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Bollywood 'K3G' takes UK box office by storm
Bollywood received its latest boost at the UK box office this week with the Yash Raj Films release of the most expensive Indian film ever: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) to record figures.Scoring the biggest opening for an Indian release in the UK with $687,017 (£473,355) the film landed in ...
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Korea's Cinema Service launches distribution arm
Korean major Cinema Service has launched a new subsidiary, Big Blue Film, that will focus on the distribution of local features. The company will be headed by Choi Yong-bae, former head of distribution at Cinema Service, and will aspire to a slate of ten films per year.Ownership of Big ...
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France's UGC to enter UK distribution market
French major UGC is planning to give foreign-language films a massive boost in the notoriously tough UK market by launching a UK distribution presence early next year.Plans for the initiative are being hammered out by UGC International executive Louisa Dent, who will oversee acquisitions for the venture. Dent, who declined ...
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Amelie on course for 19 million admissions
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Oscar-tipped French-language title Amelie is proving as much of a success abroad as it was at home. As of Dec 14 the crowd-pleaser has already sold over 17 million tickets in the 25 countries in which it has opened - equivalent to approximately $100m in box office gross. ...
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Natali's Headspace to develop digital features
Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali is launching a feature film and multi-media production company, Headspace, which will develop cutting-edge digital production techniques such as the Cinema HD processBest know for his debut cult hit Cube, Natali recently signed to direct the movie Nothing for newly launched Vancouver production house 49th Parallel ...
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Canada's Martinelli unveils Capri prod company
Canadian producer Gabriella Martinelli has launched a new Toronto-based production outfit, Capri Films, in partnership with Polish recording impresario Wladislow Bartoszewicz. The first project under the Capri banner will be Between Strangers, starring Sophia Loren and Gerard Depardieu, directed by Loren's son Eduardo Ponti and now in post production. Martinelli ...
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Euro Pitch Point selects 12 projects for Berlinale
An international jury composed of Eurimages' executive secretary Renate Roginas, Senator Film Produktion's managing director Benjamin Herrmann, Road Movies' Uli Felsberg, Maestranza Films' Antonio P. Perez, and Renaissance Film's Angus Finney has selected 12 feature film ideas to be pitched by their writers at the 3rd European Pitch Point on ...
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Spain's Manga strikes deal with Admira platforms
Barcelona-based Manga Films has inked a five-year partnership with Admira (Telefonica Media) TV holdings Via Digital and Antena 3.Admira had originally intended to buy out a 60% stake in Manga, a deal which fell through last summer. In its stead the new agreement, developed over several months, will see Manga ...
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South African government body briefs film industry
In a sign that the South African government is starting to take the local film industry seriously, the government's Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) new film division held a briefing last week for over 100 producers, directors, exhibitors and broadcasters in Johannesburg. The newly created division - Media and Motion Pictures ...
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Prisa may acquire Quiero TV stake
Spanish multimedia conglom Prisa, backer of audiovisual powerhouse Sogecable, may buy a stake in troubled digital terrestrial television platform Quiero TV. In an interview published Friday in the on-line financial magazine Invertia, Prisa general manager of operations and vp of internet division Prisacom Ignacio Santillana is quoted as saying that ...
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BSkyB accused of pay-TV market abuse
BSkyB's stranglehold on pay-TV film rights in the UK has come under threat after competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said on Monday (Dec 17) it is to rule that the satellite broadcaster has breached competition laws.The investigation said that the difference between the prices BSkyB charges its ...
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Catalunya to back Spain/Argentina co-productions
The Spanish autonomous regional government of Catalunya has signed an agreement to back TV co-productions between Spain's national public television network Television Espanola (TVE) and Argentine firms Pramer and Tranquilo Producciones. The first two productions out of the accord will be Perfiles Catalanes, a 26-chapter series of 26 minutes each ...
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Universal sets The Hulk for June 2003
Joining a trend for dating movies over 18 months in advance, Universal Pictures has announced that it will open Ang Lee's comic book adventure The Hulk on June 20, 2003. Earlier this month, 20th Century Fox announced that it would open X2, the sequel to X-Men, on May 2, 2003, ...
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AFI announces first annual award nominations
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced its nominations for the first annual AFI Awards 2001.which will be presented on Jan 5, 2002, in Los Angeles. Two 13-member committees - one representing films and one representing TV - made the nominations; a 100-person AFI jury will select the award-winners.The film ...
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Harry has $45m weekend in international market
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone showed no signs of crumbling fast over the weekend, taking a massive $45.3m or 8.8m admissions from 8,378 prints in 39 countries. Its international total now stands at $313.16m, its worldwide cumulative total at $570m.Over the weekend, the film opened in Korea with an ...
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BVI tops $1bn for seventh consecutive year
Buena Vista International (BVI) has become the third distributor this year to cross the $1bn barrier at the international box office, making it seven years in a row for the company. The battle charge was led by Pearl Harbor which took $251.5m in overseas territories, over $50m more than in ...
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Enigma
Screened at Sundance (Premieres). Dir: Michael Apted. UK. 2001. 117mins.Revisiting a little-known yet extremely important and heroic chapter of World War II, Michael Apted's Enigma is a compelling, sumptuously-made romantic thriller that is effective in both its political and more personal dimensions. Steeped in the tense atmosphere of wartime Britain, ...
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Kate & Leopold
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2001. 120minsSo here's the pitch: a 19th-century English duke gets caught up in a time warp and is transported from New York in 1876 to 2001 where he meets a high-powered career woman. After much comedy derived from the differences between the two, they fall in ...
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Bollywood UK: Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sorrow
Indian films got a dramatically varied reception at the UK box office this week as Yash Raj Films' Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G) established a new record for a Bollywood opening, while Eros International's Bollywood Calling, managed only a dismal response at the turnstiles.K3G (Sometime Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow) took third ...
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Hong Kong's eSun strikes production pacts
Hong Kong's eSun Holdings, part-owner of production and distribution outfit Media Asia Group, has signed a $25.6m (HK$200m) joint venture with leading Singapore broadcaster MediaCorp. At the same time, Media Asia has unveiled co-production pacts with Taiwan's Pandasia Entertainment and Hong Kong outfits Teamwork Motion Pictures and Filmko Pictures. The ...