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Mikhalkov to head Cannes short film competition jury.
Russiandirector Nikita Mikhalkov is to head the jury that will judge the short filmcompetition at Cannes.Also on thejury are actress-director Nicole Garcia, actress Marisa Parades and directorsNuri Bilge Ceylan and Pablo Trapero.They willpreside over the short and medium films from film schools presented in theCinefondation section.Prizes forthe Cinefondation will be ...
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ITALY 28 April
BVI's KillBill Vol. 2 knocked The Passion Of The Christ off the top spot atthe Italian box office last weekend. The Quentin Tarantino picture opened on331 screens, earning $1,811,276 for a solid if unspectacular average of $5,472per screen.Eagle Pictures'Passion registered a further $1,346,435 from 485 screens on its thirdweekend - ...
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Mikhalkov to head short film competition jury
Russiandirector Nikita Mikhalkov is to head the jury that will judge the short filmcompetition at Cannes.Also on thejury are actress-director Nicole Garcia, actress Marisa Parades and directorsNuri Bilge Ceylan and Pablo Trapero.They willpreside over the short and medium films from film schools presented in theCinefondation section.Prizes forthe Cinefondation will be ...
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SWEDEN 28 April
Tarantino's KillBill Vol.2 effortlessly cut into the top of the Swedish box-office pushinglast week's strong opener Starsky & Hutch to second with double thescreen average, $7.456 on its less 39 prints.However, Scanbox'srelease of the Oscar-winning drama, Monster, actually managed a slightlybetter screen average ($7.650) on its just 10 prints, which ...
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Swipe Films takes Int'l sales on Sundance award winner
London-based Swipe Films has picked up international salesrights to Debra Granik's Sundance award-winner Down To The Bone.The digitally-shot film, which tells the story of a workingclass mother hiding a cocaine addiction from her family, won the DirectingAward and a special jury prize for lead actress Vera Farmiga at the festival ...
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Sarajevo film festival announces opening film
Kod Amidze Idriza, the new feature by award-winningBosnian director Pjer Zalica (Fuse), is set to be the opening film atthe 10th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival (August 20-28).The Euros 1.3m drama, which was scripted by Namik Kabil andstars Senad Basic and Semka Sokolovic, began shooting in Bosnia-Herzegovina onApril 5 ...
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Steen's debut gets Karlovy Vary premiere
Aftermath, the feature directing debut from acclaimed Danishactress turned filmmaker Paprika Steen, has been singled out for a competitionentry slot at the upcoming film festival in Karlovy Vary.The 39th editionof the Czech festival runs from July 2-10 and last year had several popularNordic films on its program including award-winners Buddy ...
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MGM takes legal action against Cecchi Gori
MGM is taking Italian film and TV giant Cecchi Gori Communications to court over non-payment on an output deal covering 200 films and television programmes currently being broadcast on Cecchi Gori-owned TV channel TeleMonteCarlo (TMC).MGM is claiming that it is still owed $10m (L20bn) from a $20m (L40bn) deal with ...
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Roads To Koktebel wins Best Film Award at goEast Festival
Russian directing duo Boris Chlebnikov and AlexeiPopogrebsky's Roads To Koktebel picked up the Euros 10,000 Best FilmAward at this year's goEast Festival of Central and East European Film whichclosed with an awards ceremony in Wiesbaden on Tuesday night (April 28).The international jury chose this film, which has also beenselected by ...
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Bavaria Film takes Int'l sales on new omnibus film
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales on theomnibus film Generation by six Central and Eastern European filmmakers,which goes into production next month.The film, which was initiated by the 'relation' EastEuropean cultural programme of Germany's Kulturstiftung des Bundes, will seesix 12-18-minute shorts being made by Stefan Arsenijevic (Serbia &Montenegro), Nadejda ...
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Bill is international Passion killer
The eightweek reign of The Passion Of The Christ ended this week as theinternational marketplace bowed to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2.The secondpart in the director's genre epic saw a raft of number one positions - with fewexceptions - after opening in 20 territories for a $17.7m weekend. It ...
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MEDIA programme extended, budget increased
The official greenlight has now been given for the extensionof the European Union's MEDIA Programme until the end of 2006.In accordance with the wishes of the European Parliament andthe European Commission, the budget for training measures will be increased toEuros 59.4m and for MEDIA Plus (development, distribution, promotion) to Euros453.6m.The ...
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Strong Venice line-up taking shape
Marco Mueller may onlyyesterday have received board approval for his planned changes to theinfrastructure of the Venice festival on Tuesday, but he has wasted no timecoming up with big plans for the programme.His forward-thinking shouldallow the industry more of a chance to plan ahead than this year's Cannes,where many selections ...
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... as new artistic director's vision is approved
The Venice Biennale has cast aside the political turmoil which had whipped up on the Lido shores a couple of weeks ago, to confirm Marco Mueller's four-year contract to head the Venice Film Festival (Sept 1-11,2004) while also approving his new vision for the world's oldest festival.As such, the Biennale ...
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Walden to produce Jim Thorpe story with Sayles writing the script
WaldenMedia has committed to produce Carlisle School, a feature about the early life and times of the championNative American Olympian Jim Thorpe with John Sayles attached to write thescreenplay.The picture will be produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, theduo behind Miracleand The Rookie, aswell as John Fusco (Young Guns, ...
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Warner Bros opens first majority-owned cinema in China today
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) becomes the first ever Western majority owner of a joint ventureChinese theatre today (April 29) with the official opening of the 2,200-seatShangying Warner Cinemas multiplex in Nanjing.The site features eightauditoriums, stadium seating and traditional and digital projection and openedfor business at the weekend with a soft ...
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Saura to get EFA lifetime achievement award
Veteran Spanish director Carlos Saura will be the recipientof a lifetime achievement honour at December's European Film Awards.The Awards will take place in Barcelona on December 11. "Inrecognition of his dedication to cinema, the European Film Academy takes greatpleasure in presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Carlos Saura in hisnative ...
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Comcast turns its attention to MGM
MGM, the venerable US studio, could be among the newacquisition targets being weighed up by Comcast, the US cable network giant.Comcast this week decided not to pursue its hostile takeoverapproach to Walt Disney. Earlier this year it had offered $54bn for Disney, butthe bid had been rebuffed by the Disneyboard ...
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Joffe's Vatel to open Cannes
Roland Joffe's $29m (FFr199m) historical epic Vatel, produced by Gaumont and starring Gerard Depardieu, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth, will open this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 10. As is usual with the opening night film, Vatel will screen out of competition. French actress Virginie Ledoyen, who starred in ...
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Forman to be honoured at Cannes Europe Day
Celebrated director, Milos Forman is to be the guest ofhonour for the "Europe Day" being organised by the Cannes festival on 18 May.The event is intended to celebrate the growing EuropeanUnion (EU) and the accession next week of ten new countries including Forman'snative Czech Republic. It will take as it ...