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Cianciotta returns to distribution at Canada's Capri
Gabriella Martinelli's CapriFilms has appointed exhibition and distribution veteran Tony Cianciotta aspresident of its new distribution division, Capri Releasing.The Toronto-based shingleannounced its first release: Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, for which Cianciotta picked up Canadian rights atBerlin from Films Transit. The documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger and BruceSinofsky, chronicles the ...
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JAPAN
In the box office battle between Disney's bears and Shochiku's dog, the latter again emerged victorious for the second week running.Helmed by Yoichi Sai, a director better known for his excursions into the underworld and, on TV, his pungent wit, Quill grossed $883,396 on 17 major urban screens, compared ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed scampered to the top of the US charts with $29.4m at the weekend, averaging a healthy $8,888 from 3,312 sites. Family specialist Raja Gosnell's follow-up to his 2002 original didn't come close to that picture's $54.1m opening weekend, although it didn't open in a lucrative summer ...
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ScreenDaily.com launches exclusive International Box Office chart
ScreenDaily.com today launches a new and exclusive International Box Office chart, to complement the existing 25 global box office charts. These continue to be constantly updated on the site.The new chart comprises the very latest box office data from more than 60 international territories and is accompanied by a commentary ...
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Clockwork Orange fails to wind up UK box office
Despite this weekend being one of the best in terms of well-reviewed cinema product and the high-profile re-release of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the UK box office recorded its lowest aggregate gross so far this year. The total tally of all films on release this weekend came in at ...
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Swedish films face funding crisis
A funding crisis is threatening the Swedish film industry as a conflict between US distributors and local exhibitors threatens to delay the new Swedish Film Agreement.The agreement, which is designed to generate money for local productions, is due for renewal at the end of this year, and a number of ...
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UK Film Council creates new 'development franchises'
Creating what have been immediately dubbed "development franchises" after the National Lottery super entities formed in the 1990s, the UK Film Council is to underwrite a handful of film operations allying producers with distributors and financiers from the UK and overseas.The initiative, which has had producers and executives scrambling to ...
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Goldman to produce Crimson Rivers III
During his acceptance speech as French producer of the year, Alain Goldman confirmed that he will be producing a third instalment in the successful Crimson Rivers franchise, to be directed by Florent Emilio Siri who is currently working on Bruce Willis vehicle Hostage.Goldman will also produce an adaptation of 2000 ...
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German p&a fund comes unstuck
The p&a fund model launched last year by Ideenkapital to raise investment for the marketing costs of three 20th Century Fox releases appears to have come unstuck.According to the Association of German Media Funds (VDM), the tax authorities in Munich at Finanzamt Muenchen III are not expected to recognise the ...
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Innocence
Dir/scr: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2004. 99mins.Japanese sci-fi animation, from Katysuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988) onwards, often points towards a post-apocalyptic part-human future. For all the blasts 'n' babes - the buffed heroines in spandex pouring thousands of rounds into clanking foes - the essential vision is dark. But as Mamoru Oshii's ...
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Record year for Swiss video industry
The Swiss video industry posted record turnover in 2003 thanks to the rise in popularity of the DVD format and would have been even higher if it had not been for the problems of piracy and illegal parallel imports.According to the Swiss Video Association, the turnover in DVDs increased year ...
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Sundance Channel acquires two features, 10 shorts from Plympton
US pay cable network TheSundance Channel has picked up two features and 10 shorts by the animator BillPlympton for broadcast in a May spotlight on the film-maker's work."Get to Know: Bill Plympton"will present the US television premiere of his animated sci-fi feature MutantAliens as well as his first feature TheTune, ...
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Oscar names its 2005 dates: Feb 27 is the big night
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has setits key dates for next season with the 77th Academy Awards scheduled to takeplace on Feb 27 2005 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Nominationballots will be mailed on Dec 27 2004, the polls will close at 5pm PST on Jan15 2005 ...
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First Look gets domestic to family drama Touching Wild Horses
First Look Media has pickedup all domestic rights to Eleanore Lindo's family drama Touching Wild Horses, which stars Jane Seymour, Charles Martin Smith andMark Rendall.First Look's Bill Bromileynegotiated the deal with David M Perlmutter of the privately owned Canadianproduction company Chesler/Perlmutter.First Look Media will openthe picture theatrically on Apr 30 ...
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IFC backs documentary about Z Channel from Cassavetes
The Independent Film Channelhas unveiled its latest original documentary Z Channel: A MagnificentObsession which is the feature directorialdebut of Xan Cassavetes. The film looks at the ground-breaking LA film channelof the 1970s and 1980s and its brilliant but troubled programmer Jerry Harvey,who committed suicide after murdering his wife in 1988.The ...
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Start-up financier to pump $24m into new media
A group of UK film-makers and finance specialists have launched International Film One (IFO), a financing vehicle which aims to raise $23.6m (£15m) through UK tax breaks to invest in product targeted at new media platforms.Accountancy firm Hacker Young is assisting in raising the cash through the UK's Enterprise Investment ...
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WBITD signs multi-year deal with SBS in Holland
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed an exclusivemulti-year deal with SBS Broadcasting (Holland) for current and upcomingtheatrical pictures and television programming.Titles includethe upcoming Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Ocean's Twelve, The Matrix Reloaded, The Last Samurai and Mystic River.The deal also gives SBSBroadcasting, which comprises the ...
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Lolafilms to get retrospective at US Museum Of Moving Image
The US premiere of Fernando Trueba's comedy-drama Girl Of YourDreams (La Nina DeTus Ojos) starringPenelope Cruz will kick off a two-week retrospective of Spanish productioncompany Lolafilms in New York on Apr 30.Overall nine pictures will screen at the American Museum of theMoving Image including Goya In Bordeaux, LA Comunidad, Second ...
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Scooby unleashed by Warner Bros in 26 territories
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is being let loose on 26 internationalmarkets this upcoming weekend in Warner Bros' first major push outside the US.The family sequel goes out inGermany on Apr 1 and Mexico, Spain and the UK on Apr 2, when executives areanticipating high scores to boost the picture's $4.3m ...
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Baober In Love (Lian Ai Zhong De Bao Bei)
Dir: Li Shaohong. China. 2004. 100minsHad the Berlin festival in February been just a touch more adventurous it might have scheduled Baober In Love as the Chinese film in competition rather than Sylvia Chang's pleasant but predictable 20 30 40. Programmed in the International Forum sidebar, the surprising Baober was ...