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Montreal under fire from Telefilm Canada, SODEC
Serge Losique, the mercurialand controversial director of the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), hasreceived an ultimatum. He and the organization he has lead for 28 years mustsubmit to the scrutiny and standards of Telefilm Canada and its Quebec counterpart,SODEC, or lose the C$1m of the agencies' joint subsidy to a ...
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UK/IRELAND 28 July
The advertising may announce that Thunderbirds Are Go! butthe box office results suggest they aren't going very far.In need of its own international rescue, Jonathan Frakes'film grossed a so-so $2.5m (£1.35m) over its opening weekend includingpreviews. Without the previous weekend previews, which represented $0.5m(£0.29m) of the total takings, the actual ...
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SWEDEN 28 July
The newrelease of Jerry Bruckheimer's KingArthur, which stars Hollywood's favorite Swede Stellan Skarsgaard as thevillain, easily cut into the top spot on the Swedish chart this weekend. With astrong $6,643 screen average on its 95 prints, Arthur dethroned Spider-Man 2 after three weeks at the top.Meanwhilelocal newcomer Anette Winblad's coolly ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 July
Stellar openings in three territories saw interstellar spoofcomedy (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1gain second place on the international chart - the highest placing anon-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen International launched itsexclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria thelatest ...
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Sci-fi spoof shakes up international rankings
Stellar openings in three territories saw sci-fi spoof comedy (T)RaumschiffSurprise - Periode 1 gain second place on the international chart - thehighest placing a non-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen Internationallaunched its exclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria ...
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Copenhagen unveils competition line-up
The second instalment of the Copenhagen International FilmFestival (Aug 19-29) has announced its competition programme - one that lookslike an improvement from last year and showcases more first time filmmakers.Two local films, newcomer Nikolaj Arcel's highly anticipatedpolitical thriller Kings Game, which has its world premiere in Locarno,and veteran Jytte Rex's ...
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High Fidelity
Dir: Stephen Frears. US. 2000. 113 mins.Prod cos: Working Title Films, Touchstone Pictures in association with Dogstar Films & New Crime Productions. Worldwide dist: Buena Vista/Buena Vista International. Exec prods: Mike Newell, Alan Greenspan, Lisa Chasin. Prods: Tim Bevan, Rudd Simmons. Co-prods: DV DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack. Scr: DeVincentis, ...
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Sales agents pick up Locarno features
Bavaria Film International (BFI) is to serve asthe world sales agent for Ayse Polat's En Garde which will screen incompetition at next week's Locarno International Film Festival (August 4-14) onAugust 6.Polat's second feature focuses on the friendshipbetween two girls in a Catholic reformatory, which veers dramatically out ofcontrol after one ...
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Fandango flies with Vicari, Crialese features
Domenico Procacci's Italian production and distributionoutfit Fandango is producing a new feature by Roman director Daniele Vicari,whose debut, V-Max (Velocita' Massima) won the prestigious Donatelloaward for best first film.The Euros 2m film, named L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi,began filming last week around the Gran Sasso mountainous area of central Italyand will shoot ...
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ITALY 28 July
Another slow mid-summer weekend at the Italian box officesaw just two new releases: Mediafilm's House Of The Dead and IstitutoLuce's A Good Lawyer's Wife.Dead opened on 99screens at number three but failed to toppleeither The StepfordWives or Timeline. The picturegrossed $231,601, scoring a solid average of $2,339 per screen.Istituto Luce ...
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Regas joins Premier Public Relations in Los Angeles
Beve Regas hasjoined the Los Angeles offices of Premier Public Relations (PPR), where shewill oversee international theatrical marketing and publicity campaigns for thecompany's roster of clients.Regas willreport to PPR president Pamela Godwin-Austen, who said the new arrival'sexpertise in film and television across the independent and mainstream marketsmade her a "valuable ...
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Hyde Park sets flag in UK with Brass Hat partnership
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde ParkEntertainment has cemented a five-year partnership with London-based investmentfirm The Brass Hat Group whereby Brass Hat will be Hyde Park's financing andproduction partner in the UK.Brass Hat, which is headedby Nick Hamson and Matthew Goldsmith, has agreed to raise production fundingexclusively for Hyde Park projects in the ...
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Simonds signs first-look deal with Panther studio MGM
The PinkPanther producer RobertSimonds, who began his career as a production trainee at MGM, has returned tothe studio with a first-look deal.First up will be a remake of the 1968 family comedy Yours,Mine & Ours, which originally starredLucille Ball and Henry Fonda.Simonds has justwrapped production on The Pink Panther, which ...
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It's Mueller time: Venice overflows with US talent
The Venice Film Festival (Sep 1-11) has unveiled an eclecticline-up which features a strong US contingent, celebrated European auteurs and,following in the footsteps of Cannes, the Lido's first animation in competitionin thirty years.In presenting the line-up on Thursday in Rome, thefestival's new artistic director, Marco Mueller, singled out the strength ...
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Berlin funding agency dishes out Euros 3m
New films by Andreas Dresen, Eoin Moore, Hans-Christian Schmid,John Stephenson and Sven Unterwaldt are among 12 projects backed with overEuros 3m by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - over Euros 1m - went to Constantin Film'sdrama Siegfried, to be directed by Sven Unterwaldt from a ...
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London studio sold to Mayor's development agency
The LondonDevelopment Agency is poised to acquire 3 Mills Studios, the East Londontelevision and film studios, as part of a drive to boost London's creativeindustries.Thestudios will be managed by the LDA with the advice of industry body FilmLondon, the new strategic body responsible for supporting filming in London andpromoting London ...
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Comic trio scoop Orange Screenwriting Prize
The 2000 Orange Prize for Screenwriting has been awarded to three comedies from new British writers: The Alchemist, written by Simon Rose, Feet Up by Ewan Kilgour and The Wedding Gift by Lisa Flett.The three projects, which were chosen from more than 1,000 entries, were awarded a cash prize of ...
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MGM staunches red ink, stays mum on 007
Dropping no hints about sales talks or the identity of the nextJames Bond actor, MGM announced second quarter results that revealed adrastically reduced net loss and $33.6m in net cash from operating activities.Second quarter revenues fell from $487.7m for the sameperiod last year to $406.1m.Second quarter 2003 results were boosted ...
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I, Robot embarks on biggest international weekend yet
Columbia's Spider-Man 2 should swing past $300m at the international box officethis weekend, while Fox International's I, Robot embarks on its biggest weekend yet,buoyed by an estimated $1.2m opening day on 770 prints in France this week.The sci-fi thriller, which headlines Will Smith, is expected to boost its $10.3minternational running ...
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Sutherland, Harden, Reed shoot for IFC's American Gun
Donald Sutherland, Marcia Gay Harden and Nikki Reed have joinedthe cast of Aric Avelino's ensemble drama American Gun, which began shooting in Los Angelesearlier this month and will open in the US through IFC Films.Sutherland plays the owner of a Virginian gun store whoselife becomes entangled with those of a ...