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UGC beefs up key Dublin multiplex
The Euros 13m redevelopment by UGC of its nine-screen Parnell Centre site in Dublin city centre will conclude at the end of November, making it Ireland's biggest cinema according to the company.The Dublin site recorded more than one million paid admissions last year and, according to UGC, "is already set ...
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Perfect Creature takes shape for Arclight
Arclight Films has picked up international rights on a vampire horror film being produced by Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Whale Rider producer Tim Sanders and directed by Glenn Standring (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons).Called Perfect Creature, the film will be sold by Arclight's genre ...
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Istituto Luce buys Good Lawyer's Wife
Istituto Luce has become the latest Italian distributor to grab itself a Venice competition title before the festival has started.The specialist releaser has bought A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), a sexually-challenging drama from up and coming young Korean director Im Sang-Soo. The title was bought in tandem with Italian ...
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San Sebastian unveils competition line-up
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled its official competition line-up for next month's 51st annual edition (Sept 18-27).The festival says the predominant theme of the selection is "living in a world replete with contradictions," and highlights the raft of "high-profile emerging directors" on display. More titles are expected ...
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ScreenDaily.com to offer global box office service
Regular readers of both the weekly magazine Screen International and the daily news service ScreenDaily.com will notice important changes this week.The weekly magazine will sport a brand new look and speak with a fresh new voice that will truly help bridge the different worlds of the global cinema business.From Thursday ...
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The Battle Of Shaker Heights
Dirs: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin. US. 2003. 78mins.Dogged - and, of course, publicised - throughout its production by documentary TV cameras, the second low-budget feature to result from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Project Greenlight script competition is a sweet if uneven coming-of-age drama-comedy whose major asset is a winning ...
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Buddy emerges as Haugesund audience favourite
Romantic comedy Buddy by newcomer Morten Tyldum has picked up the audience award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (Aug 17-24). The Norwegian film, which also was an audience prizewinner in Karlovy Vary, also received the 'feelgood' award (Gledessprederprisen) from Norwegian exhibitors. The exhibitor jury also gave a ...
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IEG to finance historical epic Smoke And Mirrors
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG), which last week bought international rights to high profile Harrison Ford-starrer Traffic, has unveiled another acquisition - the rights to historical adventure Smoke And Mirrors, one of the most famous never-produced scripts in Hollywood in recent years. IEG will fully finance the film and handle worldwide ...
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Arclight to sell Fat Pizza worldwide
Arclight has picked up all international sales rights except Australia, New Zealand, Greece and Singapore on Fat Pizza, the highest grossing local comedy in Australia this year.A politically incorrect comedy adaptation of a cult SBS television series, Fat Pizza took many observers by surprise when it opened in the second ...
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Solid Air
Dir: May Miles Thomas. UK. 2003. 113minsA doleful examination of social injustice and family heartache, Solid Air is a remarkably polished and painfully personal second feature from BAFTA-winning Scots director May Miles Thomas. Dedicated to her father and others who have suffered from asbestos-related illnesses, the film's unrelenting intensity creates ...
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UK Production Listings - August 8 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalUK - August 8Pre-ProductionALEXANDER(Intermedia) Co-prod: Pathe (Fr). Int'l sales: Summit Entertainment (US). US dist: Warner Bros. Prod: Iain Smith. Main cast: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins. Shooting from Sept. Contact: Pinewood Studios, (44) 1753 651 700BRONTE (Random Harvest Pictures) Budget: $12m. Period drama. The moors above Yorkshire are harsh ...
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Cecchi Gori cranks up comeback feature
Popular Roman actor-director Carlo Verdone (It Can't Be All Our Fault) has announced that he is about to start shooting a new project for Cecchi Gori - marking the first concrete steps in the fallen giant's comeback.Entitled Love Is Eternal - For As Long As It Lasts (L'Amore E' Eterno ...
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Diamant to launch sales company with Lamping
X-Men 2 screenwriter Dan Harris' directorial debut Imaginary Heroes will be the first film to be handled by new international sales outfit Signature Pictures International (SPI) - a subsidiary of Moshe Diamant's production outfit Signature Entertainment Inc. Diamant and Jan Fantl's Cologne-based Quality International are the investment partners in SPI, ...
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German veterans launch Living Pictures fund
Veteran fund initiator Rudolf Wiesmeier and Gerhard Schmidt's Cologne-based production house Gemini Film have joined forces to launch a Euros 150m fund to back a portfolio of internationally marketable English-language feature films.According to Schmidt the fund, called Living Pictures, is in negotiations with Danny de Vito's Jersey Films and Jan ...
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Sky Italia unsettles local players
Pier Luigi Celli, the polemical former CEO of RAI, has warned that the arrival on the Italian market of Sky Italia is "certain" to cause more economic damage to the state broadcaster than to Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network.In an interview published by Italian news weekly L'Espresso, Celli said: "Between Rai ...
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Reloaded passes $450m international gross
The Matrix Reloaded has passed $450m at the international box office, aformidable sum that combines with the $280m domestic take to make it thebiggest worldwide release of 2003 so far.The second instalment in theWachowski Brothers' sci-fi trilogy is also the highest grossing R-ratedfilm in both domestic and international marketplaces ever ...
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Odeon, ABC merge to form UK's largest circuit
The Rank Group has confirmed the sale of Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, which plans to combine the circuit with its own ABC Cinemas to create the UK's largest cinema chain.Cinven paid $450m (£280m) for Rank's 75 cinemas following several weeks of speculation. Odeon chief Richard Segal has ...
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Menemsha acquires Mika Kaurismaki music doc
Menemsha'sworld sales division has picked up Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki'smusic road movie The Sound Of Brasil (Moro No Brasil) for all North and South American territories.Menemsha'sEuropean sales representative Beatrix Wesle brought the film to the companyafter it premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002."Kaurismakitakes the viewer on a 2,500 ...
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Spence leaves San Francisco, Blackaby steps up
Linda Blackabyhas been named director of programming for the San Francisco Film Society andthe San Francisco International Film Festival.Blackaby willtake over from Carl Spence, who has left to pursue other interests.In her new roleBlackaby will work with executive director Roxanne Messina Captor overseeingprogramming duties both for the film society and ...
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Fuse ignites Sarajevo
Bosnian filmmaker Pjer Zalica's Fuse (Gori Vatra) has continued its winning streak after Locarno's Silver Leopard by picking up six awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival this weekend.The International Jury led by veteran director-screenwriter Dusan Makaveyev awarded the Euros 15,000 Agnes B. Award for the Best Feature Film in the ...