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Cats And Dogs takes $9m, Scary 2 $8.75m on July 4
Warner Bros has a hit on its hands in North America with Cats And Dogs which grossed a meaty $9m on its opening day Wednesday. The family adventure, featuring digitally animated cats and dogs and the voices of Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon among others, led the field on the ...
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Scary Movie 2
Dir: Keenan Ivory Wayans. US. 2001. 88 mins. It's taken the Wayans brothers just twelve months to follow up on the astounding success of their slasher spoof Scary Movie (which last summer grossed $157m in the US and $103m internationally) with a sequel that rips into the supernatural thriller genre ...
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CinemaxX CFO quits as expansion plans collapse
Marius Schwarz, chief financial officer at German exhibition giant CinemaxX has quit following the posting of half-year company losses of $22.5m (DM52.3m)Subsequent restructuring of the company has led to the closure of the its foreign operations and the removal of its chief, Wim Oude Kotte.Stating its intention to revise its ...
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Medusa's Bernasconi dies suddenly
Carlo Bernasconi, president of Rome-based mini major Medusa Film, died suddenly Thursday night in Milan. Aged 57, he was known to have been suffering from heart problems for some time.Bernasconi was one of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's closest collaborators, first working with him in the construction industry in the 1970s, ...
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Scottish film chief quits threatened agency
John Archer, the chief executive of Scottish Screen, the national film agency, has quit his position after five years.Archer has been under fire since May, when it was revealed that the agency's lottery panel had awarded a £24,000 development grant to a film directed by his wife, Clara Glynn.While Archer ...
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New German production company attracts F.A.M.E.
German publicly listed media concern F.A.M.E. has taken a 30% stake in the newly-founded Munich-based production outfit BUETOW MAINUSCH Filmproduktion.BUETOW MAINUSCH Filmproduktion, which is currently developing a feature film project as well as a TV a series and several TV movies, has been established by Babelsberg TV's managing director Michael ...
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Walters joins Memory Of Water
UK actress Julie Walters is re-teaming with Lewis Gilbert, director of Educating Rita, the film which won her a Best Actress nomination at the 1983 Oscars.The Memory Of Water is currently shooting on the Isle Of Man before moving to Twickenham Studios in London. The film, which wraps on August ...
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No Regrets for top Munich festival film prize
This year's $35,000 (DM 80,000) main prize at the Munich Filmfest was awarded to Benjamin Quabeck for his graduation film Nichts Bereuen (No Regrets).Commenting on the 'HypoVereinsbank' Director's Support Prize the jury noted that the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg graduate had produced a clever, entertaining film of deep humanity: a young directorial ...
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Cats And Dogs, Scary Movie 2 top holiday weekend
Cats And Dogs beat Scary Movie 2 - just - to the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend, but business was not on the mega-levels generated by last year's battle between The Perfect Storm and The Patriot.Opening on Wednesday - the July the 4th holiday ...
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Anders gets retrospective tribute at Karlovy Vary
US independent film-maker Allison Anders will receive a retrospective tribute at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival next week as part of the Forum Of Independents series. Anders' latest film Things Behind The Sun, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will also be screened.Things Behind The Sun, which is ...
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Violette joins Myriad as head of music
Independent music specialist Christopher Violette has joined Myriad Pictures as head of music. Reporting to Myriad president Kirk D'Amico and president of production Lucas Foster, he will music supervise a number of Myriad films as well as being responsible for overseeing all the company's music-related interests including the hiring of ...
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Legally Blonde
Dir: Robert Luketic. US. 2001. 97 mins.Slick, sexy andwinsome, Legally Blonde isa lot of fun and a rare sight this summer: A feel-good movie that's notentirely frivolous. A logical follow-up to Election, in which Reese Witherspoon played an obnoxiouslyambitious high-schooler, the new comedy casts her as a ditzy but smart ...
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The Score
Dir: Frank Oz. US. 2001.122 mins.Despite a high-calibre cast, headed by three of the most accomplished actors working in American film - Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton - not many sparks fly in The Score, an extremely old-fashioned heist thriller that looks and sounds as if it were ...
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Cecchi Gori president steps down amid allegations
Italy's fallenmedia mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori (pictured left) announced on Monday night that he is temporarily "abstaining" himself from all his duties as president of the Cecchi Gori Group.Cecchi Gori's self-suspension announcement comes only days after police said they found nine grams of cocaine during an early morning search at ...
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Moulin Rouge outdances Strictly Ballroom in Oz
Baz Luhrmann's compatriots have voted Moulin Rouge the best of his films - with their wallets. In its seventh week on release in Australia it has overtaken his debut Strictly Ballroom to become the fourth biggest local film ever, with a domestic gross of $11.3m (A$22.4m). Strictly Ballroom grossed $8.11m ...
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Eastern Europe warned of runaway production
Central Europe's newfound prominence as a production location may come to a swift end as Hollywood turns to locations with better subsidies, tax support schemes and incentives, said producers gathered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.'The real competition for the former Soviet Bloc countries is ...
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Spain's Alquimia tunes up for Zeffirelli's Callas
Fledgling Spanish producer-distributor Alquimia Cinema has boarded Franco Zeffirelli's widely anticipated forthcoming film Callas Forever about the famed opera diva.Veteran Spanish actors Angela Molina (Live Flesh) and Manuel de Blas (Goya In Bordeaux) have also joined the cast, which is set to star Fanny Ardant in the title role alongside ...
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Kinowelt ditches interest in East German distrib
Beleaguered German media concern Kinowelt Medien has sold its 40% stake in Progress Film Verleih to Tellux Beteiligungsgesellschaft, making Tellux the sole shareholder of the former East German state distributor.In an official statement, Tellux stated that it plans "in future, to further expand the initiated Progress activities in distribution, world ...
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Deauville's Avant-Premieres have French flavour
In a departure from its usual cluster of major US studio films, a record half of the titles in Deauville's prestigious 'Avant-Premieres' selection are handled by French independent distributors, giving the American film festival a more auteurish twist.Along with Steven Spielberg's AI and another Warner Bros movie, Swordfish, the titles ...
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Spain's biggest animation rolls as Aardman stalls
In the week when UK-based Aardman Animations announced it was postponing production on its $40m Tortoise vs. Hare, Barcelona-based Filmax has unveiled details of an ambitious animation project: El Cid, The Legend (El Cid, La Leyenda) The film, one of the biggest animated features ever produced in Spain, is to ...