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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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HONG KONG
Warner Bros' first foray into Chinese-language film production, Johnnie To's Turn Left, Turn Right, had a strong opening in Hong Kong, grossing US$988,574 and a screen average of US$26,718 in its first week. The results are particularly impressive for a romantic drama - amongst local productions, comedies usually dominate the ...
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ITALY
Terminator 3 opened at number one in Italy, its last international opening - and yet another first place on release - earning a powerful $2,392,393 from 511 screens for a screen average of $4,682. But the biggest surprise of the weekend was L'Apetta Giulia E La Signora Vita, Italy's first ...
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JAPAN
Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever may well play in Japan forever, if the film's mostly-female fans have their way. In its 9th week on release, the bio-drama starring Fanny Ardent and Jeremy Irons is still packing them in, with a $49,533 screen average from three urban theatres. Distributor Gaga has released ...
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T3 prepares to go out with bang in Italy
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines gets its final international release this upcoming weekend when it opens in Italy on Sept 19 on a massive 500 screens.A $6.7m opening gross from 723 prints for The Matrix Reloaded and $2.3m from 300 screens for X2 gives a flavour of the kind ...
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Gans readies big budget Silent Hill adaptation
Following a two-year hiatus since directing blockbuster Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Christophe Gans will step back behind the camera to direct an adaptation of Japanese video game series Silent Hill.The film will be produced by Samuel Hadida's Davis Films and continues a trend towards big screen video game adaptations for ...
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AFI FEST unveils high profile world premieres
The North American premiere of Nigel Cole's UK hit CalendarGirls and world premiere of PattyJenkins' serial killer drama Monster bookend the upcoming 17th AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival,which runs from Nov 6-16.Two other worldpremieres take pride of place as centerpiece galas in the form of VadimPerelman's drama House Of ...
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Ben Ammar beefs up post-production business
Producer entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar has just upped the stakes for his Quinta Communications group by adding troubled French post-production house Duran-Duboi to his list of acquisitions. The Tunisian-born businessman last year purchased post labs LTC and Ex-Machina in order to create the leader in French sound facilities. The embattled ...
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Brazilian dramas win Miravista backing
Miravista, the pan Latino joint co production venture between The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Telefonica Spain's Admira, has boarded two new Brazilian projects, according to Miravista manager Fernando Lagier.Its first project, now shooting , is Underground Games (Jogo Subteraneo), based on the novel by Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. ...
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Bell lands the lead role in Vinterberg's Wendy
17year-old British star Jamie Bell has landed the plum lead part in ThomasVinterberg's highly anticipated Dear Wendy which is based on a script by Lars Von Trier.JoiningBell in the cast of the thriller, which starts shooting on Sept 26 inCopenhagen, are US actors Chris Owen, Mark Webber and Michael Angarano ...
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US exhibitor looks to cash in on Russian multiplex boom
Russia's largest multiplex opened this week (17 Sept) with a special gala screening of The Italian Job attended by its stars Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron as well as National Amusements top exec Shari Redstone. The new 11 screen, 7500 square metre KinoStar De Lux cinema seats 3100 people and ...
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Lenin! eyes landmark box office haul
Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! - which was named as Germany's contender for the Oscar foreign language section this week - continues to prove an international box office sensation as it nears the $50m international cumulative mark.The X Filme Creative Pool production, for which Bavaria Film International handles worldwide sales, ...
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Dutch call for creation of National Film Institute
The establishment of a National Film Institute would go a long way to solving many of the problems of identity and organisation that currently bedevil the Dutch film industry. That at least is the conclusion of the Council For Culture, the Dutch government's highest ranking advisory committee on culture.The Council ...
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Denis nears wrap on worldwide L'Intrus shoot
Director Claire Denis is close to wrapping a two month shoot on her next film, L'Intrus. The film is co-produced by Franco-German channel Arte, which will air the film on its network prior to a theatrical release - as happened with Patrice Chereau's Son Frere earlier this year.Ognon Picture is ...
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Vatican cardinal backs Gibson's Passion
A top Vatican cardinal has praised Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion as "a triumph of art" and has rejected fears it could spark a wave of anti-Semitism. Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, head of the Vatican department in charge of priests, who saw an unfinished version of the film, told ...
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Bayside Shakedown 2 swells Toho's coffers
Boosted by the smash success of Bayside Shakedown 2, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor Toho has announced record six-month earnings. Half year revenues, for the period ending in August amounted to $422m (Y48.9bn), representing a 4.9% gain over the previous period, as well as a huge improvement on an ...
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ADV acquires domestic rights to Korea's animated Mari
Houston-based ADV Films, a producer-distributor of Japaneseanimation in North America, has acquired North American rights to LeeSeong-Kang's award-winning Korean digital animated feature, My BeautifulGirl, Mari.The film won best feature at the 2002 Annecy InternationalAnimated Film festival and is a magic-realist tale of a boy who takes refugefrom his family's troubles ...
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Huppert signs up for erotic adaptation
Isabelle Huppert is to star in Ma Mere, an adaptation of the erotic novel by Georges Bataille which to be directed by Christophe Honore Ma Mere is produced Paolo Branco and his company Gemini Films. Shooting begins on the film, for which budget details were unavailable, in October in the ...
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Company, Invasions screen at Aspen Filmfest
A retrospective of 1970sAmerican cinema, a focus on women directors and the latest films from DenysArcand and Robert Altman are among the highlights of the 25th Aspen Filmfest,which runs from Sept 30-Oct 5.The Colorado event openswith Altman's ballet ensemble The Company and will close with Alejandro Agresti'saward-winning Spanish-language relationship drama ...