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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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Borruel departs as BocaBoca appoints Lekhal
Spanish production house BocaBoca has appointed Waheb Lekhal its new general manager to work alongside president Cesar Benitez.Also as part of the company's restructuring, former international sales chief Mercedes Borruel will leave her post while BocaBoca product, with exceptions, will now be pumped through sales consortium Grupo PI. That includes ...
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The Matrix Revolutions
Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowski. US. 2003.After their failed attempt to craft a compelling mythology out of The Matrix with The Matrix Reloaded, the brothers Wachowski resort to a straight action formula in their series finale Revolutions. And as a spectacular action movie, there are few films that could rival ...
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France Boutique
Dir: Tonie Marshall, France. 2003, 95 min.After beauty parlours comes tele-marketing programmes. Tonie Marshall pursues the comic vision of French consumer society she deployed with wit and zest in her 1999 breakthrough hit, Venus Beauty Institute. But France Boutique, an inside look at a French tele-marketing and those who produce ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - November 3 2003
SOUTH KOREA - November 3PRE-PRODUCTIONCHEONG-YEON(Cineline II) Backer/Dist: Korea Pictures. Drama about Korea's first female aviator, who lived in the 1920s. Prod: Seok Myung-hong. Dir: Yoon Jong-chan. Scr: Lee In-hwa, Yoon Jong-chan. Main cast: Jang Jin-young, Kim Ju-hyuk. Shooting in China, Korea, and U.S.A from ...
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South Korean production update
For the latest South Korean production details - see International Production ListingsThe South Korean production sector's push towards dramas and romantic comedies appears to be intensifying, following the box-office failure of big-budget genre pictures in recent years. This trend peaked in September with the box-office crash of Natural ...
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Lolafilms names international sales chiefs
Spanish production, distribution and sales house Lolafilms has named Tania Pinto Da Cunha and Eva Sklar its new co-directors of international sales.Sklar has been with Lolafilms for eight years, most recently as head of press. Pinto Da Cunha comes to Lola from London's HanWay, the sales arm of Jeremy Thomas' ...
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Lolafilms names new sales chiefs ahead of Mifed
Spanish production, distribution and sales house Lolafilms has named Tania Pinto Da Cunha and Eva Sklar its new co-directors of international sales.Sklar has been with Lolafilms for eight years, most recently as head of press. Pinto Da Cunha comes to Lola from London's HanWay, the sales arm of Jeremy Thomas' ...
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Skagerrak
Dir: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Denmark-UK. 2003. 104minsA modern fairytale about friendship, second chances and the unpredictable nature of happiness, Skagerrak is an unwieldy romantic charmer from writer-director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Lacking the focus and obvious commercial appeal of Berlin prize-winner Mifune, his English-language debut is the kind of slow burner that worms ...
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DENMARK
Kill Bill Vol.1 stayed on top for another week despite its 34% drop from its opening weekend, and it kept newcomer Oliver Ussing's low-budget romantic comedy Rule Nr.1 from the top spot. The new local film didn't quite perform as distributor Sandrew Metronome had hoped based on their high 52 ...
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Trimark pays $1.65m for What's Cooking'
Trimark Pictures has paid $1.65m for domestic rights to What's Cooking', the latest picture from Gurinder Chadha which opened this year's Sundance Film Festival.The movie - a portmanteau piece looking at four LA households from different ethnic backgrounds as they make preparations for the traditionally festive dinner - was a ...
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Exhibitors set for alternative content bonanza
Exhibitors are set to reap major financial benefits from alternative content screenings such as sports events, according to a new report.The report - Alternative Content: The New Cinema Profit Engine by Screen Digest - says exhibitors should take advantage of new opportunities created by digital technology and that there is ...
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Paris looks to lure film shoots
A new film commission has been created in the north of Paris, with the aim of luring productions to the area. The Pole Nord-Parisien has brought together 8 municipalities which will participate in the new organisation in order to attract producers to shoot in what is a particularly urban zone. ...
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Osama, Crimson Gold take top Valladolid honours
Siddiq Barmak's Afghan tragedy Osama and Iranian Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold (Talaye Sorgh) shared the top Golden Spike award at the 48th annual edition of the Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1).Bent Hamer's Norway's foreign-language Oscar contender Kitchen Stories went home with the Silver Spike prize and best photography, ...
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Hands off our subsidies, say Euro film agencies
Europe's national film funding agencies have called on the European Commission to call off a major re-examination of the cobweb of national film support schemes that is scheduled to take place next year.In a letter addressed to culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding, the 16 state funding bodies called for ...
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Thunderbirds creator goes for extra UK tax funding
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson is raising a second wave funding of UK tax-driven financing for a new series of his cult TV series Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons.Anderson previously raised £8m through the Enterprise Investment Scheme to start production on the £20m series, becoming the fastest and biggest ever example ...
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Austria's Diagonale fest agrees to producer demands
The fate of Graz's Diagonale Festival of Austrian Cinema took another turn last week, with the festival's new management agreeing to accept a series of demands made by the Association of Austrian Film Producers (AAFP).The Diagonale is at the centre of a major row within the Austrian industry about moves ...
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Cruelty is kind for Universal, takes another $10.8m
IntolerableCruelty grossed $10.8mthrough UIP from 2,457 sites in 24 countries at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $35.6m.Chief highlightswere a strong $550,000 opening in Korea in 75 venues and number one holds insecond weeks in Australia, Italy and Spain.The black comedyenjoyed 22% market share in Australia and added ...
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MGM, Cogeco Cable sign Canadian VOD deal
MGM Home Entertainment andCarleton, Ontario-based Cogeco Cable have signed a video-on-demand supplyagreement that will see MGM library titles carried by Canada's fourth-largestcable provider. The non-exclusive agreementwill include new product including Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Agent Cody Banks and Jeepers Creepers 2 along with past hits such as ...
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Willing to direct Burns in River King for Myriad
Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman's supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures' London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a ...