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Attack Of The Clones enjoys $116.3m US four-day opening
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones unleashed The Force over the weekend, zapping the competition and storming to the top of the charts with an estimated four-day gross of $116.3m. George Lucas's fifth Star Wars instalment becomes the second fastest picture to pass $100m behind Columbia's Spider-Man ...
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24 Hour Party People
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2001. 110mins.Anarchic, exasperating and ambitious, Michael Winterbottom's boisterous celebration of 16 rollercoaster years in Manchester's club scene is a real oddball item whose eventual cult status could - like that of the music it portrays - outstrip its commercial performance by miles. A young urban crowd ...
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All Or Nothing
Dir: Mike Leigh. UK-France 2002. 127 mins.After a brief detour into history (and real-life individuals) with his 1999 Gilbert and Sullivan drama, Topsy Turvy, Mike Leigh returns to more familiar terrain with this subtle, precisely observed contemporary story of ordinary South London folk. Comic but also melancholy - although it ...
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Svensk Filmindustrie to set up Danish specialist arm
Nordic major Svensk Filmindustrie's Danish branch SF-Film is to launch a new division in a bid to take a greater share of the booming local market."We will set up a branch focusing exclusively on the marketing and distribution of Danish films," said Michael Fleischer, who has been the managing director ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch UK slate
Horror adaptation Possession, modern-day Count of Monte Cristo story Lazarus Ash and thriller Perfect People head the slate of $10m - $25m productions in a partnership between Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, the UK's Spice Factory and best-selling horror novelist Peter James.The announcement follows last month's unveiling of plans for ambitious ...
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Babelsberg to co-fund and house Myriad's Borgia
Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures, the holding company for Vivendi Deutschland's media activities, has cut a deal with Myriad Pictures to house, co-finance and co-produce Neil Jordan's Borgia and the Ed Pressman production The Tenth Victim. Babelsberg CEO Gabriela Bacher has accessed state guarantees from the state of Brandenberg with which ...
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Fox Searchlight selects Beckham for North & South America
The Works has confirmed that Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired North and South American rights UK hit Bend It Like Beckham.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice and The Works chief executive Aline Perry said Fox Searchlight will handle North America and Twentieth Century Fox South America. Fox is understood to have ...
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Tristan And Isolde involved in double shooting
Start-up production company Octagon Films will co-produce a version of Tristan And Isolde with Ridley Scott's Scott Free, to be directed by Kevin Reynolds - while at the same time Intermedia and Metropolitan Filmexport have teamed to finance and sell their own Tristan & Iseult, to which Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) ...
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Focus outlines its global strategy
Focus - the new Universal-owned company merging Good Machine International and USA Films - is starting to outline its modus operandi, pledging a commitment to original-language films and representing a new source of studio movies to independent buyers.Talking to Screen International yesterday, Focus co-chiefs David Linde and James Schamus said ...
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Granada closes German pre-sale on All American
The UK's Granada Film has closed a significant pre-sale to Germany with Telepool on romantic comedy All American Man.The German company bought all rights to the film, which writer-director Craig Ferguson is to shoot in January. "It's a real coup," said Penny Wolf, head of sales. "We have not heard ...
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Sex doll horror adds to ContentFilm slate
After just eight months in operation New York's ContentFilm, run by indie stalwarts Ed Pressman and John Schmidt, has announced its fifth fully-financed film to go into production, a sexually-twisted psychological horror called Love Object.Said to combine elements of Demon Seed and Chucky with those of Roman Polanski's early classics, ...
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Luque enrolled as head of Film Business School
Former director of creative affairs at Lolafilms UK, Nadine Luque has been appointed new director of the Film Business School, part of the MEDIA Programme-backed pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS).Luque's initial one-year contract with MBS will span two intensive four-day sessions of the Film Business School, a ...
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Hong Kong's Cheung and Law plan epic Story Of Ah-Toi
Hong Kong on and off-screen partners Mabel Cheung and Alex Law are planning a giant leap in budget for their next production, provisionally titled The Story Of Ah-Toi, to be set in the US and written and directed by Law with Cheung producing.Throughout their career together, Law has written and ...
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Snapper, Two Drivers alliance starts with two Minnie features
Juha Wuolijoki's New York and Helsinki-based Snapper Films has formed an alliance with Minnie Driver's outfit Two Drivers, which the actress runs with her sister Kate Driver and producer Lisa Fielding.Their joint slate includes two new features both budgeted under $10m, the horror-thriller Luci's Prayer based on a script by ...
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Capitol duets with Medusa on Callas Forever
Capitol Films has partnered with Medusa Film to handle Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, starring Fanny Ardant as the opera legend.UK-based Capitol is representing the film worldwide excluding Italy, France and Spain. The film, which also stars Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright, takes a fictionalised looks at Callas' final days.Capitol has ...
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HBO announces international theatrical sales push
UK distributor Momentum Pictures has picked up UK theatrical, TV and home video rights to HBO Films' My House In Umbria, a drama based on the William Trevor novel starring Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker and directed by Richard Loncraine. The sale, closed by Momentum with HBO's worldwide ...
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Cannes gets first glimpse of Gangs Of New York
After months of media attention over the fights that supposedly went into the making of Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, the film's key figures settled their score with the press at yesterday's footage screening. "This is real art, unlike half the shit in this goddam Hollywood" declared executive producer ...
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Dougray Scott becomes Hero partner
Actor Dougray Scott has partnered in Hero Films, the UK production company of producer Anne Batz and director Mike Barker, with whom Scott recently helped save the troubled production of To Kill A King.The company's first production will be The Bum's Rush, a $2.8 million black comedy set in the ...
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Bavaria takes over from Christa Saredi
Bavaria Film International has taken over sales duties from World Sales Christa Saredi on a trio of Michael Haneke films and a library that also includes pictures by Hal Hartley, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Assi Dayan and Bakhtiyar Khudojnazarov.The move sees Bavaria complete the take-over of the WSCS catalogue that was ...
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First Look gets $8m from Seven Hills
First Look Media has accessed new capital to the tune of $8m from a new deal with Reverge Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures to further build its domestic distribution operation.Under the deal, which was signed this week, Seven Hills will invest $6.05m in cash in First Look, in addition to $2m ...