All Screen articles in 23 March 2008
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Horton holds on in North America
School kids on their Easter holiday helped keep Fox's Horton Hears A Who! on top at the North American box office this weekend, with the computer animated comedy dropping 44% from its debut weekend to gross an estimated $25.1m over three days. Horton's closest competitor was Tyler Perry's Meet The ...
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10,000 edges Horton at international box office
Leading the international field for the third time in a row, Warner's holdover 10,000 BC grossed an estimated $28.2m from 7,400 prints in 62 territories over the Easter weekend, just beating the estimated $25.2m from 6,600 screens in 49 markets grossed by Fox's expanding Horton Hears A Who!With school breaks ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER2: OVER-PRODUCTION
The clearest failing of European film is its ability to reach audiences, particularly where that means crossing national borders. The dream of a single European market with a common cultural identity is nowhere further from reality than in the movement of film between countries. Whether the motivation is business or ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION Distribution has perhaps always been something of the poor relation in European cinema. This is the continent of auteur theory where the vision of a director is paramount. Great cinema is the work of the genius - production is art, distribution is mere business.For Hollywood, business is its business ...
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HONG KONG 2008: Festival and market round-up
Screen International's team in Hong Kong offered the best coverage of key events at this year's festivals and market.Here we look back at some of the key stories and business.Click on section heading to see morenTHE BUSINESSKey deals and business news from FilmartnTHE AWARDSThe main awards winners, including Asian Film ...
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THE AWARDS: Asian Film Awards and HAF winners
Click on headline to see storySecret Sunshine lights up Asian Film Awards Korea's Secret Sunshine was the big winner at the second edition of the Asian Film Awards (AFAs) last night, scooping best film, best director for Lee Chang-dong and best actress for Jeon Do-yeon's performance.Pang Ho-cheung, Ning Hao win ...
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Croatia makes $9.2m awards to film
Croatia's Ministry of Culture and Croation National Television have finally announced $9.2m in awards after seven months.The funding includes support for 10 features with between them take $6.4m of the $9.2m total.The features are:In The Wonderland (U Zemlji Cudesa)(director: Dejan Sorak, production companu: Interfilm.) $893,617 Children's Kingdom (Djecje Carstvo) (Branko ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs seven features
The Finnish Film Foundation has allocated $2.9m (Eu1.9m) production support for seven new features, including four local films, a co-production with Estonia and two Scandinavia ventures.Produced by Riina Hyytiä for Dionysos Films, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's One Foot Under (toinen jalka haudasta) is the story of a 35-year-old man told he has ...
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Quiet Chaos dominates Donatello nominations
Rome-Domenico Procacci's Fandango-produced Quite Chaos starring NanniMoretti and directed by Antonello Grimaldi leads the race for the David of Donatello awards, with eighteen nominations.Quiet Chaos, which was presented at Berlin and features a cameo with Roman Polanski has performed well at the local box office earning $8.8m (Euros 5.2m) in ...
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Waisbren warns of impending calamity in US slate financing
In a prescient speech more than a month ago in Berlin, financier Ben Waisbren talked of impending calamity for the US wave of slate financing - banks won't touch such mega-deals again until there is more transparency and a better alignment of investor and studio interests.Click here for comment fromScreen ...
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Screen comment on US equity crisis: Monte Carlo And Bust'
Wall Street's death spiral has claimed its biggest victim so far with the collapse of investment bank, Bear Stearns. Like so many other financial institutions engulfed in the mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns was also a film financer; as is its new owner, JP Morgan Chase. Now the question is when ...
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United states - Profit Sharing
Nestled in the bustling West Los Angeles neighbourhood of Westwood lies a company that may well become a friend to stars, directors and producers long after their careers have waned.That is not to say that Content Partners, the 2006 brainchild of accountant and former Brillstein-Grey CFO Steve Blume and longtime ...
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International - Making waves
Germany's Die Welle was the highest non-US entry in the international top 40 this weekend with $3.5m, falling just shy of the top 10.The drama, distributed by Constantin Film, played on 317 screens for a $10,986 screen average, the second highest of the weekend. The film, based on Todd Strasser's ...
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The International view - Indecent proposal
There is a tendency at events of the nature of ShoWest - the largest congregation of family-rated film exhibitors - to offer advice. The agenda is rife with forums that allow one to wax philosophical, from panels with crystal ball premises, to homage and tributes that turn the spotlight on ...
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United Kingdom - For the very first time
When Madonna unveiled Filth & Wisdom on February 13 in the Berlinale's Panorama programme, most critics were fairly harsh but the film's screenings were sold out and the project became one of the festival's talking points - not bad for a first-time director.Even as a household name, Madonna tried to ...
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In Focus - Slate financing - Storm Warning
By its nature, the film industry is predacious, but irresistible to investors. From its earliest days, the film industry has relied successfully on outsiders to spread its capital and mitigate the high risk of producing and distributing movies.Despite all the risks, and well-known stories of investor losses in the past, ...
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India's film finance giants
Eros InternationalOne of the first Indian film companies to float on London's AIM when it raised $41m in June 2006, Eros has been expanding from its base of international distribution of Hindi films to become a vertically-integrated studio spanning production and distribution across theatrical, video, TV and new media platforms.It ...
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Film finance: India INC extends its global reach
It has been a busy year for the Indian film industry's corporate players, what with floating on stock markets and signing content deals with local producers, not to mention forging partnerships with Hollywood.India's film finance giantsFICCI Frames line-upSince last year's Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (Ficci) Frames conference in ...
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Mammoth Movie Man: Interview with Roland Emmerich
'I don't know why I'm the only one who does it,' laughs Roland Emmerich about the speculative auction process whereby he sets up his movies at particular studios. 'It's a perfect system actually.'Emmerich's latest deal was with Sony Pictures, which stepped in to greenlight and finance 2012, a script Emmerich ...
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Editorial - Screen says Monte carlo and bust
Wall Street's death spiral has claimed its biggest victim so far with the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns. Like so many other financial institutions engulfed in the mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns was also a film financer; as is its new owner, JP Morgan Chase. Now the question is, when ...