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Sandrew Metronome finds Finnish Blind Spot
Major Nordic distributor Sandrew Metronome continues to strike output deals with local production outfits, and this week its Finnish arm Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland (SMDF) signed a three-year agreement with local production company Blind Spot Pictures. The deal sees Sandrew Metronome take Nordic distribution rights to all films currently being ...
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European Film Promotion launches sales support scheme
European Film Promotion has launched a new scheme to help exports of European films. It will underwrite travel and print costs for sales companies attending Latin American, Asian and East European festivals.The pilot scheme, Film Sales Support (FSS) will provide up to 50% of promotional and marketing costs for films ...
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India's Zee Telefilms unveils expansion plans
Zee Telefilms, India's largest listed media company, plans to invest $30m over the next two years in the production and distribution of Indian films. The company will also set up a distribution network for Indian films overseas. Zee has appointed film producer Nittin Keni - formerly with National Film Development ...
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Italian, Kosovan films share top prize at Tirana
The first edition of the Tirana International Film Festival ended with the best short film prize being awarded ex aequo to Italian director Alessandro Dominici's The Last Gunman and Kosovan filmmaker Burbuqe Berisha's Kosovo 9/11. The festival, which ran from Dec 1 to Dec 7 featured 82 short films from ...
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Deschanel, Gyllenhaal to present at Sundance Awards
Zooey Deschanel and JakeGyllenhaal will co-host the 2004 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony on Jan24 2004, which will be broadcast live in the US by Sundance Channel.Both actors are festivalalumni. Deschanel and Gyllenhaal appeared together in The Good Girl (Sundance 2002), Gyllenhaal starred in DonnieDarko (2001) and Deschanel starredin All ...
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Pirates sells 11 million DVD and VHS units in first seven days in US
Pirates Of The Caribbean has scored the biggest home entertainmentlive-action opening week in history after selling 11million DVD and VHS unitsin its first seven days of sales."We couldn't bemore thrilled with the success our home entertainment titles have had thisyear," Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) president Bob Chapek said ina ...
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Adjani to receive special tribute at Montreal Film Festival 2004
Next year'sMontreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to French actress IsabelleAdjani. Making the announcement, MWFF president Serge Losique deemed Ms. Adjani"an extraordinary artist, an actress who is equally at home in transformingherself into her films' profound and exceptional characters or playingseemingly light roles with an expert touch." Despite thisyear's ...
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New shorts by Jarecki, actor Azaria in Sundance shorts programme
Sundance Film Festivalorganisers have announced a line-up of 86 short films for January's event andwill also introduce a jury prize for international short film-makers.Titles include Just AClown by Capturing The Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki, Nobody's Perfect by the actor Hank Azaria, and Destino, Dominique Monfery's completed animated short thatwas begun ...
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UK film industry welcomes pre-budget report
The UK industry has welcomed a surprise signal from Chancellor Gordon Brown that he intends to renew tax-based support when the influential Section 48 expires in 2005.The government's pre-budget report stated that it would unveil the results of talks with the industry about a so-called son of Section 48 in ...
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Sofia Coppola's Oscar hopeful Lost In Translation opened on a high at the Italian box office, scoring the weekend's second highest screen average after BVI's Finding Nemo with a superb $6,250 per screen.On its first release in a major international territory, the Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen picture, which screened ...
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CTFDI crossed the $1bn mark in 2003
Powered by the internationalsuccess of T3, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Bad Boys II, Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) has passed$1bn in ticket sales for 2003.This marks the second timeboth of Sony Pictures Entertainment's international and domestic distributiondivisions have passed the mark after domestic declared $1bn in sales lastmonth.It ...
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Fox adds $11.2m on second weekend for Master And Commander
Master AndCommander pulled inanother $11.2m from international forays at the weekend, raising its internationalcumulative total to $32.8m.Fox International's naval adventure opened top inAustralia on $2.3m from 324 screens.There wereseveral good second weekend holds, with Spain adding $2m and dropping 24% for$5.1m and the UK adding $1.9m in its second wide ...
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Rialto plans 2004 re-release of original Godzilla
New York-based RialtoPictures will re-release Ishiro Honda's original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla in the US in spring 2004 in all its uncut glory tocoincide with the 50th anniversary of the film and character.The release will feature 40minutes of unseen footage - a far cry from the pared-down 1956 US ...
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Tallinn takes off with 300-strong programme
The 7th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (22 Nov-7 Dec) screened 300 films from 50 countries this year, making it the largest edition since its inception despite the ongoing struggle to finance the event. This year the festival also joined up with the second annual Baltic ...
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Revolutions worldwide total passes $400m
The Matrix Revolutions' worldwide total inched past $400m at the weekend asthe film added just over $6m with 996,503 admissions from 4,682 screens in 59territories.According to Warner BrosInternational, the film has now grossed an estimated $265.1m after five weeksin the international arena and $400.1m worldwide.Looney Tunes: Back InAction took $3.5m ...
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Nemo finds $45.9m in stunning weekend for BVI
Powered byrecord industry openings in Japan and Italy at the weekend, Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) Finding Nemo surged through international waters and raised its internationalrunning total by $45.9m to $283.4m.The animated hitalso became Disney's third film to pass $600m in worldwide ticket sales behind TheLion King and PiratesOf The Caribbean and ...
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Rising producer hits back amid backer dispute
Bobby Bedi, the producer of big budget Indian feature The Rising, has spoken out following reports that Indian conglomerate Sahara India has pulled out of the film.Sahara issued a statement last month saying that the company was withdrawing its association with The Rising because Aishwarya Rai - who is a ...
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FX expert Anderson to receive ASC Presidents Award
Howard AAnderson Jr, who created visual effects for hundreds of films including SomeLike It Hot, Heaven Can Wait and Blazing Saddles, will receive the American Society of Cinematographers PresidentsAward.The honour ispresented each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributionsto advancing the art of film-making.Anderson willcollect his award at ...
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Asian film industry mourns Duangkamol Limcharoen
Thai producer Duangkamol Limcharoen, a leading figure in the pan-Asian filmmaking movement, has died following a brief fight against cancer. She was 39 years old.A former TV producer, Limcharoen founded Thai film company Cinemasia in 2000 with the aim of producing pan-Asian co-productions and expanding the market for Asian films. ...