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Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) selects 25 film projects
TheHong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has unveiled 25 Asian filmprojects for its 2006 edition. The selection consists of 10 projects from Hong Kong, 3 each from China and Taiwan, two each from Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand, and one from Iran.'These25 projects are representative of the ...
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Soda picks up UK rights to Song of Songs
Soda Pictures has taken UK and Ireland rights to Josh Appignanesi'sdebut feature Song of Songs.Natalie Press, who previously starred in My Summer of Love, stars alongsidenewcomer Joel Chalfen in the story of a brother andsister in London's Orthodox Jewish community. Song of Songs premiered in August at the 2005Edinburgh International ...
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BAFTA Munich screeners hit delays
The first round of voting forthis year's BAFTAs closes on Wednesday, which will bebefore voters have a chance to watch screeners of one awardsfavourite, Steven Spielberg's Munich. The decision to send Munich screeners was made before Christmas, and the film's UK distributor, UIP, sent an email to BAFTA voters onDecember ...
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Hong Kong's 2005 box office hits new record lows
Hong Kong cinema grossed a depressing $36.6m (HK$284m)from a record low of 55 local productions in 2005, continuing the decline of recent years.According to figurescompiled by the territory's Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA), only two local films cracked the top 10: car racing drama Initial D zoomed to top the ...
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Japanese film to open Rotterdam
Nagasaki Shunichi's Heart, Beating In The Dark will open the35th Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 25-February 5).Festival director Sandra den Hamer called the film "an extraordinary, multilayeredstatement on cinema itself."Heart, BeatingIn The Dark is part remake and part sequel to Nagasaki's own film of the sametitle from 1982. The principal ...
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Kong still strong at the international box office
It may have seen The Chronicles Of Narniastealing its thunder but UIP's King Kong was stillroaring loud internationally over the New Year weekend. With an estimated three-daygross (December 30-January 1) of $29m off 6,713 locations in 49 territories thegreat ape saw only a 19% week-on-week drop off. Its cumulative grossinternationally ...
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Sheffield Doc Fest To Launch UK Tour in February
The Sheffield InternationalDocumentary Festival will launch its UK tour at the National Film Theatrein London from February 2-5. The tour, in its seventh year,includes highlights from the Sheffield festival held in October. After a four-day run at the NFT,the three-month tour will continue in cities including Belfast, Bristol, Chichester,Edinburgh, Glasgow, ...
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Liberty's Starz launches movie download service
Liberty Media's StarzEntertainment Group is launching Vongo, a new US video download subscriptionservice that delivers movies from studios including Disney and Sony for viewingon Windows-based devices such as PCs, laptops and portable players. Vongo subscribers will pay$9.99 a month for unlimited broadband Internet access to around 1,000 new andlibrary movies ...
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Sighvatsson swoops on Scanbox
LosAngeles-based film producer Sigurjon "Joni"Sighvatsson has taken over Scandinavian filmdistribution company Scanbox Entertainment A/S,acquiring 75 percent of its shares.Theremaining 25 percent of the company will be held by Scanbox'scurrent management team, with former majority owner VernerBack Pedersen retaining an undisclosed equity position and continuing to serveon the company's board of ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market entries leap 25%
Thenumber of entries for this year's Berlinale Co-Production Market (BCM) is up 25%on 2005.Morethan 300 projects from 58 countries have been submitted for the third editionof the market, which runs from February 12-14.BCMproject manager Sonja Heinen said there had been a noticeablerise in entries from Asia and India.She saidshe was ...
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...and dethrones King Kong in North America
The epics were at it again this weekend but this time TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe won out over KingKong.After a closely contested Christmas weekend saw Konghold the lead the four-day New Year weekend saw the great ape pass the crownback to Aslan and friends. ...
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Narnia chronicles New Year international box-office glory
The lion was still roaring as the new year got underway withBuena Vista International's (BVI) The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, TheWitch And The Wardrobe holding onto the international lead. With athree-day weekend of $41.5m and a four-day (including Monday which was aholiday in many territories) of $53.5m.This brings Narnia's ...
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Star Wars and Harry Potter are 2005 box-office champs
Darth Vader and Harry Potter were the true dark lord andwizard master for 2005's box office.Worldwide George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III - RevengeOf The Sith was the year's champion with a stunning $848.5m. However,internationally (excluding North America) it was Harry Potter And The GobletOf Fire which finished the year ...
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Cattaneo film will open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest will be opened with the international premiere of Peter Cattaneo's new film Opal Dream about a girl whose lively imaginary friends become a real threat to her family in the Australian outback.Other titles confirmed so far for Berlin's children's film sidebar include the world premiere of local ...
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Best Supporting Actress form guide
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1. Amy Adams, JunebugAdams - who has been seen in small but memorable roles in CatchMe If You Can, among other films - won aspecial acting prize at Sundance this year. She could go all the way to anOscar nomination for her delicious performance as the pregnant, ...
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Best Adapted Screenplay form guide
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY FRONTRUNNERS 1 Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback MountainSource: short story by E Annie ProulxMcMurtry and Ossana, who together optioned the rights afterthe short story first appeared in The New Yorker in October 1997, faithfully adapted Proulx's impeccably precise shortstory into a feature screenplay, giving voices to ...
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Production Awards form guide
The frontrunners in this year's awards race inproduction, costume design, and make-up are impressing Academies both sides ofthe Atlantic. The sumptuous world of the Geisha in 1930s Japan, theJamestown settlement of 1607, Jerusalem in the 12th Century or London duringthe Blitz. The range of design spectacle and period opulence on ...
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Best Cinematography, Editing, Visual Effects form guide
CINEMATOGRAPHY Dion Beebe, MemoirsOf A GeishaDion Beebe, who earned an Oscar nomination in 2003 forRob Marshall's Chicago, was determinedto capture the reality of 1930s Japan in Marshall's follow-up MemoirsOf A Geisha. Beebe, Marshall and their team travelled to Japan on arecce, but eventually decided to replicate a geisha district ...