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Spanish film-makers win major funding boost
Spain'snew Socialist government has increased funding for Spanish cinema by 89%,fulfilling its election promises to support cultural industries.The national film institute's (ICAA) Cinema Protection Fund,the key funding body for Spanish cinema, now totals Euros 63.13m.ICAA's own budget rose by 62%, part of an overall 6.5%increase to culture funding under the ...
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NonStop takes on Sayles' Silver City
Scandinavian-based filmsales agent NonStop Sales has taken over international sales to John Sayles' SilverCity. "We are so pleased thatNonStop is handling Silver City," the film's producer Maggie Renzi ofAnarchists' Convention told ScreenDaily.com. "Somehow it makes sense tolet a European company handle the sales of a film like this," she added,referring ...
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Garfield tiptoes to $100m for Fox
FoxInternational's comedy Garfield is on the cusp of $100m after a $5.5m weekend haul on 2,803international screens raised the cumulative total to $99.8m.Highlights werea third place $1.1m debut in Italy on 239 and $432,000 on 71 in South Africa.The picture heldwell in second place in its second weekend in Australia, ...
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The Village has $13.7m weekend for BVI
The Village reached $100.5m at the weekend followinga $13.7m haul from 3,870 international screens for Buena Vista International(BVI) at the weekend.A superior debutin Spain was the key driver as the mystery opened top on $5.2m on 405 screens,scoring M Night Shyamalan's biggest ever opening in the territory.The Village was the ...
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Village Roadshow admits to Catwoman loss
The lacklustre performance of Catwoman at the worldwide box office has hit its co-producerVillage Roadshow (VRL) hard.In an extraordinary statement released on Friday, theAustralian company said that the release of films in the next 12 months inwhich it is a production partner will be insufficient to cover the lossesincurred by ...
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Amberwood to make movie of animated TV series Zeroman
Ottawa-based animation houseAmberwood Entertaintainment is in pre-production on an animated movie builtaround its Zeroman TV series. Theproject was commissioned by Canadian animation station TELETOON.Zeroman is an action-hero spoof inspired by the charactersplayed by actor Leslie Nielsen, star of such films as Airplane and The Naked Gun. The series airs on ...
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Tibetan documentary wins audience prize at Atlantic Film Fest
What Remains of Us, a documentary dealing with resistance in modernTibet, won the The Movie Network People's Choice Award at the 24th AtlanticFilm Festival in Halifax, Canada on Saturday. Directed by Francois Prevost andHugo Latulippe, the film follows an exiled Tibetan, Kalsang Dolma, as shereturns to the occupied nation with ...
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China, Australia head for co-production treaty
It is highly likely a co-production treaty will be signedbetween Australia and China following an eight-day visit by a Chinesedelegation that ended on Saturday (Sept 25)"There is a great enthusiasm on their part and anintention to conclude an agreement, and the same goes for us," said KimDalton, chief executive of ...
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DiCaprio, Bening join awards rollcall at Hollywood Film Awards
Annette Beningwill receive the Hollywood Actress of the Year Award and Leonardo DiCaprio willcollect the Hollywood Actor of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awardsgala ceremony on Oct 18.Other awardsrecipients already announced include John Travolta for the lifetime achievementaward, Mel Gibson for producing, Michael Mann for directing, and ...
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Thriller pair win Danish funding
The Danish Film Institute has shelled out $2.2m (DKK13.1m)in production support for two new local thrillers that begin shooting inOctober.Nordisk Film received $900,000 for their production of AakeSandgren's $1.7m Fluerne Paa Vaeggen(literally: The Flies On The Wall),which is made under Nordisk's low-budget Director's Cut label in collaborationwith broadcaster TV2/Denmark.Sandgren also ...
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Foreign Oscar race heats up as deadline looms
As Friday's (Oct 1) deadline for Oscar foreignlanguage film submissions draws close, the Academy has received a raft of bids- including Thailand's The Overture,Korea's Tae Guk Ki and Austria's Antares and Serbia-Montenegro's Goose Feather - for contention.Repped by Fortissimo Films, The Overture premiered at Toronto and has already found aJapanese ...
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Horley named head of sales at Lumina Films
Samantha Horley has beenappointed head of sales at international sales outfit Lumina Films, which willnow base its operations in LondonHorley takes over fromMarina Fuentes who will remain as a consultant, focusing on production, basedin Madrid.Horley was formerly seniorVP distribution at Myriad Pictures, VP sales at Summit Entertainment and priorto that, ...
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GERMANY 28 September
Oliver Hirschbiegel's TheDownfall easily defended the top spot from new releases in its second week,increasing its box-office takings by 18% and admissions by 20% with a screenaverage of $ 10,582 from 483 prints. After ten days in the cinemas, the WorldWar II drama has been seen by more than 1.36m ...
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SWEDEN 28 September
Kay Pollak's romantic drama Saa Som I Himmelen stayed on the top of the Swedish chart, despiteseveral new releases including the highly anticipated adaptation of the localbestseller Popular Music (PopularmusikFran Vittula), which disappointed opening fifth taking just $3,607 screenaverage form its 48 prints. However, it fared batter than this week's ...
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FRANCE 28 September
StevenSpielberg's The Terminal opened infirst place this week with nearly 500,000 admissions and just ahead of The Bourne Supremacy which held on tothe number two spot in its second week for a total take to date of $5,091,174.Frenchcomedy Mensonges Et Trahisons droppedoff by 24% in its second week but stayed ...
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AUSTRALIA 28 September
A Shark Tale wasthe most popular film at the box office on the weekend taking A$2,541,304 forUIP from a substantial 310 screens. Audiences in Australia -- and New Zealand-are the first to see the animated DreamWorks title and it was helped along byschool holidays starting the day after its Thursday ...
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DENMARK 28 September
The new release of TheVillage did manage to scare up this week's best screen average ofDKK40,307, but was unable to topple Shrek2 from the top spot, which it has held for four weeks. Susanne Bier's Brothers, which took home both the bestactor and actress award from San Sebastian this weekend, ...
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NEW ZEALAND 28 September
There were two opening films in the top three on theweekend. A Shark Tale took NZ$587,383from 52 screens to claim the top spot on behalf of UIP and A Cinderella Story grossed NZ$184,805 from 35 screens for Roadshowto grab third place honours.The third film that opened over the weekend and ...
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ACE to debate building production businesses in UK
"Why is the UK such a difficult place to builda production business'" is the question at the heart of a one day seminar "ShowBusiness or No Business'" being organised by the Ateliers du Cinema Europeen(ACE) next month (Oct 15) in London.ACE argues that UK producers find it uniquelydifficult to retain ...
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Trust adds to Brothers sales success
Denmark'sTrust Film Sales notched up a raft of sales on San Sebastian doubleprize-winner Brothers (Brodere) by director Susanne Bier.Thefilm was licensed to Solo Film for Germany, Swift Productions for France,Seville Pictures for Canada, Rosebud Entertaintments for Greece, CaliforniaFilms for Brazil, AG Market for the former Yugoslavia, New World Films forSpain, ...