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City Lights, Intrinsic Values team for desert thriller Four Women
New York City-basedCity Lights Pictures will produce the thriller Four Women with Intrinsic Value Films, based on thecomic book by writer-illustrator Sam Kieth, who will direct from his ownscreenplay.Described by thefilmmakers as Open Water in the desert, Four Women involves a life-changing road trip thatturns sour for a group of ...
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10-strong delegation from Europe to attend AFI FEST under EFP auspices
Hungarian director NimrodAntal, Germany's Mennan Yappo and Denmark's Paprika Steen and are among adelegation of emerging European talent whose work will be showcased at theupcoming AFI FEST 2004 presented by Audi.Organised under the auspices of European Film Promotion, 10film-makers and actors will attend festival screenings of their pictures andQ&A session ...
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Alfie
Dir: Charles Shyer. US.2004. 103mins.Charles Shyer, whosecredits include the bland remake of Father Of The Bride and the periodmisfire The Affair Of The Necklace, takes another bath with his insipidremake of 1966 classic Alfie. Systematically eliminating any of thecruelty which made Alfie such an iconic figure of his day, he ...
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New Zealand lobbies for second film sound stage
New Zealand film agency Film Auckland is bidding forUS$1.8m (NZ$1.7m) from the New Zealand Government to help construct a secondpurpose-built film sound stage in the country.New Zealand's only other purpose-built film stage is downsouth in Wellington and is now being used for Peter Jackson's King Kong.It was built earlier this ...
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AV Pictures takes on The Other Half sales
Angad Paul and Vic Bateman'sAV Pictures has picked up international sales rights on British romantic comedyThe Other Half.The film is centred aroundthe Euro 2004 football tournament and the attempts of a newly-married man tospend his honeymoon watching the matches without his wife finding out. DannyDyer, Gillian Kearney and Vinnie Jones ...
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Bugs! wins Large Format prize at Wildscreen
UKIMAX picture Bugs! has won the Panda Award for Best Large Format Film at theUK's Wildscreen Festival, the Oscars of the wildlife film world.Theaward comes as Bugs! heads towards the $20m worldwide box office grossmark, having completed its run in only 34 of the 104 IMAX theatres that have sofar ...
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Around The Bend
Dir/scr: Jordan Roberts.US. 2004. 85mins.For his directorialdebut, screenwriter Jordan Roberts (who was uncredited for his work on RoadTo Perdition) delivers a small, heartfelt family drama in which four malegenerations make a reluctant road trip through America's Southwest and scalethe rocky emotional terrain of their shared past.Around The Bend may fail ...
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AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND - Prod Lists Oct 21
AUSTRALIA - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BOOK OF REVELATION(Wildheart Zizani)Budget: n/a. Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, New South Wales Filmand Television Office, Film Victoria, ContentFilm. Int'l sales: ContentInternational. Distrib: Palace Films (Aust/NZ). Drama. A dancer disappearswithout a trace for 12 days, then returns just as mysteriously. Prod: Al Clark.Dir: Ana Kokkinos. Scr: ...
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Australia, New Zealand generate star power
Films of all shapesand sizes are now underway in New Zealand and, after a considerable productiondrought, in Australia - and both countries are awash with internationallyrenowned acting talent.In Australia, HeathLedger and Geoffrey Rush are to star in Candy,and Cate Blanchett is the focus of LittleFish, which also stars Sam Neill ...
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Pathe steps into Cowboy's Hole
UK National Lottery studio franchise Pathe Pictures is financing Cowboy Films and Granada Film's The Hole, set to star American Beauty's Thora Birch.Director Nick Hamm (Martha, Meet Daniel, Frank and Laurence) is to start shooting the psychological thriller in the UK in July from a screenplay by Ben Court and ...
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Shark Tale maintains international lead
Thetop two international titles eased passed $50m this weekend as Shark Taleheld the lead and Collateral climbed back to fourth following a host ofnumber one launches for both films.DreamWorks Animation's latest hit opened in multipleEuropean territories spearheaded by number one positions in the UK ($13.6mincluding previews, $9.1m without), France ($4.2m) ...
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Eaton named UK Film Council deputy chairman
Producer Andrew Eaton hasbeen appointed deputy chairman of the UK Film Council, the most senior positiona member of the independent film business has held at the Government-backedsupport body.Eaton, director MichaelWinterbottom's regular producer, last made headlines this Cannes, when hissexually-explicit film Nine Songs outraged the UK's rightwing press. Hereplaces former UK ...
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Leigh launches London Film Festival with Vera Drake
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival kickedoff on Wednesday night (Oct 20) with the UK premiere of Mike Leigh'saward winning Vera Drake at agala screening at the Odeon Leicester Square.Leightook to the stage before the film along with producer Simon Channing-Williamsand 30 of its cast and crew - including lead actress ...
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Focus teams with Hadida on Silent Hill
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights to Davis Film Productions' adaptation of Konami'ssmash videogame series Silent Hill,with Christophe Gans set to direct and Davis Film's Samuel Hadida producing fora March 2005 start.Sales will commence at nextmonth's AFM. Hadida's distribution company Metropolitan Filmexport will releasein France and a North American distributor ...
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Harmony Gold signs three-year sales deal with Slamdance
Production and distributioncompany Harmony Gold has signed a three-year deal to become the exclusiveinternational distributor for Slamdance Media Group.Harmony Gold will hold alltheatrical, broadcast and DVD distribution rights and will have access to aminimum of 12 new titles each year. Slamdance retains North American rights.The first two pictures willbe offered ...
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Gyllenhaal confirmed as Mendes' lead in Jarhead
Jake Gyllenhaal has beenconfirmed as the lead in Universal's Gulf War drama Jarhead, which Sam Mendes will direct based on US MarineAnthony Swofford's memoirs.William Broyles Jr adaptedthe screenplay and Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce under their Red Wagonbanner. Ivan Fenyo, Laz Alonso, Evan Jones, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty ...
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Odyssey takes Lassie for a walk
London-basedOdyssey Entertainment has signed a deal with Classic Media and Firstsight Filmsto handle worldwide distribution on Charles Sturridge's live action Lassie project.Odyssey's RalphKamp and Louise Goodsill will represent the title at next month's AFM. UK andJapanese rights were recently sold to Entertainment and Shochiku respectively.Sturridge willdirect from his screenplay based ...
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AFM announces conference & seminar schedule
Conferences and seminars covering US productionincentives, digital filmmaking, and how to exploit ancillary markets are amongthe line-up of events scheduled for next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Other subjectsat the market, which runs from Nov 3-10, include the marketing of women'spictures, cinematography and budget constraints, and writer-producercollaborations.The conferencespresented by Akin Gump ...
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INTERNATIONAL 21 October
The top two international titles eased passed $50m thisweekend as Shark Tale held the leadand Collateral climbed back to fourthfollowing a host of number one launches for both films.DreamWorks Animation's latest hit opened in multipleEuropean territories spearheaded by number one positions in the UK ($13.6mincluding previews, $9.1m without), France ($4.2m) ...
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FRANCE 21 October
US boxoffice leader Shark Tale opened atnumber one in France this week with 630,561 admissions. The film shouldcontinue to hold well given the arrival of school vacations next week althoughit will face fierce competition from the October 27 release of Jean-PierreJeunet's A Very Long Engagement.Last week'snumber one, L'Enquete Corse, droppedto ...