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Polish box office falls as local films misfire
Polish box office and admissions slipped year-on-year during 2003.Yearly admissions fell 8.6% to 23.4m and box office 7.4% to $86.7m (ZLO319.7m) in 2003.The fall mirrors the worldwide box office decline and also follows a disappointing year for local titles, which saw only one major Polish release, Jerzy Hoffman's When The ...
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Seven scripts selected for top Oz development scheme
Seven creative teams have been selected for Australian script development programme SPARK 2004, developed by the Australian Film Commission (AFC) and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).Australian cinema has often been accused of neglecting its scripts and scriptwriters. Acting, camerawork and production design are usually first rate, while ...
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Animal Logic drafts in veteran Smith for liaison role
Animal Logic, Australia's foremost visual effects studio, has appointed Greg Smith to the newly created position director of communications and public affairs.The former executive, who was instrumental in the firm's key move to Sydney's Fox Studios in 1998, will be Animal Logic's "senior liaison person with government and industry bodies", ...
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Napoleon Dynamite
Dir: Jared Hess. US. 2004. 86mins.Napoleon Dynamite, which was met in Park City by raucous cheers and bursts of unsuppressed chuckling, is exactly the kind of off-beat comedy that delights otherwise earnest festivals such as Sundance. Within hours of its first screening, word on this occasionally-inspired portrait of Loserville, Idaho, ...
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Godard loses copyright case in Paris court
Paris' high court has ruled against filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for copyright infringement in his 1987 film King Lear.According to Agence France Presse, author Viviane Forrester brought the suit claiming Godard had used a text from her book La Violence Du Calme that was recited in the film without her authorisation.Godard ...
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High Point takes over Irish Dead Bodies sales
World sales outfit High Point Films, has taken on international sales on Irish thriller Dead Bodies.Produced by Dublin based Distinguished Features, headed by David McLoughlin and Clare Scully, Dead Bodies is directed by Robert Quinn and stars Andrew Scott as a young slacker whose world is turned suddenly upside down ...
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Madrid targets foreign shoots with film commission launch
Long the capital of the Spanish film and television sectors, Madrid has finally made official the launch of its much-anticipated Film Commission.An estimated 70% of Spanish films shoot in Madrid, yet producers have long complained of complications shooting here. A large clutch of producers turned out to Friday's presentation to ...
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Thirty projects set for debut Talent Project Market at Berlin
Feature films from 23 countries as far flung as the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Iceland, Ukraine and Hong Kong are among the 30 projects selected for the first Talent Project Market at next month's Berlinale Talent Campus.The Talent Projects were picked from 256 entries by an international jury comprising the Berlinale ...
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Berlin's Panorama unveils complete line-up
Berlin's Panorama section has unveiled its full line-up across its main programme and the Special, Dokumente and Short Films strands.The line-up comprises 34 features, 16 documentaries and 26 short films. The films are from 32 countries and include twelve directing debuts and 14 films which are to be digitally projected, ...
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Redbus dives into Open Water
UK distributor and producerRedbus Pictures has acquired UK rights to low budget shark thriller OpenWater, which premiered at Sundancelast week.Redbus bought the picturefrom Lions Gate Films and plans to release it on 300 plus prints in the latesummer or early autumn later this year.Based on the true story oftwo married ...
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Rotterdam debates the future of digital
Independent cinema versus corporate America was the underlying theme of a big set-piece debate at the Rotterdam festival yesterday (Sun 25 Jan).The discussion on digital cinema and its potential threats to conventional film-making took the form of a parliamentary debate, a format which inevitably produced colourful language and a spirit ...
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Homework, Monster Road among top Slamdance honorees
KevinAsher Green's sensual drama Homework has won the 2004 Slamdance GrandJury Sparky Award for best narrative feature, while Brett Ingram's profile oflegendary animator and Frank Zappa collaborator Bruce Bickford in MonsterRoad won the equivalent documentary prize.Inother awards at the weekend ceremony, the Grand Jury Sparky Award for bestnarrative short went ...
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Along Came Polly opens top in Australia for Universal
Universal's comedy AlongCame Polly got its international campaign off to a strong start inAustralia through UIP at the weekend, opening top on an estimated $1.9m from193 sites.The film will open in therest of the world over the next three months, starting with Portugal on Feb 6.The dance drama Honeyraised its ...
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Sony forms Internet venture with Toyota, Tokyu
Sony is teaming up with Toyota Motor Corp and Tokyo-based private railway Tokyu Corp in a joint venture to provide broadband Internet services via cable TV.The venture, called AII Kikaku, will start operations as a planning company in early April with each of the partners providing an equal one-third share ...
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CTFDI scores success abroad with Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile grossed $8.6m on 2,065 screens for Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend.It opened number one inGermany on a notable $2.8m from 601 screens, and also secured top berths inAustria ($335,000 from 78) and Switzerland ($550,000 from 85).The drama opened second inFrance behind The Last Samurai ...
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Primer claims Alfred P Sloan prize at Sundance
First-time director ShaneCarruth collected the Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance on Saturday (24) for histhriller Primer.The prize carries a $20,000award and goes to a film that either focuses on science or technology as atheme or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.This year's jury, comprisingNeil LaBute, ...
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The Last Samurai races past $200m at int'l box office
The Last Samurai added an estimated $30.5m for Warner Bros PicturesInternational at the weekend, raising its cumulative score from all itsterritories to an excellent $205.3m.Inthree first-place finishes, the drama took $428,000 from 50 in Norway, an outstanding$459,000 from 111 (including previews) in the Philippines and $278,000 from 62in Argentina.Ittook $643,000 ...
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The Butterfly Effect opens top for New Line on $17.1m
New Line's thriller TheButterfly Effect opened top at the weekend on an estimated $17.1m, provingstar Ashton Kutcher has the chops for more serious acting away from the comedyroles and his former incarnation as a professional prankster.Kutcher plays a man with theability to travel through time who uses his power to ...
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Strong Paris sales for Wild Bunch
French sales house WildBunch will go into Berlin and AFM buoyed by a raft of strong sales followinglast week's Rendez-Vous De Paris market.Its biggest seller wasPierre Salvadori's Apres Vous. The film was sold to Crystal Films forCanada, Alta Films for Spain, Audiovisual for Greece, IIF for Italy, Atalantafor Portugal, Cinema ...
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Sundance jury passes over audience favourites
If the Sundance FilmFestival has drifted to the mainstream from the margins, no one has told thejuries of the 2004 event. In the keystone Dramatic Competition, the juryawarded its prizes to films that generated little buzz through the course ofthe festival while ignoring the films that caused the greater stir. ...