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Spacey, Neeson, Jackson, Linney among Palm Springs honourees
Kevin Spacey, Samuel LJackson, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney will each be honoured at the upcoming16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) awards gala on Jan8 2005.Spacey, who directed andstars in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea, will collect the Sonny Bono Visionary Award forActing, Directing and Producing, ...
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BVI's King Arthur crosses $150m international mark
King Arthur became the seventh Jerry Bruckheimerpicture released by the Walt Disney Company to pass $200m at the worldwide boxoffice at the weekend.The epic actionadventure added $795,000 through Buena Vista International (BVI) for a $149.7minternational running total, and has grossed $51.9m in domestic ticket sales.Miramax'sromantic comedy remake Shall We Dance ...
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Biondo joins Infinity in business and legal affairs
John Biondo hasjoined the Los Angeles-based production and financing company Infinity Media asvice president of business and legal affairs.Biondo will beresponsible for structuring and negotiating production and distribution dealswith domestic and international parties for all Infinity productions.His other dutiesinclude negotiating contracts with talent and other general corporate and legalmatters. Biondo ...
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New York Critics sets announcement date for Dec 13
The New York Film CriticsCircle will announce its 70th annual awards winners at New York's Muse Hotel onDec 13.Results will be postedonline immediately. On Jan 9 2005 the group will host its awards dinner at theRoosevelt Hotel in Manhattan."2004 has been a solid ifnot spectacular year,' newly elected vice chair ...
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Russia's first mall-based mini-plex opens doors
Moscow-based entertainment company Karo has opened Russia's first shopping centre-based mini-plex. The 700-seat, four-screen cinema opened its doors last week in the Ramstore shopping centre in a Moscow suburb. The site follows a model that has proved successful in Eastern European countries such as Hungary where cinemas are incorporated into ...
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Travolta to be 20th honouree at MOMI
John Travolta will be the 20th honoree to receive theMuseum of the Moving Image salute in New York City on Dec 5."John's stardomis based not only upon his enormous talent, but an irresistible combination ofunpretentious appeal, innate skill, intensity, humor and grace," museumdirector Rochelle Slovin said in a statement.The museum ...
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Amazon.com launches shorts series with Scott brothers' RSA
Amazon.com has partneredwith Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA USA production company and creativeagency Fallon Worldwide to launch the short film series Amazon Theatre.Starting today (9) andcontinuing each Tuesday for the next four weeks, Amazon will release a newtitle exclusively to Amazon.com customers, viewable either on the gateway pageor as a ...
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Shrek 2 DVD and video sales gross $185m since Friday
DreamWorks Animation reported yesterday (8) that domestic homevideo sales of Shrek 2grossed approximately $185m from 12.1m sales on DVD and VHS.Of the 12.1m units sold sincethe title was released on Nov 5, a record 11m were DVDs.The results dwarf those of the original, which sold more than 7min the first ...
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2% increase in buyers at AFM from Feb event, says IFTA
The number of buyers attending the 25th AFM climbed 2% against theprevious market in February, AFM organising body the Independent Film &Television Alliance (IFTA) reported.The final tally released yesterday (8) put the number of buyers at1,459 compared to 1,434 in February 2004. Buyers came from 637 companies.Several countries showed significant ...
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CTFDI's Resident Evil sequel shines in Spain, Italy openings
Horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse opened top in Spain at the weekend,grossing $2.5m on 349 screens through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).The result was 38% ahead of the 2002 original's debut. The pictureopened second in Italy on $1.7m on 250, some 73% ahead of Resident Evil. Overall the picture added ...
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TLA buys US DVD and video rights to Maura-starrer La Promesa
TLA Releasing has acquired US DVD/VHS rights at AFM to HectorCarre's psychological thriller La Promesa.The picture stars Carmen Maura as an abused wife who flees herhusband to start a new life as a nanny in what may be a haunted house.Maura is best known as the star of a number ...
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Glickman sounds the piracy alarm in his first public address
Dan Glickman, the new chief of the Motion Picture Association ofAmerica (MPAA), warned yesterday (8) that the US film industry faced calamityunless the studios tackled online piracy immediately."Illegal piracy of movies over the internet poses the greatestexisting threat to the motion picture industry," Glickman said in his firstpublic address since ...
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AUSTRALIA 9 November
Australia's tastefor Asian action films has matured to such a point that Zhang Yimou's Hero had no trouble at all topping thebox office chart on its opening weekend. It grossed A$2,258,748 from 165screens for BVI, giving it a screen average of A$13,689, which was far ahead ofanything else in the ...
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NEW ZEALAND 9 November
Taxi tried veryhard to accelerate past last weekend's box office topper Shall We Dance' but just missed out.Shall We Dance'took NZ$158,393 from 58 screens for BVI in its second weekend on releasecompared to Taxi's NZ$157,427 on 23less screens for 20th Century Fox. Taxi's screen average was the highest in the ...
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SWEDEN 9 November
Though AVPcouldn't shake As In Heaven from thetop of the Swedish chart, it did get a better screen average ($5,160) from its65 prints and grossed a solid $372,436.Collateralcontinued to do well on third, while PopularMusic dropped to sixth having grossed $2.4m and last week's new localrelease Fourteen Sucks (Fjorton Suger)to ...
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Warner, Lagardere pact for TV production push
Warner Bros International Television (WBIT)has struck a long-term alliance with Europe Audiovisuel, the audiovisual division of defence, communications and media conglomerate Lagardere.The two companies are to co-produce and co-finance English-language TV programmes for the international market, plus French-language TV drama aimed at the local market.WBIT and Europe Audiovisuel will share ...
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After The Sunset
Dir: Brett Ratner. 2004.US. 93mins.Brett Ratner's capercomedy After The Sunset is a plodding, lifeless affair set on a Bahamasresort island that aspires to the level of To Catch A Thief but barelymusters the cultivated glitz of star Pierce Brosnan's Thomas Crown Affairremake.Instead it serves up anexotic Caribbean locale and two ...
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Surviving Christmas
Dir: Mike Mitchell. US2004. 92minsAnybody hoping that thecomedy Surviving Christmas might resuscitate Ben Affleck's falteringcareer will be sorely disappointed. The very fact that DreamWorks did notrelease Mike Mitchell's feature in the heart of the season suggests they werehoping for some early holiday good cheer from audiences to buoy its chances.Sadly ...
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Kings And Queen (Rois Et Reine)
Dir. Arnaud Desplechin.France, 2004. 150mins.Arnaud Desplechin'sstatus as a hero of the French intelligentsia, whose charms remain largelyunfathomable to the rest of the world, continues with Kings And Queen,which is as delightful and infuriating as his previous work.For two-and-a-half hours hespins two parallel tales that eventually converge to become one. Along ...
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GERMANY 9 November
UIP's release of 7 Dwarves attracted another 1.2m cinemagoers in its second weekendto bring the admissions tally up to 3.5m so far and a box office gross of$26m-plus.The comedy, which is already now moresuccessful than Otto's previous film outings - Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm and Otto- Der Liebesfilm -, again ...