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Hamilton-Shaw to head development at Rocket
Elton John and David Furnish's London-based film production company Rocket Pictures has appointed Steven Hamilton-Shaw as head of development.Hamilton-Shaw will oversee the development of all Rocket films and source material and talent for the company. He has served stints at Fine Line Features, Lions Gate Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and ...
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Miramax plunges into Deep Blue
Miramax Films has acquired North American rights to Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt's feature-length documentary Deep Blue, produced by the UK's BBC Worldwide and Germany's Greenlight Media. Inspired by David Attenborough's international hit TV series The Blue Planet, Deep Blue explores life above, below and far beneath the ocean's surface ...
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Cape Town hosts Long Supper
The streets of London's South Kensington are being recreated in South Africa's Cape Town, which is hosting the shoot of the $2m The Long Supper. The dark comedy stars South African born Henry Goodman, the acclaimed British stage star who has just completed a run of Richard III for the ...
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Japan moves to boost film industry
An advisory body to the Japanese government has drafted a report calling for wide-ranging government support of content businesses, including films. Headed by Ushio Electric chairman Jiro Ushio, the Contents Special Survey Committee will formally issue the report in March of next year and expects its recommendations to become law ...
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Touch Of Spice eyes landmark box office haul
Greek hit Touch Of Spice looks set to pass the landmark one million admissions mark at the local box office.After seven weeks on release, the Tasos Boulmetis directed film has already scored 800,000 admissions, way ahead of the top performing foreign film Pirates Of The Caribbean with 440,000 admissions.Hitting the ...
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UK Film Council launch diversity proposals
The UK Film Council and its cultural diversity working group under Working Title Films co-chief Tim Bevan have launched a series of proposals aimed at increasing diversity within the UK film industry workforce.Proposals in a paper called Success Through Diversity And Inclusion include a new code of practice and schemes ...
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UK producers flock to new tax fund model
With the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather than any film-specific tax break sees UK financier ...
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Report reveals Irish gov't thinking over Section 481
The thinking behind the Irish government's decision to grant a reprieve to Section 481 in last week's Budget is revealed today in a major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report.The report was commissioned jointly by the Irish Film Board and the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and was sent to the Department ...
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Lucky Red picks up Tavernier's Lola
Roman arthouse distributor Lucky Red has acquired all Italian distribution rights to two new films, including veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier's upcoming movie, Holly Lola.Sold by TF1 International, Holly Lola is about a French couple who are trying to adopt a child in Cambodia, a former French territory. The film, ...
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Berlusconi defends controversial media law
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has publicly defended the controversial new media law which is set to consolidate his sprawling media empire in an inflammatory press conference, where he pointed out that it will prevent 1,000 people from losing their jobs at one of his Mediaset TV channels.The Gasparri Law, which ...
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Redford picture added to Sundance lineup
Dutch producer Pieter JanBrugge's debut The Clearing,starring festival founder Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, hasbeen added to the list of Sundance Film Festival premieres and is among adocumentary-heavy slate of 16 additional titles that will screen from Jan15-25, 2004.Brugge's producingcredits include The Insider and ThePelican Brief and his ...
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Pearson reveals strong results; Internet alliances
UK media entity Pearson has reported record group operating profits of $864m (£549m) for the year to December 31, 1999, up 41% from $612m (£389m) for the previous year. Turnover was £3.33bn, up 39% from £2.4bn in 1998.Pre-tax profit for the period was up 15% to $633m (£402m) compared to ...
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Columbia bears The Grudge from Senator International
Columbia Pictures has picked updomestic distribution rights from Senator International to The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures' English-language remake ofthe Japanese horror thriller Ju-On.The Grudgecentres on a lethal curse that passes like a virus among its victims and killsthem in the grip of a powerful rage.The project is scheduled to start ...
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Sheridan, Elfman join honorees at Palm Springs Film Festival
Jim Sheridan will receive the International Film-maker Award forProducing and Directing and Danny Elfman will collect the Frederick Loewe Awardfor Career Achievement in Film Composing at the 15th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival, which runs from Jan 8-19 2004.Both will collect their awards on Jan 11 at a ceremony that ...
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Bon Voyage, Dogville bookend Miami Film Festival
The 21st Annual Miami International Film Festival will open on Jan30 with the East Coast premiere of Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Nazi-era comedy ofmanners Bon Voyageand closes on Feb 8 with Lars von Trier's Colorado-set thriller Dogville.Programmed for the second year by festival director NicoleGuillemet, the festival features 63 films from 34 ...
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Miravista's Ladies Night is a Mexican smash
Like a much-awaited Christmas present, Mexican cinema finally hasreceived its much needed box office hit. Romantic comedy Ladies Night debuted Wednesday December 10 to becomethe third largest local opening ever in Mexico. The first Mexican production of fledgling Disney Latin Americanproduction label, Miravista, Ladies Night opened with $310,000 (3.1m PESOS) ...