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August embarks on Bond writers' Return
Danish film-maker Billie August has begun filming Moviefan Scandinavia's Return To Sender, the long gestating project from Bond screenwriters Robert Wade and Neal Purvis, in Denmark.The $7m Danish-UK thriller, which is being produced by Michael Lunkerskov and executive produced by Stephen Woolley, stars Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen and Kelly Preston.The ...
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Wortmann makes US debut with Pleswin-backed comedy
Sonke Wortmann, German director of Der Bewegte Mann, will make his US production debut with The Hollywood Sign which also marks the first US picture to be produced and financed by Dutch production outfit Pleswin Entertainment Group, a partnership between Eric Pleskow and Leon De Winter.Burt Reynolds, Rod Steiger and ...
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Bollore increases stake in France's Gaumont
The Bollore Group has upped its stake in French major Gaumont to 10.06%.Controlled by the Bollore family and more specifically mogul Vincent Bollore, the group now holds 6.77% of voting rights to the world's oldest film company.Bollore previously took a 5% stake in Gaumont in February 2002.In a statement, the ...
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Channel 4's Omagh drama wraps
Production has wrapped in Navan and Dublin on Omagh, the dramatisation of events leading up to and the aftermath of the terrorist bomb atrocity which struck the Northern Ireland town of Omagh on August 15, 1998.Based on extensive research and consultation with the families of the 29 people killed by ...
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Motorcycle Diaries takes road to Cannes
Walter Salles' highlyanticipated The Motorcycle Diaries looks set to make its internationalpremiere in Cannes, rather than at the forthcoming Berlin festival where it hadbeen expected to show in competition.The Berlin festival invitedthe film last autumn and seemed certain to include it in its main competitionsection. Diaries' Brazilian director Salles had ...
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Grams weighs in with powerful $1.1m opening in Italy
Focus Features' 21 Grams got its European campaign off to a flying start at theweekend with a $1.1m third place bow in Italy through Bim Film on 185 screens.Theacclaimed drama was the biggest opener of the weekend and its $6,126 per-screenaverage was the second biggest in the top 20 behind ...
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ITALY
E Gia Ieri, Columbia TriStar's Italian-language remake of the Bill Murray vehicle GroundHog Day, opened at number four at the Italian box office last weekend, grossing a strong $566,200 from 148 screens.Directed by Giulio Manfredonia with Italian comic Antonio Albanese in the lead role, the Italian-Spanish production registered a healthy ...
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November
Director: Greg Harrison US. 2004. 78mins.Screening in Dramatic Competition at Sundance, November is a psychological thriller that jolts the brain but has more trouble tugging the heartstrings. Exploring how subjective our memory becomes, particularly in the aftermath of trauma, this low-budget film challenges its audience to sort out fact from ...
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AUSTRALIA
Tom Cruise led the samurai charge that finally toppled The Return Of The King from its Christmas holiday number one position, but not before the Rings finale had scooped a few thousand dollars short of A$38m from its Australian showings. The Last Samurai had a big opening weekend -- A$3,401,421 ...
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BBC, Indigo's Warriors racks up RTS nods
Warriors, by BBC Films and Single Drama and UK production outfit Deep Indigo Productions, has secured a clutch of nominations for the UK's annual Royal Television Society awards, including best single drama.The production for BBC1 about the war in the former Yugoslavia also secured nods for male actor, production team ...
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Astronauts (Astronautas)
Dir: Santi Amodeo. 86mins. 2003. Spain.It's the same old story: if Astronauts (Astronautas) was set in Savannah rather than Seville and shot in English instead of lispy Spanish, this misleadingly-titled indie gem might take off. Instead, it is likely to follow in the wake of so many bygone but deserving ...
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32 projects head for Berlinale co-production market
New projects by Daniel Burman (Raquel Liberman), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun), Robert Glinski (Unkenrufe), Goran Paskaljevic (Lost In The Stars), Susanne Bier (Simon) and Pang Ho Cheung (Waiting For Nike) are among 32 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented in the Berlinale's first Co-Production Market.The first edition Market ...
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Berlinale unveils Forum of New Cinema
More than half of the programme of this year's International Forum of New Cinema are world premieres, and particular attention is being paid to little-known filmmaking countries like South Africa and Thailand.As the Berlinale is casting a spotlight on South Africa this year, the Forum will be featuring a series ...
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Mexico, Ireland to get Passion-ate
20th Century Fox Films is set to release Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ on an estimated 300 prints in Mexico, according to Jose Juan Hernandez, general manager of Fox Mexico.Fox has yet to announce release dates for the region. "We are still mulling target opening dates of either ...
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Russian renaissance prompts increase in state support
The Russian film industry underwent a renaissance in 2003 according the Russian Ministry of Culture. After years of crisis the ministry announced that 60 state supported features, 400 documentaries and 30 animated films were produced last year. An additional 25 to 30 features were produced with wholly private ...
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Spirit of Bruce Lee conquers Korean box office
A 1970s-set film about high school violence has taken hold of the South Korean box-office, drawing 800,000 admissions ($4.5m) on 270 screens in its first three days.Spirits Of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In High School, the film by poet-director Yu Ha (Marriage Is A Crazy Thing) portrays ...
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Chomet, Resnais share Golden Star
The French awards season got underway on Monday with the Etoiles d'Or conferred by local film journalists. In a tie, best picture went to Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes De Belleville and Alain Resnais' Pas Sur La Bouche.Chomet's film, which has picked up critics' awards in the States from such diverse ...
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Women In Film, UIP launch second year of Directing Change
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and United International Pictures (UIP) are launching the second year of their UK scheme Directing Change.Directing Change gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside an experienced and internationally established director during a forthcoming feature film production.Directing Change is part of WFTV's campaign to ...