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Return Of The King adds $11m to bring gross to $663.1m
On the weekendthat The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King won all 11 of the Oscars for which ithad been nominated, Peter Jackson's trilogy finale leapfrogged 2001's HarryPotter And The Sorcerer's Stone to become the second biggest international picture of all time.It added $11mfrom 3,148 screens in ...
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Ebeling, Behring complete management buyout of MCOne
Sven Ebeling and HagenBehring, co-chief executive officers of Media Cooperation One (MCOne), one ofGermany's largest independent video and DVD distributors, have completed amanagement buyout of the company.Ebeling and Behring,co-founders and shareholders of MCOne, last month acquired the remainingmajority shares of the company previously owned by DBI, the equity division ofDeutsch ...
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Forman to receive lifetime award from San Francisco
Milos Formanwill receive the Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing atthe 47th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 15-29.The Award willbe presented by Danny DeVito on Apr 22 at a black tie gala in honour of Formanand Oscar winning actor Chris Cooper, who will receive ...
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Bellochio's latest joins Kahn at Wellspring
Followingyesterday's news that it has acquired all US rights to Cedric Kahn's Berlintitle Red Lights (FeuxRouges), New York-basedindependent Wellspring has taken US rights to Italian director MarcoBellocchio's Good Morning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte).The deals forboth pictures were negotiated by Wellspring's head of acquisitions MarieTherese Guirgis and head of theatrical distribution Ryan ...
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10% more buyers at this year's AFM than last year, says market
Total attendance at thismonth's AFM climbed by 5% to 7,212 compared to 6,834 last year, while thenumber of buyers rose 10% from 1,309 to 1,434, organisers said yesterday (2).There were 642 registeredcompanies compared to 598 last year and the number of individual exhibitorsrose from 3,419 in 2003 to 3,672, a ...
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Walk On Water is joint Roadside/Goldwyn domestic buy
RoadsideAttractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointly acquired North Americanrights to Eytan Fox's political thriller Walk On Water.The picture, a hit at Berlin this year, is the follow-upto Fox's worldwide success, Yossi And Jagger.The story centreson an Israeli assassin who goes undercover as a tour guide in order to trackdown ...
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Triple Agent
Dir: Eric Rohmer. France. 2004. 115mins.Triple Agent is another clever, witty, intelligent morality play by the dean and master of the genre Eric Rohmer, interpreted with his legendary playful earnestness. This is however, by his own admission, the most talkative of his films and as such something of a challenge ...
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HUNGARY
Most likely nobody would've thought that in the fourth week of its release Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond will still be such strong competition for Tom Cruise's Last Samurai. The Japan-set epic debuted on top of the chart with over 47,000 admissions, a mere 15,000 more than Herendi's historical comedy which ...
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Nightsongs (Die Nacht Singt Ihre Lieder)
Dir. Romuald Karmakar. Germany. 2004. 95mins.Regarded by many as one of the great hopes of German cinema, Romuald Karmakar's award-studded career risks taking a downward turn with Nightsongs, a self-indulgent, repetitive and unimaginative adaptation of a Norwegian stage play that gains nothing from being transferred to film.A static portrait of ...
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Japanese cinema icon to retire at 50
After 50 years and 27 films, Godzilla is to retire after the latest instalment, Godzilla: Final Wars, which is scheduled for a December release.Toho producer Shogo Tomiyama explained that the studio made the decision to retire its most famous character in the planning stages of the new film. "We could ...
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International co-productions face funding paradox
At the heart of international co-productions lies an essential paradox for Europe. The various national incentive schemes and subsidies upon which they depend are designed to keep filmmaking crews and talents fully employed in their local countries. And yet, co-production treaties are meant to encourage cross-border collaborations.This contradiction may help ...
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France appoints new national ratings chief
France's film council (CNC) has announced the appointment of Sylvie Hubac to the post of president of the national ratings board known as the Commission de Classification.Hubac was nominated by culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon and the proposal was then ratified by Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.Hubac studied at France's national administration ...
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Winchester finally becomes Content
The name Winchester Entertainment PLC is set to disappear, it was confirmed yesterday as further details of the merger between Winchester and Ed Pessman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm inc. were announced.Subject to shareholder approval at an extraordinary general meeting on 26 March, the new enlarged entity is to be called ...
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Sofia film festival launches 8th edition
Director Takeshi Kitano's highly-praised Zatoichi opens the 8th Sofia International Film Festival today.The festival boasts some 100 features, 10 documentaries and 60 shorts as well as a feature competition comprising 14 titles including Karlovy Vary audience favourite, Buddy, Camera D'Or winner, Reconstruction, Locarno award winner, Maria and 16 Years Of ...
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Working Title options best-seller
Working Title Films has optioned Star Of The Sea, Joseph O'Connor's best-selling novel set on a ship full of emigres fleeing the Irish potato famine.Told through the eyes of one passenger, a New York Times reporter, the acclaimed novel charts the fortunes of an array of characters on board the ...
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Newmark sets domestic release dates for Wake, Pizzas
Newmark/EchelonEntertainment Group has set the US release of Henry LeRoy Finch's drama Wake for late April and Vinnie Sassone'sromantic comedy A Tale Of Two Pizzas for the autumn.In Wake, four brothers gather for a debauchednight of drinking and perversion only to realise they are attending a awake. Martin Landau stars ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Eisner stripped of chairman's title
Walt Disney's powerful chief executive officer Michael Eisner was forced last night to hand over the chairman's title to George J. Mitchell, in order to placate a rising tide of shareholder resentment over what they see as his imperious management style and a poor company performance.The embattled Eisner was put ...