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NewsItalian actor/director Toni Servillo to be honoured at Locarno
Italian actor/director Toni Servillo will receive an Excellence Award at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival (August 5-15).
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City of Toronto takes stake in Pinewood's studio deal
The City of Toronto has taken a 20% stake in the Pinewood consortium’s takeover of the city’s FilmPort megastudio.
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E1 re-releasing Necessities Of Life in Canada following Genie wins
E1 Entertainment will re-release Benoit Pilon’sThe Necessities Of Lifein the wake of the film’s success at last weekend’s Genie Awards. The film goes back into cinemas inToronto and Vancouver on April 10.
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McGowan's One Week passes C$1m mark in Canada
Michael McGowan's One Week has passed C$1.1m ($880,000) at the Canadian box office, the second English-language Canadian film to reach the threshold in the last six months after Passchendaele. Featuring Joshua Jackson as a man facing terminal illness who travels across country on his motorcycle, the road movie is currently ...
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14th Annual Gen Art Film Festival honours My Suicide and Adelaide
David Miller's My Suicide won the 14th Annual Gen Art Film Festival's $10,000 Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature and Liliana Greenfield-Sanders' Adelaide took the $5,000 Grand Jury Award for Best Short.Both films won the corresponding audience awards and received their honours following the closing night screening of Julie ...
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San Francisco Bay Area projects vie for SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant
The San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the 12 finalists and four honorable mentions for the initial $35,000 SFFS/KRF FilmmakingGrant.
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Editorial - Beyond cinemas
Selling non-English-language films into overseas markets is never easy these days, especially now that DVD is on the wane. But a Screen-sponsored panel at Filmart in Hong Kong last month offered a more optimistic look at new business models for world cinema that are emerging in some territories and platforms.Ostensibly ...
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Global gains at the box office
It is more than official. At ShoWest - the North American cinema convention which has traditionally sidetracked international concerns to a pre-show ‘International Day’ - Motion Picture Association Of America (Mpaa) president Dan Glickman declared international box office revenues now accounted for 65% of the studios’ theatrical pie.Given that international’s ...
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Screen's tribute to Wouter Barendrecht: International film loses a unique talent
Screen International’s US editor Mike Goodridge pays tribute to the unique talent of Wouter Barendrecht.The death of Wouter Barendrecht has dealt the film business a severe blow. The co-chairman of Fortissimo Films was that rare, perhaps unique, individual who combined a zealous passion for cinema with a head for business. ...
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India's Adlabs to raise $12m via flotation
Mumbai-based film processing laboratory, Adlabs Films Ltd, which is opening India's first IMAX theatre in partnership with the Canadian large-format pioneer, plans to raise $12m via an IPO on the Mumbai Stock Exchange.Adlabs said it would use the proceeds of the issue to part-finance the Mumbai IMAX complex, which is ...
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NewsThe Asian Equation - studios turn to Asian audiences, not crossover hits
Nearly all the major US studios and many of the larger indies are now involved in local-language production in Asia. Their varying goals, strategies and levels of success were discussed by a panel of senior executives at the recent Filmart convention in Hong Kong.
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NewsBruce Robinson is 'comeback kid' with Rum Diary
Bruce Robinson jokes that on the set of The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp, he is the ‘comeback kid’ - directing his first film since 1992’s Jennifer 8. ‘Now I’m working with the world’s most famous movie star all of a sudden,’ Robinson says. ‘It’s kind of a shock to ...
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NewsHollywood's foreign policy: producers looking increasingly to international locations
On the eve of the annual Locations Trade Show in Los Angeles (April 16-18), Screen reports on why US producers are looking beyond their borders to international locationsmore than ever before.
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NewsCanadian locations fight stronger competition
The world may be in an economic crisis but you would not know it looking at the latest statistics coming from the Vancouver film and television industry. Hollywood’s northernmost suburb recently posted some jaw-dropping production statistics.
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Distribution - Market Report - France
French and US films have long vied for dominance at the French box office. In 2008, there were 52 US films or co-productions in the top 100. France produced 43 films in the top 100 for the year, only two of which were co-productions: Babylon A.D. (with the US) and ...
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Distribution - Market Report - France - Marketing 'ad spend is constantly going up'
How is theatrical film marketing changing’Henri Ernst (TFM): Competition is fierce with so many films, and costs have gone up in general. The choice of a release date is now crucial. It always was, but with so many films it’s even more important now.Jean-Philippe Tirel (Wild Bunch Distribution): Ad spend ...
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Distribution - Market Report - Italy
French films took a 3.6% slice of the total Italian market in 2008, behind films from US and Italy which together accounted for 90.7% of the 2008 box office revenue. UK films took a 2.6% market share.Last year, only six non-US, non-Italian films made it into Italy’s top 100. They ...
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Distribution - Market Report - Italy - Marketing 'You have to do more to get noticed'
What are the major innovations in theatrical marketing in Italy’Stefano Massenzi, Lucky Red: There has been more attention to in-theatre promotion. Advertising has become extremely expensive and you try to go for your audience first and then if you have more money you build out. The internet has become very ...
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International - Pulling a fast one
The weird and the wonderful were up against the fast and the furious in the week’s international box-office chart as PPI’s Monsters Vs Aliens was pitted against UPI’s Fast & Furious, both vying for the number one slot.Despite grossing $30.3m, Fast & Furious was unable to claim pole position, as ...
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Worldwide - Ponyo in international waters
Having grossed more than $164m locally for distributor Toho last year, animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s latest children’s animation Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea started a major international run in France on April 8 after dipping its toes in the water with a successful smaller Italian run.Although sharing elements ...