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King Arthur reigns in Australia with $2.4m gross
Buena Vista's KingArthur opened in itsfirst international markets through BVI at the weekend including Australia,where it opened top on $2.4m from 245 screens.The self-styled realistic account of the mystical Britishlegend opened top in Singapore on a strong $397,000 on 33 and 35% market share,top in Malaysia on $324,000 from 41, ...
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Brother To Brother, Wild Side top Outfest winners
Rodney Evans's HarlemRenaissance drama Brother To Brother won the OUTstanding American Narrative Feature awardyesterday (18), while Sebastien Lifshitz won the OUTstanding InternationalNarrative Feature prize for the drama Wild Side at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Outfest.Jessica Chandler's A FineState This Is took the OUTstandingDocumentary Feature ...
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Beyond, Seven support on-line Evolution
Two of Australia's biggest content suppliers - Beyond International and the Seven Network - have thrown their weight behind a new high-speed network that plans to pump entertainment and services into Australian homes.Operated by fledgling Australian company Evolution Technologies, the venture plans to concentrate on providing services to high-density housing ...
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Amorette Jones heads up marketing at Arenas
Amorette Joneshas joined Latino entertainment and marketing outfit Arenas Entertainment asmarketing chief and will oversee all theatrical campaigns as well as advisingon the company's talent management concerns."Jones' trackrecord and sensibility proves that she can take a film project and deploy aneffective campaign across multiple platforms reaching a broad-based audience,"Arenas chief ...
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Anders unveils lineup for second rock & roll film festival in LA
The secondannual Don't Knock The Rock Film And Music Festival will kick off in Hollywoodon Aug 12 with Gandulf Hennig's Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and closes on Aug 15 with VickiTischler-Blue's Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways.The annualthree-day film and music extravaganza launched last year by director AllisonAnders includes ...
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Chomet teams with Universal for Despereaux
Academy Awardnominee Sylvain Chomet is attached to direct an animated adaptation of KateDiCamillo's 2004 Newbery Award winning children's book The Tale OfDespereaux for UniversalPictures.The book, whosefull name is The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess,Some Soup, And A Spool Of Threadim, has resided on the ...
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The Manchurian Candidate
Dir:Jonathan Demme. US. 2004. 130 mins.While not all of the choices made in it are successful, Jonathan Demme'scontemporary revamp of John Frankenheimer's marvelous The ManchurianCandidate is unquestionably one of the smarter, more persuasive films toemerge out of a Hollywood studio this year. Loaded with the intensity you'dexpect a cast led ...
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Cinepool strikes first Schloendorff sales
Cinepool has concluded its first sales for Volker Schloendorff's TheNinth Day (Der Neunte Tag) ahead of its world premiere screening inLocarno's Piazza Grande open-air programme on August 5.Cinepool sales executive Wolfram Skowronnek-Schaer told ScreenDaily.comthat the moral drama has already been sold to Switzerland's Filmcoopi andHungary's Best Hollywood and "negotiations are ...
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German fund to raise Euros 230m for Universal
Germany's Hannover Leasing(HL) is to partner again with Universal Studios on its second Montranus mediafund, which is to be launched this September to raise at least Euros 230m forinvesting in several feature films by the US studio.The first Montranus mediafund was, says HL, fully placed "within only a few weeks."To ...
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UK's Metrodome names Frain as theatrical chief
UK distributor Metrodome hasappointed Sara Frain to be its new general manager-theatrical, overseeing thecompany's theatrical acquisitions, marketing and sales.Frain joins on September 2from Tartan Films, where she is director of sales and promotions.Metrodome managing directorAndrew Keyte said: "This year has seen us have the biggest theatrical hit(Monster) in our 10 ...
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Russian Watch clocks up record box office
Russian produced horror film Night Watch, directed byTimur Bekmambetov, is on its way to becoming one of the top grossing filmsin Russian box office history, challenging the $14m record set by Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The King. Local audiences are also eagerlyawaiting the sequel Night Watch II due ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 scores in Middle East
Michael Moore'scontroversial Fahrenheit 9/11 debuted at number one at the United ArabEmirates' box office last week, its first opening in an Arab state in theMiddle East.Its distributor,UAE-based Front Row Entertainment, said the film brought in over 26,000admissions for a gross box office of $211,000 in five days on 16 screens.The ...
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Michael Koelmel faces up to nine years in jail
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel faces apossible nine-year prison sentence for claims of embezzlement, fraud anddelaying the filing of insolvency.The case against Koelmel opened in mid-April inMunich's District Court, and centres on the bankruptcy of Kinowelt in 2001.In their closing speeches on Tuesday, publicprosecutors Markus Kammann and Mathias Buering called for ...
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Becker Group signs on for Rowe comedy
Australia's Becker Group has signed on as international sales agent for producer David Rowe's A$3m contemporary comedy Tempe Tip, scheduled to start shooting in October.REP will handle Australian distribution of the film, while international sales will be contracted out. Michael Ralph is set to direct the project from his own ...
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Toronto snaps up Shark Tale
DreamWorks' computer-animated comedy Shark Tale will make its North Americanpremiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, an announcement whichmakes it a virtual lock for a world premiere slot at Venice.Other films that haven't screened previouslymaking North American premieres at Toronto include Todd Solondz's Palindromes, featuring Jennifer JasonLeigh, Ellen Barkin and ...
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Wornham joins Sundance as director of external affairs
Cynthia J Wornham has beennamed the Sundance Institute's new director of external affairs, and willoversee all strategic communications initiatives and media relations effortsrelated to the Institute and its artists when she starts work this autumn.Wornham, who is currently anexecutive vice president of Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselorsheading up its ...
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Strand takes US on Thai Cannes hit Malady
Strand Releasinghas acquired US rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's drama Tropical Malady, which played in competition at Cannesearlier this year where it won a special jury prize.Set in the jungles of northeastern Thailand, the pictureexplores the blossoming friendship between a soldier and a country boy who areaffected by a dark spirit."Mr ...
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Hong Kong pirates get six-and-a-half year jail sentences
The mastermindsbehind a criminal syndicate that pirated tens of millions of optical discs havebeen sentenced to six and a half years each in prison.In the harshestprison sentences ever awarded in a piracy case, Hong Kong's High Court jailedhusband and wife Tsoi Kei Lung and Ng Kam Fung following a global ...
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Shark Tale gets matinee slot at Toronto Film Festival
Dreamworks'eagerly anticipated animated feature Shark Tale will receive its North American premiereas a matinee gala at the upcoming 29th Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF).Shark Tale is one of two matinee galas that arebeing introduced to the festival this year, raising the number of galascreenings from 18 to 20.The date of the ...
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UK/IRELAND 21 July
Spider-Man2 easily claimed the lead at the UK box office taking$13.5m (£7.2m) over the Fri-Sunday weekend, a 22% improvement on the original2002 film's first three-day take.Thesequel benefited from a PG certificate compared to its predecessor's 12 certificate.Theholdovers took a beating at Spider-Man's hands with the top fifteenplaced holdovers recording an ...