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Bangkok unveils festival line-up
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 2 is to close the second edition of the Bangkok International Film Festival, held between Jan 22 - Feb 2 next year. The event, which will screen around 150 films, opens with a screening of Thai title Renaissance.Organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the ...
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WDF comes to IDFA on hunt for third film
The World Documentary Fund (WDF), the $2.5m (Eu2.1m) international initiative set up to promote theatrical documentaries, has made its first visit to IDFA where it is understood to be keen to cherry-pick its third big-budget documentary project. The fund already has one completed film - Vikram Jayanti's Game Over: Kasparov ...
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US TV cold-shoulders docs
Documentaries critical of US government policy and big business interests will find it increasingly hard to get US network broadcast slots, despite a growing demand from the public, says leading author and professor of law, Joel Bakan. Bakan, who wrote the book on which Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott's Joris ...
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Discovery Docs seeks new talent to mentor
Discovery Docs, the theatrical documentary initiative set up in May this year, is looking for up-and-coming directors which its 'dream team' of heavyweight directors that includes Barbara Kopple, Michael Apted, Peter Gilbert and Nanette Burnstein can mentor. Andrea Meditch, Discovery Docs head of development, who is visiting IDFA for the ...
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Leth parks bike doc in favour of opera opus
Acclaimed Danish documentary maker and poet Joergen Leth, whose The Five Obstructions, his collaboration with Lars von Trier, is being shown as part of IDFA's special programme and which has been nominated for a European Film Award, has confirmed that he has put his Tour de France project on hold ...
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NORTH AMERICA
The biggest specialised opener in North America last weekend was Focus Features' 21 Grams taking $274,454 from just eight screens in New York and Los Angeles, marking a site average of $34,307.The film, which played in the Venice, Montreal, Toronto and New York film festivals, is a heavyweight Oscar contender ...
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Jan Vrijman Fund brings light to Darkness
Jan Vrijman Fund co-ordinator Isabel Arrante Fernandez has unveiled a raft of new projects including In The Darkness, the latest project by Sergei Devortsevoi (Highway, IDFA 1999), co-produced by Jane Balfour. Aiming for completion in spring 2004, the film has also received script development funding from the Hubert Bals Fund ...
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Be bold with ideas, HBO tells documentary makers
HBO documentary chief Sheila Nevins has called on film-makers to come forward with challenging ideas on international subjects and not to assume that the US network is only interested in US-focused films. Traditionally, HBO has a reputation for screening more domestically-oriented films - particularly in its America Undercover series. But ...
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UK/IRELAND
While the box office was dominated by UIP's romantic comedy Love Actually last weekend - which claimed $11.3m (£6.6m), including previews of $1.7m (£1m), from 775 prints at 477 sites - two others prepared for an onslaught to claim the lead this weekend.20th Century Fox's Master And Commander: The Far ...
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Czech doc makers hype their hypermarket hoax
Earlier this year, the Czech public fell foul to an elaborate hoax cooked up by two enterprising students of Prague's Famu film academy. One of the hoaxers, Filip Remunda, is now at IDFA to talk to commissioning editors about the documentary he and his colleague are making about this controversial ...
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Trio make Joris Ivens shortlist
After an intense week of deliberation that ended yesterday first with a canal trip and then with a closed session at the Hotel Vondel, the jury of this year's Vpro Joris Ivens Award have decided on the shortlist for this year's $15,000 (Eu12,500) prize. Led by German film-maker Monika Treut, ...
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SPAIN
UIP's Love Actually opened to 282,029 spectators in Spain this weekend, taking Euros 1.4m - far short of the biggest openers in the territory, but enough to place it in first position over the weekend. The British romantic comedy went out on a wide 288 copies.Meanwhile, on 466 prints in ...
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NETHERLANDS
Dutch family title Pipo And The P-P-Pearl Knight (Pipo En De P-P-Parelridder) looks unlikely to follow in the successful footsteps of this year's The Skippers Of The Kameleon.Opening in fourth position in The Netherlands the latest film adventure of Pipo the clown managed just $188,640 (Euro 158,080) from 115 screens ...
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BELGIUM
Local hit The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) reclaimed the lead in Belgium from two-week usurper The Matrix Revolutions last weekend after a paltry 4% week-on-week slip in its sixth weekend.Erik Van Looy's film has grossed $3m (Euro 2.5m) and provided a considerable boost to local film success with more ...
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KWA takes on Spanish Night and Sunset
Madrid-based international sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up two new Spanish films, The End Of The Night and Red Sunset, both of which are showing to buyers this weekend at the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 27-29).Now in its fifth edition, the three-day Screenings kicked off ...
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Finding Nemo eyes $200m international haul
Riding high on a sensational European run, Finding Nemo is expected to pass $200m in international ticket sales this upcoming weekend with wide releases in France and Spain and strong holdover business.Following an international table-topping weekend last week, the worldwide animated hit has amassed $190.8m at the international box office ...
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Styler's Xingu goes Wilde over Alpha Male
Trudie Styler's Xingu Films is to produce Alpha Male, the debut feature of UK writer-director Dan Wilde.Wilde aims to start shooting next summer on the production, which is set entirely in an English country house and tells the story of the power struggles within a family over 20 years.26 year-old ...
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Bruehl, Canet headline Carion's Joyeux Noel
French director Christian Carion is to follow up his debut hit Une Hirondelle A Fait Le Printemps, with Joyeux Noel starring French hearthob Guillaume Canet and Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl.Based on a true story and set to shoot in 2004, the Euros 23m film is produced by Christophe ...
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Ster-Kinekor embarks on African exhibition push
Ster-Kinekor Theatres, South Africa's largest cinema exhibitor, will open an 800 seat, 5-cinema complex in Zambia on Dec 12 - part of drive to expand its presence throughout Africa.Located at the recently opened Arcades Entertainment and Leisure complex in Lusaka, it is the first world-class multiplex in the country. All ...
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Wachs joins Germany's Premiere in strategy role
Former Senator Entertainment executive Friedrich-Carl Wachs is to head up the newly created division of strategy and planning at Germany's pay TV operator Premiere from Dec 1. Wachs will be responsible at Premiere for project management and will coordinate the collaboration of all of Premiere's business divisions on important ...