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Dunaway to chair Festival de Paris jury
Faye Dunaway will chair the jury of the 15th Festival de Paris film festival (March 27 - April 3), which specialises in first and second efforts. Nine titles will be competing this year, including two US titles - Alison Maclean's Jesus' Son and Marc Levin's White Boys - France's Drole ...
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Focus Features rings changes for global production role
Acorporate reshuffle is underway at Focus Features as the production andacquisitions departments move closer together to prepare for the company'sexpansion into worldwide production.Underthe company's new president of production John Lyons, several executives willassume extra responsibilities, including Amy Kaufman, the executive vicepresident of acquisitions and co-productions, who becomes executive vicepresident of ...
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Sweden's Daybreak lines up for Berlin competition
Bjorn Runge's Daybreak (Om Jag Vänder Mig Om) is to play in the main competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15), the first Swedish film selected since Bo Widerberg's swansong All Things Fair in 1996.Daybreak was last week nominated in record eight categories for the Guldbagga Award's, Sweden's ...
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AUSTRALIA
The Return Of The King retained top spot in its third week, though its screen average -- A$8,429 -- dropped 50% and is now only the eighth highest. It's those 450 screens nationwide that have pushed the King's total box office takings to A$33,725,980.The three newcomers scored well: Something's Gotta ...
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DENMARK
While The Return Of The King remained untouchable at the top of the Danish box-office chart, new releases S.W.A.T. and Calender Girls hit the local youth film Scratch the hardest, pushing it to sixth, while Scary Movie 3 dropped 49.5% but remained in third.Not much else changed in the ...
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Valentin leads Argentine Condor de Plata nods
Valentin, Argentina's official entry for the Oscars, swept the nominations for the country's own Academy awards, the Condor de Plata. Alejandro Agresti's semi-autobiographical comedy/drama grabbed 12 Condor de Plata nominations.Now in its 52nd year, the awards are bestowed by the Association of Film Critics of Argentina. The ceremony is scheduled ...
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Finnish Jussi awards favour Upswing
Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) topped the list of nominations for the Finnish film organisation Filmiaura's coveted Jussi awards.Upswing's ten nominations include best film, best director, best actor/actress, script and music. Last year's most popular film at the box-office, Aleksi Makela's Bad Boys - A True Story, (with ...
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Russia's Gorky Studios to be privatised
Russia's second largest film production facility, Gorky Studios in central Moscow, has taken the first step on the road to privatisation.The formerly state owned studios have been restructured as a joint-stock company with the state owning a blocking stake, 25% plus one of the shares, while the remaining shares will ...
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SWEDEN
The Return Of The King stayed on top, but the fight for the second spot this weekend at the Swedish box-office was fierce with Hollywood's action flick S.W.A.T. opening alongside Peter Lindmark's Swedish actioner Ranarna (The Robbers).However, it was clear that local audiences preferred home made thrills as the latter ...
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Bertolucci's Dreamers to get NC-17 US release
Fox Searchlight is to release the uncut version of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers in February, reviving the dormant NC-17 rating due to its graphic and explicit sexual content.The move marks the first time in its history that Fox Searchlight has released an NC-17-rated film, and the first time a studio ...
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UPC creates Euro giant with SBS takeover
Europe is to get its first pan-European broadcast and Internet giant following the announcement that Dutch cable giant UPC has agreed terms for the acquisition of SBS Broadcasting. The deal, which has yet to be finalised and may require regulatory approval, values SBS at some $2.8bn in total. UPC's offer ...
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15 films to compete for Max Ophuels Prize
Venice prize-winner Schultze Gets The Blues by Michael Schorr, Ruth Mader's Un Certain Regard entry Struggle and Damir Lukacevic's Heimkehr are among 15 films by the new generation of German-speaking filmmakers selected to compete for this year's Max Ophuels Prize in Saarbruecken (January 26 - February 1).This year's lineup sees ...
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Walking On Water to get world premiere at Berlin
Eytan Fox's new Israeli film, Walking On Water, will receive its world premiere at the Berlinale Panorama, the most natural place for it to open, since half of the picture was shot in the German capital last year.A Mossad agent befriends two German siblings, a brother and a sister, in ...
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Vivendi reduces stake in UGC
As expected, Vivendi Universal has reduced its stake inFrench major UGC.Following an agreement signed on December 31, 2003, Vivendiwill reduce its holdings in UGC from 58% to 40% resulting in a 56.2% ownershipfor UGC president Guy Verrechia and his family.According to a statement released by Vivendi on Tuesday (Jan13) evening, ...
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Seabiscuit declared biggest selling drama DVD of all time
Seabiscuit has become the biggest selling drama DVD of all timeaccording to Universal Studios Home Video (USHV), recording combined sales ofmore than 6.5million DVD and VHS units totaling more than $135m in four weeks.The title got off to a greatstart when it went on release on Dec 16 last year, ...
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Seabiscuit declared biggest selling drama DVD of all time
Seabiscuit has become the biggest selling drama DVD of all timeaccording to Universal Studios Home Video (USHV), recording combined sales ofmore than 6.5million DVD and VHS units totaling more than $135m in four weeks.The title got off to a greatstart when it went on release on Dec 16 last year, ...
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Art directors to honour animation guru Lasseter
Oscar-winning animation wunderkindJohn Lasseter, whose directing credits include Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2, will receive the Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award at the 8thAnnual Art Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Feb 14.The honour is occasionallygranted to an individual 'whose body of work has richly ...
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Studio epics dominate ASC nominations
The AmericanSociety of Cinematographers (ASC) has thrown its weight behind theseason's epic studio releases with the announcement of nominees for the18th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Feb8.The fivenominees are Russell Boyd for Master And Commander: The Far Side Of TheWorld, Andrew Lesnie forThe Lord Of The ...
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Mundorff joins Landmark Theatres as vp and head film buyer
Ted Mundorff hasbeen named vice president and head film buyer at Landmark Theatres, where hewill be responsible for all booking and buying in the chain's circuit.Mundorff waspreviously at Pacific Theatres for 26 years and served most recently as vice presidentof film.He is credited with developing and implementing thehighly successful Grove ...