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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Calendar Girls packs in Locarno crowd
Boosted by its prime Saturday evening night slot, the world premiere of Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls has proven to be the biggest draw so far at the Locarno International Film Festival. A staggering 9,500 festival-goers packed into Locarno's Piazza Grande town square to watch the film, where seating is officially ...
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Venice considers collaboration with Mifed
Cinecitta holding president Pupi Avati has approached the Venice Film Festival and Mifed with plans to establish a new film market on the Lido to run alongside the festival.The collaboration between the three organisations is believed to involve several initiatives, although the market element is likely to create the most ...
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S.W.A.T. storms to number one in US after robust $37m opening
Columbia's policeaction-thriller S.W.A.T. stormed to the top of the charts on anestimated $37m at the weekend, a fairly lacklustre session that saw overall boxoffice sink to its lowest mark since late June.Clark Johnson directed the1970s television series adaptation, which stars Colin Farrell, Samuel L Jacksonand Michelle Rodriguez and averaged $11,555 ...
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T3 closing in on $200m international box office
Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines kept up its record ofopening number one in every international market at the weekend, the highlightof which was a mighty $8m bow in France.The sci-fi-action sequelgrossed an estimated $25.6m from 6,489 prints in its fourth weekend on release,raising the running total to $183m for all ...
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Newell to direct next Harry Potter instalment
British director Mike Newell has signed to direct HarryPotter And The Goblet Of Fire, the fourth instalment in Warner Bros' hitseries that is due to begin filming in England next April.Newell, who recently completed the drama Mona Lisa Smilewith Julia Roberts, becomes the first British director and the third directoroverall ...
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Wondrous Oblivion
Dir: Paul Morrison. UK. 2003. 106minsA poignant, warm-spirited coming-of-age drama, Wondrous Oblivion represents a significant advance in the career of writer-director Paul Morrison. Oscar-nominated for his melodramatic Welsh language feature debut Solomon And Gaenor (1998), Morrison now reveals a much more assured touch in balancing personal dilemmas with wider social ...
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16 Years Of Alcohol
Dir. Richard Jobson. UK. 2003. 102mins.Richard Jobson's first feature is an intensely felt, but often disjointed, tale of a man's desperate attempt to free himself not only from alcoholic addiction, but also to overcome his violent nature, basic mistrust in human nature and ferociously anti-social conduct. Growing up with a ...
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Oz marches to Wedding tune
The third instalment in Universal's American Pie franchise had a stellar international launch in Australia through UIP this weekend.American Pie: The Wedding, as it has been rebranded for international markets, claimed $2.8m (A$4.29m) from 310 screens in Australia over the four-day weekend (Aug 7-10). This gave the film an impressive ...
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Love's Labour's Lost
Dir: Kenneth Branagh. UK. 1999. 93 mins.Prod cos: Pathe Pictures, Miramax, Intermedia, Arts Council of England, Le Studio Canal Plus. Int'l sales: Intermedia. Prods: Branagh, David Barron. Exec prods: Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Alexis Lloyd, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein. Scr: Branagh, adapting from Shakespeare. DoP: Alex Thomson. Prod design: Tim ...
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Monicelli tipped to head Venice jury
Veteran Italian director Mario Monicelli is tipped to head the jury of the Venice International Film Festival, according to reports in Milan newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.Born in 1915, Monicelli was one of the founders of the post-war Commedia all'Italiana genre, and is still active as a filmmaker today. ...
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Bier's Brothers to follow in Open Hearts vein
Danish writer-director Susanne Bier is gearing up to shoot her new film, Brothers (working title), based on a script co-written with the prolific Anders Thomas Jensen. Set to shoot in the autumn, the contemporary drama centres on two brothers and follows in the vein of last year's collaboration with Jensen, ...
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Reno, Clavier reteam for Corse comic adaptation
Once again, France is turning to comic books for inspiration.Alain Berberian is to direct Enquete Corse, about a hapless detective in Corsica, based on the comics by Rene Petillon. Enquete Corse will also reunite the stars of the Les Visiteurs films - Christian Clavier and Jean Reno - who will ...
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Heatwave melts UK box office takings
The UK box office was hit over the weekend by a heatwave which saw the country record its hottest ever temperature on Sunday. Many films saw their earnings drop substantially week-on-week, including last week's leader Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines, which fell 55%.Total box office was notably 13% down ...
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Universal looks to tap new German fund
Universal Studios is set to benefit from a private media fund being prepared by Munich-based Hannover Leasing with a fund volume of up to Euros 250m.If all goes according to schedule, the fund will be brought onto the market at the end of August, inviting private individuals to invest a ...
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Premiere boss ups stake in German pay-TV platform
Georg Kofler, managing director of German pay-TV platform Premiere has more than doubled his shareholding in the subscription service.Kofler's stake has risen from 10.19% to 20.46%, meaning he is now the second largest shareholder after the investment group Permira which will now hold a 54.76% interest.The interests of the other ...
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Tomb Raider sequel sparkles on Euro debut
Paramount's action sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life received its European debut this weekend, launching in pole position in The Netherlands.Following success in five Asian countries in the past two week's the launch marks another good sign for the film, which is released in most international territories ...
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Cuban film-makers pitch projects to Euro financiers
Cuban film-makers pitched a string of projects to potential European co-production partners and buyers at the Locarno International Film Festival over the weekend.Daniel Diaz Torres, Humberto Solas and Humberto Padron were among ten Cuban filmmakers invited to launch the three-year project "Open Doors - World Producers Meet The World Cinema" ...
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DreamWorks' new indie label goes fishing with anime
Hot on the heels of the launch of Warner Independent Pictures,DreamWorks SKG has launched specialty distribution arm Go Fish and will openfor business with the release of Japanese anime hits Millennium Actress in September and Ghost In The ShellII in 2004.The unit will be run by Joan Filippini, the current ...
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Spacey biopic finds new backing singer after MDP exit
Mark Damon's MDP Worldwide has pulled out of Kevin Spacey's BeyondThe Sea, the Bobby Darinbiopic it was co-producing with Spacey's Trigger Street productions. In a statement released yesterday, Damon, the company's chairmanand chief executive officer, said the withdrawal was entirely amicable and dueto scheduling conflicts.It is understood Spacey, who will ...