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Fly creates buzz at Danish Oscars - again
Per Fly's critics and audience darling The Inheritance swept the Danish Film Academy's Robert ceremony on Sunday night taking six awards including best film, best director and best actor for Ulrich Thomsen. It also won best supporting actress and actor for veterans Ghita Noerby and Peter Steen, best music for ...
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The Return graced with Golden Eagles
Despite being snubbed by the Oscars, director Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Return swept to victory at the second edition of the Golden Eagles, one of Russia's two top film awards.At a ceremony held Saturday night at the Mosfilm Studios the country's National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the ...
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Quinta takes control of French SFX house
Majority control of Parisian special effects house Duran Duboi has officially shifted to Tarak Ben Ammar's Quinta Communication.As previously reported (ScreenDaily.com September 19, 2003), Ben Ammar stepped in to rescue Duran which had been on the brink of bankruptcy due to a downturn in the market.Good news came last week ...
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German media funds raise Euros 1.7bn
German media funds raised Euros 1.76 bn equity from private individuals in 2003, according to a survey of 40 initiators by fund specialist Stefan Loipfinger.Michael Oehme, board member of the media funds' interest group Verband Deutscher Medienfonds (VDM), told ScreenDaily.com that these figures showed that the media funds had stabilised ...
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Muxmauschenstill wins Max Ophuls Prize
Marcus Mittermeier's feature debut Muxmauschenstill, which will be screening in the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino, was the big winner at this year's 25th jubilee edition of the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival (26 January - 1 February, 2004) for newcomer German-language cinema in Saarbrücken.The black comedy by Berlin-based Schiwago Filmproduktion ...
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Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Fidelite Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde. Int'l sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 4970 0370). Prods: Olivier Dubosc, Marc Missonier. Scr: Francois Ozon, based on a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Laurence Bawedin. ...
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Luppi begins shooting directorial debut
Federico Luppi, Argentina's most internationally renowned actor, began shooting his directorial debut in Spain last week.Written by Luppi's wife Susana Abascal, the drama titled Pasos is co-produced by San Sebastian-based Igeldo Communicaciones. Igeldo also co produced Chilean drama B Happy, set to have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Forum ...
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NORWAY
Despite a number of new releases, the top five spots of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged with The Last Samurai in front of Petter Naess' Just Bea.However, the latter dropped only 5% and performed almost as well, despite the limiting 15 label it received from local censors. Julia Roberts' considerable ...
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Northern Ireland Film Production Fund launched
The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) is inviting applications to its new Northern Ireland Film Production Fund.The NIFTC will invest between £150,000 and £600,000 up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project costs in a live action or animated feature film or a live action or ...
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Brother Bear nears $50m for BVI
Brother Bear scored a superb $4.6m number one opening from 781 screensin France at the weekend as the animated title added $6.3m from all its marketsto raise the international running total to $48.4m.Alreadyin the throes of a highly successful international campaign, Brother Bearshould continue to build with openings for the ...
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Master And Commander sails to $93m at international box office
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World raised its internationalrunning total to $93m through all distributors following a $970,000 weekendhaul from 641 screens in Fox International markets.Thethriller Runaway Jury added $1.6m from 419 screens at the weekend toraise its international running total to $11.4m.Itopened in third place in ...
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Return Of The King closes in on $600m international
NewLine International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kinggrossed $20.7m from 6,353 screens in 58 territories at the weekend to raise itsinternational cumulative total to $572.8m.Thekey driver was Italy, where in its second weekend the film added $7.2m anddropped only 30% from last weekend's record-breaking opening. The ...
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Warner Bros wins trio of distributor awards in Japan
Warner BrosPictures Japan (WBPJ) has been awarded three top honours from Japan's MotionPicture Exhibitors Association, capping its position as the territory'sdominant foreign distributor of the last three years.Thecompany picked up the Grand Prix Award for Best Foreign Film Distributor of theYear as well as awards for Harry Potter And The ...
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NETHERLANDS
The massive opening of social comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi! in the Netherlands even surprised distributor Independent Films "This is beyond our expectations," Niels Swinkels, head of marketing told ScreenDaily.com. "We were aiming for 100,000 admissions, but in the first weekend we already reached 50,000, much better than we were hoping ...
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Minghella poised to climb next mountain
The following Q&A appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on March 3, in the run-up to ShoWest where Minghella was awarded director of the year.British writer-director Anthony Minghella began his career in radio, television and theatre in the 1980s before making his first feature, supernatural drama Truly Madly Deeply for ...
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DENMARK
Annette K. Olesen's In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) retained its second spot after The Return Of The King, falling just 12% after its first week in release and has so far had 37,989 admissions.However, this week's best admission screen average belonged to Lost In Translation on just nine prints in fifth ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Return Of The King continues to reign supreme at the New Zealand box office. In its seventh weekend it took NZ$384,449 from 86 screens, which was just 6% down on the previous week. As was the case last week, The Last Samurai is in second position with NZ$301,379 from ...
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Hopscotch pounces on documentaries
Hopscotch has picked up all Australian and New Zealand rights to 2004 Academy Award documentary nominee My Architect from the Film Sales Company, hoping that again loading the slate with non-fiction will prolong last year's winning streak.The film is already showing in the US and is directed by Nathaniel Kahn, ...