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Mexico, Ireland to get Passion-ate
20th Century Fox Films is set to release Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ on an estimated 300 prints in Mexico, according to Jose Juan Hernandez, general manager of Fox Mexico.Fox has yet to announce release dates for the region. "We are still mulling target opening dates of either ...
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Russian renaissance prompts increase in state support
The Russian film industry underwent a renaissance in 2003 according the Russian Ministry of Culture. After years of crisis the ministry announced that 60 state supported features, 400 documentaries and 30 animated films were produced last year. An additional 25 to 30 features were produced with wholly private ...
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Spirit of Bruce Lee conquers Korean box office
A 1970s-set film about high school violence has taken hold of the South Korean box-office, drawing 800,000 admissions ($4.5m) on 270 screens in its first three days.Spirits Of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In High School, the film by poet-director Yu Ha (Marriage Is A Crazy Thing) portrays ...
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Chomet, Resnais share Golden Star
The French awards season got underway on Monday with the Etoiles d'Or conferred by local film journalists. In a tie, best picture went to Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes De Belleville and Alain Resnais' Pas Sur La Bouche.Chomet's film, which has picked up critics' awards in the States from such diverse ...
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Women In Film, UIP launch second year of Directing Change
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and United International Pictures (UIP) are launching the second year of their UK scheme Directing Change.Directing Change gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside an experienced and internationally established director during a forthcoming feature film production.Directing Change is part of WFTV's campaign to ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing ceremony of the record-breaking 15th Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival on Sunday(19).In other awards,the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to Yann Samuell'sFrench Film Gala love story, Love ...
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The Return wins FIPRESCI honours at Palm Springs
AndreiZvyagintsev's drama The Return was named best foreign language film by the FIPRESCI panelof international critics at the closing night ceremony of a record-breaking15th Palm Springs International Film Festival on Sunday (19).The JohnSchlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature or Documentary went to YannSamuell's French Film Gala love story, Love Me ...
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Israeli Cinematheques plan Loach retrospective
Three Israeli Cinematheques - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa - will launch one of their most ambitious programmes in April - an extensive retrospective of the work of UK director Ken Loach.Fully supported by the British Council, the programme features some 22 titles directed by Loach, spanning his feature films, ...
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Nemo takes another $7.3m for BVI, poised to cross $500m
Finding Nemo is closing in on $500m at the international boxoffice following a $7.3m weekend haul in all its territories that raised thefilm's running total to $496.4m.Executives at Buena VistaInternational expect the smash hit to pass the half-billion mark by Saturday(24).Elsewhere for BVI, BrotherBear continued its impressive runwith a record-breaking ...
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Skyy Vodka names finalists in contest to shoot short in 72 hours
Ian Harrington, Chris Lopataand Abdallah Omeish have been named as finalists in the inaugural Skyy Short FilmProject: One Script, Three Different Film-makers, Three Very Different Films toshoot in New York City this spring.The trio beat off pitchesfrom hundreds of aspiring film-makers following the event's launch at Sundancelast year and must ...
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2004 Sundance/NHK winners unveiled
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia, Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know and Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand have won the 2004 Sundance/NHK InternationalFilm-makers Awards.Each winner will receive$10,000 and a guarantee from Japanese public broadcaster NHK to buy theJapanese television rights upon completion of the project, as well asyear-round financing ...
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Return Of The King crosses $500m overseas
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King was due to pass $500m in international ticket sales yesterday, a littleover a month after the film began its blockbusting run on Dec 17.The final part of PeterJackson's Tolkien adaptation grossed $23.1m from 8,104 screens in 54territories at ...
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IFM picks up Deadly Deceit
AntonyGinnane and Ann Lyons' US-Australian international film and television salescompany IFM World Releasing has picked up world distribution rights to ChrisPhilpott's thriller Deadly Deceit,which will premiere at the American Film Market next month in Santa Monica.Billed as an updatedmorality tale, Deadly Deceitcentres on a bet by a handsome stranger that ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael RadfordC;s The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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New Films Int'l trades for Merchant Of Venice
New Films International (NFI)has acquired Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice for distribution across Latin America, EasternEurope, Turkey and the Baltic States, in a deal struck with Arclight FilmsThe $30m Shakespeareadaptation, which stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, is currentlyin production in Luxembourg and scheduled for release in ...
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FIlm competition to raise Black Aids awareness
BlackEntertainment Television, the Black AIDS Institute and the Kaiser FamilyFoundation, a lobby group that focuses on public health issues, have set up theRap-It-Up/Black AIDS Short Subject Film Competition.The competition is designedto raise awareness of AIDS among black communities in the US and is open topeople of all ethnicities to submit ...
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Fox's Dozen lifts international haul to $8.4m
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2m at the weekend from 610 screens in five markets, raising its international running total to $8.4m.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World added $1m from 877 in 25 markets to elevate its total in Fox markets to $67.2m. Including ...
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JAPAN
The Last Samurai and Finding Nemo continue to dominate the Japanese box office in their sixth week on release. Warner Japan, which was originally expecting the Tom Cruise samurai drama to finish with Y10 billion ($93m), has now upped its projection to Y13 billion ($121m). Meanwhile, Buena Vista is now ...
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UK/IRELAND
The UK truly came down with Scarlett fever this week. Not only did Monday morning BAFTA nomination announcements reveal that actress Scarlett Johansson had secured two of the five nominations in the best actress category but the two films she was nominated for were doing stellar UK business over the ...