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Argentina experiencing film production boom
In a country ravaged byeconomic and political disarray just over four years ago, Argentina iscurrently enjoying a film production boom.More than 70 feature anddocumentaries films were produced in 2005, up from 2004 (54) and 2003 (67). There are 109 movies currentlybeing filmed, recently completed or in post-production and at least ...
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Box office attendance in Argentina drops by 15% for 2005
Cinema attendancefigures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 15% in 2005. The period saw 36million admissions as opposed to 42m in 2004, the biggest year for the localmarket in almost two decades. However, audiences were still up from 2003 bythree million admissions and from 2002 by four and half million. ...
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More multiplex cinemas planned for Argentina
Village Cinemas opened anine-screen, 1.800 stadium-seating complex this weekin one of the fast-growing districts of Buenos Aires. This $ 14m investment -incooperation with the development group Galerias Pacifico- is the seventh multiplex Village to have been builtin Argentina since 1996. The company now operates 78 screens in the country."We expect ...
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International support backs Latin American film-makers
New Latin American film-makers are to enjoy the support of a seriesof ambitious new development programmes backed by Argentinian foundations, foreignembassies, international funds and festivals.Firstly,the Proaand TyPA foundations, in association with the Buenos Aires Film Festival, have announceda new edition of Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), which offers advice, education andideas ...
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Trio of local films dominate Argentine box office
Local films enjoyed one of their best weekends in recent memory at Argentina's box-office,holding all three top spots in the local chart.Local moviestook an impressive 47 percent of total ticket sales over the weekend of Sept 30to Oct 2 and have dominated the market since the beginning of September.El Aura(The ...
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Argentinean admissions plunge in first half of 2005
Cinemaattendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 24.5% in the first halfof 2005, according to provisional figures from Nielsen EDI and Dis-Service.The period saw some 16.8m admissions as opposed to 22.26mover the same period in 2004, the biggest year for Argentine cinema in almosttwo decades. However, audiences are still ...
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