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Digital cinema poised for screen boost
The digital cinema market could be worth more than $100 million a year to projector manufacturers by 2005 according to a new report, Digital Cinema Factbook from industry analysts Dodona Research.By 2008, the number of digital cinema screens is forecast to rise to more than 5,000 worldwide in response to ...
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Head-On favourite for German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On is the favourite for this year's German Film Awards after it received four nominations in the categories for best film, direction, actor and leading actress.Three nominations each also went to Sönke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern, Leander Haussmann's Berlin Blues and Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg.The fact ...
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Rotterdam, IDFA expansion plans quashed by Dutch review
There were mixed fortunes for the Dutch film industry yesterday as the Government's advisory council, the "Raad voor Cultur", announced its spending recommendations for 2005 to 2008.Events such as The Rotterdam Film Festival, the Dutch Film Festival and IDFA received a qualified thumbs up, but while their funding will remain ...
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Woody Allen's Anything Else finally finds UK home
Woody Allen's Anything Else has at last found a home with a UK theatrical distributor, it was announced yesterday.The comedy is to be released on 40 prints in late July by Optimum Releasing, who acquired the film from Capitol Films in a joint acquisition deal with MGM Home Entertainment. Anything ...
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Momentum celebrates as Translation crosses£10m mark in UK
Independent UK distributor Momentum Pictures had cause to celebrate this weekend as its long-running hit Lost In Translation became the company's first sterling eight figure earner.After 15 weeks on release in the territory Sofia Coppola's Oscar winning film, which also picked up three BAFTA awards including best actor and best ...
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Weinstein to be awarded honorary CBE by Queen
Harvey Weinstein has been awarded an honorary CBE for outstanding contribution to the British film industry.The award is conferred by the Queen to those who have made an important contribution to British interests. Miramax Films, the company Weinstein founded with his brother Bob, said it has invested more than £600 ...
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New Line takes Vera Drake off the table
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights to MikeLeigh's latest film Vera Drake for apurported price tag of well over $2m. The deal was personally initiated by NewLine co-chairman and co-CEO Michael Lynne himself with the Leigh camp.It is not yet clear whether the film will be released byNew ...
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$6.7m comes in through the Window for CTFDI
The thriller SecretWindow grossed $6.7m on1,589 screens at the weekend from its first foray in the major internationalmarkets, elevating its early international running total to $9.5m.Released through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) the picture opened second in Italy on $1.6m on 252screens, fourth in France on $1.6m on 399 and ...
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BVI's Brother Bear stays top in Germany for fifth week
Buena Vista's animated hit BrotherBear grossed $3m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend, raising its international running total toa superb $156.7m.The picture remained top in Germany for the fifth consecutive weekand is the first picture to do so since local hit Goodbye, Lenin! last year. Final figures were unconfirmedat ...
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Miramax's Starsky & Hutch takes $7m through BVI
Miramax's Starsky & Hutch grossed an estimated $7m through Buena Vista International(BVI) at the weekend to raise its international running total to $42m.The picture opened fourth in Spain on $1.3m and scored a trio ofstrong bows in Scandinavia, where the highlight was top billing in Finland on$100,000 and a huge ...
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Metrodome nabs Eye; Pathe buys Memento
In an increasingly aggressive UK distribution sector, Metrodome Distribution has finalised its acquisition of Eye Of The Beholder and Pathe Distribution has picked up Memento, Christopher Nolan's follow-up to the acclaimed Following.Metrodome, which recently secured a $15m acquisition, fund through a joint venture with UK financier Future Film Group, picked ...
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DENMARK 20 April
The new release of stuntman-turned-filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen's action comedy The Good Cop fared better with audiences than critics, but with an admission screen average of 476 on its high 60 prints, it was unable to topple Nordisk Film's hit animated film Terkel In Trouble from the top spot.Olsen's previous ...
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GERMANY 20 April
While BVI's Brother Bear held on to the top spot for the fifth week in a row based on admissions, it was a different matter as far as box-office takings were concerned. The animation feature was pushed down to second position by the new entry of UIP's The Dawn Of ...
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SWEDEN 20 April
After three weeks at the top of the Swedish box-office chart even Mel Gibson's Passion had to give in to the unholy teaming of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and their revival of 70s cool in Starsky & Hutch as it sped into pole position with a strong $5,253 screen ...
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ITALY 20 April
The Passion Of The Christ has grossed a massive $18,859,373 at the Italian box office, less than two weeks after its Easter release. Distributed by Eagle Pictures on 538 screens, Mel Gibson's picture shed 42% of its earnings on its second weekend, but still registered the weekend's highest per screen ...
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New script partnership results in Project Tiptree
European development and training outfit The Script Factory has joined forces with new production company Mute Marmalade to establish Project Tiptree - a search for new screenwriting talent.Screenplay submissions are invited within specific genres on a quarterly basis, with selected scripts offered development with The Script Factory and an option ...
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Julie Delpy to bring Sunset to Transylvania
Actress Julie Delpy has confirmed her participation in this year's Transylvania International Film Festival in the Romanian town Cluj between May 28 and June 6.Delpy is currently developing a film about the blood-drinking countess Elisabeth Bathory, a serial killer whose pet hobby was bathing in the blood of virgins. It ...
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India-Pakistan co-productions becoming a reality
The Indian and Pakistani film industries having begun working together, in a move that echoes the growing political dialogue between rival countries.Pakistan-based film and TV star Rashid Khawaja and Punjabi film producer Iqbal Dhillon have announced a co-production, Village Girl (Pind Dee Kuri), between the two countries. The film is ...
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Asian jewels to shine at Udine
Udine's festival of Far Eastern Film (23-30 April) looks set to present many of the most commercially successful films of the year from Asia.Bookended by Feng Xiao Gang's Cell Phone and Kang Je Gytu's Tae Guk Gi the main programme is a line-up of 41 films from China, Hong Kong, ...
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Spain's Filmanova seeks new co-production opportunities
Spanish producer Filmanova is beefing up its production activities thanks to the creation of private investment fund Filmanova Invest.The company currently has more than half a dozen films in various stages of development and production, many with European and Latin American partners, and is actively seeking new projects for 2005.Backed ...