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Beowulf to reign over international box office for second weekend
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) Beowulf ruled the roost last weekend and should do the same this weekend as it goes out in France and Belgium on November 21, Russia and Holland on November 22 and Spain on November 23. It has so far taken $17.3mLatest figures put The Brave ...
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Collins and Francke join UK development fund
Chris Collins and Lizzie Francke have been appointed as development producers at the UK Film Council Development Fund.They will reportto Tanya Seghatchian, head of the recently restructured fund.Click here for more on the restructuringCollins and Francke willbe responsiblefor managing applications to the two new funding programmes. Brick Lane producer Collins ...
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Brick Lane backed by $400,000 from UK P&A fund
Optimum Releasinghas received a $400,000(£200,000) boost for its release of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane from the UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund. The adaptation of Monica Ali's bestseller about a Bangladeshi woman's experiences in East London is one of a number of titles to benefit from the fund aimed ...
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Look
Dir: Adam Rifkin. US. 2007. 102 mins.Shot to give the impression its action was entirely captured by the surveillance cameras that are becoming ever present in modern life, Look is a cleverly made curio that's as entertainingly watchable as the soaps and tabloid TV shows it often resembles. Whether its ...
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Dancer In The Dark disappoints in Scandinavia
Dancer In The Dark, this year's Cannes Palme D'Or winner, had a disappointing opening when it was released last weekend (Sept 8) in Scandinavia - the first territory the drama-musical has played to a paying audience. Despite successful preview screenings of $180,223 (dkr1,562,965) in Denmark, mixed reviews are likely to ...
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Sundance Documentary Programme gives $750,000 in grants
Thirty feature projects will receive a record number of financial grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program amounting to almost $750,000.Sundance Institute Documentary Fund administrators scrutinsed 300 applications from more than 25 countries and announced the chosen titles on November 21.The line-up, which programme director Cara Mertes described an ...
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Israel's Tehilim takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
French director Raphaël Nadjari's Tehilim was awarded the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the 8th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 17-25). The award carried a cash prize of Y1m ($9,235). Tehilim examines Judaism through the story of an average Israeli family affected by the mysterious disappearance of their father ...
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4 Months wins Stockholm's Bronze Horse
Cristian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days has added Stockholm's Bronze Horse to itsimpressive list of honours.The Stockholm International Film Festival jury, led by Tom Kalin praised theRomanian film, which centres on an illegal abortion during the oppressive Ceaucescu dictatorship,for its 'honesty and devastating humanity'Anamaria Marinca's ...
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Jellyfish wins top prize at Argentina's San Luis festival
Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret's Jellyfish won the Golden Puntano prize for best film at San Luis International Film Festival first edition, which closed on Sunday in the small and prosperous city located 800 km far from Buenos Aires.The Israeli-French co-production, which won the Camera d'Or at this year's Cannes ...
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Israel's The Policeman wins $15,000 co-production award
Israelifilm The Policeman was the winner of the Crossroads co-production forum prizeat the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The award worth $15,000 (Euros 10,000) was offered by the Festival sponsor Nokia N series. The project, selected from a shortlist of 14, was presented to scriptwriter/director Nadav Lapid. The film is produced ...
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China's Red Awn wins Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Shangjun Cai's Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin) won the Golden Alexander award in the international section of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. (Click here to see review)The best film award is accompanied with a prize of $55,000 (Euros 37,000).The $33,000 (Euros 22,000) Silver Alexander award went to Colombian Spiros Stathoulopoulos' PVC-1.Best director ...
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Encounters Short Film Festival announces winners
Film-makers fromthe UK, France, Romaniaand the US were among 11 prizewinners at this year'sEncounters Short Film Festival.Theawards were handed out atthe Watershed in the UK city of Bristol.Some 1,750 shorts from a record 66 countries entered the event.The WinnersAnimate Artist Award, sponsored by Animate Projects, C4, Arts Council England: 200,000 ...
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Warner's Beowulf rules the roost at international box office
Once again Beowulf ruled the waves as the animated ancient English adventure story grossed an estimated $26m through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) from more than 5,400 prints in 43 markets for $48.5m.The film ranked number one in approximately 20 of its new 23 markets this weekend, fired up by ...
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Some Enchanted opening for Disney with $50m in five days
Buena Vista's fairy tale Enchanted stormed to the top of the charts over Thanksgiving weekend on an estimated $35.3m from three days and $50m from five.Amy Adams stars as a fairy tale princess who is thrust into that also stars Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Susan Sarandon.This was the second ...
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Leomax buys North American rights to Norway's Cold Prey
Leomax Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Sweden's AB Svensk Filmindustri to the Norwegian psychological horror title Cold Prey.Leomax' first acquisition will be released in the US and Canada through Anchor Bay Entertainment via Leomax's genre label Indigomotion.Roar Uthaug makes his feature directorial debut on the tale of ...
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Pollock
Dir: Ed Harris. US. 2000. 130 mins.Prod co: Brant-Allen Industries Inc. Co-prod: Zeke Productions, Fred Berner Films. US dist: Sony Picture Classics. Int'l sales: Alliance Atlantis Pictures International, tel: (1) 310 899 8000. Exec prod: Peter M. Brant, Joseph Allen. Prod: Fred Berner, Ed Harris, Jon Kilik. Scr: Barbara Turner, ...
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Beta takes on sales for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo
Beta Film will handle world sales for director Paolo Sorrentino's much awaited film The Divo (Il Divo), Andrea Occhipinti of Italy's Lucky Red confirmed. Sorrentino's film is inspired by the life of Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian Prime Minister seven times whose name is a symbol for Italian ...
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Costa-Gavras to serve as Berlinale jury president
The Greek-French director Costa-Gavras has been named as president of the International Jury for February's Berlin International Film Festival.Costa-Gavras has often seen his films shown at the Berlinale in past years: Music Box, with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jessica Lange, received the Golden Bear at the 1990 festival, while La Petite ...
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Eros and Carving Dreams to launch venture with Roshan project
Eros International has struck a co-production joint venture with Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a new division of management and marketing company Carving Dreams Entertainment. Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, who has been a client of Carving Dreams for two years, will star in the first joint feature between the companies.Kishore Lulla, ...
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Fuji TV's Bayside Shakedown team reassemble for The Guardian
Fuji TV's head feature film producer Chihiro Kameyama will reunite with the writer behind hit franchise Bayside Shakedown to produce police drama The Guardian (Dare Mo Mamotte Kurenai). Ryoichi Kimizuka is set to write and direct The Guardian (working title), starring Koichi Sato (Suite Dreams) as a detective who vows ...