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DENMARK 12 October
Although last week's local chart topper Kings' Game retaineda better box-office screen average (DK34,005), My Sister's Kids In Egypt took the lead with its massive 90 printrelease - and a DKK31,566 average. The family-children's film, which was pannedby the critics, is the third in the successful series, and like the ...
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Arsene Lupin
Dir. Jean-PaulSalome. Fr-UK-Spain-It. 2004. 132mins.At Euros 23m, ArseneLupin is one of the most expensive French films of the year, with sumptuoussets, lavish costumes, picturesque locations and spectacular camerapyrotechnics. But there is little else to recommend it: certainly not thescreenplay, which never quiet makes up its mind what it wants to ...
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Butterfly (Hu Die)
Dir: Yan Yan Mak, HongKong. 2004. 124minsA well-crafted butpainfully earnest lesbian coming-of-age drama, Hu Die attempts inunconvincing fashion to combine the personal and the political. Using flashbackand newsreel footage, it makes constant reference to the protests leading up tothe massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, when students stood up against ...
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GERMANY 12 October
Takings may have slipped week-on-week by 20%, but OliverHirschbiegel's The Downfall stillreigns supreme at the German box office for the fourth week in a row - just.The World War II drama received serious competition from Steven Spielberg's The Terminal which grossed $3.3m from502 screens and had the weekend's best screen ...
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DiCaprio linked to Miramax sci-fi thriller
Leonardo DiCaprio's unexpected attachment to Dimension Film's Librium has allowed that sci-fi project to proceed with plans to shoot certain scenes this coming Summer in the same Bucharest Parliament building that once housed the reviled Communist tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu.According to a statement released on Monday by the Deputies Chamber board, ...
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Brides (Nyfes)
Dir:Pantelis Voulgaris. Gr. 2004. 128minsGreekveteran Pantelis Voulgaris takes audiences on a long, slow voyage in Brideswhich, while mostly shot in English, is unlikely to travel far from its homeport for overseas markets.WithBarbara De Fina and Martin Scorsese as producer and executive producerrespectively, the film might attract international attention, but distributorswill ...
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New Line, Internationalmedia to tap new German equity
New productions by New Line and Internationalmedia are setto benefit from financing provided by two German private media funds.Having previously worked with Paramount Pictures on Mission: Impossible 2, Shaft and Rules Of Engagement, German fund specialist Alcas has launched theMACRON Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Projekt 1 KG fund to raise ...
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Pan-Asian network to promote location shooting
The Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCNet), a linking oforganisations in Asia that provide shooting support services, received itsofficial launch on Sunday at the Pusan International Film Festival.The network's major goals are to encourage information sharingamong members, to collaborate in marketing the Asian region as an attractiveshooting location, and to encourage ...
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Oscar-hopeful Burman prepares Family Rights comedy
Daniel Burman, whose film El Abrazo Partido (The Lost Embrace) is currently Argentina'scandidate for the foreign languageOscar, is now preparing a comedy entitled FamilyRights.Set in the world of lawyers, the Euros 3m comedy will focuson the relationship between a father and son. The film will once again teamtogether El Abrazo ...
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Cassandra joins burgeoning FAME slate
Saul Metzstein (Late Night Shopping) is to direct Cassandra At The Wedding for Film andMusic Entertainment (FAME), the prolific UK-based production outfit run by SamTaylor and Mike Downey. Written by Peter MIlligan, Cassandra is a comedy about two identical female twins whosepersonalities are very different.This will be Metzstein'ssecond film with ...
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Mrs Henderson Presents begins London shoot
Christopher Guest has joinedJudi Dench, Bob Hoskins and Pop Idol winner Will Young in the cast of StephenFrears' Mrs Henderson Presents.The Heyman-Hoskinsproduction has just started shooting in London for Pathe Pictures and BBCFilms. Set in pre-World War II London, the true-life story tells how Soho'sWindmill Theatre takes advantage of a ...
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Korea's film investors assess future options
South Korea's film financing sector faces grave challenges,yet paradoxically may rank as the world's most vibrant, according to opinionsexpressed at a panel discussion at the Pusan International Film Festival.Titled "A Study on Korean Film Financing", the seminarcanvassed the opinions of local industry representatives including KimJangwook, Executive VP of Show East ...
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UK/IRELAND 12 October
British director Gurinder Chadha scored another hit at theUK box office this week as her take on Jane Austen, Bride And Prejudice, opened top of the chart.The romantic comedy's excellent $3m (£1.7m) launch may notquite have matched the debut of Bend It LikeBeckham, the director's 2002 smash which launched the ...
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Spike Lee seeks Italian backing for WWII project
Spike Lee could soon join Abel Ferrara and John Boorman in a growing list of American and British directors who are currently turning to Italy to finance a film.Lee, who is in Italy to promote She Hate Me ahead of its October 22 release, says he plans to make a ...
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Wellspring to handle Palindromes in North America
Wellspring has acquired allNorth American rights to Todd Solondz's latest film Palindromes and plans a theatrical release in April 2005.Ellen Barkin, Stephen AdlyGuirgis, Richard Masur and Debra Monk star in the tale of a 12-year-old girlwho runs away when her parents thwart her plans to become pregnant.The picture was produced ...
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Brockovich powers Columbia overseas
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) enjoyed a powerful weekend at the international box office, topping charts in nine territories as it unleashed US megahit Erin Brockovich and continued the rollout of family smash Stuart Little.Erin Brockovich, on to which CTFDI parent Sony Pictures Entertainment was invited as a financing ...
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TLA picks up two Danish films on day one at MIFED
TLA Releasing has hit theground running at MIFED, picking up US home entertainment and television rightsto the Danish action comedies In China They Eat Dogs and Old Men In New Cars.Both stories follow theblood-soaked trail of a hapless, slightly psychopathic criminal. In ChinaThey Eat Dogs (1999) centres on abotched bank ...
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Warner strikes new deal for seven-screen Beijing multiplex
Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC) continued to increase itsstake in the Chinese exhibition sector with the announcement yesterday (Oct 12)that it and Guangzhou Jin Yi Film and Television Investment Co have agreed toform a joint venture company to build a multiplex theatre in Beijing with WBICserving as the majority partner.New ...
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Trust takes on Hawaii, Olso sales
Denmark's Trust Film Sales has picked up internationaldistribution rights to Norway's foreign-language Oscar hopeful, Hawaii,Oslo.The magical-realist drama about a handful of people who cross each other'spath on the hottest day of the year is the second film in a planned trilogy bydirector Erik Poppe and screenwriter Harald Rosenloew Eeg. On ...
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NORWAY 13 October
Still on top after four weeks not least because of itsmassive 105 prints, Shrek 2 kept infront of The Bourne Supremacy onsecond while the two local releases, UNOand Hawaii, Oslo changed places, whenthe latter served up this week's best screen average (NOK31,841) and fell just13% compared to UNO's 30%.However, that ...