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Dembo begins shoot on Maison De Nina
Richard Dembo,director of L'Instinct De l'Ange and La Carpe Dans La Baignoire among others,has begun shooting his next feature film, LaMaison De Nina.The story takesplace just after the liberation of France at the end of World War II, a time atwhich children were placed in homes whose goal was to ...
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FRANCE 9 August
As in theprevious week, four newcomers broke into the top 20 this time around. I, Robot came in at number one thisweek, bringing in nearly $5.3m during its first six days, more than one and ahalf million dollars less than Spider-Man2 earned the week before in that movie's second week.The ...
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Cape Town film studio deal challenged
South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for ahalt to the Western Cape's film studio development, according to local mediareports.The DA has alleged that 'undue interference had been appliedin the process of awarding the tender for Cape Town's $58m (R400m) filmstudio'.The winning bidder for the project, announced in February,is Anant ...
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London studio sold to Mayor's development agency
The LondonDevelopment Agency is poised to acquire 3 Mills Studios, the East Londontelevision and film studios, as part of a drive to boost London's creativeindustries.Thestudios will be managed by the LDA with the advice of industry body FilmLondon, the new strategic body responsible for supporting filming in London andpromoting London ...
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Police question Taxi 2 director Krawczyk
The director of Taxi2, GerardKrawczyk, was put under police examination last week for involuntarymanslaughter following the lethal accident causing the death of a cameraman onAugust 16, 1999 during the shooting of the film produced by Luc Besson, accordingto judiciary sources.Alain Dutartre,41, died from head injuries hours after a Peugeout 406 ...
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Haneke's Hidden cranks up with Binoche, Auteuil
Daniel Auteuiland Juliette Binoche, brought together as husband and wife in the romance film TheWidow of Saint-Pierre,will be once again reunited on the screen in Austrian director MichaelHaneke's Cache (Hidden), a thriller based on the theme of guilt andatonement, which started shooting this month between Paris and Austria.Thedirector's previous films ...
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Skillset's Inside Pictures launches new training programme
Skillset's Inside Pictures, the UKfilm business training programme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund,is accepting applications for its next course.Comprising three intensive one-weekmodules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angelesbetween November 2004 and May 2005.Seminars, workshops and studiovisits are hosted by some of the US ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 scores in Middle East
Michael Moore'scontroversial Fahrenheit 9/11 debuted at number one at the United ArabEmirates' box office last week, its first opening in an Arab state in theMiddle East.Its distributor,UAE-based Front Row Entertainment, said the film brought in over 26,000admissions for a gross box office of $211,000 in five days on 16 screens.The ...
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Lyon benefits from Bollywood Promise
Over the pastweek, the city of Lyon has welcomed a film crew from India to shoot exteriorshots for Bollywood musical The Promise (Vadaa)."The film is asocial romantic thriller, with six or seven flashbacks," explained the film'sdirector, Satish Kaushik, while watching a musical scene shot in front of thefamous Bartholdi fountain ...
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French admissions cross 100m in first six months
More than 100million filmgoers went to French cinemas in the first half of 2004, an increaseof 19% over the first six months of last year, and 8% over the stronger firsthalf of 2002, according to the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF).102,540,000tickets were sold in the first six months of ...
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French Top Gun takes off above Paris
Billing itself asa "Top Gunà la Française," the movie Chevaliers du Ciel (Knightsof the Sky), beganfilming in Paris at the beginning of July, and shot its climax scene over theheads of thousands on Wednesday.Loosely based onthe French aviation comic book Tanguy & Laverdure, which was created 40 years ago, themovie ...
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...and has a blockbusting first day on release in France
Spider-Man 2 attracted 112,902 visitors on its firstday (Wed, July 14) of projection in Paris and its suburbs, according to itsdistributor, Columbia.The film beat thehalf-million mark in France with 502,494 tickets sold, without sneak previews.880 copies of the Sam Raimi film were distributed, 52 of them in Paris. Reviewshave been ...
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Arte drawn to five starry French features
Arte Cinema, thefilm division of the Strasburg-based Franco-German television channel Arte, isto co-produce five new films, starring among others Emmanuelle Devos, LambertWilson, Ludivine Sagnier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.The movies weredecided upon by a selection committee on July 6, and are some of theapproximately 20 films chosen annually for funding by the ...
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Motorcycle Diaries keeps on cranking in Italy
Amidall the fervour over Michael Moore's documentary sensation Fahrenheit 9/11, there has been another modestly budgetedindependent film quietly showing box office promise in the face of stiffcompetition from the onslaught of big budget Hollywood blockbusters. Only thisparticular sleeper happens to have been made in the Spanish language.WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries,which ...
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Kenworthy named new BAFTA chairman
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts hasannounced that Duncan Kenworthy OBE has become its new chairman, succeedingoutgoing chair Michael Attwell after his two year tenure. Attwell will continue to serve the Academyas deputy chair for a further year.Meanwhile, the elections to decide the British Academy'sCouncil of Management 2004/2005 ...
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Odeon auction attracts host of bidders
A massive 15 bids for the UK's Odeon cinemas are understood to havebeen submitted ahead of last Friday's (July 2) auction deadline.Bids for the UK's largest cinema circuit, reported to be inthe region of £370m, were expected from a number of venturecapital-backed firms, including Guy Hands' Terra Firma Capital Partners,Michael ...
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Roman Gutek awarded French cultural honour
Veteran Polish distributor Roman Gutek, creator and owner ofPolish arthouse distribution outfit Gutek Film, is to be awarded with France'sChevalier des Arts et Lettres, one of the country's highest cultural honoursfor promoting French culture in Poland.Gutek establishedthe Warsaw Film Festival in 1985 and directed it until 1992. He was alsoone ...
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Allen trades Manhattan for London
Woody Allen is travelling to London to direct his next, asyet untitled, feature film.Based out of Ealing Studios, Allen will reportedly startshooting on July 12 for seven weeks in London.Allen rarely shoots his films outside the US, and it isthought to be the first time that he has come to ...
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Market for on-demand film surges worldwide
Morethan 100 million homes worldwide now buy on-demand films, according to a newreport.InformaMedia Group's On-Demand TV - ThirdEdition forecasts that this number will triple to 327 million homes by2010, or about a third of the world's total TV households.Thesehomes will generate revenues of $12bn. This compares with 91 million homes ...
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Eisner 'willing to consider' Miramax sale
Walt Disney chief executiveMichael Eisner is willing to consider selling its Miramax division back tofounders and co-chairmen, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, according to a report yesterday in The New York Times.Quoting "close associates"and "friends and executives who have discussed the issue" with Eisner, thepaper says that the Disney chief is ...