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Radar Pictures buys stake in C.O.R.E.
Ted Field's Radar Pictureshas acquired a minority stake in Toronto-based visual effects group C.O.R.E. ina move to boost his production company into the forefront of computer-generatedfeature animation. C.O.R.E, which is currently creating an animated film for amajor studio under tight security, is considered one of North America's leadersin visual effects. ...
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Fall, Clark, Pereira join Fortissimo's sales canon
Jim Fall, director of Trick and The LizzieMaguire Movie, has signed on to direct the English-language remake of1999 Thai comedy 6IXTYNIN9. International sales are handled by FortissimoFilm Sales, which has also boarded the next pictures by Larry Clark and Spain's Manuel Gomez Pereira.The $10m film is to be produced by ...
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TLA Releasing honours Honore's Ma Mere
TLA Releasing picked up USDVD and TV rights to Christophe Honore's erotic drama Ma Mere atToronto. Starring Isabelle Huppert, the film is adapted from the novel byGeorges Bataille about a woman leading her teenage son into a world of drugs,alcohol and sex-drenched debauchery. TLA director of acquisitions Richard Wolffnegotiated for ...
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Zhang Yimou teams with Japan's Ken Takakura on next film
Chinese movie legend ZhangYimou, in Toronto to promote his latest martial arts spectacle House OfFlying Daggers, is returning to morepersonal drama for his next film which will be a starring vehicle for Japanesefilm veteran Ken Takakura.Takakura, the 75 year-oldactor famous as the "Japanese Clint Eastwood", is well-known to westernaudiences from ...
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Ryder, Lehmann reteam on stoner comedy Weed
Winona Ryder is reuniting with her Heathers director MichaelLehmann on a new comedy called Weed which Sideways producer Michael Londonwill produce. International sales agent Arclight Films is talking the film upto buyers at Sundance; Cinetic Media is handling domestic rights.The movie is a hip comedy with the same cult trappings ...
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Resident Evil sequel roars to the top of the box office
The shock of a new seasonfound two premiering thrillers scaring up business with Resident Evil:Apocalypse leading the way forScreen Gems with an estimated $24.2 million and New Line's Cellular trailing with about $10.5 million.However, overall businesswas soft and the weekend tally is unlikely to generate more than $78 million inticket ...
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Shark Tale
Dirs:Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, Rob Letterman. USA. 2004. 90mins.Afterbugs and monsters, the DreamWorks versus Disney/Pixar tit-for-tat animationgrudge match has moved on to fish. The latest blow to be struck by theDreamWorks camp, Shark Tale is a colourful, fast-paced, jive-talkingseabed caper that continues the scattershot, kids-and-adults targeting of muchmajor studio animation ...
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London Production Fund launches 2000 funding round
The London Film and Video Development Agency (LFVDA) has launched the first round of the London Production Fund for 2000. The fund provides grants of up to £15,000 to animation, short film or documentary projects from independent filmmakers living or working in London.Backed by Carlton Television, FilmFour and UK film ...
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Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru No Ugoku Shiro)
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki.Japan. 2004. 117mins.Japanese animation geniusHayao Miyazaki's follow-up to the international critical and box-office hit SpiritedAway is as visually inventive and unremittingly charming as itspredecessor. By turns funny, exhilarating and touching, it lacks only onething: the spiritual and metaphysical depth that made Spirited Away sucha haunting experience.While this will ...
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Dir: Alexander Witt. US/Canada/UK. 2004. 94 mins.More zombies, more screen time for Milla Jovovich and the addition ofsome crucial characters from the games themselves are the draw in this sequelto 2002 video game adaptation ResidentEvil. The new elements may not add many non-gamers to the audience for whatis otherwise a ...
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HONG KONG 13 September
M. NightShyamalan's The Village, distributedby Buena Vista's local partner Intercontinental Film Distributors, narrowlybeat local production Six Strong Guysto the top of the chart with US$506,626 from 27 screens.Filmko's Six Strong Guys grossed US$488,264 from30 screens. Directed by Barbara Wong Chun-chun, the film is a comedy about theproblems that confront modern, ...
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Layer Cake
Dir:Matthew Vaughn. UK 2004. 100minsTrue,the directing debut of Matthew Vaughn - who made his name as producer of GuyRitchie's crime capers - is indeed a British gangland thriller. But it carriesfew traces of the saloon-bar jokiness that was Ritchie's trademark in Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Although slick ...
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NEW ZEALAND 13 September
The Villageconvincingly outsold Dodgeball whenthey both launched last weekend, but the 20th Century Fox comedy turned thetables on its BVI competitor second time around. Dodgeball took NZ$275,743 from 50 screens to top the charts and The Village took NZ$234,410 from 56screens.To add insult to injury, TheVillage could only claim fourth ...
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AUSTRALIA 13 September
The only two openers in the chart were 20th Century Fox's Dodgeball and UIP's Terminal and both were among the top five films of the weekend. DodgeBall took A$2,343,763 from 255screens to lead the chart with an impressive screen average of A$9,191 and Terminaltook A$1,275,197 from 205 screens to come ...
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Re-edited 2046 to open Pusan Festival
The new re-edited version of Wong Kar-wai'slong-gestating 2046 has been selected as the opening film of the 9thPusan International Film Festival.2046 firstplayed at Cannes in May. A re-edited version was destined to screen atEdinburgh last month. But it was pulled at the last minute because Wong wasstill completing work on ...
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Filmax adds Deadly Cargo to sales slate
Following its pick-up this week of Hypnos, FilmaxInternational has acquired worldwide distribution rights to another Spanishthriller, Deadly Cargo (Camara Oscura).Judging by Filmax's two new pick-ups in two days, theSpanish industry looks to have a dynamic new sales house to go to, particularlyfor genre product. Filmax is best known internationally for ...
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Rousselet cranks up French crime caper
ProducerPhilippe Rousselet has begun production on his latest film, Les Parrains,in Paris. The film is directed by Frederic Forestier, who is best known for hiswork on hit film Dead Weight (Le Boulet)The Euros 12m comedy stars Jacques Villeret, Gerard Lanvinand Gerard Darmon as a trio of former mafioisi who come ...
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Miike cooks up Soup as English debut
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike - who unveiled hislatest bloodcurdling epic Izo in Venice last week - is to make the jumpinto English-language film-making.Miike hassigned up to direct Dragon's Fin Soup, an adaptation of the novella byThai writer S.P. Somtow for Paris-based production and distribution outfit, DesFilms. The film is ...
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Production report: Hong Kong stages a comeback
The arrival of US and European financiers and the dot.com frenzy ripping through Asia has allayed fears that the Hong Kong film industry is on its way out. With rampant video piracy and declining box-office receipts during the late 1990s, industry analysts predicted a doom and gloom scenario. But the ...
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Imax in Deep partnership with Warners
Imax and Warner Bros are jointly producing Denizens Of The Deep (working title), to be directed and filmed by Howard Hall.A follow-up to 1991's Into The Deep, Imax's first 3D underwater film, the new film will provide a giant-sized view of exotic undersea creatures.Produced by Toni Myers, executive produced by ...