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Kinowelt Forecasts 30% Increase in Group Turnover
Kinowelt is forecasting a 30% year-on-year increase inturnover to over $82.4m (Euros 70m) by the end of 2005. This financial forecastwill see the company return to its position as one of the key German players. Thisgrowth, despite the overall market trend, was largely down to thetheatricaldistribution division which expects to ...
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The Family Stone
Dir: Thomas Bezucha. US. 2005. 104mins.The Family Stoneis a serio-comic story about the holiday gathering ofa chatty, mildly bickering bohemian New England brood, and the straight-lacedgirlfriend that the eldest son brings home. A sort of mash-up of The Myth OfFingerprints and Home For TheHolidays, it's also a rich reminder of ...
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The Producers
Dir: Susan Stroman. USA.2005. 135mins.The strange, zany trip of Mel Brooks' The Producers - which began in 1968 as amovie about a Broadway musical; morphed into a Tony-winning smash hit Broadwaymusical about a Broadway musical; and now reincarnates itself on film withalmost the entire creative team behind that stage adaptation ...
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New projects by Miller and Golubovic backed by Eurimages
Newfeature films by Claude Miller, Alain Resnais, Lone Scherfig, and Srdan Golubovic are among 14 projects awarded over $5.2m (Euros4.4m) by the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.Thelargest amounts - $768,850 (Euros 650,000) each - were awarded to Slovak filmmaker JurajJakubisko's Bathory, which is to be co-produced by the ...
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Prescience launches new fund before UK's Section 48 expires
UK-based Prescience Film Finance has launchedits latest investment offering, Prescience Film Partners LLP, a film financingpartnership being promoted by financial services group Smith & Williamson. The film partnership will support films goinginto production before April 1 2006, to take advantage of the UK'sSection 48 tax relief before it expires. The ...
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Lupfer quits TPS for Canal Plus
Didier Lupfer, the former head of movie channels at French digital satellite service TPS, is moving to the platform's archrival Canal Plus, where he takes up the role of programme development chief.Lupfer will be responsible for the creation of channels destined for Canal Plus' future digital terrrestrial franchise - ...
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Picture Players wraps The Killing Of John Lennon
UK-basedPicture Players has finished principal photography on its first feature film, The Killing of John Lennon.AndrewPiddington wrote and directed the film about MarkDavid Chapman, who shot John Lennon in 1980. Newcomer Jonas Ball plays Chapman.ProducerRakha Singh is making his feature film debut afterworking in television.Piddington previously directed features Shuttlecock and ...
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Cinematographer Adrian Biddle dies aged 53
British cinematographer Adrian Biddle, who most recently worked onV for Vendetta, died December 7. The cause of death was an apparent heartattack. Biddle had been travelling from his home in Weybridge to a commercialshoot in London.Biddle, a member of the British Societyof Cinematographers, was Oscar-nominated for his work on Thelma ...
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Cast firms up for Ira & Abby: A Divorce Comedy
Jason Alexander and Judith Light have joined the cast of RobertCary's comedy Ira & Abby: A Divorce Comedy, which began principal photography inNew York last month.Based on a screenplay by Kissing Jessica Stein writer and star Jennifer Westfeldt, Ira& Abby charts thefall-out of an impulsive marriage between a neurotic loner ...
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MacLaine, Theron, Newman join honour roll at Palm Springs
Shirley MacLaine will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award,Charlize Theron will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, andThomas Newman will collect the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) in January."We are thrilled to add Shirley MacLaine, Charlize Theron andThomas Newman to ...
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Phoenix production outfit teams with Indian animation house
Phoenix-based production outfit Fortitude Entertainment Group(FEG) has teamed up with Indian animation house Maya Entertainment to formFortitude Maya.The partners anticipate their first release sometime in 2006.'This partnership with Maya Entertainment is reflective of a furtherrefinement of our long term international business objectives,' FEG'sco-founder Lisa Marie Butkiewicz said.'Maya Entertainment brings to ...
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MTV Films picks up movie rights to Getting Up
MTV Films has acquired feature rights from Atari to Marc Ecko'supcoming video game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, which is scheduled to launch on gamingconsoles in February 2006.Paramount will distribute the picture and Ecko will produce alongwith MTV Films' Gregg Goldin, who brought the project to the company.Golden's colleagues Jason ...
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Fox international chief issues theatrical wake-up call
One of Hollywood's top international film chiefs yesterday calledon his industry colleagues to treat this year's box office admissions slide as anecessary wake-up call."We desperately have to change," declared Tomas Jegeus, executivevice president - international, 20th Century Fox International, whiledelivering the keynote speech at Screen International's European Box Office Forum.Speaking ...
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Cinema still attractive to videogame generation
Reports about cinema's death at the hands of DVDs, videogames, computerscreens, mobile phones and all today's other competing diversions have beengreatly exaggerated, according to leading experts on audience trends.In fact, their latest research suggests that theatre-goersacross all age-groups are now going to the movies more often than they used to.Such ...
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Day-and-date releasing comes under Euro fire
Some of Europe's leading distributors and marketers arenow questioning the drift towards day-and-date releasing.Judging by the remarks made at yesterday's European Box OfficeForum, hosted by Screen International at Waldorf Hilton Hotel in London, there is a growing consensus that filmscan suffer from a super-wide blitzkrieg release. Christian Grass, executive vice ...
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Narnia is unleashed in 14 territories this weekend
Following a stunning run inits first three weekends Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire faces its first major test this weekend. The Warner Bros release hasamassed more than $330m so far and is expected to build strongly on that with aslew of mighty holdovers. However with no new majordebuts ...
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UK's Rank agrees theme park sale to US' Blackstone
UK leisure group Rank Group Plc has reached an initial agreement to sell its 50% stake in Florida's Universal Studios Escape to US private equity firm Blackstone Capital for $275 million, Rank said on Friday.Under the pact, Rank will also receive up to $75 million if Blackstone achieves a target ...
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Yuya Yagira to make romantic drama
Fuji TV has revealed plans to cast Yuya Yagira -- the 15-year-oldwinner of the 2004 Cannes Best Actor prize for his work in HirokazuKore-eda's NobodyKnows -in Sugar and Spice Fumizekka (Sugarand Spice - Great Flavour), a romantic dramabased on a bestselling novel by Amy Yamada. Yagira's previous film for Fuji ...
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Skillset offers support to women returning to film work
UK training body Skillsethas announced a new initiative to help women working in film return to work. The Timeshift programme will provide job-sharing roles on filmproductions for teams of eight women, who will benefit from a child-careallowance as well as their salaries. Eligibleapplicants will have at least three years' experience ...
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Czech Republic to host Edith Piaf co-production
Director Olivier Dahan will begin shooting the Edith Piafproject La Momeon January 16 at Prague Studios in the Czech Republic.The film, produced by OKKO Production and Songbird Pictures Limitedand Legende Entreprises,will star Marion Cotillardas Piaf. Cotillard won a Cesar award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in A Very ...