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Tao, Emery promoted at Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures
Stephen Tao has beenpromoted to senior vice president, development, and Stephen Emery has beenpromoted to vice president of production/development at Gale Anne Hurd'sLA-based Valhalla Motion Pictures.Tao will oversee production,development and acquisitions of all projects including Valhalla's currentproject Aeon Flux starringCharlize Theron and Frances McDormand. Tao will work in collaboration withEmery ...
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Taxi 2 breaks first week record in France
Arp Selection's Taxi 2 has broken another French box office record, selling more tickets in its first week - 3.48 million - than any other film in French box office history.The record was previously held by another French title - Gaumont's The Visitors 2 : The Corridor of Times, which ...
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Williamson gets senior vp stripes at Warner International
David Williamson has beennamed senior vice president, finance, at Warner Bros Pictures International.He will increase his currentfocus on the financial reporting for the division's expanding local productionactivities and will oversee its implementation of the SAP system worldwide inaddition to assuming responsibility for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.He will continue to ...
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Palm seizes To's Breaking News for US
Renewing its relationship with Hong Kong director Johnnie To, PalmPictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to To's BreakingNews.Palm plans a theatrical release sometime in 2005 followed by a DVDrelease on the Palm Pictures label later in the year.Produced by Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd. and sold by Media Asia, ...
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Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Dir:Kerry Conran. US. 2004. 106mins.Thespirit and look of vintage science fiction meets the digital technology ofscience fact in Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow, an eccentricallyretro-futuristic adventure whose live actors appear in a world almost entirelycreated on computers. The mix of old and new produces some mightily impressivevisuals and ...
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ITALY 16 September
01 Distribution's TheHouse Keys (Le Chiavi di Casa) opened on a wide 239 screens in Italy andearned Euros 726,000 - an all-time record for an Italian film launched at theVenice Film Festival.Three other Venice titles also opened in Italy last weekend,albeit less impressively: 20th Century Fox's Man On Fire, which ...
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NORWAY 16 September
Thehighly anticipated release of actor Aksel Hennie's directing debut UNO lived up to its expectations thisweekend, where it took the top spot with a impressive NOK77,07 average on its37 prints. The film had highly favorable reviews and screened at the filmfestival in Toronto this week. Hennie also plays the lead ...
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Dir: Dylan Kidd USA. 2004.103mins.It was never going to beeasy for New York independent director Dylan Kidd to sustain the motor-mouthedenergy of his sharp, sardonic, stylish debut, Roger Dodger, which netteda shoal of awards (including the Lion of the Future award in Venice two yearsago), before going on to become ...
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SWEDEN 16 September
It was anunusually uneventful weekend at the Swedish box-office this weekend as all thefilms on the top six kept their position. That meant Kay Pollak's Saa Som IHimmelen stayed second after Shrek 2, but it actually improved its alreadysolid run taking a this weekend's best screen average of $5,496 from ...
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UK Production Listings - 16 September 2004
UK LISTINGSPRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact: Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 20 7494 1400DOA (DEAD OR ALIVE)(Impact Pictures) Budget: $20m. Backers: Constantin Film(Ger). Action/adventure. Based on Tecmo's best-selling video game franchise.Exec prod: Robert Kulzer. Prods: Jeremy Bolt, Paul WS Anderson. Dir: CoreyYuen. Scr: JF Lawton.Contact: Impact Pictures, (44) 20 7419 ...
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Cameras to roll again on River Queen
Director Vincent Ward's River Queen is going backinto production in New Zealand after a two-month hiatus.Cameras roll again from October 4 and continue for eightweeks according to Silverscreen Films, which is producing alongside The FilmConsortium.Filmingwas delayed in late July due to the illness of lead actress Samantha Morton.She was hospitalised ...
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INTERNATIONAL 16 September
Day-and-date launches in Japan and Denmark saw action-horrorsequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse thehighest new entry on the international chart this week at sixth. The 2002original outperformed its domestic gross internationally with 61% ($62m) of its$102m worldwide total coming from international territories.It was not enough, however, to dethrone BVI's The Village from ...
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Hofer surfaces at BW Film Academy
Former Studio Babelsberg Independents (SBI) chief Arthur Hofer has been appointed artistic head at the Baden-Wuerrttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. He succeeds Albrecht Ade who founded the academy in 1991.Hofer resigned from his Babelsberg post last month citing the resignation of studio boss Friedrich-Carl Wachs as a reason for his ...
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UK government clamps down on producer fees
The UK government has movedto clamp down on excessive producer fees on British films.Under revamped co-productionguidelines published this month, the Department for Culture, Media & Sporthas targeted producer fees over 10% of production expenditure.Although producer fees over10% are not necessarily barred, the DCMS will automatically ask for additionalproof that they ...
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4Way lines up Western Story
4Way Pictures, the UK-based company co-run by Antonia Bird,Mark Cousins, Robert Carlyle and Irvine Welsh, has announced details of ahandful of new projects.The company has now boarded A Western Story, an epicUS coming-of-age love story scripted by Naomi Wallace (Lawn Dogs). Birdwill direct the film, which will be a UK/US ...
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China moves to boost digital screen count
In its latest digital upgrade,state-owned China Film Group has ordered ten new screen projectors due fordelivery to Beijing in October. The deal is part of the group's ongoing effortsin having 161 digital cinemas up and running by the end of 2004.The 10 new digital projectors are 2KDSR servers supplied by ...
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Senator unveils details of post insolvency plans
Senator Entertainment plans to focus its futureoperations on the core business of its three 100% subsidiaries Senator FilmProduktion, Senator Film Verleih and Central Film Vertriebs once it has beendischarged from insolvency proceedings.However, it will selloff its interest in LA-based international sales outfit Senator Internationalas part of the insolvency plan drawn ...
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French pin Oscar hopes on Les Choristes
France'sfilm council (CNC) has announced that Christophe Barratier's Les Choristes will represent the country as this year's submissionfor best foreign language Oscar.Budgetedat Euros 5.5m, the film is something of a phenomenon in France having garnerednearly eight million admissions since it was released in March of 2004.StarringGerard Jugnot as a music ...
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Red Dust scores first Toronto sales
South African film RedDust scored a clutch of international sales at the Toronto festival whereit had its world premiere.The courtroom drama which is set against the Truth AndReconciliation Commission was licensed by Svensk FilmIndustri for Scandinavia, DNCSpA for Italy and RSVS for Benelux. Sales agent Pierre Weisbein of new salesagent ...
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F For Film picks up Angola's The Hero
French seller F For Film haspicked up international rights to Toronto festival film The Hero (O Heroi),directed by Zeze Gamboa. The film is a multilayered drama about four characters inan impoverished and war-torn Angola and stars Oumar Makena Diop, Milton Coelho,Patricia Bull, Neusa Borges. TheAngola-Portugal-France co-production was produced by David ...