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Perfume, Klimt awarded German funds
New features by Tom Tykwer, Raoul Ruiz and Tomy Wigand areamong five projects awarded over Euros 4.6m by Bavaria's Film & TelevisionFund FFF Bayern in its latest round of funding.Tykwer's adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestselling novel Perfumefor Constantin Film Produktion received the largest amount - Euros 1.6m - withan additional ...
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International network of casting directors launched
Fifteen feature film casting directors from seven countrieshave founded the International Network of Casting Directors (INCD).The idea for an informal international network was floatedduring a meeting of casting directors during European Film Promotion's ShootingStars event at the Berlinale. Until now, casting directors have only been organised innational associations, but INCD ...
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Gaumont profits jump three-fold
Aftera few lackluster years, fortunes at French major Gaumont are on the rise.Announcing2004 figures on Monday, the company reported revenues of Euros 88.6m ($115m), a26% increase over 2003, and profits of Euros 9.7m up from Euros 2.8m theprevious year.Ina press release, the world's oldest film studio noted that the jump ...
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Atlantic Alliance forced to put Holocaust drama on hold after Rywin imprisonment
Production on Atlantic Alliance Pictures' Holocaust drama LoveIs A Survivor was put onhold yesterday (28) after producers said there were insufficient funds tocomplete the project.Atlantic Alliance president Harris Salomon said he and Britishassociates had secured 75% of the Euros 7m budget, but added that the balanceremained "elusive".Salomon said the New ...
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Atlantic Streamline sets start date for horror movie Butterfly
The psychological horror story Butterfly, A Grimm Love Story starring Keri Russell and ThomasKretschmann is set to begin filming in Germany in March.Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline is financing and producing theproject, about a research student who descends into depravity in order tounderstand the mind of a cannibal killer.TS Faull wrote ...
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DTS opens new subsidiary offices in Paris, Rome
Digital technology company DTS (Digital Theater Systems) hasopened subsidiary offices in Paris and Rome following its recent expansion intoHong Kong and Canada.Both new offices will offer exclusive transfer facilities and theusual DTS range of audio delivery and image restoration services."The opening of subsidiaries in Paris and Rome furtherreinforces DTS' commitment ...
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AUSTRALIA 1 March
Constantine was the most popular film at the boxoffice for the four-day weekend to Sunday February 27, taking A$2,986,988 from289 screens. This was nearly three times more than the result for TheAviator, which was in second position after leading the chart for the twoprevious weekends. Constantine had easily the biggest ...
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Australian newcomer buys Shortbus, Dumplings
Australiantheatrical newcomer Accent Film Entertainment has acquired both Shortbus,which is still in pre-production, and Dumplings, from Fortissimo FilmSales. "Hedwig And TheAngry Inch was such a wonderful film that we were very keen to jump onboard director John Cameron Mitchell's new film Shortbus aboutrelationships in New York post-9/11," said general manager ...
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CineMedia strikes output deal with Buena Vista
Germany's CineMedia has secured an output deal for theatrical distribution in German-speaking territories of its film titles with Buena Vista International. The long-term deal covers all current feature films where CineMedia has German territorial rights and kicks off with What Women Want, the Mel Gibson film that goes into production ...
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South Australia offers production incentive
South Australia is soon to offer producers a new incentiveto shoot in the state - a 10% rebate on the cost of local cast and crew,including post-production personnel.South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) chief executiveHelen Leake told Screendaily.com that the initiative is being introducedon a trial basis and is capped at ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - March 2
PRE PRODUCTION ALATRISTE(Estudios Picasso, Origen PC, Universal Studios) Budget: Euros 20m. Intl sales:TF1 International. The tales of a 17th century adventurer and his sidekick.Dir/scr: Agustin Diaz Yanes, based on the novel by Arturo Perez Reverte. Maincast: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Javier Camara, Elena Anaya and AriadnaGil Shooting from March 7 ...
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Spanish producers spread their film budget bets
A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...
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German public funds back Cinelink co-production market
German public regional funds Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung(MDM) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are to serve as partners at thisyear's CineLink co-production market during the Sarajevo Film Festival (August19-27)."Last year, we had a similar agreement with the Vienna FilmFund and Austrian Film Institute who brought over a dozen producers to meetwith their opposite numbers ...
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Shochiku named ShoWest Exhibitor of the Year
Shochiku has been named International Exhibitor of the Yearby ShoWest, the first Japanese distributor and exhibitor to win the award sincethe event launched in 1996. Shochiku president Junichi "Jay" Sakomoto willreceive the award at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas on March 14. A leading exhibitor in Japan, Shochiku operates ...
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IMAX gets Batman Begins at the same time as 35mm
IMAX Corporation and WarnerBros have announced that Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins will be simultaneously released to IMAX andconventional 35mm cinemas on June 17, 2005. It will be the eighth Warnerfilm to undergo IMAX's DMR digitalremastering process. Warner will be the exclusive distributor of the film toIMAX cinemas worldwide."Moviegoers love ...
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DVRs were the hottest consumer electronics product in US in 04, says report
Digital video recorders experienced more national growth than anyother consumer electronics product in the US in 2004, according to new researchby home entertainment and technology tracker Centris.DVRs gained 119% in household penetration to 6.5million US households,compared to an 83% growth in the number of portable DVD players to 20.5millionhouseholds, 44% ...
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Ledoyen, Livingston head up cast of Holly shooting in Cambodia
Guy Moshe's adventure drama Holly has begun production in Cambodia,starring Virginie Ledoyen, Udo Kier, Ron Livingston, Chris Penn, Thai starKovitt Wattanakul and Vietnamese newcomer Thuy Nguyen.The story centres on a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl's desperatesearch for her family and the 35-year-old American man who helps her in herquest.Moshe co-wrote thescreenplay with ...
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ITALY 2 March
UIP's Shark Tale ripped into the box office at numberone in Italy, in one of its last international releases.The animation feature, whose Italian release comes fivemonths after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, grossed $3,945,692from 401 screens for an excellent screen average of $9,840.Warner Bros's Constantine also performed ...
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GERMANY 2 March
Meet TheFockers onlyfaltered slightly on its second weekend, but was still far ahead of the fieldwith a gross that was more than the next two releases combined - Constantineand The Wild Soccer Bunch 2 . The Ben Stiller-Robert de Niro comedy'stotal gross of $ 12.4m makes the UIP release the ...
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Canal Plus, CLT-Ufa discuss link-up
French pay-TV giant Canal Plus and Luxembourg-based broadcaster CLT-Ufa - which is merging with the UK's Pearson Television - are in talks about a potential co-operation in the areas of TV rights acquisition and production.Speaking at a shareholders meeting on April 28, Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure stressed that there ...