All Europe articles – Page 698
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Piracy costs Italian industry about $700m annually
Italy’s cinema industry loses an estimated $699m (Euros 530m) to piracy annually, according to the first in-depth study of the impact of piracy in Italy. The findings were announced by Italy’s Anti Audiovisual Piracy Federation.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Makes Its Mark
Crime thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has become the most successful local film of all time at the Nordic box office.
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On the fast track
UPI’s Fast & Furious stepped up a gear over the Easter weekend to climb to the top of the international chart, grossing $45.2m, up 47% week-on-week. It has now grossed $90.1m after two weeks on release, playing on more than 5,000 screens in 50 territories.
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Market Report Germany
With around 30 releases a year, the German market was the third most important for French films abroad, after the US and Russia, with 5.6 million tickets sold according to Unifrance. Asterix At The Olympic Games and Welcome To The Sticks were the two top French-language performers in Germany last ...
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Geoff Gilmore and Jane Rosenthal discuss Tribeca's new direction
Geoff Gilmore had one of the film world’s most coveted jobs as director of the Sundance Film Festival. So it was a surprise to many when he announced in February he would leave after nearly two decades to join Tribeca Enterprises, the for-profit media company which operates the Tribeca Film ...
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Visions du Reel moves into distribution
In Switzerland, they take their documentaries very seriously. The films are frequently seen in cinemas and are given the respect accorded elsewhere to fictional features.
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Italian Film Commission presents new tax credit in LA
The Italian Film Commission is presenting the country’s first film incentive at a meeting in Los Angelestoday (April 16). It will be held at Shutters in Santa Monica this evening.
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Eduardo Campoy named interim president of Spanish Film Academy
Leading film producer Eduardo Campoy has been named as the interim president of the Spanish FilmAcademy following the appointment of former chief, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, as minister of culture.
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Italian film industry rallies as cost of earthquake $15.8bn
The Italian film industry has announced a second round of fund raising initiatives to help to victims oflast week’s earthquake.
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Medienboard fund supports international productions
New films by Roman Polanski, Christopher Smith, Danis Tanovic and Agnieszka Holland are among 36projects awarded more than $5.9m (Euro 4.5m) by Germany’s second largest regional film fund,Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Stefan Faldbakken to direct new Varg Veum featurePro
Norwegian director Stefan Faldbakken will direct the first feature in a new $14.2m (NOK 94m) film andtelevision package based on the best selling Varg Veum novels by Gunnar Staalesen.
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Stephen Frears' Cheri faces tough competition at French box office
Stephen Frears’ Cheri lost out to tough competition at the French box office this weekend despiteopening in France ahead of its US and UK release. The film scored 67,649 admissions from 133screens in its first five days to Sunday night, according to distributor Pathe.
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Eichinger and Edel reunite for Bushido biopic
The Baader Meinhof Complex’s writer-producer Bernd Eichinger and director Uli Edel are to bereunited this summer for a biopic of Germany’s No. 1 rapper Bushido.
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Italy's Far East Film Festival announces line-up
The 11th edition of Italy’s Far East Film Festival will kick off on April 24 with the European premieresof Thai martial action film, Ong Bak 2, and Chinese black comedy, Crazy Racer.
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Spain sees first prosecution in piracy case
Spain has finally taken a strong stand against piracy with the administrator of a P2P file sharing site being sentenced to six months in jail and fined $6,500 (Euros 4,900) in a court case in Logrono, Spain.
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CMG adds civil rights drama American Violet to Cannes slate
Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has acquired international rights to Tim Disney’s civil rights drama American Violetand will commence sales in Cannes next month.
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Fast & Furious leaves the competition in the dust and closes in on $100m overseas
Universal/UPI’sFast & Furiousmaintained its devastating early pace as the action sequel delivered an estimated $46.5m weekend haul from 5,118 venues in 50 territories to race to an early $91m international running total.In North America the film tore past $115m in its second weekend and remained the top selling release worldwide ...
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French Parliament rejects bill to unplug Internet pirates
After a heated battle, a bill that would have unplugged French Internet pirates was rejected by the country’s Parliament on Thursday.
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Guardans appointed as director of Spain's ICAA
Following last week’s appointment of Angeles Gonzalez Sinde as Spain’s culture minister, Ignasi Guardans will become the new director of the ICAA (Institute ofCinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the country’s film and TV body.
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Bayona, Fresnadillo named as godfathers to Cannes Critics Week
Directors Juan Antonio Bayona and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will act as Godfathers to Cannes Critics’ Week for the 2009 edition.