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International - Iron Man shows its mettle
While Iron Man kick-started the summer season with a bang after taking nearly $100m across 56 territories in its opening weekend, a slew of Japanese films still accounted for 7.7% of the total revenue of international films.New entrant Partners: The Movie (Aibou) was the highest non-US opener this weekend, coming ...
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South Korea - Korea starts to act global
Even in the absence of a film the size of Oldboy or The Host, Korean sellers are discovering they are hardly back to square one."Korean cinema has established itself enough now that we have regulars who come to the markets with knowledge of Korean films," says Luna Choo, manager of ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Ralph Winter
Name: Ralph Winter, producerProduction: The main unit of Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, directed by Gavin Hood, filmed for two-and-a-half weeks and the second unit for six weeks in New Zealand, principally in Queenstown and environs, Dunedin and Milford Sound, a fjord. All are in the lower half of ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Richard Wright
Name: Richard Wright, producerProduction: Underworld 3: Rise Of The Lycans shot in and around Auckland for 11 weeks earlier this year.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'We had to shoot January through March because of actors' availability. The film takes place almost completely at night and mainly ...
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New Zealand - Q&A - Jon Landau
Name: Jon Landau, producerProduction: Avatar, directed by James Cameron, spent five months in Stone Street Studios, Wellington. The project also shot on location in Hawaii.- Why did you decide to shoot in New Zealand'First and foremost it had the calibre of artisans we were looking for to get the quality ...
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International - Kingdom leaps to top
Martial-arts adventure The Forbidden Kingdom came up trumps this weekend with a $16.8m take from 10 territories, making it this weekend's number one international film.The Chinese-US co-production expanded in five territories including Russia and South Korea, for a mammoth second weekend rise of 416%.The film, starring Jet Li and Jackie ...
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In focus - Talking points - 'We just have to be more targeted'
IM Global chief Stuart Ford was in Tokyo visiting buyers when the news about Gaga broke. "I think the announcement's been interpreted as a more drastic change of strategy than may actually be the case," he says. "The Gaga brand is an important one in Japanese cinema and I think ...
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New Zealand - Facilities - Delivering post
"Everybody thinks we went to New Zealand for its exotic locales," says Jon Landau, producer of James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar. "We never left the studio. We did rent a warehouse off-site because we needed more space, but all our filming was studio-based."Landau wanted New Zealand's talent rather than ...
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Latin America - Lure of the Latin beat
BRAZILThe country's cities and the mighty Amazon are providing the backdrop to a growing number of US productions. Elaine Guerini reports.Brazil is gradually shedding its image as a violent and volatile place for film-making by welcoming a host of international footloose productions to the territory. Not content with stunning and ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Niv Fichman
Name: Niv Fichman, producer, Rhombus MediaProduction: BlindnessFernando Meirelles' Blindness is set in an unnamed modern city. Last year, it shot in Sao Paulo for four weeks in October, in Montevideo, Uruguay for one week in September and in Canada for five weeks in August and September- Why did you shoot ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Gale Anne Hurd
Name: Gale Anne Hurd, producerProduction: The Incredible HulkThis loose follow-up to 2003's Hulk shot in Rio de Janeiro in November (10 days in Tavares Bastos, three days in Bhering, one day in Lapa and one day in the Tijuca Forest) after 14 weeks in Canada- Why did you shoot in ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Francis Ford Coppola
Name: Francis Ford Coppola, director and producerProduction: TetroA co-production between Zoetrope Argentina, Zoetrope (US), Tornasol (Spain), Castafiore Films and BIM (Italy), Tetro follows the rivalries within an artistic Italian family living in Argentina. Shooting in Buenos Aires, Calafate, Bariloche in Argentina and Alicante in Spain from April until June with ...
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Latin America - Q&A - Laura Bickford
Name: Laura Bickford, producerProduction: The ArgentineA US-Spanish co-production between Focus Features, Estudios Picasso, Laura Bickford Productions, Morena Films, Section 8 and Telecinco about Che Guevara's involvement in the Cuban revolution. The majority (12 weeks) of the shoot was done in the state of Campeche, Mexico from May to July, the ...
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Latin America - Argentina
Buenos Aires alone hosted 18 feature films last year, of which three were international productions, including James Ivory's The City Of Your Final Destination. And productivity looks to be continuing into 2008 with Francis Ford Coppola in town this month to shoot immigration drama Tetro.The city's attractions are multiple: experienced ...
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Latin America - Mexico
Steven Soderbergh is the latest in a long line of major US film-makers to be lured across the border, shooting his Che Guevara film The Argentine in Mexico. With its low costs, diverse landscapes, professional crews and proximity to Los Angeles, the country has long been a popular production destination ...
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The international view - Bringing it all back home
Screen's first-quarter box-office survey indicates a widening gap between international and domestic performance. While US and Canadian revenues ran around 3% off the 2007 pace, the international tally was 30% up year on year. In financial terms that means the international market was responsible for $4.28bn (71%) of the $6.5bn ...
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New Zealand - A-list Shines with Kiwi polish
It may be small but New Zealand is one of the world's most popular filming locations. James Cameron has finished shooting the action sci-fi Avatar for Twentieth Century Fox in the territory, while Guillermo Del Toro is set to spend the next four years in New Zealand shooting two Hobbit ...
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UK Special - Picket line - Strike one'
With a possible US actors' strike on the cards this summer, could it be a boom time for UK actors'Don't count on it, even if a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike goes ahead. All the leading UK actors are members of SAG as well as UK actors' union Equity, so ...
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United States - A one-shot deal
On a sombre late March morning in Chicago before dawn breaks, it is day four of shooting on Helix, the first feature from the Beverly Hills-based production company Windward Entertainment.The story, about the kidnap of a young woman (played by Alexa Vega), is drawn from an actual incident involving Aram ...
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United Kingdom - Virtuous circle
It is a bitterly cold February day in deepest Nottinghamshire in the middle of England, with rain-clouds looming. But that does not stop cast and crew from braving the elements and putting their Thai curry lunch on hold while their enthusiastic, perfectionist director Stephan Elliott freeze-frames the shot he is ...