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Media Programme sets out Euros 1bn strategy
With its proposed budget of over Euros 1bn, the new Media Programme (MEDIA 2007), which will run from 2007 to 2013, aims to double the number of European films that are currently distributed outside their own country of origin.During a meeting in Venice, European Union Commissioner Viviane Reding said that ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 8 September
Openingthis weekend with only 1,400 admissions and total gross of $6,307, Hellboy managed to enter in third placeat the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for Tuck, leaving last weekend's favourites I, Robot and Jersey Girl at the top. Tuck's Will Smith vehicle declined 41%compared to the previous weekend, but still held pole position ...
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Bim boards Bellucci vehicle Combien
Italy's Bim, which has three titles playing in competitionat the Venice Film Festival, will co-produce Bertrand Blier's next film, CombienTu Gagnes', with Italian diva Monica Bellucci.Bim president Valerio De Paolis has boarded the Euros 12mproject alongside France's Fidelite, which is Francois Ozon's long-termproduction partner. Bim also owns Italian distribution rights.The ...
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Ledger, Collette starring pics win Oz funding
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has cleared theway for cameras to roll on two new films, investing in Candy starringHeath Ledger and Like Minds starring Toni Collette.Ledger and rising star from Abbie Cornish (Somersault)play lovers full of lust and self-destructive tendencies in thelong-gestating drama Candy, which also features Geoffrey ...
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POLAND 8 September
Pedro Almodovar took on Hollywood blockbusters and triumphedthis weekend in Poland.The Spanish director's latest film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), released through Gutek Film inthe territory against UIP's The BourneSupremacy and Warner Bros' Catwoman.Bad Education finished in top position with over 37,000 admissions and a$3,900 screen average taken from its ...
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First Look asks When Will I Be Loved
USsales and production outfit First Look Media has picked up international rightsto James Toback's When Will I Be Loved, which plays at the festivaltoday (Sept 9) and tomorrow. Sister-company First Look International will beginsales in Toronto this week.Thefilm stars Neve Cambell as a woman who sets out to explore the ...
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First Look to sell Toronto's When Will I Be Loved
USsales and production outfit First Look Media has picked up international rightsto James Toback's When Will I Be Loved, which plays at the festivaltoday (Sept 9) and tomorrow. Sister-company First Look International will beginsales in Toronto this week.Thefilm stars Neve Cambell as a woman who sets out to explore the ...
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Moodysson's Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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Glut of premieres in Noah's Ark
If themeasure of a film festival is the company it keeps, the number of returningfilmmakers presenting world premieres marks this Toronto International FilmFestival as one of the strongest in its 29 years. From veterans like BilleAugust, Taylor Hackford and Istvan Szabo, who opens the festival with Being Julia, to new ...
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Moodysson's Hole In The Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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Birth
Dir: Jonathan Glazer.UK-US. 2004. 100mins.Jonathan Glazer'slong-awaited follow-up to Sexy Beast shows the commercials and musicvideo director in austere, minimalist mode. A snail-paced but neverthelesscompelling yarn about a ten-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation ofa woman's dead husband, Birth is half psychological thriller and halfexistential love story. By turns ...
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Palindromes
Dir/scr: Todd Solondz.US. 2004. 99mins.Sundance darling ToddSolondz' latest warped take on the American dream is an uneven film, half bigemotional roller coaster, half whimsical fable, that inhabits the Midwesternsuburban wastelands somewhere between the David Lynch Motel and the HarmonyKorine Five-and-Dime. The story of a 12-year-old Kansas girl who is determinedto ...
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NORWAY 9 September
BuenaVista saw its animated Home On The Rangedebut as number one in the Norwegian charts. This week's biggest disappointmentwas, however, the new release of newcomer Annette Sjursen's drama comedy My Jealous Barber, which took justNOK10,032 from its 31 prints. It is produced by Kaare Storemyr and Dag Alveberg(Elling) and star ...
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UIP scoops up remaining Fahrenheit territories
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a furthertheatrical lease of life as United International Pictures (UIP) has acquiredall remaining territories to the film, including six in Asia.Territories covered by the deal, signed last week, includeMalaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and SouthAfrica.UIP is aiming to give the ...
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De Laurentiis acquires Naples football club
Italian producer Aurelio De Laurentiis has taken overNaples' new football club, which will start life in Serie C, the country'sthird division.Twice Italian champions Napoli were recently declaredbankrupt but the franchise for the city was taken up by a new club formed by DeLaurentiis.Althoughformally the club has a new name they ...
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Love's Business completes casting
Human Traffic's Danny Dyer is to star in Nick Love's Costa del Crimestory The Business, which Content International will present at the AFM.Dyer will appear with TamerHassan (Batman Begins), Roland Manookian (The Football Factory)and Georgina Chapman (Shanghai Knights) in the film, which startsprincipal photography Sept 20 in Malaga, Spain. The ...
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ROMANIA 9 September
I, Robot proved to be a real catch with Romanian audiences when it debuted at thetop of the box office admissions list with a screen average of nearly twothousand admissions after being released on seven prints by distributorInterComFilm. Pieces Of April fromNew Films couldn't quite match the splendid performance of ...
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US star directors lead Deauville invasion
The 30th anniversary edition of theDeauville Festival of American Film has seen a troupe of Hollywood luminariespass through town over the past week - with the promise of more to come.While the festival is sometimesconsidered a poor cousin to the simultaneous Venice and Toronto film festivals,Deauville founder Lionel Chouchan told ...
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Bollywood For You plans Indian launch
Hindi film channel, Bollywood For You (B4U), backed by UK entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal, is preparing for an ambitious launch in the Indian market in the second half of this year. The seven-month-old channel has already bought domestic TV rights for more than 1,000 films in preparation for its launch ...
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Venice filmmakers vent their political anguish
Wim Wenders became the latest director to join a chorus ofvoices at the Venice Film Festival condemning the Bush administration, during aweek which has twice seen the Biennale officially react to events developing onthe world stage."As a Christian, I am deeply troubled by the acts of theBush administration," said Wenders, ...