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Copenhagen Children's festival unveils line-up
Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival - Buster (Sep 29 -Oct 5), has launched its first programme in collaboration with New Nordic Children's Film. This has led to by far strongest programme in the festival's three year history, which includes features, shorts, documentaries and animated films screened for free for young ...
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Russia 'an untapped opportunity for cinema industry'
Russia is set to become the sixth highest grossing cinema market in Europe with five years, according to a new research report. Dodona Research's Cinemagoing Russia says that by 2007, box office is forecast to rise to US$400 million in response to the much-awaited modernisation of the Russian cinema sector."With ...
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Swiss comedy smashes local records
Mike Eschmann's teenage comedy Ready, Steady, Charlie! (Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!) has taken over $731,000 CHF 1m, making it the all-time biggest opener for a Swiss feature film in Switzerland.The film relegated Pirates Of The Caribbean and American Pie 3 to second and third places in the Swiss box office ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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Online DVD rental market hots up in UK
Two ambitious online DVD rental services have launched into the UK within a week of each other - both looking to tap into the booming DVD market.Screenselect.co.uk is backed by the founder of Amazon UK, while the directors of rival service Videoisland.com include Simon Franks, chief executive of distributor Redbus.Both ...
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Polish industry stunned by festival upset
The 28th edition of the Polish Film Festival (Sept 16-20), held in the Baltic resort of Gdynia, turned into the most controversial event since the days when Polish filmmakers battled communist bureaucrats in the 1980's. Only this time the battle was artistic rather than political. In a decision that ...
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Franchise takes international rights to Hollywood North
Elie Samaha's LA-based Franchise Pictures has acquiredinternational rights in all media to Hollywood North, Peter O'Brian's comedy that recentlypremiered at Toronto.The film centres on the trials and tribulations of making a filmin Canada and stars Alan Bates, Matthew Modine, Deborah Kara Unger, JenniferTilly, John Neville, Fabrizio Filippo and Joe Cobden.John ...
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Regulators probe Intertainment insider trading allegations
The beleaguered German license trader/producer Intertainment has come under suspicion of insider trading, according to German business newspaper Handelsblatt.The newspaper quoted a spokeswoman of the stock exchange watchdog BAFin as saying that it would "look at the case as a matter of routine." The allegations stem from a delay by ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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BSkyB chief Ball announces decision to step down
Tony Ball has officially confirmed that he is to step down from his job as chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting.Rumours of his departure have been circulating for the past week in the UK press, with James Murdoch - son of Rupert Murdoch - being tipped to replace him.Ball will ...
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Dirty Pretty Things leads BIFA nominations
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things has emerged as the frontrunner for this year's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), earning seven nominations. Sixteen Years of Alcohol and Buffalo Soldiers received five nominations followed by Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, Young Adam, In This World and Bright Young Things, each of which ...
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Witkins launches new 'boy' video label
Doug Witkins' US gay and lesbian boutique distributorPicture This! Entertainment has launched It's All About The Boy, a new videolabel catering to stories with wider appeal.First up is Denis Langlois' acclaimed French-Canadian drama DannyIn The Sky, which willbe released on DVD and VHS on Nov 25.Newcomer Thierry Pepin stars as ...
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BVI's treasure chest spills over with Pirates, Girls
Pirates Of The Caribbean stayed atop the international charts at the weekend despiteno major openings, adding $20m for a $270.5m running total.In its third weekend in Germany, the Buena VistaInternational (BVI) swashbuckler added $3.6m, dropping 42% for a $25.9cumulative score.Elsewhere, the UK dropped 23% and added $1.4m for $39.5m in ...
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UK Film Council offers funds to short film-makers
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund is inviting filmmakers and production companies with unfinished short films to apply to the £50,000 Completion Fund. The Fund, now in its second year, was developed to provide vital funds for the completion of short film projects.The Completion Fund is part of the ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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Wellspring pins docu Oscar hope on Girlhood
US distributor Wellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excludingUS television to Liz Garbus' coming-of-age documentary Girlhood and will immediately begin to license thefilm internationally.The film charts the livesof two Maryland girls as they attempt to put their violent past behind them andwill begin its theatrical release in New York on ...
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Although its week-on-week admission figures dropped by 42%, BVI's Pirates Of The Caribbean held on to the pole position at the German box office for the third week and has already become the third most successful release so far this year. The swashbuckler starring Johnny Depp, and Orlando Bloom had ...