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Green Planet dominates Pusan Critics Awards
The Pusan Film Critics Association has unveiled the winners of the 4th Pusan Film Critics Awards, with the genre-bending Save The Green Planet by Jang Jun-hwan taking Best Picture, Best Actor (Shin Ha-kyun), and Best New Director. The acclaimed debut work has previously won Best Director at the Moscow ...
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Elling set to become a trilogy
A third film about Norway's favourite neurotic Elling - the main character from the Oscar nominated Norwegian box-office hit - is set for the big screen, producer Dag Alveberg of Maipo Film confirmed this week."This is not a case of boiling soup on a thin bone," he told ScreenDaily.com "There ...
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Mexico, Bolivia unveil Oscar contenders
Mexico has selected Mexican-Spanish co production Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer to vie for the best foreign language Oscar. Directed by Agustin Villaronga, Lydia Zimmerman and Isaac Pierre Racine, the docu fiction drama is based on a true story of a Hungarian in Guatemala who killed seven ...
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Filmax funds boosted by Spanish investors
In a long-anticipated move which gives national and regional government interests direct shares in a film business, Spanish producer-distributor-exhibitor Filmax has undergone a capital increase worth Euros 32m.The five bodies underwriting the increase are Catalan government-backed Finance Institute (ICF) with 3.9%, the Galician government's investment fund XesGalicia with 9.8%, the ...
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Warner Bros UK promotes Strafford, Cressey
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK has named Patrick Strafford to the newly created position of group commercial development director and Alison Cressey to the newly created position of group marketing director.Both will report directly to Josh Berger, executive vice president & managing director, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK.Strafford will work with the ...
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Germany dismisses calls for tax incentives
The Gerhard Schroeder SPD-Green coalition administration has dashed any hopes for the introduction of tax incentives into Germany, similar to those in place in the UK and Canada. The move came in a response to a parliamentary question on the film industry tabled by the CDU and CSU opposition parties. ...
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Pontecorvo classic gets US re-issue via Rialto, Classic Collection
Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers, the legendary re-telling of thestruggle for Algerian independence from France, will be re-released in the USby Rialto Pictures in association with The Classic Collection, a joint ventureof Janus Films and Homevision Entertainment, in January 2004.The film will open in New York, Los ...
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Leigh embarks on untitled London shoot
Iconic UK director Mike Leigh started shooting his latest feature today (Sept 30) at locations around London.The film, set to shoot for ten weeks, stars Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Adrian Scarborough and Heather Craney.Typically for a Mike Leigh project, details at the production stage are sketchy. ...
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Garlock joins WBPI in new promotions senior vp post
Gene Garlock has been appointed to the new post of senior vicepresident of promotions at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Reporting directly to Sue Kroll, president of marketing at WBPI,Garlock will head up the promotions department with particular focus ondeveloping third-party business tied to international releases.Along with developing and managing ongoing ...
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Calendar Girls back on top
A host of new releases disappointed this week in the UK and Ireland leaving BVI's Calendar Girls unchallenged and able to sweep back to the top of the chart.The comedy drama is showing Billy Elliot-type box office legs and after improving 5% in its second week on wide release over ...
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Hollywood independents in shock as MPAA screener ban rewrites Oscar game
Studio-affiliated members of the independent film community claimtheir chances of success in the upcoming awards season could lie in ruins nowthat the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) proposal to abolishpreview screening tapes looks likely to be pushed through this week.The specialized divisions of the studios - Fine Line Features,Focus ...
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Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator takes Fantastisk prize
Prolific producer-director Brian Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator won him top honours, the Melies d'Argent Award, at this weekend's Fantastisk Film Festival in Lund, Sweden. The American filmmaker, who has made most of his recent films in Spain, made his feature debut as producer of the original Re-Animator, a cult classic from ...
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Pirates still controls international box office seas
Buena Vista International(BVI)'s Pirates Of The Caribbeanremained the top international film at the weekend as it grossed $13m andraised its international running total to $292m.The highlights wereholdovers in the UK, where in its seventh week the film dropped 12% and added$1.2m for $41.4m, and Germany, where it dropped 24% in ...
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DENMARK
The release of Christoffer Boe's multiple-award winning feature debut Reconstruction couldn't have bought the publicity up to its premiere if it had wanted to. Just the day before it's release it became the Danish submission for the Oscars; before that it had picked up the Camera d'Or in Cannes and ...
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Hero scores number one opening in France
Zhang Yimou's action epic Hero opened number one in France at the weekend, grossing$1.9m from 375 theatres. According to executives atUniversal, which distributed the film there after acquiring rights from Focus,the opening was well ahead of the 10 other new entries and comprised 60% of the2000 opening for Crouching Tiger, ...
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GERMANY
Solo Film's Jester Till (Till Eulenspiegel) comfortably exceeded the 100,000 admissions barrier to take $600,187 for 118,687 tickets from 507 prints. The large-scale release of the Euros 15m animation feature by Eberhard Junkersdorf's Munich Animation studio is seen by some observers as something of a turning point for Solo-Film who ...
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Hausfater lands at Miramax in international role
Industry veteran Jere Hausfater has landed at Miramax Films asexecutive vice president and co-head of Miramax International.Breaking tradition for the company's international arm, he will bebased in Los Angeles but will report to New York-based COO Rick Sands. He willwork alongside Stuart Ford, the Miramax executive vice president who took ...
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NORWAY
The record 100 print release of newcomer Alexander Eik's romantic comedy The Woman Of My Life paid off in the film's first weekend, where it pushed American Wedding down 43% and Pirates Of The Caribbean 30%. Well known for his sure hand at marketing, veteran producer John M. Jacobsen has ...
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SWEDEN
Mikael Haafstroem's highly anticipated Evil (Ondskan) had a tremendous opening weekend with 108,000 admissions on its 95 prints, more than double the take of second-placed, Pirates Of The Caribbean. With more than two million copies sold of Jan Guillou's autobiographical novel from 1981, it wasn't surprising that expectations were high ...
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Golden Harvest looks to acquire Taiwan's Warner Village
Hong Kong entertainment giant Golden Harvest is understood to be in talks to acquire Taiwan's Warner Village - the joint exhibition venture between Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT) and Australia's Village Roadshow. If the acquisition goes ahead, it would provide Golden Harvest with the missing piece in its exhibition network ...