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Thai studio readies Ong Bak sequel for March shoot
Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International has unveiled details of the second film from Ong-Bak star Tony Jaa and director Prachya Pinkaew, in which the Australian underworld gets a taste of Thai-style kickboxing.Called Tom Yum Goong, after the spicy Thai soup, the US$4m action comedy is scheduled to start shooting in ...
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Hiding emerges as Gothenburg winner
The overall theme of Sweden's major film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, was the blues, but after its 27th edition, there was nothing to be blue about but the weather.Early estimates indicate an increase in the already impressive admission numbers, and so did the number of attendees for the festival's ...
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Bangkok has teething troubles but shows potential...
The Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF), which ended today (Feb 2), still has a long way to go to fulfil its ambitious remit, but this year's event was a spirited affair that promised greater things for future editions.Organised for the second time by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the ...
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Bzz, Suburbanites win at Brussels Animation fest
Short animated features Bzz, directed by Benoit Feroumont, and Suburbanites, directed by Stefan Vermeulen, emerged as the big winners at the Brussels Animation Festival (Feb 29 - March 11).Bzz was awarded the First Prize from the French-speaking community, worth BFr100,000, and the Freezeframe prize, worth BFr150,000. Vermeulen's Suburbanites picked up ...
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...as Barbarian Invasions takes top prize
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions was awarded the Golden Kinnaree for best film in the International Competition at this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Jan 22-Feb 2) while the best director prize went to Jim Sheridan for In America.The Golden Kinnaree for best actor was shared by the three leads ...
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Take My Eyes takes Spanish prize
Director Iciar Bollain's domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes fulfilled expectations as the big winner at Spain's 18th annual Goya Awards this weekend, taking home seven of nine nominations including best film, director, original script, actor, actress, supporting actress and sound.The uncompromising film was an appropriate mascot for a ceremony ...
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You Got Served races ahead over Superbowl weekend
Screen Gems' hip-hop drama You Got Served took advantage of the quiet Superbowlweekend, opening top on an estimated $16m.Paramount's high school drama The Perfect Score opened fifth on $5m while WarnerBros' crime caper The Big Bounce flopped in 12th place on $3.3m.You Got Served stars Omarion, Marques Houston and Omarion'sfellow ...
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Don Bird joins DTS as vice president of marketing
Don Bird has joined digitaltechnology company DTS as vice president of marketing, where he will overseemarketing and branding activities for all areas of the company's entertainment,technological and corporate business.Bird brings with him morethan 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of technicalproducts for the entertainment industry.Prior to DTS, ...
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Dembia joins Denmead as account manager
Former Artisan Entertainmentdirector of corporate communications Dennis Dembia has joined Denmead Marketingas account manager.Dembia will work withcompany president Nikki Parker and will be based at Denmead's headquarters inHollywood, reporting directly to Parker.Besides day-to-day publicityand maketing duties, he will work closely with Parker overseeing corporateaccounts and handling international marketing and publicity ...
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A Tale Of Two Sisters takes top prize at Gerardmer festival
The 11th annual FantasticFilm Festival of Gerardmer drew to a close Sunday night with A Tale Of TwoSisters taking the Grand Jury Prize.The South Korean film by KimJee Woon is a psychological thriller set in a very dysfunctional family thatwas roundly considered the most terrifying of all eight competition filmsdespite ...
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Samurai is still first with $22.4m weekend in 45 markets
The Last Samurai has passed $350m in worldwide ticket sales accordingto Warner Bros Pictures Int'l following an estimated $22.4m weekendinternational gross from 5,907 screens in 45 markets.With mostly smaller bowsincluding Finland and four in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the actionadventure raised its international cumulative total to a mighty ...
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Polly stays top in Australia, Grams is hot in Spain for Universal
Universal's Along CamePolly stayed top in Australia as itgrossed an estimated $1.1m and fell 44% in its second weekend for a $3.9mrunning total.The romantic comedy is dueto roll out in the other major markets over the next two months and its nextbow will be Portugal on Feb 6.21 Grams had ...
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Crombie resigns from South Australian Film Corp
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is without both a contracted chief executive and a chair following the resignation of chief executive Judith Crombie during Friday's board meeting, effective immediately. The State Government had earlier decided not to reappoint David Minear as chair.Some mystery surrounds Crombie's decision to leave four ...
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Daiei brand to become extinct
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing president Tsuguhiko Kadokawa has announced a reorganisation of the company's film businesses and a relaunch on April 1 under the name Kadokawa Pictures.The reshuffle, which will merge film-related subsidiaries of Kadokawa Holdings with film producer and distributor Kadokawa Daiei, will result in the extinction of the Daiei ...
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One And Only cleans up at Denmark's Bodils
In a near carbon copy of the Danish Film Academy's recent Robert Awards (Screendaily March 3), the Danish film critics have handed three of their top Bodil Awards to Susanne Bier's The One and Only (Den Eneste Ene).The film walked away with best picture, best actress for Sidse Babett Knudsen ...
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FRANCE
The combination of Julia Roberts and La Joconde weren't enough this week to unseat Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai now in its second week at number one.Mona Lisa Smile opened at number two with a respectable 337,134 admissions on a relatively low 394 screens for a film starring the world's ...
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Trauma
Dir: Marc Evans. UK. 2003. 93minsActor Colin Firth goes some way to rescuing his screen persona from being forever enslaved to his romantic alter ego Darcy with his morose presence in Trauma, in which he plays the spooked survivor of a car crash. Dishevelled, disorientated and anything but dashing, Firth's ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
As expected, The Return Of The King dominated the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for the fifth weekend in a row - attracting 5,451 tickets (down 50%) to add to its massive cumulative gross of $622,213 for Tuck.Tuck also opened The Rundown with 4,472 tickets and $12,485 - giving the company the top ...
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Twin Sisters (De Tweeling)
Dir: Ben Sombogaart. Netherlands. 2002. 135minsProving that Miramax doesn't have a monopoly on well-crafted, Oscar-friendly literary adaptations, Twin Sisters is a sweeping version of the European best-seller by Tessa de Loo. A straightforward account of twin sisters separated by family circumstances and the bitter divisions in wartime Europe, it should ...
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En Route (Unterwegs)
Dir: Jan Kruger. Germany 2004. 80mins.A psychological road movie in which an outsider opens up tensions within a holidaying family, Jan Kruger's low-key but absorbing drama won one of the three Tiger Awards at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. It should bring further plaudits to the young German director, whose ...