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FRANCE 9 July
Shrek 2 remainedon top this week taking in an additional 1.5 million admissions. Dawn Of The Dead opened in the fourthspot for 194,031 admissions. LesChoristes sees its lowest rank in its 16 week run now down to number 8.Other new films include the Drew Barrymore vehicle 50 First Dates at ...
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Dirty Pretty Things script wins top Humanitas prize
Steven Knight's screenplayfor the drama Dirty Pretty Thingswon the feature film category in the 30th Humanitas Prize ceremony in LosAngeles yesterday (8), earning $25,000 as judges praised its "stark andrealistic depiction of the life of undocumented workers".Jacob Estes claimed the$10,000 Sundance Feature Film honour for the screenplay to his directorialdebut ...
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Day After Tomorrow sweeps past $500m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow, 20th Century Fox's eco-disaster epicdirected by Roland Emmerich, has passed the $500m mark at the worldwide boxoffice after six weeks on release.As of Tuesday July 6, thefilm's domestic gross was $177.28 and its international gross was $322.84m,bringing its wordwide total to $500.12m.The film opened with 108number ...
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France told to overhaul film advertising law
The European Commission hasformally demanded that France revisit its laws regarding advertising for filmsand books.France is one of the rare countriesto have legislation outlawing television adverts for films and books. TheCommission noted that the laws "violate the freedom of those who offer theseservices." Should France not respond favorably to the ...
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DVD specialist Anchor Bay goes theatrical
Anchor Bay UK is to take the plunge into British theatricaldistribution. The DVD company, which has built its reputation on the back ofits restorations of classic and cult pictures, has three titles already slatedfor release in British cinemas later this year.The Manson Family is out on July 23rd in London.Don ...
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Artificial Eye snags Moolaade for UK
ArtificialEye has picked up Moolaade, the winner of best film in Un Certain Regardat Cannes this year.TheUK distributor is opening the film in March next year. Directed by veteran Senegalese filmmakerOusmane Sembene, it deals with the subject of female genital mutilationcircumcision and is dedicated to women struggling to abolish the ...
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Warner Japan launches Spicy Asia DVD label
Warner Entertainment Japan has announced the launch of a newDVD label specialising in Asian films.Called Spicy Asia, the label will be overseen by the WarnerHome Video division.The first two titles, Kim Sung-su's 2001 period drama MusaThe Warrior and Chung Ji Woo's 1999 romantic drama Happy End, willbe released on August ...
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Nair launches Sundance Institute of the East
Film-maker Mira Nair haslaunched a film-maker laboratory dedicated to developing and supportingvisionary screenwriters and directors from East Africa and South Asia. CalledMAISHA, the initiative is based on the Sundance Institute model.The first annual MAISHA labwill focus on screenwriting and is scheduled to take place in Aug 2005 inKampala, Uganda. From ...
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Ramallah festival revs up with Motorcycle
The inaugural Ramallah International Film Festival (RIFF)kicks off today (July 8) with a special screening of Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries.RIFFis the first ever international film festival to be held in the PalestinianTerritories, and launches with a programme of some 70 films including MarcoBellocchio's Buongiorno, Notte, Michael Winterbottom's In This Worldand ...
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New NYC film festival launched for young women film-makers
A new film festival wasunveiled in New York City yesterday for young, emerging female film-makersbetween the ages of 16 and 25. Entitled Reel Girls Filmmakers On The Verge,the festival will run Nov 4 to 6.Organised by artsorganization Gen Art and teen magazine YM, the event will feature three seriesof ...
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Thumbs up for inaugural UK Film Focus
Last week's inaugural UK London Film Focus (June 30-July 2)has received a qualified thumbs-up from the filmmakers, buyers and sales agentswho participated. Few deal memos were signed, some distributors questioned theoverall strength of the selection of British movies on display, but there hasbeen widespread praise of the way in which ...
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Karlovy Vary maintains its youth appeal
With both the wet Czech summer and loss of the nationalfootball team playing in the Euro 2004, the 39th edition of the Karlovy VaryFilm Festival got off to a good start on July 2, as audiences could commit tothe films without distraction.Early fears that Sunday night's Championship final wouldovershadow the ...
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Docs join Sarajevo's Human Rights Award competition
Fernando Perez's melancholy portrait Suite Habana which is the talk of town in Cuba this summer, AndreiNekrasov's investigation into a 1999 apartment bombing in Moscow in Disbelief, and Jehane Noujaim'schronicle of Al Jazeera in Control Roomare among ten documentaries selected for the Panorama Documentary sidebar ofthis year's Sarajevo Film Festival.The ...
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European box office set for steady mid-term growth
Box office revenues across the seven major Western Europeanterritories are set to reach $5.5bn by 2008 according to a new report byindustry analysts Dodona Research - a rise of 42% on current levels.Although the seven territories saw a combined admissionsslump of 50 million last year, box office revenues across Austria, ...
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Korea unveils international co-production fund
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has unveiled its firstsupport fund targeted at international co-productions.For 2004, one co-produced film will be selected by aspecially-appointed jury of film industry representatives, and granted amaximum of $250,000 (WON 300m).The fund applies to feature films (of at least 70 minutes)in the development, pre-production or production ...
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Hollywood Film Festival teams with IDA for documentary showcase
The HollywoodFilm Festival has teamed up with the International Documentary Association(IDA) for a special focus on documentaries at this year's festival which runsOct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles.The documentaryfocus is comprised of Hollywood Docs Showcase which will screen documentarieswith a special focus on social and humanitarian themes, and the ...
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Five new Swedish features get state funding
Five newSwedish feature films have been greenlit after securing support from theSwedish Film Institute.HenryMeyer's drama Four Weeks In June (Fyra Veckor I Juni), about a girl whois fed up with men and love, will be produced by Peter Kropenin of OmegaFilm. The film received $653,000 (SEK5m) in state funding and ...
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Japanese filmmakers turn to the past
It's not surprising that Japanese producers are making morefilms with the aid of digital technology, from DG cameras to animation paintprograms. Much of it is developed in Japan, even if its products are no longermade there. (The Japanese are almost as eager to outsource manufacturing andtech jobs as the Americans ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 heats up France
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has announced that Fahrenheit 9/11 landed in 5th place for opening day scores so farthis year when the film debuted on Wednesday in France.MarsDistribution, which is handling the release, sent the film out on 28 prints inParis and noted that the first screening at 2:00pm welcomed ...
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GERMANY 7 July
The warm summer weather andthe competition from the Euro 2004 Championship final on Sunday evening clearlydidn't stop people going to the cinema as Shrek2's admissions of over 1.2m were over five times higher than Harry Potter's 243,431.Meanwhile, with the Tour deFrance cranking up last weekend, Pepe Danquart's documentary about thegruelling ...