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Production - UK shoots - The brit factor
GoalDir: Vivek AgnihotriThis Bollywood production from major Indian conglomerate UTV - about a group of Indians playing football in the UK - starts shooting in London this month. Starring real-life couple John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, director Agnihotri will use mostly Indian crew.Dance Baby Dance (Jhoom Barabar Jhoom)Dir. Shaad AliThis ...
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Production - co-productions - Forming partnerships
Aside from Bollywood projects coming to the UK solely for location work, there is now a new generation of Indian film-makers interested in working more closely with UK producers and technicians and even considering the benefits of the new tax relief."Although the treaty obviously isn't having an effect yet, the ...
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Kinowelt enters Russia with Scriba's Gemini
German mini-studio Kinowelt is continuing its expansion into Eastern Europe by establishing a Russian distribution outfit, Gemini Kinomir, in partnership with Bodo Scriba's Moscow-based distributor Gemini International.The new company will handle Kinowelt's existing slate and take over from Gemini International as exclusive distributor of 20th Century Fox product in Russia. ...
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Production - Set jetting
Bollywood productions may bring work for UK crews and facilities, but another financial benefit is found through tourism.The UK Film Council's Clare Wise says: "The Bollywood films that are going to travel are going to be somewhere between the $2m-$20m mark, which means even if they spend 70% or 80% ...
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Production - International Locations - The travel bug
If Western audiences turn to Hindi movies for exotica and spectacle, Bollywood film-makers too have returned the favour by shooting on foreign soil. Although Bollywood's footprint has grown considerably beyond Indian borders in the last decade, Hindi movies have been locating sequences, songs and even whole movies in foreign locations ...
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So long, Bombay
Bollywood will pick up its traveling bags several times this year. A portion of Anurag Kashyap's No Smoking, which opens in April, has been shot in Uzbekistan. Two Yash Raj Films productions are being shot in different parts of the globe, Shimit Amin's Chak De India and Siddharth Anand's Ta ...
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Production - Argentina - The funds of others
Since Argentina's economic crash, the territory's film industry has been fighting its way back to health. But while the industry has been weathering the storm - 90 films were produced last year and directors such as Daniel Burman, Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel are drawing plaudits around the world - ...
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Production - Stock market moves
Argentinian production consortium Cine.ar, set up in 2006, is launching InvertFilm, the country's first film trust fund, raising $5m on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange to finance local projects. Films set to benefit are Daniel Burman's The Empty Nest, shooting in August, and projects from new talent including Mirta Raquel ...
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Production - Festival - Talent spot
Argentina's leading film event, Mar del Plata is this year increasing its focus on Latin America's new talent with a cash prize of $50,000 for the best film in a new competition section for first and second features to run parallel to the official competition.The Latin American competition will feature ...
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Foreign affairs
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an editorial that put forward an argument for the elimination of the foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. Its point was that "foreign film-making talent is represented in record numbers" in all categories and therefore in no need of special support.The argument from the ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 16-18 - Ghost's arrival spooks Night
Comic-book fantasy Ghost Rider knocked Night At The Museum off the top spot, taking more than $16.6m internationally in its opening weekend. Luc Besson's Taxi 4 also showed impressive first-weekend results, grossing $14.1m in Belgium and France. Meanwhile, UK audiences flocked to see Edgar Wright's cop spoof Hot Fuzz - ...
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Market focus - Calling on the neighbours
The performance of European films outside their home markets remains one of the thorniest issues for the EU's policy-makers. Last year's box-office recovery in many European territories was largely built on the success of local films in local markets and a number of Hollywood blockbusters. There were high-profile exceptions: Pedro ...
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Final line-up announced for Malaga Film Festival
UK director Francesca Joseph's Stanley Tucci-starrer Four Last Songs will close the upcoming 10th annual edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 9-17). The film, a Spanish co-production which was shot in Mallorca, co-stars Rhys Ifans, Hugh Bonneville and Marisa Paredes in the story of an American pianist ...
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EM.TV exchanges investments for Crown Media stake
German family programming and merchandising giant EM.TV is taking an 8.2% stake in the US' Crown Media Holdings in exchange for its stakes in Crown's US pay-TV station Odyssey Network and Asian Kermit Channel.EM.TV inherited a 22.5% stake in the Odyssey Channel and 50% of the Kermit Channel in February ...
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Fallen Angels still ready to fly
Despite losing a director and $1.1m(Eu0.9) state fundingfor Fallen Angels - the second instalment of the Varg Veum project, a $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) package of two theatrical features andfour TV movies - Norway's SF Norge producer Guttorm Pettersonis certain production will proceed as planned.'We expect to name a new director ...
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Ane Dahl Torp receives inaugural Liv Ullmann prize
Norwegian actress Ane Dahl Torp received the first $16,300 (Euros 12,400) Liv Ullmann Honorary Prize at the Norwegian Film Ball, the gala event organised by the Norwegian Film Institute with the industry at the Oslo Plaza. Ullmann had cancelled her participation due to sickness.Educated at the Norwegian National Drama School ...
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The Match Factoryannounces deals on Berlin competitor Yella
Christian Petzold's Berlin Competition film Yella, which won a Silver Bear for lead actress Nina Hoss, has been sold by The Match Factory to six territories, with further deals in the offing with distributors in the US and Scandinavia, among others.Sales on the Schramm Film production were completed in Berlin ...
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A Soap surprise at the Bodil Awards
The best film at this year's Danish Bodil prizes may have been Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Soap, but in many ways the star of the night was a film financing programme. New Danish Talent was launched by the Danish Film Institute two years ago to supportDanish debut directors or younger ...
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BitTorrent goes legit, making deal with major movie houses
BitTorrent Inc, the San Francisco based company that created the software used to download pirated blockbusters from the internet, has entered into a licensing agreement with some of America's top studios in an attempt to dramatically decrease blackmarket activity. Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros and Lionsgate are ...
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Zodiak swoops on Yellow Bird
Sweden's Zodiak Television, which already controls such outfits as Jarowskij, MTV Mastiff, Mastiff, Social Club and Diverse Production, has purchased film and television production outfit Yellow Bird. During the last two years Yellow Bird has produced 13 films totalling $28.4 million based on Swedish author Henning Mankell's books about Ystad ...