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Chinese New Year box office up by 30% in mainland China
The 2009 Chinese New Year holidays ended on Sunday (Feb 1) with outstanding box office results in mainland China. The one-week holiday took in around $29.2m (RMB200m) in box office receipts, which is a 30% increase on the same period in 2008. Around 15 films were on release during the ...
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Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
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Film Movement picks up Shane Meadows' Somers Town for US
Film Movement has taken US rights from The Works to Shane Meadows' comedy Somers Town and will release in theatres in July.Thomas Turgoose, the breakout star of Meadow's 2006 drama This Is England, and Piotr Jagiello play a pair of teenager newcomers in London who become firm friends one hot ...
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Korean films boost exports but lose local market share
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has reported that export figures for Korean films bounced up 40% year-on-year to total $20.54m, based on minimum guarantees, ending a freefall that started in 2004. Although, the sum still falls short of the $30.9m worth of exports in 2003, it is higher than the ...
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A Woman In Berlin, Skin win top prizes at Santa Barbara
Max Farberbock's second world war survival tale A Woman In Berlin was named best international film at the 24th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which came to a close at the weekend [February 1].The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to Poppy Shakespeare, Benjamin Ross' account of friendship ...
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Hurt Locker, Adventureland, Passing Strange join lineup at SXSW
Kathryn Bigelow's bomb disposal thriller The Hurt Locker, Greg Mottola's comedy Adventureland and Spike Lee's Broadway musical adaptation Passing Strange have joined the line-up at the South By Southwest Film Conference And Festival, set to run in Austin, Texas, from March 13-21.The full roster of 108 features and 54 world ...
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E1 picks up world rights to The Shock Doctrine
E1 Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross's The Shock Doctrine, a documentary based on Naomi Klein's 2007 bestseller of the same name.The Shock Doctrine will receive its world premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival, screening as a work in progress in the Panorama Dokumente ...
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Australia's Transmission picks up New Zealand duo
A year after launching itself in Australia as a distributor, Transmission Films is proving to be a good friend to New Zealand as well as Australian filmmakers. Principals Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten have acquired New Zealand rights to both The Volcano, local writer/director Taika Waititi's follow-up to Eagle vs ...
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The Web TodayFebruary Archive - International film news on the web
February 1 Plummeting profitcould help Stringer turn Sony around- LA TimesImax chief bullish despite recession- The Associated PressFebruary 2Watchmen skulk to the screen- New York TimesActors back in talkswith studios - BBCOscars suspense: will people watch’ - New York TimesBiggest January ever for Hollywood - LA TimesImax hopes Potter and ...
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Camino takes top honours at the Goyas
Javier Fesser's Camino swept the board with six Goya awards out of seven nominations at last night's awards ceremony, including best picture and best director. Fesser was the toast of the evening as he also picked up best original script, and his lead cast all won awards, including Carme Elias ...
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Chris Paton joins Fortissimo in acquisitions and development role
Well-known industry veteran Chris Paton has joined Amsterdam/Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films as Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Development with immediate effect.Paton, the former Vice Chairman of DDA Public Relations, will be based in London and work on centralising Fortissimo's international team to source new product, continue the development of current ...
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Boyle is DGA's top film winner as Slumdog races towards Oscar victory
Danny Boyle won the Directors Guild Of America's top prize for Slumdog Millionaire at the weekend [Jan 31], further bolstering the film's prospects for top Oscars come February 22.Boyle in particular looks a strong bet to claim the best director Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards - in the ...
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EuropaCorp's Taken tops domestic box office through Fox
Liam Neeson as a vengeful former CIA agent who goes after his daughter's kidnappers in Taken was the top film of the weekend after Fox launched the EuropaCorp thriller on $24.6m.Meanwhile Sony's highly successful Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop slipped to second place in its third weekend on ...
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Valkyrie tops international with $18.6m, while Button, Road are strong
MGM/UA's Valkyrie held on to the mantle of top Hollywood film overseas thanks to an estimated $18.6m haul from approximately 3,900 screens in 26 markets that boosted the running total through Fox International to $38.9m.The three-day weekend was led by a quartet of number one launches that delivered $2.8m from ...
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Rotterdam claims success despite slight drop in visitors
The 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) ended this weekend on a more muted note than in previous years.For details of Rotterdam Tiger Awards click hereOn the final day,the KPN Audience Award went to Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle and co-director Loveleen Tandan.The festival's own official figures revealed that both ...
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The Visitor takes Nordic Film Prize at Gothenburg
Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää's The Visitor (Muukalainen) haswon the Nordic Film Prize - $12,800 (SEK 100,000) and a dragon statuette - at Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival. Valkeapää's cinematographer, Tuomo Hutri, received theNordic Vision Award.The 32nd edition of the festival - Scandinavia's largest film event - registered a record number ...
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European Commission prolongs state aid rules for film until 2013
Following a public consultation, the European Commission has officially prolonged current state aid assessment criteria for cinema in Europe until 31 December 2012 The Commission uses the criteria to approve Europe 's national, regional and local film support schemes under the EU's state aid rules. Extending the current rules provides ...
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Medienboard backs films from Stölzl, Garbarski, Haussmann
Just a week before the 59th Berlinale opens, local regional film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) has announced over $6.8m (Euros 5.3m) for 38 projects, including new films by director Philipp Stölzl, Sam Garbarski, and Leander Haussmann. In MBB's first funding session of 2009, a total of $ 5.8m (Euros 4.5m) ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films takes US rights to Cold Souls
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US rights to Cold Souls, Sophie Barthes feature debut which recently played in US dramatic competition at Sundance. The film stars Paul Giamatti alongside David Strathairn, Emily Watson and Lauren Ambrose.Goldwyn is planning a late summer release for the comedy in which Giamatti plays ...
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Anchor Bay picks up US, UK and Australia to Not Forgotten
Just days after Anchor Bay Films announced it had picked up North American rights to David Mackenzie's Sundance premiere Spread, the company has sealed another deal, this time picking up rights in the US, UK and Australia to Dror Soref's thriller Not Forgotten from Myriad Pictures.Not Forgotten, which stars Simon ...