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Sleeper hit becomes Korea's third biggest ever film
Korean sleeper hit King And The Clown has clocked up morethan 8.2 million admissions, making it Korea's third biggest box office hit of all time after Taegukgi with 11.7 million admissionsand Silmido with 11 million. A month after the film'srelease, local distributor Cinema Service upped the number of screens from ...
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Czech box office at lowest level since 2001
Czech distributors knew early in the year that 2005 wouldnot be a record-breaker, but that didn't make the year's bitter figures easierto swallow. Box office admissions and sales both fell in 2005 more than 20%below 2004 level dropping to their lowest levels since 2001.Box office for the territory slipped 22.7% ...
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Czech box office at lowest level since 2001
Czech distributors knew early in the year that 2005 wouldnot be a record-breaker, but that didn't make the year's bitter figures easierto swallow. Box office admissions and sales both fell in 2005 more than 20%below 2004 level dropping to their lowest levels since 2001. December was theonly month that saw ...
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Luc Besson to attend Cinema and Literature Forum
The fifth annual International Cinema and Literature Forumis set to welcome Luc Besson this year for a roundtable on adapting works for young adults. Besson iscurrently adapting his own children's book to the big screen in the big-budget Arthur And The Minimoys. The Forum runs from April 7-9 in Monte ...
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Japan's box office down by 6% according to Eiren
Japan's box office generated $1.69bn (Y198bn) in 2005, a 6% decrease from2004, according to data released by the Motion Picture Producers Association ofJapan (Eiren). This was in line with a dropin admissions from 170 million in 2004 to just over 160 million last year. Figures were more positivefrom a domestic ...
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MPAA names two key appointees
Lisa M Pierozzi has joined the MPAA as chief financial officer andexecutive vice president of finance and administration and will begin work inthe Los Angeles office on Feb 6.In addition, Michael Robinson becomes the new director of US anti-piracy operationsand assumed his position early last week.He will report to executive ...
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Oscar race heralds new breed of daring financier
As befits the provocative subject-matter that characterises thisyear's Academy Awards race, the major Oscar categories are dominated by storiespartly bankrolled by a dynamic new breed of wealthy financier willing to takethe kind of production risks being increasingly outsourced by studioconglomerates.Of the five best picture nominees, Brokeback Mountain was made for ...
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Shochiku, Celluloid Dreams join forces for Hana
Japan's Shochiku and France's Celluloid Dreams have partnered to handleinternational sales of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's upcoming samuraidrama Hana (Hana Yori Mo Naho). Celluloid Dreams will handleEuropean sales for the film while Shochiku's international sales division handlesthe rest of the world. The deal marks the firstcollaboration between the two companies, ...
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Village Roadshow expands co-production war-chest
The Village Roadshow Pictures Group (VRPG) has increased its film facilityfrom $900m to $1.4bn and extended the term of the deal until January 2011.Those close to the move said it would enable VRPG, the recentlyformed strategic alliance between Village Roadshow and Crescent Entertainment,to substantially expand its co-production capabilities.The company has ...
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Filmax to distribute Lauren Films' catalogue of titles
Spain'sFilmax has signed a deal to distribute Lauren Films'catalogue of titles on DVD in Spain.Starting this month, Filmax willhandle all Lauren catalogue titles and new releases. Recent titles include Beautiful Boxer andThe Importance OfBeing Ernest, while among the cataloguetitles encompassed by the dealare The English Patient, The Cider HouseRules, Life ...
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Minghella renews role as BFI chair
Director Anthony Minghella hasbeen reappointed as chair of the British Film Institute.Minghella's second three-year termtakes effect immediately."I am very happy to be able to renew my commitment to the bfi," Minghella said."These past three years have been a time of scrutiny and transition. Theorganisation is emerging from that period with ...
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Tony Grierson joins Sydney Film Festival as CEO
Tony Grierson is to leave his roleas head of distribution and finance at the NSW Film & Television Office andjoin the Sydney Film Festival (SFF) as chiefexecutive from February 16.He was executive officer of Queer Screen for the four yearsup to 1999, has worked at Beyond Distribution, and has held ...
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Tornasol Films to back new prize at Guadalajara
Spanish producer Tornasol Filmsis backing a new prize for the winning film at the two-day Ibero-American Co-Production Meeting of Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival (March 24-31).Tornasol will bring $302,812 (250,000Euros) to the winning film as co-producer, taking an agreed upon percentage ofthe production depending on the budget. The winner is ...
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Film London launches low-budget film scheme
Screen agency Film London has announced a new low-budgetfilm scheme in the UK,Microwave, which will fund ten low-budget films in the next three years. Each project can get up to $133,000 (£75,000) cash funding through FilmLondon (including some BBC support), and film-makers can also raise additionalsupport up to a total ...
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Celluloid Dreams starts sales for The Elementary Particles
French sales agent CelluloidDreams has kicked off sales on Berlin Competition entry The Elementary Particles, with Lucky Red picking up the Oskar Roehler-directed title forItaly, ABC/Cinemien taking Benelux, Ekaterinburg Art weighting in for Russia and HollywoodClassics coming on board for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.Based on Michael Houellebecq's worldwide bestseller ...
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Nina's Journey wins Sweden's best film award
The Swedish film awards served up a night of surprises in Gothenberg.Lena Einhorn's Nina's Journey,was the unexpected winner of Best Picture and Best Screenplay honours.Among the favourites, seven-times nominated Bjorn Runge's Mouth to Mouth received just one Guldbagge, while Swedish Oscar nominee Josef Fare's Zozo took two. Nina'sJourney, based on ...
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Weinstein Co acquire comedy pitch starring stand-up Cook
The Weinstein Company hasacquired the rights to develop an untitled comedic pitch with comedian DaneCook.Cook will star in theproject and produce through his production company SUperFInger Entertainment.New Wave Entertainment’s Barry Katz will also produce and his colleagueBrian Volk-Weiss serves as executive producer.“I am thrilled to be collaborating with Dane Cook ...
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Voltage picks up international on Arquette's Tripper
Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures has picked up internationalrights to David Arquette's directorial debut, the slasher project TheTripper starring ThomasJane.Production is set to begin innorthern California in mid-February on the story of a group of weekendconcert-goers who fall prey to a maniacal killer hell-bent on finishing what hestarted years ago.Arquette co-wrote ...
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Atmosphere, Platinum team up on Killing Demons
Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Platinum Studios chiefScott Mitchell Rosenberg are teaming up to develop a film of Platinum's graphicnovel Killing Demons.Ascreenwriter will be announced shortly to adapt the story of a man whodedicates his life to tracking down the supernatural creatures that slaughteredhis family when he was a child.Canton ...
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LA marketing firm BD Fox & Friends to launch film sales division at Berlin
Hollywood-based entertainment advertising and marketing firm BDFox & Friends will launch a sales division at the European Film Market inBerlin next week.The inaugural slate will feature six titles comprising fourcompleted projects: Michael Parness’ dysfunctional family comedy MySuicidal Sweetheartstarring Tim Blake Nelson and Rosanna Arquette; Tony Elwood’s thriller ColdStorage; JetEller’s alien ...