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Howl's Moving Castle scores DVD chart triple
Three DVD editions of HayaoMiyazaki's hit animation Howl's MovingCastle grabbed the top three spots in the latest Oricon chart released onNov 22.Occupying the number oneslot was the stand-alone DVD, which sold 708,000 units in its first week onrelease, followed by the special edition, a four-disc set that includes a "makingof" ...
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Sundance Channel licenses two docs from Film Sales Co
The Film SalesCompany has licensed US rights to two documentaries to the Sundance Channel- Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez' Nicaraguan El Immortal and David Redmon's Mardi Gras: MadeIn China.El Immortal premiered at the Sundance Film Festivaland went on to play at Berlin. It explores the effect of the Contra/Sandanistacivil war through the ...
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Hill to get retrospective at French Cinematheque in LA
Walter Hill willintroduce a special screening of The Driver as part of an 11-picture retrospectiveat the French Cinematheque in Los Angeles.The event kicksoff on Nov 19 and features such titles as Southern Comfort, 48 Hours, TheWarriors and The LongRiders.Hill's creditsinclude Last Man Standing, Undisputed and Will Bill. The retrospective will ...
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Film Source picks up Indian epic Time Heals
Alex Massis' Florida-basedmarketing and sales company The Film Source has picked up for worldwiderepresentation Ravi Ojha's Indian epic Time Heals.The picture centres on modern-day lovers who discover theymay be the reincarnation of star-crossed freedom fighters struggling againstBritish rule in India.Kalidas Ojhaproduced the picture, which stars Koneenica Banerjee, Saswata Chatterjee andVictor ...
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Torres, Pardue star in Gossner's South Of Pico
Gina Torres andKip Pardue are heading the cast of US drama South Of Pico, which has started shooting on LosAngeles under first-time feature director Ernst Gossner.Inspired by trueevents, the story tracks four seemingly ordinary people in Los Angeles whoselives are changed when they witness the accidental death of an 11-year-oldgirl.Paul ...
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Harry's Goblet runneth over in US on $101.4m...
As expected Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fire paralysed thecompetition at the weekend with a staggering estimated $101.4m three-day haulthat swatted away concerns over the higher PG-13 rating and surely exceededeven the expectations of Warner Bros.The result is the biggestopening in the franchise to date and will remain so even ...
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...and brings in mighty $80m haul in 19 international territories
Just as it did in North America, Harry Potter And The Goblet OfFire re-wrote the recordbook with a superlative international launch that generated an estimated $80mfrom 5,300 prints in 19 countries.The fourth instalment in the children's franchise opened numberone in all its markets, led by an industry best UK debut ...
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Allegro joint slate with F&ME reaches Fever pitch
Austrian production outfitAllegro Films is joining with London's Film and Music Entertainment on a slateof three films including a new project, Fever,to be directed by Bruce Beresford (DrivingMiss Daisy). First up is the latestproject from Swiss-born director Simon Aeby,titled MulberryCrossing. This will shoot in English,with a British cast. Currently ...
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Verhoeven steers new course for shipwreck tale
Paul Verhoeven and his regularscriptwriter Gerard Soeteman are pushing ahead again with Batavia's Graveyard, their blood-curdlinghistorical epic about the shipwreck of the Bataviain 1629. The film was previously set up at FilmFour."It's a story in the directionof the Bounty but it's much more about the development of a fascist regime," ...
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Galway Film Fleadh names McDermott as programmer
The Galway Film Fleadh has announced that FelimMcDermott will be the new programmer for the July event which marks itseighteenth edition in 2006.Having studied filmproduction at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design& Technology, McDermott has worked for 10 years in numerous capacities witha variety of film organisations.They include the Cork ...
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Northern Lights shine on UK production issues
The UK needs to focus on building a low-budget production base and to stand up more strongly for its interests, visitors to this year's Northern Lights FilmFestival's Industry Summit, held in Newcastle upon Tyne heard.The future of UK production was among the hottest topics at the event, which attracted an ...
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Post-Soviet comedy takes Etoile D'Or at Marrakech
Aco-production from Kyrgyzstan and Germany has taken the top prize at the fifthannual Marrakech International Film Festival.ErnestAbdyshaparov's Saratan wasawarded the Etoile d'Or on Saturday night. The comedytakes place in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and was one of a field of 15 competingfilms during the week-long festival.The juryprize was a tie for festival ...
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Cvitkovic and Takushi share honours at Turin
Slovenian film Gravehopping shared top honoursat the 2005 Torino Film Festival with Clouds of Yesterday, anostalgia-soaked paean to the silent film era which represents the featuredirecting debut of Japanese actor and composer Tsubokawa Takushi.The Torino best feature awardfor Gravehopping continued the triumphal festival march of JanCvitkovic's choral black comedy, which ...
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Record numbers apply for Berlinale Talent Campus
The Berlinale Talent Campus (BTC) has received a record3,516 applications from 121 countries for its fourth edition to be held fromFebruary 11-16.The number of entries is up 1,105 on last year and includesfirst-time applications from countries as far flung as Benin,Madagascar, Tajikistan Gambia, Fiji and Nepal. In addition, the number ...
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Constantin raises sales forecast but theatrical still down
German producer-distributor ConstantinFilm has raised its forecast for the current financial year to a sales targetof around $235m (Euros 200m) for 2005.But the good news was largely due to home entertainmentandTV service production operations rather than theatrical.In its third-quarter results,Constantin did report an improvement in the performance of its theatricaldivision ...
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Vandierendonck set to take leading role at Eurimages
Belgium'sJan Vandierendonck is set to take over from Renate Roginas as ExecutiveSecretary for the Council of Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimagesfrom the beginning of January.Vandierendonckis currently the Director of International Relations and European Affairs atthe Flemish Audiovisual Fund. Duringhis career in the film industry, which began in the mid-1980s, he ...
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10 films make animated feature shortlist
Ten pictureshave made the Academy Awards' animated feature shortlist and will vie for thethree coveted nominee slots to be unveiled on Jan 31 2006.The pictures areChicken Little, Gulliver's Travel, Hoodwinked, Howl's Moving Castle,Madagascar, Robots, Steamboy, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Valiant and Wallace & Gromit: The CurseOf The Were-Rabbit.Of these, onlyGulliver's ...
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Goblet Of Fire prepares to light a fire under box office
Warner Bros Pictures International unleashes Harry Potter AndThe Goblet Of Fireday-and-date with North America in a number of key territories this weekend, 17months after launching the last instalment The Prisoner Of Azkaban.The fourth episode in J KRowling's fantasy saga is set to roll out in Germany on Nov 17, followed ...
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Trio feted at NZ producers' conference
New filmmaker RoseanneLiang, independent producer Elizabeth Mitchell and industry champion DaveGibson were all honoured at New Zealand's annual producers' conference on Friday evening(Nov 18) in Wellington.Gibson produced thecommercially successful feature TheIrrefutable Truth About Demons but is better known for the hours of televisionof all genres created at production powerhouse The ...
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Pool signs to direct Mort for Equinoxe
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions has signed Lea Pool to direct and co-adapt a film of GilCourtemanche's second novel Une Belle Mort, published this autumn in Quebec. Author Courtemanche will co-write thescreenplay. Equinoxe recently completedpost-production on Un Dimanche A Kigali, the film based on Courtemanche's Rwandan genocide drama which shot inRwanda in earlier ...