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Alliance Atlantis gets Canadian rights to Super Size Me
Alliance Atlantis's OdeonFilms has acquired Canadian rights to Morgan Spurlock's Sundance-prize winning SuperSize Me. The deal was negotiated bySpurlock and Odeon president Bryan Gliserman between Sundance and Austin'sSouth-By-Southwest Festival (SXSW).Odeon vice-president ofmarketing and publicity Mark Slone told ScreenDaily that the film was the idealtheatrical documentary release because of its marketability. ...
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Telefilm Canada strikes deal with CAA to boost Canadian films
Telefilm Canada has hired anagent. Canada's public sector film financier has entered an agreement with CreativeArtists Agency (CAA) that could see Hollywood's largest talent agency packagingprojects for production in Canada.According to a leaked memodirected to Canadian producers from Telefilm executive director RichardStursberg, the purpose of the agreement is "to assist ...
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Nicks signs on to direct Destination's Slackers
Commercials and music video director Dewey Nicks has signed to direct Slackers which is being produced and distributed domestically by Destination Films. Set to start principal photography on May 24, the film is written by first-time writer David Steinberg (currently writing the sequel to American Pie) and follows three college ...
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ITALY
As Italy braces itself for the release of The Passion Of The Christ on April 7, five new films opened at the box office last weekend, although none of them garnered a warm reception during what turned out to be a particularly lukewarm weekend.Columbia Tristar's Peter Pan opened at number ...
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GERMANY
A ridge of high pressure over Central Europe brought a spate of unexpected warm spring weather over the weekend. Consequently, cinemagoers disappeared into the beergardens rather than the cinemas and the result was seen in the lower overall attendance.Disney's Brother Bear held onto the top spot for a third week ...
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Massive marketing push for Passion in Italy
Eagle Pictures' head of marketing, Antonio Adinolfi, has spent Euros 2.5m to publicise Mel Gibson's Passion Of The Christ, which is released in Italy today, Wednesday (April 7).The figure, which is huge compared to the usual marketing budget of Italian indie distributors, has been spent mainly on TV advertisements and ...
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Sales agents win cash backing to market European films
With the aim of opening up new markets outside the European Union, the European Film Promotion (EFP) is to launch its new Film Sales Support (FSS) initiative at this month's Buenos Aires Film Festival (April 14-25).FSS offers financial support to sales companies and producers who promote and market European films ...
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Best Of Youth sweeps Italian critics' prizes
Marco Tullio Giordana's epic The Best of Youth has swept the Nastri d'Argento awards, winning seven of the prestigious Critics' prizes, including best director, best screenplay and two collective awards for its ensemble cast.The Best Of Youth, which won Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year, is a six hour ...
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French show healthy Passion for Gibson epic
Despite boycotts and lawsuits in the lead up to its French release, The Passion Of The Christ has had a healthy first five days at the local box office.On its opening day, Wednesday March 31, Mel Gibson's film sold 82,111 tickets for a take of just over $500,000 on 502 ...
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Faithless Games wins Plzen Czech film fest
Michaela Pavlatova's Faithless Games was the winner of the GoldenKingfisher Award for Best Feature Film at this year's Finale Festival of Czech Films in Plzen (29 March - 4 April)The festival's International Jury called Faithless Games "a well-crafted work reflecting the unpredictable aspects of everyday life." The film had previously ...
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Zeffirelli tipped for presidency role at RAI Cinema
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli is expected to soon be named the new president of Rai Cinema, the film arm of state broadcaster RAI.Zeffirelli was approached, he says, both by RAI CEO Flavio Cattaneo, and by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns Rai Cinema's rival Medusa and Mediaset. "So many people ...
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Eurimages chief plays up Media Programme 'collaboration'
Eurimages chief Jacques Toubon has distanced himself from comments he made earlier this week suggesting that a merger between the Media Programme and Eurimages may be inevitable in the future.Last week, in an email interview with ScreenDaily.com, he said it would be "natural that the two initiatives will merge in ...
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JAPAN
Both of this week's new releases in the nine-major-cities chart opened strongly, with Something's Gotta Give recording a $41,935 average on 17 screens and Bong Joon-ho's Memories Of Murder, $40,909 on two.Something's Gotta Give was boosted by its raft of awards, particularly the Oscar Best Actress nomination for Diane Keaton. ...
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The Mill Group appoints Shenfield CEO
UK visual effects company The Mill Group has appointed Robin Shenfield as chief executive officer.Shenfield was one of the original founders of The Mill in 1990 along with current production director, Pat Joseph. The company, which has facilities in London and the UK's Shepperton Studios, provides digital effects for feature ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - April 7 2004
JAPANPRE-PRODUCTIONASHURAJO NO HITOMI(Shochiku) Int'l sales: Shochiku. Dist (Jap): Shochiku. Samurai action drama. A samurai battles with monsters that haunt ancient capital Edo. Dir: Yojiro Takita. Scr: Masashi Todayama. Main cast: Somegoro Ichikawa. Release date: Spring 2005.Contact: Kiwamu Sato, Shochiku, (81) 35550 1623CHI TO HONE(Be Wild, Artist Film, Asahi Hoso, Eisei ...
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Japan's production sector resorts to violence
Best known in the West for the films he has directed, including the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or winner Hana-Bi and the 2003 box office smash Zatoichi, multi-talented Takeshi Kitano has had a longer career as an actor, going back to his breakout role as a brutal prison camp guard in ...
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Passion passes $100m from 44 international markets
Current global box office king The Passion Of The Christ held onto the top international position last weekend as its international cumulative passed the $100m mark.The film launched well in several territories including France and Spain - where it claimed the top spot having amassed 525,000 admissions. With a total ...
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Ella Enchanted
Dir: Tommy O'Haver. US. 2004. 95 mins.Somewhere underneath the decorative clutter of characters, effects, jokes and name actors which over-stuffs Ella Enchanted, director Tommy O'Haver has fashioned a sweet, good-natured fantasy which wisely banks on the delightful new star Anne Hathaway to provide its heart.With Home On The Range and ...
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ROMANIA
In one of the few territories not yet hit by the Passion-fever, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River is performing strongly, pulling together nearly 1,500 admissions over the weekend from a single print.InterComFilm's new release, Peter Pan proved something of a disappointment and so did New Film's How To Deal and Ro-Image ...
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TURKEY
Having struggled to find an audience in many territories Robert Benton's drama The Human Stain has proved particularly popular in Turkey.Although having to settle for second place on opening behind UIP's Along Came Polly, The Human Stain played at 25 fewer screens and boasted a far stronger screen average.The film ...