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SWEDEN 7 December
Having OliverStone in town to promote Alexander didn't give the epic enough leverageto stay on top of the Swedish box-office chart, and it dropped heavily to thirdbehind Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and The Incredibles.The romanticcomedy retained a solid $4,832 screen average from its high 80 prints, but thisweek's ...
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DENMARK 7 December
Despite dropping some 37%Oliver Stone's Alexander epic managed to stay on top of the Danishbox-office chart in front of The Incredibles and Bridget Jones: TheEdge Of Reason, which swapped places on second and third.Alexander's DKK 30,591 box-office screen average wasconsiderably higher than its closest competitors but marginally bested by HeadOn ...
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The Oyster Farmer
Dir/scr: Anna Reeves. Aust-UK. 2004. 91minsAustralian newcomer Anna Reeves does little to changethe image of her countrymen or local cliches with Oyster Farmer, servingup the typical Aussie quirky characters, black humour, beer and sex in equalmeasure.It isn't the most attractive picture that writer-director Reeves paints of theisolated oyster farmers of ...
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Australian distributors go Christmas shopping
Australian independentdistributors, including Hopscotch, sister companies Dendy and Becker, and MagnaPacific, have been acquiring ever more product lately for their own territoryand New Zealand.DVD distributor MagnaPacific has broken free of the Becker Entertainment Group and is ramping up itstheatrical activities through the all-rights acquisition of up to 12 genrepictures per ...
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Snoop Dogg joins Besson's Arthur
Rapper Snoop Dogg has joinedthe cast of Luc Besson's Euros 65m animated film Arthur and will voicethe role of Max.In an interview with Frenchdaily Le Parisien, Besson said the film, which will be his first directorialeffort since 1999's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc, had beenshooting for the ...
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Spain's Filmax acquires post-production lab
Barcelona mini-studio Filmax has added another feather to its cap with the 60% buy-out of post-production laboratory Filmtel. The move follows Filmax's entrance last month into the post-production sector with the launch of animation effects house Bren Entertainment. Filmtel was a founding partner in Bren and will maintain its 30% ...
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Indonesia's Oscars return after 12-year gap
TheCitra awards, Indonesia's equivalent of the Oscars, are back this year for thefirst time since 1992 as part of the Indonesian Film Festival (FFI), organisedby the National Film Supervisory Body (BP2N) with a funding of $66,000 (Rp600m).TheCitra awards are open to films produced from 2000 - 2004. Both Ada Apa ...
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Mandeville, Fuse to remake Danish comedy for Disney
David Hoberman's Mandeville Films has joined MikkelBondesen's Fuse Entertainment in remaking the Danish romantic comedy OhHappy Day.Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) has been hired to do theEnglish-language rewrite, which will be a co-production between the Walt DisneyPictures label and the original Danish and UK producers at Fine & Mellowand Ugly Duckling, ...
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BVI returns to Serbia and Montenegro
BIV is returningto Serbia and Montenegro a year after Pirates Of The Caribbean wasreleased, in October 2003 by the company's then principal partner Bandur Film.The localdistributor suffered a financial collapse and until this November, BVI had notreleased a single film in the territory.Now, BVI productis to be handled by Taramount ...
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ITALY 7 December
Last weekend saw WarnerBros' The Polar Express open at number two at the Italian box office,but BVI's The Incredibles stayed firmly on top.As the local box office hotsup in the run-up to Christmas, The Polar Express earned $1,467,954 - butthis paled in comparison to the huge $10,795,560 which The Incredibleshas ...
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Empire magazine unveils dates, venue for 2005 awards
Empire Magazine's annualawards ceremony, the Sony Ericsson Empire Film Awards, will take place onSunday March 13, 2005, two weeks after the Oscars.The Awards will also becelebrating their tenth anniversary at a new venue, London's Guildhall.Empire Editor Colin Kennedycommented: "It is fitting that in our tenth year the Awards have moved ...
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Winslet to star with Jackman in Aardman's Flushed Away
Aardman Animations, the UK animation house behind Chicken Run and DreamWorks SKG's upcoming Wallace & Gromit film, has finally caught its rat. Kate Winslet will play a savvy sewer rat called Rita in Flushed Away, rounding out the main cast on Aardman's next production.Nicole Kidman had been amongst the actresses ...
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Ocean's 12 to open Bahamas Film Festival tomorrow
Theinternational premiere of Ocean's Twelve will open the inaugural Bahamas International Film Festival(BIFF) on Dec 9.Steven Soderbergh's picturestars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and CatherineZeta-Jones, among others, and opens in the US through Warner Bros on Dec 10."It's an honourfor both the festival and the nation to ...
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Disney, Pixar move Cars to June 2006
Walt DisneyStudios and Pixar Animation Studios have put back the US release of Cars by seven months to Jun 9 2006,announcing a roster of key international releases to tally with the new summerslot. It was originally set to open in the US on Nov 4 2005.Cars will open through Buena ...
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Mandela names Bachchan ambassador against AIDS at Yesterday screening
Indian star AmitabhBachchan, whose credits include Aks, Baghban and Hum,has been appointed a special ambassador in the fight against AIDS.Former South Africanpresident Nelson Mandela made the announcement at a screening of South Africa'sofficial foreign language Oscar entry Yesterday at the International Film Festival of India on WorldAIDS Day on Dec ...
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Doc Hollywood Kidz signs Perry to five-year producing deal
Family-oriented LA-based film production outfit DocHollywood Kidz (DHYK) has signed a five-year agreement with filmmaker StevePerry, under which Perry will produce pictures in the $30m-$100m range with thecompany.Perry produced TrueRomance and served asco-producer and executive producer on the entire Lethal Weapon franchise.He shared theDirectors Guild of America's Outstanding Directorial Achievement ...
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Sogecable joins private broadcasters' union
Grupo Prisa subsidiary Sogecable, which houses pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital, has announced that it will join free TV stations Antena 3 and TeleCinco in the Union of Associated Commercial Broadcasters (UTECA).The move comes at a time when the Spanish television market is set ...
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Ocean's Twelve
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2004. 132mins Warner Bros andVillage Roadshow can count on another worldwide hit with Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to the 2001 blockbuster Ocean's Eleven which grossed $183.4m inNorth America and $267.3m in international territories. With global movie starsClooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts and now Catherine Zeta-Jones heading the ...
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Cinemart shines spotlight on arthouse veterans
A raft of projects fromacclaimed UK directors including Nicolas Roeg, David MacKenzie and PeterGreenaway have been selected for this year's Cinemart co-production market,which takes place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 26 -Feb 6).In all, 47 projects havemade the line-up out of 539 entries for next year's event, the ...