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Karlovy Vary - Bohemian Rhapsodies
This month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) in the Czech Republic boasts a diverse line-up of more than 200 local and international films.The diversity is most evident in the main competition where titles battling for the Crystal Globe include the world premieres of Michaela Pavlatova's Czech drama Night ...
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Buzz Films - Sneak preview
Night Owls (Czech Rep)Dir: Michaela PavlatovaPavlatova is one of the Czech Republic's best-known animation directors, winning an Oscar nomination and prizes at Berlin, Cottbus and Montreal for her short films. Night Owls - her second live-action feature - is a drama about a young girl working in a 24-hour convenience ...
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Production - Czech Republic - Prague gets a reality Czech
What Prague needs, as everyone knows, is a tax incentive," says Mark Johnson of Gran Via Productions, the US producer of the first two Chronicles Of Narnia films. "Outside of London, it's one of the only places in Europe that could handle a movie like Narnia. But now it is ...
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International - Japanese romcom flies
Japanese romantic comedy Boys Over Flowers: Final was the highest non-US entry in this weekend's chart, generating $9.5m in its home territory.Toho released the film, based on characters from the original shojo manga (girl's comic), on 400 screens in Japan, and it earned a very strong $23,686 screen average - ...
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Cinema Expo - 3D cinema in depth
The big topic at this year's Cinema Expo was 3D cinema. As studios have started to throw their weight behind three-dimensional films, European exhibitors were encouraged to pick up the pace of 3D installation in cinemas in order to "save" the cinematic world.Around a dozen 3D films are scheduled for ...
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Good Machine plays hard to get
Good Machine is once again being courted by several corporate suitors interested in marrying up with the decade-old New York production and sales operation that is currently enjoying its most successful year yet. So far, however, Good Machine's three partners are resisting that final walk down the wedding aisle. "There ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with De Niro lined up for Crystal Globe
Robert De Niro will this evening receive a Crystal Globe forOutstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 43rd Karlovy Vary InternationalFilm Festival, which opens today.The actor will be on hand for the opening screening of his latest film, What Just Happened'Before the festival, De Niro told the local daily Hospodarske ...
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BritDoc UK competition includes Man On Wire, Starstruck
BritDoc, the Oxford-based documentary festival now hosting its third-annual event, has announced this year's competition films.The British Competition will include:Blood Trail - dir. Richard Parry A young war photographer ventures to Sarajevo in 1993 and tries to make a name for himself. Chosen - dir. Brian Woods Middle class men ...
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European Commission firms up plans for global film cooperation
The details of how a global film cooperation programme might work have become clearer following a recent public hearing on the international film industry in Brussels.The hearing is the latest step in a series of public consultations and studies that will help define the new MEDIA MUNDUS programme and offered ...
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Metrodome promotes Sara Frain to General Manager of Distribution
Metrodome Group has promoted Sara Frain is to be promoted from General Manager - Theatrical & Broadcast to the newly created position of General Manager of Distribution.This move follows the departure of the current General Manager of Home Entertainment Tom Stewart who will be leaving the company at the end ...
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New Polish partners board Agnieszka Holland's 15.7m War My Love!
Polish Television and Polish Telecommunications have boarded SPI Film Studio's upcoming production War My Love!, directed by Agnieszka Holland.The project was pitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings as Christine, a drama based on the life of Krystyna Skarbek, a woman Winston Churchill described as the most outstanding British spy of ...
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Alliance Films reverses Globe and Mail screening ban
Distributor Alliance Films has reversed its decision to ban critics from the Globe and Mail newspaper at its preview screenings.The Toronto-based distributor had told the paper its reviewers were no longer welcome following a negative review and a negative column of Sex And The City as well as a front-page ...
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Beeban Kidron joins UK Film Council board
Director Beeban Kidron has joined the UK Film Council's Board of Directors.The appointment was made by Margaret Hodge MP, Minister for Culture, today. Kidron will serve on the board for four years until 1 July 2012.Kidron is currently in post-production on her next film, Hippie Hippie Shake, for Working Title. ...
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Karlovy Vary and Locarno premieres unveiled at Previews in Cologne
World premieres at this week's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Locarno's forthcoming Piazza Grande open-air programme are among 23 films being presented at the German Films Previews in Cologne from July 10-13.Tom Schreiber's Dr Aleman, which has been invited to Karlovy Vary's international competition, will have its market premiere ...
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Will Smith takes July 4th weekend - again - with Hancock
Will Smith, an Independence Day weekend winner four times over the past 12 years, maintained his champion's form as Hancock savaged the competition with an estimated $66m haul over three days rising to $107.3m over five following Tuesday night's launch.The tale of a reluctant, boozy superhero who has to change ...
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Hancock scores exceptional $78.3m international opening for SPRI
Seven letters dominated the box office over the weekend as Hancock, pushed out by Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) across half the world, demolished its rivals thanks to an estimated $78.3m gross from 5,444 screens in 50 markets.The exceptional result is borne out by the comparisons. Based on grosses in ...
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Taipei fest ups glamour but suffers from falling ticket sales
The tenth anniversary edition of the Taipei Film Festival (June 20 - July 6) ended Sunday with an attempt to reinvent itself as a competitive event for local films amid plummeting ticket sales. The festival, which has recruited several former staff of the Golden Horse Film Awards, upped the glamour ...
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China box office up 55% in first half of 2008
The first half of 2008 saw impressive growth at the China box office, with total receipts reaching $237.32m (RMB1.63bn), a 55% increase compared to the first half of 2007, according to government figures. Industry players estimate that the total box office for 2008 will reach $583.09m (RMB4bn). Despite several natural ...
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Germany fails to keep up Q1 momentum
Admissions to German cinemas fell by 50% in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, according to figures prepared by EDI Nielsen.Exhibitors posted $ 188.4m (Euros 119.3m) box-office revenues from 19m admissions between April and the end of June.The half-year total is $ 565.8m (Euros 358.1m) ...
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Motovun festival focuses on Russia
The 10th Motovun Film Festival (Jul 28-Aug 1) has announced competition programme, juries and this year's partner country- Russia, honouring 100 years of Russian film.The anniversary will be include a week of Russian Film in the Croation capital Zagreb, from Jul 5-11, presenting 10contemporary works, including films fromAlexei Balabanov, Sergei ...