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France's Vladimir Perisic wins Festival of Film Schools' prize
Vladimir Perisic of France's FEMIS won the VFF Young Talent Award for his 31-minute short Dremano Oko at this year's International Festival of the Film Schools in Munich (November 27-30).The other awards included: the Student Camera Award for Dutch DoP Martijn van Broekhuizen's cinematography on Jiska Rickels' Days Under (NFTA); ...
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NETHERLANDS
Life at sea proved attractive in the Netherlands last weekend as hit animated film Finding Nemo and seafaring adventure Master And Commander all but drowned local family title Kees De Jongen.Washing up in eighth place for UIP, Andre van Duren's film about the life of a Dutch boy in ...
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Indie consolidation continues: ContentFilm merges with Winchester
Ed Pressman and JohnSchimidt's three year-old ContentFilm has completed a reverse merger with theAIM-listed UK film outfit Winchester Entertainment which gives the US companymajority ownership and operational control of the UK production and distributionand international sales operation.Pressman and Schmidt will bejoint CEOs of the combined company, while Jamie Carmichael, who ...
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Finding Nemo eyes $200m international haul
Riding high on a sensational European run, Finding Nemo is expected to pass $200m in international ticket sales this upcoming weekend with wide releases in France and Spain and strong holdover business.Following an international table-topping weekend last week, the worldwide animated hit has amassed $190.8m at the international box office ...
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Ster-Kinekor embarks on African exhibition push
Ster-Kinekor Theatres, South Africa's largest cinema exhibitor, will open an 800 seat, 5-cinema complex in Zambia on Dec 12 - part of drive to expand its presence throughout Africa.Located at the recently opened Arcades Entertainment and Leisure complex in Lusaka, it is the first world-class multiplex in the country. All ...
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Styler's Xingu goes Wilde over Alpha Male
Trudie Styler's Xingu Films is to produce Alpha Male, the debut feature of UK writer-director Dan Wilde.Wilde aims to start shooting next summer on the production, which is set entirely in an English country house and tells the story of the power struggles within a family over 20 years.26 year-old ...
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Bruehl, Canet headline Carion's Joyeux Noel
French director Christian Carion is to follow up his debut hit Une Hirondelle A Fait Le Printemps, with Joyeux Noel starring French hearthob Guillaume Canet and Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl.Based on a true story and set to shoot in 2004, the Euros 23m film is produced by Christophe ...
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KWA takes on Spanish Night and Sunset
Madrid-based international sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up two new Spanish films, The End Of The Night and Red Sunset, both of which are showing to buyers this weekend at the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 27-29).Now in its fifth edition, the three-day Screenings kicked off ...
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FRANCE
For the first time ever, the Coen brothers opened in first place with George Clooney starrer Intolerable Cruelty. The strong showing is a clear case of counter programming winning out as the smart throwback comedy overtook the flashy race car comic book adaptation Michel Vaillant. Vaillant, a Europa Corp. production ...
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HONG KONG
China Star's Lost In Time, starring Cecilia Cheung and Louis Koo, opened at the top of the Hong Kong box office chart grossing $941,553 and a strong screen average of $22,965. The romantic drama, about a woman coming to terms with her husband's death, is directed by Derek Yee whose ...
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HUNGARY
Following the success of SPI distributed Help, I'm A Fish!, last weekend yet another fishy story ruled the Hungarian box office, this time it was InterCom's Finding Nemo that opened with an impressive 72,000 admissions. But the real success story belongs to the Hungarian film Kontroll, the feature debut of ...
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Takeover talks see Winchester shares suspended
Winchester Entertainment has asked for shares to be suspended after confirming talks on a possible merger that would count as a reverse takeover.The talks are believed to be with New York-based ContentFilm, headed by Ed Pressman and John Schmidt, and are believed to be a sign of overseas interest in ...
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Post houses create£1.4bn special effect for UK economy
The UK post-production industry generated £1.39bn in revenues in 2002 and employs 15,000 people, according to a comprehensive new study of the sector published today (Nov 27) by the UK Film Council.The report - Post-production in the UK - concludes that the UK post sector ranks with the USA and ...
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Bangkok unveils festival line-up
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 2 is to close the second edition of the Bangkok International Film Festival, held between Jan 22 - Feb 2 next year. The event, which will screen around 150 films, opens with a screening of Thai title Renaissance.Organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the ...
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Manga snags Kill Bill for Spain
Barcelona-based Manga Films has snagged theatrical, video and DVD rights in Spain to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and will give attendees at the local Sitges International Film Festival (Nov 27-Dec 7) a sneak preview of Volume 1 on Saturday.It looks unlikely that Tarantino will attend the festival, which kicks off ...
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German public embraces film piracy
The illegal copying of feature films onto CDs and DVDs or by downloading from the Internet is becoming more acute in Germany, according to a new study commissioned by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).5.1m people burnt approximately 30.1m feature films onto 63m blank CDs and DVDs in the first ...
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Speers wraps Adam & Paul Dublin shoot
After a snappy four-week shoot on location around Dublin, local commercials production house Speers Films will today (Nov 28) wrap Adam & Paul, the company's first foray into feature production.Produced by Jonny Speers under the company sobriquet Porridge Pictures, Adam & Paul is a low budget (Euros 841,000 including deferrals) ...
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NORTH AMERICA
The biggest specialised opener in North America last weekend was Focus Features' 21 Grams taking $274,454 from just eight screens in New York and Los Angeles, marking a site average of $34,307.The film, which played in the Venice, Montreal, Toronto and New York film festivals, is a heavyweight Oscar contender ...
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BELGIUM
Local hit The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) reclaimed the lead in Belgium from two-week usurper The Matrix Revolutions last weekend after a paltry 4% week-on-week slip in its sixth weekend.Erik Van Looy's film has grossed $3m (Euro 2.5m) and provided a considerable boost to local film success with more ...
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Leth parks bike doc in favour of opera opus
Acclaimed Danish documentary maker and poet Joergen Leth, whose The Five Obstructions, his collaboration with Lars von Trier, is being shown as part of IDFA's special programme and which has been nominated for a European Film Award, has confirmed that he has put his Tour de France project on hold ...