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Belgian takes top honours at Thessaloniki festival
Belgian Fien Troch was awarded the Golden Alexanderand $43,000 (37,000 Euros) for Someone Else's Happiness (EenAnder Zijn Geluk) at the 46thThessaloniki International Film Festival. VittorioStoraro's seven-strong jury also handed the film awards for Troch's screenplay, a shared BestActress award for Ina Geerts and a Special Mention for Natali Broods as ...
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Spanish short takes big prize at UK's Brief Encounters
The UK's largestshort film festival, Brief Encounters, has awarded its international jury prizeto Spanish short Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! by Marcal Fores.Other winners atthe 11th Bristol International Short Film Festival were Bristol-basedfilm-makers Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold of Omni Productions, whose short Indians won the ITV West Award and its £1,000prize. ...
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Solanas takes Bronze Horse at Stockholm festival
Juan DiegoSolanas has been awarded the Bronze Horse for best film at the 16th StockholmInternational Film Festival. Nordesteis the story of a struggling single mother in a poverty-stricken area ofArgentina and a rich French woman desperate to adopt a child. As theirpaths cross the story takes on issues of child ...
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Sterk's Turning hits the right notes in Mannheim
The mainaward of this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival went to Tuningby Slovenia's Igor Sterk.Theinternational jury, including Istituto Luce's Claudia Bedogni, Swiss Films'Micha Schiwow and Austrian producer Veit Heiduschka praised the film's"precise use of film language."The juryawarded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize to Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen,which also received the ...
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42 international markets generate massive $95.4m for Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire cast a spell over the international arenawith a staggering second weekend that generated an estimated $95.4m from morethan 9,400 prints in 42 markets to raise the running total to $207m.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) sources said the picturecrossed $200m in 11 days - ...
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Andrea makes something of Big Nothing as filming begins
Jean-BaptisteAndrea will start principal photography on December 4 for the black comedy BigNothing. The cast featuresJoining David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Natasha McElhone, Mimi Rogers, MauryChaykin, and Alice Eve. The film is about a frustrated teacher who embarks on ablackmailing scheme with two con artists. Big Nothing is a Pathe Pictures ...
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Look Both Ways dominates Aussie awards
Compere Russell Crowe andthe film Look Both Ways were thestars of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards at the Melbourne CentralCity Studios.Oscar-winner Crowe made a significantcontribution to the revitalisation of an event that had lost its gloss inrecent years, injectingcomedy by threatening to throw the black phone next to the ...
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GenArt launches new award, names festival committee
Top brass at national artsand entertainment body Gen Art are ringing the changes with new programming, anew festival committee and an inaugural award at the upcoming eleventh AnnualGen Art Film Festival (GAFF).For the first timeorganisers at the festival, which is scheduled to run from Apr 5-11 2006, willpresent the juried ...
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Charlie wins golden ticket at BAFTA awards
Charlie And The Choclate Factory was revealed as UK children's choice for this year's best film.Tim Burton's film was presented with the award at yesterday's British Academy Children's Television And Film Awards in London. More than 30,000 under-16s voted.The Incredibles was named best feature film at the ceremony.
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Birmingham to host film-literature conference
Birmingham's Midlands Arts Centre will host the Lost in Adaptation conference, exploring the links between film and literature, from December 2-4.Speakers will include director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham), novelist Jonathan Coe (The Rotters Club), screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions), novelist Helen Cross (My Summer of Love) and producer ...
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Polish fest honours Fiennes, Menzel, Delli Coli
Poland's Camerimage Festival has awarded its Krzysztof Kieslowski award to actor Ralph Fiennes. Czech director Jiri Menzel also received a festival award, the Special Golden Frog, for his"exceptional visual sensibility." The career achievement award was given posthumously to Italian cinematographer Tonino Delli Coli, who recently passed away.Festival director Marek Zydowicz ...
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WBPI's Goblet exceeds weekend estimates
Harry Potter And TheGoblet Of Fire exceeded weekendestimates issued by Warner Bros Pictures International and in fact grossed$97.4m for a magnificent early $209m international running total.Combined with the $200m+domestic tally the fourth instalment in the children's franchise now stands atmore than $409.7m worldwide after two weekends.Goblet Of Fire opened in ...
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Kadokawa partners with Hong Kong's Intercontinental
Japan's Kadokawa Holdings has made an aggressive move into the Chinese andSouth-East Asian film markets by forming a wide-ranging partnership withIntercontinental Group in Hong Kong. The tie-up - announced by Kadokawachairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa and Intercontinental chiefs Terry Lai and Rigo Jesutoday in Hong Kong - covers every stage of the ...
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Roger Michell Starts London Shoot For Venus
Director Roger Michell has started principal photography on his next feature, Venus, which is described as a "coming of very-old-age story."The film reunites Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes) with producer Kevin Loader and writer Hanif Kureishi, who previously worked together on feature film The Mother and TV series The Buddha ...
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Dubai announces line-up; Paradise Now to open festival
Headinginto its second year, the Dubai International Film Festival (December 11-17)has announced an expanded line-up of 98 Middle East and international films,kicking off with Hany Abu-Assad'ssuicide bomber drama Paradise Now,and culminating with the closing night gala of Christian Carrion's Merry Christmas. Along theway, Dubai will host six world premieres,including Albert ...
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Harry dominates Thanksgiving box office in US
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire crossed $200m on its 10th day to produceanother unbeatable weekend that is poised to enter the record books as thesecond biggest Thanksgiving weekend in history.The fourth instalment in Warner Bros' family franchise added anestimated $54.9m over three days and $81.3m over the five-day ...
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De Laurentiis turns another page of the Manual Of Love
Italianproducer Aurelio De Laurentiis is lining up a sequel to hit Manual of Love, which earned almost $17m (Euros 15m) at the local box office and was sold to15 countries worldwide.Thenew film, which is expected to be called Manual of Love, Other Stories, will once again be directed by Giovanni ...
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Water crosses the million mark in Canada
Only 21 days into its release, Deepa Mehta's Water has grossed C$1m ($850,000) at the Canadian box office, an impressive sum based on a release that encompasses only 33 screens. The film, distributed through Mongrel Media, was ranked number one this past weekend at several major cinemas in Toronto, Calgary, ...
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New German culture minister offers first-day handouts
New films by Christian Petzold, Stanislaw Mucha, AndreasKleinert and Thomas Grube are among 17 projects and screenplays backed to thetune of $1.9m (Euros 1.64m) byGermany's new State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann on his first day inoffice. The largest sum of $226,00 (Euros 225,000 was awarded toMartin Theo Krieger's Beautiful ...
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Tony Herbert debut gets up to speed
Fourweeks of principal photography has commenced on location in Dublin for SpeedDating, the debut feature of writer/director Tony Herbert,produced by John Conroy and Adrian Devane.Thefilm tells the story of speed dating addict as he approaches his 30th birthday.When an encounter leads to his being hospitalised and amnesiac, the policestart to ...