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Spelling sells ahead of Locarno world premiere
Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons hasclosed its first deals on Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's Bad Spelling (LesFautes D'Orthographe) ahead of its world premiere as Locarno InternationalFilm Festival's opening film on the Piazza Grande on August 4.The coming of age story set in the 1960s,starring Carole Bouquet, Olivier Gourmet and rising star Damien ...
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Sarajevo festival confirms first competition contenders
The world premiere of Zornitza Sophia's MilaFrom Mars (Bulgaria) and international premieres of Arsen Ostojic's AWonderful Night In Split (Croatia) and Ljubisa Samardzic's Goose Feather(Serbia & Montenegro) are among the first titles confirmed for the SarajevoFilm Festival's Regional Programme competitionOther films lined up include the Europeanpremiere of Silvije Petranovic's Society ...
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Skillset's Inside Pictures launches new training programme
Skillset's Inside Pictures, the UKfilm business training programme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund,is accepting applications for its next course.Comprising three intensive one-weekmodules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angelesbetween November 2004 and May 2005.Seminars, workshops and studiovisits are hosted by some of the US ...
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Police question Taxi 2 director Krawczyk
The director of Taxi2, GerardKrawczyk, was put under police examination last week for involuntarymanslaughter following the lethal accident causing the death of a cameraman onAugust 16, 1999 during the shooting of the film produced by Luc Besson, accordingto judiciary sources.Alain Dutartre,41, died from head injuries hours after a Peugeout 406 ...
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Top Korean directors launch production outfit
Nineof Korea's top directors including Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) and BongJoon-ho (Memories Of Murder) have established a new film companyto finance the cost of developing future projects.NineDirectors, Ltd. is being launched with individual contributions from eachdirector, and will provide filmmakers with the freedom to plan and write thescreenplay for new ...
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I, Robot has powerful $3.3m opening in Australia
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot continued its100% number one opening record at the weekend as a major bow in Australia drove$5.5m in ticket sales from 916 screens in nine territories.I, Robot opened on $3.3m on 346 screens Down Under for thedistributor's seventh biggest ever opening there, while Singapore produced$538,000 on ...
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Spyglass to co-finance Geisha, Zorro with Sony
SpyglassEntertainment, which has a first-look, non-exclusive production agreement withColumbia Pictures, will co-finance the eagerly awaited Memoirs Of A Geisha and action sequel The Legend Of Zorro.Spyglass holds all international rights to bothpictures and Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) willdistribute in select markets for Spyglass. Both films are scheduled for ...
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Courtney Valenti promoted to evp, production, at Warner Bros
Courtenay Valenti (pictured) has been promoted to executive vice president ofproduction at Warner Bros.Valenti joined the studio in 1989 as a creative executive and roseto vice president of production two years later, eventually moving up to seniorvice president of production in 1996.She has overseen the development and production of such ...
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GERMANY 27 July
While it didn't top HarryPotter And The Philosopher's Stone's opening record of 2.59m admissions,Michael 'Bully' Herbig's sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1can claim to have the all-time best opening weekend for a summer releasewith 2,164,000 admissions from 899 prints. In comparison, Herbig's previousblockbuster Manitou's Shoe clocked up945,000 admissions in ...
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Tarantino, Dante to be Venice 'godfathers'
Venice has announced that Quentin Tarantino and Joe Dantewill be on the Lido for the duration of the festival as "godfathers"of the festival's "Italian Kings of the B Movies" retrospective.The sidebar will screen 20-25 restored Italian genre movies,which will then be distributed after the festival both on DVD and in ...
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Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Dir: Danny Leiner.USA 2004. 87 min.There's something sweet, almost childlike about a filmthat equates freedom and the American dream with a fast-food hamburger. But inthe puerile stoner buddy comedy Harold& Kumar Go To White Castle, a sort of melting-pot After Hours for the multiplex set that will likely divide audiencesin ...
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DENMARK 27 July
Despitean unimpressive DKK17,704 screen average in its third week on release, Spider-Man 2's 84 prints kept it infront of the new comic book hero, Hellboy.The latter scared up a DKK18,630 average for its 40 prints, considerably betterthan Raising Helen's DKK13,878, and Godsend's DKK18,298 but not Elephant's DKK24,335.However,none of the three ...
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Boy Eats Girl on starter course in Dublin
Production has begun on the first Irish feature to film inthe Republic of Ireland this year. Element Films', Boy Eats Girl, reunites producer Ed Guiney with director StephenBradley his former partner in Temple Films which developed and producedBradley's debut film, Sweety Barrett.A comedy horror tale of a date that goes ...
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Colosimo, McKenzie sign on for Australian-UK co-production
Vince Colosimo (Lantana,Chopper) and Jacqueline McKenzie (RomperStomper, Angel Baby) are to star in director Peter Cattaneo's UK/Australianco-production Pobby And Dingan forsales agent Renaissance Films.The drama starts its eight-week shoot from August 19. Thesetting is the remote Australian opal town of Coober Pedy and filming will alsotake place in the city ...
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Venice unveils 'pre-screenings' event
As part of a new drive to boost market interest in theVenice Film Festival, around 30-40 international buyers are expected to beinvited to the Venice pre-Screenings, which will take place on the Lido fromAugust 30 to September 1.The pre-Screenings will be managed by AIP (AudiovisualIndustry Promotion), the new organisation formed ...
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Earth And Ashes, Missing feted at Cinefan
Afghan-French co-production Earth And Ashes (pictured),directed by Atiq Rahimi, and The Missingfrom Taiwan's Lee Kang-sheng were jointly awarded best film at the sixthedition of Cinefan (July 16-25) which wrapped in Delhi on Sunday night.Earth And Ashes, amoving portrayal of the devastating impact of war on an old man and hisgrandson, ...
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Euro producers lobby German finance minister
The European Motion Picture Producers' Association (EMPA) iscalling for Germany's Minister of Finance Hans Eichel to change the MediaDecree's regulations governing international co-productions as a matter ofurgency.According to EMPA, the Media Decree, as it now stands, makesit impossible for foreign producers to co-produce with Germany.While German producers participating in internationalco-productions ...
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Payne to receive Vision Award from Film-makers Alliance
Academy award nominatedwriter/director Alexander Payne will receive the Film-makers Alliance's 5thAnnual Vision Award at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in LosAngeles on Aug 18."Alexander Payne is afilm-making humanist who allows us to experience his joyously idiosyncraticstories and characters from a compassionately humorous and distinctlyinsightful perspective," Jacques Thelemaque, co-founder of ...
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Erin beats off DreamWorks' El Dorado
Universal Pictures' Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts continued to reign atop the US box office this past weekend with a third weekend gross of $14.2m, a slight 23% drop from the previous weekend. Its 17-day total now stands at $76.2m.The critically acclaimed movie, which will open in many key European ...
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Sundance Documentary Composers Lab kicks off next week
The Sundance Institute hasnamed the five documentary film-makers and six composers who will take part inits second Documentary Composers Lab.Participants will spend fivedays from Aug 1-5 at the Lab, a convergence of the Institute's Documentary FilmProgramme and Film Music Programme in which composers and film-makerscollaborate under the guidance of industry ...