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NEW ZEALAND 28 September
There were two opening films in the top three on theweekend. A Shark Tale took NZ$587,383from 52 screens to claim the top spot on behalf of UIP and A Cinderella Story grossed NZ$184,805 from 35 screens for Roadshowto grab third place honours.The third film that opened over the weekend and ...
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Cinecitta eyes expansion into Africa, Eastern Europe
Rome's Cinecitta Studios is aggressively pursuing itsplans for expansion and, after buying two Italian studios, is soon set to moveinto Eastern Europe and North Africa."We are nowlooking for a winter studio with mountains in Eastern Europe and a summerstudio with a desert in Morocco or Tunisia," Cinecitta Studios director ofmarketing ...
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NY tax credit lures Producers to Brooklyn mega-studio
Mel Brooks' $45-$50m musicalrevival of his 1968 classic The Producers will become the first major film production to shoot at New York'sgigantic new Steiner Studios, the purpose-built studio backlot about to openacross 15 acres of former shipbuilding yards on the Brooklyn waterfront.Steiner owes its success inenticing the movie version of ...
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Mainframe to produce CGI animated feature with Tony Hawk
Vancouver-based MainframeEntertainment has entered into an agreement with celebrity skateboarder TonyHawk to produce a CGI animated feature.Tentatively titled TonyHawk in "Boom Boom Goes The Circus",the direct-to-video release will be handled worldwide by Mainframe's majorshareholder IDT Entertainment. IDT Entertainment is a subsidiary of NewJersey-based IDT Corporation, an international telecom, entertainment andtechnology ...
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Arclight takes on sales to Devlin's Librarian TV movie
Arclight Filmshas acquired international sales rights to action adventure The Librarian, the first television feature to beproduced by Dean Devlin, who created Stargate and wrote Independence Day and Universal Soldier.Arclight willrepresent The Librarianat Mipcom and AFM and it will be broadcast in the US on Dec 5 on Turner NetworkTelevision.Directed ...
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Team America gets after-hours opening slot at Denver
Trey Parker andMatt Stone's marionette terrorism satire Team America: World Police has landed a unique screening slot atthe upcoming 27th Starz Denver International Film Festival.The picturebecomes the first ever opening night after-hours special and will screen after Ray, the official opening night selection,on Oct 14. Paramount plans to release Team ...
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Hollywood Film Festival has Neverland, Bobby Long
The 2004Hollywood Film Festival will open on Oct 12 with the world premiere of WendyApple's film editing documentary The Cutting Edge and closes on Oct 17 with the USpremiere of Shainee Gabel's family drama A Love Song For Bobby Long starring John Travolta and ScarlettJohansson.All in all 16world premieres and ...
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Lions Gate adds Bobby Long to awards lineup
Lions Gate Filmshas picked up North American theatrical and pay TV rights from El CaminoPictures to Shainee Gabel's family drama A Love Song For Bobby Long.Lions Gate plans a platform release on Dec 29 and willexpand nationally in mid-January. The picture premiered at Venice recently.Written anddirected by Shainee Gabel, the ...
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Mueller re-confirmed as Venice artistic director
MarcoMueller has been re-confirmed as the artistic director of the Venice FilmFestival for a further three years.The Biennale appointed Mueller in March on a four-yearcontract, although it reserved itself the right to "carefully examine thefestival's results at the end of that year's edition."In spiteof the organisational chaos that marred the ...
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European Film Awards to fete Liv Ullmann
LivUllmann will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at thisyear's European Film Awards ceremony, to be held on December 11 in Barcelona.The Norwegian-born actress and director is best known forher collaborations with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including Persona,Scenes From A Marriage and Cries And Whispers, among others. Theirmost ...
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Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha Ham Parvaz Mikonand)
Dir/scr:Bahman Ghobadi. Iran-Iraq, 2004. 95mins.Fouryears after he first emerged on the international scene, first as an actor inSamira Makhmablaf's Blackboards, then as director of A Time ForDrunken Horses, Bahman Ghobadi returns with Turtles Can Fly.Thestory is again located in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan and deals once more withthe tragic misery of ...
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Kinovision fills out slate with Devil's Beauty
Kinovision, the start-up production arm of Spanish distributor Araba Films, has added $40m drama The Devil's Beauty to its rapidly expanding English-language production slate.Beauty, based on the novel by French writer Lauren Haloche and adapted by Enrique Urbizu, has been set up as a co-production with France's Orly Films ...
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Fox nabs Latin American rights to Sea Inside
Sogepaq has sold all Latin American rights to 20thCentury Fox on Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish-language hit The Sea Insidestarring Javier Bardem.LatinAmerica was the last remaining major territory to sell excluding Germany, forwhich Sogepaq says it is considering various offers.Seawon both the Grand Jury Prize and the best actor Volpi Cup at ...
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Brothers (Brodre)
Dir: Susanne Bier. Den. 2004. 110minsThe consequences of love and the personal trauma ofglobal conflict prove a potent combination in Brothers. The latestcollaboration between Open Hearts director Susanne Bier and screenwriterAnders Thomas Jensen takes the stuff of cheap melodrama and transforms it intoa heartfelt human drama.Once again their collaboration is ...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark To Finish
Dir/scr:Peter Greenaway. Neth-Sp-Lux-Hung-It-Ger-Russ. 2004. 120mins.Youmay, to paraphrase a football commentator, have thought it was all over. Wellit is now. The final part of Peter Greenaway's seven-hour Tulse Luperopus, From Sark To Finish, unrolled at the Venice Film Festival. Itssubdued reception came as a marked contrast to the anticipatory buzz that ...
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The Forgotten
Dir:Joseph Ruben. US. 2004. 90mins.Itstarts out feeling like a slightly soppy episode of The X-Files, withmotherly love replacing paranoia as the driving emotion. But teasing thriller TheForgotten gets perked up by a handful of judiciously used special effectsand a sense of mystery that could be described as Shyamalan-esque (as in ...
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HUNGARY 29 September
With a multitude ofnew releases hitting Hungarian cinemas last week, it was M. Night Shyamalan's The Village that grabbed the box officetop spot with over 32,000 admissions on a strong twenty-eight prints. The Terminal was able to maintain secondspot despite powerful challengers and Hungarian action-comedy Argo is still third and ...
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Polly opens top in Brazil for Universal
Universal's Along Came Polly opened top in Brazil through UIP at the weekend on anestimated $300,000 from 144 sites. The romantic comedy has grossed $8.2m fromAustralia, Brazil, Portugal, Singapore and Thailand and has a further 45countries to open.Focus Features' drama LostIn Translation held fast in Spain in itssecond week for ...
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Translation, Splendor take top screenplay prizes from WGA
Sofia Coppola won best original screenplay for Lost InTranslation and ShariSpringer Berman and Robert Pulcini took adapted honours for AmericanSplendor in the 56thAnnual Writers Guild Awards at the weekend.Saturday's (21) galaceremonies were split between the body's West and East divisions in Los Angelesand New York.Coppola won thebest screenplay Golden Globe ...
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Samurai soars with new grand total of $310m for Warner
Warner Bros' The Last Samurai added an estimated $8.4m with 1.4madmissions from 3,361 screens in 57 territories at the weekend for a $310.6minternational running total.This makes the Japan-set epic the third biggest R-rated picture ofall time, the second biggest Tom Cruise title ever behind Mission Impossible2 and fourth in theWarner ...