Atlanta The Olympic Committee confirmed that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in Atlanta during the Summer Olympics to attend the screening, on 2 August, of his latest film, Eraser.

The Committee said that the premiere will be attended by some 10,000 athletes participating in the Atlanta Olympics. In a statement, Schwarzenegger, a former Mr Universe, said he was proud to have such a distinguished audience.

New York Miramax has put the US video release of Il Postino (The Postman) on hold indefinitely while the film continues to perform theatrically and creeps towards breaking Like Water for Chocolate's foreign-language US box-office record of US$22 million.

As of last weekend, Il Postino was still playing 75 screens in the US and grossing over US$60,000 weekly for a cumulative gross of US$20,566,813 over 369 days.

London John Mount has been appointed as new director of cinema at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and director of ICA Projects distribution.

Mount was formerly deputy head of programme planning at the National Film Theatre, and replaces Simon Field, who is going on to be director of the Rotterdam Film Festival.

The ICA has led the way in UK distribution in recent years, bringing the best of independent international cinema to London audiences - films like Ju Dou, Chungking Express, The Kingdom and Silences of the Palace, which is playing at the Prague International Film Festival this week.

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