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International - India joins the race
The highest new entry, and only newcomer in Screen International's top 10, was India's Race, which opened across 16 territories.Akshaye Khanna and Saif Ali Khan play brothers in the slick thriller involving a life-insurance policy worth millions that pays out to one brother in the event of the death of ...
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Spean Bridge expands across Europe, Asia
Despite the gloom hovering over several European exhibitors, particularly those with circuits in Germany and the UK, fledgling exhibition company Spean Bridge has announced ambitious expansion plans to build sites across nine European countries, as well as Taiwan and Japan.From its initial announcement in 1998 to build cinemas in the ...
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Critical opinion: The industry should take a fresh look at film theory
To many ordinary film-goers, film critics are like sexologists: they spoil an enjoyable activity by talking about it too much. Film critics and sexologists argue their job is to help people enjoy that activity more - by realising what they're doing wrong and avoiding the positions that don't work or ...
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Seven Arts strikes investment deal with UK's Zeus Partners
Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures has struck a deal with Manchester, UK-based financial services company Zeus Partners to raise investment capital for Seven Arts' production and distribution activities.The first part of the investment closed March 19 and the rest is expected to close by the end of June.The investment covers ...
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Rebranded Instinctive boards 13 Semesters, The Disposables
The Berlin-based international film production and finance company Instinctive Film - previously known as Invicta Entertainment - is boarding its first local German-language film, Frieder Wittich's coming-of-age student comedy 13 Semesters. The film begins shooting in Darmstadt next Monday (March 31).Instinctive Film will co-produce the debut feature with Munich-based Claussen-Woebke+Putz ...
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London Lesbian & Gay fest kicks off 15-day event
The BFI's successful London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) kicked off its 22nd year last night with a gala screening of Alek Keshishian's romantic comedy Love and Other Disasters.The film follows an American intern (Brittany Murphy) as she tries to find a boyfriend for her gay flatmate (Matthew Rhys).More ...
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Adlabs cinema chain set for global, digital expansion
India's largest exhibitor Adlabs, owned by Reliance Entertainment, has unveiled plans for global expansion, as well as the roll-out of a D-cinema circuit in the domestic Indian market. The company has acquired 240 screens across the US, some from players such as Landmark and Regal, and has also partnered with ...
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Frames: Indian industry leaders sound note of caution
India's entertainment industry may be booming, and Mumbai-based film companies eyeing global expansion, but local industry leaders rang several alarm bells at the FICCI-Frames conference this week. A recurring theme was the lack of management expertise and a lack of talent, with only a handful of stars able to guarantee ...
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CNC reports that investment in French films crosses $1.89bn
France's national film board, the CNC, has concluded that 2007 was a globally healthy year for French cinema. In total 228 films were produced with the CNC's stamp of approval. The figure does not match 2005's historic 240 but is higher than the average 213 over the past six years. ...
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Cast assembled for Ti West's The House Of The Devil
Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Waronov, AJ Bowen and Dee Wallace head the cast of Ti West's horror thriller The House Of The Devil which has started shooting in northern Connecticut.In the film, which West also wrote, Donahue plays a broke college student who answers an ad seeking ...
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Mos Def, Gabrielle Union join the cast of Cadillac Records
Mos Def has been cast as Chuck Berry and Gabrielle Union will play Geneva Wade in Sony BMG Film's Cadillac Records, a music drama set in 1950s Chicago and following the turbulent lives of legends like Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess and Elvis Presley.Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles, Columbus Short, ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 5: BUSINESS MODELS
If the new technical opportunities are now clear, how to make money out of them is anything but. The term 'business model' has been haunting the film industry for some years. It has been a given in any conference presentation and a must at market and festival discussions. It's not ...
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Transcontinental to debut with Convent, Conquest
A new production-distribution outfit, Transcontinental Film, has launched in the Northern Italian town of Bergamo, with two picks-ups under its belt - horror film The Convent and Mexican hit The Other Conquest.The company, headed by Adriano Valoti, plans to handle both mainstream and arthouse titles. The Other Conquest, written and ...
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Quacor offers legal movie services to 70 Chinesewebsites
Digital movie distributor Quacor is to offer content to 70 websites in China, including portal sites such as NetEase.com, Qianlong.com, iFeng.com and news sites such as Xinhua.Each will set up Quacor movie channel and share the legitimate movies and short video contents among each other.'Through setting up Quacor movie channels ...
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European Commissionfights on for broadband despite setbacks
The European Commission (EC) is confident that it will achieve its targets for broadband uptake across the European Union (EU), despite the disappointing figures published and what would appear to be a waning commitment from Member States.EU-wide access to high speed internet services is widely regarded as essential if digital ...
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21 wins the weekend hand at US box office
Sony's card-counting drama 21 came up trumps at the North American box office this weekend, opening at the top of the domestic chart with an estimated three-day gross of $23.7m. Last week's leader Horton Hears A Who! held up well in its third weekend, but three other new releases had ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 9: FRAGMENTATION
Europe cannot help but compare its performance to the US. Creating a level playing field with Hollywood is an essential driving force for film policy. But there is an essential difference that cannot be underestimated in discussing the advance of digital change: Europe, for all the rhetoric, is a group ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 8: DIGITAL CINEMA
If there is one area where there the European dam is inevitably going to break it is digital cinema. If there is not unanimityabout the benefits - although few are yet seeing its potential to change the relationship between cinema and audience - there is at least recognition of inevitability.And ...
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Horton takes over international lead
Fox's Horton Hears A Who! edged into the lead at the international box office over the weekend, grossing an estimated $13.2m from 52 markets while Warner's 10,000 BC, leader for the last three weekends, took $12m from 62. The weekend's biggest new opening, meanwhile, came from Fox's 27 Dresses, which ...
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Strong documentary presence at Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema
Documentaries are once again out in force at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film (April 1-6) which opens in Graz on Tuesday evening with the world premiere of Othmar Schmiderer's Back To Africa.Poool Filmverleih will release the film, which follows five artists of Andre Heller's 'Afrika Afrika' musical ...