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Festival - Buzz from the Basque country
Mataharis (Sp)Dir: Iciar BollainSpanish actor-turned-director Bollain returns to San Sebastian after winning several awards at the festival in 2003 for domestic violence drama Take My Eyes. Mataharis is a $4m drama that tells the stories of three female detectives trying to juggle their working and private lives.Bollain admits the "expectation ...
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Festival - World premieres in Horizontes Latinos
Grandmother's Trip (El Viaje De La Nonna) (Mex)Dir: Sebastian SilvaSilva's directorial debut is a story about a forgetful grandmother whose family try to convince her that she has travelled to Italy. Silva has already worked on more than 20 films as assistant director or second unit director, including Babel, Before ...
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Festival - Remaining films in Official Selection
Eastern Promises (US-UK, opening film)Dir: David CronenbergInt'l sales: Focus Features International, (44) 207 851 6500A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers (US)Dir: Wayne WangContact: CAA, (1) 212 277 9000Battle For Haditha (UK)Dir: Nick BroomfieldInt'l sales: HanWay Films, (44) 20 7290 0750Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame (Iran-Fr)Dir: Hana MakhmalbafInt'l sales: Wild Bunch, ...
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Festival - Building up a buyers' market
While San Sebastian director Mikel Olaciregui admits it can be difficult to attract major US buyers so soon after Toronto, the festival remains a busy sales event, with almost 100 international buyers scheduled to attend in 2007. These include Lionsgate, HBO, Warner Bros, DeA Planeta and Rezo Films."San Sebastian is ...
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International - Korea ambitions
Three Korean films made a big impact on the international chart this weekend, and their collective total accounted for 5.4% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period.Three new Korean openers - Kidnapping Granny K, Two Faces Of My Girlfriend and The Happy Life ...
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Bourne keeps on running
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 14-16(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$20,837,5364,124$125,058,805452(11)The Simpsons Movie (US)$10,004,8882,324$321,298,437133(3)Hero (Jap)$7,152,343475$26,027,93414(15)Hairspray (US)$5,825,6231,824$43,634,146305(4)Shrek The Third (US)$5,695,4151,445$459,311,955206(5)Rush Hour 3 (US)$5,691,5742,443$69,713,201317(2)Ratatouille (US)$5,481,0002,499$210,047,000258(12)No Reservations (US)$4,489,5632,137$24,171,338409(6)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$4,047,2081,574$20,495,4242410(25)Surf's Up (US)$3,159,0772,261$42,837,4383211(New)Superbad (US)$3,140,750471$3,140,750212(8)Run, Fat Boy, Run (UK-US)$3,097,707411$9,046,628113(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,737,143402$8,796,118114(14)Disturbia (US)$2,707,3451,275$28,014,4912815(23)1408 (US)$2,480,405810$17,595,8451316(9)Knocked Up (US)$2,365,0021,318$48,655,3272217(New)Kidnapping Granny K (S Kor)$2,207,699420$2,737,547118(7)Die ...
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In Focus - India - What the US Studios are producing
Sony PicturesOne of the first US studios to get involved in Hindi-language production, Sony recently completed Beloved (Saawariya), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and which it fully financed, and plans to release in November. In 2002, Sony was involved in the global distribution of Lagaan, initially through its Indian channel, ...
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Canada - Blindness In sight
Fernando Meirelles sits in an office at a prison in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. "I was so afraid," he says. The director of the critically-beloved City Of God and the widely-respected The Constant Gardener is recalling the nausea of pre-production on his new film Blindness.Meirelles had sought to adapt Jose Saramago's ...
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United states - Mumble-Mania
Joe Swanberg never wanted to change the world or rewrite the rules of cinema. He simply wanted to make movies, preferably on his own terms with a group of friends and collaborators.A Chicago-based independent film-maker, Swanberg has not only staked out a niche identity that has attracted a modicum of ...
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United Kingdom - Shooting from the hip
Our success is down to the people we have," says Revolver Entertainment's MD and founder Justin Marciano, not in a boastful way but giving credit where credit is due. "We have one of the best unknown teams in the industry."Staying unknown, however, could be a challenge as Revolver celebrates its ...
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Argentina - Returning to look at the light side
Anahi Berneri is at the vanguard of a new generation of female directors in Argentina that also includes Lucrecia Martel, Lucia Cedron and Ana Katz. Her debut feature, A Year Without Love (Un Ano Sim Amor) won the Teddy award at the 2005 Berlinale for its depiction of a writer ...
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Spain - Investigating women's lives
It was a role in Ken Loach's 1995 Spanish Civil War film Land And Freedom that inspired Iciar Bollain to become a director. With a CV of local productions under her belt, Bollain impressed Loach at auditions for the film, so much so that he created a part for her."Ken ...
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King Apatow
Producer-writer-director Judd Apatow has created something of a domestic empire, with 2007 hits such as Knocked Up and Superbad showing formidable staying power in a sea of franchise films and remakes. They have so far taken over $240m at the US box office and $277m globally. Knocked Up has taken ...
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2008 Summer Calendar
May 1 - Iron Man (Paramount Pictures) This Marvel Comics adaptation looks set to kick-start the summer with a bang. Robert Downey Jr stars as Tony Stark, a man who turns into a superhero after a near-death accident in Afghanistan. Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard also star.May 2 - Made ...
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Festival - The Rio market
The Rio International Film Festival is the largest gathering of the audiovisual industry in Latin America. The RioMarket (September 21 to October 3) will screen more than 600 films and is where international buyers get their first look at recent Brazilian and Latin American film productions."Since 2002, (Brazilian) cinema has ...
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Production - Films and talent - Brazil's balancing act
Brazil's new generation of directors and producers are faced with a difficult challenge: how to combine arthouse sensibility with a desire for international recognition.Since most Brazilian productions are funded by the territory's tax shelter system - which means they can fully fund their films by offering tax breaks to private ...
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International - A Hero's welcome
Fuji TV's Hero was the hot international opener this weekend, according to Screen's international chart. Generating $8.9m in its home territory from 475 screens, the Takuya Kimura-starrer catapulted to the number three spot.While Universal Pictures International's (UPI) The Bourne Ultimatum may have crept back up to the number one slot, ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend September 7-9 - Jason Bourne again
The Bourne Ultimatum crept back up to the top spot this weekend taking $15.8m from 3,341 screens. Universal's action film was up 8% after it expanded in 8 territories, and opened at number one in Germany with a $4.7m take and in Mexico with $1.4m. Ratatouille was at number two, ...
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International box office - Western Europe - Domestic bliss
Box office gross in Western Europe is predicted to surge by 17% over the next five years - a rate of around 3% a year - largely due to expanding local film industries and advances in digital cinema, new research predicts.The report from Dodona Research sees box office in Austria, ...
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In Focus - German production - Keen on the kino
Finding crew members has not been an easy task this summer with local production booming throughout Germany. In an echo of the motto 'diversity is our strength' from the halcyon days of New German Cinema in the 1970s, German film-makers are trying their hands at a smorgasbord of genres.Following the ...