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Hollywood Film Festival teams with IDA for documentary showcase
The HollywoodFilm Festival has teamed up with the International Documentary Association(IDA) for a special focus on documentaries at this year's festival which runsOct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles.The documentaryfocus is comprised of Hollywood Docs Showcase which will screen documentarieswith a special focus on social and humanitarian themes, and the ...
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GERMANY 7 July
The warm summer weather andthe competition from the Euro 2004 Championship final on Sunday evening clearlydidn't stop people going to the cinema as Shrek2's admissions of over 1.2m were over five times higher than Harry Potter's 243,431.Meanwhile, with the Tour deFrance cranking up last weekend, Pepe Danquart's documentary about thegruelling ...
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SPAIN 7 July
The latest figures from industry data tracker Nielsen EDIshow that contrary to early figures from UIP Shrek 2 has actually recorded the highest ever three-day opening inSpain.The animated sequel claimed Euros 6.1m, finishing ahead oflast year's The Lord Of The Rings: TheReturn Of The King which set the previous three-day ...
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King Arthur
Dir:Antoine Fuqua. US-Ireland/UK. 2004. 115mins.Billedas 'The untold true story that inspired the legend,' producer JerryBruckheimer's big-budget King Arthur ditches the mysticism and most ofthe romance usually associated with Arthurian tales and attempts to replacethem with gritty historical realism - or at least with something that's asclose to gritty realism as ...
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Moolaade
Dir:Ousmane Sembene. Senegal-Fr. 2004. 123minsBest intentions donot always make best films, and though there is no doubt about the relevance ofan issue as painful as female genital mutilation in Africa, Ousmane Sembene'streatment looks too much like an over-extended politically-correct tract thatwill not go far beyond the strict confines of ethnographic ...
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Artificial Eye snags Moolaade for UK
ArtificialEye has picked up Moolaade, the winner of best film in Un Certain Regardat Cannes this year.TheUK distributor is opening the film in March next year. Directed by veteran Senegalese filmmakerOusmane Sembene, it deals with the subject of female genital mutilationcircumcision and is dedicated to women struggling to abolish the ...
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Buenos Aires indie fest sparks arthouse revival
Buenos Aires' international indie festival (April 6-16) is only in its second year but has already renewed local interest in arthouse films. Last year, more than 100 films at the festival were picked up for distribution in Argentina, led by local distributor, Pascual Condito, who acquired up to 30 titles. ...
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DVD specialist Anchor Bay goes theatrical
Anchor Bay UK is to take the plunge into British theatricaldistribution. The DVD company, which has built its reputation on the back ofits restorations of classic and cult pictures, has three titles already slatedfor release in British cinemas later this year.The Manson Family is out on July 23rd in London.Don ...
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Filmstiftung NRW bankrolls Euro co-productions
New feature projects byRaoul Ruiz, Michael Caton-Jones and Cedric Kahn are among several Europeanco-productions receiving production support from Filmstiftung NRW in its latestround of funding.A total of Euros 7.1m wasallocated to 36 projects. The largest amount - Euro 1m - was given to CedricKahn's Franco-German co-production L'Avion about a magical ...
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NORTH AMERICA 7 July
Warner Independent Pictures kicked off business over theweekend with the opening of its first picture Before Sunset, a Castle Rock production starring Ethan Hawke andJulie Delpy reprising their roles from the 1995 two-hander Before Sunrise.Both films were directed by Richard Linklater. The movieopened well for the new studio division run ...
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France told to overhaul film advertising law
The European Commission hasformally demanded that France revisit its laws regarding advertising for filmsand books.France is one of the rare countriesto have legislation outlawing television adverts for films and books. TheCommission noted that the laws "violate the freedom of those who offer theseservices." Should France not respond favorably to the ...
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Warner Japan launches Spicy Asia DVD label
Warner Entertainment Japan has announced the launch of a newDVD label specialising in Asian films.Called Spicy Asia, the label will be overseen by the WarnerHome Video division.The first two titles, Kim Sung-su's 2001 period drama MusaThe Warrior and Chung Ji Woo's 1999 romantic drama Happy End, willbe released on August ...
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Thumbs up for inaugural UK Film Focus
Last week's inaugural UK London Film Focus (June 30-July 2)has received a qualified thumbs-up from the filmmakers, buyers and sales agentswho participated. Few deal memos were signed, some distributors questioned theoverall strength of the selection of British movies on display, but there hasbeen widespread praise of the way in which ...
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Obituary: Fred Turner
FredTurner, former head of Rank Film Distributors (RFD), has died aged 71.Turnerjoined Rank as a tea boy in 1946. He first worked for Eagle Lion, then Rank'soverseas distribution arm, before working his way up through the company tobecome financial controller and, in 1981, managing director.Heremained at Rank until 1997, when ...
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Ramallah festival revs up with Motorcycle
The inaugural Ramallah International Film Festival (RIFF)kicks off today (July 8) with a special screening of Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries.RIFFis the first ever international film festival to be held in the PalestinianTerritories, and launches with a programme of some 70 films including MarcoBellocchio's Buongiorno, Notte, Michael Winterbottom's In This Worldand ...
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Hamburg gives into protests against funding cuts
Themonth-long wave of protests against the proposals by Hamburg's Culture SenatorKarin von Welck to cut funding for FilmFoerderung Hamburg (FFHH) by 50% has hadthe desired effect.Accordingto German press reports on Wednesday afternoon (July 7), the Senate forEconomics & Labour is to provide at least Euros 2m from its economicfunding budget ...
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Motorcycle Diaries keeps on cranking in Italy
Amidall the fervour over Michael Moore's documentary sensation Fahrenheit 9/11, there has been another modestly budgetedindependent film quietly showing box office promise in the face of stiffcompetition from the onslaught of big budget Hollywood blockbusters. Only thisparticular sleeper happens to have been made in the Spanish language.WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries,which ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 heats up France
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has announced that Fahrenheit 9/11 landed in 5th place for opening day scores so farthis year when the film debuted on Wednesday in France.MarsDistribution, which is handling the release, sent the film out on 28 prints inParis and noted that the first screening at 2:00pm welcomed ...
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Nair launches Sundance Institute of the East
Film-maker Mira Nair haslaunched a film-maker laboratory dedicated to developing and supportingvisionary screenwriters and directors from East Africa and South Asia. CalledMAISHA, the initiative is based on the Sundance Institute model.The first annual MAISHA labwill focus on screenwriting and is scheduled to take place in Aug 2005 inKampala, Uganda. From ...
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New NYC film festival launched for young women film-makers
A new film festival wasunveiled in New York City yesterday for young, emerging female film-makersbetween the ages of 16 and 25. Entitled Reel Girls Filmmakers On The Verge,the festival will run Nov 4 to 6.Organised by artsorganization Gen Art and teen magazine YM, the event will feature three seriesof ...