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Official figures confirm Italian film investment slump
In a further sign of thecrisis that has gripped the Italian film industry, new figures released bynational film body Anica show that Italian investment in local productiondropped 5.7% in 2004 while average budgets slumped 17.7%. On the upside, the data alsoshowed that while battling an economic crisis at home, Italians ...
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ThinkFilm prepares launch of international division
ThinkFilm has announced itwill launch its new international sales division at Cannes headed up by veteraninternational executive Mark Horowitz.Horowitz and his team will arrive on the Croisette with a slate that includesthe Sundance documentaries Murderball, about quadriplegic rugby players, The Aristocrats, which focuses on stand-up comedians, and LieWith Me, an ...
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Aniston joins Universal comedy The Break-Up
Jennifer Aniston has joined Vince Vaughn inUniversal's comedy The Break-Up,which is set to begin production in early June and is scheduled for release onFeb 17 2006.Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick are writing the screenplay, which is based onan original idea by Vaughn, who brought the project to the studio and ...
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ITALY 17 March
During another busy weekendat the Italian box office, Medusa had a hit on its hands with La Terza Stella,which opened at number five and earned $813,985 from 204 screens. The localcomedy, from popular TV comic duo Ale & Franz, registered a strong average of$3,990 per screen.However, the weekend's otherItalian new ...
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Israel opens up film funds to international producers
Internationalfilm producers can now apply to Israeli film funds for financing thanks torecent changes in the Israeli Film Law.A new clause recently added to the Film Law allows localfilm funds to invest in international film productions whose themes promoteIsrael's national interests - whether there is Israeli participation in thefilm's production ...
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S. Africa admissions to surge as exhibitor slashes prices
South Africa's largest exhibitor Ster-Kinekorhas slashed the price of its cinema tickets in a move that is expected to leadto a surge in admissions in the country.Ster Kinekor said that movie tickets will cost just$2.3 (R14) at the majority of its cinemas nationwide from this Friday - downfrom $5.75m (R35). ...
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UK sees launch of Screen Financiers Association
A number of leadingproviders of independent British film finance have joined forces to launch neworganisation, the Screen Financiers Association (SFA).The founding members areAquarius, Baker Street Media, Magic Hour, Prescience, and Surefire. Between themthey have been involved in financing films such as Ladies in Lavender and forthcoming features Valiant, Tideland, A ...
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German distributor Solo files for insolvency
Munichbased distributor Solo-Film has become the latest casualty in the Germandistribution scene's seemingly never ending round of insolvencies.Solo's managing director Peter Heinzemann confirmed toScreenDaily.com that his company had been forced to file for insolvency onWednesday (March 16) after a key licensing company called for payment due on afilm license.Heinzemannstressed, though, ...
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Robots set to storm across major markets
Fox International gives itsanimated picture Robots a massivepush this weekend, with major debuts scheduled for a number of leading marketsahead of the Easter break.Blue Sky/Fox's follow-up to 2002's Ice Age was due to open in Germany on a huge 900 prints and Russia on 279 onMar 17, followed a day ...
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Summit tickled by Haxan's Heart Of Love comedy
Summit Entertainment has boarded Heart Of Love, a broad comedy from the film-making team behind The Blair Witch Project. Summit will act as international sales agent on the film and will introduce it to buyers this month at Cannes.Haxan Entertainment's Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick have written and will produce ...
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ThinkFilm snaps up Protocols Of Zion
ThinkFilm has picked up US rights to Marc Levin's stirringSundance documentary Protocols Of Zionand plans an autumn release.The picture premiered in the Special Screenings programme in Park City back inJanuary and screened in Berlin last month, and explores anti-semitic claimsthat the Jews were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.In particular Levin ...
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Hooligans dominates SXSW narrative prizes
Lexi Alexander'sadrenaline-charged drama Hooligans starringElijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani and Marc Warren won both thenarrative jury prize and narrative feature audience award at the 2005 SXSW FilmFestival at the weekend.US distributors are circling the picture, which stars Wood as a Harvarddrop-out who visits his sister in London and endears ...
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Robert Lazarus (1961-2005)
Robert Lazarus, a veteran ofthe film industry who worked at companies including Turner Pictures and MutualFilm Co, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 43 after a long pulmonaryillness.Lazarus, a popular figure inthe entertainment industry both in the US and in international markets, leavesbehind his life partner John ...
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Indian Festival of Los Angeles unveils galas
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) (April20-24) has announced its line up of special gala presentations.The Festival will kick off with the Hollywood Premiere of SanjayLeela Bhansali's drama Black.The Centerpiece Gala is the Los Angeles Premiere of AnuragKashyap's thriller based on true events, Black Friday.The Closing Night Gala ...
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Sepet
Dir/scr: Yasmin Ahmad.Malay. 2004.104minsWhile it may be foolhardyto doubt the power of love to sell cinema tickets around the world, it isunlikely that star-crossed Malaysian tearjerker Sepet will enjoy muchgood fortune beyond home.Yasmin Ahmad's saga, whichupdates Romeo & Juliet to a modern south-east Asian locale, hascarried some weight at the ...
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Towards Mathilde (Vers Mathilde)
Dir: Claire Denis. Fr.2005. 86mins.Claire Denis' career asdirector has seen her bounce back and forth between challenging butwell-crafted feature films (Beau Travail, Vendredi Soir) andother, less accessible stories that seem wilfully abstruse (Trouble EveryDay, L'Intrus).Vers Mathilde suggests that the more experimental, conceptual sideof the director's character may eventually find its ...
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Hating Alison Ashley
Dir: Geoff Bennett. Aus.2004. 102mins.Australiansinger, soap star and media darling Delta Goodrem makes her feature debut in HatingAlison Ashley, an uneven teens-at-school feature in which she looks like anundernourished member of staff rather than one of the gang.Thebuild-up buzz to the 250-screen Hoyts rollout in Australia on March 17 has ...
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Turkish Gambit (Turetskii Gambit)
Dir: Dzhanik Faiziyev.Russ. 2005. 132mins.The new epic-scaleRussian detective yarn set during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, TurkishGambit grossed $6.1m in its opening weekend, eclisping the success offantasy feature Night Watch. But despite such hallmarks of world-classshowmanship as Indiana Jones-style action, creative Amelie-like visualeffects and unique subject matter, Dzhanik Faiziyev's , ...
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Lorelei: The Witch Of The Pacific Ocean (Rorerai)
Dir: Shinji Higuchi Jap.2004. 128minsLorelei may have the typical elements of a submarine movie(exploding depth charges, steely-jawed captain), but is nonetheless a genrestandout. Produced by Fuji TV's Chihiro Kameyama - the Japanese JerryBruckheimer, who was also responsible for the megahit Bayside Shakedownfilms - Lorelei is the first Japanese film of ...
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Nippon Herald woes lead to stock market delist
Leading Japanese distributor Nippon Herald is to be delistedfrom the Japanese stock-market after recently posting an annual loss of $43.4m.Kadokawa Holdings, the core company of the expandingKadokawa media group, is instead to make Nippon Herald a wholly ownedsubsidiary through a share swap. Kadokawa has purchased 43 percent of outstanding NipponHerald ...