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Horror strikes at the US box office with $23.3m opening
MGM's swansong release The Amityville Horror opened top of the North American chartsat the weekend, dominating a lackluster weekend as it grossed an estimated$23.3m.The $19m MGM/Dimension Films picture stars Ryan Reynolds andMelissa George as an ill-fated couple who move into a haunted house. AndrewDouglas directed the remake of the 1979 ...
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Weinsteins commit to seven more years at Disney
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the inimitable co-chairmen of Miramax Films, have extended their contracts with The Walt Disney Co for another seven years, scotching any speculation that they might be lured away from the company they co-founded in 1979."It is our pleasure to continue our association with Disney," said the ...
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Interpreter translates into international hit with $9.3m weekend
Universal's thriller The Interpreter got off to a strong start through UIP atthe weekend, grossing an estimated $9.3m from 15 launches for a $10minternational running total including Greece, which opened last weekend.Buoyed by a hectic publicity tour that took star Nicole Kidman toAustralia, UK and Germany, and director Sydney Pollack ...
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Cannes prepares to unveil competition choices
The Cannes Film Festivalunveils the official line-up for its 58th edition in Paris today ata 9.30am (GMT) press conference.For the first time in many yearsthere are few certain front-runners for a berth. Paris based distributors andsales agencies - usually a strong bellwether for the films that will make thecompetition - ...
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Khoo's Be With Me to open Directors' Fortnight
Be With Me, directed by Singapore's Eric Khoo (12 Storeys),has been selected as the opening film for directors' fortnight at Cannes. The film weaves together threeinter-connected stories and is inspired by the life of Singapore's Theresa Chan- a blind and deaf woman.'It's almost a silent filmwith only five minutes of ...
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Bim takes Italian rights to Cannes contenders
Italy's BimDistribuzione has acquired Italian distribution rights to Gus Van Sant's Last Days, which is tipped to play incompetition at next month's Cannes Film Festival.The picture, which is sold by HBO London, drawsinspiration from the last days in the life of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain. Bim will releasethe film, ...
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UK launch for post-production trainee scheme
Industry-backedpost-production alliance the Post Production Training Initiative and trainingagency Skillset have launched a trainee scheme for post production staff.Titled First Post, theinitiative will be open to up 25 trainees at companies in London and aims tohelp employers provide structured development for runners. The deadline for applicationfrom companies is April 29. ...
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Revelation delayed as lead actor breaks ankle
The shooting schedule of Ana Kokkinos' TheBook of Revelation has had to be rapidly re-arranged after lead actor TomLong broke his ankle on Friday (April 15) while filming in Melbourne. The filmwas one week away from wrapping.The injury occurred when Long landed awkwardly during anaction scene in a nightclub setting. ...
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Bond Watch Brosnan out of the running
The new James Bond film, CasinoRoyale, is scheduled to shoot at the end of 2005 - although it is stilluncertain who will play 007 in the film.With ongoing rumourscirculating throughout the media world, it can be difficult to keep tabs on thelatest information. Here, ScreenDaily.com alleviates some of theconfusion by ...
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London set for epic Star Wars marketing push
In a world first, the UCIEmpire cinema in London's Leicester Square is set to screen all six of the StarWars films back to back on May 16 - three days before the global release ofStar Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith.Distributor 20thCentury Fox is organising the event as ...
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Schamus named to board of Nantucket Film Festival
Focus Features co-presidentJames Schamus has joined the Nantucket Film Festival board ahead of thefestival's 10th annual incarnation, which runs from Jun 15-19.Festival organisers alsoannounced they have teamed up with Kevin Spacey's online film-makers'collective TriggerStreet.com for a year-long screenplay competition that willculminate in a reading of the winning screenplay.Schamus earned best ...
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Dream picks up Naomi Watts Sundance comedy
Ehud Bleiberg and Yitzhak Ginsberg's LosAngeles-based production and sales house Dream Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to Scott Coffey's comedy Ellie Parker and will begin sales at Cannes.Ellie Parkerpremiered in dramatic competition at Sundance and stars Naomi Watts as anaspiring actress who goes to great lengths to realise her dream ...
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Beware Of Greeks Bearing Guns
Dir: John Tatoulis. Australia. 2000. 90 mins.Prod cos: Media World Features. Worldwide sales: Trident Releasing. Producers: John Tatoulis, Colin J. South, Dionyssis Samiotis, Anastasios Vasiliou. Scr: Tom Galbraith. DoP: Peter Zakharov. Prod des: Stan Antoniades. Ed: Michael Collins. Music: Mikis Theodorakis. Main cast: Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides, John Bluthal, Claudia ...
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Saint Ralph wins film nod at Canadian Screenwriting Awards
Writer-director MichaelMcGowan's Saint Ralph won thefeature film prize at the ninth annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards. The award was presented Monday night in Toronto. Thebittersweet coming-of-age story recently won the Grand Arc Award at the FestivalParis Ile-de-France. One of the fewEnglish-Canadian films to land distribution abroad last year Samuel Goldwynpicked it ...
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Canada's Equinoxe scores Laroche, Poulin
Montreal-based productionand distribution company Equinoxe Films has lured two local industry veterans to its executivesuite. Michele Laroche, who headed marketing and communications at Christal Films,has joined the company as director of theatrical distribution whileMarie-Claude Poulin, for three years a vice-president at TVA Films, will assistEquinoxe chief Michael Mosca in the ...
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Breaking News: Cannes competition line-up unveiled
The Cannes Film Festival(May 11-22) unveiled its line-up this morning, with a string of establishedarthouse directors such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant, DavidCronenberg and Lars von Trier set to compete for the Palme d'Or.Geographically, the competition selection is fairly widespread. Three films from France play in main ...
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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up
Sangre, dir:Amat Escalante (Mexico)Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus, dir: Marcelo Gomes(Brazil)Schlafer, dir Benjamin Heisenberg (Austria)Falscher Bekenner, dir: Christoph Hochhausler (Germany)Down In The Valley, dir: David Jacobson (US)Tawa Dura Yanna, dir: Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka)Voksne Mennesker, dir: Dagur Kari (Denmark)Yek Shab, dir: Niki Karimi (Iran)Hwal, dir: Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)Jewboy, dir: Tony ...
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Cannes unveils 'classical' competition line-up
Dominik Moll's Lemmingwill open the 58th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). George Lucas' StarWars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith, which had been widely tipped asthe opening film, will instead premiere out of competition in Cannes on May15, three days ahead of its French opening on ...
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Newcomers dominate Un Certain Regard selection
Cannes's Un Certain Regardsidebar has unveiled a line-up dominated by festival newcomers - and a numberof high profile veterans. Of the 21 directors invited to UnCertain Regard, only four have ever been selected for Cannes before. Each ofthose four has had their previous work in the main competition.Announcing the line-up,festival ...
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Artistic director Fremaux explains Cannes selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux -abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.- As a first impression, could we say that the greatfilmmakers are back in strength''In Competition, yes, since there will be many experienced filmmakers at Cannes.If, last year, we seemed to concentrate more on new discoveries, thereturn ...