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Suzhou wins top honours at Paris Festival
Suzhou He (Suzhou River), a second film by Chinese film-maker Ye Lou, picked up the Grand Prize at the 15th Paris Film Festival (March 27 - April 3). The film also walked away with the best actress award for Xun Zhou.Suzhou became one of the hottest films at this year's ...
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Creber to receive honorary Art Directors Guild award
William J Creber will receive the ArtDirectors Guild's (ADG) honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9thAnnual ADG Awards on Feb 12 2005 in Los Angeles.Creber earned three Academy Award nominations for TheGreatest Story Ever Told in 1966, The Poseidon Adventure in 1973,and The Towering Inferno in 1975.His other credits include ...
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Court orders Samaha, Franchise to pay $121.5m
A federal judge in Santa Ana, California, entered judgmentyesterday (17 Aug) against Elie Samaha, Franchise Pictures, and 18 Franchiseone-off production companies for $121.5m.Thejudgment, pending post-trial motions and appeals, marks the conclusion of the four-yearlegal battle between Franchise and its former co-production partner,Intertainment Licensing GmbH.Judge Alicemarie Stotler ruled that Franchise, Samaha, ...
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Napola
Dir. Dennis Gansel.Germany, 2004. 110mins.Earnest, sincere and vociferously outspoken, DennisGansel's portrait of a 1942 Nazi boarding school breeding the future leaders ofthe Thousand Year Reich must be one of the more diligently produced andenergetically directed films to come out of Germany in recent years.At the same time it is alsoone ...
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FRANCE 18 August
King Arthur handily dethroned Will Smith vehicle I,Robot grabbing the top spot withnearly 635,000 admissions in its first week out. Spider Man 2 held steady in the number two slot to bring itscumulative take to $28,979,702 after 4 weeks on release. Jennifer Garnerstarrer 13 Going On 30 landed atnumber 6 ...
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GERMANY 18 August
Michael 'Bully' Herbig allowed Alex Proyas' I, Robot only one week at pole positionbefore returning to the top spot with his sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 registering another $5.1m grossfrom 980 screens for a total gross of over $50m. With a total of over 7.2madmissions, (T)Raumschiff is now ...
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McDull, Prince De La Bun (Makdau Boloyau Wongchi)
Dir: Toe Yuen. Hong Kong.2004. 73minsMove over Babe, there's anew pig in town. If the Oscar-winning Chris Noonan film was still current, thatmight have been one way to market McDull, Prince De La Bun, a sequel tothe 2001 Hong Kong animation hit My Life As McDull, which sold all overAsia.The ...
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Local titles fend off Hollywood fare
Despite a great performance from The Bourne Supremacy the highest screen average for the week wasagain reserved for a local film playing in South Korea. Fighter In The Wind (Paramui Paito) placed thirteenth. The film isbased on a comic book based on the life of legendary Korean martial artist ChoiBae-dal ...
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Buena Vista UK promotes marketing, publicity staff
Buena Vista International (BVI) has announced the promotionof Lee Jury to Marketing Director for BVI UK.In addition Phil Cairns has been promoted from SeniorPublicist to Publicity Manager and Amanda Telfer promoted from Publicist toPublicist and Awards Co-ordinator.
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Sogepaq adds Roma to autumn slate
Spain's Sogepaq has picked up international rights to SanSebastian competition title Roma fromveteran Argentine director Adolfo Aristarain.The film joins Sogepaq's fall slate, headlined by AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated drama Out ToSea (Mar Adentro) starring Javier Bardem, and Alex de la Iglesia's newblack comedy Ferpect Crime (CrimenFerpecto).A tale spanning 50 years, Roma follows ...
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German DVD distributor moves into theatrical
Leading German DVD distributor e-m-s new media is to take amajority 52.38% stake in theatrical distributor 3L Filmverleih which was set upat the beginning of this year by e-m-s new media's Chairman and CEO WernerWirsing and his wifeIn a statement, e-m-s new media, which will finance itsstake by a capital ...
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Czech film industry slams proposed audiovisual law
The Czech film industry has attacked the country's impending audiovisual legislation because it contains a dramatically scaled down version of proposed film body, the Czech Audiovisual Centre.The Czech Audiovisual Law, intended to bring the country in line with European audiovisual legislation, gets its second reading in parliament on April 27. ...
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Romanian productions get state funding
Romania'sstate film funding body CNC it to contribute to the production of elevenfeatures and eleven shorts.Sixof the features - funded with around Euros 200,000 each - are debuts andinclude Love Sick, byproducer-director Tudor Giurgiu. His previous works include the short film Popcorn Story, a former Berlinaleparticipant.Love Sick is a coming-of-age ...
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Motorcycle kickstarts Edinburgh Film Festival
The EdinburghInternational Film Festival kicked off last night with the gala premiere of The Motorcycle Diaries, with director Walter Salles in attendance.Before the the screening of the film, Salles said: "This is a film made with an open heart and passion and it's a privilege to be here at a ...
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Tsui Hark readies $12m martial arts epic
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark is gearing up tostart shooting his next feature as director - the US$12m wuxia epic Seven Swords which is scheduled to startproduction next month.Hong Kong stars Leon Lai and Charlie Young are headliningthe cast of the film which is also expected to feature talent ...
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Korean exhibitor to become producer and distributor
Lotte Cinema, operator of one of Korea's largest exhibitionchains, has announced a new andambitious drive to become a major player in the fields of exhibition,distribution, and film finance.The company's plans foresee its current circuit of 10multiplexes -- mostly housed in upscale Lotte department stores - swelling to45 by the end ...
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Wild Bunch takes most of Low Life rights
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has picked up most international rights to Low Life(Haryu Insaeng) which appears in competition at next month's Venicefestival.The film,directed by Korea's "living legend" Im Kwan-taek, was previously handled byCinema Service and had been presented under the working title Raging Years.The film marks a return to the ...
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Echelon picks up domestic rights to political doc Rabbit Hash
EchelonEntertainment has acquired domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of thecurrent crop of political documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash:The Centre Of The Universe.Thesatirical picture focuses on an electoral race in the Kentucky town of RabbitHash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as town mayor.Thefilmmakers profile the town's ...
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Palm Springs unveils rich short film talent line-up
Early work from Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Spike Jonze andshorts directed by or featuring well-known actors are among the biggest everline-up of titles in the upcoming 10th Palm Springs InternationalFestival Of Short Films.A total of 308 short films, up 15% from last year andselected from more than 2,000 entries, ...
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Bigfoot strikes global partnership with Filmmakers Alliance
Fledgling Hong Kong-based production and distribution companyBigfoot Entertainment has signed a worldwide production and distribution dealwith Los Angeles-based collective Filmmakers Alliance.The deal, which was negotiated by Bigfoot president James Hoffmanand Filmmakers Alliance president Jacques Thelemaque and announced last night(18) in Los Angeles, paves the way for the joint creation of ...