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Incredibles crosses $150m at international box office
Buena Vista International's (BVI) The Incredibles was the number one international picturefor the third weekend in a row as it added a mighty $32.1m to raise its runningtotal to $152.1m.The picture opened top inGermany on $5.8m and top in Brazil on an excellent $1.7m on 352 screens thatwas the biggest ...
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DiCaprio, Winslet, Bacon to receive honours at Santa Barbara
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Bacon and Kate Winslet will be honouredfor their artistic achievements at the 20th Annual Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 28-Feb 6.DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination yesterday (13) for hisrole as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and receives the Platinum Award, which was ...
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Films from Iran, France take top prizes at first Bahamas film festival
Mania Akbari's 20 Fingers (20 Angosht) from Iran was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the Spirit ofFreedom International Film Competition at the close of the inaugural BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF).The Modern Maverick Award went to France's Yann Samuell for LoveMe If You Dare andindustry veteran Roger Corman was presented ...
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Another $4.7m gross for Alexander from 21 smaller territories
Intermedia/Warner Bros' Alexander grossed an estimated $4.7m from 21territories at the weekend to raise its international running total to $24.7m.The picture opened top in Hungary on $261,957 from 29 screens overfour days, grossing more than double the opening weekends of Master AndCommander and KingArthur.Alexanderweathered government change in Greece to stay ...
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Slamdance will open and close with documentaries in Jan
Documentaries booked the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival, whichruns from Jan 21-28 in Park City. Opening night film is Marilyn Agrelo's childballroom dancing saga Mad Hot Ballroom and closing night film is Michael Franti's war documentary I KnowI Am Not Alone.All in all the festival will screen a record 23 world ...
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12 projects selected for Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Jan
Projects from the UK, South Africa and Brazil are among 12represented in the Sundance Institute's annual January screenwriters labs,which run from Jan 14-19 2005.The labs offer emerging writers a chance to develop new work underthe guidance of experienced screenwriters including Allison Anders, GuillermoAriaga, David Benioff, Walter Mosley, Frank Pierson, Tom ...
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Pyramide, Arc Light team up for Chinese collection
France's Pyramide group plans to co-produce a collection of six films by some of the hottest young directors in the greater China market, with Peggy Chiao's Taiwan-based Arc Light Films.The six films - two each by directors from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong - are all contemporary tales but ...
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GERMANY 14 December
Bridget Jones only lasted one week at the top before Disney's TheIncredibles stormed the German box office with over $5.7m from 1,003prints. The film's opening performance of 750,000-plus admissions made it thefourth most successful for a CGI animation film after Finding Nemo (2m),Ice Age (1.5m) and Shrek 2 (1.3m).The only ...
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Spanglish
Dir/scr: James L Brooks.US. 2004. 131mins.Seven years after hislast movie As Good As It Gets, James L Brooks returns with asophisticated adult comedy which also looks at a bunch of misfits - only thistime they are the members of an ostensibly successful Beverly Hills family.Their world is thrown intodisarray at ...
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Six film-makers selected for Cannes 'Residence'
The Cannes festival hasselected six young film-makers to join the next round of its "Residence"intensive training course.The interns, who will spendfour months from the end of February to July developing their next features,include Hernan Belon of Argentina, Noam Kaplan of Israel, Jeffrey St Julesfrom Canada and Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa from Finland. ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 December
It proved a great weekendfor Entertainment at the UK box office this weekend. Entertainment FilmDistributors released both Blade: Trinity and The Phantom Of TheOpera across the country.The third instalment in the Bladefranchise landed second place over the three-day weekend with $3.6m (£1.9m) at329 sites, a stunning $10,810 location average. The ...
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Vajna, Eszterhas team for Olympic bloodbath
Prolific producerAndy Vajna and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas are developing an as-yet untitleddrama about the historic encounter between the Hungarian and Soviet water poloteams at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.The olympicsemifinal is considered to have been one of the bloodiest ever sport eventswhere the players' blood coloured the water red. The Hungarian ...
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Film Commissions to launch European network in Berlin
Plans for a new"European Film Commissions Network" (EFCN) are to be unveiled at aone-day symposium of film commissions from all over Europe on the eve of theforthcoming Berlinale on February 9.Hosted by the German FilmCommissions, the "2nd European Encounter of Film Commissions"symposium will be opened by Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus ...
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Van Gogh's last film debuts on the Internet
0605, the last film of murdered Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, was released on the Internet on Sunday. The thriller,which reconstructs a fictional conspiracy around the murder of Dutch politicianPim Fortuyn, is the first European feature film to be legally broadcast theInternet before its theatrical release.0605, which refers to the date ...
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Once more with Passion
Christ will rise again inthe UK at Easter next year. UK distributor Icon Film Distribution has announcedthat Mel Gibson's 18-certificate blockbuster film, The Passion Of The Christ,will receive a theatrical re-release in the UK on March 25 (Good Friday), 2005.Exhibitor response to theidea will dictate the scope of the release ...
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CNC calls for debate on French subsidy system
Heeding a request madeearlier this month by new culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, theFrench film board (CNC) has called a meeting of professionals for thisWednesday to discuss the possible opening of the local subsidy system tonon-European companies.The minister's request cameon the heels of a Paris court's decision to reject ...
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Italian industry commits to 12-month box-office season
Italy has finally fullycommitted to a 12-month box office season, and next summer's releases will beon a par with other European territories, an industry conference heard onTuesday (Dec 14).As a sign of theircommitment, national exhibitors' association ANEC and distributors union UNIDIMhave published a catalogue detailing the names and approximate release ...
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Cruz, Abril attached to Diaz Yanes' second feature
Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril are reportedly attached to star as a bad angel and a good angel in the highly anticipated second feature from Spanish director Agustin Diaz Yanes, No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios).The film is a co-production between Edmundo Gil of Flamenco Films, Eduardo Campoy ...
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Sea Inside is top Goya contender
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside dominated the nominations at Spains Goya Awards, the local Oscar equivalent, with 15 nods including best film and director.No other title came close to as many nods as Sea, which last weekend picked up best director and actor prizes at the European Film Awards in ...
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Former HSN chief sets up film outfit with Sellevision
Mark Bozek, theformer chief executive officer of Barry Diller's Home Shopping Network (HSN),will kick off his new production company Halo Entertainment with the blackcomedy Sellevision.Bozek is playing to his strengths here as the projectcentres on the home shopping business and is based on the novel by AugustenBurroughs. Bozek adapted the ...