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SWEDEN
Nothing changed at the Swedish box-office over this weekend, where Love Actually and Kill Bill maintained the best screen averages in the top ten. Good Bye, Lenin! moved up one place to 11th past another Triangelfilm release, Daybreak (Om Jeg Vander Mig Om). The new release of Ridley Scott's Matchstick ...
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Dir: Kristian Petri. Sweden. 2003. 112mins.Although this theatrical adaptation is very much a minority sport, it did not quite deserve to drop out of sight at the Swedish box office in the two weeks after its October 10 release. Its potential has been confirmed at MIFED, where the film attracted ...
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Toho kickstarts DVD outing for Japanese films
Japan's leading distributor-exhibitor Toho plans to start releasing Japanese films in the DVD format starting with Saimin (Hypnosis), a psycho thriller featuring pop idol Goro Inagaki, which is set for release in June.Toho has been releasing foreign films on DVD since last summer, but has not offered domestic titles in ...
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Blow for Berlusconi as Italian president rejects media law
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been dealt a serious blow after Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi unexpectedly refused to sign his government's controversial new media law. The Gasparri law had already been approved this month by both the Italian Parliament and the Italian Senate, where Berlusconi's centre-right coalition has ...
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NETHERLANDS
After a strong first three quarters of the year for local films (when Dutch films boasted a 13% market share on the way to a projected 14.5%), recent months have seen a series lacklustre performances from local titles such as Grimm and Kees De Jongen.Last weekend did not buck this ...
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NORTH AMERICA
On limited release Sony opened Tim Burton's Big Fish in six sites for a $207,377 weekend and a grand $34,563 per-theatre average. The father-son relationship drama stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Jessica Lange and will add a few sites until it goes wide on Jan 9 2004. It has ...
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Locarno winner makes sales splash
Pakistani film Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani), which was the surprise winner at Locarno earlier this year, has turned out to be a strong seller for French combine Les Films Du Losange.The film by Sabiha Sumar enjoyed Mifed sales to Filmladen for Austria, Lumiere for Belgium, Filmmuseum for The Netherlands, Karma ...
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UK online DVD rental market expands with Qflicks launch
The UK online DVD rental market appears to be hotting up still further with the entry of a new player into the market, Qflicks.The move comes three months after the launch of two other entrants into the market, Screenselect.co.uk and Videoisland.com. All three are based on the US service pioneered ...
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Metrowealth makes foreign language foray
Metrowealth Movies Production, Malaysia's most active Malay-language film producer in 2003, is making a foray into foreign language films targeted at the regional markets. In April next year, cameras will start rolling on an as yet unnamed Thai-language film. Professor Madya A Razak Mohaideen, who has made eight films for ...
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Rival Diagonale wins Rotterdam, funding support
The International Rotterdam Film Festival has added its voice to the growing international chorus of support for the "original" Diagonale and has donated Euros 1,000 toward the running of the 2004 edition. The "original" Diagonale is being launched next year with the support of senior figures in the Austrian industry ...
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Hong Kong films expand 2003 market share
Hong Kong productions reversed their downward slide at the local box office in 2003, grossing $47m (HK$366) as of December 14, up 11.6% from the same period last year, according to industry body, the Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA). In addition, Hong Kong-produced films accounted for 46.7% of this year's ...
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New Linz Film Festival to focus on Euro film
Former Diagonale co-director Christine Dollhofer has been recruited as the director of a new festival entitled "Crossing Europe - Linz Film Festival" which will be held in the Austrian city of Linz from 4-9 May 2004 and dedicated to contemporary, innovative European cinema.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Dollhofer explained that the event ...
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Malaga to host European Film Commission summit
Malaga, Spain will play host this week to the first-ever European Encounter on Film Commissions (Dec 18).The day-long meeting, organised by the Spain Film Commission, invites representatives of film commissions from around Europe to debate The European Film Commission Experience and Film Commissions: Instruments of Support for the Audiovisual ...
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Telefonica, Sogecable end year on high note
Flush from their successes on Spain's explosive stock market, La Bolsa, telecommunications conglom Telefonica and its audiovisual rival, the Prisa Group-owned Sogecable, both reported top-notch year-end results for 1999.The strong performance of these two giants on La Bolsa demonstrates the need in Spain for a planned "New Market" index listing ...
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Broken Wings set for breakthrough German release
Nir Bergman's Broken Wings is to receive a 24 print release across Germany, the widest ever release in the country for an Israeli film.The wide release, through distributor Alamode Films, is largely thanks to a deal between Israeli Film Fund and the NRW Fund in Germany, which sees each side ...
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Higuchi to direct WWII Japanese submarine drama
Shinji Higuchi, a leading SFX director whose work includes the Gamera series, will helm Lorelei, a $11.2m (Y1.2 bn) production set in a Japanese submarine in the closing days of World War II. Veteran Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance', Doppelganger) will co-star with TV drama sensation Satoshi Tsumaoki. Fuji TV ...
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THINKFilm welcomes Bright Young Things
THINKFilm hasacquired all North American rights from The Works to Stephen Fry's directorialdebut Bright Young Things.The filmpremiered at Toronto and will play in the Premieres section at Sundance inJanuary.THINKFilm headof distribution Mark Urman and Randy Manis negotiated the deal for THINKFilmand The Works chief executive officer Aline Perry, Rebecca Kearey ...
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Nemo swims past $330m mark for BVI
Finding Nemo continued to plough its way throughinternational waters at the weekend, grossing $31.5m to raise its internationalrunning total to a stunning $330.2m.With no new openings BuenaVista International (BVI) executives pointed to strong number one holds inJapan and key European territories as the weekend highlights.In its secondweekend in Japan the ...
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Canada names its ten best films of the year
Films by Guy Maddin, DenysArcand and Robert Lepage as well as a Spanish-Canadian coproduction wereamongst the films judged as the ten best Canadian films of 2003 yesterday.Organised by the TorontoInternational Film Festival Group, the top ten list is intended to celebrateexcellence in Canadian film and present a platform for home-grown ...