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Chipmunks land in Australia, Brazil, six other territories
Warner Bros Pictures International top brass will expect robust holdover business to boost the $117m running total of last weekend's box office champion I Am Legend.There are no releases scheduled for the sci-fi horror this weekend however several major launches lies ahead in the coming weeks, the first of which ...
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Reviews
27 Dresses
Dir: Anne Fletcher. US, 2008. 111minsWell cast, slickly produced and performed with enough spirit to counterbalance its frequently stupendous lack of originality and plausibility, 27 Dresses pulls all the right levers for (mostly female) diehard romantic comedy audiences looking for just a pinch of wistfulness to go alongsidestray wish-fulfillment scenarios.Having ...
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Ian Maycock promoted to MD of Technicolor Thailand
Technicolor (Thailand) has named Ian Maycock as the new managing director of its Bangkok facilities, a key hub for servicing filmmakers and distributors in the pan-Asian region.Maycock who has worked in Australia, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Malaysia, has a background in the production and post-production businesses of Asian films ...
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Malaysia's 2007 box office to hita record $91m
Malaysia is on track to produce yet another record-setting year with the total box office expected to sail past the $91.2m (RM300m) mark for the first time in its history.A growth of at least 20% year-on-year is estimated, which would make it the seventh consecutive year with double-digit growth in ...
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Halloween rebranded as London Short Film Festival
The fifth incarnation of the former Halloween Short Film festival is relaunching its programme of screenings, talks and events under the new name of the London Short Film Festival. The revitalised festival takes place today through Jan 13, and extends its venues to include London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, the ...
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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Panahi, Tan among Rotterdam's Tiger Awards jurors
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has lined up its jurors for its upcoming event.The jury for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition, for first or second feature films, is comprised of: Russian film-maker/actress Renata Litvinova, Locarno's Tiziana Finzi, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, former Dutch Filmmuseum deputy director Rieks Hadders and Singapore ...
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Seven films shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar
Seven films have been shortlisted for the Oscar for achievement in visual effects by the effects branch of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. They are 300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Evan Almighty, The Golden Compass, I Am Legend, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers.Members of ...
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European Commission outlines strategy for online film
The European Commission has outlined a new strategic approach to support Europe 's online content sector, including film.The Commission estimates that potential retail revenues across the EU's online content market could quadruple from Eu1.8bn ($2.65bn)in 2005 to Eu8.3bn ($12.25bn)by 2010.Given its scale and rapid growth, the Commission believes the sector ...
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DVD sales drive Italian video sector growth
Italy's home video market grew 3% last year, buoyed by the blossoming DVD sector and an upswing in news-stand videocassette prices and rentals.The home-video market posted a turnover of approximately $575m in 1999, according to Univideo, Italy's home entertainment association. DVD sales soared, with a 450 % increase in ...
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Screen opinion- the film industry must avoid the hype
Rudyard Kipling's exhortation that we should treat those 'impostors' triumph and disaster just the same ought to be nailed to the walls in film offices everywhere.January has started with a gloomy sense of introspection in some quarters. The mood of last summer, when the first blockbusters were defying the critics, ...
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Olympic challenge for international film in China
As the finishing touches are being made to Beijing's sports venues, there is an air of nervous anticipation in the Chinese capital.The Beijing 2008 Olympics (August 8-24) will either be the biggest international coming-out party that China has ever seen, or a public-relations nightmare, with human-rights protesters spilling onto the ...
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Features
Slamdancer
Drea Clark has a new job at the Slamdance Film Festival. But she is hardly a newcomer to the truly low-budget indie film showcase that runs each January in Park City, Utah, while the bigger and better-known Sundance festival roils all around it.Clark started with Slamdance as an intern in ...
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United States - Irishman in LA
After a year as US vice-president of the Irish Film Commission, Jonathan Loughran knows what's on the minds of most Hollywood producers.Tax incentives are what they invariably ask about first, he confirms, "and if that's not the first question, I make it the first answer".The Los Angeles office that Loughran ...
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France - Drivers follow positive signs
Along with the crop of new films at this year's Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous, there will also be a debut sales company in town.Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur have taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution and, with an outside investment fund, are launching international sales outfit Elle Driver.The ...
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United Kingdom - A very long disengagement
In the 11 years since he was fired from the directing chair of New Line's The Island Of Dr Moreau, Richard Stanley has kept a low profile. The UK film-maker had made a big splash with his first feature, Hardware, in 1990 but his subsequent career proved troubled to say ...
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United Kingdom - Coming up for chair
It is almost a decade since Colin MacCabe left his position as head of research and education at the British Film Institute (BFI). He is still an active producer - his latest project, Isaac Julien's Derek Jarman documentary, Derek, premieres in Sundance. Yet MacCabe cannot hide his dismay at what ...
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United Kingdom/New Zealand - Spanning the oceans
Auckland, New Zealand-based Matthew Metcalfe (General Film Corp) and UK-based Alan Harris (Atlantic Film Productions) have been too busy making films to join the line of producers complaining the new UK tax credit is not friendly to co-productions.The pair produced The Ferryman and have now re-teamed for Dean Spanley, a ...
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FeaturesBest picture: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
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Paris Screenings - Springboard to success
French sales companies are often one of the first ports of call for an international buyer looking for veteran film-makers, cutting-edge work from genre masters such as Guillermo del Toro and arthouse experiments such as Todd Haynes' I'm Not There.Outfits including Wild Bunch, Celluloid Dreams and Bac Films have established ...
