All articles by Nancy Tartaglione – Page 31
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Chouchou emerges as most profitable French film
Merzak Allouache's comedy Chouchou was the most profitable locally produced film of 2003. With a budget of Euros 7.6m, the film earned Euros 17.6m during its theatrical release - a 230% return on investment.According to a study by French daily Le Figaro, the second most profitable film was the ...
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Cannes names Residence film-maker candidates
The Cannes Film Festival's film-maker training programme, Residence, has announced its participants for its next session.The new talents are : Wang Bing from China, Israel's Hadar Friedlich, Switzerland's Celine Macherel, Vladimir Perisic from Serbia and Montenegro, Jaime Rosales from Spain and Belgian Dorothee Van Den Berghe.The Festival Residence is a ...
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Kassovitz links with Goldman for Babylon Babies
Mathieu Kassovitz's sixth feature directing effort, the English language Babylon Babies, will be produced with Alain Goldman's Legende Entreprises. Kassovitz's company MNP Entreprises, founded in 2000 to develop and produce his projects as director, will co-produce and also move into new territory via a recently signed deal with Goldman.Legende Entreprises ...
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Belvaux, Lvovsky share France's 61st Louis Delluc prize
PARIS - In a split decision, the 61st Louis Delluc prize has been awarded to Lucas Belvaux's trilogy of films Un Couple Epatant, Apres La Vie and Cavale and to Noemie Lvovsky's Sentiments. While that prize goes to the best French film of the year, the prize for best first ...
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EuropaCorp to produce Jodie Foster's Flora Plum
Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's EuropaCorp. will produce the next directorial project from Jodie Foster. The film, Flora Plum, was originally set up 3 years ago and Foster had begun production only to abandon it quickly due to an accident suffered by then-star Russell Crowe.Crowe will not be ...
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Millimages casts eye over embattled Bac
French animation and documentary producer Millimages has confirmed that is holding ongoing discussions with Jean Labadie's Bac Majestic to invest in the company.Several other outfits have been floated as possible buyers for the embattled company including Jacques Ouaniche of Noe Productions and sales outfit Exception (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 19)The news ...
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France's Cesars moves date to avoid Oscar clash
France's equivalent to the Oscars, the Cesars, is to hold its ceremony a week early to avoid a clash with the Academy Awards on Feb 29.The Cesars will now be held on Feb 21. Nominations are due on Jan 23. The 29th edition will, as usual, be aired unencrypted on ...
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Bruehl, Canet headline Carion's Joyeux Noel
French director Christian Carion is to follow up his debut hit Une Hirondelle A Fait Le Printemps, with Joyeux Noel starring French hearthob Guillaume Canet and Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl.Based on a true story and set to shoot in 2004, the Euros 23m film is produced by Christophe ...
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For the first time ever, the Coen brothers opened in first place with George Clooney starrer Intolerable Cruelty. The strong showing is a clear case of counter programming winning out as the smart throwback comedy overtook the flashy race car comic book adaptation Michel Vaillant. Vaillant, a Europa Corp. production ...
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Teze returns to TFI as film sponsorship chief
Former TF1 International executive Perrine Teze is to head up a new film sponsorship division at TF1 Publicite.Teze, who has been on maternity leave for the past six months after helping to oversee the birth of TFM - the film division's joint distribution venture with Miramax - will work in ...
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Lescure returns with AnnaRose production outfit
Former Canal Plus chairman Pierre Lescure has announced the launch of a new film production and distribution company as well as a London-based capital development outfit.According to reports in the French media, his production outfit is called AnnaRose and is named after his young daughter. Two film projects are being ...
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Although it remains in the number one spot, the final Matrix instalment is certainly not The One. The shine fell off the film in its second week out with the largest fall-off seen in any major market of 69%. With last week's release schedule virtually barren, distributors who tried to ...
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Bac battered as French rumour mill swirls
French distributor Bac Majestic is once again the subject of bankruptcy and buyout rumours swirling around the French capital. An article in French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday claimed that the company is on its last legs following a serious drop in revenues (ScreenDaily.com Nov 18) and a delisting from ...
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Bac sees revenues fall as fewer films released
French group Bac Majestic released third quarter results this week reporting revenues of Euros 49.2m - a 28.6% drop from the same period last year.In a statement the company noted that the decrease in earnings was down to the "new strategic orientation" of the group with fewer films being released. ...
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Seydoux brothers team for new archive venture
The Seydoux brothers have once again joined forces to create a new company. Nicolas and Jerome Seydoux, who respectively head up French studios Gaumont and Pathe, merged their cinema circuits a few years back to create Europalaces and are now following suite with their companies' archives.The new entity, which is ...
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France approves new tax credit scheme for film
The French government has approved a film tax credit scheme which was presented by prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin last week.The total amount of credit available will be equal to 20% of all expenditure for work done in France. It will have a ceiling of Euros 500,000 for fiction and documentary ...
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The Matrix stormed into cinemas this week easily doubling the coveted one million admissions mark. Although the critics have not been kind to the film, queues have been round the block since last Wednesday when the movie opened and it has already entered the top fifteen films of 2003. Faced ...
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Continuing on its impressive opening, Francis Veber's buddy comedy Rudy & Quentin remains at number one with a mere 18% drop off from last week. The film passed the one million admissions mark in less than two weeks which will likely land it among France's highest grossers this year. With ...