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MEDIA SALLES launches DigiTraining course
The MEDIA Programme exhibition initiative MEDIA SALLES has announced the launch of a brand new training course 'DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies For European Cinemas to held at the headquarters of the Belgian video screening company BARCO in Kuurne from March 31 to April 4.Topics to be dealt with include an ...
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Grudge remake sold to 27 territories
The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures' English-language remake of the Japanese hit horror Ju-On, has been sold to 27 territories including North America (Columbia Pictures), Czech/Slovakia (AQS), Greece (Audiovisual), Russia (Central Partner), Germany (Constantin), Benelux (Dutch Dreamwork), Scandinavia (Egmont), Portugal (LNK), France (Metropolitain), Spain (Planeta), Iceland (Sam Film), Poland (Vision), Bulgaria/Romania/Ex-Yugoslavia ...
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Norway's producers call for end to cinema monopoly
The Norwegian Film and TV Producers Society (NFTPS) has called for the abolishment of legislation which allows local authorities to control the handing out of licences to run cinemas in Norway.Under Norway''s 1913 Cinema Act, local councils are the are only bodies with the power to grant cinema licences - ...
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Fandango increases its international activities
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels.Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At the ...
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ITALY
Le Barzellette, the latest Italian comedy to be produced by the all-powerful Aurelio De Laurentiis, opened at number one at the box office, becoming the first picture in three weeks to knock : The Return Of The King off the top spot.Directed by Carlo Vanzina, Le Barzellette, a collection of ...
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Brother Bear has strong Swedish bow for BVI
Brother Bear opened top in Sweden for Buena Vista International at theweekend, grossing $978,000 from 129 screens to record the biggest winter bowever for an animated title, exceeding the opening gross of Monsters, Inc by 12%.The picture also opened top in Denmark on $541,000 from 76 for thesecond biggest animated ...
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Cheaper previews well in UK, Jury opens third in Spain for Fox
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2.1m at the weekend, including$1.3m in previews from 329 UK screens, raising its international running totalto $15.8m.The thriller Runaway Jury took $2.2m, the highlight of which was a third place $1.1mbow in Spain on 222 screens. The film has amassed $14.4m in ...
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Schwartzman gets top honours from ASC for Seabiscuit
Seabiscuitcinematographer John Schwartzman won top honours at the 18th Annual AmericanSociety of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards gala on Sunday(Feb 8).It was the first victory for Schwartzman in the ASC competitionafter his nomination for Pearl Harbor in 2002.He beat Russell Boyd for Master and Commander: The Far Side OfThe World, ...
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King: $943m with Japan still to open
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return OfThe King has become thethird biggest grossing film of all time with a worldwide running total of$942.7m.The fantasy finale added $11.1m at the weekend from 4,352 screensin 58 markets for a $591.5m international box office and $4.3m in domestic fora ...
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First Run acquires US video/DVD rights to yoga guru doc
First Run Pictures has acquired domestic home video and DVD rightsto Ashtanga, NY,Caroline Laskow and Mary Wigmore's documentary about the Indian yoga guru Sri KPattabhi Jois. A release is planned in the autumn.The film has been a festival mainstay since its debut at the TribecaFilm Festival last year; it follows ...
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Hinsou named supporting actor of the year at Showest
Djimon Hounsou, who is nominated for a best supporting actorAcademy Award for his role in In America, has been named ShoWest 2004 Supporting Actor of the Year."Ittakes a very special actor to create a character as complex as Mateo [in InAmerica]," ShoWest co-managingdirector Mitch Neuhauser said in a statement."Djimon Hounsou ...
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Sundance Institute mourns the death of Lynn Auerbach
The Sundance Institute ismourning the death of Lynn Auerbach, the well-liked associate director of itsfeature film programme, who died suddenly at the end of January. The Institute hasissued the following statement."It is with deep sadnessthat we at Sundance grieve the loss of our colleague Lynn Auerbach. Overfifteen years, Lynn was ...
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FIAPF set to rewrite festival rule-book
International film producers body FIAPF is set to revamp its film festival regulations and accreditation system following a meeting in Berlin with the directors of the world's leading international film festivals yesterday.At a meeting hosted by Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, FIAPF's president, producer Andres Vicente Gomez, outlined FIAPF's plan to ...
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NORWAY
The latest Norwegian addition to the originally Danish Olsen Gang movies, The Young Olsen Gang Rocks It, easily muscled The Last Samurai from the top spot with a strong 990 screen average on its high 61 prints.The film follows last year's most successful local release in Nordisk Film's hit franchise. ...
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Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes)
Dir. Patrice Leconte. France, 2003. 104 mins.This brilliantly written, superbly acted, witty two-hander, directed with clockwork precision, finds director Patrice Leconte in top form, doing what he does best - engineering encounters between two opposite characters and watching them squirm. A sentimental thriller, to use his own definition, providing a ...
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Guadalajara selects Dreamers as opener
In keeping with the Italian theme of this year's edition, the 19th Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Showcase has unveiled plans to open the festival with Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic thriller, The Dreamers.The event, which runs from March 19 - 25, has selected Italy as its guest of honour this year. A ...
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Country Of My Skull
Dir. John Boorman. UK-Ireland-South Africa. 2003While there is no reason to doubt the profound sincerity and laudable intentions behind this adaptation of Antjie Krog's book, John Boorman's portrait of South Africa grappling with its own terrible past during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) - whose purpose was to clear ...
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Daybreak (Om Jag Vander Mig Om)
Dir. Bjorn Runge. Sweden, 2004. 108 mins.Already the recipient of four Swedish Oscars and a hit in its home territory, Bjoern Runge's fourth feature turns out to be yet another one of the recently fashionable multi-episode panoramic spreads that portray contemporary family life in various states of distress. Three separate, ...
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First Love (Primo Amore)
Dir: Matteo Garrone. Italy. 2004. 98mins.The only Italian film in competition at Berlin, Matteo Garrone's First Love takes an unflinching look at the subject of anorexia. It is as painful an experience for the audience as it appears to be for the protagonist: by the end, we feel that we ...
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Fuji TV to shoot submarine thriller
The Fuji TV network, the makers of last year's number one hit Bayside Shakedown 2, have announced the production of a submarine thriller set in the closing days of World War II.Titled Lorelei, the film will star Koji Yakusho (Eureka, Warm Water Under A Red Bridge) and 16-year-old newcomer Yu ...