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Straight Jacket to open Miami Gay & Lesbian festival
Straight Jacket, Richard Day's follow-up feature to Girls Will BeGirls, will open the 2004 Miami Gay& Lesbian Film Festival which takes place for the sixth time from April 23to May 2.The festival will alsopresent Miguel Albaladejo's Cachorro (Bear Cub) as thecenterpiece gala screening and will close with a gala screening ...
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Sundance Institute unveils first documentary grants for 2004
Eleven feature-length documentaries covering subjectsas diverse as women prisoners in Yemen to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocidewill receive a total of $395,000 in the first round of grants awarded by theSundance Institute Documentary Fund for 2004.The fund was set up in 2002 as a result of a gift by ...
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JAPAN
With Spring Break in full swing in Japan, distributors have been busy rolling out films aimed at teens and kids.The two new openers most successful in attracting this demographic are both Japanese. Quill, a drama about cuddly seeing-eye dog, debuted on the chart at number two, with a sky-high screen ...
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ROMANIA
In the third week of its release Cold Mountain has finally been pushed off the top of the Romanian box office chart. Welcome To The Jungle and Duplex both made strong starts but the momentum certainly belonged to the Ben Stiller-Drew Barrymore comedy which produced an amazing 5,000 admissions on ...
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Spain's Golem joins DVD alliance Cameo Media
Spanish arthouse distributor Golem Distribucion has joined start-up DVD distribution alliance Cameo Media as an equal partner.The Golem addition rounds out Cameo's direct line to product from some of Spain's leading independent distributors and producers, including Alta Films, Wanda Films, Tornasol Films and Continental Producciones.The companies are all equal partners ...
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Nowhere To Hide steals spotlight at Deauville fest
South Korean film Nowhere to Hide scooped four out of six awards at the second Pan-Asia Festival of Deauville (March 17-19). The Sundance title won the Grand Jury prize, best director for Lee Myung-Se, best actor for Park Joong-Hoon and best cinemaphotography.The quirky cop story - which had its European ...
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Script Factory launches training scheme for film professionals
Screenwriting organisation The Script Factory is launching SCENE insiders, a new international training programme for European film professionals at the Edinburgh, London and Warsaw International Film Festivals in 2004 and at Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2005.SCENE insiders is targeted at directors, producers, distributors, readers, developers and story editors from the ...
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Singapore unveils world's first digital multiplex
Singapore exhibitor Eng Wah Organization is on target to roll out the world's first full digital multiplex, strengthening Singapore's reputation as a pioneer in digital cinema technology.Installation of 2K digital screens at a five-screen multiplex of Eng Wah is near completion. The five digital cinema screens supplied by Barco are ...
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Constantin bullish about future despite 2003 losses
Despite posting earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of Euros -11.8m in the 2003 financial year, German producer-distributor Constantin Film is upbeat about its future performance and predicts sales growth of 55% for 2004.In its annual financial statement for 2003, Constantin reported a 13% decrease in consolidated sales from 2002's ...
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Myriad takes on Meltdown, Evel for MIP
Continuing a move into TV distribution, Myriad Pictures has beenretained as international sales agent on the telefilms American Meltdown for ApolloScreen and Evel for sister company ApolloProScreen.American Meltdown is set for broadcast on the FX Network this summer and tells thestory of a gang of ex-US Marines who commandeer a ...
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Bosnian crime movie gets top prize at Bermuda Film Festival
Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletic's Sarajevo-set crime caper SummerIn The Golden Valley haswon the jury prize for best narrative feature at the seventh Bermuda InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)."The film is very lyrical, but also very tough," narrativefeatures jury chair Willem Dafoe said in a statement. "It is poetic but notsentimental. Even though ...
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Directors Ratner, Craven, Toback attend Brown's Ivy Film Fest
Students on thecampus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, have put together animpressive array of guests and films for their upcoming Ivy Film Festival whichruns Apr 9 to 11.Directors Wes Craven, Brett Ratner and James Toback and AmericanSplendor icon HarveyPekar will speak alongside CAA agent Roy Ashton, Greenfield Productions'director ...
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Tribeca unveils May festival lineup, 30 world premieres
30 world premieres willscreen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from May 1-9 in NewYork City and for the first time includes the NY, NY Features and NY, NYDocumentaries sections among the five competition strands.Overall 65 films from around the world have been culled from arecord 3,300 submissions, ...
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HONG KONG
Horror sequel The Eye 2, produced by Hong Kong's Applause Pictures, has outperformed the original film in its opening week, grossing US$741,729 from 40 screens.Directed by the Pang Brothers, The Eye 2 stars Shu Qi as a pregnant woman who starts to suffer from terrifying hallucinations. Eugenia Yuan and Thai ...
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BULGARIA
Clearly not content with her double-whammy at the Italian box office last weekend, Penelope Cruz achieved the same feat in Bulgaria, albeit with a different headliner.Fanfan La Tulipe, which opened last year's Cannes Film Festival, launched into the top spot for distributor Van Kris on five screens. Gerard Krawczyk's remake ...
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Studios hit as UK gov't outlaws p&a tax schemes
US studios including Walt Disney, Miramax and Universalhave been stopped from accessing an estimated £400 million in UKtax-based funding to underwrite their p&a costs through another loophole intax regulations.Hardon the heels of closing down production funds on February 10, the InlandRevenue today extended its tightening up of tax rules to ...
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Buena Vista, Warner Bros commit to Yes flotation
UK video-on-demand (VoD) pioneer, Yes Television, is to float on the London Stock Exchange. By the end of the year it may be followed by rival Video Networks. Yes has already secured separate commitments from Buena Vista and Warner Bros International Television to buy into the company at the time ...
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Capitol racks up Big sales on high profile slate
Capitol Films is racking up sales on the high profile, threepicture slate - comprising Mark Mylod's The Big White, Robert Towne's Ask The Dust and Robert Altman's Paint - that it is co-financing with German media fund VIP.The Big White, aFargo-style comedy drama starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, James Woods ...
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Bavaria looks to cook up sales for Dresen's Willenbrock
Bavaria Film International (BFI) is to handle internationalsales on Andreas Dresen's latest feature film Willenbrock, which finished shooting on location in Magdeburglast week.BFI previously handled sales on Dresen's Berlinalecompetition films Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) and Nightshapes (Nachtgestalten).Produced by UFA Filmproduktion, the Euros 3m project wasadapted by Dresen's longtime collaborator Laila ...
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Nordisk Film parent sees profits soar in 2003
Danish media group Egmont - parent company of NordiskFilm - had its best ever year in 2003, posting a pre-tax profit of Euros 59m -up from Euros 20m in 2002.However, Nordisk Film revenues dropped back to Euros 345mcompared to 2002's Euros 432m.In August 2002 the company merged its two sister ...