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UK actor Harold Ayer dies in LA aged 86
The screen,stage and television actor Harold Ayer, whose film credits included TheSting, The Third Man andTrip To Bountiful,has died from a stroke at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital inWoodland Hills, California. He was 86.Born on August15, 1916 in London, Ayer was no stranger to the performing arts. His ...
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13 Moons to open Avignon/New York festival on April 5
AlexandreRockwell's comedy 13 Moons will kick off the 9th annual Avignon/New York Film Festival,which features 18 American and French independent pictures and runs from Apr 5to Apr 13 in New York. 13 Moons will be introduced by Rockwell and the picture's lead actorSteve Buscemi.The festival,which each year showcases US and ...
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Major Russian movie retrospective unveiled for LA
The first majorretrospective of Russian cinema is set to take place in Los Angeles from Apr17-24, featuring 100 years of film-making and more than 30 titles from theRussian archives comprising features, shorts, documentaries and animated films.The event willbe presented by the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture and is beingcoordinated by ...
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Guirgis heads acquisitions job at Wellspring after Katsoolis exit
Marie ThereseGuirgis has been named head of acquisitions at US independent distributorWellspring, where she will be responsible for acquiring films and programmingfor US theatrical and home video release and sourcing finished films forWellspring's worldwide sales unit, which will handle co-production projectsseparately.Guirgis willreport directly to Wellspring president and CEO Al Cattabiani, ...
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Lilo & Stitch has top 2-D animated opening for US film in Japan
Buena Vista International (BVI)'s Lilo & Stitch grossed an impressive $2.8m on 481 screens in its pre-holiday Japanese opening over the weekend, raising the animated feature's international running total to $103m. The Japanese bow was the biggest ever traditional US-produced animated opening and the fourth biggest ever opening for a ...
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Mic Kramer gets senior vp stripes at Warner Bros
Mic Kramer has been promoted to senior vice president of international publicity at Warner Bros Pictures, it was announced today (Mar 10) by Sue Kroll, the company's president of international marketing. Based in Burbank, Kramer will continue to report to Kroll and be responsible for creating and overseeing publicity campaigns ...
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Fox hits all-time bullseye with Bond's 20th film
Fox International's Die Another Day has become the highest international grossing James Bond picture of all time with a $246.9m international cumulative score, overtaking the $242m set by GoldenEye.The 20th Bond title passed the record mark with a mighty opening in Japan over the weekend, taking $3.4m from 325 screens ...
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Cecile de France lands key female role in 80 Days
Cesar award-winner Cecile de France (L'Auberge Espagnole) and Jackass star Johnny Knoxville have joined Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Jim Broadbent in Walden Media's Around The World In 80 Days, which is due to begin principal photography in mid-March in Thailand and Berlin.Frank Coraci, whose credits include The Wedding Singer ...
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Kusturica joins Chereau as Cannes jury president
Emir Kusturica has been appointed president of the short film and Cinefondation jury for the forthcoming Cannes festival (Festival de Cannes). A Cannes regular, Kusturica is one of only a handful of directors who have twice won the festival's Palme d'Or - in 1985 for When Father Was Away On ...
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Warner Bros exits Australian exhibition joint venture
Village Roadshow and Greater Union today announced plans to acquire Warner Bros.' one-third stake in their Australian multiplex joint venture for approximately $61m (A$100m).The original joint venture between the three companies opened its first multiplex cinema in Australia in 1988 and now operates 319 screens in 29 multiplexes across mainland ...
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Two Greek films share Thessaloniki documentary prize
Two Greek documentaries, Men At Sea by Katerina Patroni and Are There Any Lions In Greece by Irina Boiko shared the top prize in the first competitive event for Greek films at the fifth Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Feb 28-March 9).In the festival's international section, Dutch production Ford Transit, ...
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Roissy to sell Bleating Of The Sheep
Roissy Films will handle international sales on Gjergj Xhuvani's second feature The Bleating Of The Sheep which began shooting on location in Albania on March 3.The wartime story based on the real-life experiences of the director's grandfather will be distributed in France by Les Films de Tournelles and has been ...
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Minor Injuries (Petites Coupures)
Dir. Pascal Bonitzer. France/UK. 2002. 95mins.The old cliche of the French intellectual in crisis, talking himself silly as he rambles from one encounter or affair to the next, receives another lease of life in the third directorial effort from Pascal Bonitzer, the first of his films to be accepted in ...
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Bringing Down The House
Dir: Adam Shankman. US. 2003. 105mins.Built around the odd-couple pairing of Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House is a black/white culture-clash comedy with some broad - and a couple of quite sharp - laughs but an old-fashioned, at times even complacent feel. However, the formula has worked ...
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Lopez has it Maid in the UK
Columbia TriStar's Maid In Manhattan made good in the UK last weekend, with the Jennifer Lopez vehicle claiming the top spot and a three-day gross of $3.9m from 422 sites.Despite poor reviews, that's a sterling site average of over $9,000 for the rags-to-riches romantic comedy, in which J-Lo plays a ...
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Gary Oldman to star in Dead Fish
Gary Oldman, one of the UK's most bankable stars, is confirmed to star in Dead Fish, an $11m thriller about a locksmith and a contract killer who accidentally switch mobile phones. Dead Fish is being directed by Charley Stadler, a top Munich-based commercials director making his feature debut. The ...
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Universal Video restructures following UPI closure
The UK arm of Universal Pictures Video (UPV) has restructured its management team as a result of the closure of theatrical operation United Pictures International (UPI).Eddie Cunningham, previously UPV managing director, will become chairman of UPV, reporting directly to Peter Smith, president of Universal Pictures International. Cunningham replaces David Kosse, ...
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Jade Warrior finds finance after Screen International Summit
Jade Warrior, a film pitched at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit in Berlin, has now been financed and will shoot at the end of this year. San Fu Maltha's Dutch production house Fu Works has boarded the film which is being produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Finland's Blind ...
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Skolimowski to return to film-making after 10-year absence.
Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski, who won awards at both Cannes and Berlin, is set to return to film-making after a 10-year absence. Working with producer Jeremy Thomas, Skolimowski is developing Las Vegas-set project: The System on a budget likely to be around $12m, with the director aiming for an autumn ...