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Spring offers hope for Korean box office
April is not considered tobe high season at the box-office in Korea, but in past years it has shown aknack for producing major box-office hits. My Little Bride (2004, $17m local gross), Memories Of Murder(2003, $27m), The Way Home (2002, $20m) and Friend (2001, $38m)have all got off to a ...
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Germany, Brazil sign co-production treaty
Germany and Brazil have signed a treaty to formalise theco-production of films between the two countries. Films co-produced by German and Brazilian companies under thetreaty will qualify as 'national films' and consequently have access toreciprocal benefits such as the German public funds as well as equivalentsources in Brazil.A co-production will ...
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HONG KONG 22 February
Pixar animation TheIncredibles was the undisputed winner over the Chinese New Year holidayperiod racking up US$1.9m from 54 screens in it second week for a cumulativegross of US$3.5m.Warner Bros' Constantinetook second place in the chart with US$1.5m from 38 screens in the week to Feb16 for a nine-day cumulative gross ...
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GERMANY 22 February
Last weekend Germany's boxoffice received a welcome shakeup with the arrival of three new releases MeetThe Fockers, Constantine and the local family film Die Wilden Kerle 2- at the top of the chart, toppling the local animation feature Felix - EinHase Auf Weltreise which had itself pushed The Aviator off ...
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UK/IRELAND 22 February
With the top four titles unchanged, the half-term effect continued inthe UK at the weekend.The second weekend of the holiday saw Pathe's The Magic Roundaboutimprove 13% week-on-week (excluding previews) while new family release AreWe There Yet' did solid business in sixth place for Sony.Momentum Pictures' Racing Stripes, which opened a ...
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Memoires Affectives shares Jutra riches with Cinemascope
MemoiresAffectives won four awards, including best picture,and Ma Vie En Cinemascope won five asQuebecois filmmaking celebrated its own at the Prix Jutra in Montreal on Sundaynight. Memoiresproducer Barbara Shrier accepted the Best Filmprize while director Francis Leclerc took Best Director, lead Roy Dupuis BestActor and Glenn Berman earned Best Editing. ...
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Spain's lazonafilms, Telespan back Serrano projects
Two young Spanish productioncompanies, lazonafilms and Telespan 2000, have joined forces to back twofeature films from hot writer-director David Serrano.The mastermind behind theenormously successful comedies The Other Side Of The Bed, which hescripted, and Football Days, which he wrote and directed, Serrano iscurrently at work on scripts with an eye ...
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Fockers maintains int'l box office lead
DreamWorks International'scomedy sequel Meet The Fockers got the better of Warner Bros'supernatural thriller Constantine over the weekend to maintain itsstatus as the leading international picture, adding an estimated $27.5m throughUIP to raise the cumulative total to $152m.Opening highlights included$5.7m on 611 screens in Germany, $4.5m on 604 in France, $1.2m ...
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Rank to exit British film industry
Rank, the UK leisure groupand former pillar of the British film industry, will reportedly announce itsexit from the film business this week when it unveils plans to de-merge filmservices division Deluxe Films and sell Deluxe Media.The group, which backed astring of films such as the Carry On comedy series, will ...
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Korean film industry mourns Lee Eun-ju
South Korean actress LeeEun-ju was found dead in her apartment on Tuesday morning. She is believed to have committed suicide.Born in 1980, Lee starred innine feature films since her debut in 1999, including Virgin Stripped BareBy Her Bachelors (2000) by Hong Sang-soo, Bungee Jumping Of Their Own(2001), Lovers Concerto (2002), ...
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Berlin screening of Wilder satire reopens 60 year-old controversy
BillyWilder's 1947 romantic comedy A Foreign Affair, which screened in Berlinas the closing night attraction in the Selling Democracy series, may seemcharming to many - but it re-appears in Berlin with a legacy of controversythat saw the film banned in Germany for years after the war.Thefilm was made by Wilder ...
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Market gets animated about Euro-toons
European-madeanimated feature films are at last beginning to crawl out from underHollywood's shadow and establish a foothold in the international market. Thatwas the message in Berlin earlier this week as details of Cartoon Movie 2005,the three-day co-production forum and market, were announced.Theevent will take place in the middle of next ...
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European Film Market closes at an all-time high
Newsfrom the floor of the European Film Market as it wrapped for another year:busier than ever before. While there were no headline-grabbing North Americanor multi-territory deals forged by the classics divisions of Hollywood studios,serious business was done. One seller alone reported over 500 deals completedhere.Non-English-languagecommercial fare and art-house pictures were ...
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A Year Without Love wins Berlin's Teddy Award
Thewinner of the 19th Teddy Award for the best gay/transgender film at theBerlinale has been won by Argentina's A Year Without Love (Un Ano Sin Amor).Director Anahi Berneri will take home a cash prize of Euros 3,000 from theTeddy Award foundation and other donors in Berlin's gay and lesbian community.Winnerof ...
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Berlinale Golden Bear winner takes everyone but the jury by surprise
Mark Dornford-May's U-Carmen eKhayelitsha has become the first African film in the history of the Berlinale to be awarded the top honours of the Golden Bear by the International Jury led by German director Roland Emmerich. The jury's choice of Dornford-May's version of Carmen's Bizet set in a South African ...
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Dimension does The Business
DimensionFilms has taken North American rights to The Business, British directorNick Love's story of a young man caught up in the expatriate crime scene onSpain's Costa del Sol in the 80s.TheCosta del Crime flick previously sold to Pathe Distribution in the UK, whereproduction company Vertigo fielded multiple offers. ContentFilmis selling ...
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Loach sounds off over Iraq, Tsunami relief
Speakingin Berlin last week, Ken Loach (one of the three co-directors of portmanteaupicture Tickets) berated the double standards in western responses todeath and disaster. "Your country and mine have killed over 100,000 peoplein Iraq," Loach told a US journalist. "And we are encouraged to showno sympathy, to collect no money, ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - February 21
SOUTHKOREAPRE-PRODUCTIONTHEBEAST(Popcorn Film) Budget: $8m. Int'lsales/dist: Showbox. Noirish drama about a detective, prosecutor and gangster,all equally vicious. Exec prod: Kim Woo-taek. Prod: Han Sung-gu. Dir/Scr: KimSung-soo. Main cast: Kwon Sang-woo, Yu Ji-tae, Yu Dong-geun. Shooting fromMarch.Contact: Showbox, (82) 2 3218 5632BLOOD SISTERS(Angel Underground) Int'l sales: CineclickAsia. Horror omnibus in three segments ...
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Sideways, Sunshine take WGA film awards
Sidewayswon best adapted screenplay for Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor while EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind took best original screenplay honours for Charlie Kaufman at theWriters Guild of America (WGA) awards at the weekend (19).The WGA honours are regarded asa strong indicator of how the Academy Awards screenplay prizes will ...
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Date doctor beats demon-killer in first round of Presidents Day weekend battle
Sony's romantic comedy Hitch stayed top over the rain-sodden three-day portion ofPresidents Day as it closed in on $100m and shut out a trio of top 10 debutantsled by Warner Bros' supernatural action title Constantine.Hitch addedan estimated $31.8m in its second weekend for a $90.1m running total, confirmingWill Smith's status ...