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Banderas leads Andalucian film push
The AndalusiaFilm Commission has announced new incentives to attract more internationalshoots to the region with the support ofnative son Antonio Banderas, whois planning to shoot his next film as a director in Malaga this autumn.Together withthe Andalusian Tourist Board, the Film Commission (AFC) has unveiled a newthree-year plan to jointly ...
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Warhol set for major Vienna retrospective
Andy Warhol is to be givenone of the most comprehensive presentations of his cinematic ouevre to date atthis year's Vienna International Film Festival, the Viennale (October 14-26).Curated by theUS filmmaker and author Jonas Mekas in cooperation with the Filmmuseum, theretrospective will show more than 30 of Warhol's central works as ...
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Oz censor sparks spat with exhibitors, distributors
About 20 senior exhibitorsand distributors held an impromptu meeting on the final night (Aug 18) of theAustralian International Movie Convention, to express their anger over thepublic way they were criticised on the first day of the event.Des Clark, directorof the Office of Film & Literature Classification, pulled no punches earlyin ...
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40 Year-Old Virgin comes top at box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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Universal's 40 Year-Old Virgin comes top at box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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Universal's Virgin is dominant at US box office
Comedies continued to drawin the crowds over the weekend as Universal's R-rated The 40-Year-Old Virgin opened at number one on an estimated $20.6m.Launching in second placewas DreamWorks' thriller Red Eyeon $16.5m, while the British CG-animated family adventure Valiant opened through Disney in seventh place on adisappointing $6.1m. Fox's action romp ...
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The Island continues buoyant international run
Warner BrosPictures International's The Island maintained its status as the dominant overseas picture as itadded an estimated $12.4m over the weekend on more than 4,800 screens in 44markets for an $84.8m international running total.Leading thecharge was France, where the sci-fi adventure opened top on $3.4m from 640prints and drew approximately ...
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Magnolia Pictures acquires rights to The Pusher Trilogy
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North Americanrights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish underworld The Pusher Trilogy.The trio comprises Pusher, With Blood On My Hands, and The Angel Of Death. The first filmwrapped in 1999 and the trilogy first played together as a complete work at Toronto lastyear.The story interweaves gangster tales ...
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Suitors circle filmgroup following cancelled IPO
Filmgroup, the parent of UK theatrical distributor Redbus Film Distribution, is expected to spark interest from several companies in the cable and telecommunications sector following the cancellation of the video-on-demand company's flotation this week.Acquisitive UK cable company NTL is seen as a potential suitor for filmgroup but other companies may ...
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Linda Abrams promoted at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution
Linda Abrams has been promoted to senior vicepresident of Marketing and Maury Leitner to vicepresident of marketing at Warner Bros Domestic Cable Distribution (WBDCD).Abrams will continue to report directly to divisionpresident Eric Frankel and work closely with Warner Bros Television Group'sexecutive vice president of worldwide marketing Lisa Gregorian. Leitner will ...
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Production started on Kamala Films' debut feature Anamorph
Production has begun on new York-based KamalaFilms' debut feature and psychological thriller Anamorph, starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman and directed byH S Miller.Anamorph,which takes its name from a Renaissance painting trick involving perspective,centres on a damaged detective who investigates a series of killings that maybe the work of an ...
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Dark Lot Entertainment starts work on new horror feature
Stephen Susco, who adapted the English languagescreenplay of J-horror hit The Grudge,is getting into business with Odd Lot Entertainment's fledgling genre bannerDark Lot Entertainment.Odd Lot is producing Zero Dark Thirty, Susco's tale of a returning war veteran whosetranquil hometown is transformed by a series of bizarre events.Media 8 will commence ...
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Bronzes takes gold at French box-office
France has seen its all-time openingadmissions record fall to comedy Les Bronzes 3: AmisPour La Vie. The filmbecame the first title ever to take more than 3 million admissions in its firstweekend. The record was secured with 3,234,559 million tickets sold in itsfirst five days after releasing last Wednesday (February ...
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Glastonbury
Dir. Julien Temple. UK. 2005. 135 min.A tribute to the legendary UK pop musicfestival, Glastonbury achieves a state ofgrace rare in performance documentaries; you begin to feel you're in attendanceat this three-day marathon of music, mood-altering substances and mayhem. At135 minutes, it's a concert film that will test the endurance ...
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Thai production companies leave FNFAT to support Bangkok Film Festival
Threeleading Thai production companies, GMM Tai Hub, Five Star and RS Film, lastFriday quit the Federation of the National Film Association of Thailand (FNFAT)in support of the upcoming Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) whichstarts on 17 February.RightBeyond has also submitted its resignation on Monday while CM Film is understoodto be ...
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Lexington launches fund to develop UK projects
Lexington Film Management, a newcompany set up by the founders of London-based production company Golconda Films, is launching a UK film fund,The Lexington Film Fund LLP, to invest in development of British qualifyingfeature films. The fund seeks to raise $1.75m-$ 5.24m (£1m-£3m).Organizers said the fund will"target latter stage development projects," ...
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TF1 International heads for EFM at Berlin
TF1International is heading into the Berlin market with a slate of new films thatincludes the latest from Ma Vie En Rose director Alain Berliner, GoneFor A Dance and Philippe Calderon's wildlifeaction work The Besieged Fortress.In Dance,Vincent Elbaz stars as a family man who, unbeknownstto him, follows in his father and ...
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Muerer, Grosch to keynote European Film Finance Summit
Jens Meurer, partner in Germany's Egoli Tossell Film, and Andy Grosch, CEO ofFilm &Entertainment VIP Medienfonds Geschaftsfuhrun willkeynote Screen International's annual European Film Finance Summit, to be heldWednesday (February 8) at the Ritz Carlton in Berlin.Jonathan Olsberg of Olsberg SPI will chairthe event. Other speakersinclude Wild Bunch CEO Vincent Grimond, ...
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Ball named chairman of Ingenious Media Active Capital
TonyBall, the former CEO of British Sky Broadcasting, has been named the chairmanof Ingenious Media Active Capital (IMAC). IMAC namedNeil Blackley as its non-executive director. He was formerly the head of UK and European Media Research at Merrill Lynch. IMAC isthe media investment company that is intending to raiseup to ...
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Constantin grabs Hyde Park slate
German distributor Constantin Film has struck an output deal that gives it theatrical and video/DVD rights to a slate of films flowing from US producer Hyde Park Entertainment.The five-year deal, which gives Constantin rights in Germany and Austria, was concluded with KirchMedia, which as part of the Epsilon pact with ...