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Mercero's 4th Floor wins top Giffoni prize
Spanish director Antonio Mercero's 4th Floor has scooped the top Golden Gryphon prize at theGiffoni Film Festival (17-24 July), the Italian youth-themed festival which isnow set to export its winning formula to Albania, Los Angeles and Australia.4th Floor tells thestory of a group of 15-year-olds who are all fighting for ...
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Arahan dominates at Puchon Fantastic festival
Local hit Arahan proved to be the big winner at SouthKorea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), taking home theBest of Puchon grand prize as well as the Audience Award.The festival jury,led by U.S. director Stuart Gordon, also presented a Jury Award to Japanesedrama The Taste Of Teaand a Best ...
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FFC pledges backing to Jindabyne, Revelation
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has pledged fundingon a conditional basis to Jindabyne, arelationship drama with mystery elements by Lantana director Ray Lawrence, and The Book OfRevelation, a follow-up to HeadOn for director Ana Kokkinos.Content International has world sales rights for The BookOf Revelation, which Kokkinos and AndrewBovell have adapted ...
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Dunaway to star in story of Diana's biographer
Faye Dunaway, Paul McGann and Brian Cox will star in The Biographer, a privately-financed British feature film which is due to crank up on March 31.The film traces the events that led former royal journalist Andrew Morton to write his biography of the Princess of Wales, Diana: Her True Story.McGann ...
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San Sebastian to open with Allen's Melinda
The world premiere of Woody Allen's new film, Melindaand Melinda, is set to open Spain'sSan Sebastián Film Festival on September 17.Allen himself, currently filming in London, will attend thescreening.The premiere of Melinda and Melinda spearheads the festival's extensive tribute toAllen, showing all of his work as a director, actor and ...
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Fine Line takes English-speaking world on Out To Sea
Fine Line Features has acquired North American and allEnglish-speaking territory rights from Spain's Sogepaq to Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Alejandro Amenabar's eagerly awaitedfollow-up to The Othersthat stars Javier Bardem as real-life euthanasia campaigner Ramon Sampedro.The company plans aplatform release in the US before the end of the year and ...
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Harry adds $11m, flies past $450m for Warner Bros
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban added an estimated $11m on approximately5,000 screens at the weekend to raise its international running total to$458.6m.The family picture added $2.2m on 302 screens in its secondweekend in South Korea, where it was expected to hold on to the number one ...
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Fahrenheit makes history as first $100m documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 fulfilled its destiny and became the first documentary in historyto pass $100m at the US box office at the weekend, reaching the milestone onSaturday (24), its 32nd day of release.Michael Moore's anti-Bush polemic grossed an estimated $5m in1,855 theatres and dropped 30% for a $103.4m running total, going ...
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Spider-Man 2 has $31.6m weekend on 9,000 screens
Sony's Spider-Man 2 continued its international dominance at the weekend as it addedan estimated $31.6m from 9,000 screens through Columbia Tri-Star FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) for a $267m international cumulative score.A $1.6m opening in India was the highlight of this weekend'ssmaller bows. Spideywent out on 303 screens in the sub-continent and ...
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Thunderbirds are so-so at UK box office
Universal-Working Title's Thunderbirds remake opened third in the UK throughUIP at the weekend - its first launch anywhere in the world - on an estimated$2.4m (£1.3m) including previews on 433 screens.The live-action family adventure version of Gerry Anderson'spuppetry and pyrotechnics television series of the 1960s trailed Spider-Man2, which was in ...
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In The Battlefields (Maarek Hob)
Dir/scr:Danielle Arbid. Fr-Bel-Leb. 2004. 90minsThe war thatengulfed Lebanon in the early 1980s, turning Beirut from the Paris of theMiddle East into a scarred wasteland of pockmarked and rusting buildings, isonly a metaphor for the chaos and turmoil that most interests the youngLebanese documentary and shorts film-maker Danielle Arbid in her ...
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AUSTRALIA 26 July
In its second weekof previews, Fahrenheit 9/11 tookA$1,134,249 for Hopscotch from 89 screens to claim the third spot after I, Robot and King Arthur. This is an amazing result for a political documentaryand especially for one that is yet to officially open.I, Robot, in its opening weekend for 20th Century ...
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Marseille
Dir:Angela Schanelec. Germany. 2004. 95minsAngelaSchanelec's Marseille starts badly and gets worse. Festival-goers - thefilm played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes - are all too familiar with the kindof movie in which someone unnamed wanders aimlessly and interminably, withoutbenefit of characterisation or plot, around a city. The sad thing about ...
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Kessler tipped to quit France's CNC in autumn
The French press is awashwith rumours that David Kessler, president of film support body the CNC, is tostep down this autumn to be replaced by Catherine Colonna, the spokesperson forthe Elysee Palace - France's equivalent to the White House.Asked by ScreenDaily.comif the speculative reports in Le Film Francais, Le Monde ...
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German Film Prize nods for Buena Vista, Hotel
An unhappy week for German film closed on a more conciliatory note on Friday night with nominations for the German Film Prize evenly spread.Heading the list was Andreas Kleinert's Wege In Die Nacht, Oskar Roehler's Die Unberuehrbare and Tomy Wigand's Fussball Ist Unser Leben with three nominations each. They were ...
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NEW ZEALAND 26 July
I, Robot grossed NZ$619,601 from 60 screens for 20th Century Fox in its firstweekend, taking top honours in the box office chart and pushing Shrek 2 down into second place.The green ogre tookNZ$239,178 from 84 screens for UIP. It has lead the chart for four of the sixweeks it has ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD set for October launch in UK
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a UK DVDlaunch through Optimum Home Entertainment in October 2004 - just ahead of theUS Presidential Election in November.In its first ten days of release, the film had alreadyreached a total gross of £2.74m in the UK, surpassing the record set by Touchingthe ...
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Spelling sells ahead of Locarno world premiere
Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons hasclosed its first deals on Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's Bad Spelling (LesFautes D'Orthographe) ahead of its world premiere as Locarno InternationalFilm Festival's opening film on the Piazza Grande on August 4.The coming of age story set in the 1960s,starring Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet and rising star Damien ...
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Sarajevo festival confirms first competition contenders
The world premiere of Zornitza Sophia's MilaFrom Mars (Bulgaria) and international premieres of Arsen Ostojic's AWonderful Night In Split (Croatia) and Ljubisa Samardzic's Goose Feather(Serbia & Montenegro) are among the first titles confirmed for the SarajevoFilm Festival's Regional Programme competitionOther films lined up include the Europeanpremiere of Silvije Petranovic's Society ...
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Skillset's Inside Pictures launches new training programme
Skillset's Inside Pictures, the UKfilm business training programme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund,is accepting applications for its next course.Comprising three intensive one-weekmodules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angelesbetween November 2004 and May 2005.Seminars, workshops and studiovisits are hosted by some of the US ...