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Italy sees October cinema visits plummet
Cinema admissions in Italy dropped a huge 22% compared to the same month in 2002, according to the latest figures from Cinetel, which surveys around 75% of screens in Italy.The admissions set-back follows a 4.4% rise in cinema-going in the first quarter of 2003 compared to 2002. It also comes ...
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Russian films clean up at Cottbus festival
Russian cinema is well and truly back on the international scene after becoming the big winner at this year's Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (November 4-8) by picking up nine of the festival's 12 awards presented at a gala ceremony on Saturday evening (Nov 8).Lidija Bobrowa's Granny (Babusja) ...
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Euro producers club to hold co-production forum
The European Film Awards weekend will kick off this year with the European Producers Club's (EPC) Berlin Co-Production Forum on December 5 (Friday) which will open with a panel discussion open to the public, focusing on producing in or with Germany and the future Film Funding Law (FFG).Those wanting to ...
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Hong Kong production cycles getting longer
Production cycles are starting to get longer in Hong Kong which was once renowned for its "one-month" movies. As a result, three films scheduled for release during Chinese New Year next January are already in the can and undergoing an unusually lengthy post-production process.Media Asia's Magic Kitchen and Mandarin Films' ...
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Dream racks up Monster deals
LA-based production and international sales outfit Dream Entertainment has completed a raft of sales on Michael Davis' horror film Monster Man, which completed production last month.Gaga has picked up rights for Japan, Magna Pacific for Australia, Kinowelt for Germany, Gussi for Mexico, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Village Roadshow for Greece.In ...
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Diot's Onoma unveils debut slate
Onoma International, the new sales company launched in September by Pascal Diot, former head of Pathe International (France), has unveiled a four film slate headed by new Chinese picture Day And Night (Riri Yeye).Day And Night is directed by Wang Chao, who attracted strong critical acclaim for his first film ...
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Trust to sell Mother's Elling
Trust Film Sales will handle world sales on Mother's Elling, the follow up to 2001's international box-office hit Elling, which has already been seen by more than 300,000 Norwegians and grossed some $2.5m in four weeks. UIP, which distributes the film in Scandinavia, had first look, but Trust Film Sales ...
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Good Woman starts shooting
Mike Barker's A Good Woman, billed as a scandalous but comic tale set in New York and Italy's Amalfi Coast during the 1930s, has begun principal photography on location in Sorrento.Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson star in the film, which is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play Lady ...
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HONG KONG
Two Category III films (for persons aged 18 or above only) top the Hong Kong box office this week. Chan Hing-kai and Dante Lam's comedy Naked Ambition took the top slot with $553,710 from 29 screens. Produced by Panorama Entertainment and China Star, the film is about two university graduates ...
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ITALY
Italian film Prima Dammi Un Bacio (literally, First Give Me A Kiss) became the top-grossing local film of the weekend, after it earned Euros 221,083 for UIP from 93 screens.Produced by Rome's Sunflower Productions with backing from the Italian government's Fondo di Garanzia, Prima Dammi Un Bacio tells the story ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Matrix Revolutions blitzed the opposition in New Zealand as it did around the world, grossing a highly impressive NZ$1,266,716 from 77 screens for a screen average of NZ$16,451. Such was its power that it also pulled The Matrix Reloaded back into the chart in thirteenth spot, despite being on ...
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Revolutions trails predecessor in domestic opening
As expected, The Matrix Revolutions opened number one at the weekend on a $50.2m three-day estimated gross that was certainly nothing to be sniffed at but trailed its May predecessor by some 45%.Since opening on Wednesday to fairly dire reviews, the final episode in the Wachowski Brothers' sci-fi trilogy has ...
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Increased film funding ahead for Slovenia, Bulgaria
Filmmakers in Slovenia and Bulgaria could benefit from increased funding for film and television production in the future according to new audiovisual legislation in preparation.Speaking at this year's Connecting Cottbus co-development market at the Cottbus Film Festival, Tanika Sajatovic, Head of Promotion and Sales at the Slovenian Film Fund, said ...
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FACT appoints UK operations director
UK anti-piracy body FACT has appointed of Jim Angell as director of operations.Angell has been acting director of operations since the departure of Spencer Mott in August 2003. He joined FACT in 2001 after a long career in the Metropolitan Police.A Director General post will be filled in early 2004.
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Dutch DVD market on track for record year
DVD sales in The Netherlands' are expected to hit record of Euros 495m in 2003, surpassing revenues from music CD sales for the first time. The CD market will be worth Euros 340 million. The video-market, however, is collapsing, falling 59% in 2003 to 40 million Euro. The figures are ...
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Homerun is a non-starter in Malaysia
Raintree Pictures' Homerun - which has picked up two nominations from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards this year - has been banned in Malaysia.The Chinese-language drama was nominated for best new performer for Megan Zheng as well as best original song - the lyrics of which are penned by director Jack ...
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Inheritance has windfall in Lubeck
Per Fly's Danish drama Inheritance was awarded the main NDR Promotion Prize of Euro12,500 at the 45th Nordic Film Days in Lubeck, the world's largest showcase of Nordic and Baltic cinema.Norwegian films dominated all other categories. The audience award from Lubecker Nachrichten went to Gunnar Vikene's feature debut Falling Sky, ...
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Soda takes Reconstruction for the UK
Hot newcomer Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, which has picked up a slew of awards since winning the Camera D'Or and Label Regards Jeunes in Cannes, has been picked up for the UK by equally young outfit Soda Pictures. Reconstruction is the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards and recently secured the ...
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Russian director cranks up The American
Production got underway this week on acclaimed Russian director Alexei Balabanov's new film The American (Amerikanets).A week of filming in New York started on Monday (3 Nov, 2003) before the production uproots and moves to Siberia for a further month. The thriller is a co-production between Russia's CTB Film Company ...
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Arau wraps Mexican Zapata epic
Director Alfonso Arau has just wrapped an ambitious $10m biopic of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata - the most expensive Mexican film ever shot.It's been a long and tortuous effort for Arau to get the film off the ground. Arau - whose magic realism drama Like Water For Chocolate was a ...