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Huelva names competition contenders
The 29th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (Nov 8-15) has unveiled the full line-up of films for this year's first edition under new director Porfirio Enriquez.The festival, which also hosts a growing three-day Co-Production Forum (Nov 9-11), has become a key meeting point for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin ...
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US post outfit Soundelux launches London office
U.S. sound post-production company Soundelux has opened a London office, offering sound supervision and sound editorial services to international feature producers completing their films in the U.K.Supervising sound editor Eddy Joseph will head the new facility. Joseph's credits include Cold Mountain, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and Enemy ...
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Juarez joins Juarez at Spain's Intuition Media
The 29th annual Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain (Nov 8-15) has unveiled the full line-up of films for this year's first edition under new director Porfirio Enriquez.The festival, which also hosts a growing three-day Co-Production Forum (Nov 9-11), has become a key meeting point for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin ...
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Cinema People's Academy takes shape in India
Hindi film producer Smita Thackeray has announced the launch of a new Indian film-industry body called Cinema People's Academy. Modelled on the US Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), it will also be create a new Awards ceremony for Hindi Film industry. The other major objective of the ...
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Mukta's Ghai lines up Oberoi for Kisna love story
Indian filmmaker Subhash Ghai's next film will be musical love story Kisna with Vivek Oberoi in the title role. Ghai told ScreenDaily.com that Kisna is set in the 1930s and that it will begin shooting in December in the foothills of the Himalayas in India. It is slated for an ...
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Lennox contributes song to The Return Of The King
The soundtrack to the upcoming The Lord Of The Rings: TheReturn Of The King willbe released through Reprise/WMG Soundtracks on Nov 25, featuring a new score byOscar-winner Howard Shore and a track from Annie Lennox.Lennox's contribution is thesong "Into The West", while other names lending their talents include thelegendary Irish ...
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Disney's Alamo quits the Oscar race, moves to April 2004
Buena Vista has pulled its historical epic The Alamo out of awards contention this season andswitched the release date from Dec 25 to April 2004 after director John LeeHancock requested more time for completion."Too often in Hollywood thesedays, release dates are set before a film has even completed shooting and ...
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Disney's Alamo quits the Oscar race, moves to April 2004
Buena Vista has pulled its historical epic The Alamo out of awards contention this season andswitched the release date from Dec 25 to April 2004 after director John LeeHancock requested more time for completion.'Too often in Hollywood thesedays, release dates are set before a film has even completed shooting and ...
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UTA's Cohen, d'Arbeloff team to launch new US indie distributor
Howard Cohen is leaving UTA and will team up with Lovely & Amazing producer Eric d'Arbeloff to launchRoadside Attractions, a new US independent distribution company that willinitially focus on acquisitions.Roadside Attractions will join Samuel Goldwyn Films as a partnerin the US distribution joint venture Independent Distribution Partners (IDP)and will pick ...
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ITALY
New 01 Distribution title Caterina Va In Citta was the highest grossing Italian film of the weekend at the local box office, where it beat stiff competition from Ermanno Olmi's highly anticipated pirate epic Singing Behind The Screens.Paolo Virzi's comedy, about a 13-year-old girl who moves to a big city ...
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NEW ZEALAND
New openers had a boost in New Zealand last weekend as Monday (Oct 27) was a public holiday providing an extra day for films to tally figures (the chart covers the normal four-day Thurs-Sun period). After a strong performance on previews the weekend before, Columbia TriStar's S.W.A.T. recorded a mighty ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scary Movie 3 was the talk of the town last weekend following its exuberant $48.1m number one opening, trailing several records and a timely lesson in how to revive a franchise in its wake.The horror spoof scored the biggest ever October opening (overtaking Red Dragon's $36.5m in 2002) and was ...
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Elf
Dir: Jon Favreau. US. 2003. 97 mins. Elf is a Christmas comedy that's as sweet-natured and goofily amusing as its title character, a gangly innocent played, in his first solo-starring role, by in demand former Saturday Night Live funny man Will Ferrell. Looking to get a jump on the extended ...
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SPAIN
The Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty had a strong but far from record-breaking opening in Spain, earning Euros 1.6m off 235 copies through UIP, enough to place it in top spot. Columbia's Hollywood Homicide placed second, with just shy of Euros 1m off 275 prints.Other first-weekend openers included: Clint Eastwood's Mystic ...
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Juarez joins Spain's Intuition as production chief
Ele Juarez's Madrid and Miami based consultancy Intuition Media has appointed Patrick Juarez as managing director of feature film and documentary production arm Intuition Films.Juarez will oversee the selection and production of projects for the newly opened division, which aims to make one or two films per year possibly ...
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AFM: IAC, Optimum walk with Lions in UK
UK-based sales and financing house IAC Films and Will Clarke's UK distributor Optimum Releasing are partnering on a UK release of IAC's To Walk With Lions.The two companies will give the picture a nationwide release in May with support from several promotional partners and charities. The film, the continuation of ...
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Australia's Animal Logic gears up for CGI Feet
Visual effects veteran Hael Kobayashi has relocated from LA to Sydney in the new role of digital artists manager at Australian effects house Animal Logic.Animal Logic is gearing up for production to start next year on director George Miller's Happy Feet, the first CGI animated feature to be produced in ...
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Sports marketeer bankrolls Korean car racing feature
Sports marketing firm Hyundai Sports International (HSI) has signalled its entry into the Korean film industry with G.T., a feature about racecar driving that will be targeted heavily at the international market.Short for "Grand Touring", G.T. features a high budget by local standards at $4.4m and is described as "a ...
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Japan acts to boost its international film profile
Encouraged by recent Hollywood interest in Japanese films such as The Ring and Spirited Away, the Japanese government is looking to further raise the profile of local films abroad.Japan's External Trade Organization (Jetro) plans to assist four Japanese film companies setting up sales booths at next year's AFM, as well ...
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Copenhagen fest names new programming chief
The Copenhagen International Film Festival, which had its first run earlier this autumn, has appointed 35-year-old Lone Korslund as its new head of programming. She replaces Michael Soeby, who decided to leave for personal reasons after putting together the first programme. Korslund has worked as a manager at a number ...