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Kal Ho Naa Ho dominates Indian Academy awards
NikhilAdvani's Kal Ho Naa Ho walked awaywith eight top honours at this year's International Indian Film Academy awards(IIFA) - Bollywood's equivalent to the Oscar's - bagging best film, bestactress (Preity Zinta), best supporting actor(Saif Ali Khan) and actress (Jaya Bachchan) as well as four out of the fiveawards in the ...
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Moonlight acquires Night Falls for Benelux
Dutch distributor MoonlightFilm has licensed Benelux rights to locally made When Night Falls.The psychological thrillerfollows a group of college students who launch their own investigation when thepolice fail to make progress in the hunt for a serial rapist.It is directed by InekeHoutman and adapted from a true story by Frank ...
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European Film Awards launch composer category
The European Film Awards will this year carry a new prizecategory, for best European Composer.The award is presented jointly with the World SoundtrackAcademy (WSA) and EFA and the WSA will appoint a nominations committee. Votingfor the prize will be through the European Film Academy (EFA)'s 1,600 members.This year's EFA Awards ...
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BVITV strikes first ever Ukrainian deal
Buena Vista International TV struck its first ever filmlicence deal in the Ukraine this week at the Los Angeles Preview Screenings.It licensed a package of series and feature films tocommercial broadcaster Inter TV in a multi-year deal. Current films covered bythe agreement include Pearl Harbor, The Princess Diaries and Sweet ...
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Edukators picked by Delphi Filmverleih for Germany
Berlin-based distributor Delphi Filmverleih has acquired theGerman speaking rights for Hans Weingartner's Cannes Official Competition entryThe Edukators.Accordingto industry insiders, Delphi successfully fought off stiff competition fromsuch rival bidders as Constantin Film, X Verleih and Concorde Filmverleih. Itis also understood that sales agent Celluloid Dreams had set an asking price ofEuro ...
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Kapur teams with Rings producer for Indian movies
Indian director ShekharKapur (Elizabeth) is teaming up with Lord Of The Rings producerBarrie Osborne for the first time to make two films in India.First up is Paani (Water),a $20m futuristic tale which addresses the issue of water scarcity and featuresa love story set in Mumbai, 15 years in the future. ...
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Van Helsing nears $120m from all markets
Universal's VanHelsing added $14m from 4,400 screens in 38 UIP markets at the weekend toraise its international running through UIP to $111m.Including the$8m running total from 290 screens in the non-UIP markets of Russia, thePhilippines and Iceland, Van Helsing has amassed an industry-wide $119m.The picture passed $100m in all its ...
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Jolly green giant: Shrek 2 revives summer with $125.3m in five days
Dreamworks' much anticipatedShrek 2 caused the first major eruption of this summer season at theweekend as it opened top on a staggering $125.3m from its first five days,according to studio estimates.If these figures areconfirmed as accurate on Monday it will be the biggest Wednesday bow of all time,overtaking The Lord ...
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Troy passes $200m worldwide
Troy has passed $200m in worldwide ticket sales as it added $70m in its second weekend for an international running total of more than $145m, according to estimatesreleased by Warner Bros.The picture opened at theweekend in the UK, Italy, Japan and Russia but the distributor did not releasespecific territory details.Combined ...
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Politics sways Cannes as 9/11 takes Palme d'Or
Politics were in the air from the beginning of the Cannesfestival and it closed on a distinctly political note with the Palme d'Orawarded to Michael Moore's anti-George Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.In bestowing their top honour on a clearly surprised Moore, Quentin Tarantino's jury overlooked the fact that his unfinished film ...
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Wellspring picks up The Brown Bunny
One year after The Brown Bunny stamped its indelible markon Cannes, Vincent Gallo's controversial picture has found a partner inWellspring.The US distributor picked up all North American rights and plansan Aug 27 release in New York and Los Angeles followed by a nationwide rollout.DVD and video are scheduled for release ...
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Cannes winners list
Cannes 2004: Official Selection PrizesPalme d'OrFahrenheit 9/11 Dir:Michael MooreGrand Prix Du JuryOld Boy Dir: Park Chan-wookBest actressMaggie Cheung in CleanBest actorYagira Yuya in Nobody KnowsBest directorTony Gatlif for ExilesBest ScreenplayAgnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for CommeUne ImageJury prize (jointly)Irma P Hall for The LadykillersandTropical Malady Dir:Apichatpong WeerasethakulCamera d'Or for best ...
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Cannes winners list
CANNES 2004: OFFICIAL SELECTION PRIZESPalme d'OrFahrenheit 9/11 Dir:Michael MooreGrand Prix Du JuryOld Boy Dir: Park Chan-wookBest actressMaggie Cheung (pictured) in CleanBest actorYagira Yuya in Nobody KnowsBest directorTony Gatlif for ExilesBest ScreenplayAgnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for CommeUne ImageJury prize (jointly)Irma P Hall for The LadykillersandTropical Malady Dir:Apichatpong WeerasethakulCamera d'Or for ...
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China's summer film blackout
Hollywood films are set to lose hugepotential box office revenues in China this summer due to an officialseven-week 'blackout' slapped on foreign films in cinemas between mid-June andAugust.Spiderman 2, Harry Potter 3 and Shrek2 will be pushed back to August release dates, after film executives hadpainstakingly negotiated prime-time summer release ...
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South Korea's With Cinema takes two from Trust Film Sales.
South Korea's With Cinema has bought a pair of pictures fromDenmark's Trust Film Sales.After a fierce bidding contest it secured ThomasVinterberg's Dear Wendy, scripted byLars von Trier, and the animated puppet drama Strings. It also bought Kevin Spacey's $25m Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea from Media 8 and Marriage ...
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Ontario enhances production tax credit
The government of Ontario has made life a littleeasier for film and television producers as it handed down its 2004 budget.Although its production tax credit (OFTTC) remains unchanged at 20% of eligiblelabour costs, those costs will not be reduced by the amount of equityinvestment from Canadian government film agencies. This ...
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Italy's Gam Film lines up slate of international films.
Gherardo Pagliei, the Italian co-producer behind CriticsWeek Italo-Moroccan contender ACasablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas, is lining up an ambitious slate ofinternational films.Pagliei's Rome-based Gam Film is to produce veteran Chileandirector Alejandro Jodorowsky's next movie, KingShot. The director, whose credits include 1970 cult movie El Topo and surreal 1989 picture ...
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Van Helsing passes $100m with Troy close behind
Universal's Van Helsing passed $100m at the internationalbox office on May 19 and should do more solid business this upcomingweekend, where the one to watch will be Warner Bros' Troy.Wolfgang Petersen's star-studded epic has amassed $66m in internationalticket sales following last weekend's simultaneous release in 47 markets andexecutives can expect ...
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Katapult signs Verhoeven's Blackbook
KatapultFilms, the Los Angeles-based sales agency headed by Thomas Mai and JoniSighvatsson, is to handle international duties on Blackbook, the newfilm by Dutch master Paul Verhoeven.The project has been a hot property forseveral months as rumours have swirled as to which of many possible projectsVerhoeven will shoot first. The action ...
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Film Sales Company reports brisk business in Cannes
Andrew Herwitz'sFilm Sales Company has reported a successful first foray into foreign sales atCannes, sealing deals on a number of titles.All rights to Nimrod Antal's Hungarian hit and Un Certain Regardentry Kontroll were sold to ICA Projects in the UK, Lady Films in Italyand Tiberius Films in Germany.As previously reported, ...