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FilmFour, Whitaker strike production pact
The UK's FilmFour has partnered with US actor Forest Whitaker and his production company Spirit Dance Entertainment to find, develop and produce projects by black and Asian film-makers.FilmFour will have first look on projects that the two companies work on together. The partners aim to work with established film-makers and ...
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Trust adds to Brothers sales success
Denmark'sTrust Film Sales notched up a raft of sales on San Sebastian doubleprize-winner Brothers (Brodere) by director Susanne Bier.Thefilm was licensed to Solo Film for Germany, Swift Productions for France,Seville Pictures for Canada, Rosebud Entertaintments for Greece, CaliforniaFilms for Brazil, AG Market for the former Yugoslavia, New World Films forSpain, ...
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GERMANY 28 September
Oliver Hirschbiegel's TheDownfall easily defended the top spot from new releases in its second week,increasing its box-office takings by 18% and admissions by 20% with a screenaverage of $ 10,582 from 483 prints. After ten days in the cinemas, the WorldWar II drama has been seen by more than 1.36m ...
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SWEDEN 28 September
Kay Pollak's romantic drama Saa Som I Himmelen stayed on the top of the Swedish chart, despiteseveral new releases including the highly anticipated adaptation of the localbestseller Popular Music (PopularmusikFran Vittula), which disappointed opening fifth taking just $3,607 screenaverage form its 48 prints. However, it fared batter than this week's ...
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Bombon El Perro
Dir. CarlosSorin. Arg-Sp. 2004. 96mins.As spare,intimate and intentionally unglamorous as Carlos Sorin's previous film MinimalStories, Bombon, El Perro is likely to follow a similar fate: rakingin a bagful of festival awards, collecting plenty of favourable reviews andgenerating better than average business on the arthouse circuit.The film won theFIPRESCI award at ...
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Dendy's Sarfaty new head of indie cinema group
The organisation that helped make Australia's majordistributors more accountable for how they deal with small exhibitors has a newpresident and a new name.Mark Sarfaty, head of the arthouse chain Dendy Cinemas, sayshe wants to use his new role as president to further strengthen the voluntarycode of conduct so that it ...
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Dendy's Sarfaty new head of indie cinema group
The organisation that helped make Australia's majordistributors more accountable for how they deal with small exhibitors has a newpresident and a new name.Mark Sarfaty, head of the arthouse chain Dendy Cinemas, sayshe wants to use his new role as president to further strengthen the voluntarycode of conduct so that it ...
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FRANCE 28 September
StevenSpielberg's The Terminal opened infirst place this week with nearly 500,000 admissions and just ahead of The Bourne Supremacy which held on tothe number two spot in its second week for a total take to date of $5,091,174.Frenchcomedy Mensonges Et Trahisons droppedoff by 24% in its second week but stayed ...
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AUSTRALIA 28 September
A Shark Tale wasthe most popular film at the box office on the weekend taking A$2,541,304 forUIP from a substantial 310 screens. Audiences in Australia -- and New Zealand-are the first to see the animated DreamWorks title and it was helped along byschool holidays starting the day after its Thursday ...
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ACE to debate building production businesses in UK
"Why is the UK such a difficult place to builda production business'" is the question at the heart of a one day seminar "ShowBusiness or No Business'" being organised by the Ateliers du Cinema Europeen(ACE) next month (Oct 15) in London.ACE argues that UK producers find it uniquelydifficult to retain ...
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BBC Films sprinkles comic talent on Confetti
A host of leading newcomedic talent has lined up for Confetti,a mockumentary-style comedy that started shooting this month for BBC Films.Directed by Debbie Isitt,best known for hit TV series NastyNeighbours, the cast is headed by Martin Freeman from TV show The Office and Jessica Stevenson, whosecredits include Shaun Of The ...
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Dealer hits jackpot at Athens festival
Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's Dealer wasnamed best film at the 10th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights which wrapped on Sept 27 with the out of competitiongala presentation of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.The festival kicked off on Sept 17 with the presentation ofMichael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. One hundred and forty films, up ...
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France allocates Euros 40m for film tax scheme
France has earmarked Euros 40m for its newlycreated tax credit scheme for the film and television sectors.The funding has been made available in an effortto stem runaway production and keep up with successful tax based film supportsystems in countries like the UK. The money will become available at the startof ...
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US studios return to tap German funds
20th Century Fox, New Line and Universal Studiosare looking to benefit once more from three new placements by German privatemedia funds this autumn.German fund specialist DCM Deutsche CapitalManagement (DCM) is launching a new fund to raise Euros 150m for projects to beproduced at 20th Century Fox.DCM has previously collaborated withInternationalmedia ...
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ICA Projects picks up UK rights to Turtles, Cafe Lumiere
ICA Projects, the distributionarm of the UK's Institute Of Contemporary Art, has moved quickly to pick up twoof the hottest films of the moment.Turtles Can Fly, the Iraqi-Kurdistani drama by Bahman Ghobadi, whichwon the top prize Golden Shell at San Sebastian, was acquired from Frenchseller Bac Films at Toronto where ...
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Campfire burns brightly at Israeli Film Awards
Josef Cedar's Campfire,a coming of age story and a portrait of the right wing settlers on the WestBank and their less than idealistic motivations, picked up five of the topawards at the Israeli Film Academy at its annual ceremony on September 27.Campfire will now automatically go forward asIsrael's submission to ...
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Warner Bros strikes ITV licensing deal
UK broadcaster ITV hassigned an exclusive licensing agreement with Warner Bros. InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD) for free television rights to new and libraryfeature films.Under the terms of the deal,ITV will have access to feature films from Warner Bros' 2003, 2004 and 2005theatrical slates including titles such as Harry Potter and the ...
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Pollack's Heaven named as Swedish Oscar contender
Swedishwriter-director Kay Pollak's Saa Som I Himmelen (literally: As InHeaven), has been selected as Sweden's official candidate for the 2004 bestforeign language Oscar.The filmis riding high in the local box-office chart at the moment having attractedsome 350,000 admissions and has grossed $3.3m after four weeks.DistributorSonet Film has upped its number ...
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DENMARK 28 September
The new release of TheVillage did manage to scare up this week's best screen average ofDKK40,307, but was unable to topple Shrek2 from the top spot, which it has held for four weeks. Susanne Bier's Brothers, which took home both the bestactor and actress award from San Sebastian this weekend, ...