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DENMARK 25 August
The Danish box-office, which has been hungry for new strongreleases, saw I, Robot easily takeover the top spot from Garfield witha strong DKK43,196 screen average on its 67 prints. The film, which was thefirst ever also to be screened digitally by major Nordisk Film, met nochallenge from this week's other ...
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AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND Production Listings - August 25
AUSTRALIA August 24IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BOOK OF REVELATION(Wildheart Zizani) Backers: FilmFinance Corporation Australia, New South Wales Film and Television Office, FilmVictoria, ContentFilm. Int'l sales: Content International. Dist: Palace Films(Aust/NZ). Drama. A dancer disappears without a trace for 12 days, then returnsjust as mysteriously. Prod: Al Clark. Dir: Ana Kokkinos. Scr: Andrew ...
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Acclaimed directors lead Australia's upcoming slate
The directors of three of the most highly acclaimedAustralian films of recent years, Ana Kokkinos, Rowan Woods and Ray Lawrence,are named within the country's upcoming slate of financed but still-to-be-madefilms.The Book OfRevelation, Ana Kokkinos's second film after Head On, and Little Fish,Rowan Woods' second film after The Boys,are being represented ...
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The Taste Of Tea (Cha No Aji)
Dir/scr/ed: IshiiKatsuhito. Japan. 2004. 143minsA little eccentricitygoes a long way in The Taste Of Tea, the third feature from IshiiKatsuhito that bills itself as a fusion of the classical humanist dramas of Ozuand the manga-shaped sensibility of a director who worked on the animationsequence in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol 1.In ...
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Private
Dir. Saverio Costanzo.Italy. 2004. 92mins.Raw, gritty and uncompromising, Saverio Costanzo'saward-winning Locarno debut is a thought provoking and painfully realisticimage of living under occupation. As such, it is likely to become a favouriteon the festival circuit (it already has a berth in Toronto's Discovery sectionnext month) and a leading exponent of ...
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Pinewood Shepperton profits surge
Pinewood Shepperton hasposted strong figures for its first interim results since floating in May.The film studio combineposted pro-forma profits of £3.8m for the six months to June, up 31.6% on thesame period last year. Studio facilities' sales rose more than 10%, hitting£11.3 m, on the back of Charlie And The ...
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San Sebastian lines up political documentaries
Six political themeddocumentaries - including Oliver Stone's Looking For Fidel and BasqueCountry-set Persecuted - have been invited to screenat nextmonth's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25) as part of itsOpen Zone (Zabaltegi) sectionThe festival also has addedfive new films, four of them documentaries, to its Latin Horizons sidebar, allout ...
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Faivre embarks on double shoot
Shootinghas begun on a new project from producer Bertrand Faivre. Sauf Le Respect Que Je Vous Dois, whose English title is Burn Out, began principal photographylast month in Paris and will carry on for another four weeks in Paris and theprovinces.Directed byFabienne Godet, Burn Out stars 2002Cannes best actor prize ...
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Martial arts stars align for Yip action drama
Three generations of martial artists have joined forces forWilson Yip's upcoming action drama SPL (working title), which is nearingthe end of a four-month shoot in Hong Kong.Produced by Carl Chang with backing from Abba Chan's AbbaMovies, the US$3.8m (HK$30m) film stars martial arts veteran Sammo Hung alongwith Donnie Yen and ...
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Apollo plans luxury 'club class' cinemas in UK
UK independent exhibitor Apollo Cinemas has unveiled a £50mthree-year development programme to bring luxury cinemas to UK town centres.At a time when the major cinema players are undergoingconsolidation, the move underscores the long-term confidence in the market -and especially for premium rate 'event destinations'.This week the company launched its new ...
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New Line Int'l pacts with newcomer Nexo in Italy
New Line International (NLI) has closed a round of package deals on its upcoming product and is finalising a new partnership in Italy with start-up distribution company Nexo Pictures.Nexo, which was formed by cinema-owner Ernesto Di Sarro, contingent on the New Line deal, has taken eight pictures initially - Frequency, ...
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BVI masterminds King Arthur comeback
Itwas a great week for Buena Vista International (BVI) at the international boxoffice last weekend as King Arthur and The Village claimed thetop two positions.Sixweeks after its international debut King Arthur took the international boxoffice crown boosted by a handful of new openings - led by a number one debutin ...
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First Look, Content Film call off merger
First LookMedia and ContentFilm have "mutuallyagreed" to end the merger discussions that had been underway since thecompanies signed a non-binding letter of intent in June. In a statement, thetwo parties said they were "unable to resolve certain businessissues." "Both companies determined that itwas not in the best interests of either ...
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Bavaria takes on Midwinter sales
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) is to handle world sales on Serbian director GoranPaskaljevic's latest feature MidwinterNight's Dream which will be in competition at the forthcoming San SebastianFilm Festival.The disturbingand moving film about a man returninghome after ten years of absence to start a new life in today's Serbia starsLazar Ristovski who ...
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Fox embarks on Dodgeball roll-out
SurpriseUS hit Dodgeball opens in its first major international territories thisweekend and distributor 20th Century Fox will be hoping that star Ben Stiller -whose Starsky And Hutch is now coming to the end of its better thanexpected international run - can drive the film to a strong internationaltotal.Dodgeball'sbroad comedy resulted ...
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Resfest readies global film tour
Resfest, the global touring festival dedicated to profilinginnovative film, music, art, design and technology launches in New York on Sept9, before travelling to over 30 cities worldwide.Now in its 8th year, the Resfest Digital Film Festival was establishedto provide a forum to showcase the changing language and style of storytellingin ...
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The Hamburg Cell
Dir: Antonia Bird. UK.2004.100minsIs the world ready for a dispassionate account of theterrorist cell behind the 9/11 atrocities' Is it possible to understand thehuman impulses behind such unconscionable actions'Those are just two of thequestions prompted by The Hamburg Cell, a fastidious, open-mindeddrama-documentary recreating the events that led to the attack ...
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Working Title snaps up prize winning Population
Working Title has acquired Nick Ostler and MarkHuckerby's draft sci-fi script Population, one of the winners of the UKFilm Council's 25 Words Or Less development competition.The $30m-plus conspiracy thriller titled Populationenvisages, according to Ostler, "a Britain where the problem of over populationhasn't been solved. It's quite dark."The pair's pitch for ...
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Exhibition deal to boost arthouse films in South Korea
Koreanfilm import company Sponge and venture capital firm KTB Network are teaming upin a new venture known as 'Cinehue' to give quality non-Hollywoodproduct an enhanced presence on South Korean screens.Thenew distribution line matches the experience of Sponge - which has purchasedKorean rights to over 50 foreign titles including Dogville, Zatoichi,and ...
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Content boards Love's Business
ContentFilm has boarded hot "Costa delCrime" picture The Business, the company announced on Thursday.Directed by Nick Love, the picture is setduring the 80s amongst British ex-pats and criminals in the south of Spain andis being billed as similar in style to Pulp Fiction.Love, who recently shot football hooliganfilm The Football ...