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Berlinale unveils first Talent Campus
The first Berlinale Talent Campus will take place from February 10 to 14 during the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival at the House of World Cultures Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick, in co-operation with Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg's Prof. Klaus Keil and U.K. Film Council's Paul Trijbits, is inviting up-and-coming filmmakers from ...
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Buena Vista Int'l TV signs deal with Portugal's SIC
Buena Vista International (BVI-TV) has signed a new agreement with Portuguese free-TV broadcaster SIC. The multi-year, multi-genre agreement will provide SIC with features including Toy Story, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Disney's The Kid, Remember The Titans and The Royal Tenenbaums. Live action series include Alias and the channel will ...
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Lilo passes $80m, Signs $120m for BVI
Buena Vista International's Lilo & Stitch took $4.1m over the weekend to elevate its cumulative international total so far to $80.1m. In its second week in the UK the animated feature grossed $2.9m for a cumulative score of $5.8m. In Australia it took $702,000 in its fourth week for a ...
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Minority Report has $13m weekend in Europe for Fox
Fox's sci-fi thriller Minority Report continued its storming run over the weekend with a $13m haul from 19 European markets to give it a $145m international cumulative score. The picture opened number one in Greece with a $380,000 gross from 51 screens - yet another all time best territory opening ...
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Made In Germany lineup unveiled for AFI FEST
AFI FEST, the Los Angeles International Film Festival which is organised by the American Film Institute (AFI), has announced the line-up of Made In Germany, a featured section of contemporary German film which has been put together for the first time in partnership with the Export-Union Of German Cinema. Made ...
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Albert Page hired as development director at Hoberman's Mandeville
Albert Page has been hired as director of development for Mandeville Films, David Hoberman's Disney-based production outfit which has been rekindled after Hoberman exited Hyde Park Entertainment earlier this year.Page comes to Mandeville from DreamWorks-based Jinks-Cohen Company where he spent two and a half years developing project such as Family ...
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Home-grown films find growing success in Argentina
In the past month, local films accounted for 20% of total admissions in Argentina - a phenomenon few countries can boast against the assault of Hollywood titles. Argentineans have always displayed a healthy interest in their national output. However, the release of various strong local titles emerging at around the ...
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Buckingham takes charge of UK arthouse 'virtual circuit'
Former FilmFour deputy chief executive Peter Buckingham has been appointed as head of the Film Council's new distribution and exhibition fund.Designed to boost the exhibition of arthouse films in the UK, the fund will have a budget of $22m (£14m) over the next four years to create a virtual circuit ...
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Blue Star Movie, Spice Factory sign co-production deal
Italy's Blue Star Movie has signed a joint venture agreement with the UK's Spice Factory to co-produce three to five pictures a year that will be shot in Italy in English with budgets ranging from $3m - $20m.The first project to be made under the agreement which was signed by ...
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Local title wins Warsaw festival's first international competition
Despite having lost its state backing, the 18th Warsaw International Film Festival this year introduced a new competition section, awarding the Grand Prix Nescafe, worth Euros 5,000 to a local Polish film Edi by director Piotr Trzaskalski.The 'New Directors, New Films' international competition section was a novelty at this year's ...
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Darkness descends on Spain
Darkness, second-time director Jaume Balaguero's English-language chiller, burst onto Spanish screens this weekend, taking in an impressive three-day box office gross of Euros 1.16m. The Miramax-backed $12m horror film from Barcelona-based Filmax's genre label Fantastic Factory opened Friday on 276 copies. Darkness made its world premiere October 3 as the ...
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Shooting starts on Helen Of Peckham
Shooting has started on Helen Of Peckham, the feature debut of writer-director Emily Young, starring Peter Mullan and Ingeborga Dapkunaite.Helen Of Peckham - a working title - tells the story of an aid worker in war-torn Eastern Europe who travels back to his family in London, unaware of a tragedy ...
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France submits 8 Femmes for foreign-language Oscar
Francois Ozon's 8 Femmes has been selected as France's submission for the best foreign-language film award at the Oscars.The nomination seems well-deserved as the critically-acclaimed film has not only performed strongly in France, where it sold 3.8 million tickets, but has also proved a hot-seller on the international market.Ozon has ...
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Box office gets red hot as Dragon flies to the top
Proving that UK audiences have not lost their appetites for Hannibal Lecter, UIP's Red Dragon stormed to the top of the chart at the weekend with a mighty $4.96m (£3.2m) haul from 428 sites, including $1.05m (£674,621) of previews from 385 sites.The film, a prequel to 1991's Oscar-winning The Silence ...
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Spain's Tesela secures Alta outlet
Spanish producer Tesela has signed a theatrical distribution deal with local arthouse distributor Alta Films for the release of all of its feature films over the next three years.First up will be The Suit (El Traje) Pictured), Alberto Rodriguez's Sevilla-set dramatic comedy which screened last month at San Sebastian and ...
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Local successes defy Polish production crisis
Despite the ongoing crisis in the Polish film industry that has seen the collapse of both production levels and budgets, local films continue to dominate the country's box office Polish productions or co-productions currently account for five of the top ten films on release. Topping the box office is Andrzej ...
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CTFDI's XXX is second in France, but top in six territories
XXX opened in second place in France for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) over the weekend with a $2.4m haul from 626 screens. The high-octane action thriller trailed Minority Report but the studio declared it a good opening, comparable to actioners Vertical Limit and Spy Game. There were number ...
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Reports of the death of the German film industry are premature
One of Germany's most prominent film industry figures has countered talk of a national cinema crisis with a prediction of rapid and dramatic growth and a call for the centralisation of the country's film studios.Writing in the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Germany's general manager for Columbia Tristar, Juergen ...
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Films In Progress seeks entries for third round of screenings
The Films In Progress (Cine En Construccion) joint initiative of the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Latin American Screenings of Toulouse have sent out a call for entries for the third round of screenings to be held in Toulouse (March 21-30, 2003).The first and second rounds of the ...
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Stockholm Int'l film festival to launch sales office
For the first time the Stockholm International Film Festival (November 14-24) will include a sales office for buyers and sellers. The aim of the Stockholm Sales Office is to provide a network to broaden Nordic cinema distribution of films screening at the Stockholm International Film Festival.Over 120 films have gained ...