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Vitagraph acquires US theatrical to Los Angeles doc
Vitagraph Films has acquiredUS theatrical rights to Thom Anderson's documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself at the Toronto International Film Festival.The film had alreadypremiered in the US for a two-week engagement in New York on July 28 and hasnow qualified for consideration for a 2004 documentary feature Academy Award.The deal was ...
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Eros
Dir/scr: Wong Kar Wai,Steven Soderbergh Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay with Tonino Guerra).Fr-It-Lux. 2004. 108 mins."I wanted my name on aposter with Michelangelo Antonioni," is Steven Soderbergh's stated reason forcoming on board the three-part portmanteau film Eros. Having seen thefilm, one wonders if Soderbergh will now be asking distributors to take hisname ...
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UK government to unveil new tax support system
The UK government has movedto clamp down on excessive producer fees on British films.Under revamped co-productionguidelines published this month, the Department for Culture, Media & Sporthas targeted producer fees over 10% of production expenditure.Although producer fees over10% are not necessarily barred, the DCMS will automatically ask for additionalproof that they ...
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Undertow
Dir. David Gordon Green. US. 2004. 107mins.An intoxicating auteur spin on Southern Gothic, Undertow is a conventional adventurestory - good boys, bad uncle, hidden gold - that is told in a mostunconventional way. To say its his most commercial film yet isn't saying much,as the qualities that make it a ...
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Jolie to play cyberbabe Lara Croft in Tomb Raider
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie will play cyber action-babe Lara Croft in Paramount Pictures' live action version of the blockbuster video game Tomb Raider that will start shooting this summer at the UK's Pinewood Studios.Jolie, who recently won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Girl, Interrupted, beat out ...
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Hotel Rwanda
Dir: Terry George. 2004.S Afr-UK-It. 122mins.Terry George's gripping,fact-based Hotel Rwanda brings to mind both The Killing Fieldsand Schindler's List, but its low-key approach means it is unlikely tobecome as commercially successful as those two titles. That said, it did winthe Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival at the ...
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UK set to unveil new tax support system
The UK is set to unveil anew tax support system,according to reports over the weekend.The replacement to existingsupport under Section 48 is expected to be unveiled today (Tuesday, Sept 21). It is anticipated that it will be a basic 20% tax credit for production costs on films budgeted under£20m.The credit ...
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FRANCE 20 September
US filmsled the charge onto the top of the chart this week with the debut of The Bourne Supremacy and Catwoman in the number one and two spotsrespectively.Frenchcomedy Mensonges Et Trahisons openedat number 3 with a strong $6,497 per screen average. Hot festival title The Motorcycle Diaries from Braziliandirector Walter ...
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Film Sales Company takes on Hidden Flaws
Worldwide sales of Paulavan de Oest's Toronto film Hidden Flaws (Verborgen Gebreken) areto be handled by Andrew Herwitz's New York-based The Film Sales Company following a deal struckduring the last days of the festival.The film, adapted by Tamara Bos, from Renate Dorrestein's novel A CryingShame, is a family drama that ...
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Rio ready to roll with 2004 festival line-up
The Rio International Film Festival (Sept 23-Oct 7) hasunveiled its 2004 line-up, which features a selection of 300 films with astrong focus on Brazil and Latin America.The festival's World Panorama section features highlightsfrom festival favourites over the past year, including Pedro Almodovar's BadEducation, Alexander Payne's Sideways and Lukas Moodysson's AHole ...
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AUSTRALIA 20 September
At no time this year until now has there been eight openersin the top 20 list or five in the top 10. The Olympics can take some of thecredit for that, and it turned out to be a wise decision by distributors givenhow well the Australian team did.The only Australian ...
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Punto Y Raya named as Venezuelan Oscar contender
EliaSchneider's Punto y Raya (Step Forward) has been named as Venezuela'sofficial entry for best foreign language consideration in this year's Oscarrace.Thehighest grossing local film of the year in Venezuela, Punto Y Raya wasalso winner of the Rita Award for Best Picture at the recent 2004 Los Angeles,Latino Int'l Film Fest ...
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European Film Awards names 42 finalists
The European Film Academy has announced the 42 finalistsselected to compete for this year's 17th edition of the European Film Awards,to be celebrated on December 11 in Barcelona.Among thetitles are international festival favourites and local box office hits such as BadEducation, Ae Fond Kiss, 5 x 2, The Sea Inside, ...
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Boorman's Skull drives Civilian Content into profit
Buoyed by revenues from JohnBoorman's Country Of My Skull, media concern Civilian Content hasreported its first interim pre-tax profits.Civilian was forced topostpone reporting revenues from County Of My Skull last year whenproduction was delayed, a key factor in the company's £1.1 million pre-tax lossfor last year. But the AIM-listed outfitposted ...
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Smith to drive UK's£50m film training strategy
Alexander producer Iain Smith has been named as the new chairof the Skillset Film Skills Strategy Committee.The committee is in charge ofguiding the delivery of A Bigger Future - the £50m five year trainingstrategy for the UK film industry.Smith, who has sat on theFilm Skills Strategy Committee since it was ...
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New Euro TV powerhouse eyes US broadcasting stake
Pearson TV (PTV) and CLT-Ufa are to join forces, creating Europe's largest integrated production and broadcast group that now has its eye on North American broadcasting.Friday's merger announcement is the biggest yet in the rapid consolidation of the European television and new media sectors and was accompanied by an on-going ...
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Bernal to star in Gondry's The Science Of Sleep
HotMexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is to star in the next film by EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry.The Science Of Sleep will also star French actress Charlotte Gainsbourgand French actor-director Alain Chabat.Productionoutfit Partizan and French major Gaumont will co-produce The Science OfSleep.Thescript was written by Gondry and ...
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Lelouch billed for free Parisiens screenings
45,000people took advantage of free screenings of Claude Lelouch's Les Parisiensin France on Friday.The freescreenings were paid for by the director himself in an effort to combatdreadful reviews from most of France's leading media outlets.On Monday, Lelouch spoke tothe press and said that the free screenings had personally cost him ...
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Bavaria scores with pack of Bombon sales
Bavaria Film International hada busy Toronto with its shaggy dog story Bombon - El Perro whichratcheted up a pack of high profile sales.The film was licensed to TF1for France, Cinequanon for Japan, Pathe for the UK, A Film for Benelux, LevFilms for Israel, Audiovisual for Greece and Hopscotch for Australia. ...
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Mexican exhibitor signs three-screen deal with IMAX
Mexico City-based Cinepolisand IMAX have signed a multi-year agreement that will see three giant-screencinemas in the country.The exhibitor, the largestin Latin America, will retrofit an existing large format cinema at CinepolisPerisur in the capital city. The second and third theatres will be newadditions built onto existing multiplexes. Locations are pending. ...