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Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan dead at 94
Oscar-winningfilm director Elia Kazan, whose credits include Hollywood classics On TheWaterfront (1954) and AStreetcar Named Desire(1951), has died aged 94 in New York City.Thecontroversial Kazan, whose own immigrant experience from Contantinople he documentedin the 1963 film of his book America America, worked first as an actor at New York'sGroup Theater ...
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Germany's RTV buys Australian Energee
German animation production-distribution entity Ravensburger Film & TV (RTV) has purchased a 69% stake in one of Australia's most significant animation companies, Energee Entertainment, in a move that will spur production activity at the company's new studios opened late last year in Sydney. RTV paid $24.6m (DM48m) in shares and ...
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Kill Bill Vol 1
Dir: Quentin Tarantino. US. 2003. 110 mins.Kill Bill, the fourth film by Quentin Tarantino (as it is announced in the opening credits), continues the director's tradition of raiding other films, film-makers' styles and his own soundtrack collection. And like his three previous films, the result of his looting is a ...
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AUSTRALIA
Japanese Story took A$411,629 from 40 screens for Palace in its opening four-day weekend despite the arrival of sunny weather in most cities, school holidays, Jewish New Year and the AFL grand final. The result put it in ninth position but everything above was on about 200 to 400 screens. ...
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Gun-Shy shoots down opposition at San Sebastian
Georgian director DitoTsintsadze's German film Gun-Shy wasthe controversial top winner on Saturday night of the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival's Golden Shell prize, while local favourite Take My Eyes was recognised with bestactor and best actress Silver Shells for stars Luis Tosar and Laia Marull. As has become customary in San ...
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FINLAND
Timo Koivusalo's Sibelius, which has been a hot item in the local media, has steadily climbed the chart since BVI released it three weeks ago and now sits comfortably on the top, dropping less than 1% from last week.The other local chart topper in its fifth week finally passed Pirates ...
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JAPAN Production listings - September 29 2003
JAPAN Production Listings - Sept 29PRE-PRODUCTIONBOKUNO CHIKYU WA AOKATTA(Rumble Fish) Int'l sales: Rumble Fish. Human drama. A boy, whose brother mysteriously disappeared, goes on a search for his sibling and his own identity. Prod: Takenori Sento. Dir: Hitoshi Yazaki. Shooting in Japan in 2004.Contact: Kumi Sato, Rumble Fish, (81) 3 ...
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Elling set to become a trilogy
A third film about Norway's favourite neurotic Elling - the main character from the Oscar nominated Norwegian box-office hit - is set for the big screen, producer Dag Alveberg of Maipo Film confirmed this week."This is not a case of boiling soup on a thin bone," he told ScreenDaily.com "There ...
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Germany dismisses calls for tax incentives
The Gerhard Schroeder SPD-Green coalition administration has dashed any hopes for the introduction of tax incentives into Germany, similar to those in place in the UK and Canada. The move came in a response to a parliamentary question on the film industry tabled by the CDU and CSU opposition parties. ...
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JAPAN
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life opened at number one in Japan's nine metro markets, taking an average of Y6,629,364 ($59,724) from 22 screens for a total of Y145,846,000 ($1,313,928). This compares with Y212,263,300 ($1,912,282) on 22 screens for an average of Y9,648,332 ($86,922) for Lara Croft: Tomb ...
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Green Planet dominates Pusan Critics Awards
The Pusan Film Critics Association has unveiled the winners of the 4th Pusan Film Critics Awards, with the genre-bending Save The Green Planet by Jang Jun-hwan taking Best Picture, Best Actor (Shin Ha-kyun), and Best New Director. The acclaimed debut work has previously won Best Director at the Moscow ...
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AtomFilms teams up with Forefront
Seattle-based Internet distributor AtomFilms has boosted its catalogue through a partnership with off-line short film distributor Forefront Films.Forefront's library of short films will be added to AtomFilms own catalogue which has recently been expanded through a deal with the UK's Aardman Animation and with South Africa's Primedia Pictures to acquire ...
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Filmax funds boosted by Spanish investors
In a long-anticipated move which gives national and regional government interests direct shares in a film business, Spanish producer-distributor-exhibitor Filmax has undergone a capital increase worth Euros 32m.The five bodies underwriting the increase are Catalan government-backed Finance Institute (ICF) with 3.9%, the Galician government's investment fund XesGalicia with 9.8%, the ...
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Golden Harvest looks to acquire Taiwan's Warner Village
Hong Kong entertainment giant Golden Harvest is understood to be in talks to acquire Taiwan's Warner Village - the joint exhibition venture between Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT) and Australia's Village Roadshow. If the acquisition goes ahead, it would provide Golden Harvest with the missing piece in its exhibition network ...
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Mexico, Bolivia unveil Oscar contenders
Mexico has selected Mexican-Spanish co production Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer to vie for the best foreign language Oscar. Directed by Agustin Villaronga, Lydia Zimmerman and Isaac Pierre Racine, the docu fiction drama is based on a true story of a Hungarian in Guatemala who killed seven ...
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Oscar winning outfit lines up Nowhere In Africa sequel
MTM Medien & Television Muenchen is planning a sequel to its Oscar-winning production of Caroline Link's Nowhere In Afrika (Nirgendwo In Afrika) and an international children's TV series based on the film.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, producer Andreas Bareiss revealed that MTM is developing a feature film based on Nowhere In ...
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Swedish films take top prizes at Hamburg festival
Swedish films were the main winners at this year's Filmfest Hamburg, with Josef Fares' comedy Kops being awarded the Hamburger Abendblatt's Audience Prize and Ingela Magner's Emma And Daniel (Emma Och Daniel - Moetet) receiving the Fox Kids and Super RTL-sponsored Children's Audience Prize.Meanwhile, Kinderfilmfest's Euros 2,500 EMIL prize, sponsored ...
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Tokyo FILMex focuses on young Asian directors
The Tokyo FILMeX festival has announced its line-up for its fourth edition, to be held from November 22 to 30 at four Tokyo venues. The competition section, which focuses on films by young Asian directors, will include two films from Korea, four from Iran, one each from Hong Kong and ...
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Warner Bros UK promotes Strafford, Cressey
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK has named Patrick Strafford to the newly created position of group commercial development director and Alison Cressey to the newly created position of group marketing director.Both will report directly to Josh Berger, executive vice president & managing director, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK.Strafford will work with the ...
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Leigh embarks on untitled London shoot
Iconic UK director Mike Leigh started shooting his latest feature today (Sept 30) at locations around London.The film, set to shoot for ten weeks, stars Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Adrian Scarborough and Heather Craney.Typically for a Mike Leigh project, details at the production stage are sketchy. ...