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Ocean's Twelve hits the jackpot for Warner Bros
Warner Bros' Ocean'sTwelve swaggered to thetop of the charts at the weekend with an estimated $40.9m opening that pulledoff the fourth biggest December debut of all time.The$110m crime caper follows on from the 2001 picture Ocean's Eleven by Steven Soderbergh and reunites George Clooney,Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts, ...
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Marrakech names Sideways as best film
The fourth annual MarrakechFilm Festival drew to a close on Sunday with Alexander Payne's Sidewayswinning the top prize.The jury prize went to China'sMenying Tong Nian by Xiao Jiang and Senegal's Moolaade by OusmaneSembene in a tie.The jurywas presided over by British director Alan Parker and included RosannaArquette, Guillaume Canet and ...
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Gay comedy scoops Indonesia's Citra awards
Arisan, controversial for featuring Indonesia's firston-screen gay kiss, swept several major Citra awards including best picture atthe Indonesian Film Festival. This year, the Indonesian equivalent to theOscars was held for the first time since 1992.Arisan's Tora Sudiro was named best actor for his role as agay man coming out of ...
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Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Dir: Brad Silberling. US.2004. 113mins.A vast and colourfulmovie based on the sinister kids' books by Lemony Snicket aka 34 year-oldDaniel Handler, A Series Of Unfortunate Events is set to take over theworld's movie screens over Christmas and beyond. Paramount and DreamWorksco-financed this extravagantly lavish affair and returns will be considerablein ...
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Ed Russell retires from Columbia
Ed Russell has announced that he will retire as executive vice president of worldwide publicity, promotions and field publicity at Columbia Pictures when his contract expires this year. He joined the studio in 1986 as vice president of publicity and his career in studio publicity spans nearly 30 years."After nearly ...
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Phil The Alien
Dir/scr:Rod Stefaniuk. Can. 2004. 85mins.Canadiancomedy by nature veers toward the deadpan with a twist of wit dryer than theperfect martini. These elements are out in full force in Phil The Alien,written, directed and starring actor/musician Rob Stefaniuk.However,the whimsical yarn of an extra-terrestrial who touches down in remote NorthernOntario and changes ...
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Golden Globes: full list of nominations
Best Motion Picture -DramaThe AviatorCloserFinding NeverlandHotel RwandaKinseyMillion Dollar BabyBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - DramaScarlett Johansson A Love Song For Bobby LongNicole Kidman BirthImelda Staunton Vera DrakeHilary Swank Million Dollar BabyUma Thurman Kill Bill Vol 2Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - DramaJavier ...
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AUSTRALIA 13 December
Ocean's Twelve was the most popular film at the box office on theweekend, grossing A$4,580,657 from 378 screens for Roadshow, which equated to avery strong screen average of A$12,118. By way of comparison, only four filmshave exceeded this result in the last six months - Spider-Man 2 (A$7.13m), Bridget Jones: ...
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NEW ZEALAND 13 December
Bridget Jones -- The EdgeOf Reason continues to show greatresilience in New Zealand. For the fourth consecutive weekend it has lead thechart, helped by being on more screens then any other film. It grossedNZ$270,540 from 65 screens for UIP.Using the measure of screenaverage, however, it was beaten by both the ...
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Australia's FFC bankrolls Elephant, Power
Elephant Tales, a French/Australian co-productionwritten and directed by Mario Andreacchio, and the psychological thriller PowerSurge, the first feature from high-profile commercials director DavidDenneen, will go into production after receiving backing from Australia's Film Finance Corporation (FFC).The FFC has also announced it is willing to invest in fourother features providing certain ...
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Head-On star boards Holocaust Train drama
Head-On star Sibel Kekilli is to play the female lead of ayoung Jewish woman in veteran producer Artur "Atze" Brauner'sHolocaust drama The Last Train (Der Letzte Zug) about Jews being sent tothe concentration camp in Auschwitz in early 1943.The film will be directed by actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. Speakingto ScreenDaily.com, 86-year-old ...
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SWEDEN 13 December
The new release of ThePolar Express only managed to swap places with Alexander on thirdplace at the Swedish box-office.While the epic dropped tofifth, the animated Express couldn't even match the box-office averageof chart topper Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, local hit As It IsIn Heaven (aka As In Heaven) ...
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Matheson re-elected to key Pact film post
Bard Entertainment managing director Margaret Matheson is to serve athird year on the governing council of producers' alliance Pact as vice chair,film. Matheson stood unopposed for the top film industry role at Pact.Andrew Zein, managing director, Tiger Aspect Productions, will continuefor a second year as chair of Pact, while David ...
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ROK Player launches to bring film to mobile phones
A new system that allowsmobile phone users to watch films on their phone, even without networkcoverage, launches this week.ROK Player, which launchedin the UK on Monday, is predicting a mobile content platform market worth £100min three years for film distributors, TV companies and record labels.ROK Player is a specialdigital video ...
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Three Dots unveils horror Heirloom
Three Dots Entertainment,the Taiwanese production company behind hit gay comedy Formula 17, hasunveiled a slate of three new productions for 2005.The up-and-coming companyhas secured private equity investment of around US$1m for the three-pictureslate.First off is horror film TheHeirloom to be directed by 23-year-old Leste Chen whose last film, Uninhibited,screened in ...
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TF1 acquires controlling stake in Telema
In an unexpected switch of allegiance, leading French production house Telema has broken its alliance with Le Studio Canal Plus in favour of free TV broadcaster TF1, which has acquired a controlling 49% stake in the company.Telema has produced a string of French hit comedies such as La Vie Est ...
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Marrakech mulls film market launch
The Marrakech International Film Festival is likely to setup its own market, artistic-director Bruno Barde has told ScreenDaily.com."We will organise a small market for theArabic countries," Barde said, but declined to give further details ofwhat form such a market might take.Put together in frantic haste in a littleunder three months, ...
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Sideways dominates Golden Globes nominations
Sideways maintained its early awards season momentum as it received seven nominations for the 62ndannual Golden Globe nominations today (13), including best motion picture musical or comedy, best director for Alexander Payne, best actor for a comedyor musical for Paul Giamatti and a pair of supporting actor nods for ThomasHaden ...
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Sideways dominates Golden Globe nominations
Sideways maintained its early awards season momentum as it received seven nominations for the 62ndannual Golden Globe nominations today (13), including best motion picture musical or comedy, best director for Alexander Payne, best actor for a comedyor musical for Paul Giamatti and a pair of supporting actor nods for ThomasHaden ...
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New York critics honour Sideways
Sideways won four awards and was named best picture of 2004 bythe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) today (13), with best director goingto Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, best actor going to Paul Giamatti for Sideways and best actress going to Imelda Staunton for VeraDrake.The 33-strong NYFCC selectedMichael ...