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Turkish films go Dutch
Following a growing trend for Turkish successes in Germany, in the Netherlands Pathé has started programming a slate of Turkish comedies in two of its major cinemas: Amsterdam Arena and Rotterdam De Kuip.Head of programming Danielle Koot already calls the experiment 'a huge success' with 8,500 tickets sold over the ...
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HUNGARY
Hungary's new distributor, Intersonic which debuted with the release of Snowboarder and with the help of well established Mokep, failed to pick the right film to make an impact on the audiences, Snowboarder didn't even attract one thousand admissions.Meanwhile SPI's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre achieved a decent opening for a ...
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ITALY
Three Italian films were released last weekend - although none of them performed outstandingly well.Ciro Ippolito's Italian title Vaniglia E Cioccolato, which stars Il Postino actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta as a wife who leaves her unfaithful husband in a desperate bid to save their marriage, opened at number 8 at ...
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POLAND
Following last week's new entry Symmetry, which brought Polish films back into the box office chart after a two month hiatus, last weekend saw another local feature top the chart.Co-distributed by ITI Cinema and Interfilm, Ryszard Zatorski's feature film debut Nigdy W Zyciu! achieved over 230,000 admissions over the weekend ...
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SWEDEN
While Brother Bear sat solidly on the top of the Swedish chart, Scary Movie 3 maneuvered into second in front of Kjell Sundvall's action outing The Threat with a strong $5,514 screen average on its 60 prints.Meanwhile the veteran romance between Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give ...
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UK/IRELAND
The February half-term school holiday is a key date in the UK calendar and last weekend saw four children's titles launch in time for the lucrative session.Four of the past six years have seen February admissions exceed any other month in the year, including the last leap year, 2000, thanks ...
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South African broadcaster to air 13 Indian films
South Africa's public broadcaster SABC, is to air 13 Hindi films for the first time in its history this summer.The corporation has acquired films including Devdas, Bombay and Company, which will be subtitled in English and broadcast over 13 weeks starting April 3rd on TV3 Channel.Indian films are popular ...
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First Look beefs up US home entertainment arm with two key hires
First Look HomeEntertainment, a division of First Look Media, has hired two key members ofLions Gate Home Entertainment's sell-through team, with Michael L Katchmanjoining as vice president of sales, sell-thru, and Marty Dattilo as salesmanager, sell-thru.Katchman will reportdirectly to Bill Bromiley, senior vice president of First Look HomeEntertainment, and Dattilo ...
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New awards event planned for Asia-Pacific
The Queensland Government and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) have announced that they are to create a new film and television awards event to be broadcast across the world."We want to create an annual televised event to acknowledge the outstanding work of producers, directors and actors, and the cultural diversity ...
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Bavaria enjoys Berlin business
Bavaria Film International (BFI) reported "good business" at this year's Berlinale and European Film Market despite the fact that its films were scheduled quite late into the festival programme.Deals on the Golden Bear winner Head-On by Fatih Akin were closed with Spain (Golem), Italy (BIM Distribuzione), Benelux (Cinemien), Turkey (R-Films), ...
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Indican buys US rights to Carlos Castaneda doc
Los Angeles-based IndicanPictures has acquired US rights to Ralph Torjan's documentary CarlosCastaneda: Engima Of A Sorcerer,which charts the life and legacy of one of the founders of New Age philosophy.Through interviews withfollowers, friends and members of Castaneda's inner circle, the film traces theMexican's cult following and assesses his impact on ...
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Irish Censor issues statement on Gibson's Passion
The Irish Film Censor, John Kelleher, has taken the unusual step of issuing a press release which sets out the reasoning behind his granting of a 15PG certificate for Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ.The statement [see below] deals with the issue of the film's purported anti-semitism, and with ...
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Miramax snaps up Les Choristes
The hottest title at the European Film Market in Berlin this year, Les Choristes has been snapped up by Miramax.In a deal completed on Saturday, the US mini-studio acquired rights for North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.The first-time film directed by Christophe Barratier was screened on Monday (9 ...
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Miramax takes EFM favourite Les Choristes
Miramax Films has acquiredmultiple territory rights to Les Choristes, the hottest film at the European Film Market in Berlin this year.Miramax bought rights to the feelgood drama in North America, Latin America,Australia and New Zealand from Pathe International.Directed by ChristopheBarratier and written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, the film is ...
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Spain's KanZaman strikes deal with Columbia TriStar
Spanish production powerhouse KanZaman has signed a five-title distribution deal with Columbia TriStar Films of Spain for local theatrical and DVD/video rights.The deal includes three of KanZaman's high-profile international co-productions: Robert De Niro-starrer The Bridge Of San Luis Rey; Helen Hunt-starrer A Good Woman; and Willem Dafoe-starrer The Reckoning (Morality ...
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Columbia TriStar ups Indian release slate
Columbia Tristar's Indian office is to release 40 new films this year, 10 more than last year. Among the films scheduled to be released are Spiderman 2, Hell Boy and Anaconda 2.Spiderman 2 will have a 250 print release - the largest ever for a Hollywood movie in India. Previously, ...
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Premiere, Constantin conclude extensive deal
Germany's digital pay TV platform Premiere and producer-distributor Constantin Film have concluded an extensive multi-year programming deal.The agreement covers such films as Constantin's current box office hit Lost In Translation, 21 Grams and Alexander, which are being theatrically released by Constantin Film, as well as all of Constantin's own output ...
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Kosslick mulls market future, festival dates
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick declared himself "very pleased" with the running of this year's edition which had "conceptually achieved everything we wanted to."Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, Kosslick described the official competition as a "varied programme of old masters and young first-time directors" and pointed out that the focuses on South ...
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Ster-Kinekor embraces digital future
South Africa's Ster-Kinekor has revealed that it is to roll out digital high definition (HD) film servers at five cinemas nationwide over the next few months. This is the first time in South African film history that full-length mainstream features will be screened in digital HD format.Three cinemas in Johannesburg ...
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Netherlands lays groundwork for film institute
While there are plenty of individual Dutch film bodies, the Netherlands is one of the last of the mature European film markets to have an official Film Institute.However, with the launch of a Dutch independent film research initiative only three weeks away, the Dutch film industry is taking another step ...