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X2 takes another $5.5m for Fox
X2: X-men United grossed just over $5.5m on 4,670 international screens over theweekend to raise its running total to $177.1m.Fifth week highlights include $600,000 from 430 screens in France(38% drop) for a $16.8m cumulative score and $289,000 from 297 in Spain for$10m (also a 38% drop).In Mexico the sci-fi sequel ...
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US FCC relaxes media ownership rules
Deregulation opponents saw their concerns swept aside today (Jun2) as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to relax mediaownership rules.In a three-to-two ruling the FCC allowed the US networks to extendtheir ownership of television stations anywhere in the United States to reach amaximum 45% of the national audience.Previous rules had ...
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Wellspring acquires US rights to two Cannes titles
US distributor Wellspring has acquired US rights to two filmswhich played at this year's Cannes Film Festival - Alexander Sokurov's FIPRESCIprizewinner Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold, winner of the Jury Prize in the UnCertain Regard section.Both acquisitions continue Wellspring's association with thefilm-makers, following its US release of ...
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Carandiru is Brazil's all-time top grossing local film
Hector Babenco's prisondrama Carandiru has become thehighest grossing Brazilian film of all time in its home territory according tolocal distributor Columbia TriStar. In terms of admissions, it hasjust overtaken 1989's family smash Princesa Xuxa E Os Trapalhoes which attracted 4.018m moviegoers.As of June 1, 2003, Carandiru has raked in $9,053,066 ...
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Bardem to star in Amenabar's Out To Sea
In what will surely be one of the biggest buzz titles out of Spain next year, auteur Alejandro Amenabar will team with star Javier Bardem in new film Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), the director's first feature foray since international hit The Others.Sogecine will co-produce with Amenabar's own Himenoptero and ...
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Bergman receives film preservation award
Swedish cinema legend Ingmar Bergman might have snubbed both Cannes and Oscar galas, but on Monday he personally showed up to receive the FIAF's Film Preservation Award at Filmhuset in Stockholm. "I'm deeply honoured and very happy," Bergman said, "by receiving this award I feel like I really belong in ...
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Gozu
Dir: Takashi Miike. Japan. 2003. 129minsAudiences never know quite what to expect from the indefatigably prolific Japanese oddball Takashi Miike: sometimes a couple of wildly inspired sequences will leaven a routine film, sometimes he relentlessly beats you into submission. With the barely-describable Gozu, however, Miike's crazed imagination delivers the goods ...
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The Last Customer/Il Grido D'Angoscia Dell'uccello Predatore 20 Tagli D'Aprile
Dir: Nanni Moretti. Italy 2003. 23/27minsSometimes a short work from a major film-maker can give more pleasure than an epic feature from a lesser talent. That is certainly the case with Nanni Moretti's The Last Customer, a warm-hearted salute to a family pharmacy business that had become an institution in ...
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Spain's Dygra starts work on major 3D animated feature
Spanish animation studio Dygra Films is preparing an ambitious 3D digital animated feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream (El Sueno De Una Noche De San Juan).The project marks the company's follow-up to hit The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado), Spain's tenth top-grossing local film in 2001 and second highest-selling video of ...
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Nowhere In Africa gets somewhere in America
German Oscar winner Nowhere In Africa (Nirgendwo In Afrika) has become the highest grossing subtitled film in North America this year, overtaking City Of God (Cidade De Deus).Caroline Link's drama, which won the best foreign language picture award at this year's Oscars in March, took $219,608 last weekend from 75 ...
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Documentary film-maker gets Norway's Aamot award
Norway's coveted Aamot Award, given by local film distribution professionals and cinema managers, has been bestowed on Margreth Olin, one of the country's most respected documentary filmmakers. The prize was handed out by jury president Linn Ullmann at the annual FILM&KINO meeting in capital Oslo. 'Margreth Olin has had an ...
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Film students dupe Czech public for documentary
A group of students at Prague's FAMU film academy have pulled off one of the most audacious stunts in the country's short history. The hundreds of people who made the journey to the Prague suburb of Letnany for the grand opening of giant new superstore were outraged when they discovered ...
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Edinburgh film festival to hold Clouzot retrospective
French master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot is the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at the 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-24). Running in conjunction with the National Film Theatre in London, the retrospective salutes a director whose body of work is among the most influential in European cinema. Dogged ...
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Gabriele Roethemeyer named artistic director at Stuttgart
Gabriele Roethemeyer, chief executive of Baden-Wuerttemberg's regional fund Medien- und Filmgesellschaft (MFG ), has been appointed artistic director for the Film- und Medienfestival GmbH (FMF) which organises the Stuttgart Ludwigsburg European Filmfest (July 10-15), European Short Film (September 10-15), the Stuttgart Internatonal Festival of Animated Film, and the fmx conference ...
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Munich unveils new regional focus strand
New films from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia will be shown in a new regional focus at this year's Munich Film Festival (June 28-July 5) alongside the event's traditional platforms for French cinema - Nouveau Cinema Francais - and Latin American cinematography - Visiones Latinamericanas. In addition, three Tributes will ...
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Polish film-maker wins PLANET award
Poland's Bartek Konopka has been selected from among 100 young filmmakers from all over the world as this year's winner of the treatment contest for the PLANET Documentary Film Prize 2004.In Konopka's project Goat Walker, the audience learns from the perspective of female goat about a recent measure to combat ...
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Buena Vista's comedy can't bring down The Matrix
In a lacklustre weekend, affected by good weather, Buena Vista International's comedy release Bringing Down The House was unable to unseat Warner Bros' The Matrix Reloaded from its lead position.The Steve Martin-Queen Latifah comedy was the only new release able to make much impression on the box office over the ...
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Inaugural Mexican fest mines for Pan-American gems
Pan-American films are to be at the heart of a new festival in Zacatecas, only Mexico's second festival of international standing.In what is seen as a development year, the first Zacatecas International Film Festival will be held in October (20-25) in a former silver mining town in the centre of ...
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Digital advertising far outstrips digital screenings
According to a new report from Screen Digest the use of digital technology for pre-film advertising far outstrips full-on electronic cinema.Eight different exhibition chains, operating in five continents have digitised more than 2,750 cinema screens with low-cost networked projector solutions. This number is set to double by year-end 2003, says ...
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Cougar, Film Council, Ingenious strike three-way deal
Lynda La Plante and Sophie Balhetchet's Cougar Films has struck a three-way development deal with the UK Film Council and tax financier Ingenious Media, it was announced today. The deal will cover development on an initial slate of projects, including a new horror film from My Little Eye writer David ...