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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 13 October
After giving a141% boost to the overall market last weekend,Life Is A Miracle sold another24,876 admissions this weekend and will pass the Serbian-Montenegrinblockbuster benchmark of 100,000 spectators by the end of the week.Kusturica'slatest offering now stands at total gross of $257,223.The only openerof the weekend, Tuck's Dodgeballlanded in third position, ...
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Stray Dogs (Sag-Haye Velgard)
Dir. MarziyehMeshkini. Iran. 2004. 93mins.Put this one downalongside Bunuel's Los Olvidados, de Sica's Sciuscia or Babencos'Pixote as yet another devastating portrait of human folly and what itdoes to its most defenceless victims, its children.Shot on theoutskirts of Kabul, in Afghanistan, by Marziyeh Meshkini, whose 2000 Venicedebut, The Day I Became ...
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SWEDEN 13 October
While As In Heavenremained untouchable at the top of the Swedish chart, the new release of localfamily film Max & Josef - DoubleTrouble (Hakan Brakan & Josef) moved into the second place.However, it was primarily due to its high 105 prints, as its$2,648 screen average was disappointing.As In Heaven againheld ...
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Darclight plans slate of Australian genre movies
Darclight, the specialist division of increasinglysuccessful sales and financing outfit Arclight, has committed to produce atleast two genre films per year in its native Australia.The commitment came hard on the heels of the sale byArclight of Wolf Creek, a horrorthriller that is currently in production, to Optimum Releasing of the ...
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Shark Tale makes a splash at int'l box office
Collateral's reignat the top of the international chart may have been short-lived but neither UIPnor DreamWorks will be too concerned as it was succeeded this week byDreamWork's latest animated hit SharkTale.The film opened across Central and South America led byMexico's $2.4m weekend - as well as several Asian and European ...
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Buyers clamour for Verhoeven's Blackbook
Paul Verhoeven'sfirst Dutch film for 21 years, Zwartboek(Blackbook), has been sold to five territories, with four more pending, inadvance of its late October start of shoot.Katapult Fim Sales has sold the WWII thriller to the United Kingdom (Metro Tartan), Italy(Lucky Red) and Belgium, France and Switzerland (all Pathe Distribution).Producer San ...
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Rules Of Engagement
Dir: William Friedkin. US. 2000. 127 mins.Prod cos: Paramount Pictures, Seven Arts Pictures. Dist: Paramount (US, UK). Intl sales: Seven Arts. Prods: Richard D Zanuck, Scott Rudin. Exec prods: Adam Schroeder, James Webb. Co-prod: Arne Schmidt. Scr: Stephen Gaghan. DoPs: Nicola Pecorini, William A Fraker. Prod des: Robert Laing. Ed: ...
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Sorin takes to El Camino as Bombon follow-up
Spain's Wanda Vision is set to co-produce Argentine directorCarlos Sorin's El Camino De San Diego, his follow-up to San Sebastianhit Bombon - The Dog.The Spanish-language film, which Sorin will co-producethrough his own Guacamole Films, is a road movie about a diehard fan of soccerlegend Diego Maradona who travels thousands of ...
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Warner Bros faces French uncertainty
2003 Productions - headed upby Warner Bros. France president Francis Boespflug - could again be faced withpossible refusal of its status as a French company.The move comes as the companyprepares to release its first major film - Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very LongEngagement - and following a battle for eligibility for ...
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Lucky Red makes first animation foray
Markingits first foray in animation production, Italian arthouse distributor Lucky Redhas boarded Azur Et Asmard, the next feature from Kirikou And TheSorceress director Michel Ocelot.Azur EtAsmard explores the theme of tolerance as seen through the eyes ofa Western boy who travels to the Middle East to find his old nanny. ...
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Jaoui's Image to open Vienna festival
Agnes Jaoui's Comme Une Image will open this year'sVienna International Film Festival (Oct 15-27) which has programmed 298 filmsfrom 44 countries.The Viennale's extensive programme includes Olivier Assayas'Clean, Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate, Cedric Kahn's FeuxRouges and Mark Mildgard's debut Dandelion.There is also a tribute to Amos Vogel, the founder of ...
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MIFED briefs: deals from the Milan market
*East European distributor SPI Entertainment recentlyadded to its slate with the acquisition of Matthew McConnaughy and PenelopeCruz-starring action adventure Sahara. It bought the big-budget actionadventure for Hungary only from Summit Entertainment sister company IS FilmDistribution.The film, now in post-production, is produced by CrusaderEntertainment and Paramount Pictures with finance from the ...
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Eldridge named as UK's First Light chief executive
Pip Eldridge has beenappointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of First Light, the UK's youngfilmmaking programme.Using £1 million a year ofthe UK Film Council's share of National Lottery proceeds, First Light enablesyoung people between the ages of 5 to 18 to make short films under the guidanceof professional filmmakers, ...
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Rotterdam revamps festival programme sections
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is to introducethree new programme sections to replace the Main Programme Features and HubertBals Fund Harvest sections during its upcoming 34th edition (Jan 26 - Feb 6,2005).'Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang' groups films bypromising talents and offers an overview of recent developments withinindependent ...
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Warner Bros makes history with first ever foreign production co in China
Warner Bros Pictures hasannounced the first ever Sino-foreign joint venture film company Warner ChinaFilm HG Corporation in partnership with China Film Group and Hengdian Group.The company will produce Chinese-language films, TV films and animated product.The announcement was madetoday (Wednesday) in Beijing by Yang Buting, chairman of China Film Group, XuYongan, ...
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A Good Woman
Dir: Mike Barker. UK-It.2004. 93minsA light souffle of a film, AGood Woman takes a decent stab at transferring Oscar Wilde's enduring play LadyWindermere's Fan from Victorian England to 1930s Italy. The crisp wit andsly social satire are a little lost in translation and the stellar cast are notalways at ease ...
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MIP-TV: Delon, Belmondo sign up for TF1 drama
French broadcaster TF1 has unveiled two big-budget television mini-series, to be produced by regular producing partner GMT, which are set to star big-screen talents, Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo.Delon will star as a Marseilles cop in La Trilogie De Marseilles, an adaptation of three best-selling French crime novels, Total ...
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HUNGARY 14 October
With the Septemberrush over, a very modest weekend at the Hungarian box office was dominated by The Village which held onto its leadposition in the third week of its release with just over 12,000 admissions.None of last week'snew releases could outdo this performance, both UIP-Duna Film's The Stepford Wives and ...
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Indian government sacks film censor
The head of India's FilmCertification board Anupam Kher has been sacked by the government and replacedby actress Sharmila Tagore.Appointed for a three-year tenure,Kher has been chief censor for just one year and had recently cleared twocontroversial films, a documentary on the Gujarat riots, Final Solutionsby Rakesh Sharma, and Michael Moore's ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - October 15
IRELAND October 13PRE-PRODUCTIONDEAD LONG ENOUGH(Grand Pictures) Budget: £1m.Backers: Irish Film Board, NIFTC, Arts Council of Wales, Section 481, S&L.Romantic comedy based on the novel by James Hawes. Prods: Michael Garland, PaulDonovan. Dir: Tommy Collins. Cast: Angeline Ball. Shooting in Donegal, NorthernIreland and Wales from late November 2004 - January 2005.Contact: ...