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Stroke Of Genius tees up in Scotland
Scottish-based production company McDongall films is to co-ordinate the Scottish element of the $15m US indie biopic Bobby Jones - Stroke Of Genius, which starts shooting in St Andrews on August 24. Directed by Rowdy Herrington, the LLC, Dean River Productions film stars Jim Caviezel as the legendary American golfer ...
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T3 rises up to $200m international take
With no major openings this weekend, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines will again be the one to watch as it prepares to pass $200m in international ticket sales.The sci-fi sequel has been the dominant performer since its campaign began on Jul 2 and has an international running total of ...
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Hungary picks Forest for Oscar consideration
Benedek Fliegauf's Forest has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 76th Annual Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category. The five-member jury of the Hungarian Selection Committee for Academy Awards Entry decided on Fliegauf's multi-award winner for "finely balancing stylisation and realism. The film uncompromisingly ...
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Oz exhibitors rally round Gibson's Passion
Australian exhibitors appear to be rallying behind Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion.The film, about the last hours of Jesus, has been attacked in the US by some religious organisations. Four minutes footage from The Passion screened at the Australian International Movie Convention this week; the full length film is ...
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Distant Lights to open Warsaw fest
The 19th Warsaw International Film Festival (Oct 2-13) will feature 15 films in its competition programme, a Ventura Pons retrospective and a selection of the newest Polish films as part of the Warsaw Screenings section.The festival, the country's sole FIAPF-accredited feature film event, will open with Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinale FIPRESCI-award ...
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Out Of Time to world premiere at Toronto
Director Carl Franklin's Out Of Time will have its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. Starring two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, the film also stars Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, and Dean Cain in a story of one man's race against time to solve ...
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Gori Vatra (Fuse)
Dir. Pjer Zalica. Bosnia-Herzegovina/Austria/Turkey/France, 2003. 105 min.Competing in Locarno and the opening attraction at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival, Pjer Zalica's debut feature displays all the boisterous energy verging on the vulgar, the black sense of humour but also the tragic pathos which have become the trademarks of the better ...
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Oederkerk hits AFM with high-concept comedies
Steve Oedekerk, the writer of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor and the writer/director of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Patch Adams, is entering the international marketplace with his company O Entertainment.O is offering a trio of high-concept comedies to buyers at AFM led by The Thumb ...
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Currency crunch hits Internationalmedia
Internationalmedia(IM) - parent company of Intermedia - has blamed currency imbalances between the Euro and the Dollar for a 5.7% year on year revenue fall in the first half of 2003.IM's CEO Moritz Borman said that "had the Euro and the Dollar maintained their comparative values from a year ago, ...
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Freddy Vs Jason
Dir: Ronny Yu. US. 2003. 97mins. Hoping to squeeze fresh revenue out of a pair of ageing horror franchises, New Line pits two of the genre's most recognizable icons - Nightmare On Elm Street's Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th's Jason - against one another in Freddy Vs Jason, a ...
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Kinowelt and Ottfilm mull collaboration plans
A closer working collaboration between German distributors Kinowelt and Ottfilm looks to be on the cards.The two are planning to jointly release Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself on September 18, with Filmwelt acting as an agency to handle the film's physical distribution. Kinowelt's Georg Miros told ScreenDaily.com that ...
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30,000 pirate DVDs and VCDs seized by MPAA in Malaysia
More than 30,000 pirate copies of DVDs and VCDs as well asmanufacturing and computer equipment have been seized in raids on an onlinemail-order syndicate in Malaysia.The raids were carried out on three sites in Penang on Aug 11 byMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) staff and a 20-person team fromMalaysia's ...
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Universal declares record summer with $667.8m to date
With three summer box office weekends still to come, UniversalPictures announced yesterday it had passed its all-time season record with$667.8m in domestic ticket sales.The new milestone includes business up to Aug 13 and overtakes theprevious mark of $665.9m set in 2001. So far this year the studio has grossed$693.1m.The record ...
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Comcast, Universal discuss new US cable channels
Hours after pulling out of the bidding for Vivendi Universal'sentertainment assets yesterday (14), cable giant Comcast said it was exploringthe launch of new cable channels and services with the French conglomerate.It is understood any possible venture involving Comcast's cableexpertise and Vivendi content would not interfere with the sale, which is ...
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Open Range
Dir: Kevin Costner. US. 2003. 138mins.Kevin Costner returns to his directorial roots in this old-fashioned Western, opting for a conventional formality and epic aesthetic over freshness or innovation. More Shane than The Searchers, the film breaks no new ground in terms of story, character or execution. But its unabashedly straight-forward ...
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UNITED KINGDOM
A return of the high summer temperatures affected a lot of films in the UK this weekend, but Columbia TriStar's Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines rode the heatwave with a massive $9.8m (£6.1m) gross from 478 sites playing 762 prints.The launch figures included Thursday previews of $1.7m (£1.05m) from ...
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Bignardi counters 'lack of glamour' criticism
"We are not here for promoting films, but to make a festival", festival director Irene Bignardi declared in response to BVI Switzerland Roger Crotti's criticisms early this week of the Piazza Grande open-air programme and of the absence of glamour at the festival.In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily.com, Bignardi observed ...
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Maddin' s Dracula earns him DGC nomination
Canadian director Guy Maddin has been nominated for an award from the Directors Guild of Canada for his critically acclaimed Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary.Maddin received a nomination in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Television Movie/Mini-Series. The second annual DGC Awards, which will be held on ...
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OFDC report calls for Ontario studio
Ontario's film industry needs a state-of-the-art studio facility, according to a study commissioned by the Ontario Film Development Corp and the Toronto Film and Television Office. The report, undertaken by real estate consultancy Drivers Jonas North America and LA-based analyst ERA, suggests that Ontario's industry should stop competing on price ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Valentin
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to Argentinian director Alejandro Agresti's comedy, Valentin.The deal was negotiated with Kathy Morgan International acting for First Floor Features. Metrodome has scheduled the film, which was picked up by Miramax Films, for a February release. Newcomer Rodrigo Noya stars as the titular ...