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Italy's Bim swoops on four Venice titles
Bim, one of the most muscular buyers in the Italian market, has acquired local rights to four films in the Venice International Festival, including the hotly anticipated 21 Grams.21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's second feature after international hit Amores Perros, centres on the lives of three people fatefully brought ...
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India's most expensive film to be a trilogy
The $20m three-part epic The Rising, directed by Ketan Mehta is set to be the most expensive film ever to be produced in India.The India/UK production, set in the backdrop to the 1857 mutiny and the first War of Indian Independence, will be divided in to three episodes of 100 ...
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Asian film market planned for Bangkok festival
The newly appointed US programmers responsible for stagingnext year's Bangkok International Film Festival are to introduce aninternational film market to run alongside the Thai festival.Former Palm Springs International Film Festival executives CraigPrater and Jennifer Stark have been named executive director and director ofprogramming, respectively, for the event which runs from ...
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Orfeu
Dir: Carlos Diegues. Brazil. 1999. 110 mins.Prod co: Rio Vermelho. Co-prod: Globo. Int'l Sales: TFI International (33) 1 41 41 35 32. Prods: Renata de Almeida Magalhaes, Paula Lavigne. Scr: Diegues, with the collaboration of Hermano Vianna, Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Paulo Lins and Joao Emanuel Carneiro, based on the play ...
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Palm jams with Tom Dowd music documentary
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired North American andCaribbean rights to Mark Moormann's award-winning documentary Tom Dowd &The Language Of Music.The film will receive its world premiere on the US-basedSundance Channel on Oct 3, followed by a limited theatrical release late thisyear and DVD roll-out in early 2004.Tom Dowd & ...
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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Venice considers collaboration with Mifed
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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S.W.A.T. storms to number one in US after robust $37m opening
Columbia's policeaction-thriller S.W.A.T. stormed to the top of the charts on anestimated $37m at the weekend, a fairly lacklustre session that saw overall boxoffice sink to its lowest mark since late June.Clark Johnson directed the1970s television series adaptation, which stars Colin Farrell, Samuel L Jacksonand Michelle Rodriguez and averaged $11,555 ...
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T3 closing in on $200m international box office
Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines kept up its record ofopening number one in every international market at the weekend, the highlightof which was a mighty $8m bow in France.The sci-fi-action sequelgrossed an estimated $25.6m from 6,489 prints in its fourth weekend on release,raising the running total to $183m for all ...
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Newell to direct next Harry Potter instalment
British director Mike Newell has signed to direct HarryPotter And The Goblet Of Fire, the fourth instalment in Warner Bros' hitseries that is due to begin filming in England next April.Newell, who recently completed the drama Mona Lisa Smilewith Julia Roberts, becomes the first British director and the third directoroverall ...
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Wondrous Oblivion
Dir: Paul Morrison. UK. 2003. 106minsA poignant, warm-spirited coming-of-age drama, Wondrous Oblivion represents a significant advance in the career of writer-director Paul Morrison. Oscar-nominated for his melodramatic Welsh language feature debut Solomon And Gaenor (1998), Morrison now reveals a much more assured touch in balancing personal dilemmas with wider social ...
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16 Years Of Alcohol
Dir. Richard Jobson. UK. 2003. 102mins.Richard Jobson's first feature is an intensely felt, but often disjointed, tale of a man's desperate attempt to free himself not only from alcoholic addiction, but also to overcome his violent nature, basic mistrust in human nature and ferociously anti-social conduct. Growing up with a ...
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Oz marches to Wedding tune
The third instalment in Universal's American Pie franchise had a stellar international launch in Australia through UIP this weekend.American Pie: The Wedding, as it has been rebranded for international markets, claimed $2.8m (A$4.29m) from 310 screens in Australia over the four-day weekend (Aug 7-10). This gave the film an impressive ...
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Love's Labour's Lost
Dir: Kenneth Branagh. UK. 1999. 93 mins.Prod cos: Pathe Pictures, Miramax, Intermedia, Arts Council of England, Le Studio Canal Plus. Int'l sales: Intermedia. Prods: Branagh, David Barron. Exec prods: Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Alexis Lloyd, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein. Scr: Branagh, adapting from Shakespeare. DoP: Alex Thomson. Prod design: Tim ...
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Monicelli tipped to head Venice jury
Veteran Italian director Mario Monicelli is tipped to head the jury of the Venice International Film Festival, according to reports in Milan newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.Born in 1915, Monicelli was one of the founders of the post-war Commedia all'Italiana genre, and is still active as a filmmaker today. ...
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Bier's Brothers to follow in Open Hearts vein
Danish writer-director Susanne Bier is gearing up to shoot her new film, Brothers (working title), based on a script co-written with the prolific Anders Thomas Jensen. Set to shoot in the autumn, the contemporary drama centres on two brothers and follows in the vein of last year's collaboration with Jensen, ...
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Reno, Clavier reteam for Corse comic adaptation
Once again, France is turning to comic books for inspiration.Alain Berberian is to direct Enquete Corse, about a hapless detective in Corsica, based on the comics by Rene Petillon. Enquete Corse will also reunite the stars of the Les Visiteurs films - Christian Clavier and Jean Reno - who will ...
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Heatwave melts UK box office takings
The UK box office was hit over the weekend by a heatwave which saw the country record its hottest ever temperature on Sunday. Many films saw their earnings drop substantially week-on-week, including last week's leader Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, which fell 55%.Total box office was notably 13% down ...
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Universal looks to tap new German fund
Universal Studios is set to benefit from a private media fund being prepared by Munich-based Hannover Leasing with a fund volume of up to Euros 250m.If all goes according to schedule, the fund will be brought onto the market at the end of August, inviting private individuals to invest a ...