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Berlinale co-production market opens for business
The first edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market opened for business with around 200 participants at the Talent Campus venue of the House of World Cultures.32 projects, including new features by Daniel Burman, Alexander Sokurov, Robert Glinski, Susanne Bier, Goran Paskaljevic and Pang Ho Cheung, were selected from 230 entries ...
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New tax scheme for 'Bollywood UK'
UK Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt is backing a scheme to raise £34m to set up a production base for Indian films made in Europe, specifically in the Leicester area of England.The plan is to offer wealthy British individuals the chance to invest in a portfolio of Indian films ...
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Film Italia launches with Mifed price cut promise
Georgio Gosetti will today in Berlin (Monday) present Film Italia the new national promotional body that replaces Italia Cinema, and unveil the first concrete elements of Mifed's response to the challenge of an autumn AFM."In the past we have had too many announcements about Mifed which have not been followed ...
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Wondrous director readies Dali, Lorca project
Director Paul Morrison, whose film Wondrous Oblivion opened the Berlinale Kinderfest, is set to direct Little Ashes, a drama based on the relationship between Spanish artists Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali in 1920's Madrid.The screenplay is by Philippa Goslett, and was developed by Moira Campbell through UK production company ...
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German media fund strikes radical US deal
Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf and Dietmar Guntsche's private German media fund Neue Bioskop Germany (NBG) has teamed up with US producer @radical.media.Junkersdorf said that the co-operation with production and commercials outfit @radical.media, a producer of Oscar nominated documentary The Fog Of War, would "immediately give us a partner at our side ...
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SHIP shapes up with detective trilogy
Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP), the English-language division of Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), has unveiled a slate of five feature projects for production in 2004/2005.The first project scheduled for production at the end of this year is the children's adventure film The Mystery Of Skeleton Island, which will be the ...
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UK Film Showcase unveiled
Further details have emerged of The UK Film Showcase, the new screenings initiative for British films being launched in London this summer.London mayor Ken Livingstone is investing roughly £50,000 into the event, due to be held in late June at the three-screen National Film Theatre in London. The Showcase is ...
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CANADA Production Listings - February 9 2004
CANADA February 9 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONSOLO(Amy Dearborn Has A Ghost Inc) Budget: $2.2m. Backers: Telefilm Canada. Thriller. The parents of a kidnapped girl turn to her imaginary playmate, who is in fact a ghost, for help in locating their daughter. Prod: Rosanne Milliken. Dir: Josef Rusnak. Scr: Carl Binder. Main cast: Jon ...
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Canadian film industry needs a shot in the arm
For Canadian production listings click HEREThe early part of the year is typically the slowest period in the Canadian film industry. Of course "the Canadian film industry" is a vague term at the best of times. These days a cynical observer might ask, "What industry'" In December, Alliance Atlantis completed ...
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Arte France Cinema creates subsid to raise film funds
The film arm of Franco-German channel Arte, Arte France Cinema, has created its own subsidiary Arte/Cofinova - designed to increase Arte's ability to fund film production.Arte/Cofinova will take its capital in part from Sofica Cofinova and from Arte France Cinema. (A Sofica is a fund which allows tax breaks for ...
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Jackson wins DGA award for Return Of The King
Peter Jackson won top honours at the 56th Annual DGA Awards in Los Angeles at the weekend for The Lord Of TheRings: The Return Of The King.The honour is widelyregarded as a strong barometer of Academy Award success in the best directorcategory, for which Jackson is nominated. Forty-nine of the ...
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Werner joins Wellspring as head of theatrical distribution
Ryan Werner is leaving Palm Pictures to join Wellspring as head oftheatrical distribution.Werner will be responsible for all aspects of distribution, marketing andpublicity for Wellspring's theatrical releases and will report to companypresident Al Cattabiani.He will work closely with Wellspring's head of acquisitions Marie ThereseGuirgis."He can bring us to the next ...
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Le Barzellette, the latest Italian comedy to be produced by the all-powerful Aurelio De Laurentiis, opened at number one at the box office, becoming the first picture in three weeks to knock : The Return Of The King off the top spot.Directed by Carlo Vanzina, Le Barzellette, a collection of ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King, The Last Samurai and Cold Mountain were the first, second and third most popular films at the box office, just as they were last weekend, although takings for each of them dropped by between NZ$60,000 and NZ$90,000.Snapping at their ...
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Barbershop 2 takes plenty off the top for MGM with $25.1m bow
MGM's comedy sequel Barbershop2: Back In Business opened number one at the weekend on an estimated $25m, shunting Buena Vista's true-life sports drama Miracleinto the silver medal position on $19.4m.The only other top 10 openerwas Fox's family adventure Catch That Kid, which bowed in sixth place on$6m as box office ...
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Love Actually scores $1.7m Japan bow for Universal
Universal's romantic comedy LoveActually opened on $1.7m from 210 prints through UIP in Japan at theweekend as the picture added $2.5m from 800 sites in 14 markets for a $156minternational running total.Including non-UIP markets ithas grossed $165m and there are still seven to go, including Taiwan on Feb 14.Along Came ...
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Big Fish opens top in Australia on $1.3m for CTFDI
A table-topping $1.3m bow inAustralia on 227 screens including previews was the key driver in Big Fish's$2.7m weekend haul as the drama raised its international cumulative total to$7.3m.In the UK in its second wideweekend the picture added $1.6m from 361, slipping 35% for a $6m running total.It placed third behind ...
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The Last Samurai smashes through $250m barrier
The Last Samurai smashedthrough $250m at the weekend as it added an estimated $17.5m from all itsmarkets for a $272.1m international running total.Distributed through WarnerBros Pictures Int'l, the drama grossed $11.2m in Europe and $2.5m in Japan, whereits total is now a staggering $105m.This latest updated gross means The Last ...
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Cinema Guild gets Inheritance for the US
Per Fly's The Inheritance, which won six Danish Film Academy's Robert awards last week, has been picked up for US release by The Cinema Guild's Philip Hobel and Ryan Krivoshey.The film was the most popular local release last year in Denmark and was in the main competition in San Sebastian, ...
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Paramount Classics gets Intimate
Paramount Classics is in final negotiations to pick up rights in North America and select other territories on Patrice Leconte's latest drama Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes) which screened in competition in Berlin.The deal which should close this weekend marks the third Leconte movie for Paramount Classics which has scored ...