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LaMarre's urban western Click starts shooting for Sony
Production began in LosAngeles this week on Jean Claude LaMarre's urban western Click, starring the rappers Wyclef and Kurupt and DavidCarradine.Set at the end of the CivilWar, Click follows the turbulent journey of a group of outlaws who bandtogether to rob the town bank, despite the best efforts of a ...
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Bridget to hit Germany, Incredibles to land in Japan
Universal's BridgetJones: The Edge Of Reason and BuenaVista International's (BVI) The Incredibles should both pass $100m at the international boxoffice this weekend with a handful of major launches and strong holdoversexpected elsewhere.Bridget opened in Germany through UIP on Dec 2 on 765prints, and goes out in Brazil on Dec 3 ...
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FRANCE 3 December
The Incredibles overwhelmingly grabbed first place in its debut week with 1,404,006admissions knocking Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement down tothird place behind Gerard Depardieu/Daniel Auteil cop drama 36, Quai DesOrfevres which brought in 652,148 moviegoers in its first week.Bertrand Tavernier's adoption themedHoly Lola came in at number four with ...
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Ordinary Heroes triumphs at Hong Kong Film Awards
Ann Hui's Ordinary Heroes, a drama about a love triangle and political activism, was the surprise winner of the best film prize at the annual Hong Kong Film Awards.The biggest tally of prizes, however, went to Media Asia's action movie Purple Storm, which in a repeat of its performance at ...
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The Aviator
Dir: Martin Scorsese. US.2004. 169 mins. He's perhaps best knownas a nutty old recluse, but it's the younger Howard Hughes, the ambitious movieproducer, industrialist and aviation pioneer, that interests Martin Scorseseand Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, their epic period biopic forMiramax, Warner and Initial Entertainment Group. Director and star paint ...
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Japanese studios set to build country's biggest multiplex
Shochiku, Toho and Toei will jointly build and operate thelargest multiplex cinema in Japan.Construction of the 12-screen, 2,500-seat site will begin in2006 in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city, as part of a new Osaka rail stationcomplex.The total cost of the project, including renovations of thestation building, is estimated at $1.45 bn ...
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Ruiz cranks up Klimt in Vienna
Raoul Ruiz's homage to the artist Gustav Klimt willbegin shooting on January 4 in Vienna.Klimt stars JohnMalkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane and Nikolai Kinski. The leadproducer of the co-production involving four different countries is Dieter Pochlatkoof EPO-FILM.Ruiz, who wrote the script and will direct, commented:"I see this film as a ...
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Israeli outcry as Cinema Council chief replaced
Israeli Cinema Council chairman Eli Zohar has unexpectedlybeen replaced by Ronny Milo, a former Minister of Culture and the ex-mayor ofTel Aviv.The move has taken the entire Israeli film industry bysurprise. The news was announced by Culture Minister Limor Livnat .The founding chairman of the Film Authority when it launchedin ...
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Flightplan takes off in Berlin
German director Robert Schwentke begins shooting thethriller Flightplan in Berlin today (Dec6) with a cast including Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean and KateBeaham.The film is billed asclaustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughterfly home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobodyadmits she ...
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Swiss Film Prize embraces animation
The 2005 Swiss Film Prize has introduced a new prizecategory for Best Animation Film which will be awarded every two years from2005.Five animation films, including Georges Schwizgebel's L'HommeSans Ombre, which won the Prix'Regards Jeunes' at this year's Cannes Film Festival, were nominated.The nominees for Best Feature Film are: Bettina Oberli's ...
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Warner makes senior technical appointments
Steve Southgate has beennamed senior vice president of European technical operations at Warner BrosEntertainment and Paul Saccone becomes senior vice president and generalmanager of Warner Bros subsidiary Global Digital Media Xchange."Steve and Paul have bothproved invaluable to our operations, both here and abroad," Darcy Antonellis,executive vice president of Warner Bros ...
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Warner get Golden Gross award in Japan for Samurai
Steve Southgate has beennamed senior vice president of European technical operations at Warner BrosEntertainment and Paul Saccone becomes senior vice president and generalmanager of Warner Bros subsidiary Global Digital Media Xchange."Steve and Paul have bothproved invaluable to our operations, both here and abroad," Darcy Antonellis,executive vice president of Warner Bros ...
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Warner get Golden Gross award in Japan for Samurai
Warner Bros Japan collectedthe 2004 Golden Cross Award this week for The Last Samurai, which grossed an extraordinary $127m (Y13.7bn) inJapan to become the biggest grossing title of the year.Warner Bros Japan managingdirector William Ireton received the award from the Motion Picture ExhibitorsAssociation of Japan at a ceremony on Dec ...
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New Line picks up movie rights to Understanding Guys bestseller
New Line Cinema has picked up rights to Sex And The City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo'snon-fiction bestseller He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth ToUnderstanding Guys.The authors will adapt the screenplay, which will centre on a youngfemale talk show host who becomes involved with a guest."The ...
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Hungary's Meszaros lines up Marie Curie biopic
Marta Meszaros, one of Hungary's best known female directors, is developing a biopic of Polish-born French scientist Marie Curie, to be produced by Polish production outfit Akson Studio. The project follows Curie's final years when, made ill by her own discovery, radium, she returns to her homeland to say goodbye ...
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Chinese Mountain Patrol rides off with Golden Horse
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, the second feature by Chinese director Lu Chuan, beat WongKar-wai's's 2046 to thebest film prize at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, which showcases filmsfrom Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.A bleak portrayal of life on a Tibetan plateau, it is thefirst entry from China to win the top prize ...
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Concorde launches Hungary's first film fund
Leveraging theopportunity created by the recently introduced Hungarian Film Law, Hungarianbanking outfit Concorde Securities has established the country's firstfilm financing fund, the Concorde Film Trust.The Law, passed inspring 2004, created tax benefits for companies backing films made in Hungary.Companies may reduce their corporate income tax by 100% of the amount ...
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Bridget strides past $100m in international after 25 days
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason passed $100m at the international boxoffice this weekend after 25 days in release through UIP.The romantic comedy sequel added $16.4m on 3,200 screens in 33territories to raise its international running total to $108m.Germany was a key driverhere, as the picture opened top on $4.5m ...
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Kranks takes $3.8m for Sony in 14 territories
Revolution/Sony's comedy Christmas With The Kranks added an estimated $3.8m on 1,465 printsin 14 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) at theweekend to raise its early international running total to $5.1m.The picture opened in third place in the UK on $1.5m on 370, astrong debut bearing in mind that ...
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Warner grosses $10.5m from Polar Express in 25 markets
The Polar Express grossed an estimated $10.7m on 4,400 screens in 25 marketsthrough Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend to raise itscumulative total to $24m.The animated feature opened on $1.6m on 455 and 254,200 admissionsin Italy, where it was expected to rank second behind Buena VistaInternational's The Incredibles.France produced ...