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Vanity Fair
Dir: Mira Nair US/UK2004 140 minsAdapting classic Nineteenth Century novels for the screenis invariably a thankless task. If filmmakers are too brutal paring down bookswhich run to hundreds of pages, they risk straining out the wealth of detailand description which makes the originals memorable in the first place. Ifthey're not ...
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Danish broadcaster TV3 backs first ever feature
MTG owned Nordic broadcaster TV3 has backed its first everfeature film, the romantic comedy Nynne, which starts shooting inCopenhagen from Oct 18.The $2.4m (DKK14,5m)project, which is based on the local bestseller Nynne's Diary,has had a number of different producers, writers and directors attached overthe year, but now heads for the ...
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AusFILM recruits Fox Studio Australia chief
Fox Studios Australia chief executive Michael Harvey hasbeen named deputy chair of AusFILM, the organisation responsible for attractinginternational production to Australia.Ian Robertson, of Sydney law firm Holding Redlich, remainschair.Two new board members have also been appointed: Helene Nicolfrom Melbourne-based television commercials production house Great SouthernFilms, and Greg Smith, director of ...
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UGC acquires Gaumont's Antwerp multiplex
French exhibition giant UGC is buying rival Gaumont's 17-screen multiplex in Antwerp, Belgium for $22m (FFr150m), as part of its Europe-wide expansion plan kickstarted by the acquisition of the UK's Virgin circuit last year.UGC currently has two multiplexes in Brussels but plans to increase this number to five by next ...
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01 Distribution in Flux with acquisitions trio
Exactly three years after it launched its 01 Distributionlabel at the Venice Film Festival, Rai Cinema is lining-up what it describes asits hottest slate to date.New acquisitions include Lakeshore's Sci-Fi movie AeonFlux, which Charlize Theron was shooting inGermany until she suffered a neck injury a few days ago, forcing the ...
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The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) review
Dir: Alejandro Amenabar.Spain. 2004. 127mins.Though Alejandro Amenabar's new film screened only athird of the way into the Venice festival, the gut feeling after the earlypress screening on the Lido was that we had just been watching the Leone D'Oro.Still only 32, Amenabar proves with this moving study of a quadraplegic ...
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...as Japanese enfant terrible aims to rival Potter
Japan's Kadokawa Pictures is to remake the 1968 YoshiyukiKuroda hit The Big Spook War (Yokai Daisenso) with director TakashiMiike at the helm.Announcing the film at the Kadokawa Daei Studio, Kadokawapresident Tsuguhiko Kadokawa said it was the first instalment in a series thatwill "rival Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings ...
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Lido laggards plunge Venice into chaos
There could hardly be a more telling sign of the glamour overload on the Lido this year than watching Johnny Depp work the crowds in front of the red carpet at the bleary eyed time of 2.15 am just before the screening of Miramax's Finding Neverland, which started around two ...
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Riddick raises int'l total to $44m
The Chronicles Of Riddick added $6m through all distributors at the weekend on2,100 screens in 22 territories for a $44m international cumulative total. TheUIP-only total comes to $30.5m and there are six territories still to open.The chief highlight was a$2.4m first place launch in Germany on 396 screens. In a ...
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Garfield is top cat in Spain with $4m launch
Fox International's Garfieldenjoyed a superb $4m number one launch including previews on 349 screens inSpain at the weekend, the highlight of an $8.4m weekend haul from 3,406 screensin 41 markets that raised the comedy's international running total to $77.7m.Dodgeball grossed $2.6m on 564 screens for $10.6m. It added$2.1m on 314 ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero remains top over dismal holiday weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Hero stays top over feeble Labor Day Weekend
Miramax's epic Heroremained the number one picture over Labor Day Weekend, beating off thenon-existent challenge of a quartet of wide releases in one of the most anaemicend-of-summer holiday weekends in recent history.Hero added an estimated $11.5m in its second weekend toraise its running total to $35.2m, while Paramount's comedy Without ...
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Wild Bunch takes stake in French distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French groupPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces through theatrical distributionoutfit Pan-Europeenne Edition.Pan-Europeenne Edition will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. Tirel's title will bedeputy managing director. The rest ...
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Wild Bunch acquires distributor Pan Europeene
French sales company Wild Bunch and French distributorPan-Europeenne Films are joining forces to create a new theatrical distributionoutfit to be known as Pan-Europeenne Edition.The new company, will be majority owned by Wild Bunch and run byPan-Europeenne chief Philippe Godeau along with former StudioCanal executiveJean-Philippe Tirel, who recently joined Wild Bunch. ...
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Lido laggards plunge Venice into further chaos
There could hardly be a more telling sign of the glamour overload on the Lido this year than watching Johnny Depp work the crowds in front of the red carpet at the bleary eyed time of 2.15 am just before the screening of Miramax's Finding Neverland, which started around two ...
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THINKFilm acquires acclaimed Brothels doc
Adding to its list of recentpick-ups, Toronto-based THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to BornInto Brothels directed by RossKauffman and Zana Briski.The film, which premiered atSundance 2004 and won the documentary audience award, documents the lives ofchildren born into the squalor of Calcutta's red-light district. Briski, aphotographer, gave each ...
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Syrian Bride wins top honours at Montreal Film Festival
Eran Riklis' The SyrianBride (Hacala Hasurit) took top honours as the 28th MontrealWorld Film Festival wrapped up on September 6. As well as the Grand Prix of theAmericas, the Israel-France-Germany coproduction won the Audience Award, theFIPRESCI prize and the Ecumenical Prize.The film tells the story ofa young Druze woman whose ...
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IFTA takes space at Le Merigot for first Nov AFM
The American Film Market(AFM) has expanded its exhibitor space to include offices in the Le MerigotHotel adjacent to the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel for its first Nov eventwhich runs Nov 3 to 10.The move, say marketorganizers the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), is inresponse to demand by potential ...