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Ireland's Section 481 film tax-relief still in question
Ireland's joint parliamentary committee on finance has issued a report strongly in favour of the continuation of government support for the film industry. "The Joint Committee believes that for strong economic and cultural reasons the government should continue to promote and foster film as a high value, high knowledge, highly ...
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Local films buck Germany's downward admissions trend
Cinema admissions and box office takings continued their downward trend into the third quarter of 2003, according to figures published by the German Federal Film Board (FFA). While the second quarter had seen a 11.7% drop in admissions over the same period in 2002, this grew to 12.1% in the ...
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Hating Alison Ashley rises again
Scriptwriter Christine Madafferi's adaptation of Robin Klein's coming-of-age book Hating Alison Ashley is back on track, albeit with a new director, following yesterday's decision by Film Finance Corporation Australia to again back the project. Hating Alison Ashley was approved in May with LA-based expatriate Rod Hardy in the director's chair ...
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Anonymous Content boosts management team
LA-based multimedia development, production and talent management outfit Anonymous Content has expanded its management division with the appointment of Shawn Hopkins, Brian Medavoy and Lainie Stolhanske.Hopkins arrives from LA-based production and management company Catch 23 and previously served two years with Rick and Julie Yorn and Artist Management Group, having ...
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Japanese Story sweeps Australia's IF Awards
Australia's key IF Awards announced last night (November 12) were like a re-run of the Film Critics Circle Awards of two weeks earlier with Gettin' Square earning David Wenham best actor and Japanese Story winning best film for Sue Maslin, best director for Sue Brooks, best actress for Toni Collette ...
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Sundance/NHK Int'l Film-makers Awards unveil finalists
The Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2004 Sundance/NHK International Film-makers Awards, created in 1996 to support emerging directors as they develop their next screenplays.One winner from each of four global regions - Europe, Latin America, USA and Japan - will be ...
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German fund commits to two new projects
The production fund Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) has boarded another two projects - the family film Chestnut: Hero Of Central Park and the fantasy adventure Dungeons & Dragons: The Sequel - as part of a slate of up to seven English language features with budgets between $5m-$20m.Chestnut, which is ...
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Costner, Minghella, Zanuck to be honoured at Palm Springs
Kevin Costner, Anthony Minghella and producer Richard D Zanuck are among honourees at the upcoming 15th Palm Springs International Film Festival's gala awards on Jan 11 2004.Costner, currently riding high following critical and commercial success in the US for his latest Western, Open Range, will receive the Career Achievement in ...
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Whale Rider dominates NZ nominations
There are no prizes for guessing which film has dominated the nominations in this year's New Zealand Film Awards. Whale Rider, which has grossed NZ$6.4m in New Zealand and NZ$60m around the world, is a finalist in 14 of the 15 categories. But the same two films sit alongside Whale ...
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ARGENTINA
Warner Bros' The Matrix: Revolutions topped Argentina's box office ratings as it has in many parts of the world. Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark opened strongly enough to come in at second place, followed by hit Korean title The Way Home which climbed from seventh to third spot. Distributor Eurocine ...
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International Box Office Preview
Warner Bros' The Matrix Revolutions is expected to continue its international rampage this weekend following a record five-day global opening in 107 territories and subsequent $138.6m international gross in its first week ($138m excluding IMAX theatres).The final episode in the Wachowski Brothers' sci-fi trilogy scored a combined $232.2m global ...
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Marvel Enterprises opens London office
Comic book giant Marvel Enterprises has launched a London-based international division.The office is headed by Bruno Maglione, who has been named president of Marvel International. He reports to Allen Lipson, Marvel's chief executive for all activities other than consumer products, where he reports to Tim Rothwell, president of worldwide consumer ...
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FRANCE
The Matrix stormed into cinemas this week easily doubling the coveted one million admissions mark. Although the critics have not been kind to the film, queues have been round the block since last Wednesday when the movie opened and it has already entered the top fifteen films of 2003. Faced ...
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HONG KONG
Matrix Revolutions didn't beat the opening week figures of Matrix Reloaded in Hong Kong, but still topped the box office with a solid $1.32m from 67 screens during its first eight days (Nov 5-12). In comparison, Matrix Reloaded grossed $1.92m from 62 screens during its first seven days in May. ...
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Zatoichi to open Rotterdam
Cult Japanese film-maker Takeshi Kitano will make his third trip to Europe in four months when he returns to Rotterdam with his swordplay action vehicle Zatoichi, which has won major prizes ever since it premiered in competition at Venice. The film has now been set as the opening film at ...
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75% more entries for 2nd Berlinale Talent Campus
The Berlinale Talent Campus has received 75% more applications for next year's event with 3,500 entries coming from 101 countries, compared to 2,000 from 70 countries for the first edition last February.Talent Campus project manager Christine Dorn told ScreenDaily.com that applications had come from countries like Mali, Azerbaijan, Syria, Senegal ...
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Israeli Film Authority announces 2003's fund allocations
The Israeli Film Authority, which allocates state funds for the cinema industry, has finally announced its long-awaited allocations for 2003. As expected, 85% of the $13.5m (NIS 61m) distributed by the government will go to production (two thirds of it for features, the rest divided between documentaries, shorts and experimental ...
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44th Thessaloniki festival announces line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled today the full line-up of its 44th edition.The Festival kicks off November 21, with Takeshi Kitano's Venice winner Zatoichi and closes with Jim Sheridan's In America on Saturday November 29. Vincent Gallo's controversial Brown Bunny is, in its new ...
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Banned Palestinian film cleared by Israeli Supreme Court
Overturning a previous decision of the Israeli Censorship Board, the country's The Supreme Court of Justice has lifted the ban on Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin. Bakkri's report on the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp and its tragic outcome put the entire blame on the Israeli ...
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Winterbottom, Chereau, Kaurismaki to speak at EFA conference
Directors Michael Winterbottom, Patrice Chereau and Mika Kaurismaki and Isabelle Coixet as well as producer Nik Powell - in his new incarnation as the UK's National Film & Television School chief - are among the speakers recruited by the European Film Academy (EFA) for its conference "Let's Talk About Content!" ...