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Denmark's first CGI movie, Terkel In Trouble was directed by Stefan Fjeldmark, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen and Thorbjorn Christoffersen. The $1.2m film is based on a story written by the Danish comedian Anders "Anden" Matthesen and is a production by Thomas Heinesen for Nordisk Film Production, in collaboration with A-Film.Released on ...
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Raindance, BIFA announce 2004 events
Raindance and The British Independent Film Awards have announced their programme of events for 2004.Raindance also announced its move into UK home entertainment distribution with the formation of the Raindance Distribution Company, a joint venture with Anchor Bay Entertainment to create a new DVD label which will release six to ...
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Venture capital firm sells entire stake in exhibitor Kinepolis
Belgian venture capital firm GIMV has sold its entire 10% stake in exhibition company Kinepolis Group, realising capital gains of Euros 5.5m, according to the company.GIMV sold its 686,860 shares for an estimated Euros 13m after Kinepolis posted results showing a consolidated net profit of Euros 2.7m for 2003 - ...
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Birmingham IMAX cinema to re-open over Easter
The IMAX cinema in the UK city of Birmingham is to re-open over Easter after closing at the end of 2003 after massive losses.The giant 50x70ft Imax cinema, based at the Millennium Point, was forced out of business at the end of December when Cinegrand Birmingham, the UK company running ...
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De-lovely wraps up Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has confirmed that De-lovely, a musical biography of American composer Cole Porter directed by Irwin Winkler, will close the festival on May 22.The MGM film will screen in official selection, out-of-competition.De-lovely stars Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, and Jonathan Pryce as well as music stars Alanis Morissette, ...
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UK cinema outlook remains positive
The UK's cinema industry remains on track to deliver 200 million cinema-goers - and £1bn at the box office - by 2008, according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.The report put last year's drop of 8.5 million admissions down to the exceptional product line-up of the previous year ...
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Chinese box office to triple within five years
China is forecast to be the fast growing cinema market in the Asia Pacific region over the next five years according to a new report, Cinemagoing Asia Pacific by Dodona Research.Chinese box office is expected to more than triple to reach $380m by 2008, compared to $120m last year. The ...
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Mifed date change sparks domino effect
The shift in the MIFED dates is having repercussions for many other events in the international film calendar.Spanish sellers, for example, fear that with Mifed and AFM now as separate and competing events they are expected to pitch their sales tents at no less than five locations in nine weeks: ...
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AFM: deals in brief
Bavaria FilmsBerlin Golden Bear-winner, Head On was sold to Golem for Spain, Alpha for Argentina, With Cinema for Korea, Blitz for Croatia and Cinecolumbia for Columbia. Veit Helmer's Gate To Heaven was sold to Videovision for South Africa..ArclightBeautiful Boxer was sold to Tartan films for the UK and Silver Hawk ...
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AFM: Senator strikes pair of Harold And Kumar sales
Senator International has sold two additional territories for its comedy Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, which has just completed principal photography and is due to be released in the US in July through New Line.Constantin has picked up German rights and Metropolitan Films has acquired for France.John Cho ...
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AFM: deals in brief
*Myriad Pictures has closed a seven figure-deal with Rai Cinema in Italy for its psychological thriller Trauma starring Colin Firth. The deal was negotiated by Myriad's senior vice president, international distribution, Samantha Horley with Rai's head of film rights Paola Malanga. The film, which was produced by the UK's Little ...
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UK launches post-production trade body
Industry veteran Mike Luckwell has been appointed chairman of the new association charged with representing the UK's post-production sector at home and internationally.The new post-production trade body will initially be jointly financed by the DTI, UK Film Council and companies from the post-production community.An open meeting will be held with ...
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Hayek to write, direct and star in Mexican comedy
Mexican actress Salma Hayek is poised to return to Mexico where she may direct and play the lead in a comedy she is presently co writing.Guadalajara, Mexico-based Anhelo Films will co produce El Hombre De La Casa Enfrente along with Hayek's Los Angeles-based company Ventanarosa Productions.Initially launched by director Alfonso ...
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Jackson, Weir are Bafta's King and Master
Sunday night's BAFTA Awards threw up almost as many surprises as Saturday's Berlinale Golden Bears.While The Return Of The King was always a hot favourite for best film; that Master And Commander could equal its awards tally was less predictable. And while Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were tipped for ...
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Berlinale's Bears full of surprises
In a surprise win, Turkish/German director Fatih Akin's Head On received the Golden Bear at Saturday night's Berlinale awards ceremony - the first German film to win in Berlin since 1986.Other surprises included the shared best actress award, which along with favourite Charlize Theron for Monster honoured newcomer Catalina Sandino ...
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Amnesty to launch film prize at Berlinale 2005
Amnesty International is to launch a new prize at the Berlinale next year for films dealing with subjects such as human rights and human dignity.The Amnesty International Film Award is being launched to put these films in the spotlight, to offer them a larger audience and to encourage committed filmmakers.Starting ...
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Bill Nighy joins voice cast of Magic Roundabout
Pathe has signed Bill Nighy - to voice the character of the rabbit, Dylan, for its CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.Nighy rounds out the previously announced voice cast members for the film of The Magic Roundabout, which is based on the classic cult TV series of the same name, ...
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Master And Commander sails off with London Critics awards
Master And Commander was the toast of last night at the 24th London Film Critics Circle Awards taking away Best Film, Best British Actor for Paul Bettany and Best Screenwriter for John Collee and Peter Weir.The other winners of the night included Mystic River for Best Director and Best Actor ...
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MEDIA SALLES launches DigiTraining course
The MEDIA Programme exhibition initiative MEDIA SALLES has announced the launch of a brand new training course 'DigiTraining Plus: New Technologies For European Cinemas to held at the headquarters of the Belgian video screening company BARCO in Kuurne from March 31 to April 4.Topics to be dealt with include an ...