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Box office Love-fest, Actually
Universal's Love Actually overtook The Matrix Revolutions at the top of the Italian charts in itsfirst international opening, grossing $2.3m from 322 sites and tracking 11%ahead of Bridget Jones's Diary.In Portugal, Richard Curtis' romantic comedy took $330,000from 60 theatres for second place. There it is tracking 43% ahead of NottingHill.In ...
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Venice Film Festival to be run by foundation
The Italian government is pressing ahead with plans to overhaulthe statute of the Venice Biennale, the state body that runs the Venice FilmFestival, and has now approved a draft law to turn it into a foundation thatwill be partly financed by private individuals.The government's greenlight comes on the shoulders of ...
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Canada to increase labour-based tax credit for local production
The Canadian government ismoving to increase the labour-based tax credit available to local film andtelevision producers, a long awaited balancing move following the February 2003increase to the tax credit available to off-shore producers. The changes are expected toaffect Canadian content production and thereby increase Canada's attractivenessas an international co-production partner. ...
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Danish comedy wins top jury prize at LA's AFI FEST
Natasha Arthy's Danishcomedy Old, New, Borrowed And Bluewon the grand jury prize in the international feature competition section atthis year's AFI FEST in Los Angeles. The festival closedwith the world premiere screening of Patty Jenkins' Monster last night, although the jury awards wereannounced on Friday night.Old,New, Borrowed And Blue, whichreceived ...
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Nippon Herald, Shochiku team up for Alexander
Shochiku and Nippon Heraldhave once again teamed up to buy Japanese rights to a US epic, this timebuying Oliver Stone's Untitled Alexander The Great Project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment.The deal was sealed at MIFEDby Patrick Wachsberger and Bob Hayward of Summit.The two Japanese companies,which have teamed up before to ...
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Revolutions dips to $42m in second weekend for Warner
Warner Bros PicturesInternational's The Matrix Revolutions took an estimated $42m in its second weekend of release to bring itstotal to $195m. The international gross was not such a steep decline from thedomestic, where the $16.3m take represented a 66% drop.The worldwide gross to dateafter 12 days is about $310m.In Japan, ...
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Oz production levels fall dramatically
Kim Dalton, chief executive of the Australian Film Commission (AFC), has expressed 'great concern' at new figures released today that indicate a dramatic fall in Australian production levels.The total number of features of all types made in the 12 months to June 30 fell to 26 from 39 in the ...
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AUSTRALIA
Three films that could not be more different from each other, Roadshow's star performer The Matrix Revolutions on 453 screens, Columbia TriStar's In The Cut on 56 screens, and Hopscotch's Spellbound on just 13 screens, were the stand-outs in terms of their screen average on the weekend. Each notched up ...
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NEW ZEALAND
It is unusual to see as many as three openers among the top five films but that was the case on the weekend. The Matrix Revolutions was convincingly ahead of everything, grossing NZ$553,478 despite the 56% drop on the previous week. BVI's Seabiscuit, with NZ$109,682 from 52 screens, and 20th ...
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SPAIN Production Listings - November 17 2003
Spain November 17PRE PRODUCTIONOxygen (Oxigeno)(Morena Films, Mikado [It], Tubedale [UK]) Budget: E 6.6m. Thriller. Based on real events reconstructing what may have happened aboard a submarine that sunk off the coast of Spain at midnight on New Year's Eve, 1936. Prods: Juan Gordon, Roberto Cicutto, Carl Clifton. Dir: Alvaro Fernandez ...
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Spanish films get increased TV funding
For full current Spanish production listings see the International Production Listings section, or click here.In what would appear a reversal of fortune for both Hollywood studios and local feature films, Spanish broadcasters are cutting spending on foreign film acquisitions in favour of more local product. The projects they are ...
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Disney signs up Ubi Soft for Dinosaur game
Disney Interactive has signed up France's Ubi Soft Entertainment to produce and distribute a video game adapted from its upcoming 3D animated feature Dinosaur, which is to be released in the US in May 2000.Ubi Soft - which is one of France's leading multimedia companies, along with Infogrames and Cryo ...
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Canada boosts tax credits for local producers
The Canadian government is planning to increase the labour-based tax credit available to local film and television producers.The long awaited move follows up an increase to the tax credit available to off-shore producers in February 2003.The changes are designed to boost Canadian production and to increase Canada's attractiveness as an ...
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HBO's Sellers strikes key Euro deals
HBO Films London has sold all rights on The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers to Ocean Films in France and Lucky Red in Italy, adding to a raft of sales announced at Mifed earlier this week.Scanbox has picked up all rights in Scandinavia, Cineart and A-Film in the Benelux ...
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McGuckian presses ahead with tabloid tale
Irish writer-director Mary McGuckian, currently in post on historical drama The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, will next direct Rag Tale, an $8.5m black comedy about Britain's tabloid newspaper culture.Following a week in the life of a tabloid newspaper as the editor tries to save his job, the film will ...
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Rising star quits after pay dispute
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has walked out of Capitol Films' Indian epic The Rising after a dispute with producer Bobby Bedi over pay.The former Miss World, who recently wrapped Pathe's Bride And Prejudice, reportedly exited after Bedi rejected a revised set of terms from her US agent. She will apparently ...
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Italian distributor swoops for Yeoh's Silver Hawk
Fulvio Lucisano's Italian International Film (IIF) has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michelle Yeoh's upcoming martial arts vehicle, Silver Hawk.Sold by Hong Kong's Han Entertainment through Arclight Films, the $15m action movie tells the story of an elegant lady who becomes a skilful fighter when disguised as Silver Hawk. ...
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7 Brothers wins Luenen's Kinofest
The documentary 7 Brothers (7 Brueder) by first-time filmmaker Sebastian Winkels picked up this year's Luedia at Luenen's Kinofest for German films (November 13-16).In addition to the Euros 7,500 cash prize, Winkels will have his film subtitled in English by the German Federal Film Board and receive a prominent Saturday ...
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Trio of films dominate Huelva prizes
Guillermo Casanova's El Viaje Hacia El Mar, Marcelo Ferrari's Subterra and Boris Quercia's Sexo Con Amor split the lion's share of the top awards at the 29th edition of the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 8-15), a premiere event solidifying the ever more important links between the Spanish and ...