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Water Drops On Burning Rocks
Dir: Francois Ozon. France. 1999. 90 mins.Prod cos: Fidelite Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde. Int'l sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 4970 0370). Prods: Olivier Dubosc, Marc Missonier. Scr: Francois Ozon, based on a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie. Prod des: Arnaud de Moleron. Ed: Laurence Bawedin. ...
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Luppi begins shooting directorial debut
Federico Luppi, Argentina's most internationally renowned actor, began shooting his directorial debut in Spain last week.Written by Luppi's wife Susana Abascal, the drama titled Pasos is co-produced by San Sebastian-based Igeldo Communicaciones. Igeldo also co produced Chilean drama B Happy, set to have its European premiere in the Berlinale's Forum ...
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NORWAY
Despite a number of new releases, the top five spots of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged with The Last Samurai in front of Petter Naess' Just Bea.However, the latter dropped only 5% and performed almost as well, despite the limiting 15 label it received from local censors. Julia Roberts' considerable ...
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Northern Ireland Film Production Fund launched
The Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) is inviting applications to its new Northern Ireland Film Production Fund.The NIFTC will invest between £150,000 and £600,000 up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project costs in a live action or animated feature film or a live action or ...
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Brother Bear nears $50m for BVI
Brother Bear scored a superb $4.6m number one opening from 781 screensin France at the weekend as the animated title added $6.3m from all its marketsto raise the international running total to $48.4m.Alreadyin the throes of a highly successful international campaign, Brother Bearshould continue to build with openings for the ...
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Master And Commander sails to $93m at international box office
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World raised its internationalrunning total to $93m through all distributors following a $970,000 weekendhaul from 641 screens in Fox International markets.Thethriller Runaway Jury added $1.6m from 419 screens at the weekend toraise its international running total to $11.4m.Itopened in third place in ...
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Return Of The King closes in on $600m international
NewLine International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kinggrossed $20.7m from 6,353 screens in 58 territories at the weekend to raise itsinternational cumulative total to $572.8m.Thekey driver was Italy, where in its second weekend the film added $7.2m anddropped only 30% from last weekend's record-breaking opening. The ...
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Warner Bros wins trio of distributor awards in Japan
Warner BrosPictures Japan (WBPJ) has been awarded three top honours from Japan's MotionPicture Exhibitors Association, capping its position as the territory'sdominant foreign distributor of the last three years.Thecompany picked up the Grand Prix Award for Best Foreign Film Distributor of theYear as well as awards for Harry Potter And The ...
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NETHERLANDS
The massive opening of social comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi! in the Netherlands even surprised distributor Independent Films "This is beyond our expectations," Niels Swinkels, head of marketing told ScreenDaily.com. "We were aiming for 100,000 admissions, but in the first weekend we already reached 50,000, much better than we were hoping ...
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Minghella poised to climb next mountain
The following Q&A appeared in Screen International, the weekly, on March 3, in the run-up to ShoWest where Minghella was awarded director of the year.British writer-director Anthony Minghella began his career in radio, television and theatre in the 1980s before making his first feature, supernatural drama Truly Madly Deeply for ...
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DENMARK
Annette K. Olesen's In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) retained its second spot after The Return Of The King, falling just 12% after its first week in release and has so far had 37,989 admissions.However, this week's best admission screen average belonged to Lost In Translation on just nine prints in fifth ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Return Of The King continues to reign supreme at the New Zealand box office. In its seventh weekend it took NZ$384,449 from 86 screens, which was just 6% down on the previous week. As was the case last week, The Last Samurai is in second position with NZ$301,379 from ...
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Hopscotch pounces on documentaries
Hopscotch has picked up all Australian and New Zealand rights to 2004 Academy Award documentary nominee My Architect from the Film Sales Company, hoping that again loading the slate with non-fiction will prolong last year's winning streak.The film is already showing in the US and is directed by Nathaniel Kahn, ...
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Upswing tops Finnish Jussi awards
At this year's Finnish film awards, the Jussi, held in Helsinki on Sunday night, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) took top honours including best film as well as best script for Mika Ripatti and best music for Kerkko Koskinen.However, the Lasse Saarinen production didn't take more awards than ...
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ITALY
Pupi Avati's Italian comedy sequel La Rivincita Di Natale, opened at number six at the box office, grossing $550,673 for Medusa Film seventeen years after the original film's release.Rivincita Di Natale, which features the same cast as Avati's 1980 comedy Regalo Di Natale including Diego Abantatuono, was released on ...
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AUSTRALIA
Along Came Polly held on to the top spot in its second weekend on release despite its gross dropping by over half, although admittedly the original result was for a five-day holiday weekend and the figures have now reverted to the usual four days.The UIP release did A$1,436,260 from 202 ...
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Film law, new studio to feed Hungary's international ambitions
Following the boost given to the local industry with a new film law passed in December, this September will see the opening of Hungary's most advanced film studio - which will boast Central Europe's largest sound stage.As founder and managing director Robert Szabados told Screen International the Stern Film Studio ...
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New German media fund backs its first feature
US director Aaron Allred's thriller/love story Not A Lovestory is the first feature film project to be backed by the Babelsberg-based MPF Beteiligungs GmbH & Co Zweite KG (MPF) media fund.The production by Wanowski Brothers Filmproduktion and Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Entertainment Film Productions in co-production with EuroArts Medien and ...