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New film sales company opens in Germany
Germany's film sales community has a new player with thelaunch of Sola Media.Managed by Norwegian-born Solveig Langeland (pictured),Sola Media's initial sales line-upincludes Dito Tsintsadze's San Sebastian-winner Gun Shy (Schussangst), Pepe Danquart's latest feature film C(r)ook, Bernd Sahling's German FilmAward-winning children's film Blindflyers(Blindgaenger), the live-action/animation children's film Alby (Pumuckl) and Tony ...
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Japanese horror hit to get sequel
Kadokawa Pictures has announced the production of One Missed Call 2, a sequel to theTakashi Miike horror hit that grossed $13.6m in Japan earlier this year and hassince been screened in nearly 30 countries around the world.The new film, however, will have a new director, TV veteranRenpei Tsukamoto, and a ...
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Hong Kong pins hopes on history, horror
The summer boxoffice period has been disappointing for Hong Kong productions. Although localfilms were starting to claw back market share earlier in the year, they've lostout whenever they've squared off against Hollywood's tentpole summer releases.But Hong Kong producers remain bullish in the long-term and several big-budgetprojects - aimed at the ...
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Lord Of The Rings parody starts Swiss shoot
Shooting has begun this week in Switzerland on The Ring Thing, a Swiss parody of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, which will bereleased theatrically at Christmas in Switzerland by the local outpost of BuenaVista International (BVI).Speaking exclusively to Screendaily.com,Kristian Widmer of Condor Communications, which is producing the film with ...
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ROMANIA 23 August
Two new releases hit the Romanian cinemas last weekend bothperforming strongly despite summer sunshine and the Olympic games.Starsky And Hutchdebuted at the top of the pack with just over 4,500 admissions on six screens.But the real audience favourite was RaisingHelen with a screen average of over 1,000 admissions.
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AUSTRALIA 23 August
Besides Hellboyand The Ladykillers, three otheropeners registered in the chart. Roadshow's BeforeSunset (11th ) grossed A$166,871 from 24 screens, and Rialto's Coffee & Cigarettes (16th) grossedA$88,634 from just 11 screens. At A$6,952 and A$8,057 respectively, the screenaverages on both these films were the two highest in the chart apart from ...
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NEW ZEALAND 23 August
The top 20 films in New Zealand together sold less ticketson the weekend than any other top 20 group of films this year. Despite thislack-lustre result, the five most popular films grossed within NZ$10,000 ofeach other, intimating that it was a hard-fought race at the top.Two openers, JerseyGirl from BVI/Miramax ...
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New York Film Critics Circle sets awards date
TheNew York Films Critics Circle (NYFCC), which celebrates its 70th anniversarythis year, will unveil its winners on Dec 13 at the Muse Hotel in New York. Theawards dinner takes place on Jan 9.'Thoughit has not been an especially good year for film so far - with someobvious exceptions like Eternal ...
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HatcH festival to launch with Dahl's The Great Raid
Theinaugural HatcH Audiovisual Arts Festival in Bozeman, Montana, will featureadvance previews of John Dahl's The Great Raid and RickSchroder's directorial debut Black Cloud when it runs from Sept9-12.Miramaxis scheduled to release The Great Raid, a second world war POW drama starringBenjamin Bratt and James Franco, on Dec 2. Black Cloud ...
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Philadelphia Film Society sets festival dates
ThePhiladelphia Film Society has set the 14th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) for April 7-20 and the 11th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian FilmFestival (PIGLFF) for Jul 7-18 2005.The2004 Philadelphia Film Festival featured 295 screenings of 133 features and 114short films from 43 countries. Mary-Louise Parker received the ArtisticAchievement Award and ...
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UK film magazine moves into TV documentaries
EMPIRE - the UK's biggest film magazine - and independentproduction company Monkey have been commissioned by Five to co-produce adocumentary on Steven Spielberg, to coincide with the 3rd September release of The Terminal.The hour-long programme features a rare, in-depth interviewwith Spielberg at his Amblin studio, highlighted with clips from his ...
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THINKFilm draws new equity investment
Toronto-basedreleasing company THINKFilm has attracted new equity investment from twoCanadian investment firms, Covington Capital Corporation and Dynamic VentureOpportunities Fund.This is thefirst new infusion of equity capital in the privately-held company since RobertLantos of Serendipity Point Films joined as a partner and chairman in January2003.In a statement,THINKFilm president and chief executive ...
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Video Island, ScreenSelect join forces
UKmail-order DVD rental firms Video Island and ScreenSelect are to merge,creating what they claim will be the clear leader in the emerging marketsector.Thecompany will be headed by Saul Klein, currently CEO of Video Island, whileWilliam Reeve and Alex Chesterman, founders of ScreenSelect, will take on theroles of Chief Operating Officer ...
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Bourne Supremacy holds well in UK, raises total to $11.2m
Universal'sthriller sequel The Bourne Supremacy added an estimated $5.2m on 698screens in five territories through UIP at the weekend for a $13.6minternational running total.The result was fuelled by a strong second weekend hold in the UK, where thepicture added $2.8m on 414 and dropped 35% for $11.2m. It remained secondbehind ...
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Exorcist turns heads with so-so $18.2m debut
Warner Bros' ill-fatedhorror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning opened top at the weekend on anestimated $18.2m, exceeding expectations at the studio, which was so afraid ofa critical mauling it refused to schedule previews.The picture, whose chequeredproduction history entailed a re-shoot and three directors, stars StellanSkarsgard as a young Father Lankester Merrin ...
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Exorcist rides horror train to the top
Warner Bros' ill-fatedhorror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning opened top at the weekend on anestimated $18.2m, exceeding expectations at the studio, which was so afraid ofa critical mauling it refused to schedule previews.The picture, whose chequeredproduction history entailed a re-shoot and three directors, stars StellanSkarsgard as a young Father Lankester Merrin ...
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New York Film Festival reveals line-up
Lodge Kerrigan's psychological drama Keane, about aschizophrenic father searching for his kidnapped girl, Zhang Yimou's epic HouseOf The Flying Daggers and David Gordon Green's thriller Undertow areamong the line-up at the 42nd New York Film Festival, which runsfrom Oct 1-17.As previously announced (Screendaily, Jul 16), Agnes Jaoui'srelationship drama Look At ...
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French producers decry planned tax credit change
French producers are up in arms following news that fiscallegislators are proposing changes to the tax credit system which came intoeffect in January of this year.The tax credit, or credit d'impot, currently allowsproductions and co-productions, which qualify as French under French film board(CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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India mulls production fund with tax incentives
India's government is considering setting up a $45m seed fund to finance its national film sector.A government committee, headed by N. K. Singh, has proposed a venture capital fund that would be managed through an asset management company based in India, with all contributions made to the fund to be ...
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FRANCE 20 August
King Arthur held the number one spot at the box office forits second week out with Spider-Man 2jumping up to the second spot and knocking out I, Robot which fell tonumber five, 37% off the previous week's take.Hellboy debuted at number three with 337,501admissions followed by the Garfieldmovie which performed ...