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HUNGARY
A true winner at last weekend's Hungarian box office was local feature Happy Birthday! (Boldog Szuletesnapot!). The debut film from local director Csaba Fazekas (pictured), it tells the story of a young man who turns 30, and realizes he doesn't have a wife, a house, a car, children and has ...
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NORWAY
Hollywood blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl was joined at the top of the chart by BVI stablemate Piglet's Big Movie in Norway. This pushed the two local crowd-pleasers, Buddy and United to third and fourth spot on the chart. Both local romantic comedies fell ...
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UK/IRELAND
Buena Vista International's Calendar Girls saw a stunning platform debut at the weekend in an exclusive run at London's Odeon Leicester Square. The cinema boasts the biggest auditorium in the country, able to seat nearly 2,000 people, and brought in $117,512 (£74,150) since the film's launch on Wednesday September 3. ...
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Marrakech announces line up
Takeshi Kitano Zatoochi, Mira Nair's Hysterical Blindness, Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent and Gotam Ghose's In The Forest'Again are among the films competing for the Golden Star (Etoile d'Or) at this year's Marrakech Film Festival (October 3-8).German director Volker Schloendorff (The Handmaiden's Tale, War And Peace) will led the feature ...
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Calendar Girls to open Dinard
Calendar Girls, Nigel Cole's British film that has been garnering plaudits since it premiered in Locarno last month, is to open the 14th Festival Du Film Britannique de Dinard(October 2-5)The film, which stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, will kick-off the festival which is sponsored by the British Film Council ...
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You Don't Have To Say You Love starts shooting
UK production outfit Samuelson Productions, tax-driven First Choice Films, distributor Momentum Pictures and tax-based financier Isle of Man Film are starting shooting on comedy drama You Don't Have To Say You Love Me this week.The story of a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility ...
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Marrakesh
The Marrakesh International Film Festival will run from October 3 to 8 this year with German director Volker Schlondorff presiding over the feature film jury. Jeremy Irons will head up the short film jury.This is the third go round for Marrakesh which has been gaining momentum throughout its run. Very ...
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Dali/Disney short among 15 selected for New York Film Festival
Salvador Dali's mythical abandoned project for Walt Disney will beamong a series of 15 international shorts to screen at the 41st New York FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 3-19.The surrealist Spanish painter never finished Destino, which finally comes to the screen afterit was completed by director Dominique Monfrey and a ...
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Polanski readies Oliver Twist adaptation
A Roman Polanski adaptation of Oliver Twist may sound odd, but the film's producer Robert Benmussa insists 'a family film' like this 'will really suit him'.News emerged this week that Polanski is teaming up again with the makers of The Pianist for an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.Oscar winning ...
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Kordon takes top prize at Montreal, Gaz Bar Blues second
Goran Markovic's intense drama Kordon from Serbia/Montenegro won the top prize- the Grand prix des Ameriques - at the Montreal World Film Festival on Sundaynight. Set in Belgrade in 1997, the film follows a police patrol on its roundsaround the city which is swept up in a sea of unrest ...
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Germany's Boll gets film rights to video game BloodRayne
Fledgling German production company Boll KG has picked uptheatrical and merchandise rights to the popular video game BloodRayne from games developer and publisherMajesco.Executive producer and director Uwe Boll plans to begin filming in2004 with Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures set to produce.The production will be in the $30m range and ...
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Dickie leads moribund week at the box office
The autumn season began with a whimper at the weekend asParamount's Dickie Roberts: Child Star opened top on $7m while Fox's The Order flopped in sixth place on $4.3m.The weekend after Labor Day is noted for its lack of sparkle. Evenso, Paramount's first chart topper since How To Lose A ...
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Goodmorning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte)
Dir: Marco Bellocchio. Italy. 2003. 105 mins.Marco Bellocchio's passionate but controlled psychological study of Red Brigade terrorism is not the masterpiece that some Italian critics would claim; nor was Bellocchio 'robbed' of the Golden Lion at this year's Venice festival, which went to a better film, Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return. ...
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Toronto means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Festival means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Polanski in Oscar rendezvous at Deauville
The Deauville Festival of American Film kicked off on Friday night under stormy skies with at least one star shining bright. Harrison Ford, who's become something of a regular in the Normandy town having presented his films here for the past twenty years, came to jump-start the festival with his ...
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Macdonald, Spence reteam to run Palm Springs Film Festival
The board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival hasnamed former Seattle InternationalFilm Festival mainstays Darryl Macdonald and Carl Spence as executive directorand director of programming respectively.The appointees arrive withthe full endorsement of the festival board after a global search for a management team to raise the profile of both ...
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GERMANY
Distributor X-Verleih scored another local comedy hit this weekend with Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen). Hendrik Handloegten's film, which tells the story of a West German man between 1982 and 1998 and his inability to forget his first love, sold 88,016 tickets over the weekend for third place and the ...
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JAPAN
Boosted by its warm reception at the Venice Film Festival, Takeshi Kitano's samurai swashbuckler Zatoichi soared to $4.3m (¥500m) on its opening weekend in Japan - the strongest local start for any of Kitano's 11 films. Awarded the Open 2003 Mimmo Rotella Foundation prize midway through the festival, Kitano found ...