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Awards Countdown - Critics - The Critics have spoken
North America's national and regional critics' bodies have voted and the results are far from decisive. Whereas last year No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood emerged the best film victors, this year sees a spread of critical favourites including Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Wall-E and Frost/Nixon, although ...
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New dawn for Sundance Indies
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business. Even as end-of-year hits such as Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, The Reader and Milk pack theatres across North America, the domestic acquisitions business has been sluggish to say the least.Very rarely, these days, do distributors thrash ...
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King of the Jungle
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa held on to the number-one spot in Screen’s first international chart of 2009, with weekend takings of just under $32m, bringing its cumulative gross to $339.9m.
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Argentine film ups admissions on home turf
Argentine films have had a banner year so far in 2000 according to local film institute INCAA, accounting for 19.8% of the domestic box office and racking up admissions of 6.2 million, up 700,000 on the previous year.Of the 41 homegrown films released since January 2000, five titles attracted an ...
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United States - The returns from Batman and Friends
Domestic box office picked up just enough steam in the latter half of December to finish the calendar year with a tally of $9.685bn - just $2m up on 2007*.The more worrying news is that admissions continued to decline with early estimates showing a drop between 7% and 8% on ...
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Entertainment One picks up Amreeka for Canada and international
Entertainment One Films Canada (E1) has acquired Canadian and international distribution rights to Cherien Dabis' Sundance US dramatic competitor Amreeka. The US-Canada-Kuwait coproduction charts the journey of a Palestinian family as it joins the larger emigre community in the US and the culture shock that ensues. Dabis, a Palestinian-American and ...
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IFC Films picks up Canadian Oscar submission Necessities of Life
US distributor IFC Films has picked up Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life for release in the US. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August where it was awarded the Grand Prix of the Jury as well audience prizes for most popular film and most popular ...
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Madagascar 2, Seven Pounds lead in international markets
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ruled the roost overseas for the fourth straight weekend and its fifth out of the last six as an estimated $15.8m weekend haul through PPI from 6,893 sites in 61 territories raised the tally to a boisterous $366m.The sequel launched in South Korea on ...
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Shoreline picks up documentary The Queen And I
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to Nahid Persson Sarvestani's documentary The Queen And I, set to receive its North American premiere at Sundance on January 17.The topical documentary follows film-maker and Iranian exile Sarvestani as she talks with Farah Pahlavi, the former Empress of Iran and ...
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Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino races to top in North America
Warner Bros' awards contender Gran Torino directed by and starring Clint Eastwood expanded wide and stormed to the top on an estimated $29m that set a new opening weekend record for Eastwood and raised prospects of it becoming his biggest domestic hit.After a sensational limited run, the drama replicated its ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi creates Middle Eastern film division
Abu Dhabi company Imagenation has set up an arm to develop films and digital content from Middle Eastern talent with an eye to international markets.The division is to develop and fund five to sevenprojects working with creative talent from the region.No budget has yet been announced but the move again ...
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Second Generation gets UK digital release
With One Life Stand impressing festival-goers at Edinburgh this year, independent digital film-making is making further inroads into the UK with a London theatrical release for Second Generation using digital projection. Made by newcomer Shane O'Sullivan, the £20,000 digital feature follows a Chinese girl who escapes an arranged marriage and ...
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Rotterdam boasts 43 world premieres
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will feature 43 world premieres as well as 35 international and 34 European premieres.The line-up includes a strong showing from Eastern Europe with Andrei Khrzhanovsky's Room AndA Half and Alexei Balabanov'sMorphiaand Armenian director Harutyun Khachatryan's Border. All will appear in the Spectrum section.As previously ...
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NewsSlumdog Millionaire and Kate Winslet big winners at Globes
Kate Winslet scored a stunning double triumph at the 66th GoldenGlobes last night while SlumdogMillionaire upset the form guide andshut out pre-show joint favourites The Curious Case Of BenjaminButtonand Frost/Nixon.
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Norwegian film institute backs three features with $3.9m
The Norwegian film institute has awarded $3.9m (NOK 27.5m) to three Norwegian productions including Erik Skjoldbjærg's next feature, Nokas. Nokas, Erik Skjoldbjærg's follow up to An Enemy of the People (En Folkefiende) has received $1.3m (NOK 9.5m) from the institute. The film depicts the 2004 robbery when armed robbers blocked ...
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Germany's M-Appeal picks up Panorama world premiere Ghosted
Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal has picked up Monika Treut's latest feature Ghosted which will have its world premiere in the Berlinale's Panorama section next month. Ghosted is a co-production between Treut's own company Hyena Films and Taipei-based Chi & Company - it is the first ever German-Taiwanese feature co-production. Inga ...
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UK 's The Mill re-launches visual effects studio Mill Film
The Mill, which creates visual effects for the television industry, is to re-enter the film market, with the re-launch of Mill Film, a visual effects studio for movies. The studio's earlier film division, Mill Film, closed in 2002 but continued working in film on a project by project basis. The ...