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Babelsberg Film looks to board Macdonald's Last King
Germany's BabelsbergFilm is in negotiations to become a co-producer on Oscar-winning documentaryfilmmaker Kevin Macdonald's fiction feature film debut The Last King OfScotland.ScreenDaily.com has learnt exclusively that the Studio BabelsbergMotion Pictures' production unit - whose previous credits included serving asco-producer on Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist, City Of God director Fernando ...
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Winslet drops out of Woody Allen project
Kate Winslet has dropped out of the new Woody Allen projectwhich is shooting in London, it was confirmed today (June 25).Winslet, who has had a busy schedule recently, reportedlywanted to spend more time with her family.A new female lead is expected to be announced on Monday.Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily ...
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Deluxe backs Israeli film lab initiative
Almost four years after Israel's only film laboratory was closed down, the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Commerce has given its blessing to the opening of a new facility. Adam Greenberg, a Hollywood cameraman of Israeli origin whose credits include the Terminator movies and Ghost, his scientist brother Jan Greenberg ...
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PGA Awards to take place on Jan 22, 2005
Next year's Producers Guildof America (PGA) awards will take place in Los Angeles on Jan 22, 2005.Nominations will beannounced on Jan 5 and both the nominations and awards ceremonies will takeplace at the Century plaza Hotel.For the first time next year'sevent will include the Producer of the Year in Variety ...
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New blow for Hamburg film fund
FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) has suffered another blow withthe news that public broadcaster ZDF will terminate its cooperation agreementand annual contribution of Euro 1m at the end of this year.The development is a direct result of Culture Senator Karinvon Welck's proposal to cut the city's contribution to FFHH by 50% to ...
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Asian CGI producer unveils US production deals
GDC Entertainment, the content development arm of Hong Kongand Singapore-based GDC Holdings, announced three collaborative ventures atFilMart on Friday.The company, which produces CGI content at its studio inShenzhen, China, has signed an agreement with LA-based producer, EnteraktionStudios, to co-produce three original CGI features with a combined budget ofUS$60m.The three features ...
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Copenhagen festival names Szabo as jury chief
Acclaimed Hungarian director Istvan Szabo will be presidingover the competition jury at the second Copenhagen International Film Festival,which unfolds in the Danish capital between Aug 19-29.The 66-year old filmmaker (Being Julia) is joined by Scottish director David Mackenzie (YoungAdam), US-Israeli director Eytan Fox (WalkOn Water) and Romanian actress MaiaMorgenstern (The ...
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FilMart News: Deals and speeches lift FilMart's final June edition
Hong Kong's Filmart (June 23-25) closedon a rousing note on Friday with rallying cries from industry leaders andfurther details of next year's mega-event, Entertainment Expo Hong Kong 2005.Sellers agreed that they had seen fewer visitors from the US and Europe, possibly an effect of timing thatreflected the proximity to Cannes ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 makes box office history
Fahrenheit 9/11 opened top on $21.8m at the weekend according to studioestimates, a stupendous result for the Palme d'Or winner as it became the firstdocumentary ever to debut at number one.The result already appears to have passed the total theatricalgross of Michael Moore's previous work, the Oscar winning Bowling ForColumbine, ...
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Azkaban scores third biggest industry opening in Japan
Fuelled by a massive Japan bow at the weekend, Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkabanadded an estimated $40.9m from more than 9,200 screens in 50 countries to raiseits international running total to $321.7m.Alfonso Cuaron's acclaimed third episode in the hit children'sfranchise took a staggering $17.5m (Y1.9bn) from 782 screens in ...
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Schalah Mitchell joins Denmead Marketing as account manager
Schalah Mitchell has joined Denmead Marketing's Los Angelesoffices as an account manager handling international theatrical publicitycampaigns.Reporting directly to Denmead Marketing president Nikki Parker,Mitchell will oversee campaigns for the company's roster of clients thatincludes Initial Entertainment Group, Senator International and Lions Gate FilmsInternational, among others.Upcoming pictures for Denmead include Initial's The ...
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9/11 beats White Chicks to the top of US box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 followed up its Palme d'Or triumph andcritical adulation with a stunning US box office victory at the weekend as itopened top on an estimated $21.8m.No documentary has ever opened number one here until now, and thepicture's opening salvo may already have passed the $21.6m final gross ...
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Unknown Soldier, Tarnation win top prizes at LAFF
Ferenc Toth's Unknown Soldier won the Target Filmmaker Award for bestnarrative feature and Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation won the Target Documentary Award at theweekend as the tenth Los Angeles Film Festival came to a close.JoshuaMarston's Maria Full Of Grace wonthe audience award for narrative feature and Mike Wranovic's Up ...
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Odeon, Warner Village link up with BFI
EU culture ministers have voted unanimously to accept a budget of Euros400m for the European Commission's audiovisual programme MEDIA Plus. The UK, Germany and the Netherlands had initially opposed the budget which is already Euros150m lower than the sum proposed by the European Parliament. MEDIA Plus' predecessor, MEDIA II, had ...
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FRANCE 28 June
The boywizard continues his reign at the top of the French box office taking nearly anadditional 1 million admissions in its third week.WarnerBros. French comedy Double Zero tookin a healthy 657,945 in its first outing. The 007 spoof had a strong per screenaverage at $7,465 per screen. Karin Viard and ...
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HONG KONG 28 June
Warner Bros' sword-and-sandals epic Troy beat local comedy SuperModel to the top of the Hong Kong box office chart grossing US$1.15m from45 screens.Super Model,directed by Vincent Kok, took second place with a respectable US$858,586 from42 screens. Produced by Abba Movies and Gold Label Entertainment, the film isthe first to star ...
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Moscow awards Us raft of prizes
If any more proofwas needed of the healthy state of Russian film, last night's awards ceremonyat the 26th Moscow International Film Festival should convince anysceptics.Dmitry Meskhiyevswept the festival's top prizes winning the Golden St George for best film aswell as best director for his WWII war drama Us (Svoi) which ...
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NEW ZEALAND 28 June
UIP's Mean Girlsclaimed third place in the chart this week with a gross of NZ$207,859 from 44screens for its opening weekend. But neither it nor second placed Harry Potter, came close to the mostpopular film of the four days, UIP's Shrek2, which was also a very long way ahead in ...
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Wax fire destroys Oz soundstage
A so-called controlled fire sequence on the set of HouseOf Wax went badly wrong on Saturday evening (June 27), sparking a blazethat destroyed one of the eight soundstages at Queensland's Warner RoadshowStudios.Aspokesperson for the film's publicist, Denis Davidson Associates, said thatthree sets and all the camera and sound equipment were ...
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Amenabar's Sea tipped for Venice slot
Out to Sea (Mar Adentro), Alejandro Amenabar's eagerly-anticipated follow-up to TheOthers looks set for a Venice festival slot with the news that it will openin Spain on September 3.Producer Sogecine has confirmedthat it will go to an un-named "early fall festival". The Venice InternationalFilm Festival runs from September 1-11.Out to ...