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Beta Cinema takes Mifed sales duties for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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India Rising to big budget challenge
Ketan Mehta's The Rising starts production in Mumbai next week, with Britain's Prince Charles lined up to snap the clapperboard to mark the start of principal photography. Prince Charles is currently on a nine-day visit to India.Costing $20m, The Rising is set to be the most expensive film ever to ...
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Horror films look for Halloween box office bump
Several distributors are launching horror titles in major territories this weekend to coincide with Halloween.The UK and Ireland will see the Director's Cut reissue of Ridley Scott's Alien go head to head with New Line's remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult favourite The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.The UK is the first ...
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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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Internationalmedia posts record revenues
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines has helped Internationalmedia (IM) - parent company of Intermedia - generate third quarter revenues of between Euros 151-156m - a quarterly record for the company. The quarterly sales largely resulted from minimum guarantees for Terminator 3, which has already topped $427m at the worldwide ...
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Pressure piles up on Korean quota system
South Korea's embattled Screen Quota System is facing its gravest challenge to date after president Roh Moo-hyun and other members of the executive branch have spoken out in favour of weakening the system.In a meeting with reporters on October 30, the Chief Presidential Secretary for National Policy spoke of finding ...
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Non English-language buzz films at Mifed 2003
Against The Wall(Germany)Word on the street: Fatih Akin's best yetThe word is good on the latest film from writer-director-actor FatihAkin, whose credits include Short Sharp Shock, In July and Solino.Against The Wall (Gegen Die Wand), now in post-production, is a tragiclove story starring Birol Uenel and Sibel Kekilli as a ...
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Non-English buzz films at Mifed 2003
In the first of a two part series we look at the hot non-English-language films and projects debuting at Mifed.Against The Wall(Germany)Word on the street: Fatih Akin's best yetThe word is good on the latest film from writer-director-actor FatihAkin, whose credits include Short Sharp Shock, In July and Solino.Against The ...
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Spain's BocaBoca restructures with Lekhal appointment
Spanish production house BocaBoca has appointed Waheb Lekhal its new general manager to work alongside president Cesar Benitez.Also as part of the company's restructuring, former international sales chief Mercedes Borruel will leave her post while BocaBoca product, with exceptions, will now be pumped through sales consortium Grupo PI. That includes ...
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Borruel departs as BocaBoca appoints Lekhal
Spanish production house BocaBoca has appointed Waheb Lekhal its new general manager to work alongside president Cesar Benitez.Also as part of the company's restructuring, former international sales chief Mercedes Borruel will leave her post while BocaBoca product, with exceptions, will now be pumped through sales consortium Grupo PI. That includes ...
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Australia singles out Japanese Story, Gettin' Square
Un Certain Regard film Japanese Story dominated the prizes at the 2003 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, held in Sydney on Friday night (Oct 31).Japanese Story won best film for producer Sue Maslin, best director for Sue Brooks, best actress for Toni Collette, best cinematography for Ian Baker, and ...
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France's Louis Delluc prize names nominees
Five films have been nominated for the 61st Prix Louis Delluc, one of France's top honours for film.The five candidates are: Jacques Rivette's Histoire De Marie Et Julien; Jacques Doillon's Raja which screened at both Venice and Marrakesh; Noemie Lvovsky's Les Sentiments - also a Venice competitor; Cannes entry Tiresia ...
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FRANCE
In one of the biggest openings this year, Francis Veber's latest comedy Tais Toi managed to almost break the cherished 1 million admissions mark in its first week. In January, Taxi 3 claimed an impressive 65% of the market over its five-day launch with 2,036,368 admissions ($10.6m) taken from 969 ...
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Preview: markets go head-to-head
If the organisers of theAmerican Film Market (AFM) and their many powerful supporters have their way,2003 will prove to be Mifed's swansong, great pasta and wonderful shoppingnotwithstanding. By scheduling a rival AFMnext November, AFMA is forcing film buyers into a cruel choice. Do they allsuccumb to the gravitational pull of ...
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HONG KONG
The second lacklustre week in a row at the Hong Kong box office suggests that audiences spent their hard-earned cash on local event films Running On Karma and Infernal Affairs II earlier in the month and need strong persuasion to visit the cinema again. Of this week's five new openers, ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Petricic's Almost Totally Ordinary Story opened last weekend at the third position in its home territory. The urban comedy, featuring a cast of newcomers sold 3,448 tickets to earn $9,020 for distributor Pro Vision. The two top positions are held by Small World and Pirates Of The Caribbean for ...
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Japan acts to boost its international film profile
Encouraged by recent Hollywood interest in Japanese films such as The Ring and Spirited Away, the Japanese government is looking to further raise the profile of local films abroad.Japan's External Trade Organization (Jetro) plans to assist four Japanese film companies setting up sales booths at next year's AFM, as well ...
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Australia's Animal Logic gears up for CGI Feet
Visual effects veteran Hael Kobayashi has relocated from LA to Sydney in the new role of digital artists manager at Australian effects house Animal Logic.Animal Logic is gearing up for production to start next year on director George Miller's Happy Feet, the first CGI animated feature to be produced in ...
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Brown Bunny bites back with Vienna victory
After attracting widespread disdain from international critics on its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny has now picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at this year's Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival in a re-edited version. Festival director Hans Hurch said the FIPRESCI jury's ...