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BELGIUM
Stephen Frears' critically acclaimed Dirty Pretty Things performed particularly well in the Belgian capital of Brussels over its five-day launch. The drama, which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou and Sergi Lopez, placed sixth in the capital city with a $15,914 (Euro 14,434).In the country as a whole Dirty Pretty Things ...
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Hitler's film-maker Riefenstahl dies at 101
Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker who became a favourite of Adolf Hitler, has died at the age of 101, the mayor of the town where she lived said on Tuesday. Rainer Schnitzler told Agence France Presse that the legendary director and photographer had died late Monday at her home in ...
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UK/IRELAND
Buena Vista International's Calendar Girls saw a stunning platform debut at the weekend in an exclusive run at London's Odeon Leicester Square. The cinema boasts the biggest auditorium in the country, able to seat nearly 2,000 people, and brought in $117,512 (£74,150) since the film's launch on Wednesday September 3. ...
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Mummy star returns to South Africa for Forgiveness
The Mummy star Arnold Vosloo is to return to his native South Africa to star in Forgiveness, which is written by prolific scribe Greg Latter (Mr. Bones) and to be directed by acclaimed commercials director Ian Gabriel.The film is the second to come out of South Africa's Dv8 initiative, which ...
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Phantom Of The Opera sets Pinewood date
The Phantom Of The Opera, thought to be the largest independently-financed UK production ever, starts shooting on Monday at Pinewood Studios.The adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is to shoot for 16 weeks under director Joel Schumacher. Gerard Butler, the 33 year-old Scottish actor from Tomb Raider 2 and Richard ...
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UPI floats Bullwinkle, Hannibal
Universal Pictures International (UPI) is sounding out selected territorial buyers at the American Film Market (AFM) on a clutch of high-profile studio titles headed by the $90m The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle and Ridley Scott's Hannibal, the sequel to Silence Of The Lambs.The move is seen as a bid ...
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Cohn buys up Yellow Handkerchief remake rights
Japan's Shochiku has sold remake rights for The Yellow Handkerchief, a well-remembered 1977 hit by Yoji Yamada, to veteran producer Arthur Cohn (Behind the Sun, Central Station). Cohn intends to start filming next year, for release in 2005. Cast and crew have yet to be announced. Based on a story ...
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Screen West Midlands to host EAVE event
Regional UK media support agency Screen West Midlands is to host the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs' (EAVE) International Producer Graduation event in Birmingham from September 18-24.The event gathers producers from across Europe to pitch their ideas to international film and TV executives and is the third and final session of EAVE's ...
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NORWAY
Hollywood blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl was joined at the top of the chart by BVI stablemate Piglet's Big Movie in Norway. This pushed the two local crowd-pleasers, Buddy and United to third and fourth spot on the chart. Both local romantic comedies fell ...
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Europa targets Japan with Vaillant world premiere
Europa Corp. has announced the world premiere of Michel Vaillant which is set for November 8 at the Tokyo International Film Festival.The film is adapted from the comic books by Jean and Philippe Graton about a race car driver. The books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Vaillant ...
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Deauville endures midweek quiet spell
Following the presence of several big name stars over the weekend, the shores of Deauville are much quieter five days into the 29th annual Deauville Festival of American Film.Celebrities who made the trek to Normandy early in the festival included Harrison Ford, Roman Polanski, Tobey Maguire, John Cusack, Jason Biggs, ...
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Polanski readies Oliver Twist adaptation
A Roman Polanski adaptation of Oliver Twist may sound odd, but the film's producer Robert Benmussa insists 'a family film' like this 'will really suit him'.News emerged this week that Polanski is teaming up again with the makers of The Pianist for an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.Oscar winning ...
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Goal! scores as FIFA lends support
International footballing body FIFA is to lend its support to Goal!, the ambitious football trilogy being put together by Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender and Milkshake Films.Full details of the co-operative agreement between FIFA and the film's producers are set to be unveiled at a press conference on Thursday in ...
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Cobalt takes on sales for Bali - The Bombing Of Paradise
UK based sales agent Cobalt Pictures is to handle international sales on Bali - The Bombing Of Paradise, a new feature about the November 2002 terrorist bombings on the Indonesian island.The film is the first production from UK-based New Concept Development and will be produced by Alain Gottesman, president of ...
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Mongrel gets Canadian rights to My Architect
Mongrel Media has acquiredall Canadian rights to Nathaniel Kahn's feature length documentary MyArchitect which is the story of theillegitimate son of famed architect Louis I Kahn as he searches the world foranswers to his father's mysterious life.Kahn, who died bankrupt andalone in Pennsylvania Station in 1974, is considered by many ...
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Toronto: SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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AFM: Lion's Gate picks up Race To Space
Lions Gate Films International has acquired foreign rights to Race To Space, a true story drama about the first chimpanzee in space, which stars James Woods, Alex Linz, Annabeth Gish and William Atherton. Columbia TriStar Home Video has domestic rights to the movie which started principal photography this month with ...
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SPC, UA, Newmarket take hot festival titles
Day six of the TorontoInternational Film Festival saw three films close domestic deals. Sony PicturesClassics bought North American rights to Kim Ki-Duk's Korean drama SpringSummer Fall Winter...And Spring,United Artists bought North American rights to Jim Jarmusch's Coffee AndCigarettes and Newmarket Films madeits second buy of the festival, sealing US rights ...
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Vivendi Universal sells Nordic pay-TV unit
Vivendi Universal has struck a deal to sell Canal Plus Television AB, its pay-TV unit in the Nordic region, to a consortium of equity firms for about 70 million euros. Vivendi said the transaction would cut debt at its Canal Plus Group unit by a net amount of Euros 54m. ...
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SWEDEN
Pirates Of The Caribbean refused to give leave from the top spot in Sweden leaving new Hollywood releases Piglet's Big Movie and American Pie: The Wedding to take up positions behind it.This resulted in local hit Miffo slipping to fourth place but it still fared better than the new local ...