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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domestic distribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema Libre Distribution division.The entertainment entity will seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and Doc Workers labels during Get IN!, an event ...
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Cinema Libre unveils distribution banners
Production and distributionoutfit Cinema Libre Studio is in the process of expanding its domesticdistribution operation with three new labels under the Cinema LibreDistribution division.The entertainment entitywill seek to acquire new films for Liberation Pictures, The Film Cafe and DocWorkers labels during Get IN!, an event it is hosting at Sundance ...
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With All Deliberate Speed to launch Discovery Docs banner
Award-winning documentary film-maker Peter Gilbert will direct With All Deliberate Speed (working title) for Discovery Communications' first theatrical release under the Discovery Docs banner.The film will be produced as part of a series of projects in association with Manhattan-based independent studio CameraPlanet and will mark the 50th anniversary of the ...
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Emerging Pictures, Full Frame plan syndicated documentary festival
New York-based EmergingPictures and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival are developing anationally syndicated festival using Emerging Pictures' digital cinema network.The syndicated festival willrun at the same time as the flagship festival in Durham, North Carolina, in itsusual April slot and will play in up to 20 cities.The Full Frame ...
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American Beauty passes $100m international mark
DreamWorks SKG's American Beauty has crossed the $100m barrier at the overseas box office, eclipsing its domestic gross which currently stands at $93m. At Thursday, the multi Oscar nominee and favourite to win Best Picture had taken $103,071,004 outside North America. To date it has opened in most key territories ...
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Film-makers Alliance, Cinema Libre launch indie video collection
The independent film-making collective the Film-makers Alliance (FA) has partnered up with production and distribution outfit Cinema Libre Studio to launch The Film-makers Alliance Collection, a video label that the partners have styled as a response to the studio-dominated distribution system.The collection's initial slate comprises five festival hits, the first ...
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Return Of The King named PGA champ for 2004
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kingproducers Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M Osborne won the Darryl FZanuck Producer of the Year Award at the 15th Annual PGA Awards inLos Angeles on Saturday (17).The New Line fantasy beat strong competition from Miramax's ColdMountain, Warner Bros' Mystic ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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Along Came Polly dethrones Return Of The King with $27.6m bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly ended the four-week rule of The Return Of The King as itopened top on an estimated $27.6m - the highest opener over the Martin LutherKing Day holiday weekend since Save The Last Dance in 2001.The poorly reviewed filmstars Jennifer Aniston as a woman who spices ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama TheReturn was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panel ofinternational critics at the 15th Palm Springs International FilmFestival's closing ceremony last night (18).In other awards, the JohnSchlesinger Award for first feature went to Yann Samuell's French Film Galalove story, Love Me If You Dare. The ...
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Cold Mountain leads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Bafta awards, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and ...
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Cold Mountain heads Bafta nominations
Cold Mountain has emerged as the front runner for this year's Baftas, taking an impressive 13 nominations including best film and best director.Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is just behind with 12 nominations, while Girl With A Pearl Earring has ten, Lost In Translation and Master ...
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Rotterdam director joins UK production outfit Illuminations
Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) co-director Simon Field is to become a director of UK production company Illuminations Films.Field will take up the position at the end of this year's festival, which runs from Jan 21 until Feb 1. Sandra Den Hamer, who has been co-director with Field for several ...
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ShoWest: Fox puts spotlight on five summer flicks
20th Century Fox chose to focus just on its five summer movies at its luncheon today (Thursday) at Showest in Las Vegas.Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Bill Mechanic introduced trailers for animated epic Titan AE (June 16), Martin Lawrence-starrer Big Momma's House (June 2), The Farrelly Brothers' latest comedy Me Myself ...
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NEW ZEALAND
At last The Return Of The King - the epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - has been overhauled at the home box office. All-action newcomer The Last Samurai - another epic adventure that features fabulous New Zealand scenery - topped the takings (NZ$629,295) and the screen averages ...
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FRANCE
The Lord Of The Rings still rules the French box office followed closely by favourite son Mathieu Kassovitz's first foray into English, Gothika.Good news for art house pics with Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation breaking in at number 4 following seriously good press. Nathalie, starring Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - January 19 2004
DENMARK - January 19IN PRE-PRODUCTIONEUROTRASH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euros 1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). Youth drama about two friends' attempt to get out of their miserable life in the concrete ghetto by robbing the local superDenmarket. Exec prod: Peter Aalbaek Jensen. Prod: Thomas Stegler. Dir/scr: Stefano Gonzalez. ...
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Nordic film industries look to increased government funding
For full Nordic listings click HEREAlthough the Nordic film industries can look back on 2003 as a year when local market shares either boomed - as in Norway and Finland - or maintained a solid streak - as in Denmark and Sweden - the many unresolved issues of ...