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Berlinale launches World Cinema Fund
After three years ofpreparation, the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) has been launched with anannual budget of Euros 500,000. The funds are to be provided over the nextthree years by the German Federal Cultural Foundation to support the productionand distribution of films from Latin America, Africa, and the MiddleEast/Central Asia.According ...
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GERMANY 5 October
Constantin's The Downfall - Germany's entry for theForeign Language Oscar - held on to the top spot for a third week in a row andpassed the 2m admissions barrier with a total gross of over $18.3m.With Les Choristes slipping out of the Top10, another Constantin release - Franziska Buch's family ...
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Medienboard Berlin ups funding by Euros 3m
TheBerlin-Brandenburg Medienboard announced an increase in regional film fundingfor 2004 at Mipcom on Monday.Petra Muller,managing director of the agency, said that Berlin would add another Euros 3mtowards film and TV productions in the area.It was noted thatwhile film funding at other German media locations is under threat, theBerlin-Brandenburg region will ...
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South Africa, US address piracy threat
The question oframpant DVD piracy was brought up in South Africa's parliament on Monday. TradeMinister Mandisi Mpahlwa reported that police and customs officials betweenJanuary and July this year seized over 286,000 pirated DVDs - double the numberseized throughout the whole of 2003.Mpahlwa said thataccording to research done by Ster Kinekor ...
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Hopscotch leaps on four hot titles
Australian distributor Hopscotch has acquired 3-Iron, which won the FIPRESCI award andthe best director award for Kim Ki-duk at the Venice Film Festival, as well as Downfall, Mysterious Skin and Bombon.Argentinian film Bombon,by director Carlos Sorin (Minimal Stories)is also a FIPRESCI winner, at San Sebastian.Downfall, byOliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment),is Germany's ...
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New Portugese indie festival celebrates success
Portugal's newly-createdInternational Independent Film Festival, IndieLisboa (Sept 24-Oct 2), closedits first annual edition with resounding public success.Eugene Green's The LivingWorld (Le Monde Vivant) won the grand prize in the official competition offirst and second works by international directors.Sergio Trefaut's Lisboetaswon best Portuguese film, Miguel Gomes' A Cara Que Mereces the ...
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UK/IRELAND 5 October
Entertainment Film Distriibutors won the battle of theopeners this week, which saw eight new titles enter the top 20 including threewide releases.Horror film Sawproved the best performer playing at just over 300 locations for an excellent$2.2m (£1.2m) weekend take despite its audience-limiting 18-certificate. Thesite average of $7,400 was the best ...
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SOUTH KOREA Production Listings - October 6
SOUTH KOREA October 6PRE-PRODUCTIONDAENSEO-UI SUNJEONG(Culture Cap Media) Backer/Dist:Show East. A famous overseas Korean dancer is invited to Korea for acompetition, but her sister ends up coming in her place by accident. Exec prod:Kim Dong-joo. Dir: Park Young-hoon. Main cast: Moon Geun-young. Shooting fromlate October.Contact: Show East, (82) 2 3446 9590GEUK-JANG-JEON(Jeonwonsa) ...
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Korea's 'star directors' aim to shoot to thrill
Korea's cinematic boom, that started in the late 1990s, hascreated a diverse group of star directors who, thanks to their reputation atthe box-office and at international festivals, now wield an enviable degree ofcreative control compared to their younger colleagues. The latter half of this year will see alarge number of ...
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Schnedecker appointed to head up TCM France
Turner Broadcasting-owned classic movies channel TCM Europe has appointed Eric Schnedecker as director of its French-language service, available in France, French-speaking Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Mauritius.TCM Europe, headquartered in London, currently offers five versions of the channel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Schnedecker will work from Turner Broadcasting's ...
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Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry
Dir. George T. Butler.US. 2004. 130mins.The 2004 US presidential election is widely considered oneof the most divisive in memory, mostly the result of polarity between those whosupport the US-led invasion of Iraq and those who consider it an error equivalentto that nation's adventure in Vietnam a generation ago.A number of ...
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Spain's MediaPro, Globomedia negotiate merger
MediaPro, one of Spain's largest media companies is about to grow significantly bigger if merger talks with local TV powerhouse Globomedia are successful.MediaPro confirmed that it had entered negotiations earlier this summer with Globomedia on a possible merger or, what may be more likely in the short term, a wide-ranging ...
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Filmax, Telecino present 'Films To Keep You Awake'
Alex de la Iglesia (The Day Of The Beast, Perdita Durango, 800 Balas) will wrap shooting next week on the first in a landmark series of six horror TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed 'Films To Keep You Awake.'The series is the first of its kind in the genre ...
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Anschutz Film Group hires Levine, Brown, Jones
Anschutz FilmGroup (AFG), parent company to Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, isringing the changes, relocating to the former Turner Network Television officesin Century City and appointing several key hires.Jackie Levinehas been named vice president of production, Bill Brown becomes senior vicepresident of physical production and post production, and Douglas ...
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Noeltner's CMG picks up Brazilian comedy Manual...
Edward Noeltner's LosAngeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has picked upinternational rights to Jose Roberto Torero's Brazilian comedy Manual ForLove Stories (Como Fazer Um FilmeDe Amor).The picture recentlyreceived its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival; CMG willrepresent it at next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Styled as a ...
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Screen announces shortlist for world, European awards
Mike Leigh'sVenice Golden Lion winner Vera Drake, Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, Zhang Yimou's House Of FlyingDaggers and WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries are among the shortlisted films for the Hollywood World andEuropean Awards presented by Screen International.The winners willbe chosen by a panel of judges and announced at the Hollywood Awards ...
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Paramount Classics to launch Jay-Z documentary in US
Paramount Classics willrelease Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren's hip-hop documentary Fade ToBlack on Nov 5 in North America. Thefilm features rapper Jay-Z's farewell solo concert in New York's Madison SquareGarden as well as live guest appearances by Beyonce, Mary J Blige, MissyElliott, and R Kelly. It also includes footage ...
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A Dirty Shame
After the laboured comedyof Cecil B Demented, it's reassuring to find John Waters on morefamiliar terrain in A Dirty Shame, a dirty sex comedy which really isgood clean fun. Already slapped with an NC-17 rating in the US by the MPAA, thefilm's gleefully flagrant bad language and sexual situations will ...
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Aardman, AtomFilms team for Internet premiere
UK animation house Aardman Animations is launching its latest creation, Angry Kid, exclusively on the Internet, via online distributor AtomFilms' web-site from early May.The 25 60-second episodes will be available as free Quicktime downloads from Sunday, May 7. Aardman and AtomFilms previously pacted for Web distribution of Aardman's back catalogue ...
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Head In The Clouds
Dir/scr: John Duigan.Canada-UK. 2004. 132mins.Head In The Clouds aims to be asweeping romantic epic but it falls short, the victim of a fatal lack of energyand a scale that cannot live up to the film's ambitions. Set in Europe as itbuckles under Fascism, it's the story of an untenable love ...