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Hamburg backs projects by Polanski, Espinosa and Guo
International co-productions by Roman Polanski, Daniel Espinosa and Xiaolu Guo are among the projects to be supported by FilmFörderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH), which has handed out a total of $3.5m (Euro 2.69m) at its latest funding session. Polanski will receive $263,000 (Euro 200,000) for his adaptation of the Robert Harris ...
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Art Alliance Media (AAM) announces expansion and new appointments
Art Alliance Media (AAM), the European digital cinema provider, has promoted Fiona Deans to chief operating officer as part of an expansion of its operations team. Deans, who was previously senior vice president of content and distributor services, takes over the role immediately. Deans, who joined the company in 2002, ...
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Norwegian features take top prizes at Nordic Film Festival
Norwegian cinema left Normandy having won two top prizes at the Nordic Film Festival in Rouen, which wrapped on Sunday (March 29). Norwegian director Eva Sørhaug's feature debut, Cold Lunch (Lønsj), which was launched last year in the Critics' Week at Venice and has since toured the international festival circuit, ...
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German cinemas post strong first quarter with $280m takings
German cinemas have posted a strong start to the year with one of their strongest first quarter performances in five years, according to figures from Nielsen EDI. German exhibitors reported overall takings of $280.1m (Euro 210.8m) for January 1 to March 22. The figures are down 5% on the same ...
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Knowing takes international crownwith $9.8m from 10 markets
Summit International's sci-fi thriller Knowing finished the weekend as the biggest overseas Hollywood release in play as it launched in nine markets and grossed an estimated $9.8m including previews from 1,711 sites in ten markets. The film opened at number one in the UK on $3.6m from 390 sites including ...
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Minister'sfunding comments heighten fears for Scottish film
Scottish Culture Minister Michael Russell has stated that there is unlikely to be any additional government funding for Scottish film production in the near future. Russell was appointed Culture Minister in February and one of his priorities is overseeing the troubled merger of Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council ...
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Local heroes - the hitmakers in key territories
Screen looks at local film-makers helping drive the box office in key international territories.GERMANYGerman cinema-owners look forward to packed screens when a new film from comedy director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is on the release schedule. Constantin Film is opening his next film, Wickie The Mighty Viking, in September. Promotion has ...
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Small wonder - are straight-to-TV deals on the rise'
This year's MIPTV (through April 3) will take place in the midst of very turbulent times in both the film and TV industries. In early March, UK broadcaster ITV shed 600 jobs. Its smaller rival Five announced around the same time it would be making around a quarter of its ...
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TVE's commitment to Spanish film
Television Espanola (TVE) is one of the first ports of call for Spanish producers and one of Europe's leading buyers of third-party titles. Last year, the public free-to-air broadcaster screened 98% of all Spanish films shown on local television. Highlights included Pedro Almodovar's Volver (3 million viewers) and Vicente Aranda's ...
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Gran Torino races ahead in international box office
It may have been overlooked during the awards season, but Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is outperforming all five best-picture contenders in North America. Since a wide release on January 9, Gran Torino has grossed $145.2m domestically and passed $65m internationally. This brings its worldwide tally for Warner Bros Pictures within ...
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Gran Torino poised to cross $70m internationally with Mexico launch
Gran Torino should march on towards the $70m mark this weekend through strong holdover business and a debut in Mexico on March 27 through Warner Bros Pictures International.Clint Eastwood's drama has reached $63.9m to date and crossed $210mworldwide and its prospects are looking formidable with roughlytwo-thirds of international markets yet ...
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NewsVenice names Horizons and Lions of the Future jury presidents
The Venice Film Festival has named independent filmmaker Pere Portabella as president of the Orizzonti (Horizons) Jury, while director Haile Gerima will preside over the Lion of the Future Jury.
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German producers fear $135m worth of production at risk
Work on more than 30 German feature film projects could be ‘at acute risk’ in 2009 because of the uncertainty surrounding the finances of the German Federal Film Fund (FFA), according to the German Producers Alliance.The figures come from a survey of its members by the Alliance. Three quarters of ...
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NewsBroken Embraces fails to scale same box-office heights as Volver
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film Broken Embraces took $1.3m in its opening weekend at the Spanish box office, a full $1m less than his previous offering Volver, following a mixed response from critics. The film was released nationwide in Spain by Warner Bros on March 18 and had taken $1.9m ...
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UK's High Fliers Films acquires Scanbox Entertainment UK
London based distributor High Fliers Films has acquired DVD distributor Scanbox Entertainment UK Ltd from Denmark-based parent company Scanbox A/S.The move creates a sizeable catalogue and future release schedule that should benefit both companies,Jeremy Rothwell, the managing director of High Fliers Films said ‘Scanbox has a very strong slate of ...
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Millennium trilogy goes theatrical after Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Following the recent success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, all three films from Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy will now be released theatrically. The decision was announced by the project's main financier, Swedish public broadcaster SVT. Danish director Niels Arden Oplev's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ...
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Venice unveils new competitive section Controcampo Italiano
The Venice Film Festival has announced a new, competitive section for the 66th edition of the festival,Controcampo Italiano, which will focus on the latest trends in Italian cinema.
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Cherien Dabis on Amreeka
Cherien Dabis' feature debut Amreeka, a richly observed story of Arab-American immigrants in middle America, hits very close to home. 'I grew up in Ohio, going back to Jordan every summer,' Dabis says. 'I had a sort of identity crisis - I wasn't American enough for the Americans nor Arab ...
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Babelsberg boards Boxhagener Platz and Jerry Cotton
Studio Babelsberg will co-produce two German feature productions Matti Geschonneck's Boxhagener Platz and Cyrill Boss and Phillip Stennert's Jerry Cotton. The announcement follows Studio Babelsberg's recent partnership on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Roman Polanski's The Ghost. Tragicomedy Boxhagener Platz which has just started principal photography, is a $4.8m (Euros ...
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France has record year for production and investment
France had a record year for production and production investment in 2008, according to figures released by France's Centre National du Cinema which warned that the industry still needs to be prudent in the current financial climate and pointed to the growing importance of online distribution. Overall, big and small ...