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Nemo swims past $330m mark for BVI
Finding Nemo continued to plough its way throughinternational waters at the weekend, grossing $31.5m to raise its internationalrunning total to a stunning $330.2m.With no new openings BuenaVista International (BVI) executives pointed to strong number one holds inJapan and key European territories as the weekend highlights.In its secondweekend in Japan the ...
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Canada names its ten best films of the year
Films by Guy Maddin, DenysArcand and Robert Lepage as well as a Spanish-Canadian coproduction wereamongst the films judged as the ten best Canadian films of 2003 yesterday.Organised by the TorontoInternational Film Festival Group, the top ten list is intended to celebrateexcellence in Canadian film and present a platform for home-grown ...
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US online ticketer Fandango cuts deal with Canada's Cineplex
Fandango, one ofthe US' leading online and telephone film ticketing services, is expanding intoCanada through a partnership with Cineplex Galaxy.The company willnow sell tickets online to Cineplex Odeon theatres in the Greater Toronto areaand plans are afoot to roll out into four additional provinces in 2004."Our objective is to makemovie-going ...
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Broadcast Critics nominations favour Mystic River
The BroadcastFilm Critics Association has announced its nominees for the ninth annualCritics' Choice Awards, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Jan 10 inLos Angeles. Mystic River leads the pack with eight nominations, followed by In America on seven and Cold Mountain and Big Fish on five each.The ...
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Acheson to be honoured by US Costume Designers Guild
James Acheson,who won Academy Awards for The Last Emperor, Dangerous Liaisons and Restoration, will receive the Costume DesignersGuild's Bulgari Achievement for Film Award at the Guild's sixth annual awardson Feb 21 in Los Angeles.In otherhonorary awards, Tzetzi Ganev and Tomas Velasco will collect the President'sAward.Posthumousinductees into the Guild's Hall of ...
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Mickie among latest Alliance Atlantis casualties
Veteran sales executiveCharlotte Mickie and Salter Street Films, the Halifax-based production companybehind Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine are the latest victims in Alliance Atlantis'cost-cutting measures. Last week the Torontoentertainment company announced plans to cut nearly half of the positionswithin its Entertainment Group, as its production arm is known. The companyalso ...
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Agronomist, Reckoning among first Bermuda Film Festival titles
The BermudaInternational Film Festival (BIFF) will take place from Mar 19-25 2004, withseveral titles already confirmed including The Agronomist, Jonathan Demme's documentary aboutHaitian civil rights activist Jean Dominique and The Reckoning, Paul McGuigan's morality play that starsPaul Bettany and Willem Dafoe.Festival categories will include competition feature,competition documentary and a Bermuda ...
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Post Mortem scoops top Quebec awards
Post Mortem, a drama directed by Louis Belanger and produced by Lorraine Dufour of La Coop Video de Montreal, walked away with five prizes at Quebec's second annual Prix Jutra.Fresh from victory for best first film, best original screenplay and best actress at Canada's 1999 Genie Awards, Post Mortem, distributed ...
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Odeon hires banks to evaluate bids
British cinema chain Odeon has hired investment banks Morgan Stanley and Tricorn Partners to evaluate offers for the business, according to wire and newspaper reports on Wednesday (17 Dec) London's Financial Times and Reuters reported that Odeon, partly owned by German bank WestLB, has received several bid approaches, including one ...
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FilmFour options Vernon God Little and Brick Lane
The UK's new look Film Four has optioned two high profile books, DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning Vernon God Little for director Pawel Pavlikovsky and Monica Ali's Brick Lane for Ruby Films.The books are among 45 projects currently in development at a slimmed down FilmFour, which is headed by former ...
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FilmFour options Vernon God Little and Brick Lane
The UK's new look Film Four has optioned two high profile books, DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning Vernon God Little for director Pawel Pavlikovsky and Monica Ali's Brick Lane for Ruby Films.The books are among 45 projects currently in development at a slimmed down FilmFour, which is headed by former ...
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Rings racks up bumper UK advance ticket sales
Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King took over £1m in advance ticket sales before its release today (Dec 17) in the UK.The figure, published by the Cinema Advertising Association, confirms the huge level of anticipation for the third part of Peter Jackson's trilogy that exists around ...
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Mexico grants reprieve for endangered film institutions
Fierce pressure from home and abroad has forced President Vicente Fox's government to back pedal on its plans to sell or shut down Mexico's key film institutions. Local legislators have agreed not to include state-backed national film institute Imcine, film school CCC and studio Churubusco in their budget cutback proposal ...
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France mulls granting US majors access to state funding
France's National Cinema Centre (CNC) has made a proposal to the government to allow US majors the right to access France's coveted "compte de soutien". The compte is a revolving account set up at the CNC into which a percentage of box-office, video and television sales is placed in order ...
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Diagonale scrapped for 2004 as festival bosses quit
Tillmann Fuchs and Miroljub Vuckovic, the management of the "official" Diagonale appointed by Austria's controversial Secretary of State for Arts Franz Morak, have cancelled the 2004 event and stepped down from their posts.Their position has looked increasingly isolated for weeks. Their plans to introduce changes to the Diagonale had met ...
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Ireland's Tribal looks to Bloom with Joyce adaptation
Tribal Films, the new Irish distribution and sales outfit set up in July, has announced its acquisition of all Irish rights to Sean Walsh's Bloom with plans for an early February theatrical release.Bloom (formerly Bl,.m) is an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The film's Dublin premiere will coincide with the ...
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Korean conglomerate boosts film investment
Daesung, the Korean conglomerate that invested $510,000 (W600m) in Park Chan-Wook's hit thriller Old Boy, has decided to set up a media investment fund in partnership with the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) and a trio of industrial groupsThe new fund will have some $8.2m (Won10bn) at its disposal for ...
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Mifed owners unveil strategic overhaul
As part of its drive to reinvigorate Mifed and save it from the onslaught of AFM, Fiera Milano International (FMI), the body that manages Mifed, has announced that it has officially joined forces with Cinecitta Holding and created a new company named Audiovisual Industry Promotion that will run the event ...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Dir: Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Ireland. 1999. 94 mins. Prod cos: Little Bird, in association with Tatfilm and Trigger Street Productions. Int'l sales: Icon Entertainment International (44 207 494 8100). Exec prods: James Mitchell. Prods: Jonathan Cavendish. Co-prods: Martha O'Neill, Christine Ruppert. Scr: Gerry Stembridge. DoP: Andrew Dunn. Prod des: Tony Burrough. ...
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Kinderfilmfest reveals competition five
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest has confirmed five titles for its new 14plus youth film competition, which will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Anders Gustafsson's Bagland (Scratch).The Kinderfilmfest has also announced another innovation, a retrospective of works from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem.Commenting on ...