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Nemo, S.W.A.T, Master embark on major int'l launches
Following a sensational European weekend Finding Nemo will still be the one to watch this upcoming weekend with major bows planned for Italy on Dec 3 and Japan on Dec 6.The animated hit has grossed $233.8m in international waters and should do well in Japan, bearing in mind that when ...
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HONG KONG
Derek Yee's Lost In Time held onto the top spot at the box office in its second week, grossing US$608,816 from 42 screens. The romantic drama is already being tipped as a contender for next year's Hong Kong Film Awards, although it's more mainstream and commercial than Yee's previous films. ...
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Sea Of Silence (Verder Dan De Maan)
Dir: Stijn Coninx. Neth/Belg. 2003. 100 minsAn endearing, old-fashioned coming of age drama, Sea Of Silence travels a well worn road with care and craft. An episodic account of a family's joys and sorrows, it views the world through the eyes of a grave-faced, God-fearing little girl. A poised, mature ...
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Dutch FilmWorks acquires diverse dozen
Distributor Dutch FilmWorks has acquired 12 new titles, including David Mamet's Spartan and Kevin Reynolds' Tristan & Isolde, both sold by Franchise Pictures.Also on Dutch FilmWorks slate is Stacey Title's Dolan's Cadillac, a thriller based on a Stephen King short story sold by Film Bridge International, and Heart Of Summer, ...
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Muccino unveils coming of age project
Hot Italian director Gabriele Muccino, whose latest film Remember Me will screen at the upcoming Sundance festival, has announced that his next project will focus on an 18-year-old Italian girl's coming-of-age experience.Named Il Viaggio di Sofia (literally, Sofia's Voyage), Muccino said his new film will be about "an 18-year-old girl's ...
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Norwegian Film Fund backs nine production outfits
The Norwegian Film Fund has pumped $1.6m (NOK11m) into nine local production companies to back their slates or to help develop their outfits. In the latter category Stavanger-based Sydvest Film and Oslo-based Fenris Film AS both recieved interest free loans of $75,000 a year for thee years, while Trondheim-based Klapp ...
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Israeli French Film Week unveils line-up
Bruno Dumont's L'Humanité and Michel Deville's La Maladie De Sachs are among the films that have been selected for the ninth French and Francophone Film Week, which is scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv from March 25 to April 1. Put together by the French Cultural Institute and the ...
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Carl Schenkel dies suddenly in Los Angeles
Swiss-born writer-director Carl Schenkel has died suddenly in Los Angeles at the age of 55 from heart failure.He made his feature debut with Cold As Ice (Kalt Wie Eis) set in the new wave music scene in 1981 and then became one of the hottest properties in the German film ...
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Diagonale rebels win Euro festival support
The organisers of the "original Diagonale" have been boosted in their resolve to stage an alternative event from March 3-7 by a wave of messages of solidarity from leading European film festivals, including Oberhausen, Karlovy Vary, and Leipzig. Lars Henrik Gass, director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen wrote ...
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Powell, Pons join European Pitch Point jury
NFTS director Nik Powell and Spanish director Ventura Pons are among the five-person jury appointed for the next European Pitch Point (EPP) to be held during the Berlinale on 6 February, 2004.The other members of the jury are Berlin-based producer Judy Tossell of Egoli Tossell Film (Russian Ark), Swiss producer-director ...
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Trust ratchets up sales on Manderlay and Dear Wendy
Denmark's Trust Film Saleshas filled out its list of recent licensing deals with strings of sales on LarsVon Trier's Manderlay and the Von Trier-scripted Dear Wendy,which is to be directed by Thomas Vinterberg.Manderlay, the second element of Von Trier's U,S and A trilogywhich kicked off with Dogville, has been sold ...
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Sellers sells well for HBO London
IconEntertainment and Warner have teamed up to jointly buy The Life And Death Of PeterSellers, the big-budget drama about the quirky British entertainer. Theybought rights in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The two companies haveworked in tandem before with Warner handling the video rights to Iconacquisitions. But the deal ...
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Empire picks up US rights to Japanese Oscar entry Samurai
Empire Pictureshas acquired all US rights to Yoji Yamada's Japanese Academy Award foreignlanguage submission The Twilight Samurai and plans a spring release. Satoko Ishidaand Masaki Koga of Shochiku and Empire partner Edward Arentz concluded the dealat Mifed last month. The TwilightSamurai stars HiroyukiSanada as a low-ranking samurai widower who works ...
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Screeners flood out as judge overturns MPAA ban
The screenerfloodgates were flung wide open on Friday (Dec 5) as distributors reacted to aNew York district judge's decision overturning the MPAA screener ban.Judge MichaelMukasey issued a preliminary injunction against the MPAA after he sided withargument by the plaintiffs that the ban constituted a clear restraint of tradeand was anti-competitive.MPAA ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! sweeps European Film Awards
Christmas came early this year for the Good Bye, Lenin! team when they picked up six of 16 awards at the European Film Awards (EFA) held in Berlin's Arena on Saturday evening (6 Dec).The tragicomedy, which already won nine Lolas at the German Film Awards last June and is Germany's ...
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ReviewsThe Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Dir: Peter Jackson. US / New Zealand. 2003. 201 mins.
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Cold Mountain
Dir: Anthony Minghella. US. 2003. 157 mins. There are a number of coups which writer/director Anthony Minghella has scored with his long-awaited film of the best-selling novel Cold Mountain, not least of which is to soften the focus on the American Civil War - a period in history which has ...
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European Film Awards touch down in Paris
The European Film Awards are on the move again. This year the awards will move from their traditional home in Berlin to Paris for a ceremony on December 2.In line with the event's growing profile, the ceremony will again be broadcast live, this time by pay-TV channel Canal Plus. The ...
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S.W.A.T. opens in 17 territories, takes weekend total of $13.5m
The police action thriller S.W.A.T. opened in 17 territories on 3,575 screensat the weekend and grossed $13.5m to raise its international running total to$53.4m.It ranked number two in most markets behind Finding Nemo and Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) executives say it is well placed to consolidate itsposition during the ...
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Universal scores $13.8m weekend with Love Actually
Universal's Love Actually added an estimated $13.8m from 2,725 venues in 26 countriesat the weekend, raising its international cumulative score to $69.5m with 14markets still to open.The romantic comedy stayed on top in the UK for the third week ina row, adding $5.6m and dropping 29% for a superb $35.6m ...