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Demme doc goes to THINKFilm
THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to JonathanDemme's The Agronomist,a documentary profile of the assassinated Haitian journalist and national heroJean Dominique that receives its world premiere in Venice and North Americanpremiere in Toronto.The film will open in the US in 2004 and charts Dominique's careeras operator of the country's ...
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Shorts from Wong Kar-Wai, Apted, Linklater at Palm Springs festival
Films from Wong Kar-Wai, Richard Linklater and Michael Apted areamong 265 titles that will screen at this year's 2003 Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films, which runs in its new late slot of Sept16-22.The opening night will feature six award-winning shorts includingEric Armstrong's best animated Oscar winner The ChubbChubbs! (US), ...
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Demonlover opens LA's Silverlake Film Festival
The Silver Lake Film Festival will kick off its fourth annualfestival on Sept 10 with the West Coast premiere of Olivier Assayas' internetthriller Demonlover.Connie Nielsen stars as acorporate mole who uncovers an online torture club. Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershonand Charles Berling also star.The screening will also mark the launch of ...
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Berney teams up with P&F in New York to form new outfit
Publicity veteran JeanneBerney, most recently executive vice president at Rogers & Cowan, isteaming up with P&F Communications to form P&F Communications/TheBerney Group, a PR, promotions and marketing agency headquartered in New YorkCity.The one-stop full-serviceagency is now run by Berney with P&F's Barbara Pflughaupt and Raymond LForsythe who co-founded promotions business ...
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Telluride unveils lineup for this weekend's festival
Sofia Coppola's Tokyo-based drama Lost In Translation, Oscar-winning British film-maker KevinMacDonald's true-life mountaineering drama Touching The Void and Billy Ray's Shattered Glass, based on the life of the disgracedformer journalist Stephen Glass, are among the line-up of North Americanpremieres to screen at the 30th Telluride Film Festival, which runs from ...
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Woods confirmed as Irish Film Board chief
The Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Mark Woods as its new CEO, as predicted on ScreenDaily.com (July 25). According to a statement from the agency, Woods will take up the position at the beginning of October, succeeding Rod Stoneman who departs today after ten years at the ...
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Bellens appointed new chief of CLT-Ufa
Luxembourg-based broadcaster CLT-Ufa has named Didier Bellens chief executive officer and Ewald Walgenbach chief operating officer. Bellens takes over from joint chief executives Remy Sautter and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz who were appointed to represent CLT and Ufa when the two companies merged three years ago. The appointments will take effect on ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
This week marks the return of the greatest local hit ever, last year's Zamfir's Zona which has already attracted over 1.5 million admissions. The film's re-release achieved fifth place with 5,281 admissions, of which some 3,000 came from its second premiere at the newly-launched open-air cinema at the Tashmaidan swimming ...
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ARGENTINA - box office 29/08/2003
Buena Vista International continues to dominate the top three spots in Argentina's box office ratings this week. With kids back in school after the winter break, animated Disney juggernaut Finding Nemo has been displaced by Vin Diesel vehicle A Man Apart, a new release from local indie, ...
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Jeepers Creepers 2
Dir: Victor Salva. US. 2003. 106 mins.Writer-director Victor Salva's sequel to his modest summer 2001 horror hit Jeepers Creepers is as efficiently jolting as the original but not as refreshingly spare or classically creepy. Opening wide in the US (through MGM) and UK (through Pathe) this weekend in the middle ...
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China shatters Tomb Raider 2 release hopes
Paramount's action sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life has been banned from playing in cinemas in China.Chinese government censors are said to have rejected the film because they felt it inaccurately portrayed the country.A number of scenes from the Tomb Raider sequel are thought to have upset ...
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Stars come out to play at Venice
Johnny Depp yesterday did what so many visiting stars at the Venice festival simply don't do - he worked the crowds.Getting maximum value from Venice's short catwalk, he signed autographs, waved and accepted kisses from adoring female fans. He was in town for Once Upon A time In Mexico, Robert ...
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Rai Trade takes on sales for competition pair
Rome-based sales agent Rai Trade has taken world-wide distribution rights to two highly anticipated Italian Venice competition titles, and has also sold North American rights to Pupi Avati's Heart Elsewhere to Northern Art Entertainment.The sales offshoot of state broadcaster Rai has picked up international rights to The Miracle, Edoardo Winspeare's ...
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Stars come out to play at festival
Johnny Depp yesterday did what so many visiting stars at the Venice festival simply don't do - he worked the crowds.Getting maximum value from Venice's short catwalk, he signed autographs, waved and accepted kisses from adoring female fans. He was in town for Once Upon A time In Mexico, Robert ...
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Berri's San Antonio restarts after summer hiatus
After a rocky start, Asterix producer Claude Berri is pressing ahead with shooting on his next big budget film. San Antonio, an adaptation of the cult book series by Frederic Dard, has gone through a series of changes both behind and in front of the camera.Shooting originally began on the ...
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Toy Story 2, Beach and Beauty show legs
The triumvirate at the top of the record-breaking UK chart last weekend maintained eye-popping screen averages for the three days Feb 18-20. Despite Toy Story 2's unprecedented $12.4m (£7.8m) gross last weekend, the computer-generated animation fell just 16% this weekend, with a 3-day gross of $10.4m (£6.5m). This ...
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San Sebastian lifts its Latin Horizons
The 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the plethora of Latin American and Spanish films that make up its Latin Horizons, Made In Spain and Films In Progress sections.The newly-created Latin Horizons (Horizontes Latinos) section separates out Latin American films from the former, all-encompassing Made In Spanish section, ...
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German exhibitors step up UIP boycott
A group of German exhibitors are continuing their boycott of UIP releases because of the introduction of a new rentals system by the distributor.Members of the interest group Interessengemeinschaft 47.7 (IG 47.7) - which represents medium sized German exhibitors - boycotted UIP's release of American Pie: The Wedding over the ...
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HONG KONG Production Listings - August 29 2003
HONG KONG - August 29 PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE EYE II(Applause Pictures) Budget: US$4m. Int'l sales: Fortissimo Film Sales. Genre: Horror. Prods: Peter Ho Sun Chan, Lawrence Cheng. Dirs: Danny and Oxide Pang. Scr: Jojo Hui. Shooting in Hong Kong and Thailand from September 2003. Release date: Spring 2004.Contact: Fortissimo Film Sales (852) ...