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Icon wins Allen's Match Point for UK
Icon Film Distribution has won the battle for UK rights toWoody Allen's Match Point.The highprofile deal with sales agent HanWay Films was sealed by new Icon UK presidentAlex Hamilton. Match Point has now sold to 46 territories around the world,including DreamWorks for North America. The UK was one of the ...
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Picturehouse assembles distribution team
Picturehouse, the USdistribution joint venture formed by New Line Cinema and HBO, has unveiled theNew York-based distribution team which will handle the release of the films intodomestic theatres.Rob Schwarz has been namedchief operating officer, Bill Thompson (pictured) is senior vice president andco-general sales manager, John Lange is senior vice president ...
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Batman Begins hits $71.1m after five days in US
Batman Begins swooped to the top of the NorthAmerican box office chart over the weekend with an estimated three-day gross of$46.9m, bringing its tally since opening last Wednesday to $71.1m. The impressive, if not spectacular totals were within therange expected by Warner Bros. But the weekend take was not big ...
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Batman Begins hits $71.1m after five days in US
Batman Begins swooped to the top of the NorthAmerican box office chart over the weekend with an estimated three-day gross of$46.9m, bringing its tally since opening last Wednesday to $71.1m. The impressive, if not spectacular totals were within therange expected by Warner Bros. But the weekend take was not big ...
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Village Album picks up top prize at Shanghai fest
The Village Album, from Japanese director Mitsuhiro Mihara, picked upbest film and best actor in the main competition of the Shanghai InternationalFilm Festival (SIFF) on Sunday night.Produced by Japan's WakoCompany, the film tells the story of a father and son who photograph theinhabitants of a village that is about to ...
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Batman takes $41.7m in tricky international marketplace
Batman Begins grossed an estimated $41.7m over the weekend from 8,000 screens in 73territories, making it the latest in a series of wide day-and-date openers totop the international box office chart.The international take (achieved over five days insome territories) added to an impressive domestic gross -- $71.1m -- to givethe ...
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Batman Begins hits $71.1m after five days in US
Batman Begins swooped to the top of the NorthAmerican box office chart over the weekend with an estimated three-day gross of$46.9m, bringing its tally since opening last Wednesday to $71.1m. The impressive, if not spectacular totals were within therange expected by Warner Bros. But the weekend take was not big ...
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In Memory Of My Father wins jury award at CineVegas
The CineVegas Film Festival, which closed on Saturday night in LasVegas with the premiere of George A Romero's Land Of The Dead, gave its grand jury award to InMemory Of My Father. Written and directed byChristopher Jaymes, the film is the story of three siblings at their father'swake and stars ...
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Nantucket Film Festival gives top prize to Hustle & Flow
The Nantucket Film Festival finished its tenth edition last night(Sunday) with its prize-giving closing ceremony which saw Craig Brewer win thebest writer/director award for Hustle & Flow.Jessica Sanders won a prize for best storytelling in a documentaryfilm for After Innocence, Murderball won the audience award for best feature, Mighty Times: ...
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UK anti-piracy trailers switch emphasis from studio losses
A new anti-piracy campaign in the UK is shifting emphasisaway from crime and financial losses towards promoting a positive image ofcinema going.A new trailer, drawn up by major exhibitors anddistributors, contrasts the big-screen "cinema experience" with a scratchypirated DVD."There has been a strategic shift because research showsthat the industry's messages ...
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Distributors flock to German Films' preview event
Morethan 40 international film distributors and TV film buyers will attend the German Films' Munich Previews starting on Wednesday.NewLine Cinema, Focus Features, the UK's Soda Pictures, France's MK2, Hungary'sBudapest Film, and Russia's Most Media are among the visitors to the event atthe Munich Filmfest.Othercompanies confirmed include the UK's City Screen, ...
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Atonement opts for the Wright stuff after Eyre departure
UK theatre director Sir Richard Eyre has stepped down from theadaptation of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel Atonement.Eyre reportedly wanted a delay while he worked on other theatreprojects but instead Working Title has decided to replace him.The new director is Joe Wright, who has just finished filmingPride And Prejudice. He was ...
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Herbie: Fully Loaded
Dir: Angela Robinson. US.2005. 95mins.The latest in a gradualrecycling programme of Disney's back catalogue (after Flubber, The ParentTrap, Freaky Friday), Herbie: Fully Loaded is an effective familypicture which will be a big hit for the studio in the US - where it opens onJune 22 - and one likely to ...
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Freud promises business as usual following takeover
UK PR business Freud Communication will retain itsrelationship with its string of film industry clients following the takeover bythe Publicis Groupe.But the acquisition by the French advertising and marketinggiant could allow the international expansion clients increasingly demand."To be able to preserve and develop our business and culturebut have the resources ...
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Housewarming (Travaux, On Sait Quand Ca Commence')
Dir: BrigitteRouan. Fr-UK. 2005. 95mins.Actor turneddirector Brigitte Rouan turns in the French cinematic equivalent of the'chick-lit' novel in Housewarming, a breezily disposable comedy about anindependent professional woman whose life goes into a chaotic spin. Builtaround an elegant but rather stiff central performance by Carole Bouquet, thefilm is an unexpectedly fluffy ...
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Good Machine sells on Flora Plum
David Linde's Good Machine International has closed a slew of deals on Jodie Foster's next directorial picture Flora Plum starring Russell Crowe and Clare Danes. Entertainment Film Distributors will take the picture in the UK, Bac Films in France, LaurenFilm in Spain and Paradiso in Benelux. The film was set ...
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The Buried Forest (Umorgei)
Dir: Kohei Oguri. Japan.2005. 94mins.Stuck seductively in itsown dreamtime, Japanese arthouse director Kohei Oguri's Directors Fortnightcontender The Buried Forest is a slow waltz of stories and images thatonly reluctantly offers itself up to rational analysis. Set in a rural Japanesevillage that has an a historical, magical realist feel, this demanding ...
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Pinewood Shepperton shares drop after profit warning
Shares in Pinewood Shepperton have dropped 20 per cent after the studio issued a profit warning.The UK institution has been expanding recently, acquiring TeddingtonStudios two months ago. But it has been struggling to tie down the bigblockbuster movies on which it has built its business and reputation.In April,the share price ...
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Working Title reshuffles its senior executive pack
Working Title has restructured its creative executive team. Natascha Wharton,head of low-budget arm WT2, will take over the development departments of bothWorking Title Films and WT2.Meanwhile, DebraHayward, head of film, is to leave her current post, but will continue to workwith Working Title as exec-producer on selected projects."Debra has a ...
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Distributors flock to German Films' previews
Morethan 40 international film distributors and TV film buyers will attend German Films' Munich Previews starting on Wednesday.NewLine Cinema, Focus Features, the UK's Soda Pictures, France's MK2, Hungary'sBudapest Film, and Russia's Most Media are among the visitors to the event atthe Munich Filmfest.Othercompanies confirmed include the UK's City Screen, Poland's ...