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Italy pledges Euros 74m for local film-making
Silvio Berlusconi'sgovernment has announced that it will hand out around Euros 74m to the localproduction sector in 2005. Local producers now hope that the government promisewill finally put an end to a crippling two-year freeze in state subsidies.Around Euros 54m will beawarded to support feature-length films that are deemed of ...
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KWA takes international rights to Argentine Hours
Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA)has picked up international rights on Berlin Forum title The Hours Go By(Como Pasan Las Horas) by Argentine director Ines de Oliveira Cezar.The film stars newcomer Guillermo Arengo and TV veteran RoxanaBerco in a minimalist tale following three generations of a family on distinctphysical ...
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Berlin set for Troma invasion
The Berlinale, or officialBerlin film festival, will find itself with some light-hearted competition thisyear.German fans of the Tromaschool of low-budget film-making will be running Tromanale (10-20 Feb).Screenings and events will be held at C-Base, a high-tech grunge location inthe Mitte district, some 2 km from the Berlinale's Potsdamer Platz. "Tromanale ...
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Berlinale unveils full Panorama line-up
The Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama section has unveiled the final additions to its lineup, which now comprising 34 features, 18 documentaries and 26 short films inits main programme and Special,Dokumente and Short Film series. The films come from 30 different countries and 28 of themwill be screened as world ...
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Foreign films struggle at Oz box office
The numberof foreign films released in Australia in 2004 from countries other than the USand the UK nearly doubled compared to 2003.However,the 80 films in question from across the world earned $28.4m (A$36.8m) -down from the $32.6m earned by just 43 foreign films in 2003. Thisequated to average earnings of ...
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Busy CineMart overshadows Rotterdam's gab fest
Rotterdam's CineMartyesterday got off to both a bang and a whimper. Some 900 film producers, buyersand financiers poured into town, many directly from Sundance, to pick throughthe details of some 48 art-house film projects in various stages of completion.And for those not tied up in deal-making CineMart ran the third ...
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Wertmuller lines up Loren for tsunami feature
Veteran Italian film director Lina Wertmuller is lining up afilm about the South-East Asia tsunami, which is set to star Sophia Loren.In an interview with Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera, Wertmuller said she plans to shoot the film in thebeach resorts that have been destroyed by the tsunami. The ...
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Ray approaches $10m for UIP
Universal's Ray addedan estimated $3.9m on 1,050 screens in 22 markets through UIP at the weekend toraise its international running total to $9.2m.The picture opened in Australia on $860,000 on 159 and ranked third bySaturday, and opened fifth in Japan on $400,000 on 103.Spain produced $400,000 on 129 for eighth ...
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Elektra passes $14m for Fox International
Fox International'sElektra grossed an estimated $5.5m on 1,721 screens at the weekend after numberone debuts in Spain and string of Asian markets raised its international cumulativetotal to $14.4m.The picture opened on $1.9mon 350 screens in Spain, while other table-topping launches saw it take$556,000 on 155 in Thailand, $462,000 on 109 ...
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Japanese box office surges in 2004
The Japanese box office was worth $2.05bn (Y211bn) in2004, an increase of 3.8% over 2003, according to figures released today by TheJapan Motion Picture Producers Association (Eiren). Admissions stood at 170 million.In comparison, the US box office reached $9.4bn in 2004 on ticket sales of 1.51 billion; the UK saw ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend with $22m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'sthriller Hide And Seek opened topat the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of last weekend'schampion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into second place on $17m for$39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend on $22m
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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HONG KONG 31 January
Good word-of-mouth helpedpropel Universe Entertainment's Crazy N' The City from fourth to firstposition in its second week.The US$2m action dramaleapfrogged an almost spent Kung-fu Hustle and opener Blade Trinitywith US$284,289 from 22 screens. Directed and written by James Yuen, the filmtells the story of a spineless cop who is inspired ...
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AUSTRALIA 31 January
Closer has knocked Meet The Fockers off the top ofthe chart, where UIP's in-laws comedy has reigned for the previous fiveweekends. In its opening weekend SonyPictures' Closer took A$1,609,499 from 157 screens for the four days toand including January 30, equating to a screen average of A$10,252, the highestin the ...
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FRANCE 31 January
Mike Nichols' Closeropened in the top spot this week with nearly 500,000 admissions. Japanese legend HayaoMiyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle spent its second week at number two witha now cumulative $4,668,259. The film fared well against the competition, asdid many others this week, only dropping off by 13% from the previous ...
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Closer nears $50m for SPRI
Closer added an estimated $10.1m on 2,353 screens in 28markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) at the weekend,bumping up its international cumulative total to $44.4m.Highlights were $1.6m on 330 in Australia for an unconfirmed ranking, $235,000on 27 in Holland for third place, and a $215,000 number one debut in ...
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Sea Inside dominates Spain's Goya awards
AlejandroAmenabar's Oscar-nominated The Sea Inside dominated Spain's 19th annualGoya Awards ceremony on Sunday night, making history by winning 14 statues inthe 15 categories in which it was nominated..Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) beat the competition - includingPedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) which went homeempty-handed - in the best film ...
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Best Original Screenplay form guide
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FRONTRUNNERS1 Woody Allen, MatchPointMaybe Allen needed a change of location to get his mojoback, since his London-set thriller about the randomness of luck is one of hisbest-reviewed in a decade. It features an amoral plot worthy of PatriciaHighsmith and one of the most delicious endings in his 35-film ...
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Forty Shades Of Blue wins top prize for US drama at Sundance
IraSachs' intense drama Forty Shades Of Blue was named winner of the America Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and EugeneJarecki's Why We Fight was winnerof the American Documentary Grand Jury Prize as the Sundance Film Festivalwound down to a close on Saturday night.Meanwhilein the inaugural world competition sections, Zeze Gamboa's The ...
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The Incredibles, National Treasure prosper for BVI
Buena Vista International's(BVI) The Incredibles passed $350m at the international box office atthe weekend and is expected to break into the industry's all-time top 20pantheon within a week.The Pixar hit added an estimated $4.6m for $353.3m and is currently the 22ndbiggest international release of all time, according to results issued ...