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Film to receive boost at revamped BBC
Incoming BBC director general Greg Dyke has pledged to create a new film division as part of a far-reaching overhaul of the UK broadcaster. The film operation will come under the auspices of Alan Yentob, the former director of television, who now heads a newly-created division spanning drama, entertainment and ...
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San Sebastian unveils main competition titles
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival hasunveiled 15 of the titles set to compete for the official competition's GoldenShell prize at this year's 52nd edition (Sept 17-25) - showing off ahigh-profile and geographically balanced international line-up.Following the inauguration by Woody Allen'sout-of-competition comedy Melinda AndMelinda are new films from well-known international ...
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The Ninth Day (Der Neunte Tag)
Dir. VolkerSchloendorff. Ger-Lux. 2004. 97mins.Despiteinitial appearances and a long prologue set inside Dachau concentration camp,Volker Schloendorff's The Ninth Day is no Holocaust film, but a neartheological dissertation on Catholicism and how it held up under the Nazi rule.The victims thistime are not Jews but the Catholic priests sent to concentration ...
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Italian producers denounce funding crisis
Italian state funding for local films has stalled for oversix months, while the government has recently made new and drastic cuts to itsentertainment fund.Now, a group of top Italian producers, including Rai Cinemaand Fininvest-owned Medusa, have taken a full-page advertisement in a nationalnewspaper asking prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to take ...
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Talent Campus heads to Far East, Latin America
Following the successful staging of Talent Campuses in Kievand New Dehli, the Berlinale Talent Campus plans to further export its conceptto the film festivals in Pusan and Buenos Aires in 2005.This announcement comes after the first Talent Campus India washeld during last month's Osian's Cinefan Film Festival - from July ...
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Revolver aims at international market
Revolver, the two-year-old Italian arthouse production anddistribution outfit, is ramping up its international activities. The companyhas boarded Chilean director Raoul Ruiz's upcoming film, Le Livre A Rendre as a co-producer and has also acquired Italianrights to Shinya Tsukamoto's Venice title, Vital.Le Livre A Rendreis a Euros 3m picture which focuses ...
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Serbia and Montenegro faces film piracy challenge
The weekends ofAug 16-18 and 23-25 were the worst in terms of admissions and revenues inSerbia and Montenegro since 1997. The first saw ticket sales of 11,872($31,249) for the whole territory, while the latter had even less: only 11,120spectators who spent $29,145. Spider-Man2 sold only 4,744 tickets in its second ...
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First Locarno deals concluded
After only two days, Locarno had already seen its firstdeals concluded by Friday (August 6) before the festival's first weekend.Celluloid Dreams picked up international distribution rightsfor German director-cinematographer Thomas Riedelsheimer's (Rivers And Tides) new documentary Touch The Sound which had its worldpremiere in Locarno's Critics' Week on Sunday evening (Aug ...
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Logan, Newman, Rosen named in Hollywood Film Awards honour list
Composer Thomas Newman andscreenwriter John Logan will both be honoured at the upcoming Hollywood FilmAwards ceremony on Oct 18 at the Beverly Hilton.Hollywood Composer of theYear Award recipient Newman has earned six Oscar nominations in his career todate for the recent phenomenon Finding Nemo, American Beauty and Road To Perdition, ...
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Yet another political doc gets US theatrical exposure
THINKFilm hasacquired US domestic rights to George Butler and White Mountain's Toronto worldpremiere documentary Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry and plans to open it on limited releasebefore the Presidential Election on Oct 1.The latest addition to the left-leaning politicaldocumentary canon focuses on key influences in Kerry's life, ...
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Echelon takes US rights to dog mayor doc
Echelon Entertainment hasacquired US domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of the current crop ofpolitical documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash: The Centre Of TheUniverse.The picture focuses on anelectoral race in the Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as townmayor.The filmmakers profile thetown's ...
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Kinepolis bullish on expansion despite losses
Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis Group is planning to open six new multiplexes throughout Europe by December after reaching its legal investment limit in Belgium with 125 screens.The first to open will be the 12-screen Forum Kinepolis in Nimes, France to be followed by an eight-screen multiplex in Ede, The Netherlands in ...
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UK sports docs get US distribution through Hart Sharp
Domestic DVD distributorHart Sharp Video has partnered with Bombo Sports & Entertainment todistribute a new line of specialised sports documentaries.Upcoming releases willinclude Liverpool FC - No Heart As Big, Manchester United: Beyond The Promised Land, Roy Keane, As I See It, and the rugby picture Sweet Chariot. Each of these ...
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Universal & Toshiba claim number one slot in Japan with Riddick
Universal executives claimedtheir action sequel The Chronicles Of Riddick opened top in Japan through Toshiba at the weekendon an estimated $1.9m on an unconfirmed number of screens.Overall the picture grossed$2.8m on 835 screens in 18 territories and raised its international runningtotal to $10m from all distributors, $7.3m of which comes ...
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Collateral cruises to the top with $24.4m
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Collateral tops box office as North American summer starts to fade
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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I, Robot seizes the world with $30.9m weekend
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot extended itsbox office dominance at the weekend with an estimated $30.9m haul from 6,034screens in 29 territories for a $70.8m international running total.The picture scored a stringof number one openings, led by $8.4m on 710 screens in the UK and $5.1m on 910in Germany.Other key ...
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IMAX ties up six-screen deal with National Amusements
IMAX Corporation has signeda deal to install six IMAX theatre systems in US sites owned by internationalexhibitor National Amusements Inc, with the possibility of a further 12 systemsover the next several years, predominantly in the UK.Four theatre systems arescheduled to be installed by the end of the year in National ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 grossed an estimated $12.1m on6,430 screens in 55 territories through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising the international cumulativetotal to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the $2.6m debut on 300 screens inChina, which included previews and set a new record for an MPAA release in ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2grossed an estimated $12.1m on 6,430 screens in 55 territories through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising theinternational cumulative total to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the$2.6m debut on 300 screens in China, which included previews and set a newrecord for an MPAA release in the ...