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The House Keys (Le Chiavi di Casa)
Dir:Gianni Amelio. It-Ger-Fr. 2004. 115mins.Thoughit was well received by the home crowd and the local media, who were desperatefor at least one good Italian film in competition at Venice this year, GianniAmelio's eagerly awaited The House Keys was a major disappointment tothe rest of us.Atough and sombre director, whose Sicilian ...
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Info Avenue launches film investment web-site
Info Avenue, an e-commerce design and consulting company whose shareholders include the Itochu trading house and Sun Microsystems, has launched a web-site for raising film finance from film fans. Called cinem@net.com, the site recruits individuals for site-sponsored "support groups" based around specific projects. The "supporters" purchase membership in return for ...
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Almodovar to honour Allen at San Sebastian
Pedro Almodovar is confirmed to present Woody Allen with theDonostia Award on Friday night at the inaugural ceremony of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 17-25).Allen's new comedy Melinda& Melinda opens the festival, and the director will hold a pressconference earlier in the day.Also at the inaugural ceremony, UK film ...
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Honeymooners launch for Film Dublin
The IrishFilm Board has backed the launch of a location shooting initiative, FilmDublin, modelled on the Office of Film in the New York Mayor's Office.The movecomes just as production begins in Dublin on The Honeymooners, a $30mNew York-set comedy for Paramount. The Honeymooners has already testedthe initiative by closing key ...
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Evil enters international chart
Day-and-datelaunches in Japan and Denmark saw action-horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse the highest new entry on theinternational chart this week at sixth.The 2002 originaloutperformed its domestic gross internationally with 61% ($62m) of its $102mworldwide total coming from international territories.Its weekend grossof $4.7m was not enough, however, to dethrone BVI's The ...
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Senator saved as creditors agree restructuring plan
The future of SenatorEntertainment has become much brighter after the producer-distributor's100-plus creditors agreed unanimously at a meeting in Berlin today (Wednesday)to accept the insolvency restructuring plan drawn up by the court-appointedreceiver Rolf Rattunde.Rattunde said that the plan meant that the filmconcern's existing range of services - encompassing production, distributionand world ...
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Moore's Sicko gathers buyer heat
An outline of Michael Moore's next documentary has been sentout to international distributors by Moore's agency Endeavor - and isgenerating heat amongst major buyers at the Toronto Film Festival.Entitled Sicko, it is his much-discussed study of thehealthcare system in the United States and Moore recently explained his agenda in making ...
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Wild Bunch wraps up Howl load of deals
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has secured a couple of high profile Japanese and UKsales and a raft of Italian deals for its bulging Toronto slate.WildBunch closed a deal with Gaga Communications for Arnaud Desplechin's Rois Et Reine and with Comstock forMarziyeh Yeshkini's Afghanistan-set StrayDogs in Japan.Rois was also soldto Artificial ...
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Fortissimo sells Kidd's Love to Germany
Fortissimo secured its first everlicence deal with leading German indie distributor Tobis Filmkunst with thesale of Dylan Kidd's romantic comedy PS ILove You.The film, which premiered in Venicelast week, was also sold to Dendy for Australia and New Zealand and SandrewMetronome in Scandinavia.PS, which starsLaura Linney and Topher Grace, received ...
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Travolta, Berney, Braff, Mann among HFA honourees
More honorees have beennamed at this year's Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 18. John Travolta willreceive the Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award, distributor Bob Berney hasbeen named winner of the Hollywood Leadership Award and Zach Braff will receivethe award for Hollywood Breakthrough Director of the Year award.Michael Mann was namedHollywood director ...
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Tao, Emery promoted at Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures
Stephen Tao has beenpromoted to senior vice president, development, and Stephen Emery has beenpromoted to vice president of production/development at Gale Anne Hurd'sLA-based Valhalla Motion Pictures.Tao will oversee production,development and acquisitions of all projects including Valhalla's currentproject Aeon Flux starringCharlize Theron and Frances McDormand. Tao will work in collaboration withEmery ...
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Taxi 2 breaks first week record in France
Arp Selection's Taxi 2 has broken another French box office record, selling more tickets in its first week - 3.48 million - than any other film in French box office history.The record was previously held by another French title - Gaumont's The Visitors 2 : The Corridor of Times, which ...
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Williamson gets senior vp stripes at Warner International
David Williamson has beennamed senior vice president, finance, at Warner Bros Pictures International.He will increase his currentfocus on the financial reporting for the division's expanding local productionactivities and will oversee its implementation of the SAP system worldwide inaddition to assuming responsibility for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.He will continue to ...
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Palm seizes To's Breaking News for US
Renewing its relationship with Hong Kong director Johnnie To, PalmPictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to To's BreakingNews.Palm plans a theatrical release sometime in 2005 followed by a DVDrelease on the Palm Pictures label later in the year.Produced by Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd. and sold by Media Asia, ...
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Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Dir:Kerry Conran. US. 2004. 106mins.Thespirit and look of vintage science fiction meets the digital technology ofscience fact in Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow, an eccentricallyretro-futuristic adventure whose live actors appear in a world almost entirelycreated on computers. The mix of old and new produces some mightily impressivevisuals and ...
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ITALY 16 September
01 Distribution's TheHouse Keys (Le Chiavi di Casa) opened on a wide 239 screens in Italy andearned Euros 726,000 - an all-time record for an Italian film launched at theVenice Film Festival.Three other Venice titles also opened in Italy last weekend,albeit less impressively: 20th Century Fox's Man On Fire, which ...
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NORWAY 16 September
Thehighly anticipated release of actor Aksel Hennie's directing debut UNO lived up to its expectations thisweekend, where it took the top spot with a impressive NOK77,07 average on its37 prints. The film had highly favorable reviews and screened at the filmfestival in Toronto this week. Hennie also plays the lead ...
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P.S.
Dir: Dylan Kidd USA. 2004.103mins.It was never going to beeasy for New York independent director Dylan Kidd to sustain the motor-mouthedenergy of his sharp, sardonic, stylish debut, Roger Dodger, which netteda shoal of awards (including the Lion of the Future award in Venice two yearsago), before going on to become ...
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SWEDEN 16 September
It was anunusually uneventful weekend at the Swedish box-office this weekend as all thefilms on the top six kept their position. That meant Kay Pollak's Saa Som IHimmelen stayed second after Shrek 2, but it actually improved its alreadysolid run taking a this weekend's best screen average of $5,496 from ...
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UK Production Listings - 16 September 2004
UK LISTINGSPRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact: Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 20 7494 1400DOA (DEAD OR ALIVE)(Impact Pictures) Budget: $20m. Backers: Constantin Film(Ger). Action/adventure. Based on Tecmo's best-selling video game franchise.Exec prod: Robert Kulzer. Prods: Jeremy Bolt, Paul WS Anderson. Dir: CoreyYuen. Scr: JF Lawton.Contact: Impact Pictures, (44) 20 7419 ...