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Mifed unveils market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...
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ARGENTINA
Buoyed by favourable reviews and a strong following of the teen slasher franchise, Freddy Vs Jason opened strong to dominate the ranks this weekend. Alejandro Agresti's Valentin held its ground at number two, with an 11% rise in admissions since last weekend. Bad Boys II slipped to third after opening ...
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UK Spellbound by new releases
The UK saw a quartet of hugely successful openings this week from an eclectic mix of titles. A low budget horror; a documentary about a highly competitive US spelling competition; a computer animated fish tale; and a rip-roaring rampage of revenge sought out audiences in different sectors of the market ...
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Indie Circle acquires first European title
Celebrated Spanish film Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos) has become the first European picture to be bought collectively by multi-national buying consortium Indie Circle.The deal was struck with seller Sogepaq following its screening in San Sebastian and means the film will be assured of distribution in France (through ...
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Irish UIP Awards announced
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has announced the winners of the UIP Irish Directors Awards which will be presented at the Cork Film Festival this coming weekend. Inaugurated in 2000 by SPI in conjunction with UIP and the Irish Film Board and open only to Irish directors they remain, with a ...
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Francois Da Silva appointed at Europa Corp.
Former Cannes Directors' Fortnight artistic director Francois Da Silva has joined Europa Corp. as Artistic Advisor. Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's successful Paris-based studio announced Da Silva's appointment on Tuesday in a press release and said he had been effectively working with the company since October 1.Da Silva surprised ...
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Australia seeks support in free trade negotiations
With support from international writers' guilds, the Australian industry is now hoping to get actors to back their quest to get a cultural exemption in the free trade agreement currently being negotiated between Australia and the US.There remains extreme nervousness that the right to have subsidies, tax advantages and content ...
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Japanese Story, Gettin' Square lead Australian awards race
The stand-out films from yesterday's announcement of the nominations for the annual IF Awards are Japanese Story and Gettin' Square, each of which have eight chances to take home an award from the November 12 presentation. Both have been nominated for best feature and direction.The third nominee for best feature ...
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Belgian Oscar hopeful gets new ending
In a remarkable move, Belgian director Stijn Coninx has decided to change the ending of his new film Verder Dan De Maan (Sea Of Silence), the Belgian submission for the foreign-language Oscar - even though the submission deadline has already passed. The film was screened at the recent Dutch Filmfestival ...
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MIPCOM closes with host of deals
The studios were particularly active in using MIPCOM to announce film and made-for-TV film deals:Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) struck a multi-year agreement with Lusomundo for the pay-TV broadcast of its entire Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures slates in Portugal. The first-time deal covers features and TV movies which ...
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Solo Film, EuroVideo sign license deal
German theatrical distributor Solo Flim Verleih has concluded a wide-reaching deal with EuroVideo Bildprogramm for the rental and sell-through video/DVD rights to sixteen of its titles.The package includes such films as The Good Thief, The United States Of Leland and 11:4 as well as the current release Jester Till (Till ...
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Evil director returns to school for ghost story
While Mikael Haafstroem's adaptation of Jan Guillou's autobiographical bestseller, Evil (Ondskan), is still dominating the local box-office, he has started shooting his new film Strandvaskeren (literally 'the body washed ashore') outside Stockholm. A co-production between Hans Lonnerheden's Greta Film and Nordisk Film's H.P. Lundh, the SKR16.8m psychological thriller takes place ...
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Video-on-demand gathers speed
The way forward for video-on-demand (VoD) seems suddenly to be gaining momentum around the world - although pure VoD in which all content is always available at the click of a button still looks a very remote possibility.The technology to deliver VoD has existed for several years, but until recently ...
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SpaaMART names its hottest scripts
Nadia Tass, director of the popular comedies Malcolm and The Big Steal, John Curran of cult hit Praise fame, and Tony Ayres, whose recent debut feature Walking On Water drew wide critical acclaim, are at the helm of three of the 23 films to be presented at this year's inaugural ...
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Film20 assesses EU-expansion in the film industry
In advance of the second part of its Euro Expansion Conference, to be held in Berlin on October 20 - 21, Germany's Film20 producer lobby group held a press conference in Berlin to set the agenda. Titled 'Pro Extension in the film business' the event set out the strategy of ...
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Intermission dominates Irish Film&TV Awards
Intermission, which passed the Euos 2m mark at the Irish box office last week, has been shortlisted in 11 award categories in the Irish Film & Television Awards which will be announced in Dublin on November 1. Debut director John Crowley, and writer Mark O'Rowe have both been nominated for ...
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Lescure returns to his roots
Pierre Lescure is returning to his roots. The former Canal Plus chairman, who started as a radio and television journalist, will present a cinema news program on French terrestrial network France 5 beginning this season.Although no start date is slated for the show, entitled 24 1/2, France 5 today announced ...
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Myriad is hot for Porn
Myriad Pictures has picked up international sales rights to Porn 'n Chicken, the first feature film to be made by the Comedy Central group.The film was directed by Lawrence Trilling and is a story based on urban legends about a group of five students who form a club to watch ...
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Fox enjoys $13.1m weekend with LXG, top in Italy, Japan, Taiwan
Number one openings inItaly, Japan and Taiwan were the chief drivers in a $13.1m weekend haul for TheLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) that raised its international running total to $68.7m.Fox International'sfantasy/adventure grossed $2.4m from 337 screens in Italy, $2.2m from 362 inJapan and $1.2m from 91 in Taiwan.There were a ...