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Alliance Atlantis buys Canadian rights to 9/11
Bob and Harvey Weinstein'sfledgling Fellowship Adventure Group has sold all Canadian rights to MichaelMoore's Fahrenheit 9/11 toAlliance Atlantis.Alliance Atlantis willrelease the film theatrically across Canada on Jun 25, the same day the PalmeD'Or winner is due to be released in the US through Fellowship Adventure Group,Lions Gate and IFC Films."We ...
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Roadside plans pre-election release for same-sex marriage doc
RoadsideAttractions has picked up North American rights to Jim de Seve's timelysame-sex marriage documentary Tying The Knot and plans to release it in October priorto the 2004 Presidential election.The picture was produced by 1,049 Films and chroniclesthe last three years of the battle for legalisation waged by gays and lesbians,who ...
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Wellspring closes eight more Tarnation sales
Wellspring hassold all rights to Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation in eight territories, including the keymarkets of France, Italy and Japan.The documentarysold to Nippon Herald in Japan, Cinema Nouvelle Generation Distribution inFrance, Mikado Film in Italy, Seville Pictures in Canada, Lumiere in Benelux,Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia ...
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Animation director Selick aligns with Vinton Studios
LA-based animation house VintonStudios has signed award-winning film-maker Henry Selick as supervisingdirector.Selick will play a key role on Vinton's creative team as theanimation studio moves into feature film production.Having joined the company on May 17, Selick will set aboutdirecting the studio's CG short Moongirl and develop features.Selick'sdirecting credits include Tim ...
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Fox International hires new evp of creative advertising Camp
Michael Camp has been named executive vice president of creativeadvertising at Fox International.Camp will be responsible for creating and executing all creativeadvertising campaigns for the studio's domestic and international theatrical andhome entertainment divisions.Jim Darbinian, senior vice president of creative advertising, andvice president Ann Murphy will report directly to Camp, whose ...
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OZ AND NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - June 10
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LISTINGS - June 10PRE PRODUCTIONDECEMBER BOYS(Becker Films) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, South AustralianFilm Corporation. Int'l sales: MBM (German-speaking territories), AuraEntertainment (rest of world). Dist: Becker (Aust/NZ). Drama. Four orphans gofor a holiday by the sea. Friendships are tested and new alliances made whenrumours emerge that ...
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Chris Columbus to direct first Harry Potter film
Chris Columbus has been chosen by Warner Bros. to direct the first of the Harry Potter book adaptations, closing the chapter on one of the most competitive Hollywood job contests in recent memory.Columbus, director of such commercially successful family films as Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire, is expected to begin ...
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Oz production awaits fresh cash injection
Mark Eder mortgaged his house in order to direct his debutfeature Twists Of Fate, which he alsoco-wrote and is now editing, after being unable to secure any other sort offinancing or to find distributors that would take him or his film seriously.Eder lives in regional Australia and works the early ...
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The Stepford Wives
Dir: Frank Oz. US. 2004.93mins.The third filmedadaptation of the Ira Levin thriller about suburban fembots on the rampage in afrosting-coated, master-planned community has been given an extreme makeoverredolent of Death Becomes Her, She-Devil and The Witches OfEastwick, forgettable female-driven star vehicles with limited substanceand depth, too many garish special effects ...
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Garfield The Movie
Dir: Peter Hewitt. US 2004.80minsHe is one of the mostrecognisable comic strip characters in the world today - a fat, slovenly,self-satisfied but lovable orange furball named Garfield - and he is the latesttwo-dimensional creature to star in his own live action/computer generatedfilm. But this fat cat won't generate half the ...
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The Chronicles Of Riddick
Dir:David Twohy. US. 2004. 119mins.It'snot just the budget that is bigger on this sequel to Pitch Black, themodestly scaled sci-fi hit from writer/director David Twohy that four years agoset Vin Diesel on the road to stardom. In the $120m Chronicles Of Riddick,cult favourite Twohy fulfils the requirements of a summer ...
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Spanish industry unites against pirates
Spain's entire audiovisual sector has banded together tolaunch a fully-fledged attack on the pirates which it claims cost the industryEuros 700 million in 2003.But evenas the ICAA film institute, the producers lobby FAPAE, the authors rights'collection society EGEDA and anti-piracy body FAP were announcing details of anad campaign to drive ...
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Video Island wins $10.7m funding injection
UK online DVD rental company Video Island has secured asecond round of investment funding worth $10.7m (£6m) led by Cazenove PrivateEquity.Initial investors Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures alsoparticipated in the second funding round.HilaryMeyrick, Investment Director at Cazenove Private Equity will join the VideoIsland board of directors.Video Island is currently working ...
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FRANCE 10 June
As with pretty much everywhere else it was released thisweek, the third go round for Harry Potterand his band of wizards landed at the top of the box office with a staggering2.5 million admissions.The Day After Tomorrowdropped to the second spot falling off a precipitous 55%, Troy followed suit by ...
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Senator unveils details of bankruptcy rescue plan
The restructuring of German producer/distributorSenator Entertainment could be completed by the end of September, according toplans which will be presented at an extraordinary shareholders assembly nextweek by the court-appointed receiver Rolf Rattunde.The restructuring plan would, in a first step,see the shareholders agreeing to a capital reduction of 90% in order ...
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Working Title finds its Darcy
Working Title Films hasfinally found its Darcy. The UK powerhouse has cast rising British actorMatthew Macfadyen as the arrogant but eligible male lead in its upcoming JaneAusten adaptation Pride And Prejudice.Macfadyen will star oppositeKeira Knightley, who plays the central Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. The other Bennet sisters will include TheLibertine and ...
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Kaufman to bring Sunshine to Karlovy Vary
The39th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July2-10) hasattracted a number of celebrity guests to this year's event.Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is expected to present MichelGondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, which screens in theHorizons sidebar, while screen veterans Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel willintroduce the films in ...
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Canal Plus joins Paramount on Travolta comedy
Canal Plus Image, the film production and distribution affiliate of European media giant Canal Plus, has partnered with Paramount Pictures to co-produce and co-finance big budget comedy Numbers starring John Travolta.Paramount will handle distribution in North America and Asia with Canal Plus Image handling theatrical, video, pay and free television ...
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Italian producers await frozen state funds
GianniProfita, the head of the Italian government's Film Department, has declaredthat the country's new film law will be implemented 'within weeks',thereby freeing funds for Italian production which has stagnated in recentmonths.Italianproducers have recently complained that the state film commission has not metfor months to greenlight local films for state funding. ...
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Early audience demand for Fahrenheit has echoes of Passion fever
In a move reminiscent of the demand that engulfed Mel Gibson's ThePassion Of The Christearlier this year, the US distributors of Fahrenheit 9/11 have set up a freephone number andwebsite to handle group and advance ticket sales.The toll-free number for the group sales programme began operatingon Jun 7, advising callers ...