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SWEDEN 18 October
Though catering to younger audiences and offering completelydifferent thrills, the new release of teenage horror flic Drowning Ghost from hitmaker Mikael Haafstroem (Evil) failed to usurp As In Heaven from the top of the Swedishchart.Instead it was last week's other local release, family film Max & Josef - Double Trouble, ...
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Tanovic embarks on shoot of Hell
Oscarwinner Danis Tanovic will start shooting next week his latest film, Hell,which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart of his Heaven-Hell-Purgatory trilogy.The No Man's Land director begins the film'seight-week shoot in Paris on October 25. Hell focuses on three sisters whosechildhoods were marked by a ...
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Fahrenheit to hit TV screens in Germany, Spain
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit9/11 is to play on television in Germany and Spain in the next ten days,just before the US presidential elections.The move comes asMoore struggles to find a US broadcaster to play his film ahead of theelection.Cable broadcaster In Demand had planned to carry TheMichael Moore Pre-Election Special on ...
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Germany mulls sale and leaseback scheme
Germany's State Minister for Culture and MediaChristina Weiss has called for the introduction of a tax incentive system onthe lines of the British sale and leaseback model.Speaking to the German weekly magazine DerSpiegel, Weiss criticised the current situation where the US film industryhad been the prime beneficiary of the country's ...
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Archbishop wins Eurimages funding
Zoltan Kamondi's TheArchbishop's Visit has received Euros 430,000 in funding from support bodyEurimages.The film is a Hungarian, Italian andRomanian co-production between Honeymood Films/Focus Film, Gam Film and MediaPro Pictures. Its full budget runs to $4.4m.Set construction is already underway inRomania with principal photography scheduled to start in November and tocontinue ...
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Curtis, Morgernstern set for Holocaust tale
Hollywood legendTony Curtis and Maia Morgenstern are to star in Atlantic Alliance Pictures andHeritage Pictures' Holocaust story Love Is A Survivor.Directed by byPhilip Saville, production is set to begin February 15, 2005 in Budapest,Hungary.Love Is ASurvivor is billed as amajor holocaust film with a love story as its central theme. ...
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Sheffield Documentary fest to open with Tiger King
TheSheffield International Documentary Festival (Nov 8 -14) is to open with DavidFlamholc's House Of The Tiger King.Thedocumentary follows explorer Tahir Shah and a group of mismatched companions asthey search for Paititi, the Inca's lost city of gold.Otherfilms in the festivals 75 strong line-up include Darwin's Nightmare,which investigates the link between ...
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Shochiku launches animation division
Shochiku, a major Japanesefilm company with interests in production, distribution and exhibition, hasannounced the launch of a new division to produce animated features and TVshows.Headed by General Manager ofFilmed Entertainment Ichiro Seki, the division plans to release its firstfeature in 2005. Director, budget and story have yet to be announced. ...
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O'Donnell readies Noir as Dancing follow-up
Damien O'Donnell is readyingthe tentatively-titled Noir as his next project after Working TitleFilms' Inside I'm Dancing, which opened this week through MomentumPictures.O'Donnell is to startshooting next year on the quirky, dark romantic comedy for producer DavidParfitt, whose credits include Shakespeare In Love, and his TrademarkFilms.Inside I'm Dancing opened with a ...
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Kirk Douglas to receive lifetime honour at Palm Springs
Kirk Douglaswill receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival on Jan 8 2005."Mr Douglas'unparalleled body of work has entertained audiences throughout the ages, andthat will continue to stand the test of time on every level," festival chairmanEarl Greenburg said over the weekend at a ...
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Rudolph stands down as FilmFour deputy CEO
Mark Rudolph is stepping down as deputy chief executive officer of the UK's FilmFour, the company confirmed.FilmFour expects to confirm a replacement for Rudolph by Cannes next month. In unrelated moves, Carl Clifton, formerly at Universal Pictures International in London, will replace FilmFour's sales chief Sue Bruce-Smith during Cannes. Bruce-Smith ...
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Fox's I, Robot top in Japan for fifth weekend
Fox International's sci-fi thriller I, Robot continued its mighty rampage through Japan at theweekend, remaining number one for the fifth weekend in a row and adding anestimated $1.3m on 359 screens for a $29m running total.Overall thepicture added $1.6m on 616 international screens to raise the internationalcumulative score to $187.3m.2046, ...
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Besson commits to $78m Arthur
Luc Besson will mark a return to directing with the 3-D animatedfilm, Arthur, which is now in production. Representing the biggestinvestment yet for Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's four year-old EuropaCorp, Arthurhas a budget similar in scale to Shrek and is currently pegged at $78m(Euros65m). It will be ready for ...
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Fandango buys Italian rights to Weeping Camel
Italianspecialized distributor Fandango acquired Italian rights to The Story Of TheWeeping Camel at MIFEDlast week from Menemsha Films.The film, whichwas handled by THINKFilm in the US and grossed $0.88m, will be released throughFandangoC;s documentary division which will launch in 2005 with other titles onthe slate including Super Size Me and ...
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Bone, Dare are top winners at Woodstock
Debra Granik'smarriage drama Down To The Bone won the Maverick Award for Best Feature Narrative at the 5thWoodstock Film Festival, while Amanda Micheli's Double Dare won corresponding honours in the bestfeature documentary category for its portrayal of Hollywood stuntwomen.JessicaSharzer's high school drama Speak took the Audience Award for Feature Narrative, ...
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GERMANY 19 October
After four weeks at the top, The Downfall had to make way for the new Dreamworks animationfeature Shark Tale which dived in atNo. 1 with a $3.5m opening weekend and a $5,139 screen average from its 684prints.However, this was only the third best screen average for theweekend behind Oskar Roehler's ...
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DENMARK 19 October
The massive 90 print roll-out of My Sister's Kids In Egypt at the start of the children's week-longfall holiday made the local film even more successful than the two previousinstalments, as it scooped up a impressive DKK19.5m and 351.454 admissions injust 10 days.However, Danish audiences also found time for Kings' ...
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Swedish journalists question state funding choices
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has attracted localcriticism for its selection of seven new features to receive state funding.Among the seven films that received $3.1M (SEK 23M) in totalfrom the SFI, not one will be directed by a woman. Furthermore, five of thefilms are adaptations of books written by internationally ...
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Africa added to German coproduction market
Feature film projects from South Africa looking forfinancing will be presented for the first time at this year's MannheimCoproduction Meetings during the Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmFestival (November 18-27).Among the African projects selected for pitching topotential co-producers are Robyn Aronstam's TheJoyous, which will be executive produced by John Boorman; Akin Omotoso's The ...
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Cork celebrates sell-out festival
Launched with a packed house for the Irish premiere ofDamien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing,the 49th Cork Film Festival closed its doors after a week marked by manysimilarly packed houses, with audiences frequently surpassing the organisers'expectations.No one would have forecast, for instance, that StacyPeralta's surfing documentary RidingGiants would have filled the ...