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  • Features

    Cosa Voglio Di Piu

    2009-04-29T12:12:00Z

    A young woman with a stable life and relationship begins a passionate love affair with a married man.

  • Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
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    Awards Countdown: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

    2009-04-29T12:22:00Z

    Anne Hathaway, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations.

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    How does the UKFC spend its money?

    2009-04-24T13:48:00Z

    The UKFC has an annual budget of just over £60m, with around 46% coming from lottery funds, 40% from government support through grants, and the remainder from investments and other sources.

  • StudioCanal appoints key staff
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    StudioCanal appoints key staff at Optimum and Kinowelt

    2009-04-29T18:30:00Z

    StudioCanal has made a series of senior appointment at its affiliates Optimum Releasing and Kinowelt.

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    A new departure

    2009-04-24T14:02:00Z

    When Yojiro Takita’s Departures was named best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 3 this year, there was a gasp of surprise from many. But four men sitting in the second mezzanine level of the Kodak Theatre were cheering with delight. For Paul Colichman, Stephen Jarchow, Mark ...

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    Captain Of The Sands

    2009-04-29T13:58:00Z

    A gang of street kids, known as Captains of the Sands, are hunted like common criminals in Bahia –even though they are just abandoned children.

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    I´d Receive The Worst News From Your Beautiful Lips

    2009-04-29T14:07:00Z

    A middle-aged photographer leaves behind the city of São Paulo and his professional dissatisfaction as a paparazzo and settles down in a small gold town in the state of Pará, in Northern Brazil.

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    Market Report - Australia and New Zealand

    2009-04-24T14:12:00Z

    When it comes to English-language films, audiences in Australia and New Zealand have their preferences: they do not particularly like horror films but are seduced by all things British, particularly sumptuous period dramas, comedies and everything produced by Working Title. From 2008, this translated into big figures for Atonement, The ...

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    Let The Old Dying Ones Give Way To The New Dying Ones

    2009-04-29T15:17:00Z

    In a village where people don’t die lives a woman who is willing to die. But she will only be allowed to die when she finds someone to replace her.

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    Mano (working title)

    2009-04-29T14:24:00Z

    A boy’s transition from childhood into adolescence in the large metropolis of São Paulo.

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    'We're a unique market'

    2009-04-24T14:21:00Z

    How has theatrical film marketing changed in the past few years?

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    Market Report - Brazil

    2009-04-24T14:27:00Z

    Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing markets. It boasts a booming middle class with disposable income to spend in an ever-increasing number of multiplexes watching a wide variety of new releases. The total box office grew 2.1% in 2008 from the year before to $31.9m, with admissions up ...

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    My Sweet Orange Tree

    2009-04-29T14:31:00Z

    A six-year-old boy establishes a confident relationship with an orange tree, after being submitted to a violent episode

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    'Too many releases and too few cinemas'

    2009-04-24T14:31:00Z

    How has theatrical film marketing changed in the past few years?

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    Market Report - Spain

    2009-04-24T14:35:00Z

    The two stand-out foreign films of the 2008 Spanish box office were Matteo Garrone’s Cannes award-winner Gomorrah ($2.8m) and Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Oscar-winning Austrian title The Counterfeiters ($3.2m). Both were controversial titles which benefited from wide marketing campaigns.Additionally, the foreign films that perform well in Spain tend to be the high-profile ...

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    The Last Novel Of Balzac

    2009-04-29T14:38:00Z

    Documentary about the research undertaken by psychologist Osmar Ramos on a book that supposedly was dictated by the spirit oh French writer Honoré de Balzac.

  • How has theatrical film marketing changed in the past few years?
    Features

    'The spanish public is very lazy'

    2009-04-24T14:41:00Z

    How has theatrical film marketing changed in the past few years?

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    Today

    2009-04-29T14:41:00Z

    A ghost of a husband returns to haunt his widow when she buys an apartment with the money she received as indemnity for his disappearance during the military dictatorship

  • Crank
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    Shock Tactics

    2009-04-24T14:46:00Z

    Action sequel Crank: High Voltage was the highest new entry in Screen International’s chart this week at number four.

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    It's A Wonderful Afterlife

    2009-04-29T14:47:00Z

    Comedy about an Indian mother whose obsession with marrying off her daughter leads her to extreme lengths – and suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killer curry.