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FINLAND
Very little changed at the Finnish box-office this weekend, as the new releases Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Down With Love failed to impress and opened fifth and eighth respectively.Land Of Love managed to hang on to its second spot, dropping just 14% and keeping a reasonable admissions screen average of ...
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Scotland's Italian fest fetes Taviani Brothers
Scotland's Italian Film Festival (April 14-23), which takes place in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, will host a tribute to the work of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, to include a restored print of their 1984 film Kaos.The festival will also screen the Taviani Brothers' 1977 Padre, Padrone, Good Morning ...
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Three Steps Dancing (Ballo A Tre Passi)
Dir: Salvatore Mereu. Italy. 2003. 106 mins.Islands are becoming a real force in Italian cinema. Not just films set on islands, like Respiro or L'Isola, but films made by islanders. Aside from the offerings of temple elders Bertolucci and Bellocchio, the two most invigoratingly different Italian films to appear at ...
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NORWAY
Though The Return Of The King dropped 36% it stayed untouchable at the top of the Norwegian chart for another week, as this weekend's only new release, Seabiscuit, didn't manage to attract too much attention and opened tenth.Though little changed, Freaky Friday this weekend grossed more than the animated Captain ...
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JAPAN
After five weeks on release, The Last Samurai still sits firmly atop the Japanese box office, with a screen average, $106,865, higher than that of every film on the nine-major-cities chart, including second-place Finding Nemo ($64,475) and the indie sensation Josee, The Tiger And The Fish ($84,770).Week-on, the film's take ...
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Spacey's Sea wins Babelsberg backing
Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea has become the first film production to benefit from the State of Brandenburg's guarantee scheme.With the state-backed guarantee as a security, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures (SBMP) will put up Euros 4.8m towards the film's $ 20m-plus production costs through a loan from ...
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Momentum spells out European expansion plans
Momentum Pictures, the independent UK distributor which last year had a market share of 1.3%, is set for a growth spurt. Xavier Marchand, the new managing director, has revealed further details of the company's plans to move into Europe and to beef up its British presence."The onus is on us ...
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Samaria set for Berlin competition
Controversial director Kim Ki-duk's 10th film Samaria has been selected to screen in the competition section of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, according to local press reports in South Korea.Berlin is expected to announce further elements of its competition line-up today (Jan 15). Other titles tipped at press time ...
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Top Japanese broadcaster unveils film ambitions
Japan's leading TV broadcaster Fuji TV is aggressively expanding its business into film production and foreign film acquisitions.This summer, Fuji TV enjoyed enormous box office success with Bayside Shakedown Two: The Movie, which grossed $142.5m at the domestic box office -setting an all-time biggest box office record for Japanese live-action ...
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Dutch MPs push for clarification on government film plans
Media and culture representatives from Holland's three largest political parties have called on the government to clarify its plans for the future of state support for film.They want the government to plan follow-up legislation for the CV-tax scheme, which expires in December. The scheme had originally been planned to end ...
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Admissions to French films slip back in 2003
Reflecting the downturn at the French box office in 2003, French films took 60.6m admissions during the year - a 6.2% drop from 2002.However, according to new figures from French film body the CNC, the market share of French films held firm at 34.8% - slightly up on 2002's 34.2%.Nineteen ...
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Sarajevo Festival wins FIAPF competitive status
Festival watchdog FIAPF has published its list of accredited festivals for 2004, and unveiled two main changes for the year.The Sarajevo Festival (Aug 20-28) has become competitive, specialising in films from Central and South Eastern Europe.The Belgrade Film Festival, however, will not be recognised in 2004.Bertrand Moullier, FIAPF general secretary, ...
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Verhoeven wins top Dutch film award
Director Paul Verhoeven is to receive the Holland's most prestigious national film award, the Bert Haanstra Oeuvre-prize.The award, to be given for the fourth time, comes with a 45,000 Euros purse.The award jury, presided over by former minister Hans van Mierlo, said that Verhoeven is a director who is able ...
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Scotland's New Found scheme to back two more features
The New Found Films scheme has announced that it will finance two further low-budget Scottish digital features.The scheme, run by Scottish Screen, Scottish Television and Grampian Television, offers production companies a budget of £300,000 to make a feature that has relevance to Scotland and is capable of international release.The first ...
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Pathe to produce The Little Prince animation
Pathe Pictures has teamed up with French publishers, Gallimard, and the Saint-Exupery Estate to develop and produce an animated feature film based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince.Written and illustrated by Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince has been printed in more than 150 different languages and has sold more than ...
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Indian film-makers eye Pakistani market
As India and Pakistan Governments make progress on peace talks, Indian filmmakers are showing renewed interest in the Pakistani film market.An Indian distributor told ScreenDaily.com 'Once the Pakistani theatrical circuit opens for Hindi cinema the market across the border will be as big as the Delhi and Mumbai territories'.Last week ...
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Japan's Asmik Ace teams up for new video label
Leading Japanese independent film distributor Asmik Ace Entertainment, publisher Kadokawa Shoten Publishing and Kadokawa Holdings and have jointly launched a video & DVD distribution unit.With capital of $83,000 (Yen 10m) funded entirely by Kadokawa Holdings, Kadokawa Entertainment will distribute video and DVDs of all the films and TV programmes produced ...
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Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest unveils line-ups
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest sidebar has confirmed the lineups of films for its traditional competition section and 14plus, the new competition for youth films (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 2003).Twelve feature length films, including Inke Houtmann's Polleke, Richard Berry's Moi, Cesar 10 Ans 1/2 1M 39 and Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion, have been ...
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Ex-bank manager tipped as Biennale president
It is proving to be a very busy week for Italy's cultural minister, Giuliano Urbani: Today (Jan 15), he is expected to name ex-bank manager Davide Croff as the new president of the Biennale, the organization that runs the Venice Film Festival, and on Friday he will present to Parliament ...