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Festival - Buzz from the Basque country
Mataharis (Sp)Dir: Iciar BollainSpanish actor-turned-director Bollain returns to San Sebastian after winning several awards at the festival in 2003 for domestic violence drama Take My Eyes. Mataharis is a $4m drama that tells the stories of three female detectives trying to juggle their working and private lives.Bollain admits the "expectation ...
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Festival - World premieres in Horizontes Latinos
Grandmother's Trip (El Viaje De La Nonna) (Mex)Dir: Sebastian SilvaSilva's directorial debut is a story about a forgetful grandmother whose family try to convince her that she has travelled to Italy. Silva has already worked on more than 20 films as assistant director or second unit director, including Babel, Before ...
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Festival - Remaining films in Official Selection
Eastern Promises (US-UK, opening film)Dir: David CronenbergInt'l sales: Focus Features International, (44) 207 851 6500A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers (US)Dir: Wayne WangContact: CAA, (1) 212 277 9000Battle For Haditha (UK)Dir: Nick BroomfieldInt'l sales: HanWay Films, (44) 20 7290 0750Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame (Iran-Fr)Dir: Hana MakhmalbafInt'l sales: Wild Bunch, ...
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Festival - Building up a buyers' market
While San Sebastian director Mikel Olaciregui admits it can be difficult to attract major US buyers so soon after Toronto, the festival remains a busy sales event, with almost 100 international buyers scheduled to attend in 2007. These include Lionsgate, HBO, Warner Bros, DeA Planeta and Rezo Films."San Sebastian is ...
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International - Korea ambitions
Three Korean films made a big impact on the international chart this weekend, and their collective total accounted for 5.4% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period.Three new Korean openers - Kidnapping Granny K, Two Faces Of My Girlfriend and The Happy Life ...
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Bourne keeps on running
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 14-16(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$20,837,5364,124$125,058,805452(11)The Simpsons Movie (US)$10,004,8882,324$321,298,437133(3)Hero (Jap)$7,152,343475$26,027,93414(15)Hairspray (US)$5,825,6231,824$43,634,146305(4)Shrek The Third (US)$5,695,4151,445$459,311,955206(5)Rush Hour 3 (US)$5,691,5742,443$69,713,201317(2)Ratatouille (US)$5,481,0002,499$210,047,000258(12)No Reservations (US)$4,489,5632,137$24,171,338409(6)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$4,047,2081,574$20,495,4242410(25)Surf's Up (US)$3,159,0772,261$42,837,4383211(New)Superbad (US)$3,140,750471$3,140,750212(8)Run, Fat Boy, Run (UK-US)$3,097,707411$9,046,628113(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,737,143402$8,796,118114(14)Disturbia (US)$2,707,3451,275$28,014,4912815(23)1408 (US)$2,480,405810$17,595,8451316(9)Knocked Up (US)$2,365,0021,318$48,655,3272217(New)Kidnapping Granny K (S Kor)$2,207,699420$2,737,547118(7)Die ...
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Critical Mass with Lee Marshall - Another fine mess
Okay, confession time. Once, in Cannes 2005, I walked out of a film I was supposed to be reviewing. I queued for a press screening of another film, realised I wasn't going to get in, and went back to the film I'd walked out of, drawn by an impulse I ...
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Films from Attenborough, Freedman and Ruzowitzky open Ghent
The 34th edition of the Ghent International Film Festival is to feature three opening films on October 9.They are:The European premiere of Richard Attenborough's Closing the RingStefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher) Paul Freedman's Sand And SorrowClosing the Ring, starring Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell and Mischa Barton, opens ...
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Cancun festival plans international film market for 2008
The new Cancun Riviera Maya International Film Festival is planning to expand next year to include an international market.The event debuts on Nov 5, opening with Mexican film Nonna's Trip and including titles from the US, Canada, Spain, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Latin America. But there are already plans for ...
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Venice to introduce TV festival
Venice will hold its first International Television Festival in March 2002, an event that will be helmed by former Munich festival chief Marlene Sternbaum and Veneziafiere president Gabriele Zanetto.The new television festival will be officially unveiled on September 8 at the Venice film festival (Aug 30- Sept 9) by Venice ...
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Biblob and Antoniou join foreign-language film competitors
Bangladesh has selected Golam Rabbany Biblob's directorial debut On The Wings Of Dreams, while Greece has picked Angeliki Antoniou's Eduart for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the forthcoming 80th Academy Awards. Both films are being handled internationally by the Berlin-based sales agent MDC International who is also representing ...
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LIM SOO-JUNG (KOREA)
Although Lim Soo-jung is most easily cast as a dewy ingenue, she is also capable of terror and grit - as seen in horror film A Tale Of Two Sisters - and brittleness, having portrayed a mentally disturbed girl in Park Chan-wook's recent I'm A Cyborg But That's OK. In ...
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SEI ASHINA (JAPAN)
On the international poster for the $26m film Silk, the beautiful face of a Japanese woman looms large above the image of established stars Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt. This is the striking visage of Sei Ashina. She was cast from more than 800 hopefuls for the role of a ...
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Korean screen quota campaign hits Venice
Having two years ago shaved their heads in protest, Korean activists belonging to the Coalition for Cultural Diversity In Moving Images (CDMI) are now seeking more pragmatic means of combating Hollywood domination of their local film industry. CDMI general director Gi-Hwan Yang used the Venice film festival as a high ...
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SPOTLIGHT ON ASIA
Asian talent steps into the limelight at Star Summit Asia, the event that recognises and promotes the regional actors and actresses who are the key to the international success of Asia's film industryJust as in other global film industries, local stars are the fuel that keeps the Asian film industry ...
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TERRITORIES
What makes a star - and how much value do they have' Screen correspondents explore the talent systems across Asian territories, and the companies that discover and nurture tomorrow's starsChinaHong KongJapanJoreaThe PhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailand
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CHINA
The Chinese talent industry is a supernova in the making - but is still in its infancy. SEN-LUN YU explores the emergence of the territory's star system.Film talent management is a very recent development in China. Up until three years ago, star managers and companies mostly concentrated on TV, and ...
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JOHN CHO (US)
Korean-American star John Cho is perhaps best known for his performances in the American Pie series or the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.Cho is interested in characters who break the stereotypical Asian-American mould. 'I don't want to make films that are just about feeling Asian-American,' he ...
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TATSUYA FUJIWARA (JAPAN)
In the final shot of director Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, a teenage boy who was not supposed to survive the government's horrifically staged game of death runs off into an uncertain future. Actor Tatsuya Fujiwara - who played 'Boy #15' - has a much surer future ahead of him.Born in ...
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Bourne stays ahead with $13m international weekend
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum once again set the pace at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $13m from 4,269 dates in 48 territories. The marketplace's only new entrant, Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction, opened in Mexico day-and-date with its chart-topping domestic launch and came in number one with ...