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    UIP returns to Serbia and Montenegro

    2004-06-16T04:00:00Z

    After a year'sabsence, UIP releases are to be handled by a new distributor in Serbia andMontenegro.UIPs new localdistributor, Taramount Film was launched in Belgrade last week, following thecollapse of Vans, its former principal distributor in the territory.Taramount Film isa sister company of Slovenian Karantanija Cinemas and Croatian VTI, who havebeen ...

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    Kusturica's Miracle to open Jerusalem Film Festival

    2004-06-16T04:00:00Z

    Emir Kusturica's LifeIs A Miracle has been selected for the opening night of this year'sJerusalem Film Festival.The screening will take place on July8, at the open airSultan Pool theatre located in the valley separating the new city from the oldone.Kusturica himself has been announced for the Thursday nightevent, in for ...

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    MPAA launches new phase of anti-piracy public education campaign

    2004-06-16T04:00:00Z

    The MPAA is stepping up itsanti-piracy battle in the living rooms and college dormitories of America as itannounced a new phase in its public education campaign this week.The latest move sees aseries of advertisements in daily newspapers, consumer magazines and more than100 college newspapers warning of the perils of illegal ...

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    Screen launches new world prizes with Hollywood Film Awards

    2004-06-15T04:00:00Z

    ScreenInternational has teamed up with the Hollywood Film Festival and its HollywoodAwards as well as filmfestivals.com to launch the festival's World and Europeancinema awards.A blue ribbonselection committee comprising 20 international judges will select 10 picturesfrom a list of 40 as nominees for the Hollywood World Awards and will nominatea further ...

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    Karlovy Vary unveils European focused competition

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    The 39th edition of theCzech Republic's Karlovy Vary Film Festival (July2-10) has lined up animpressive number of new European titles for its competition programme with astrong presence from Eastern Europe plus titles from India, Japan and Iran.A few films had already beenannounced, such as Marek Najbrt's black comedy Champions (Mistri) ...

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    GERMANY 16 June

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Its takings may have slipped week-on-week by 35%, but Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban easilyheld on to the top spot with over 1.2m admissions - more than the rest of theTop 15 put together - .and a screen average of $8,018 from its 1,214 screens.The weekend's best screen ...

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    ITALY 16 June

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    While the Italian box office suffered from the start of thebeach-going season, veteran Italian director Fabio Carpi's new film, Le Intermittenze Del Cuore, opened atnumber 11, scoring the third-highest screen average of any film at the weekend.Starring Argentinian actor Hector Alterio, the film, whichis set in Italy, France and Switzerland, ...

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    Intertainment sells eight to Italy

    2000-03-29T18:40:00Z

    German rights broker Intertainment has sold eight films to Italy and unveiled the beginnings of a long-term relationship with Silvio Berlusconi's film and TV group Mediaset.Mediaset is paying $20m for free-TV rights to six high-profile films - Battlefield Earth, Art Of War, Get Carter, The Pledge, The Whole Shebang and ...

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    AUSTRALIA 16 June

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Harry Potter And ThePrison Of Azkaban grossed nearly A$14.8m from 452 screens on the weekendfor Roadshow. Even taking into account that it was a holiday weekend, afive-day period instead of the usual four, it was an extraordinary result forthe third film of the trilogy. Nothing else came close.There were three ...

  • Reviews

    In My Father's Den

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Brad McGann. NZ-UK.2004. 125minsLast year's Sydney FilmFestival opened to an embarrassing effort, the feeble Australian comedy TheHonourable Wally Norman. This year, in contrast, a packed house was grippedby New Zealand director-writer Brad McGann's assured debut feature In MyFather's Den, a hard-to-categorise mix of family conflict, coming of agedrama and ...

  • Reviews

    Uncovered: The War On Iraq

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Dir/prod: Robert Greenwald. US. 90mins.Lessflamboyant than Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 - and, therefore,perhaps less superficially entertaining - Uncovered: The War On Iraq isa must-see for every American who cares about their country, regardless oftheir political persuasion.While the twofilms reach a similar conclusion - that the Bush administrations statedrationale for war ...

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    Civilian teams with SureFire for $46m tax fund

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    Civilian Content, thepublicly-listed UK media concern, has teamed with tax-based financier SureFireon a $46m (£25m) fund that could offer producers up to 50% of their budget.Civilian and SureFirestarted raising the cash last week for the fund, which will provide equity andsale and leaseback funding through UK tax mechanism Section 48. ...

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    School killing halts Battle Royale 2 DVD release

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    Toei Video will delay the DVD and video release of BattleRoyale 2, which was scheduled for September, company officials haveannounced. The reason: a highly publicised recent incident in which an11-year-old girl stabbed and killed a friend and classmate, reportedly fortexting disparaging remarks about her.The suspect, who has not been named ...

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    Berlin launches film fund for developing countries

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    The Berlinale has been awarded Euro 1.5m initially for the next three years to set up a World Cinema Fund for the support of filmmakers from developing countries and to increase the profile of their films in German cinemas.The funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation(Kulturstiftung des Bundes) is the result ...

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    Boe on fast track to shoot Allegro

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    Christoffer Boe, theacclaimed young Danish writer-director whose feature debut Reconstruction haswon a number of international awards, has been put on the fast track to shoothis new film Allegro this autumn with $1.2m (DKK7.3m) from the Danish Film Institute.It follows a world famouspianist who returns home for a concert in Copenhagen, ...

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    Oz arts minister slow clapped off stage at Sydney fest

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Australia's Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport Rod Kempwas slow clapped off the stage prior to this week's Sydney Film Festival worldpremiere screening of the reconstructed version of the 1919 romantic comedy TheSentimental Bloke.Theoutbreak of bad manners appeared to be either cineastes annoyed at thespeeches, invited VIPs and delayed ...

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    Hamburg film fund rocked by budget cut plans

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    Hamburg's film scene has been rocked by plans unveiled bynewly appointed Culture Senator Karin von Welck to slash the city's support ofFilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFH) from Euros 7m to Euros 3.5m for 2005/6.FFH currently has an annual budget of around Euros 9m madeup of contributions from Hamburg itself and public broadcasters ...

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    Somersault to open Melbourne festival

    2004-06-17T04:00:00Z

    Executive director James Hewison announced that newAustralian film Somersault will open the 53rd Melbourne InternationalFilm Festival (MIFF) on July 21 and Thai film Ong Bak from director PrachyaPinkaew will close it 18 days later.Other Thai directors will also have their recent workshowcased in a country spotlight. Australia's longest-running film festivalalso ...

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    EM.TV unveils plans for virtual market

    2000-03-29T12:05:00Z

    The violent, shocking or merely technically advanced have become such staples of top festival line-ups that it has become difficult to impress jaded critics and only slightly less cynical audiences.So it is that Venice has awaited with bated breath a selection of films by top names of today - and ...

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    Starz, RealNetworks team for internet PPV service

    2004-06-16T00:00:00Z

    UScable programming giant Starz Encore and software house RealNetworks havelaunched an internet-based pay-per-view (PPV) service.The service, dubbed Starz Ticket on Real Movies, willbe a subscription service allowing web users to legally download an unlimitednumber of films for a $12.95 monthly fee.Movielink, the download site launched by five of theHollywood studios, ...