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NEW ZEALAND
Columbia TriStar's Underworld just managed to push UIP's Love Actually off the top spot in the weekend popularity stakes. It sold NZ$331,282 worth of tickets from 40 screens, admittedly a dozen less than the 52 screens from which Love Actually earned it's NZ$310,788. It was Underworld's first weekend, just as ...
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When The Right One Comes Along (Wenn Der Richtige Kommt)
Dirs. Stefan Hillebrand and Oliver Paulus. Switzerland/Germany, 2003. 78mins.If this largely improvised, shoestring budget production finds its place on the festival and art house circuit, as it rightly should, it will not be because of its glamour or production values, of which it has none, but its immediate spontaneity and ...
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JAPAN Production Listings - December 8 2003
Japan - December 8PRE-PRODUCTION BOKUNO CHIKYU WA AOKATTA(Rumble Fish) Int'l sales: Rumble Fish. Human drama. A boy, whose brother mysteriously disappears, goes on a search for his sibling and his own identity. Prod: Takenori Sento. Dir: Hitoshi Yazaki. Shooting in Japan in 2004.Contact: Kumi Sato, Rumble Fish, (81) 3 5718 ...
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Production schedules aim for holidays
For full Japanese production listings click hereJapanese production, particularly at the top end of the market, is geared toward the four peak periods of New Year's, spring break, Golden Week, and summer vacation. Spring break in March is nearly a month-long holiday for most college students, while Golden Week, ...
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FINLAND
Not much changed at the top of the Finnish chart this week, though the two maritime adventures Finding Nemo and Master And Commander dropped 30% and 41% respectively, the new release S.W.A.T. only managed to sneak into the third position. The real winner this week was instead Once Upon A ...
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Whale Rider makes splash at NZ awards
As expected, Whale Rider won nearly all the relevant categories at the New Zealand Film Awards tonight (Dec 8) in Auckland, including best film for producers Tim Sanders and John Barnett, best director and best writer for Niki Caro, and best actress for Keisha Castle-Hughes.With Caro currently in the US, ...
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Mr Altman and his movies
The following Q&A appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on February 25.Robert Altman celebrated his 75th birthday on February 23, just two weeks after completing principal photography on his 32nd dramatic feature film, Dr T And The Women. In this ensemble piece, Richard Gere plays a gynaecologist struggling with the ...
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Japan swept up by Last Samurai
The Last Samurai took an impressive $8.6m (Y920,354,300) on its opening weekend in Japan, playing on 550 screens for a screen average of $15,639.This compares with its $24.4m take on 2,908 screens for its US opening. In other words, the Japanese gross is more than one-third the US total, on ...
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SWEDEN
The star-studded Christmas love stories in Love Actually this weekend sailed past Peter Weir's Master And Commander, but was unable to touch Finding Nemo at the top of the Swedish chart. Released on less prints, but boasting the best screen average this weekend, Quentin Tarantino's first installment of Kill Bill ...
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NORWAY
The of the top of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged this weekend, as two of the new releases Looney Tunes Back In Action and Underworld only managed to sneak into fourth and fifth position. By far the strongest screen average was mastered by Russell Crowe in Master And Commander, but ...
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DENMARK
Like elsewhere in the region the top three spots at the Danish box-office chart remained unchanged this weekend where Finding Nemo, Master And Commander and Love Actually sat firmly, and the latter only fell back 17%. However, the best screen average by far was achieved by the new release of ...
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Koltai, Golan ready WWII dramas
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Taking Sides, Malena) and veteran Israeli producer-director Menahem Golan have both announced feature projects about the devastating impact of the Nazis on Jews in Europe.Koltai will be making his directorial debut with adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz's novel Fateless which will begin an 11-week ...
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Tallinn takes off with 300-strong programme
The 7th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (22 Nov-7 Dec) screened 300 films from 50 countries this year, making it the largest edition since its inception despite the ongoing struggle to finance the event. This year the festival also joined up with the second annual Baltic ...
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Gregersen Family epic gets Danish greenlight
Denmark's most prolific independent producer Regner Grasten has got the green light for his long cherished four-hour feature, The Gregersen Family, based on the bestselling books by Christian Kampmann (1939-88).The Danish Film Institute awarded the film a substantial $1.37m for its $4.2m budget. Additional funding comes from broadcaster TV2, Buena ...
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Manderlay wins lion's share of Eurimages funding
Lars von Trier's Manderlay, Philippe Haim's La Vraie Vie Des Dalton, Lajos Koltai's Fateless and Lieven Debrauwer's Confituur are among 11 European co-productions to share Euros 4.1m production support from Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.Manderlay received the largest amount - Euros 725,000 - as one of four ...
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Asian film industry mourns Duangkamol Limcharoen
Thai producer Duangkamol Limcharoen, a leading figure in the pan-Asian filmmaking movement, has died following a brief fight against cancer. She was 39 years old.A former TV producer, Limcharoen founded Thai film company Cinemasia in 2000 with the aim of producing pan-Asian co-productions and expanding the market for Asian films. ...
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Rising producer hits back amid backer dispute
Bobby Bedi, the producer of big budget Indian feature The Rising, has spoken out following reports that Indian conglomerate Sahara India has pulled out of the film.Sahara issued a statement last month saying that the company was withdrawing its association with The Rising because Aishwarya Rai - who is a ...
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Sightsound wins 35 Franchise films for internet
Franchise Pictures, the prolific Hollywood production partnership between Elie Samaha and Andrew Stevens, has entered into an exclusive, five year, worldwide internet distribution deal with Sightsound.com, the internet company which has pioneered distribution of music and movies online. Franchise will concurrently become a shareholder in Sightsound.com.Under the terms of the ...
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Movienet takes Russian Return for Germany
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev's debut feature The Return (Vozvraschenie), which won the European Discovery 2003 Fassbinder Award in Berlin at the weekend, has been picked up by German theatrical distributor Movienet for release early next year.The story of two brothers whose lives are turned upside down by the sudden reappearance ...
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Balsan takes over from Powell as EFA chairman
After eight years in the post, the UK's Nik Powell is handing over the reins of the chairmanship of the European Film Academy (EFA) to French producer Humbert Balsan.Speaking at the European Film Awards ceremony, Powell quipped that he expected Balsan - who has been one of the EFA deputy ...