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Hurt joins Short Order cast
John Hurt will join the cast of theIrish/UK/German co-production Short Order, currently in the final days of the German leg ofthe shoot which is due to wrap in Hamburg on November 5.Hurt joins Emma de Caunes, RadeSerbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jack Dee in the story oflife, by ...
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NZ arthouse player plans expansion into UK and US
New Zealand's dominant arthouse player, Rialto, isplanning to establish distribution operations in the US and the UK, as well assetting up a cinema chain in Australia, where it has been distributing filmsfor nearly three years.The ambitious global expansion, to be funded through cashreserves, is unprecedented for a specialist distributor from ...
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Sutherland prize shortlists three films for Trophy
Threefilms have been shortlisted for the British Film Institute (bfi)'s SutherlandTrophy.Selectedby a jury from ten nominated titles, the shortlist comprises Innocence,a haunting story of a girls' school from French director Lucile Hadsihalilovic;Tarnation, a psychedelic memoir from American director JonathanCaouette; and Thirst, an account of isolation and struggle byPalestinian director Tawfik ...
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Alien Vs Predator has strong French opening for Fox
Fox International's AlienVs Predator raised its internationalrunning total by an estimated $6.9m on 1,780 screens in 18 markets to $40.5m atthe weekend.The action horror pictureopened on $3.3m on 568 in France for an unconfirmed top five ranking, and openedtop in at least four markets including South Africa, Finland, Venezuela andIceland.The ...
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Lions Gate, Twisted set Saw 2 for Halloween 05
Lions Gate Filmsand Twisted Pictures have announced plans to release Saw 2 over Halloween 2005 following the horrorpicture Saw's mighty$18.3m weekend debut.Saw opened in third place and averaged morethan $7,900 on 2,315 screens, ranking behind the second place opening of Ray and Columbia's The Grudge, which stayed top in its ...
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Neverland scores in UK, The Village in Italy for BVI
Finding Neverlandopened in fourth place in its first international market of the UK at theweekend, grossing an estimated $1.4m on 324 screens through Buena VistaInternational (BVI).Mystery TheVillage opened top inItaly on $3.2m on 302. Overall it amassed $3.5m at the weekend for a $136.1minternational running total.The PrincessDiaries 2 opened top ...
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Controversial Dutch filmmaker murdered
Controversial Dutch director Theo van Gogh (47) was murderedthis morning in Amsterdam. According to police reports, the filmmaker, knownfor his provocative statements, was stabbed and shot in the centre of the Dutchcapital. A suspect was arrested near the scene of the crime after an exchangeof gunfire with police.Van Gogh had ...
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DENMARK 2 November
With itshigh 77 prints Sharks (Inkasso)stayed on top of the Danish box-office chart with the 60 prints of Kings' Game a close second.The newrelease of Michael Mann's Collateralcame in third with a better box-office screen average (DKK32,129) from its 40prints.However,that was marginally beaten by House OfFlying Daggers' DKK33,125 on fifth, ...
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NEW ZEALAND 2 November
The two most popular films at the box office on the weekendwere both openers, being Shall We Dance'which took NZ$267,734 from 58 screens for BVI/Miramax, and The Forgotten, which grossed NZ$198,866 from 10 fewer screens forColumbia TriStar.The strongest performer of the four other openers in thechart besides Shall We Dance' ...
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UK's Optimum, MGM team for Flawless release
Optimum Releasing, the indie distributor that flashed its marketing savvy by re-releasing The Third Man opposite Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has struck a joint partnership with MGM to release Flawless, starring Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman.Optimum and MGM have also partnered for a UK release on Mike Figgis' ...
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Shark Tale passes $100m internationally
Having already celebrated becoming the first studio toproduce two $100m animated hits in a single year in North America, DreamWorksAnimation can cheer again this week as SharkTale passed $100m internationally.It was DreamWorks' fifth $100m international hit, following1998's 2-D The Prince Of Egypt($117.2m), 2000's stop-motion animation ChickenRun ($118m) and 2001 3-D ...
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SWEDEN 2 November
After nine weeks on release and seven at the top of theSwedish chart, As In Heaven, has nowpassed 800,000 admissions and grossed $1,2m, and the theme song by HelenSjoeholm is second on the music chart.The new release of another local film, the low-budget youthfilm Fourteen Sucks (Fjorton Suger),won't reach those ...
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The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur)
Dir. Claude Chabrol.Fr-Ger. 2004. 110mins.By now veteran film-makerClaude Chabrol should be able to deliver a film like The Bridesmaid (LaDemoiselle d'Honneur) with his hands tied behind his back - so comfortableand familiar and comfortable is he with the troubled, frayed fringes of theFrench bourgeoisie and their efforts to disguise themselves ...
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CPH:DOX unveils ambitious 2nd edition
The second editionof Copenhagen's international documentary film festival CPH:DOX, runs in theDanish capital from Nov 5-14, with higher expectations and a greater number offilms after last year's success which recorded 11,700 admissions.The Danish Producers'Association has instigated a documentary award, GoldDoc, which will be awardedto the best local films at the ...
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Stockholm announces full festival line-up
The Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled itsfull line-up for this year's event (Nov 18-28).The 15th anniversary of the festival sees a strong programmeconsisting of 170 films from more than 40 nations - divided into 14 sections.Half of the films in this year's competition for directorsmaking their first, second or ...
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Russian distributor, exhibitor team to market talent abroad
Russiandistributor Michael Schlicht and Moscow based exhibitor Paul Heth have teamedup to market Russian film talent to Hollywood following their successfulbrokering of Russian blockbuster NightWatch to 20th Century Fox.The newcompany PGM (Patten Media Group) will market not only Russian productinternationally but also Russian scripts, re-make rights and talent."We thinkit's the ...
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Eurocine takes on international sales rights to El Rey
VenerableFrench sales and production house Eurocine has picked up international salesrights on El Rey, the Colombiansubmission for the foreign-language Oscar.Thefilm documents the origins of the drug-cultivation in 1940s Colombia, the USpolitical intervention that initially supported production and the origins oftrafficking when the political winds changed.El Rey is directed by Jose ...
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Hotel Rwanda booked into Spain, other territories, by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films International has announced a raft of sales on HotelRwanda, Terry George'sToronto Audience Award winning drama starring Don Cheadle.Thepicture has sold to On Pictures in Spain, LNK for Portugal, Audio Visual forGreece, Shaw Renters for Singapore, Eagle Films for the Middle East, Box OfficeEntertainment for Thailand and New ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwick's Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Armada sells domestic rights to teen horror pic to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American distribution rightsto Armada Pictures and D H Blair Pictures' teen horror project Drive Thru, which is due to begin principalphotography in January.Armada Pictures International will begin international sales at AFMthis week on the project, which is being directed and is written by ...