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Bafta Nominations - Quote unquote
"I'm so delighted, and very pleased for Richard (Eyre) and Patrick (Marber)."Judi Dench, actress, Notes On A Scandal"Patrick Marber wrote a wonderful screenplay and Judi Dench leads a perfect cast... I hope the Bafta recognition will encourage even more people to see the movie."Richard Eyre, director, Notes On A Scandal"I'm ...
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Bafta Nominations - Getting Animated
No awards ceremony stays the same. Categories are added and lost. Forty years ago, Bafta still divided its acting prizes between British and foreign performers. The addition of a best animated feature award this year reflects the sheer bulk and popularity of animated features released in the UK.The nominations - ...
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Bafta Nominations - By The Numbers - Bafta nominations per film
The Queen 10Casino Royale ninePan's Labyrinth eightBabel sevenThe Departed sixLittle Miss Sunshine sixUnited 93 sixThe Devil Wears Prada fiveThe Last King Of Scotland fivePirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest fiveChildren Of Men threeMarie Antoinette threeNotes On A Scandal threeDreamgirls twoHappy Feet twoThe History Boys twoVenus twoVolver twoApocalypto oneBlack Book ...
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Bafta Nominations - The nominations in full
FilmBabel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Jon Kilik, Steve GolinThe Departed - Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham KingThe Last King Of Scotland - Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles SteelLittle Miss Sunshine*The Queen - Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy HarriesThe Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the YearCasino Royale ...
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Golden Globes - Plenty of winners in awards pack
The Oscar prospects of Babel and Dreamgirls rose this week after the films took top honours for best drama and best musical or comedy at the 64th annual Golden Globes on Monday evening (January 15).Helen Mirren was crowned best actress in a drama for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in ...
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Project market - CINEMART 2007 project focus
One of the surprises about the line-up of projects in the 24th CineMart (January 28-February) is the number of high-profile directors - Stephan Elliott and Kim Ki-duk, for example - scattered among the more traditional CineMart arthouse fare. Therefore budgets overall look higher, capped by Elliott's Black Oasis at $7m ...
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Co-production markets - 'A good hub where people can meet'
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Rotterdam's CineMart must be one of the most admired events in the film world.Now in its 24th edition, the co-production market has spawned a host of similar events. These range from the Berlinale Co-Production Market to the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), and ...
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The Binger Filmlab - 'Youth is our main focus'
In the heart of Amsterdam, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science-backed Binger Filmlab is doing its part to help 'quality' films along, both from the Netherlands and internationally.The Binger Filmlab, which turned 10 last year, runs two five-month intensive coaching programmes a year, one for 10 directors heading ...
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Netherlands Production - In search of Dutch masters
From the outside, it looks as if these are boom times for Dutch production. Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, released in the Netherlands by A-Film in the autumn, is closing in on a million admissions at home and has been sold around the world by London-based sales agent ContentFilm International. Oscar ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend January 12-14 - Happyness pursues Museum
Family extravaganza Night At The Museum continues to be an international crowd pleaser, passing the $150m mark in 39 territories and grossing more than $20m in its fourth weekend to remain rooted to the top spot. Inspirational bio-drama The Pursuit Of Happyness, starring Will Smith, was this weekend's highest new ...
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Worldwide - Fight for share
There is something innately arcane about market share statistics and yet they are a ferocious obsession for players in the film industry. Pies and graphs breaking down revenues in North America and in key international territories are not uncommon. But judging market share for the entire international market with a ...
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Market focus: home entertainment - On-demand services set to soar
Some 435 million homes will have video on demand (VoD) or Near VoD (NVoD) services by 2011, according to a report from technology analysts Informa. The forecast predicts that VoD and NVoD's reach (to an equivalent of 38% of the world's TV households) will create revenues of $11.4bn.The report argues ...
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An enemy at the gates'
YouTube, friend or foe'" asked The New York Times this week. It is a question the film industry has been asking ever since YouTube and other user-content aggregators started taking off - and with good reason.Firstly, much of the content of this new wave is less user-generated than user-procured - ...
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Editorial - Tear up the calendar
What is it about the switch of a year that brings out the pundit in us all' Endless column inches are expended on retrospective analysis of what is in fact an arbitrary period of time. It is a pain but the international market has not been evolving in the last ...
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In focus - The view from 2007
The raw figures for the 2006 box office point to a widespread recovery. In the context of the last few years, however, it is perhaps more a case of steady advance than a big leap forward. That in itself may be exactly the kind of stability needed in a period ...
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Domestic box office - Story behind the numbers
Figures only tell so much. The domestic market generated slightly more than $9.23bn ticket sales during 2006. It represented an increase of 3.8% in box office but as is said of some horse races, admissions were too close to call.Representatives of both Regal and AMC Theaters - with a combined ...
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North America - Natural selection
National Geographic Films (NGF) burst into the spotlight in 2005 when it partnered Warner Independent Pictures on March Of The Penguins, which grossed more than $77m in North America and won last year's best documentary feature Oscar. But NGF, under the guidance of former Disney senior vice-president of production Adam ...
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Poland - Home for the holidays
Seven years after his directorial debut, New Line's horror Lost Souls, Janusz Kaminski has begun filming on Hania - a contemporary Polish-language drama the director is co-producing with Zebra Film Studio, Gremi Film Production and OTO Film Studio.Kaminski is best known for his cinematography on Steven Spielberg's films, having ...
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United Kingdom - The TV Set
Publishers and film scouts were given a late Christmas present from Richard & Judy this week, as the TV chat show hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan - the UK's answer to Oprah - unveiled their 2007 book club selections.Last year's picks dominated the bestseller lists, with Kate Mosse's Labyrinth ...
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US stars of tomorrow
Over the past two decades, the Sundance Film Festival has developed into two distinct events. The festival, as started by Robert Redford, has actually changed very little over the last 20 years. Despite the new programmes and categories, and the increasing number of submissions - 1,852 US features this year ...