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Toronto puts Canadian film-makers into Perspective
Canadian filmmakers Gary Burns, Deepa Mehta and Guy Maddin have been awarded prominent positions in the line-up of the Toronto International Film Festival, as the event announced its Perspective Canada programme. Burns' A Problem With Fear (pictured) will open the programme, Mehta's The Republic Of Love will be a ...
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Imax beefs up China presence
Imax Corp. has increased to ten the number of giant-screen cinemas set to open in China by the year 2005, signing a deal with Shanghai United Cinema for two Imax MPX theatre systems. MPX systems can screen both Imax 2D and 3D large-format films as well as its DMR-branded transfers ...
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AOL TW sells DVD business for $1.05bn
Toronto-based Cinram International will pay $1.05bn to acquire the DVD and CD manufacturing and distribution businesses of AOL Time Warner in the US and Europe. The deal, which should close in Autumn 2003, includes exclusive long-term agreements with Warner Home Video, Warner Music Group and New Line Cinema to manufacture, ...
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Artisan renews with Alliance Atlantis in Canada till 2007
Alliance Atlantis andArtisan Entertainment have agreed to renew their all-rights Canadiansub-distribution agreement through March 31, 2007. Upcoming on the Artisanslate are Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a re-imagination of the 1987 hit and The Punisher, based on the Marvel comic, starring John Travoltaand Thomas Jane.The deal, first signed in1998, has covered ...
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Canada's Cineplex moves booking role to Los Angeles
Canadian distribution and exhibition veteran Tony Cianciotta is leaving Cineplex Odeon Canada (COC), where he held the position senior vp of film, the top booking job at Canada's second-largest exhibitor. One of the most respected players in the North American industry, Cianciotta told Screen International that the company had offered ...
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Ontario groups show united front to attract Hollywood productions
A coalition of Ontario-basedfilm and television industry interest groups has formed a united front to lobbythe federal government and market the province as a production destination toHollywood. Amongst the members of theOntario Film and Television Consortium (OFTC) are more than 30 companies,including the leading service producer in the country, Dufferin ...
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Imax reveals screen plans for Disneyland Paris
Imax Corp and French exhibitor EuroPalaces have signed an agreement to open an Imax 3D cinema at Disneyland Resort Paris, the 47th Imax cinema in Europe.The facility, which will be located within Disney Village and is set to open in June 2004, is expected to showcase Imax DMR films, that ...
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UK's Momentum provides revenue boost for Alliance Atlantis
UK-based Momentum Pictures has boosted its contribution to the bottom line of parent company Alliance Atlantis. Announcing its fourth-quarter and year-end results, the company said Momentum generated 20% of the fiscal 2003 EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) of its Motion Picture Distribution Group, or $7.9m of the ...
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Barbarian Invasions to open Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has announced some of its major titles at this year's eventwhich runs Sept 4-14. Denys Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) which was in competition at Cannes will open thefestival, continuing the tradition of a Canadian film being the opening nightgala presentation.Three gala presentationswere also ...
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Italian Job original rides shotgun with remake on DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE)will release the DVD version of the original 1969 production of The ItalianJob simultaneously with the October releaseof its hit Hollywood remake in the format. The DVD of the original wasreleased through Paramount Home Entertainment International for Region 2 (theUK and Europe) in August 2002. Paramount Home ...
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Idle, Assayas are cool for Katz's Prospero outfit
Soft-money specialist Martin Katz is leaving Grosvenor Parkto found a new Toronto-based production entity, Prospero Pictures. The fledgling operation will act as Canadian co-producer onEric Idle's upcoming The Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas that is being made byLA-based Stratus Film Co, theindependent production outfit ...
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Idle, Assayas are cool for Katz's Prospero outfit
Soft-money specialist Martin Katz is leaving Grosvenor Parkto found a new Toronto-based production entity, Prospero Pictures. The fledgling operation will act as Canadian co-producer onEric Idle's upcoming The Remains Of The Piano, a spoof of Merchant Ivory costume dramas that is being made byLA-based Stratus Film Co, theindependent production outfit ...
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Admissions flatten in Canada at start of new millennium
After a growthspurt in the late 1990s, film attendance in Canada has flattened in 2000-2001,according to a survey from Statistics Canada. The nation'scinemas, including drive-ins, saw 119.6 million admissions, a 41-year-high butan increase of only 3% from the previous year. In 1998, attendance soared by14%, part of a nine-year trend ...
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Imax results beat quarterly expectations
Imax Corp. posted improved quarterly results, yieldingearnings of $34m, up from $31.3m in the prior year quarter and exceedinganalyst estimates. The company has been hot of late, following news lastmonth that the second and third Matrix films, The Matrix Reloadedand The Matrix Revolutions, willbe released on Imax screens concurrent with ...
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Talk To Her crosses C$1m milestone in French Canada
Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her has surpassed C$1m ($708,000) in its 19th weekat the Quebec box office, making it one of the top grossing foreign languagefilms of all time in Canada's predominantly French-language province.The highest grossing film in alanguage other than English or French, Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful(La Vie ...
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SARS causes Shall We Dance shift from Toronto
The SARS scare in Torontohas claimed its first feature film victim. Miramax Films' Shall We Dance, starring Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere, set toshoot June 23 in Toronto, will relocate physical production to Winnipeg,Manitoba. A company spokesperson toldScreendaily that Miramax production executives made the decision Monday,spurred by the World Health ...
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Gods And Generals
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell. US. 2003. 216mins. If it were only two hours long, Gods And Generals would be a trial. But there then follows a further 100 minutes to prolong an experience as dull as it is earnest. Ronald Maxwell, who adapted and directed the well-regarded Gettysburg, is in ...
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What Alice Found
Dir: A. Dean Bell. US. 2003. 96mins.A well-matched combination of intelligent drama and understated performances, What Alice Found is a gem. Much more than the sum of its parts, it explores the emotional dynamics of a young woman who thinks she's found the ideal mother and then discovers she's not ...