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IFC Centre in New York to open on June 17 with Me You...
New York's IFCCentre opens its doors on Jun 17 with Miranda July's award winning Me AndYou And Everyone We Know,which recently picked up a string of Cannes honours including the Critics WeekGrand Prize and the Camera d'Or.The IFC Centre is based on the former Waverly Theatre siteand features three theatres ...
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Mandate reports hot sales activity on Grudge 2
LosAngeles-based production and distribution company Mandate Pictures hasannounced a raft of Cannes sales on Gold Circle's romantic comedy Because ISaid So and Ghost HousePictures' horror sequel The Grudge 2.Announcing the sales yesterday [2], Mandate's senior vicepresident, head of international sales and distribution Mali Kinberg said eachsold to more than 25 ...
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BVI hopes Sin will beat Sith in UK, Italy
This weekend'sinternational schedule offers a mixed bag of product, with Star Wars:Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith expected to dominate through strong holdovers as it bears down on$300m.Released throughFox International, the sci-fi saga currently stands at $268.7m and shouldperform strongly in its third weekend. A robust domestic haul may ...
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Chiller Films to remake horror hit Piranha
Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media have announced thatthe first picture to go into production for their joint venture genre labelChiller Films will be a remake of Joe Dante's 1978 horror hit Piranha.Chilleris financing and co-producing with Relativity Media, IPW (IntellectualProperties Worldwide) and Wild Bunch following a deal with Chako Film. ...
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Negotiator becomes biggest Japanese film of 2005
Negotiator,theKatsuyuki Motohiro thriller spun offfrom his megahit BaysideShakedown films, passed the 2 millionadmissions mark on June 1, the 26th day after its May 7 release. With a gross of $25.6m (Y2.7bn), Negotiator has become the top-earning Japanese film of theyear.Produced by Fuji TV,thefilmstars comedianYusuke Santa Maria as criminal negotiator Masayoshi ...
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Sogepaq scores Euro sales for 20 Centimetres
Sogepaq has announced a cache of European sales on RamonSalazar's musical drama 20 Centimetres, building on the North America deal with TLA Releasing announced lastweek.The title was picked up by Lady Film for Italy, We & Cofor France, Paradiso for Benelux, Castello Lopes for Portugal and Provision forEx-Yugoslavia."Cannes was the ...
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CLT-Ufa gangs up with Scorsese, Altman pictures
CLT-Ufa is understood to have acquired French and Eastern European rights to Martin Scorsese's $100m historical opus, Gangs Of New York starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, as well as French and Benelux's rights to Robert Altman's upcoming Doctor T And The Women headling Richard Gere, both from IEG.The ...
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Toshiba leads Yellow Dog to Japan
Toshiba Entertainment hasacquired Japanese rights to The Cave Of The Yellow Dog, the latest film from Story Of The Weeping Camel co-director Byambasuren Davaa. The deal wasconcluded at Cannes with sales agent Telepool.The film, which will haveits world premiere at the upcoming Munich Film Festival later this month, isDavaa's graduation ...
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Art Port, Casablanca buy One Love from Sola Media
Art Port hasacquired Japanese rights and Casablanca Films has acquired Brazilian rights to OneLove, a Jamaicanromantic comedy starring Bob Marley's son Ky-mani Marley, from Germany's SolaMedia and Atrix Films which are together handling the film.The film, whosesoundtrack is produced by VP Music Group, is set for a UK release on ...
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Berk voted new Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc president
Philip Berk has been electedpresident of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2005-06 cycle,following the group's annual election meeting.Berk, who writes for FilmInkin Australia and Galaxie in Malaysia, has belonged to the HFPA for 28 years andwill serve his fifth term as president.Mahfouz Doss was electedvice president, with ...
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Death triumphs at Transylvania festival
Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr Lazarescu won most of the prizes at Romania's leadingfilm event, the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), held in Cluj(May 27-June 5).Last month, the Romanian director's film won the bestfilm prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section.The Death of Mr Lazarescu portrays the journey of ...
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Hadida acquires remake rights to Korean horror hit
French producer Samuel Hadida (Brotherhood Of TheWolf) has picked upEnglish-language remake rights to Korean horror film Bunshinsaba (2004) by Ahn Byeong-gi. The film, about an ostracised high school student whoinadvertently places a curse on her classmates, will be produced through DavisFilms under the English title The Spell.The deal was concluded ...
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Madagascar dethrones Sith as box office champion
DreamWorks' animated zoofest Madagascar was the star of the domestic scene atthe weekend, passing $100m in its second weekend as it climbed two places to number one.MeanwhileThe Longest Yard, which isdistributed through Paramount in NorthAmerica, is fast approaching the mark after the same amount of time. It stayedsecond on $26.1m ...
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Madagascar rules the roost at North American box office
DreamWorks' animated zoofest Madagascar was the star of the domestic scene atthe weekend, passing $100m in its second weekend as it climbed two places to number one.MeanwhileThe Longest Yard, which isdistributed through Paramount in NorthAmerica, is fast approaching the mark after the same amount of time. It stayedsecond on $26.1m ...
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Batman Begins
Dir:Christopher Nolan. US. 2005. 140 mins.LikeSam Raimi did with Spider-man,Christopher Nolan has gone back to the drawing board with the Batman characterin Batman Begins andemerged with an intensely dramatic, muscular action adventure picture whichshould be successful enough to kickstart the franchise for Warner Bros. Eradicatingany of the camp and tongue-in-cheek ...
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Sith continues to lord it over international box office
Star Wars: Episode III -Revenge Of The Sith remained thedominating international force as it swept past $300m at the weekend.The picture added anestimated $36.5m for a $308.4m international cumulative total through Fox International.Combined with North America, where it reached $300m, the sci-fi saga has soldmore than $600m in tickets worldwide.Third ...
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Korean film giants merge international sales divisions
CJEntertainment and Cinema Service, two of Korea's leading film companies, havestepped up their recent partnership with a merger of their international salesdivisions.The development will see all of the two companies'current and library titles represented by an expanded sales team operatingunder the CJ name. The merger iseffective as of June 1, ...
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UK Film Council ploughs£3m into audience initiative
The UK Film Council is toplough £3m of National Lottery money into a new scheme designed to increase therange of cinema-going over the next three years.The UK Audience Development Scheme is intended to stimulate theviewing of specialised films in the UK. The Council is looking for applicants to run an ...
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UK box office rides into blockbuster season on a high
Takings were down significantly in April, but the UKbox office is still riding high going into blockbuster season.Atthe end of May, year-on-year figures remained up 5% with a year to date totalbox office of $578m (£318.2m), according to Nielsen EDI figures.This is noticably down on the 13% gain the territoryboasted ...
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...as Manderlay disappoints on debut launch
Lars Von Trier's Manderlay launched on its hometurf over the weekend, registering a disappointing 3,686 admissions in Danishcinemas. It was the first territory to launch the Cannes competition film.The sequel to Dogville was released on 26screens, which is considered a broad release in Denmark. By comparison, SinCity launched on 32 ...