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DreamWorks announces theatrical Shrek sequel
DreamWorks SKG has announced a theatrical sequel to Shrek, its blockbusting animated movie which has already grossed in excess of $110m after just two weeks on release in North America.Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who penned the film, have been hired to write the sequel, it was announced in ...
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Human Nature
Directed by Michel Gondry. US-France. 96 mins."Civilization and Its Discontents," Freud's well-known treatise about the eternal conflict between biology and sociology, could have served as the subtitle for the droll, often clever Human Nature, Charlie Kaufman's follow-up script to his celebrated Oscar-nominated film, Being John Malkovich. As staged by ...
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Ireland drops 'Censor' and changes certificates
Coinciding with the release today of Pearl Harbor, Irish Film Censor Sheamus Smith has issued two new audience classifications for films released in Ireland - PG12 and PG15. Pearl Harbor is the first film to be certified PG12, suitable for an audience of twelve years and older, and for those ...
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UK's Momentum picks up No Man's Land, Strangers
Momentum Pictures, Alliance Atlantis' UK distribution-production arm, has acquired all UK rights to Danis Tanovic's Cannes competition film, No Man's Land.In a separate move Momentum announced that it had acquired all UK rights to The Business Of Strangers, a drama about corporate power games that is sold by Beyond Films ...
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Start-up Nighlight options Angel Of Zin
Start-up UK production venture Nightlight Pictures has optioned the film rights to Clifford Irving's novel about a murder investigation in a WW2 concentration camp, The Angel Of Zin.Set in 1943 in Berlin and occupied Poland, the murder mystery tells the story an SS Captain named Paul Bach who is sent ...
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Visible Secret spooks HK railway, scares up big BO
Hong Kong major Media Asia has been forced to cut a key scene from its new film Visible Secret. But the company looks like ending up with the last laugh.In a last minute move suburban rail operator MTR asked Media Asia to cut a scene in which a character dressed ...
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Intertainment results pounded by Franchise row
Business at Neuer Markt-listed German rights trader Intertainment has been practically put on hold as a result of its bitter legal wrangle with Elie Samaha's Franchise Pictures.Announcing first quarter results for this year, Intertainment chief Ruediger "Barry" Baeres reported that his company had posted sales of only Euros4.88m - compared ...
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German tax funds give Paramount another $1.12bn
Paramount Pictures is tapping into another two private German film funds to raise $1.25bn for more of its feature line-up. Germany's giant Deutsche Bank has finally jumped on the private film fund bandwagon with its own product called "Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG" (MPP). It has been ...
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Stockmarket mulls Kinowelt insider dealing probe
The German securities regulator said on Friday it would decide next week whether to start a formal insider trading probe into film rights dealer Kinowelt Medien ."Our analysis has been positive. We have noted peculiarities in advance of the publication of Ad-Hoc-News", Sabine Reimer, a spokeswoman for the regulator, said. ...
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MTV Awards: Sean Patrick Thomas, Zhang Ziyi shine
Prizes were widely shared out at the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. Mission: Impossible 2, Charlie's Angels and Sean Patrick Thomas in Save The Last Dance each won two awards. Heavyweight, Gladiator came away with only one, the top prize as best film.The ceremony which took place at the Shrine ...
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Shrek gives Pearl Harbor a run for its money in US
Buena Vista's Pearl Harbor clung on to the top spot at the North American box office in its second weekend with a three-day take of $30m, but was closely followed by the dazzlingly successful Shrek from DreamWorks, which in its third weekend, took $28.4m. The Michael Bay-directed blockbuster fell over ...
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Double Oscar winnner Anthony Quinn dies at 86
Two-time Academy Award winning actor Anthony Quinn died on Sunday in a Boston hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 86.Quinn, a spiky character actor who appeared in more than 100 movies, was perhaps best known for his title role in 1964's Zorba The Greek, a performance he claimed was ...
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Kimatrai to take over Fox office in Australia
Korean cinemas were besieged by a raft of new releases, but it was not the predicted winner that took the spot. Beating Blade II, was CJ Entertainment's unlikely blockbuster The Way Home. It also had a mighty impressive two-day screen average of $13,700.It is the story of a seven-year old ...
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AtomShockwave shuts up London shop
On-line film distributor AtomShockwave has confirmed that it is closing its London office as part of widespread cuts across the company only months after the on-line giant was created from the merger of AtomFilms and Shockwave.The San Francisco-based company, formed in December from the union of the two internet sites, ...
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Pearl Harbor hit at UK box office
It may have seen off the opposition comfortably, but it was not all plain sailing for Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pearl Harbor on its opening weekend in the UK, its first major international outing since its US debut a couple of weeks ago. The film, which proved critic-proof on its ...
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10 year forecast: int'l box office keeps growing
The latest ten-year outlook for the worldwide theatrical exhibition sector looks stagnant, but increasingly focused on international and developing markets. According to the 4th edition of Informa Group's survey Global Film: Exhibition & Distribution, box office revenues are set to rise by $6bn or some 36% to $24bn between 2001 ...
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Vivendi not ready to sell BSkyB stake
French media group Vivendi Universal has denied that there is any foundation to reports in the UK press that claim that the company is exploring the possibility of selling its 23% in BSkyB to institutional investors.Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier pledged late last year to dispose of the stake within two ...
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De Luca named production chief at DreamWorks
Michael De Luca has been confirmed as the new head of production at DreamWorks Pictures, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the former New Line production chief would join the DreamWorks fold. De Luca reports directly to DreamWorks Pictures co-head Walter Parkes and studio principal Jeffrey Katzenberg.De Luca takes ...
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Taurus
Dir: Alexander Sokurov. Russia. 2001.90 mins. Alexander Sokurov's examination of fallible tyranny continues. After Moloch, in which Hitler and Eva Braun conducted what was often a non-relationship at Berchtesgarden, comes Taurus, in which Lenin, crippled by a stroke, negotiates a living death in a requisitioned mansion surrounded by strangers no ...
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UK writer slams agency signing-on fees
UK novelist James Follett has launched an on-line attack on Avalon Films, accusing the British production company of using his name as "window dressing" to encourage would-be screenwriters to pay registration fees.Follett put up a warning on his own website after Avalon - which is not related to the UK ...