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ARGENTINA
Local title Valentin climbed to the fifth slot from its seventh position last week after being officially selected to represent Argentina at the Oscars race next year. The film has received 84,224 admissions after 18 days on release.Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon A Time In Mexico opened to dominate the weekend, ...
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Screen moves UK Film Finance Summit to larger venue
Screen International has moved the venue of its forthcoming UK Film Finance Summit because of a surge in registration numbers for the event.Nearly 300 film professionals have already registered for the Summit which will take place on the same date - Oct 16 - but at a larger venue, the ...
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Miravista becomes official Disney production label in Latin America
Miravista has now become the official film production label of Disney in Latin America following the dissolution of its Spanish partner, Admira. The media division of Spanish telco giant Telefonica has been axed as part of the media divestment strategy spearheaded by Telefonica president Cesar Alierta. Telefonica still has media ...
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Bolivia celebrates box office smash with Dependency
A Bolivian /USco production is making box office waves in Bolivia. Already dubbed theBolivian Titanic,Rodrigo Bellott's Sexual Dependency beat US blockbusters Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at the local box office over the weekend. With just twoprints, the teen drama attracted 360,000 admissions in ...
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Warner Bros UK promotes Strafford, Cressey
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK has named Patrick Strafford to the newly created position of group commercial development director and Alison Cressey to the newly created position of group marketing director.Both will report directly to Josh Berger, executive vice president & managing director, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK.Strafford will work with the ...
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Mexico, Bolivia unveil Oscar contenders
Mexico has selected Mexican-Spanish co production Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer to vie for the best foreign language Oscar. Directed by Agustin Villaronga, Lydia Zimmerman and Isaac Pierre Racine, the docu fiction drama is based on a true story of a Hungarian in Guatemala who killed seven ...
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ARGENTINA
2 Fast 2 Furious shook The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen off the top slot this weekend. The Sean Connery-led ensemble drama dropped 44% after just one week. Spanish adventure comedy 800 Bullets by Alex de la Iglesia came in at number 10. Two local films remain among the top ten, ...
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Berlin moves to educate film journalists
A scheme to introduce to young critics and film journalists to the workings of the international film industry has been unveiled by the Berlin International Film Festival.Called The Talent Press, it will see 10 young film critics and film journalists from five different continents invited to Berlin to report on ...
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Russia 'an untapped opportunity for cinema industry'
Russia is set to become the sixth highest grossing cinema market in Europe with five years, according to a new research report. Dodona Research's Cinemagoing Russia says that by 2007, box office is forecast to rise to US$400 million in response to the much-awaited modernisation of the Russian cinema sector."With ...
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New distributors emerge out of Argentinian crisis
Two new arthouse distributors have surfaced in Argentina to bring edgier and more ambitious fare to a recovering marketplace. Luis Perez Endara, who has acquired the rights to United Artists catalogue from MGM leads Compania General de la Imagen (CGI). Perez Endara went into theatrical distribution in 2000 with Darren ...
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COLOMBIA Production Listings - Sept 22 2003
COLOMBIA - Sep 22 2003PRE-PRODUCTIONA LAND WITHOUT WISHES (UNA TIERRA SIN DESEOS)(Jorge Echeverri Films) Co-prod: Dago Garcia. Budget: $170,000. Backers: Ministry of Culture TBA. Drama. A disenchanted man seeks refuge in the love of his daughter. Exec prod: Jorge Echeverri. Prod: Diana Camargo. Dir/scr/ed: Jorge Echeverri. DoP: Oscar Bernal. Prod ...
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Brazilian dramas win Miravista backing
Miravista, the pan Latino joint co production venture between The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Telefonica Spain's Admira, has boarded two new Brazilian projects, according to Miravista manager Fernando Lagier.Its first project, now shooting , is Underground Games (Jogo Subteraneo), based on the novel by Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. ...
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UK politicians press for continued tax relief
An all-party parliamentary committee charged with reviewing public funding for British cinema has urged the UK Government to continue offering tax relief as "absolutely essential for the health of the industry." However, those tax-driven incentives should "evolve" to encourage both the production and distribution of British films. The current Section ...
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ARGENTINA
Alejandro Agresti's Valentin opened fifth this past weekend, scoring a good launch for the local title and taking the second highest per screen average after The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which pushed Bruce Almighty off the top. The Jim Carrey comedy had played in the number one slot for four ...
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Jackson set for Rio appearance
Samuel Jackson will bring some Hollywood star wattage to the Festival do Rio (Sept 25 - Oct 9) when he rolls into the coastal city to promote John McTiernan's Basic. Recent budget cutbacks have not affected the festival's plans to bring some 300 films from across the world. A new ...
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ARGENTINA
James Mangold's thriller Identity was unable to shake Bruce Almighty from its top spot last weekend despite a strong launch at 26 screens that saw it score the best screen average of the weekend.Also seeing a stunning launch in eighth place was Dutch foreign language Oscar-nominee Zus & Zo. The ...
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Kosse to depart Momentum for Universal
Momentum Pictures managing director David Kosse is set to join Universal to head up its international marketing and distribution.Based in London, Kosse will help manage Universal's relationship with its international distributor, UIP. It is understood that Kosse will take a seat on the UIP board. Kosse has spent more that ...
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Mexico's Mandoki returns for two
Mexican director Luis Mandoki is returning to his native country to shoot two films back to back. Mandoki, who has directed the likes of Kevin Costner, Jennifer Lopez and Meg Ryan, will first shoot a drama based on a true story, Casa De Carton, by first time Salvadorean writer Oscar ...
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ARGENTINA
Two local films reign among the top five in Argentina. Romantic road comedy Cleopatra slipped off its perch to third place by the entry of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life. Nonetheless, Cleopatra attracted just 2,464 admissions less on 58 screens compared to the adventure sequel which opened ...
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Argentina and Brazil sign co-distribution pact
Argentina and Brazil have signed a historic cross-distribution andpromotional pact that will pave the way for more releases of their product ineach other's markets. Gustavo Dahl, head of Brazil's fledgling national film agency Ancineand Jorge Coscia of Argentina's film institute, Incaa signed the pact lateAugust. The accord, which calls for ...