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Berlinale Talent Campus film wins German Shorts nomination
UK filmmaker Philip Traill, one of the participants of this year's Berlinale Talent Campus, has seen his short film Dangle selected as one of ten finalists for this year's German Short Film Awards (Nov 10).Traill made his 5 minute 54 second short in Berlin in February after his script was ...
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Record number of foreign Oscar submissions
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hasunveiled the final list of submissions for the foreign language film awardcategory, claiming a record-breaking country count of 55, one more than lastyear.Notable absentee is India which made no submission this year, but for the first time Palestine has met submission criteria ...
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RTL buys stake in sister channel Vox
Germany's leading commercial broadcaster RTL is making its biggest ever investment by acquiring a 49.9% stake in sister channel Vox, according to RTL chief executive Gerhard Zieler in an interview with German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The stake is currently owned by RTL parent company, Luxembourg-based CLT-UFA, which bought News Corp's ...
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Bad Boys II tops international box office
Bad Boys II was the number one international film at the weekendas it grossed $16.2m from 4,640 screens in 55 markets and raised itsinternational running total to $85.2m.Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) confirmed its action sequel opened top inFrance on $3.9m from 700 screens, effectively overruling Universal'sclaim yesterday based on ...
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Moses, King get added responsibilities at Nielsen EDI
Box officetracking company Nielsen EDI is expanding the roles of two key executives as itcontinues to develop its data support services.Senn Moses willexpand his responsibilities, as president of Nielsen cinema and homeentertainment to oversee domestic business and operations, while Nick King,president of Nielsen Entertainment International, will now also overseeday-to-day international ...
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LXG scores another $10.6m for Fox
Fox International's TheLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG)continued to chase down the magical $100m mark as a $10.6m weekend haul from3,860 screens in 35 territories raised the film's running total to$85.1m.The fantasy-adventure openedthird in the UK on $3.3m from 365 screens and scored number one openings inGreece and Finland, grossing $370,000 ...
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River runs strong for Warner Bros in France, UK
Warner BrosPictures International released Mystic River in its first international markets atthe weekend, grossing $2.7m and 366,313 admissions from 504 screens in sixterritories.The murder mystery opened third in France on an estimated$1.7m and 254,000 admissions from 320 prints nationwide. In Paris it grossed$640,000 and 88,500 admissions from 40.It was director ...
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Nemo dazzles with $9.6m weekend in UK for BVI
Finding Nemo raised its international running total to $123.7m thanks to a $10.1mweekend haul that was driven by a stunning second weekend in the UK.The animated hit added $9.6mand remained number one in the UK for the second weekend in a row. To dateBuena Vista International's (BVI) family film has ...
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Infernal Affairs II
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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SWEDEN
The resilience of Mikael Haafstroem's Evil was proved this weekend when the massive 109 print release of Anders Nilsson's action-thriller The Third Wave was unable to unseat it from the top spot. The Third Wave is the third instalment in the writer-director's trilogy following the box-office hits Zero Tolerance ...
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Lions Gate tipped to complete Artisan takeover deal
Lions Gate Entertainment is expected to close a deal to acquire Artisan Entertainment this week, according to Canadian and US press reports.The deal is reported to be worth $165m in cash, with Lions Gate also taking on more than $50m in debt from Artisan.According to the New York Post, The ...
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AFM: China Star goes on $150m content binge
Chinese media conglomerate China Star is poised to invest $150m a year in Asian film production as it pushes its film-making and broadcasting efforts into a new dimension. The company is also in the market as a buyer and is putting together a massive library.China Star has launched a new ...
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Sylvia
Dir: Christine Jeffs. UK. 2003. 110 mins. We've had Jacqueline du Pre and Iris Murdoch, so perhaps it was inevitable that a biopic of Sylvia Plath, also shot in dingy British interiors and drenched in despair, would follow. After all, Hilary And Jackie (1998) and Iris (2001) both scored multiple ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Radovic's Small World (Mali Svet) opened this prolonged weekend with 15,757 admissions, grossing $48,547 from Thursday to Sunday for distributor Delta Video, thanks to a high average admission price. The local road comedy, featuring some of the most popular Serbian actors, and winner of several awards at the Sarajevo ...
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UK/IRELAND
Irish co-production Song For A Raggy Boy got off to an excellent start in Ireland at the weekend. The $147,000 (Euros 126,512/ £88,324) opening weekend was enough to get the drama 11th place in the UK/Ireland chart despite playing on just 36 prints in the Republic Of Ireland.With a screen ...
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Baltic Storm stirs up Swedish press
Reuben Leder's controversial film Baltic Storm had its world premiere in Berlin last week - and, according to Swedish reports, Swedish journalists were banned from the screening. The film - which stars Donald Sutherland, Greta Scacchi and Jurgen Prochnow - tells the story of a young German journalist who discovers ...
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Redbus develops horror film Fever
Redbus Pictures has stepped up its commitment to horror films, following the huge success it has had distributing Cabin Fever in the UK.Redbus has greenlit new horror production The 9th Passenger and has taken a co-producer credit on Madhouse with Lakeshore Entertainment.Budgeted at $10m, The 9th Passenger is set for ...
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Copenhagen doc fest unveils first line-up
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox (Nov 7-17), has announced its programme of 83 films including such international hits as Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American Splendor, Errol Morris' Fog Of War and Werner Herzog's Wheel Of Time.Four new Danish documentaries are also in the line-up: Lars von ...
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Makhmalbaf's Afternoon wins India fest prize
Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five In The Afternoon has won The Golden Peacock for the Best Film in the Asian competition section of the International Film Festival of India.The film has previously won the Special Jury Award at Cannes. Makhmalbaf, who was not present to receive her prize, donated her cash ...
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Spain's merged pay-TV platform reveals first figures
In the first figures released from Spain's new digital satellite pay TV platform Digital Plus since its July 21 merger, the platform boasted 50,000 new subscribers in September alone.Digital Plus's current total of 1.8m subscribers includes the dissolution of 30,000 overlapped subscriptions from merged platforms Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and ...