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New UK distributor builds release slate
Enjoy Cinema Ltd., the new UK theatrical distribution outfit set up earlier this year by Simon Gosling (ex-HanWay), has announced details of its first acquisitions.To mark the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid, Enjoy is to release Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land in the early summer. Based on the novel ...
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EU renews subsidy regime for three more years
The European Commission has decided to extend for three more years the structures under which European governments are allowed to financially support their local film industries.The ruling, announced today (16 March), follows some six months of consultation with governments and film-makers ahead of the expiry in June 2004 of the ...
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Eagle soars with Intermedia trio
Newly-recapitalised Italian distributor Eagle Pictures is finalising the acquisition of three titles from Guy East and Nigel Sinclair's Intermedia Films in a deal that is expected to lead to a long-term distribution arrangement.Eagle co-founder and chief executive officer Stefano Dammicco confirmed that the companies are negotiating a multi-picture deal in ...
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ITALY
Italian films continued to perform strongly at the box office last weekend. New opener Don't Move burst into the local box office at number three, scoring the biggest per screen average of any film and a huge gross of $1,512,205.Distributed by Medusa, Don't Move stars Penelope Cruz and was adapted ...
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JAPAN
With Spring Break about to start, Japanese distributors rolled out more new releases on March 13.The biggest in terms of screen average, $46,002, was Hotel Venus, a heavily promoted ensemble drama starring a member of the popular boy band SMAP and filmed entirely in Korean -- a first for a ...
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NORWAY
Spykids 3D: Game Over zoomed into the top spot of the Norwegian chart with a strong 822 admission screen average on its 32 prints.it rocked the winning combination of the other family flicks Brother Bear and The Young Olsen Gang Rocks pushing them to second and third.But otherwise there was ...
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Chen starts high-profile Promise
Acclaimed Chinese director Chen Kaige has started shooting The Promise (Wu Ji), a big-budget fantasy epic that brings together some of Asia's top talent both in front of and behind the camera.Heading the cast of the film - which cranked up at the Beijing Film Studio on Monday - is ...
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Mumbai cinemas threaten permanent closure
Over 900 cinemas in Mumbai and the surrounding Indian state of Maharashtra have threatened to close indefinitely on March 19 in protest against the government's entertainment tax policy.The call for action was sounded by the Cinematograph Exibitors' Association of India (CEAI) president Nester D'Souza and Theatre Owners' Association (TOA) president ...
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India strengthens industry ties with Pakistan, UK
The first ever entertainment industry delegation from Pakistan is currently in India to meet with its counterparts in Mumbai after a gap of 40 years.The twenty-strong delegation is led by Shaukat Zaman Khan, chairman, standing committee on Film Production & Censor Issues, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry ...
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ScreenSelect predicts massive DVD growth
Online DVD rental company ScreenSelect will send out more than 160,000 DVDs this month, the UK concern said this week.Launched six months ago, the company charges £14.99 a month for an 'all you can watch' subscription. Chairman Alex Chesterman said that the company expects turnover in films to more than ...
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King continues to return, rising 11% in 12th weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is on the cusp of $700m at the international box office as thepicture's recent Academy Awards triumph powered another strong weekend.The picture grossed $10.7mfrom 3,151 screens in 61 markets - an impressive 11% rise in its 12th weekend ...
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Sufrin promoted at MGM's home entertainment group
Ron Sufrin hasbeen promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at MGMHome Entertainment Group, where he will oversee business and legal affairs forthe company's home entertainment, video-on-demand, pay-per-view and consumerproducts operations.Sufrin reportsto group president and chief operating officer David Bishop and Jay Rakow, MGMStudios' senior executive vice ...
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Gelber, Garfinkel, Fischer get senior promotions at Showtime
ShowtimeNetworks has promoted three key programming executives with Danielle Gelberbecoming senior vice president of original programming, Gary Garfinkel risingto senior vice president of film acquisitions and Sara Fischer named as seniorvice president of production.All three willcontinue to work out of the company's Los Angeles office. Gelber will continueto report to ...
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Drefa to exit Progress Film Distributors
Drefa Media Holding, a subsidiary of Leipzig-based public broadcaster MDR, is planning to sell its 37.5% stake in the recently privatised East German Progress Film Distributors.Progress holds global exclusive rights to more than 6,000 feature films, documentaries and animation films produced by the former DEFA studios between 1946 and 1990. ...
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UA takes up Turturro's Romance And Cigarettes
United Artistshas picked up rights in North America, Australia/New Zealand and South Africato Romance And Cigarettes which is scheduled to start shooting in New York this month.The movie iswritten and directed by actor John Turturro and features an ensemble castincluding Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore,Mary-Louise Parker and ...
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Arclight takes on two pictures from Cecchi Gori
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational rights to two titles from Gianni Nunnari's Los Angeles-based Cecchi GoriPictures - family movie My Weststarring Harvey Keitel and David Bowie and the period drama Canone Inverso, which stars Hans Matheson and Gabriel Byrne.Arclight willtake both titles to MIP-TV in Cannes, which the company is attending ...
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Elwes, Heard join cast of Millenium's thriller Edison
Cary Elwes andJohn Heard have joined the cast of Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films'journalism thriller Edison, which stars Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J and JustinTimberlake and began production on Saturday in Vancouver.The storyfollows a young journalist (Timberlake) who teams up with a reporter (Freeman)and the district attorney's ace ...
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What Will Become Of Us earns 12 Italian Oscar nods
In a surprise turn of events, Giovanni Veronesi's coming-of-age tale Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What Will Become Of Us) scored a massive 12 nominations for the David di Donatellos awards, Italy's most prestigious accolade - beating films from long-established directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Marco Tullio Giordana and ...
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Seducing Dr Lewis leads Canada's Genie nods
Jean-Francois Pouliot's Seducing Dr. Lewis grabbed 11 nominations while Denys Arcand's Academy Award winner The Barbarian Invasions earned nine nominations and Robert Lepage's The Far Side Of The Moon earned four nominations for the 2004 Genie Awards.All three Quebec titles were nominated in the Best Motion Picture category, as were ...