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Open Hearts, Facing The Truth win Danish Academy Awards
At the Danish Film Academy's 20th ROBERT award ceremony on Sunday night in Copenhagen, Susanne Bier's Dogme-hit Open Hearts and veteran Nils Malmros' Facing The Truth fought it out for the top awards, while Ole Bornedal's I Am Dina dominated the technical prizes. The ceremony was attended by 650 industry ...
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Danish Hitman takes aim at Hollywood
The Danish computer game Hitman looks to be the next hit game to get the Hollywood treatment. The game's international distributor EIDOS is currently negotiating with unnamed Hollywood studios - although it has an existing relationship with Paramount for the Tomb Raider franchise. The Danish developers at IO Interactive have ...
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Ana Claudia Talancon to lead in Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, lead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in the first Miravista production, Ladies' Night. Miravista is the pan-regional production company launched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, the media arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.Talancon ...
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About Adam
Dir: Gerard Stembridge. UK. 1999. 105 mins.Prod Co: Venus, HAL Films, Miramax Films. Int'l sales: Miramax International. Prods: Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes. Exec prods: Harvey Weinstein, David M Thompson, David Aukin, Trea Leventhal. Scr: Gerard Stembridge. DoP: Bruno De Keyser. Prod des: Fiona Daly. Ed: Mary Finlay. Mus: Adrian Johnston. ...
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Koltai sets start date for Fateless adaptation
Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai is aiming for a Sept 30 start date for his directorial debut, an adaptation of Fateless - the Holocaust-themed novel by Nobel prize winner Imre Kertesz.Koltai has been trying for some years to find the necessary funds for the Euros 8m film.. Now the Hungarian government ...
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Simon Field to quit Rotterdam film festival
Simon Field is to resign as the director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The next edition in 2004 will be his last. His co-director, Sandra den Hamer, will remain in her position.In a statement Field said: "In 2004 I will have been with the festival for eight years, ...
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Talancon takes lead role in Miravista's Ladies' Night
Ana Claudia Talancon, thelead actress of all time Mexican blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, will star in Ladies' Night,the first production from Miravista, the pan regional production companylaunched last year by The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Admira, themedia arm of Spanish telco Telefonica.El Crimen received a ...
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Harry Potter flies on with $4.8m over the weekend
Warner BrosInternational's Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets grossed an estimated $4.8m in 52territories over the weekend for a $576.5m international running total. Thefamily sequel recorded 755,000 admissions on more than 3,000 screens. Figuresfrom the Asian markets - particularly China in its second week - wereundeclared pending the end ...
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Two Towers opens top in Poland just shy of Fellowship
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings:The Two Towers edged closer to $450m overthe weekend with a $1.8m Polish bow on 135 screens. Despite being 5% off theopening recorded by The Fellowship Of The Ring the picture recorded a $13,494 per-screen average. Inits second weekend in Russia, The Two ...
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Eminem movie continues international rampage for UIP
Universal/UIP's8 Mile continued itspowerful international run with a $6.6m weekend haul from 1,974 screens in 22territories. With 18 markets still to open the drama has already run up a$57.8m international cumulative total and is scheduled to roll out in Spain onFeb 7, Korea on Feb 21, France on Feb 26, ...
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Saint Monica wins Sarasota Film Festival
The 10-day 5thAnnual Sarasota Film Festival closed on Feb 1, with the Cultural ExpressionsNarrative Film Award going to Terrance Odette's Saint Monica, produced by Sharon McGowen. TheCultural Impressions Documentary Film Award went to Deconstructing The MythOf AIDS, directed andproduced by Gary Null. Special honourable mention in the narrative strand wentto ...
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007 busts records in Norway, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Fox International's DieAnother Day scored three number oneopenings over the weekend to boost its international running total to $225m. InNorway the picture left the market shaken and stirred with a fine $1.2m bow on89 screens that was the biggest opening of all time in the territory for Fox,MGM and a ...
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Chris Sievernich launches his Armada
Chris Sievernich, the former Kinowelt USA CEO and founder ofPacifica Entertainment, today (Feb 3) announced the launch of Armada Pictures,his new independent financing, production and distribution company that willfocus on pictures of varying budgets.Matt Milich, Sievernich's vice presidentof development at Kinowelt USA, has been brought in as vice president ofproduction ...
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Warner Bros puts classics division on the fast track
Warner Bros hasconfirmed that it has put its plans for a specialized film unit back on thefast track and is now actively searching for an executive to run it. Warner hasbeen the only major studio without a classics division for some time and hasbeen toying with the idea for about ...
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FilmFour seals output deal with Senator
UK mini-studio FilmFour and leading German producer-distributor Senator Film have struck a co-production and distribution output deal for at least 14 titles over two years.Senator will take German-language rights in all media to a string of projects from FilmFour's development slate with a total estimated budget of $400m. Senator will ...
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Swedish Oscars acclaim Lilja 4-Ever
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever was the clear winner at Sweden's 38th Guldbagge awards ceremony held last night in Stockholm - winning in five of its six nominated categories.The dark, Russian-language drama about human trafficking triumphed with five awards, including best film, best director and best script. The film's cinematographer Ulf ...
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Nicole Mackey joins Capitol Films
Nicole Mackey has joined Capitol Films as head of international sales, replacing Josh Kramer who is relocating back to Los Angeles.Industry veteran Mackey most recently held the position of president, international sales at Stewart Till’s now defunct Signpost Films.Before joining Signpost in 2002, Mackey was president of international sales at ...
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Taormina festival plots date change to attract Hollywood
The Taormina film festival is to move one month forward, in a bid to establish the event as a European launch-pad for summer blockbusters. This year's edition will run from June 7 - 14.Ever since he took over the festival's reins in 2000, former Venice director Felice Laudadio (pictured) ...
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Babelsberg gets Around The World
Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...
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Taxi 3 gets off to flying start
The third instalment in French action-comedy franchise Taxi got off to a racing start in three European territories this weekend. Taxi 3 sped into top positions in France and Belgium and saw an impressive launch in French-speaking Switzerland to take a total weekend haul of $11.6m.Launching in France last Wednesday ...