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Hamptons festival praises Jesus
Screen Door Jesus, a film about faith, religion and race that waswritten and directed by a former preacher who was excommunicated from hischurch, walked away with three jury prizes including the Golden Starfish forbest narrative feature at the 11th Hamptons International Film Festival on LongIsland.Memphis-born Kirk Davis, whostudied filmmaking at ...
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Cruelty hits for Universal with $12.6m weekend
Fired by two major international number one openings Universal's IntolerableCruelty grossed anestimated $12.6m through UIP at the weekend from 2,030 sites in 22 countries.Helping the black comedy on its way to an $18.4m internationalrunning total was a table-topping bow in Australia on $1.7m including previews.It took 23% market share and ...
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AUSTRALIA
Intolerable Cruelty lead the field with a A$1,916,705 gross from 228 screens on its opening weekend. Putting aside the only IMAX picture in the chart, it also had the best screen average. This positive start, combined with its star power and the good word of mouth surrounding it, indicates a ...
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ITALY Production Listings - October 27 2003
ITALIAN LISTINGS October 27PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Exec prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260AMAMI(Tangram Film) Backer: Fondo di Garanzia (It). Drama about a woman who has recently separated from her husband and realises that she can be ...
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AFM: Winchester signs first UK producer pact
In the week that Winchester unveiled a string of Hollywood partnerships, the UK entertainment outfit has bolstered its British production presence with a long-term deal with Mark Thomas, producer of Up 'N' Under and Rancid Aluminium.Winchester will look to Thomas to source and produce commercially-oriented, $5m-$7m projects with strong marketing ...
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Ruby & Quentin (Tais-Toi!)
Dir Francis Veber, France-Italy. 2003 85 min.After a sociological satire that was only fitfully successful (The Closet), comedy maestro Francis Veber is back conducting the score that has become his signature: the male-bonding farce. The adventures of a dim-witted, ne'er-do-well robber and a vengeful, cold-blooded professional on the run both ...
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Ruby & Quentin (Tais-Toi!)
Dir Francis Veber, France-Italy. 2003 85 min.After a sociological satire that was only fitfully successful (The Closet), comedy maestro Francis Veber is back conducting the score that has become his signature: the male-bonding farce. The adventures of a dim-witted, ne'er-do-well robber and a vengeful, cold-blooded professional on the run both ...
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BELGIUM
Eight new openers in the marketplace could not prevent local hit The Alzheimer Case from claiming its rightful place at the top of the Belgian box office chart last weekend.The psychological thriller has recorded a massive 131,200 admissions after 12 days on release and grossed $930,164 (Euros 786,919). The Alzheimer ...
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NORWAY
After two weeks at the top of the chart even Mother's Elling had to back down to the attack of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.1, though it retained its position on the admissions chart (30,652 vs. 29,819) due to its high number of prints. However, Bill's impressive 806 admissions screen ...
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Twins Effect stars double up again for Roses
After developing a taste for action in The Twins Effect, Hong Kong singer-actresses Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi have signed up to star in action comedy Black Roses (working title), to be co-directed by Donnie Yen and upcoming director Barbara Wong Chun-chun.Carl Chang, the former CEO of Emperor Multimedia Group ...
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Universal taps into Hannover Leasing fund
Hannover Leasing, financier of two parts of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, is set to board The Bourne Supremacy, Universal Studios' sequel to its box-office success The Bourne Identity.Backing for the film is earmarked to come from Hannover's new media fund, Montranus Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Verwaltungs KG, worth ...
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Dreyfuss gets on Kumar's Road To Ladakh
Actor Richard Dreyfuss production outfit Dreyfuss/James Prods. has pacted with Indian born writer-director Ashvin Kumar to turn his short film Road To Ladakh into a feature film. Judith James of Dreyfuss/James Prods, who discovered the film at the Cannes Film Festival this year, will now co-produce the film with Ashvin ...
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New York's Emerging Pictures teams up for China shoot
New York-based Emerging Pictures is teaming with China Film and two Hong Kong companies - Media Asia and the Chinachem property group - to co-produce Fei, the second feature from mainland-born director-producer Ann Hu. The film, which started shooting in China last week, features Chinese stars Zhou Xun (Hollywood Hong ...
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Mason joins Channel 4's commercial arm
Graeme Mason, former UK-based president of acquisitions at Universal Studios, has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of media projects for 4 Ventures, the commercial arm of UK broadcaster Channel 4.Mason, who has been working as a consultant for Channel 4, is focusing on identifying programming ideas that ...
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AFM: Korea stumps up for Stallone, Costner
Korea is back, at least for the kind of star-driven pictures which Franchise Pictures has been touting at the AFM.Korea Pictures/Mirae Asset stumped up seven figure sums - each - for Korean rights to Sylvester Stallone-starrer Champs, and 3000 Miles To Graceland with Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell.Korea Pictures/Mirae Asset ...
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Vollmar's My Parents wins Hof prize
Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy student Neele Leana Vollmar was awarded this year's Kodak Eastman Support Award for her short My Parents (Meine Eltern) at this year's Hof International Film Festival (October 22-26).Vollmar joins an illustrious list of previous Kodak Eastman prize-winners such as Oscar winner Caroline Link (Nowhere In Africa), Tom ...
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NonStop takes on sales for Sonet pair
Film sales agent NonStop Sales has taken on worldwide sales for two Swedish films from Sonet Film - romantic comedy Miffo and children's/family drama Emma And Daniel - The Meeting. Both productions will market premiere at MIFED.Directed and produced by Daniel Lind Lagerlof with production companies Sonet Film and Hagring, ...
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Odyssey pacts with Polone in two title deal
US agent-turned-producer Gavin Polone, whose credits include Panic Room, has struck a two title deal with Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's sales agent Odyssey Entertainment.The UK-based seller has taken international rights to upcoming production Old Man Johnson and completed film Seeing Other People, both from Polone's production company, Pariah. "We ...
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Polish broadcaster beefs up film spend
Polish public broadcaster TVP has vowed to increase its funding for the beleaguered Polish film industry amid signs that the crisis faced by producers over the last two years is beginning wane. TVP has been one of the major backers of Polish films throughout the 1990's, investing in nearly 90 ...
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UK's Screen West Midlands launches regional film fund
A £3.3 million pot of film and media funding has been launched by UK regional screen agency Screen West Midlands.The agency, which aims to attract more co-productions and features from across the globe to the region, has split the cash into production funding worth £3 million over 3 years and ...