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Moland's Teacher set for November start
Acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland'sadaptation of Teacher Pedersen (Gymnaslaerer Pedersen) has set a Nov1 start date, following a substantial$1.5m (NOK10,1m) award from the Norwegian Film Fund.Moland is one of Norway's most acclaimed filmmakers,and his most recent feature The Beautiful Country screened in competition at Berlin this year.Produced by Orjan ...
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Moscow Festival gets off to roaring start
The Moscow International Film Festival got off to a roaringstart on Friday night (18 June) with guests Quentin Tarantino, David Carradine,Lawrence Bender and Harvey Weinstein taking to the stage at the Pushkin Theatreto rousing applause.Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol 2 was the opening film and Tarantino kidded the audience about Russianaudio ...
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Millimages boss named as head of Bac Majestic
Roch Lerner, CEO of animation studio Millimages, has beennamed chairman and managing director of French distributor Bac Majestic. Millimagesrecently took a majority stake in the embattled distributor founded by JeanLabadie.Millimages now owns a 51% stake in the company while Labadiehas decreased his interests to 25%. Labadie in turn now takes ...
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The Talent Given Us wins top jury prize at CineVegas
Andrew Wagner's The Talent Given Us won the jury award at the CineVegas FilmFestival 2004 at the weekend, while Larry Golin's Cross Bronx took the audience award and JohnHarkrider's Mitchellville received an honourable mention from the jury.The jury award is presentedannually to a feature length narrative feature without US distribution ...
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Riddick has so-so openings in Singapore, Malaysia for UIP
In its first international bows through UIP, Universal's TheChronicles Of Riddickopened fourth in Singapore on $210,000 from 26 screens and second in Malaysiaon $160,000 from 36 screens.Results for the Philippines, where Pioneer is the distributor, willbe reported on Monday (21).The Universal/UIP cumulative total to date is $370,000; Riddick is set ...
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Greenwald's Uncovered acquired by Sundance Channel in US
Robert Greenwald'sdocumentary, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War has been acquired for US TV broadcast on TheSundance Channel on Sept 6.The picture examines theBush Administration's conduct in convincing the American public that SaddamHussein posed a threat to national security and is supported by the liberalgroups Centre for American ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match with The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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Day After Tomorrow grosses swell after $19.7m weekend
FoxInternationalC;s The Day After Tomorrow elevated its international running total to an estimated$274.7m weekend, after adding $19.7m from 7,731 screens.Third weekendhighlights were $3.7m from 590 in Japan, where the picture stayed top in itsthird consecutive week and fell 28% for a $27.3m running total. In Korea itadded $1.4m from 245 ...
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Harry has third magical international weekend for Warner
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban continued as top of the internationalclass at the weekend as Warner Bros' family hit added an estimated $39m from 48territories to raise its total to $263.6m.It opened well on top in Spain despite a crucial Euro 2004football game on Sunday with arch-rivals Portugal, ...
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Samaha, Franchise stung with $29m punitive damages in Intertainment case
Make no mistake:Last week's jury verdict victoryfor Intertainment Licensing CEO Rudiger"Barry" Baeres over Franchise Pictures CEO Elie Samaha in their epic budgetpumping fraud lawsuit was a total annihilation of Franchise, and could suck upwhat's left of Samaha's personal war chest.On Wednesday ina Santa Ana, California federal courtroom, Intertainment was awarded ...
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Dodgeball wins the box office match against The Terminal
Audiencespreferred the crazy antics of Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn to the subtlerhumour of Tom Hanks at the weekend as Fox's comedy Dodgeball: A TrueUnderdog Story opened top on an estimated $30m.Hanks anddirector Steven Spielberg had to settle for second place for The Terminal as it bowed on $18.7m, while ...
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HONG KONG 21 June
Media Asiadetective thriller Breaking News,directed by Johnnie To, managed to dislodge TheDay After Tomorrow from the top of the Hong Kong box office, grossingUS$720,270 from 35 screens in its opening week.The film, whichrecently screened in an out of competition slot at the Cannes Film Festival,stars Kelly Chen as a female ...
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FRANCE 21 June
In its second week out,Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains in the top spot withnearly $28m in takings so far. The Coen brothers Cannes competitor The Ladykillers opened strongly with a$6,105 per screen average despite generally poor reviews.Supposed blockbusters TheDay After Tomorrow and Troy arestill at the top ...
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Los Muertos
Dir/prod/scr/ed:Lisandro Alonso. Argentina. 2004. 78minsBewareof promising beginnings bearing false hopes. That would seem to be the lessonto be drawn from Los Muertos, the second feature from Argentiniandirector Lisandro Alonso. Alonso's debut feature was the memorably stultifying LaLibertad (2001), which lovingly covered the working life of a ruralwoodcutter. Los Muertos signals ...
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Former Vivendi chief Messier taken into custody
Former Vivendi Universalchief Jean-Marie Messier has been taken into custody by French police today(June 21) as part of a probe into stock manipulation.French magistrates are investigatinga massive share buyback in which Vivendi allegedly spent over Euros 1bn to propup its own share price in the weeks following the attacks of ...
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Edinburgh faces up to studio boycott threats
Edinburgh Film Festival managingdirector Ginnie Atkinson reacted swiftly to weekend press reports thatthis year's event might be damaged by a boycott from three major Hollywoodstudios.Articles suggested thatDisney, Universal and 20th Century Fox would boycott the event in protest atthe city's poor record on combating piracy.An Edinburgh market atIngliston is notorious ...
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Irish thriller Freeze Frame wins Taormina
Irish thriller FreezeFrame has scooped the top prize at the 50th edition of the Taormina FilmFestival (June 13-20), which is headed by former Venice artistic directorFelice Laudadio.Written and directed by JohnSimpson, Freeze Frame stars Lee Evans as a paranoid murder suspect whofilms himself around the clock to provide an alibi ...
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Or
Dir:Keren Yedaya. Israel-Fr. 2004. 100mins.This intimate, visually stylised but rather loose firstfictional film by Keren Yedaya paints a raw, grim and uncompromising portraitof the relationship between an adolescent girl and her prostitute mother, andthe daughter's effort to get her parent once and for all off the streets.Yedaya,a socially-conscious activist who ...
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Ma Mere
Dir: Christophe Honore.France. 2004. 109 mins.It's not difficult to seewhy second-time director Christophe Honore was surprised when Ma Mere,his incest-laced study of sexual obsession was turned down by the Cannesselection committee: it is, after all, much more of a festival film than acommercial prospect. Striking in its stark cinematic language, ...
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RTL's Zeiler named as MIPCOM personality of the year
RTL Group's Chief Executive Officer, Gerhard Zeiler, hasbeen named as the MIPCOM Personality of the Year.GerhardZeiler will receive the award during a gala dinner for industry VIP executivesat MIPCOM.MIPCOM takes place in Cannes from October 4-8.