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Munich takes international crown with $15m weekend
Opening in more than 3,000sites in 30 markets at the weekend, Universal's thriller Munich was the number one title as it took an estimated $15mthrough UIP.The UK generated $2.2m from350 sites, France opened on $2.5m from 437, Germany produced $1.7m from 394,and Italy generated $1.6m from 304.Australia produced $1.4mfrom 172, ...
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Sola, Atrix take on worldwide rights to Swedish comedy Winners And Losers
German sales companies SolaMedia and Atrix Films have picked up worldwide rights to Swedish family comedy WinnersAnd Losers (pictured) directed byKjell Sundvall.The deal was concluded betweenSola Media's Solveig Langeland with Anders Landstrom of FilmlanceInternational. Langeland and Atrix Films' Beatrix Wesle will present the filmto buyers for the first time at ...
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Watson joins Zellweger, McGregor in Miss Potter
Emily Watson has joinedRenee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the high-powered cast of Chris Noonan's MissPotter, the biopic of UK children'sauthor Beatrix Potter which is scheduled to start shooting in the UK and theIsle Of Man in March.Watson will play Millie, thesister of McGregor's character, Norman Warne, Potter's publisher and ...
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Sundance closes with domestic and international deals
TheSundance Film Festival 2006 ended with a flurry as deals were closed on Half Nelson, Stay, TV Junkie, The Darwin Awards and Man Push Cart.Meanwhile buyers were closing in on Neil Burger's The Illusionist, Joey Lauren Adams' ComeEarly Morning, WashWestmoreland and Richard Glatzer's double Sundance winner Quinceanera, Hilary Brougher's Stephanie ...
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House Of Sand wins Sundance Alfred P Sloan prize
AndruchaWaddington's The House Of Sandhas been awarded the Sundance 2006 Alfred P Sloan Prize.The picture screened in theWorld Cinema Dramatic Competition and was also a recipient of the 2002 Sundance/NHKInternational Filmmakers Award supporting emerging directors.Waddington's story follows the life of a Brazilian woman spanning threegenerations. The awards committee praised the ...
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Filmgroup cancels flotation plans
UK video-on-demand operation filmgroup, the parent of theatrical distributor Redbus Film Distribution, has cancelled its float, the company confirmed on Wednesday.CEO Simon Franks cited market conditions for pulling the planned flotation on the London Stock Exchange on June 14.Filmgroup had already slashed how much it aimed to raise from the ...
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Ang Lee wins DGA honours for Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee took a giant stride towards the Academy Award at theweekend after collecting top honours from the Directors Guild of America (DGA)on Saturday night for Brokeback Mountain.Lee beat out George Clooney for Good Night, And Good Luck, Paul Haggis for Crash, Bennett Miller for Capote, and Steven Spielberg for ...
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Coixet's Secret Life takes Goyas for best film and director
IsabelCoixet's The Secret Life Of Words wasthe big winner atthe 20thanniversary edition of the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Awards, taking home fourstatues including best film, director and script.But unlikelast year, when Alejandro Amenabar made history with 14 Goyas for The SeaInside, this year's prizes were spread more evenly acrossnominees. Nosingle ...
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Katz, Moldo resurrect UK genre label Amicus
Gettysburgproducer Robert Katz is resurrecting UK genre company Amicus Entertainment withlongtime Amicus executive Julie Moldo following the acquisition of the companyfrom the estate of Amicus founder Max J Rosenberg.Katz intends to produce up to six titles a year featuring originalwork and projects inspired by the catalogue, which includes 1970s hits ...
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We Go Way Back takes top honours at Slamdance Film Festival
Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back has won the 2006 Grand Jury Award for best narrativefeature at the Slamdance Film Festival, while Philippe Diaz' Empire In Africa has taken corresponding documentaryhonours.The Grand Jury Prize for best narrative short went to Peter Templeman'sThe Saviour, and theaward for best documentary short was ...
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Atmosphere, Platinum team up on Killing Demons
Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Platinum Studios chiefScott Mitchell Rosenberg are teaming up to develop a film of Platinum's graphicnovel Killing Demons.Ascreenwriter will be announced shortly to adapt the story of a man whodedicates his life to tracking down the supernatural creatures that slaughteredhis family when he was a child.Canton ...
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Dowling to write, O'Connor to direct Paramount/MTV Films project Born To Rock
Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have hired Tim Dowling to adapt GordonKorman's novel Born To Rock, a coming-of-age story about a Republican student who enlists thesupport of his rock star father to get him into school.Gavin O'Connor will direct the project and Solaris' Greg O'Connorand Josh Fagin will co-produce.MTV Films' ...
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Hoffman, Witherspoon, Crash cast take top SAG awards
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the ensemble cast ofCrash were among thechief winners at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in LosAngeles yesterday evening.Hoffman won outstanding performance by a male actor in a leadingrole for his role as Truman Capote in Capote, while Witherspoon won correspondinghonours for ...
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Quinceanera
Dir/scr: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland. US.2006. 90mins.Winner of both the jury and audience prizes indramatic competition at Sundance this weekend, Quinceanera is a warm-heartedportrait of a trio of outcasts in the conservative Latino community of EchoPark, East Los Angeles, who pull together as a family of sorts. Glatzer and ...
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Destricted
Dirs: Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla,Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe,Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood. US/UK. 2006. 116mins.A series of short adult films by someof the most outre artists and film-makers on theworld stage today, Destrictedis an unusual project which brings pornographic imagery somewhere into the veryouter margins of the mainstream.Continuingthe trend ...
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Hungarian Film Week sticks by Istvan Szabo
Istvan Szabo'sRelatives will open the 37thHungarian Film Week tonight as scheduled despite the director's admission thathe was an informant for Hungary's communist-era secret police while a filmstudent in the 1950s.Magyar Filmunio, the promotionagency of the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation, would not comment onthe matter other than to say that ...
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Telefonica, Prisa reportedly in 'net merger talks
Putting a new spin on old rumours of merger talks between Telefonica-backed digital satellite TV platform Via Digital and Grupo Prisa's Canal Satelite Digital (CSD), Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that the two groups are negotiating the creation of a joint Internet and TV venture which could result in the ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin Slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life of football legend DiegoMaradona.Maradona, a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall fromgrace and eventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life offootball legend Diego Maradona.Maradona,a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall from grace andeventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand other ...
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Peckinpah's Pat Garrett to close Berlin
Thedirector's cut of Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy TheKid willclose this year's Berlinale on February 18.Announcingthe complete festival programme, festival directorDieter Kosslick revealed that Peckinpah'sfilm will be shown "out of competition" in a High Definition versionat the Berlinale Palast andUrania cinemas.Therewill also be other films shown in high ...