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Plans unveiled for Scottish facilities centre
Scottish producer Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films has revealed plans to develop Film City Glasgow in the city's Govan Town Hall. Backed by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Glasgow City Council and the European Regional Development Fund, the £3m project was inspired by Zentropa's facilities in Denmark - Film City Copenhagen. A ...
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Forsyth, Beaufoy to help finesse four Aurora projects
A second film from Soft Fruit creative team Christina Andreef and Helen Bowden, and yet another from one of the country's most experienced producers, Matt Carroll, are two of the four projects chosen for the second intensive Aurora script development workshop.Bill Forsyth, who wrote and directed Scottish film Local Hero, ...
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Scream 3 makes a killing at US box office
Scream 3, the long awaited finale in Wes Craven's Scream franchise, was an instant, not entirely unexpected, box office blockbuster over the weekend in North America. Grossing a whopping $35.2m, the film became in the process the biggest ever February opener, the biggest ever opener for its distributor Miramax Films ...
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Oscar Moore screenwriting prizewinners secure production co, director
Jason and Brendan Butler, the new Dublin-based screenwriters who won last year's Oscar Moore Screenwriting Prize, have secured a director and a production company for their script Ton Of Money.Irish production outfit Octagon Films has optioned the project, a comedy about a group of criminals who come across £1m in ...
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Marleen Gorris to direct Bronte
Academy Award-winning director Marleen Gorris is to direct Bronte, the story of the Bronte sisters.The Dutch director, who won the best foreign-language Oscar for Antonia's Line, is to go into pre-production in May for Random Harvest, the UK producer and tax-based financier which acquired the screenplay from DreamWorks SKG.Angela Workman, ...
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Australia's Film Finance Corp backs Deck Dogz, Scarlett
Writer/director Steve Pasvolsky's short film Inja failed to win an Oscar in the live action category for which it was nominated, but yesterday he got a very significant consolation prize: the Film Finance Corporation (FFC) agreed to invest in his debut feature Deck Dogz. Pay-TV outfit The Movie Network is ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights on Facing Windows
Paris-based sales house Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Ferzan Ozpetek's Facing Windows. The film, produced by Tilde Corsi and Gianii Romoli's R&C Produzioni, is currently at number two at the Italian box office with more than 1 million tickets sold for a take of Euros 6.4m.Facing Windows ...
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Madragoa Filmes awarded Portugese production support
Paulo Branco's Lisbon-based production company Madragoa Filmes has received two of the three latest feature film subsidies granted by the Portuguese Film Institute ICAM.The ICAM (Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia) announced the three winners of the newest bid for direct financial support to fiction feature films out of 13 ...
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Lord Of The Rings beats Lord Of The Rings
In the same week that Universal announced Peter Jackson would be directing a King Kong re-imagining for release in 2005, the second of the New Zealand director's epic The Lord Of The Rings trilogy surpassed the international cumulative gross of its predecessor.The Two Towers became the fifth highest grossing film ...
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BVI recruits four top slots for CIA thriller
Buena Vista International scored a strong weekend for its CIA thriller The Recruit over the weekend with number one openings recorded in four European territories. The UK, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands all awarded the film, which stars Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, with a lead position.The UK and Ireland ...
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Mango Yellow wins top prize in Toulouse
Brazilian Claudio Assis picked up the grand prize at the 15th annual Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) for his film Mango Yellow (Amarelo Manga).The prize comes with Euros 3,000 for the film's subtitling and distribution in France. Yellow, which is sold internationally by Brazil's Grupo Novo, ...
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UK's Metrodome picks up The Hard Word, Spellbound
Fresh from the UK theatrical success of Donnie Darko, indie distributor Metrodome has picked up The Hard Word from Beyond Films and Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound.Metrodome is planning a late-summer release for Hard Word, a story of three fraternal bank robbers which stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths. The film ...
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HAF decision to be taken today
Organisers of the Hong Kong Asia International Film Finance Forum (HAF) will today (Tuesday, Apr 1) take a decision as to whether to press on with the projects market scheduled to take place next week (Apr 7-9).Hong Kong is at the centre of an outbreak of a killer virus known ...
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East Is East wins best film at British Film Awards
FilmFour's hit comedy East Is East won Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards last night. Working Title Films' romantic comedy, Notting Hill, the most successful UK film worldwide, took the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. Best actor went to Jeremy Northam for An Ideal Husband and The ...
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Wellspring hires Rob Williams in acquisitions dept
Wellspring has appointed RobWilliams as manager of acquisitions. Williams arrives from Dreamworks'New York office and will report to the newly appointed head of acquisitions,Marie Therese Guirgis; his responsibilities include acquiring films and programmingfor Wellspring's theatrical, home video and worldwide sales businessunits.'Rob's experience inboth studio and arthouse film distribution will serve ...
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Prawer Jhabvala to get screenwriting honour at Nantucket
The Oscarwinning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to receive NBC'sScreenwriter Tribute at the eighth annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF), whichruns from Jun 19-22.Jhabvala wonbest adapted screenplay Oscars for A Room With A View in 1987 and Howards End in 1993. She was nominated for TheRemains Of The Day in1994.Jhabvala'snext project ...
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Exhibition vet Bill Doeren joins Kodak Imaging
Exhibitionveteran William B Doeren has been named vice president of the KodakEntertainment Imaging division and general manager of Kodak Digital Cinemagroup.He replacesRobert J Mayson, who is moving into a full-time role as vice president andgeneral manager of Image Origination Products in the same Kodak division.In a statementEric G Rodli, president ...
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Oscars push up Chicago international business by 25%
Fresh from itshaul of six Academy Awards, including one for best picture, Chicago's international box office leapt25% over the weekend according to Miramax International.The Broadwaymusical adaptation grossed an estimated $7m in markets over the weekend toraise its international running total to approximately $80m.Combined withthe picture's $144.5m US gross, which is ...
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Fox's Daredevil scores $6.6m over weekend
The acrobaticantics of Daredevilwere too much for the competition over the weekend as Fox's actionpicture scored a string of number one openings, grossing $6.6m on 3,661international screens for a $45.9m running total.Among thehighlights was the United Arab Emirates, where the picture grossed $254,000 on23 screens for Fox's second highest opening ...
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Former Catch 23 president Barber joins UTA
Jeremy Barber,the former president of Catch 23 Entertainment, has joined United Talent Agencyas an agent in the motion picture department.Barber, awell-known face on the international festival circuit, will focus onrepresenting film-makers as well as packaging and financing in the independentfilm area. He will work with Howard Cohen, head of UTA's ...