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Copenhagen fest names new programming chief
The Copenhagen International Film Festival, which had its first run earlier this autumn, has appointed 35-year-old Lone Korslund as its new head of programming. She replaces Michael Soeby, who decided to leave for personal reasons after putting together the first programme. Korslund has worked as a manager at a number ...
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Brazil makes history as local films dominate box office
In a historical first, Brazil's box office saw three local films among the top four last weekend. Topping the charts was TV sitcom spin off The Normals (Os Normais) about a married couple and their misadventures. In the feature film, two couples hold simultaneous weddings and end up switching partners ...
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WBITD restructures Euro sales operation
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has restructured some of its European sales operations.Mickie Steinmann, who currently serves as sales director for Scandinavia, Benelux, Finland, Greece and Cyprus, is being promoted to vice president, sales, and will continue to handle Scandinavia, Benelux and Finland while adding Israel and pan regional ...
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Brown Bunny bites back with Vienna victory
After attracting widespread disdain from international critics on its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny has now picked up the FIPRESCI Prize at this year's Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival in a re-edited version. Festival director Hans Hurch said the FIPRESCI jury's ...
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FIPRESCI to award prize at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran
The international critics federation FIPRESCI will award a prize for the first time this year at Geneva's Cinema Tout Ecran's Festival (November 3-9).The festival's International Competition of 13 films from 12 countries will include world premieres of Pu Sheng's The Pure Land (Jing Tu) and Emmanuel Bourdieu's Cadets De Gascogne ...
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Romand-Monnier joins France's Cinematheque
Michel Romand-Monnier has been named deputy managing director of Cinematheque, France's national film archives. The move follows the nomination of Claude Berri to the presidency of Cinematheque earlier this month.Romand-Monnier will take up his duties on November 3.With a long career encompassing communications and the film industry, the 49 year ...
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AFM: Summit, Seven, Creek strike Benelux deals
Seven Arts International, Summit Entertainment and Morgan Creek International have each concluded separate package deals with distributors for the Benelux. Seven Arts' deal with Les Films L'Elysee includes Rules Of Engagement starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson and Morton Orwell to which Sylvester Stallone is attached.Seven Arts International's ...
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Dutch Film Fund names de Vries as film supervisor
Actor, director and writer Edwin de Vries has been appointed by the Dutch Film Fund as its new film supervisor, playing a major role in advising and developing commercial film projects. He succeeds director Jean van de Velde and producer Burny Bos.De Vries is best known in the Dutch film ...
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Mouth To Mouth rolls with Egoyan as exec producer
Atom Egoyan is acting as executive producer on Mouth To Mouth, the feature film directorial debut of Alison Murray.A turbulent story about a young girl's search for a place to belong, Mouth To Mouth marks the first co-production between producers M2M Films and Egoli Tossell. Producer Anne Beresford is behind ...
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ICELAND
Though the top of the Icelandic chart remained unchanged with Kill Bill Vol.1 and Intolerable Cruelty dominating, the new release of The Rundown caught up to third with a slightly better screen average on its 3 prints.However, two other new films disappointed, Thierry Schiel's Tristan And Isolde and Kevin Costner's ...
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SWITZERLAND
Several French-region launches caught attention in Switzerland last weekend. It was little surprise that these were led by French language action comedy Tais-Toi which, with $148,085 (SFR 193,695) taken from 16 screens over the four-day weekend, was the number one film in the French-speaking region. Tais-Toi is released in the ...
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ARGENTINA
Mexican-Argentinian co production Nicotina opened poorly at number 17 despite favourable reviews and the presence of Argentinian talent before and behind the camera. Seabiscuit's success in the US has not registered here where it opened number eight. Oscar contender Valentin saw a mere 7% drop after seven weeks in release. ...
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Beta Cinema takes on sales for X-Filme trio
Ahead of this year's MIFED film market, Germany's Beta Cinema has picked up the international rights to three films from Berlin production powerhouse X-Filme creative pool.The films are: Hendrik Handloegten's Learning To Lie (Liegen Lernen), Achim von Borries' Love In Thoughts (Was Nuetzt Die Liebe In Gedanken) and Mennan Yapo's ...
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India Rising to big budget challenge
Ketan Mehta's The Rising starts production in Mumbai next week, with Britain's Prince Charles lined up to snap the clapperboard to mark the start of principal photography. Prince Charles is currently on a nine-day visit to India.Costing $20m, The Rising is set to be the most expensive film ever to ...
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Infernal Affairs leads Golden Horse race
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs leads the race for this year's Golden Horse Awards - Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscars - with 12 nominations, while another Hong Kong cop thriller, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai's PTU, is hot on its heels with 11 nods. Both films picked up ...
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Horror films look for Halloween box office bump
Several distributors are launching horror titles in major territories this weekend to coincide with Halloween.The UK and Ireland will see the Director's Cut reissue of Ridley Scott's Alien go head to head with New Line's remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 cult favourite The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.The UK is the first ...
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The Works strikes Japanese deal for Loach's Kiss
UK-based sales concern The Works has pre-sold Ken's Loach Ae Fond Kiss to Cine Qua Non in Japan.Loach, who last month traveled to Japan to receive national honour the Praemium Imperiale, is currently in post on the £3m film.The production, the third in Loach's Glasgow trilogy after Sweet Sixteen and ...
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UK financier relaunches as Future Film Group
UK tax-based film investment company Factor 8 Films has re-launched as the Future Film Group, which expects to generate $40m (£25m) in risk money to invest in British features.The $40m is in addition to the benefits Factor 8 raises through its tax funds over the next two years, according to ...
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Internationalmedia posts record revenues
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines has helped Internationalmedia (IM) - parent company of Intermedia - generate third quarter revenues of between Euros 151-156m - a quarterly record for the company. The quarterly sales largely resulted from minimum guarantees for Terminator 3, which has already topped $427m at the worldwide ...
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Pressure piles up on Korean quota system
South Korea's embattled Screen Quota System is facing its gravest challenge to date after president Roh Moo-hyun and other members of the executive branch have spoken out in favour of weakening the system.In a meeting with reporters on October 30, the Chief Presidential Secretary for National Policy spoke of finding ...