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Soft Money - The Netherlands
The NetherlandsThere is still money to be had by canny international producers, but new government restrictions have taken the sheen off The Netherlands as a hub for tax-sheltered productions. Patrick Frater reportsThe Netherlands has been one of the world's hot locations for film producers. In the space of just a ...
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Children's Story captivates Karlovy Vary
Andrea Frazzi and Antonio Frazzi's AChildren's Story (Certi Bambini) wonthe top prize, the Crystal Globe, on Saturday night (July 10) at the 39thedition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.The Italian drama follows a young boy, Rosario, who liveswith his sick grandmother but grows up on the streets in a world ...
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UK producers express Development concerns
The UK's production community has issued an urgentcall to public funding body the UK Film Council to revise its ambitious"Slate Development Scheme." A strongly worded statement circulated byproducers' trade body PACT has expressed fears that the Film Councilplans will "destabilise the market."PACT's release -issued after a special meeting of itsmembers ...
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VoD roll out threatened by DVD boom
The take-up of video-on-demand and other digital contentdelivery services could be slowed because of the ongoing strength of DVD profitmargins, delegates at Screen International's DVD: The Home Cinema Summiton Thursday (July 8) were told.On some European services, a movie via video on demand cancost as low as Euros 3 - ...
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Warner launches Kubrick web-site
Warner Home Video has launched a website - www.kubrickfilms.com - dedicated to the late film-maker Stanley Kubrick. It is the company's first major web site based around the work of one director and is authorised by and assembled with the help of the Kubrick estate.The site includes sections such as ...
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MPAA survey concludes that one in four internet users has downloaded film illegally
A survey of internet use in eight countries conducted by the MPAAand online research company OTX has revealed that nearly one in four users haveillegally downloaded a film at some point.Researchers interviewed respondents in the US, UK, Germany,France, Italy, Australia, South Korea and Japan, and found that on average 24%of ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to Nobody Knows, Edukators
IFC Films has picked up USdistribution rights to two award-winning pictures that screened in competitionat Cannes this year, Kore-eda Hirokaza's Nobody Knows and Hans Weingartner's The Edukators.International sales for bothtitles are being handled by Celluloid Dreams.Nobody Knows is styled as a heartbreaking and humorous account ofthe daily lives of four ...
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Spider-Man 2 fends off strong attack from Anchorman
Sony's Spider-Man 2 was too strong for the opposition at the weekend,beating off the challenges of Anchorman and King Arthur to staytop on an estimated $46m for $257.3m after its second weekend.The arachnid passed $200mafter a record eight days last week and is roughly $20m ahead of its 2002predecessor at ...
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Spider-Man 2 continues to dominate US box office
Sony's Spider-Man 2 was too strong for the opposition at the weekend,beating off the challenges of Anchorman and King Arthur to staytop on an estimated $46m for $257.3m after its second weekend.The arachnid passed $200mafter a record eight days last week and is roughly $20m ahead of its 2002predecessor at ...
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Harry cracks the $400m barrier for Warner International with $20.3m weekend
Warner Bros' Harry PotterAnd The Prisoner Of Azkaban passed$400m at the international box office at the weekend after an estimated $20.3mhaul on more than 6,700 screens in 51 countries.The family picture's grossis now an estimated $403.8m and weekend magic was driven by a mighty $8.9mthird weekend haul on 757 screens ...
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Spider-Man 2 scores $53m haul in 50 territories
Spider-Man 2 smashed through $100m during its secondinternational weekend as it grossed an estimated $53m on 6,754 screens in 50territories for a $115.7m running total.The arachnid spun superbopenings through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) inJapan, Germany and Scandinavia and enjoyed several strong holds including aremarkable performance in Brazil.It opened ...
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Adam & Paul takes top Galway honours
Adam & Paul, the new debut feature film fromIrish commercials director Lenny Abrahamson, ran away with the Best FirstFeature Award at Sunday's closing event for the Galway Film Fleadh.The Porridge Pictures film, which was produced by JonnySpeers and written by lead actor Mark O'Halloran, had its world premiere inGalway on ...
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Obituary: Carlo Di Palma
Carlo Di Palma, the renowned Italian cinematographer wholit Woody Allen's films for 18 years, has died in Rome. He was 79.Di Palmalaunched his career as a director of photography on Roberto Rossellini'spost-World War II movie, Rome Open City. He lit Italian films rangingfrom Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow up and Red Desert ...
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Fahrenheit fires up European box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit9/11 received a mighty international debut this weekend in Europe.In the UK the film shatteredthe record for the best ever opening for a documentary, taking a colossal $2.4m(£1.3m) on 132 screens including previews through distributor OptimumReleasing. Moore's own Bowling For Columbine previously held the record,opening on $292,680 (£157,898) ...
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Unifrance re-elects Menegoz as president
MargaretMenegoz has been re-elected president of Unifrance Film International, theFrench film export support body.Menegoz was appointed acting president in Februarylast year following the sudden death of Daniel Toscan Du Plantier. Unanimouslyelected, Menegoz now has a two year mandate.Theorganisation has three vice-presidents: head of the feature film producerscommittee Philippe Carcassonne of ...
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Soldini, Tognazzi lead Italian Davids noms
Italy's 2000 David di Donatello Awards look set to be a two-horse race as Silvio Soldini's Pane E Tulipani and Ricky Tognazzi's Canone Inverso both scooped nine nominations apiece, including best film, best screenplay and best director.Marco Bechis' Garage Olimpo was also nominated in the three categories, and also picked ...
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Radclyffe options best-selling Edge Chronicles
UK producer Sarah Radclyffehas optioned 10-book children's fantasy series The Edge Chronicles.Jigsaw Films, the productionlabel for family films that Radclyffe runs with Courtney Pledger and BillGodfrey, aims to turn the series into a studio-level family action-adventurefranchise.The story of a younglibrarian knight, which Jigsaw optioned with support body the UK Film ...
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Shrek 2 crosses $250m international mark
Shrek 2 added approximately $50.5m this weekend, despiteadding only one new territory, to pass the $250m international mark.A week of stellar holdovers saw thefilm take $49.1m from UIP territories over the weekend. UIP also opened theanimated hit in the Czech Republic where it grossed $354,795 from 26 screens.Shrek 2 also ...
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Mirren to be honoured with Britannia Award by BAFTA/LA
Helen Mirren will receiveBAFTA LA's Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in InternationalEntertainment at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 4.Mirren can currently be seenopposite Robert Redford in Fox Searchlight's kidnap drama The Clearing, and is filming the contract killer thriller Shadowboxer opposite Cuba Gooding Jr.A veteran of ...
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Years takes up European marketing job at WBITD
Chandra Yearshas been promoted to vice president of European marketing at Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The Burbank-based Years will relocate to London to overseeWBITD's marketing, publicity and servicing executives and staff throughoutEurope, and support WBITD's European sales executives on marketing campaigns.She willcontinue to report to Lisa Gregorian, senior vice president ...