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TLA picks up two Danish films on day one at MIFED
TLA Releasing has hit theground running at MIFED, picking up US home entertainment and television rightsto the Danish action comedies In China They Eat Dogs and Old Men In New Cars.Both stories follow theblood-soaked trail of a hapless, slightly psychopathic criminal. In ChinaThey Eat Dogs (1999) centres on abotched bank ...
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New Line, Internationalmedia to tap new German equity
New productions by New Line and Internationalmedia are setto benefit from financing provided by two German private media funds.Having previously worked with Paramount Pictures on Mission: Impossible 2, Shaft and Rules Of Engagement, German fund specialist Alcas has launched theMACRON Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Projekt 1 KG fund to raise ...
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Pan-Asian network to promote location shooting
The Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCNet), a linking oforganisations in Asia that provide shooting support services, received itsofficial launch on Sunday at the Pusan International Film Festival.The network's major goals are to encourage information sharingamong members, to collaborate in marketing the Asian region as an attractiveshooting location, and to encourage ...
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NORWAY 13 October
Still on top after four weeks not least because of itsmassive 105 prints, Shrek 2 kept infront of The Bourne Supremacy onsecond while the two local releases, UNOand Hawaii, Oslo changed places, whenthe latter served up this week's best screen average (NOK31,841) and fell just13% compared to UNO's 30%.However, that ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 13 October
After giving a141% boost to the overall market last weekend,Life Is A Miracle sold another24,876 admissions this weekend and will pass the Serbian-Montenegrinblockbuster benchmark of 100,000 spectators by the end of the week.Kusturica'slatest offering now stands at total gross of $257,223.The only openerof the weekend, Tuck's Dodgeballlanded in third position, ...
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SWEDEN 13 October
While As In Heavenremained untouchable at the top of the Swedish chart, the new release of localfamily film Max & Josef - DoubleTrouble (Hakan Brakan & Josef) moved into the second place.However, it was primarily due to its high 105 prints, as its$2,648 screen average was disappointing.As In Heaven againheld ...
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Warner strikes new deal for seven-screen Beijing multiplex
Warner Bros International Cinemas (WBIC) continued to increase itsstake in the Chinese exhibition sector with the announcement yesterday (Oct 12)that it and Guangzhou Jin Yi Film and Television Investment Co have agreed toform a joint venture company to build a multiplex theatre in Beijing with WBICserving as the majority partner.New ...
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Shark Tale makes a splash at int'l box office
Collateral's reignat the top of the international chart may have been short-lived but neither UIPnor DreamWorks will be too concerned as it was succeeded this week byDreamWork's latest animated hit SharkTale.The film opened across Central and South America led byMexico's $2.4m weekend - as well as several Asian and European ...
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MIFED briefs: deals from the Milan market
*East European distributor SPI Entertainment recentlyadded to its slate with the acquisition of Matthew McConnaughy and PenelopeCruz-starring action adventure Sahara. It bought the big-budget actionadventure for Hungary only from Summit Entertainment sister company IS FilmDistribution.The film, now in post-production, is produced by CrusaderEntertainment and Paramount Pictures with finance from the ...
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Eldridge named as UK's First Light chief executive
Pip Eldridge has beenappointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of First Light, the UK's youngfilmmaking programme.Using £1 million a year ofthe UK Film Council's share of National Lottery proceeds, First Light enablesyoung people between the ages of 5 to 18 to make short films under the guidanceof professional filmmakers, ...
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Trust takes on Hawaii, Olso sales
Denmark's Trust Film Sales has picked up internationaldistribution rights to Norway's foreign-language Oscar hopeful, Hawaii,Oslo.The magical-realist drama about a handful of people who cross each other'spath on the hottest day of the year is the second film in a planned trilogy bydirector Erik Poppe and screenwriter Harald Rosenloew Eeg. On ...
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Oscar winning short film director to shoot Ambulance
Oscarwinning short film director Laurits Munch-Petersen is ready to shoot hisfeature debut, Ambulance, after winning $900,000 (DKK5.5m)backing from the Danish Film Institute.Thethriller shoots from late October based on a script by the Danish writer-directorand Lars Andreas Petersen. It stars Thomas Bo Larsen (Festen), PawHenriksen (Brothers) and Helle Fagralid (Kings' Game).Itsees ...
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Aranda gathers high profile cast for White Knight
Spanish director Vicente Aranda has united a high-profilecast for his new Euros 13.6m English-language medieval romantic adventure TheWhite Knight, headlining veteran Victoria Abril with rising stars Paz Vegaand Pilar Lopez de Ayala.Argentina's Leonardo Sbaraglia and Briton Caspar Zafer roundout the cast, expected to be finalized with a couple of high-profile ...
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Verhoeven, Tanovic win Eurimages funding
New feature projects by Danis Tanovic, Paul Verhoeven andPierre Paul Renders are among 13 European co-productions backed with over Euros4.4m by the Strasbourg-based co-production fund Eurimages in its latest roundof funding.The largest amounts went to Tanovic's Hell (Euros 600,000),which was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski aspart ...
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Raintree rolls with Maid horror
Singapore's MediaCorpRaintree Pictures has started the camera rolling for The Maid, a horror flick co-produced by Hong Kong's Dream MovieEntertainment and MovPix International of the Philippines.The $830,000 (S$1.4m) filmis horror story viewed through the eyes of a Filipino domestic maid employed bya family in Singapore. Up-and-coming Filipino actress Alessandra de ...
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BVI takes another $4.5m from The Village including $1m in Greece
Buena Vista International's mystery The Village raised its international running totalby an estimated $4.5m to $121.5m at the weekend, powered by a record debut fordirector M Night Shyamalan in Greece.The picture opened top in the Mediterranean territory on $1m, morethan twice as big as the director's previous biggest launch for ...
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I, Robot still top in Japan as Fox International passes $1bn
Fox International executivessaid yesterday (11) the distributor passed $1bn in ticket sales this year,adding that further details would be released later this week.Sci-fi thriller I, Robot, one of Fox International's key drivers in 2004, added anestimated $2.8m on 761 screens at the weekend for a $182.6m cumulative total.The picture stayed ...
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AUSTRALIA 12 October
In its third weekend on release Shark Tale was top ofthe pops at the box office with a gross of A$1,707,044 from 289 screens forUIP. Despite having spent only 18 days in cinemas, its total gross of nearlyA$12m is second only to that of TheBourne Supremacy's A$15m, which has taken ...
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NEW ZEALAND 12 October
The homegrown In MyFather's Den can hold its head high as a result of its first weekend incinemas, which comes after considerable festival exposure this year bothlocally and abroad. It grossed NZ$184,793 from 20 screens for Hoyts to claimthird place.It was one of two openers in the top three but ...
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DENMARK 12 October
Although last week's local chart topper Kings' Game retaineda better box-office screen average (DK34,005), My Sister's Kids In Egypt took the lead with its massive 90 printrelease - and a DKK31,566 average. The family-children's film, which was pannedby the critics, is the third in the successful series, and like the ...