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Production - Argentina - The funds of others
Since Argentina's economic crash, the territory's film industry has been fighting its way back to health. But while the industry has been weathering the storm - 90 films were produced last year and directors such as Daniel Burman, Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel are drawing plaudits around the world - ...
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Production - Stock market moves
Argentinian production consortium Cine.ar, set up in 2006, is launching InvertFilm, the country's first film trust fund, raising $5m on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange to finance local projects. Films set to benefit are Daniel Burman's The Empty Nest, shooting in August, and projects from new talent including Mirta Raquel ...
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Production - Festival - Talent spot
Argentina's leading film event, Mar del Plata is this year increasing its focus on Latin America's new talent with a cash prize of $50,000 for the best film in a new competition section for first and second features to run parallel to the official competition.The Latin American competition will feature ...
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Foreign affairs
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an editorial that put forward an argument for the elimination of the foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. Its point was that "foreign film-making talent is represented in record numbers" in all categories and therefore in no need of special support.The argument from the ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 16-18 - Ghost's arrival spooks Night
Comic-book fantasy Ghost Rider knocked Night At The Museum off the top spot, taking more than $16.6m internationally in its opening weekend. Luc Besson's Taxi 4 also showed impressive first-weekend results, grossing $14.1m in Belgium and France. Meanwhile, UK audiences flocked to see Edgar Wright's cop spoof Hot Fuzz - ...
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Market focus - Calling on the neighbours
The performance of European films outside their home markets remains one of the thorniest issues for the EU's policy-makers. Last year's box-office recovery in many European territories was largely built on the success of local films in local markets and a number of Hollywood blockbusters. There were high-profile exceptions: Pedro ...
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Editorial - The future is now
An undercurrent at this year's Berlin International Film Festival was an uneasy feeling of a business in flux. It did not stop strong sales being made nor did it undermine the expansion of the European Film Market (EFM). Indeed, Wild Bunch, which had shunned the refurbished Martin Gropius Bau for ...
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Just draw it
Dale Wahl is used to Laika Entertainment, the fledgling feature animation operation owned by Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight, being viewed sceptically by the Hollywood establishment."It's kind of expected," says Wahl, who 18 months ago became president and CEO of Laika Inc after a 16-year stint with Knight's giant ...
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The showman
The omission of Bill Condon from the list of directing Oscar nominees was a shock to the growing legions of Dreamgirls fans across North America. Condon's DreamWorks and Paramount-backed production, which won the best picture (musical or comedy) Golden Globe, also faced a crushing shutout in the best picture Oscar ...
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Shooting from the hip
The name Canana, which translates as "cartridge belt", has an almost revolutionary ring to it. That fits with the goals of the Mexican production house's founders Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal and Pablo Cruz. "We want productions that give the world an insight into our reality," says Cruz, who runs ...
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Industry moves
Wolf to leave Peace ArchPenny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective March 16. Wolf is attending the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.New Kofic US office headSun-young Moon ...
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Outsider's view
Fans of David Mackenzie's earlier films The Last Great Wilderness, Young Adam and Asylum will not be too surprised by his new feature Hallam Foe, he predicts. "I thought it was an opportunity to do something that goes with the general flow of my work," he says of the project, ...
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United Kingdom - Filmworks' ethic
When broadcaster Sky and UK exhibitor Odeon joined forces in a 50-50 venture to create new distribution company, Odeon and Sky Filmworks, some eyebrows were raised. Why, observers asked, did the two companies want to venture into an overcrowded and overly competitive field such as theatrical distribution'Six months after its ...
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The BAFTAs 2007 - Awards countdown - King and Queen crowned at BAFTAs
The signs may have pointed towards an outburst of flag-waving patriotic fervour at the Orange British Academy Film Awards last Sunday (February 11), but the Baftas failed to conform. Nine ground-breaking nominations for James Bond blockbuster Casino Royale resulted in just one win in the sound category and the compensation ...
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The BAFTAs 2007 - Campaign watch
Both The Queen and The Last King Of Scotland ran expensive, committed campaigns and both reveal the importance of the autumn festival circuit in building towards Bafta success, also a factor for previous winners such as Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Vera Drake (2004).Helen Mirren's best actress prize at Venice in ...
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The BAFTAs 2007 - The parties ..
The champagne flowed freely over Bafta weekend as the industry and nominees hit the parties held around town. On Friday night, the Weinstein Co party - co-hosted by Tamara Mellon - saw guests including Al Gore, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller.A Bafta nominees party, held on the eve of the ...
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The BAFTAs 2007 - The winners in full
FILMWinner: The QueenBabelThe DepartedThe Last King Of ScotlandLittle Miss SunshineTHE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the YearWinner: The Last King Of ScotlandCasino RoyaleNotes On A ScandalThe QueenUnited 93THE DAVID LEAN AWARD for achievement in directionWinner: Paul Greengrass - United 93Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris - Little Miss SunshineStephen ...
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Analysis - Museum revels in its encore call
Fox's Night At The Museum refuses to be beaten as it climbs back up to the top spot, generating over $14m in its eighth week despite being dropped from four territories. Oscar contender Blood Diamond did not trail far behind, raking in $13.1m in its sixth week as it opens ...
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Market focus - Does size really matter'
A Dutch study suggests that in order to influence early box-office takings, film studios and distributors of arthouse films should focus energy on persuading critics to write about their movie instead of merely adopting strategies to avoid negative criticism.In a recently conducted study dubbed The Impact Of Film Reviews On ...
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Editorial - Screen says - Window of choice
In the middle of a debate on the impact of new technologies on cinema in Rotterdam recently, there was a beautiful intervention from the floor.Lia van Leer, founder of the Jerusalem Film Festival, recalled how in the 1950s she had driven a mobile cinema to kibbutzim in the young Israel ...