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Amelie gets push from Momentum for UK record
Having already established a cult profile by opening the Edinburgh Film Festival, UK distributor Momentum Pictures is hoping to propel Amelie From Montmartre into the UK record books by supporting its 78-print October release with a p&a budget in the region of $853,000 (£600,000)."We believe Amelie is going to be ...
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Argentine cinemas hit by national economy slump
Argentina's deepening economic crisis is cutting heavily into the national box office, with earnings for the territory's biggest cinema operator, Village Cinemas South America, expected to be down 10% on last year, according to company president Eduardo Novilla Astrada.In its third year of economic gloom, Argentina's cinema business - long ...
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Sarajevo festival boasts broad film selection
Films by Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls), Joel Coen (The Man Who Wasn't There) and Jafar Panahi (The Circle) are among the films screening in the Panorama sidebar of this year's Sarajevo Film Festival which opens on August 17 with an open-air screening of Cannes prize-winner No Man's Land.Other Panorama ...
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StudioCanal sees film boost half-year revenues
Vivendi Universal's European film and television production and distribution subsidiary StudioCanal has posted a 20.3% hike in revenues for the first half of 2001, mostly due to revenues from new films, which grew by 51% compared to the same period last year.StudioCanal's consolidated revenues reached Euros 179.9m, (including Euros 165.2m ...
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UK's Optimum acquires two titles
UK independent distributor, Optimum Releasing has acquired Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Julien Temple's Pandaemonium.The distributor, headed by Will Clarke, is taking over Pandaemonium from the ailing Downtown Pictures, which was to release the picture in May but was forced to secure a Creditors Voluntary Agreement to pay ...
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Oz movie convention boasts stellar line-up
Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush will accept the international star of the year award during Australia On Show, the first night of the 56th Australian International Movie Convention, being held at Queensland's Gold Coast from Aug 14 to 18. Eric Bana will be named the Australian star of the year for his ...
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Perugorria and Flores sign up to Resentment
Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria (Strawberry And Chocolate) and Spanish pop star Lolita Flores have signed on to star in director Miguel Albaladejo's next film Rencor (Resentment) for co-producers Iconica, Zebra, Alta Producciones and Trivision.Shooting gets underway in Spain on August 20 with co-star Elena Anaya (Sex And Lucia, Fading Memories). ...
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Chan to return to Ireland for Shanghai Knights
Jackie Chan had only just arrived in Dublin to begin shooting on The Highbinders when he revealed that he is already planning a return visit to film the sequel to Shanghai Noon.His presence in Ireland was a curious story to begin with; he is making the biggest Hong Kong movie ...
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The Cat's Meow
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Germany-UK. 2001. 111 mins.Despite some moments of nasty, old-fashioned fun and a shining performance by Kirsten Dunst (pictured), The Cat's Meow, Peter Bogdanovich's eagerly awaited comebackafter close to a decade without a theatrical feature to his name, is a disappointment. Assuming the shape of a trashy Sunday ...
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Apes, AI grosses stack up in weekend int'l release
20th Century Fox's Planet Of The Apes continued to open around the world over the weekend, bringing its total gross to $47.17m after three weeks of release, while Warner Bros bowed AI Artificial Intelligence in Korea and Mexico, bringing its overseas total to $68.1m from just three territories.Planet Of The ...
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Schneider quits UPC as results disappoint again
Mark Schneider is to stand down as chairman and chief executive of UPC, the troubled company that is Europe's largest cable network operator. His move follows the announcement of second quarter results that sent the shares on another slide. The company reported an improvement in its operational result, but the ...
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Parole Officer checks in at the UK box office
UK TV comedian Steve Coogan launched himself on the big-screen at the weekend with The Parole Officer. Pulling in a strong $1.3m (£902,028) from 288 sites, the comedy saw a site average of $4,468 - better than either Jurassic Park III or Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.Arriving at number five ...
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Osmosis Jones
Dirs: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly; anim dirs: Piet Kroon, Tom Sito. US. 2001. 98 mins.The Farrelly brothers and Bill Murray are the names that jump out of the credits, that promising-sounding combination plays a relatively minor role in Osmosis Jones, an animated/live action comedy that represents Warner's latest attempt to ...
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Farrell to return to Ireland for Intermission
Having exploded onto the Hollywood scene with upcoming US titles such as Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and Bruce Willis WW2 drama Hart's War, red-hot Irish actor Colin Farrell is likely to return to home-grown features on Dublin-set ensemble piece Intermission.The 25 year-old actor, who this week purportedly landed $5m to ...
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Capitol heads for Hollywood Hong Kong
UK sales house Capitol Films has boarded Hong Kong art-house star Fruit Chan's forthcoming Hollywood Hong Kong, picking up rights outside Asia. Within Asia the film continues to be sold by Carrie Wong's Golden Network.Set to premiere in the main competition section in Venice next month, the film is the ...
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Dot-bombs be damned: entertainment biz is surging
The message from media merchant bank and industry forecaster Veronis Suhler is that things will soon get better in the US communications sector. The upbeat message comes despite the bursting of the internet bubble and pressure on consumer and institutional spending. Those sectors such as network television and newspapers, which ...
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Alta and Lumen co-produce Novo comedy
Spain's Alta Produccion and France's Lumen Films are co-producing French-language romantic comedy Novo with stars Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes) and Anna Mouglalis (Merci Pour Le Chocolat). France's Celluloid Dreams is handling international sales.Paz Vega (Sex And Lucia), Nathalie Richard (Modern Comforts) and Eric Caravaca (La Chambre Des Officiers) co-star ...
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Jacqui Feeney promoted to CEO of World Movies
Jacqui Feeney has been promoted to chief executive officer of Australian pay-TV channel World Movies and Irene Anast has left her role of research and planning manager at pay TV platform Austar to take Feeney's old position of channel manager. Feeney replaces Hugh Watt, who retired from the business some ...
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IMAX posts 37% half-year losses
Despite efforts to cut costs and streamline its business, embattled large format operator IMAX Corp has posted a 37% drop in revenues this half-year compared to the same period in 2000.In the company's half-year results, revenues over the first six months are $73.7m compared with $117.6m over the same period ...
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Flanders TV signs for Warner Bros. output
Flanders' largest commercial TV company Vlaamse Media Maatschappij has signed a four-year output deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. Its two TV stations VTM and Kanaal 2 will have the right to broadcast new features (1999-2002) - such as Eyes Wide Shut, The Perfect Storm and Harry Potter And ...