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South Korea - Weeping all the way to the bank
An impressive 411 non-Korean films received certification from South Korea's Media Ratings Board for local release in 2007, compared with only 293 in 2006. But while some might see this as the flood gates opening to imports, local distributors believe it is just a temporary measure to fill space at ...
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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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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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The critical view - Is niche cinema losing its hold on audiences'
Every so often we are told that audiences are ripe for a 'return to genre'. This is not just academic; genre-oriented production companies, such as Filmax in Spain, NoShame in Italy or Sahamongkol in Thailand, have money riding on our appetite for contemporary Euro-horror, hard-boiled Milanese crime classics or Muay ...
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Spielberg will shoot long-awaited Abraham Lincoln project after Tintin
Steven Spielberg's long-gestating project about US president Abraham Lincoln will be the director's next project after the first live-action Tintin film which goes into production this September.Spielbergsays he will begin shooting of the Lincoln biopic at the beginning of 2009 'so that it can also open in the same year ...
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Theatre networkclaims 2007 record for non-national European film
Europa Cinemas' figures reveal that 2007 was a record year for European films screened by its members beyond their national borders.They accounted for 39% of the films shown at the network's cinemas, up 3% on 2006.European film as a whole took 63% of admissions.Florian Henckel Von Donnsersmarck's phenomenal The Lives ...
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Clubland producers form Goalpost Pictures Australia
The Australian producers behind Clubland and the upcoming Elise, starring songstress Natalie Imbruglia, have formed a production company Goalpost Pictures Australia.The outfit has UK sales agency and executive producers Goalpost Film as a minority shareholder.Long-term partners Rosemary Blight, Ben Grant, Kylie du Fresne and Cass O'Connor are the principals in ...
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THINKFILM Intl takes on sales for Down And Dirty Pictures, Radford's Mula
UK-based sales company THINKFilm International, the sister company to Capitol Films, has taken on two new projects for its Cannes sales slate. The company has taken on international rights to Michael Radford's La Mula and Ken Bowser's Down and Dirty Pictures. La Mula stars Spanish rising talents Oscar Jaenada and ...
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Maximum takes Quinzaine title Boogie for the world
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up world sales rights on Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's Quinzaine selection Boogie. The story of a man vacationing with his wife and child who has a crisis of lost youth when he encounters old friends at the same resort, the film stars Dragos Bucur, ...
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Harrison Ford confirms lead in Intermedia's K-19
Harrison Ford has confirmed that he will star in his first independently distributed movie - cold war submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker to be financed and distributed by Intermedia. The film, which immediately jumps to the top of buyers' hit lists for London Screenings and MIFED, is to be directed ...
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Herbig, Wortmann and Davaa receive support from Bavarian fund
New films by leading German comedian Michael Bully Herbig, Soenke Wortmann, and Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Byambasuren Davaa (The Story Of The Weeping Camel and The Cave of The Yellow Dog) are among 25 film and TV projects supported with $9.4m (Euros 6.1m) by Bavaria's FFF Bayern regional fund at its ...
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Films Distribution picks up Salamandra
Films Distribution has picked up Directors' Fortnight selection Salamandra by director Pablo Aguero heading into the Cannes Film Festival.The company will handle world sales on the feature debut which is also in contention for the Camera d'Or.Films Distribution co-founder Nicolas Brigaud Robert tells ScreenDaily, 'The director and the cinematography are ...
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Cannes Buzz: Out Of Competition
OUT OF COMPETITIONIndiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skill (US)Dir: Steven SpielbergThe story: The fourth instalment in the series - which arrives 19 years after the third - is set in 1957 and pits Indy against agents of the Soviet Union.The cast: Harrison Ford, of course, alongside the ...
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Iron Man soars above competition at North American box office
Iron Man battered the competition for the second consecutive weekend as an estimated $50.5m haul through Paramount Pictures raised the running total to $177.1m.The result consolidated the Marvel Studios adaptation as the season's first bona fide blockbuster and relegated new openers Speed Racer from Warner Bros and What Happens In ...
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Iron Man continues to rule in international with $32.5m in PPI grosses
Paramount Pictures International's (PPI) Iron Man went head-to-head with two new potential blockbusters in the overseas arena at the weekend and emerged relatively unscathed as the clear winner despite scorching heat across many parts of Europe.The comic book adaptation added an estimated $32.5m from 5,557 sites in 57 PPI territories, ...
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PorchLight takes on Tribeca audience winner Emmanuel Jai: War Child
PorchLight Entertainment has taken on international rights to Wilson Coneybeare's children's tale Gooby and Christian Karim Chrobog's recent Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner Emmanuel Jal: War Child.The Los Angeles-based production and distribution company will also arrive on the Croisette with James Moll's documentary Running The Sahara, on which Matt ...
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The Film Sales Company takes on Pierce's horror thriller Victim
Andrew Herwitz' Film Sales Company has boarded several new titles heading in to Cannes including the horror thriller Victim.Michael Pierce's film concerns a shadowy man who is abducted and transformed into something he never believed he could become. Pierce produced through his company Pierce Williams along with Mark Williams.The line-up ...
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Xenon Pictures buys domestic rights to Amexicano
Xenon Pictures has paid mid-six figures for North American rights to Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano starring 2008 Grammy nominee Jennifer Pena.Xenon plans a late spring or summer release on the story of an illegal immigrant who bonds with a blue-collar worker from Queens, New York.The drama premiere at Tribeca 2007 and ...
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Flueger, Perlman, Manning, Pantoliano star in The Job
Principal photography is set to begin this week in Detroit on the darkly comic thriller The Job starring Patrick Flueger, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning and Joe Pantoliano.Shem Bitterman will direct from his own screenplay adaptation of his stage play of the same name about a young man who undertakes a ...
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BBC Films to give UK producers 30% of its actual equity recoupment
BBC Films announced today that it will create a corridor for UK producers to access 30% of the actual equity recoupment that BBC Films receives on a project.The move comes as part of some key changes to the deal terms offered to UK film producers, and has been warmly welcomed ...