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International Festival of India unveils line-up
The 34th edition of the International Film Festival of India (Oct 9-20) - the last to be held in New Delhi before the venue shifts to Goa next year - will open with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi's magnum opus Pinjar.Based on Amrita Pritam's novel of the same name and set during ...
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Working Title taps Cruz for Captain Corelli
Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has signed to star opposite Nicolas Cage in John Madden's Captain Corelli's Mandolin for Working Title Films. Eric Fellner and Kevin Loader are producing the film which is being backed by Universal Pictures and Canal Plus. Miramax has UK and Australian rights. Production is scheduled to ...
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Gentlemen begins European tour, Pirates eyes $300m
Pirates Of The Caribbean is expected to pass $300m in international ticket sales this upcoming weekend, which also sees the first major European assault by The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG).Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pirates has no major openings but strong holdovers should be enough to hoist its $295m running ...
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Loews embarks on money raising plan
Exhibitor Loews Cineplex is planning to raise capital through an income trust, the latest entertainment company seeking to leverage the revenue stream of its business operations without diluting ownership of the company proper. According to a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail, the privately-held exhibitor's primary stakeholder, Toronto-based Onex ...
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Media Plus promotes festival exposure for Euro films
Four European institutions have received a total of Euros 800,000 from the European Union's MEDIA Plus Programme as part of its new initiative to promote European films and professionals at film festivals around the world.The Brussels-based European Film Festivals Coordination (EFFC) was awarded Euros 250,000 to establish a support service ...
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Star TV strikes Indian production deal
Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV India has struck a deal with Indian production company UTV to make three big budget movies. The $25m deal will give STAR the exclusive television and broadcast rights in perpetuity of the three movie products. The rights to theatrical and the home video will remain with ...
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German fund moves into international TV financing
Munich-based fund specialist LHI Leasing is set to move into financing international TV series with the placement of LHI Filmproduktionsfonds KALEDO later this month.With a projected volume of over Euros 100m, the leasing-type TV production fund intends to back future episodes of the US series Law & Order, Law & ...
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Knibbs quits UCI for Vue
Steve Knibbs has been appointed as chief operating officer of UK exhibitor Vue Entertainment. Knibbs will report to Tim Richards, CEO of Vue.Knibbs joins from United Cinemas International (UCI) where he was senior vice president, Northern Europe. Former Warner Village UK managing director Melyvn Angell has been tipped by many ...
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UK/IRELAND
Warner Bros' release of British thriller Young Adam saw a good turnout last weekend when it claimed the eighth spot in the UK/Ireland chart from 133 locations. It was an ambitious gamble for the distributor, which financed David Mackenzie's adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, which appears to have paid off.The ...
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Morgan Creek switches allegiance to Universal
Morgan Creek Productions,James G Robinson's production and financing company which has been basedat Warner Bros for the last 13 years, has entered into an exclusive, three-yeardomestic distribution agreement with Universal Pictures.Under the terms of the deal,Morgan Creek will produce and finance all its films for domestic distributionin all media by ...
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Patel upped at Paramount International TV
Mina Patel has been promotedto senior vice president of sales strategy and operations for ParamountInternational Television, where she will continue to report to Joe Lucas,executive vice president of sales and marketing.Patel, who was formerly vicepresident, sales planning and administration, will now oversee thedivision's sales planning and administration, becoming more strategicallyinvolved ...
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Stringer gets Britannia Award honour from BAFTA/LA
Howard Stringer, chairmanand CEO of Sony Corporation Of America and vice chairman, Sony Corporation,will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award for contributions to worldwideentertainment at the 12th annual Britannia Awards on Nov 8 in LosAngeles. 'We are pleased to honor Sir Howard Stringer, who hasmade immeasurable contributions to the manner and practice ...
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Turn Left, Turn Right opens top in Taiwan for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures iscelebrating the success of its first ever Chinese-language film Turn Left,Turn Right which opened at the topof the Taiwanese box office over the weekend bringing its total to date of$3.2m.The studio issued a pressrelease to trumpet its $0.637m opening on 79 screens in Taiwan. In Taipei, thefilm ...
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Palm takes domestic rights to Fortissimo's Last Life
Chris Blackwell's PalmPictures has acquired all North American and Caribbean rights to Pen-ekRatanaruang's Venice and Toronto hit Last Life In The Universe from Thailand.The film, which isThailand's official entry to the foreign language film Academy Award, will bereleased in summer 2004 by Palm. It stars Japanese superstar Asano Tadanobu,who won ...
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Jackson to present Rings trilogy at Lincoln Center in Jan
Peter Jackson will attend anall-weekend screening of the completed The Lord Of The Rings trilogy on Jan 10-11 2004 at the Lincoln Center inNew York City.Jackson will present thespecial extended editions of the first two films in the trilogy followed by TheReturn Of The King, the final filmin the trilogy ...
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Sony studio chief Calley steps down
After months of speculation, Sony Pictures confirmed on Thursday (Oct 2) that chairman and chief executive John Calley is stepping down after seven years in the job.Sony said that Calley, 73, had signed a first look production deal with the studio, and that he would remain on the company's board ...
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Miramax tempted by Infernal Affairs
Miramax Films is poised to acquire rights for North and South America, Italy and Spain to Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs, the first film in what is shaping up to be a hugely successful franchise. The Media Asia production has now been sold to most major territories including the UK, ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Srdjan Karanovic's Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) played in second position last weekend, its second, for distributor Delta Video. Despite screening on two more screens this was not enough for the 1995 Belgrade-set story about refugees featuring actors from all around former Yugoslavia to beat Tuck's The League Of Extraordinary ...
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FRANCE
Zhang Yimou's Asian actioner Hero surprised the tally counters this week by debuting in the number one spot on only 375 screens. Clearly down to a residual effect coming off the success of films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and France's keen taste for the genre, Hero also benefited from ...
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Doppelganger
Dir. Kyoshi Kurosawa. Japan 2003. 107 mins.After the disappointing Cannes performance of his last film Bright Future, Japan's current cult master of bizarre mystery is back on more comfortable grounds with this exploration of a classical gothic theme, transferred into the world of modern research of prosthetic machines. Kurosawa uses ...