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Fond Kiss for Galway Film Fleadh
The GalwayFilm Fleadh will pay special tribute to octogenarian Irish star Maureen O'Haraafter opening on July 6 with Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss.One of thefirst Irish actors to achieve star status in Hollywood, Maureen O'Hara will bethe subject of this year's public interview prior to a screening of John Ford'sThe ...
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Intertainment, Franchise judgement expected next week
The final judgement in the damages lawsuitbetween Germany's Intertainment and Franchise Pictures is now expected to bemade sometime next week at the earliest.In a press statement, Intertainment explained thatquestioning of the witnesses had been completed on Tuesday (June 8) and thefinal summing up by the lawyers of both parties was ...
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Korean melodrama puts wind up Potter
A South Koreanmelodrama is giving Harry Potter a run for its money. For while The Prisoner Of Azkaban was theundisputed champion at the international box office over the weekend, taking$87m-plus, new release Windstruck achieved a better screen average of$11,190 against Potter's $11,060.Directedby Kwak Jae-yong and starring Jun Ji-hyun and Jang ...
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The Works unveils Cannes competition deals
London-based sales house TheWorks has struck a raft of deals out of last month's Cannes festival on its twocompetition titles, Clean and TheConsequences Of Love.Clean, forwhich Maggie Cheung won best actress, went to LNK for Portugal, Lumiere forBenelux, PCV for Greece and Cyprus, Imovision for Brazil and Intersonic forHungary and ...
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Alliance Atlantis buys Canadian rights to 9/11
Bob and Harvey Weinstein'sfledgling Fellowship Adventure Group has sold all Canadian rights to MichaelMoore's Fahrenheit 9/11 toAlliance Atlantis.Alliance Atlantis willrelease the film theatrically across Canada on Jun 25, the same day the PalmeD'Or winner is due to be released in the US through Fellowship Adventure Group,Lions Gate and IFC Films."We ...
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Roadside plans pre-election release for same-sex marriage doc
RoadsideAttractions has picked up North American rights to Jim de Seve's timelysame-sex marriage documentary Tying The Knot and plans to release it in October priorto the 2004 Presidential election.The picture was produced by 1,049 Films and chroniclesthe last three years of the battle for legalisation waged by gays and lesbians,who ...
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Wellspring closes eight more Tarnation sales
Wellspring hassold all rights to Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation in eight territories, including the keymarkets of France, Italy and Japan.The documentarysold to Nippon Herald in Japan, Cinema Nouvelle Generation Distribution inFrance, Mikado Film in Italy, Seville Pictures in Canada, Lumiere in Benelux,Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia ...
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Animation director Selick aligns with Vinton Studios
LA-based animation house VintonStudios has signed award-winning film-maker Henry Selick as supervisingdirector.Selick will play a key role on Vinton's creative team as theanimation studio moves into feature film production.Having joined the company on May 17, Selick will set aboutdirecting the studio's CG short Moongirl and develop features.Selick'sdirecting credits include Tim ...
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Fox International hires new evp of creative advertising Camp
Michael Camp has been named executive vice president of creativeadvertising at Fox International.Camp will be responsible for creating and executing all creativeadvertising campaigns for the studio's domestic and international theatrical andhome entertainment divisions.Jim Darbinian, senior vice president of creative advertising, andvice president Ann Murphy will report directly to Camp, whose ...
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OZ AND NEW ZEALAND Prod Lists - June 10
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LISTINGS - June 10PRE PRODUCTIONDECEMBER BOYS(Becker Films) Backers: Film Finance Corporation Australia, South AustralianFilm Corporation. Int'l sales: MBM (German-speaking territories), AuraEntertainment (rest of world). Dist: Becker (Aust/NZ). Drama. Four orphans gofor a holiday by the sea. Friendships are tested and new alliances made whenrumours emerge that ...
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Chris Columbus to direct first Harry Potter film
Chris Columbus has been chosen by Warner Bros. to direct the first of the Harry Potter book adaptations, closing the chapter on one of the most competitive Hollywood job contests in recent memory.Columbus, director of such commercially successful family films as Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire, is expected to begin ...
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Oz production awaits fresh cash injection
Mark Eder mortgaged his house in order to direct his debutfeature Twists Of Fate, which he alsoco-wrote and is now editing, after being unable to secure any other sort offinancing or to find distributors that would take him or his film seriously.Eder lives in regional Australia and works the early ...
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The Stepford Wives
Dir: Frank Oz. US. 2004.93mins.The third filmedadaptation of the Ira Levin thriller about suburban fembots on the rampage in afrosting-coated, master-planned community has been given an extreme makeoverredolent of Death Becomes Her, She-Devil and The Witches OfEastwick, forgettable female-driven star vehicles with limited substanceand depth, too many garish special effects ...
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Garfield The Movie
Dir: Peter Hewitt. US 2004.80minsHe is one of the mostrecognisable comic strip characters in the world today - a fat, slovenly,self-satisfied but lovable orange furball named Garfield - and he is the latesttwo-dimensional creature to star in his own live action/computer generatedfilm. But this fat cat won't generate half the ...
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The Chronicles Of Riddick
Dir:David Twohy. US. 2004. 119mins.It'snot just the budget that is bigger on this sequel to Pitch Black, themodestly scaled sci-fi hit from writer/director David Twohy that four years agoset Vin Diesel on the road to stardom. In the $120m Chronicles Of Riddick,cult favourite Twohy fulfils the requirements of a summer ...
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Spanish industry unites against pirates
Spain's entire audiovisual sector has banded together tolaunch a fully-fledged attack on the pirates which it claims cost the industryEuros 700 million in 2003.But evenas the ICAA film institute, the producers lobby FAPAE, the authors rights'collection society EGEDA and anti-piracy body FAP were announcing details of anad campaign to drive ...
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Video Island wins $10.7m funding injection
UK online DVD rental company Video Island has secured asecond round of investment funding worth $10.7m (£6m) led by Cazenove PrivateEquity.Initial investors Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures alsoparticipated in the second funding round.HilaryMeyrick, Investment Director at Cazenove Private Equity will join the VideoIsland board of directors.Video Island is currently working ...
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FRANCE 10 June
As with pretty much everywhere else it was released thisweek, the third go round for Harry Potterand his band of wizards landed at the top of the box office with a staggering2.5 million admissions.The Day After Tomorrowdropped to the second spot falling off a precipitous 55%, Troy followed suit by ...
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Senator unveils details of bankruptcy rescue plan
The restructuring of German producer/distributorSenator Entertainment could be completed by the end of September, according toplans which will be presented at an extraordinary shareholders assembly nextweek by the court-appointed receiver Rolf Rattunde.The restructuring plan would, in a first step,see the shareholders agreeing to a capital reduction of 90% in order ...
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Working Title finds its Darcy
Working Title Films hasfinally found its Darcy. The UK powerhouse has cast rising British actorMatthew Macfadyen as the arrogant but eligible male lead in its upcoming JaneAusten adaptation Pride And Prejudice.Macfadyen will star oppositeKeira Knightley, who plays the central Bennet daughter, Elizabeth. The other Bennet sisters will include TheLibertine and ...