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New Romanian studio complex to open next year
Romania's growing attraction as a location for film production could increase still further with the arrival of a new studio complex next year.The project is the brainchild of British property developer Andrew Stear, who has been based in Romanian capital Bucharest for the last seven years. His company BPD Management ...
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Newell, Leconte projects win UK development funding
New projects from directors including Mike Newell, David Mackenzie, Patrice Leconte and Chris Cunningham have received development backing from the UK Film CouncilThe Council's Development Fund is working with Newell (Mona Lisa Smile, Four Weddings And A Funeral) and Laura Bickford (producer of Traffic) at 50 Cannon who are producing ...
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Sundance names 12 scripts in prestigious Screenwriters Lab in Jan
Projects from Thailand, Tajikistan andPakistan join nine from North America in the Sundance Institute's ScreenwritersLab, which takes place from Jan 9-14 at the Sundance Village in Utah. Thefive-day workshop offers writers the chance to develop their scripts withsupport from established screenwriters. This year's chosen writers willcollaborate with a roster of ...
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Canadian distribution sector posts record revenues in 2001/2
Big jumps in pay-TV and homevideo drove Canadian film distributors and video wholesales to a record $2.28bn(C$3bn) in revenues in 2001-2002 according to data released Monday by StatisticsCanada. Revenues from pre-recordedvideocassettes and DVDs reached$1.14bn in2001/02, their highestlevel ever, driven by a 23% increase in average household expenditures onsoftware. The overall ...
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New York Film Critics opt for The Return Of The King as best of 2003
Peter Jackson's Lord OfThe Rings trilogy finale TheReturn Of The King was named bestpicture of 2003 in the 69th annual New York Film Critics Circle awardsannounced today (Dec 15), taking pride of place among a diverse roster ofmostly independent films. Bill Murray won best actorfor his role as a disconnected ...
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Sobini acquires worldwide rights to Sundance 2003's Quattro Noza
Mark Amin's Sobini Films hasacquired worldwide rights to Joey Curtis' street racing drama Quattro Noza and will serve as a producing partner and providefinishing funds for post-production. The film recently garneredtwo IFP Independent Spirit Award nominations for best first feature andcinematography and premiered in competition at Sundance this year, where ...
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Warner winding down on international Revolutions with $3.5m weekend take
The Matrix Revolutions raised its international cumulative total to $271.7mover the weekend as the sci-fi trilogy finale grossed an estimated $3.5m and566,305 admissions from 3,047 screens in 57 territories. Several other Warner BrosInternational Pictures titles were in action, including Looney Tunes: BackIn Action, which added $4.7m and980,427 admissions from 3,062 ...
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BVITV strikes deal with Finland's Channel 4
Finnish broadcaster Channel 4 (Nelonen) has agreed to buy a range of feature films and series from Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the international TV licensing arm of Walt Disney.The deal gives Nelonen first-run and library titles including The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Enemy Of The State and The Princess Diaries. ...
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NORTH AMERICA
On limited release Sony opened Tim Burton's Big Fish in six sites for a $207,377 weekend and a grand $34,563 per-theatre average. The father-son relationship drama stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Jessica Lange and will add a few sites until it goes wide on Jan 9 2004. It has ...
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Malin leaves Lions Gate as merger with Artisan complete
Lions Gate Entertainment completed its merger with ArtisanEntertainment at 1pm today (Dec 15), finalising the creation of the independentgiant that was first made public in October (Screendaily Oct 28).Former Artisan chief executive officer Amir Malin is leaving topursue other avenues, bringing to an end his six-year association with thecompany."This transaction ...
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Aurelio De Laurentiis re-elected president of Italian producers
Filmauro head Aurelio De Laurentiis has been re-elected president of Italy's union of film producers for a second two-year term.Seven vice-presidents were also elected: these are Filiberto Bandini, Giovanni Bertolucci, (Facing Windows) Tilde Corsi, Filmexport's Roberto Di Girolamo, Rai Cinema's Giancarlo Leone, Medusa's Giampaolo Letta and Cattleya's Riccardo Tozzi."Over the ...
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Blow for Berlusconi as Italian president rejects media law
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been dealt a serious blow after Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi unexpectedly refused to sign his government's controversial new media law. The Gasparri law had already been approved this month by both the Italian Parliament and the Italian Senate, where Berlusconi's centre-right coalition has ...
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San Francisco critics name Lost In Translation year's best film...
Sofia Coppola's Lost InTranslation was named best pictureof 2003 by The San Francisco Film Critics Circle today (Dec 15). Best director honours wentto Peter Jackson for his trilogy finale The Return Of The King, while the 20-person group voted Bill Murray bestactor for his role as a disillusioned semi-retired actor ...
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...while Mystic River gets the nod from Boston critics.
Mystic River, Lost In Translation and the documentary Capturing TheFriedmans dominate thisyear's Boston Society of Film Critics awards.Clint Eastwood's murder drama was named best picture and alsowon the group's inaugural ensemble cast award ahead of A Mighty Wind.Meanwhile the dreamy Tokyo-set Lost In Translation earned Sophia Coppola the best directoraward ...
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Broken Wings set for breakthrough German release
Nir Bergman's Broken Wings is to receive a 24 print release across Germany, the widest ever release in the country for an Israeli film.The wide release, through distributor Alamode Films, is largely thanks to a deal between Israeli Film Fund and the NRW Fund in Germany, which sees each side ...
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Brennan joins Oz Film Commission as project manager
Veteran producer Richard Brennan, whose extensive credits across several decades include Cosi, Spotswood, Blood Oath, Grievous Bodily Harm, Starstruck, Stir and Newsfront, has joined the Australian Film Commission (AFC) as a project manager.The AFC is the Australian Government's key development agency for the film industry and Brennan will be working ...
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Malaga to host European Film Commission summit
Malaga, Spain will play host this week to the first-ever European Encounter on Film Commissions (Dec 18).The day-long meeting, organised by the Spain Film Commission, invites representatives of film commissions from around Europe to debate The European Film Commission Experience and Film Commissions: Instruments of Support for the Audiovisual ...
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Higuchi to direct WWII Japanese submarine drama
Shinji Higuchi, a leading SFX director whose work includes the Gamera series, will helm Lorelei, a $11.2m (Y1.2 bn) production set in a Japanese submarine in the closing days of World War II. Veteran Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance', Doppelganger) will co-star with TV drama sensation Satoshi Tsumaoki. Fuji TV ...
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New Linz Film Festival to focus on Euro film
Former Diagonale co-director Christine Dollhofer has been recruited as the director of a new festival entitled "Crossing Europe - Linz Film Festival" which will be held in the Austrian city of Linz from 4-9 May 2004 and dedicated to contemporary, innovative European cinema.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com, Dollhofer explained that the event ...
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Hiding And Seeking gets world premiere at NY Jewish Film Festival
Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky'sdocumentary Hiding and Seeking: Faith And Tolerance After The Holocaust and a restored print of Sidney M Goldin's shortYiddish spoof Cantor On Trialboth receive world premieres at the 13th annual New York Jewish Film Festival,which runs from Jan 14-29. The event includes eight USand 13 New ...