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Bosnia and Herzegovina gets second international festival
The first Banja Luka International Film Festival (BLIFF), only the second international film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Sarajevo and the first in Republika Srpska (the Serbian entity within the country), will take place from May 2-9.The inaugural event will present over a hundred films in seven programmes, including ...
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Delanic signs three-year home entertainment deal with Anchor Bay
UK distributor Delanic Films has struck a DVD deal with Starz Media's Anchor Bay Entertainment UK to release a slate of feature films in the UK and Ireland.Delanic Films managing director Joe Simpson and Anchor Bay Entertainment UK Managing Director Colin Lomax announced the deal.Delanic will manage theatrical and TV ...
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Baby Mama
Dir: Michael McCullers . US. 2008. 98 mins.A smart comedy for adults, Baby Mama is a consistently funny pleasure, filled with charismatic performances and a nicely understated emotional element. Though superficially an Odd Couple-style look at two mismatched women - one hired to carry the other's child to term - ...
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Antonia's Line team back with My Father's Notebook
Marleen Gorris and Hans de Weers, the director/producer team behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, are reuniting on a new feature, My Father's Notebook. The film, based on the bestseller by Kader Abdolah, is set at the time of the revolution in Iran and then in Holland a generation later. It ...
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Isabelle Dubar takes distribution post at France's CTV
France's CTV International has appointed Isabelle Dubar to the post of head of distribution.Dubar will handle acquisitions for the company as well as supervising theatrical releases. She will also create a new label specifically aimed at promoting independent film. The label will handle 6-8 films per year. In ...
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Screen opinion: unravelling thebox officenumbers
It's always worrying when you spot what looks like a clear trend in the market. Given the number of false dawns and indeed phantom disasters of the last few years, circumspection is wise.One is reminded of Chinese premier Zhou Enlai's claim in the 1960s that it was still too early ...
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Film in an'anytime, any place anywhere' Martini culture
They call it the Martini culture. Harking back to an iconic advertisement of the 1970s, the idea is that today's consumer wants to be entertained 'any time, any place, anywhere'.It is the sexier big sister of the more prosaic term ICE (information, communication and entertainment), coined in India during the ...
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Features
Tribeca Film Festival
JAMES MOTTERN - TRUCKER WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITIONA chance encounter at a truck-stop cafe inspired James Mottern's debut feature Trucker, the story of a California woman (Michelle Monaghan) whose freewheeling career screeches to a halt when she has to care for her 11-year-old son.Living in Riverside, California, in 2001, Mottern ...
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United Kingdom - Three Of A Kind
Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon of K5 International offer the film industry version of a selective boutique rather than a mass retailer.The three set up K5 International in January 2007 but did not announce their first title - Tom McCarthy's The Visitor - until November 2007 at the ...
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United Kingdom - Myspace Invader
"Faintheart is about men standing up for themselves," says Vito Rocco. "I'm very fond of losers and I love stories about people trying to better themselves."Tagged as the 'first user-generated feature film', Faintheart is a romantic comedy set in the world of Viking battle re-enactments that follows weekend warrior Richard ...
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The Fairytale of New York: Big Apple wins back movie productions
Frank Sinatra sung that he wanted to be a part of it, and it is certainly true for the footloose producers who stream into the city that never sleeps.Since New York's tax incentives were first introduced back in 2004, the city has played host to Sony's Spider-Man 3, Warner Bros' ...
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Film hub - Has the big apple started to bruise'
"I came to New York because of the films of Martin Scorsese and the Velvet Underground," says New York producer Ted Hope, whose credits include the debut features of Ang Lee, Todd Field and Michel Gondry. "But New York City has now become the island of the super-rich. It's hard ...
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Tribeca film festival - 'There's so much business to be done'
The Tribeca Film Festival (April 23-May 4) began life six years ago in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, with the aim of contributing to the revival of Lower Manhattan.Tribeca: Where are they nowSet up by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, the five-day event attracted ...
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Tribeca 2007 - Where are they now'
With more than 150 features screening last year, many criticised the sixth Tribeca Film Festival for offering a line-up that was too eclectic and of mixed quality, as well as for sky-rocketing ticket prices.Nonetheless, by the end of the 12-day event, a number of films had caught the attention of ...
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UK cinemas hum toBollywood tune
The Indian film business may be striking high-profile global partnerships and attracting an unprecedented influx of investment, but at the UK box office in 2007 the news was less upbeat for Bollywood.In search of the crossover hitThe UK - the biggest market for Bollywood product outside India - usually sees ...
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Lions Gate buys US on Korea's Nowhere To Hide
Lions Gate Releasing will release Lee Myung-Se's acclaimed Korean action thriller Nowhere To Hide in the US, starting with a limited run in New York and Los Angeles in December. The film was sold internationally by sister outfit Lions Gate Films International but this is a separate deal negotiated by ...
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Distribution - In search of a crossover hit
Hindi-language films account for around 10% of all UK releases and all the major cinema circuits play Bollywood product.A mid-range Bollywood release in the UK will go out on 25-30 prints. "On the biggest ones you'd go 40-plus - it depends if there's crossover potential," says Cineworld's film buyer Andreas ...
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International - Krazzy for Bollywood
Eros International had an impressive weekend as two new Indian films became the highest non-US entrants in the international top 40, with a combined total of $4.6m.Krazzy 4, the highest entry from the distributor, came in at number 14 with a $2.6m take across 16 territories. The romantic comedy played ...
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Germany - Rom-com lights up Q1
Box-office takings and cinema admissions in Germany are up 30% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2008, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI.In the period January 3-March 23, German cinemas have been experiencing an unexpected, but welcome, revival in popularity after the disappointing results of last year. They posted ...
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Italy - Faith in home-grown talent
Italy's first-quarter box-office results show that while overall box office is lagging compared to the same period last year, local product has remained strong. The data is important to the industry as 2007 saw local films boom, making a significant contribution to raising last year's overall box office to levels ...