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Mifed unveils subsidy package
Mifed organisers confirmed yesterday (ed Wed 12) that they will offer a package of subsidies and incentives to buyers and sellers in an effort to retain business (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 12)."We will be providing some Euros 5m in the form of incentives to market participants next year," said Carlo Bassi, ...
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44th Thessaloniki festival announces line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has unveiled today the full line-up of its 44th edition.The Festival kicks off November 21, with Takeshi Kitano's Venice winner Zatoichi and closes with Jim Sheridan's In America on Saturday November 29. Vincent Gallo's controversial Brown Bunny is, in its new ...
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Winterbottom, Chereau, Kaurismaki to speak at EFA conference
Directors Michael Winterbottom, Patrice Chereau and Mika Kaurismaki and Isabelle Coixet as well as producer Nik Powell - in his new incarnation as the UK's National Film & Television School chief - are among the speakers recruited by the European Film Academy (EFA) for its conference "Let's Talk About Content!" ...
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Nordisk strikes multiple deals on Reconstruction
Nordisk Film International struck a bundle of deals on its Cannes Camera d'Or winning picture Reconstruction. The Christoffer Boe-directed romantic thriller was licensed to Korean Arts Centre for Korea, A-Film for Benelux. Two companies split Spanish-speaking Latin American rights on the title. Cineplex took Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and ...
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Banned Palestinian film cleared by Israeli Supreme Court
Overturning a previous decision of the Israeli Censorship Board, the country's The Supreme Court of Justice has lifted the ban on Mukhammad Bakkri's controversial documentary Jenin Jenin. Bakkri's report on the Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp and its tragic outcome put the entire blame on the Israeli ...
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Tartan Films signs five picture deal
Tartan Films,which is carving out a new theatrical market for Asian films in the UK, has bought a five picture package from Korea's CineclickAsia. Managing director, Laura De Casto yesterday committed to a deal headed by Park Chan-Wook's Mifed favourite Old Boy. It also included H, A Tale Of TwoSisters, ...
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DENMARK
While Matrix Revolutions took the box-office crown with a solid if not amazing 775 admissions screen average on its 79 prints, the film that was most influenced by it was Kill Bill, which dropped from number one to six, down some 60%. Last week's new local release from newcomer Oliver ...
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HUNGARY
Although taking over the top spot at the Hungarian box office without a doubt, the third Matrix episode didn't quite match the success of Matrix: Reloaded. Its gross of HUF 132 million in its opening weekend, gives Matrix: Revolutions the fourth best opening ever in Hungary and the third best ...
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House Of Sand And Fog
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...
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Lions Gates teams with Ellis for E-Psycho site
The North American release of American Psycho will be ushered in by the psycho himself. In an innovative web-based promotional campaign called Pseudo Psycho, author Brett Easton Ellis, who penned the source novel, will unleash his creation Patrick Bateman once again. Lions Gate Films and netcaster Pseudo Programs will co-present ...
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House Of Sand And Fog
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...
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House Of Sand And Fog
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...
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Warner Bros confirms Revolutions record
Warner Bros confirmed yesterday (Nov 12) that The Matrix Revolutions had indeed scored the biggest five-day worldwide opening of all time with a final estimate of $202.8m.The estimated international running total for the same period - spanning the global day-and-date release on Nov 5 through to Nov 9 - was ...
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Local films buck Germany's downward admissions trend
Cinema admissions and box office takings continued their downward trend into the third quarter of 2003, according to figures published by the German Federal Film Board (FFA). While the second quarter had seen a 11.7% drop in admissions over the same period in 2002, this grew to 12.1% in the ...
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Costner, Minghella, Zanuck to be honoured at Palm Springs
Kevin Costner, Anthony Minghella and producer Richard D Zanuck are among honourees at the upcoming 15th Palm Springs International Film Festival's gala awards on Jan 11 2004.Costner, currently riding high following critical and commercial success in the US for his latest Western, Open Range, will receive the Career Achievement in ...
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Whale Rider dominates NZ nominations
There are no prizes for guessing which film has dominated the nominations in this year's New Zealand Film Awards. Whale Rider, which has grossed NZ$6.4m in New Zealand and NZ$60m around the world, is a finalist in 14 of the 15 categories. But the same two films sit alongside Whale ...
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German fund commits to two new projects
The production fund Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) has boarded another two projects - the family film Chestnut: Hero Of Central Park and the fantasy adventure Dungeons & Dragons: The Sequel - as part of a slate of up to seven English language features with budgets between $5m-$20m.Chestnut, which is ...
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Sundance/NHK Int'l Film-makers Awards unveil finalists
The Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2004 Sundance/NHK International Film-makers Awards, created in 1996 to support emerging directors as they develop their next screenplays.One winner from each of four global regions - Europe, Latin America, USA and Japan - will be ...
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Japanese Story sweeps Australia's IF Awards
Australia's key IF Awards announced last night (November 12) were like a re-run of the Film Critics Circle Awards of two weeks earlier with Gettin' Square earning David Wenham best actor and Japanese Story winning best film for Sue Maslin, best director for Sue Brooks, best actress for Toni Collette ...
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Hating Alison Ashley rises again
Scriptwriter Christine Madafferi's adaptation of Robin Klein's coming-of-age book Hating Alison Ashley is back on track, albeit with a new director, following yesterday's decision by Film Finance Corporation Australia to again back the project. Hating Alison Ashley was approved in May with LA-based expatriate Rod Hardy in the director's chair ...