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Italian film producers threaten to shut pay-TV window
In an ultimate bid to get a reaction out of pay-TV outfit Sky Italia, Italy's national union of independent film producers and directors (API) warned that it could, in future, by-pass the pay-TV window altogether and sell films to free-to-air broadcasters before selling pay-TV rights. Heads of Rai Cinema and ...
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CHILE Production Listings - December 15 2003
CHILE - IN PRE-PRODUCTIONA MAN ON THE SIDEWALK (UN HOMBRE EN LA VEREDA)(Arauco Films/Antuco Pictures) Thriller. An adaptation of A Chilean bestselling novel by Elizabeth Subercaseaux. A Supreme Court judge kills his married lover at a golf course. The sole witness is the married editor of a powerful newspaper but ...
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Infernal Affairs dominates Golden Horse Awards
Hong Kong crime epic Infernal Affairs won the major prizes at this year's Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and the People's Choice Award. Local favourite, Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn, took consolation in Best Taiwanese Film. It's cinematographer, Liao Pen-jung, named the Taiwan ...
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Danish animator looks to crack Greenland market
Danish animator, Jannik Hastrup, looks set to become the first director ever to have his film dubbed especially for audiences in Greenland.His multiple-award winning The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear (Drengen Der Ville Gore Det Umulige), will be released in the Greenlandic language as Nukappiaraq Nanoorusuttoq and will ...
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AUSTRALIA
BVI's Scary Movie 3 was the hit film at the box office in its opening weekend, taking A$3,011,921 from 305 screens to achieve a screen average of A$9,875. The result fell about A$70,000 short of last weekend's opening performance by 20th Century Fox's Master And Commander: The Far Side Of ...
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Australia's Southern Star subject of takeover bid
The Southern Star Group, one of Australia's biggest television production and distribution companies, is the subject of a takeover bid from Southern Cross Broadcasting, which operates television stations in most regional areas of Australia, as well as in Adelaide and the national capital of Canberra. Southern Star's directors, who control ...
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Kassovitz links with Goldman for Babylon Babies
Mathieu Kassovitz's sixth feature directing effort, the English language Babylon Babies, will be produced with Alain Goldman's Legende Entreprises. Kassovitz's company MNP Entreprises, founded in 2000 to develop and produce his projects as director, will co-produce and also move into new territory via a recently signed deal with Goldman.Legende Entreprises ...
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Spanish producers benefit from Fund increase
The Spanish government has approved a Euros 27.8m increase to its Cinema Protection Fund, expected to result in immediate payments on outstanding subsidy obligations.The increase almost doubles the Fund's annual budget, 85% of which goes towards paying off automatic box office-linked subsidies, to Euros 61m for the new year. Producers ...
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Berlinale's Panorama names first German premiere
Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) will have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama Special sidebar on 10 February. "The stylistic assuredness with which Achim von Boerries tells his story is inspiring", Panorama chief Wieland Speck said. "We are pleased to confirm the ...
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BVITV strikes Finnish film deal
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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Chilean producers develop a taste for horror
For full Chilean production listings click HERE Film production in Chile has not only quadrupled from the average annual output of five to a potential 20 releases next year. Judging from the various titles in post production, filmmakers in Chile are also experimenting in styles and genres. They range ...
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DENMARK
While Finding Nemo continued to be untouchable at the top of the Danish chart, Russell Crowe's Master And Commander was left to face the stern of the all-star Love Actually after three weeks on release, dropping 28%. The new release of Looney Tunes: Back In Action even beat Weir's maritime ...
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Maria Simon named as Germany's Shooting Star
Maria Simon, who played Daniel Bruehl's older sister Ariane in Wolfgang Becker's box-office hit Good Bye, Lenin!, has been selected by the Export-Union of German Cinema as the German "Shooting Star" for the 2004 lineup of European acting talent at February's Berlinale.The Shooting Star initiative, which is organised by the ...
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JAPAN
The biggest battle of the Japanese holiday season is between The Last Samurai and Finding Nemo - and so far it's hard to call a winner. The opening round went to Finding Nemo, which set a new record for opening weekend box office with Y1,116,203,900 ($10,431,812) on 900,447 admissions and ...
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NEW ZEALAND
BVI's Scary Movie 3 was easily the hit film of the weekend, earning NZ$403,565 from 31 screens upon appearing at cinemas for the first time. It's screen average was a quite extraordinary NZ$13,018 - the Kiwi's love their horror films - bettered only by the re-release of The Lord Of ...
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Something's Gotta Give gives Sony ninth number one of the year
Romance ruled the box office at the weekend as Sony's wellreceived Something's Gotta Give opened number one on an estimated $17m.To add to the studio's pre-Christmas cheer, it set a new industryrecord of opening nine number one films in a year, beating Warner Bros' oldmark of eight.Two other new releases ...
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Report reveals Irish gov't thinking over Section 481
The thinking behind the Irish government's decision to grant a reprieve to Section 481 in last week's Budget is revealed today in a major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report.The report was commissioned jointly by the Irish Film Board and the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and was sent to the Department ...
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Redford picture added to Sundance lineup
Dutch producer Pieter JanBrugge's debut The Clearing,starring festival founder Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe, hasbeen added to the list of Sundance Film Festival premieres and is among adocumentary-heavy slate of 16 additional titles that will screen from Jan15-25, 2004.Brugge's producingcredits include The Insider and ThePelican Brief and his ...
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Berlusconi defends controversial media law
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has publicly defended the controversial new media law which is set to consolidate his sprawling media empire in an inflammatory press conference, where he pointed out that it will prevent 1,000 people from losing their jobs at one of his Mediaset TV channels.The Gasparri Law, which ...
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Japan moves to boost film industry
An advisory body to the Japanese government has drafted a report calling for wide-ranging government support of content businesses, including films. Headed by Ushio Electric chairman Jiro Ushio, the Contents Special Survey Committee will formally issue the report in March of next year and expects its recommendations to become law ...