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AUSTRALIA 29 November
The BVI opener NationalTreasure knocked Bridget Jones - TheEdge Of Reason off the top spot on the weekend box office chart. National Treasure grossed A$1,897,455from 277 screens compared to A$1,716,197 from 351 screens for Bridget Jones, but the UIP film has nowbeen in cinemas for over two weeks.Two other openers ...
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Mammoth doc excites Brazilian Film Market
The second annual Brazilian Film Market has wrapped inthe country's capital of Brasilia, with 68 features, 81 documentaries and 154shorts being presented to 23 international TV and film buyers from 11countries.The marketran concurrently to Brazil's oldest film festival, the Brasilia Film Festival,now in its 37th year and wrapping on Tuesday.Buyers ...
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Treasure, Incredibles bring incredible treasure to Disney
Buena Vista basked in a rare one-two over Thanksgiving holidayweekend as National Treasure retained top spot with an estimated $46.2m haul and TheIncredibles climbed oneplace to second to comfortably pass $200m in its fourth weekend.National Treasure now stands on $87.9m after its second weekend, while Pixar's TheIncredibles added $33.2mfor $214.7m ...
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Mannheim fetes Norwegian comedy Chlorox
Norwegian filmmaker Mona J. Hoel's comedy Chlorox,Ammonia And Coffee (Salto, Salmiakk Og Kaffe!) won the Main Award ofMannheim-Heidelberg at this year's International Film FestivalMannheim-Heidelberg (18-27 November).The International Jury gave its Special Award to threefilms: David Lanzmann's Doo Wop, Annette Sjursen's My Jealous Barber(Min Misunnelige Frisor) and Nathaniel Geary's On The ...
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Kranks disappoints in German-speaking openings for Sony
Sony's mystery The Forgotten grossed an estimated $3m on 1,525 screens in 27 marketsthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) at the weekend, openingthird in the UK on $1.1m on 300 and fourth in Holland on $230,000 on 30.Holdovers raised the picture to$3.9m in Germany for seventh place in its third ...
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Dubai festival unveils programme line-up
Festival director NeilStephenson has unveiled the programme for this year's Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) (Dec 6-11).A total of 76 films, whichinclude 52 main features, will play at the festival, including current works byDanny Boyle, Walter Salles, Michael Winterbottom, Zhang Yimou and RobertZemeckis, hits from the international circuit including Les ...
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Innocence takes top Stockholm prize
Innocence by French director LucileHadzihalilovic won the award for best film at the 15th edition of the StockholmInternational Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday night.Hadzihalilovic's firstfull-length feature tells the story of six-year-old Iris who arrives at theboarding school inside of a coffin. She has no idea of how or why ...
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Korean Brother raises $1.8m from online investors
Within a space of 25 hours, South Korean production houseMKB has raised the entire budget of its upcoming $1.8m project Hello AndGoodbye, Little Brother from online investors.A total of 430 participants purchased one or more $910 (WON1m) shares in the film, which tells the story of a young boy whose ...
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Actors to talk shop at EFA conference
TheEuropean Film Academy is to hold a conference to debate the working conditionsof actors in Europe.CalledShop Talk: Actors Talk AboutTheir Work, it will take place onDec 11 in Barcelona. The European FilmAwards will be held later in the evening.The conference will beopened by Wim Wenders,president of the European Film Academy, ...
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French court breaks off Engagement
A Paris court yesterdayruled that the company 2003 Productions falls outside regulations that wouldhave qualified it as French. The decision means that the Jean-PierreJeunet-directed film A Very LongEngagement(Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles) no longer qualifies underFrench nationality rules.The ruling came after nearlya year of wrangling and a courtroom challenge by ...
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Cannes winning director celebrates End Of World
Germany's Reverse Angle is to co-produce young Romanian filmmakerCatalin Mitulescu's The Way I Spent The End Of The World which waspitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com after being awarded the title of'Master of Cinema' on Wednesday evening, Wim Wenders confirmed thathis company will be a partner with Bucharest-based ...
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Guadalajara festival to focus on Latin cinema
Mexico's Guadalajara FilmFestival is expanding its reach to all of Iberoamerican cinema, beyond itstraditional Mexican film focus, in time for next year's 20thanniversary edition (March 11-18, 2005).Under the new name theInternational Film Festival of Guadalajara, the event will add a competitivesection with a hefty US $50,000 award for best Iberoamerican ...
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UK Film Council launches sales support scheme
The UK Film Council is launching a £70,000 InternationalFestival Sales Support (IFSS) scheme to help boost UK films invited to competeat next year's Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin festivals.Open from now until 31 March 2005, the new funding isdesigned to raise the profile of UK talent, services and crews internationallyand to ...
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HONG KONG 26 November
Director Danny Pangtook over from his twin brother Oxide at the top of the Hong Kong chart thisweek with action drama Leave Me Alone.The UniverseEntertainment release, in which Ekin Cheng plays twins who exchange identities,grossed US$461,541 from 39 screens. Meanwhile Oxide Pang's Abnormal Beauty, which held the top spot for ...
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Treasury accuses UK film-makers of abusing aid
The Inland Revenue has accused the British film industry ofabusing government aid, with every production of recent years deliberatelyover-claiming tax relief - according to a report in today's FinancialTimes.Revenue officials called in about 20 members of the filmindustry and warned them of severe consequences if the'exploitation' of tax-relief schemes did ...
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Wayne Clarkson gets top job at Telefilm Canada
S Wayne Clarkson has beenappointed executive director of Telefilm Canada, the nation's leading source ofpublic subsidy for the film and television industry.The announcement, madeThursday by Heritage Minister Liza Frulla, is seen as good news for the beleagueredEnglish-language film production sector. Hotly tipped for the top post, hereplaces Richard Stursberg, who ...
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Germany, South Africa sign co-production treaty
Collaboration between the German and South African film and televisionindustries has been given a major boost with the signing of a co-productiontreaty between the two countries.Structured along the same lines as other treaties with such countries asFrance, the agreement will recognise films made under the auspices of thetreaty as national ...
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Asia Film Market confirms growth trend
The Asia Film Market (AFMC) and Asia TelevisionForum (ATF) (Dec 1-3) kicks off next week with a 30% increase in participantnumbers.Buena Vista International Television, CBS/ParamountInternational Television, Lions Gate Entertainment, NBC Universal, SonyPictures, CABLEready and BKN New Media are among the companies that haveregistered for the first time.Interest in the event ...
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The Incredibles set to hit big in UK, Spain, Italy and France
Pixar's TheIncredibles looks a safebet to break Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason's stranglehold on the international boxoffice this weekend when it launches in its first wave of major markets.Buena Vista International (BVI) was due to release theanimated title in France on Nov 24, followed by the UK, Spain and ...
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VideoVision snaps up Karoo Boy rights
Leading South African production house Videovision Entertainment hasacquired film rights to Karoo Boy, a 1970s set novel written by TroyBlacklaws.The story of a young man's search for identity after the accidentaldeath of his twin brother is also a means of explaining the conflicts of theera and sexual awakenness in a ...