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Recep Ivedik leaps into top 10 with $5.1m take
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big-hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10. The top 40 films generated $166m from 48,087 screens from the period of February 22-24. For the full international ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...
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MK2 picks up Berlin doc With Gilbert & George
France's MK2 has announced the acquisition of Julian Cole's documentary With Gilbert & George.The film ran in the Panorama Dokumente section of the recent Berlin Festival. MK2 has taken world rights.A moving portrait, the work traces the lives of award-winning artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore from their humble beginnings ...
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The Art Of Crying named Best Danish Film
The Art Of Crying won two honours at the annual Bodil Awards last weekend in Copenhagen. Peter Schønau Fog's powerful drama won Best Danish Film and Jesper Asholt (Mifune) was named Best Actor for his mesmerizing performance of a father with incestuous tendencies. Fog had faced difficulty finding finance for ...
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Early returns point to box-office recovery in Norway
Norwegian cinemas have got off to a flying start in 2008, boosting ticket sales by 27.8% between Jan 1-Feb 21 compared to the same period in 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino.Local films drew 1.7m admissions in the whole of 2007. In the first ...
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Jumper remains internationalnumber one with $21.9m tally
The sci-fi adventure Jumper maintained its number one status overseas thanks to a $21.9m estimated gross through Fox International from 4,040 screens in 40 markets that raised the tally to $61.2m.The film opened top in France on an excellent $5.1m from 586, second in Thailand on $1.3m from 170 and ...
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Graine, Cotillard, Amalric win top Cesars
As widely predicted, Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet had a healthy showing at Friday's Cesar Awards taking the Best Picture and Best Director trophies. The film also scored a best newcomer award for actress Hafsia Herzi.Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard was honored with the Best Actress prize for La ...
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Sony Classics picks up I've Loved You So Long for US
UGC International has sold Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long... (Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime...) to Sony Classics for the US. The film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius and Laurent Grevill, ran in competition in the recently-wrapped Berlin Film Festival where it earned strong ...
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Screen Opinion: The Red-Stained Carpet
No matter which film walks home from Sunday's Oscar ceremony with the big prize, it will mark another victory for the US-centric studio apparatus otherwise known as Hollywood. Even at the more artistic fringes of the film-making spectrum, the big-six movie conglomerates still exert a gravitational pull on the marketplace ...
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Films Distribution picks up Happy Ever Afters
Films Distribution has acquired Happy Ever Afters by newcomer Stephen Burke. The film is the story of two wedding parties taking place in the same hotel at the same time and the collision of the two in what is being referred to as an Irish My Big Fat Greek Wedding ...
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Pathe announces brisk sales on 16 titles at EFM
Before the European Film Market, Pathe executive vice-president Francois Iverne predicted that the relatively few US titles at EFM this year, owing to the WGA strike, would be good news for Pathe. A just-announced raft of sales on 16 titles would appear to bear him out. Miguel Kohan's homage to ...
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EU survey shows explosion in VoD
Video on Demand (VoD) services in Europe rose by a staggering 82% in 2007. That is the finding of a new EU survey by the published by the European Audiovisual Observatory and the French Government's Media Development Department.By the end of 2007, a total of 258 VoD services were in ...
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Greenaway co-producer backs Istvan Szabo project
Veteran Hungarian director Istvan Szabo is to bring Magda Szabo's international bestseller The Door to the screen for Sandor Söth's Berlin/Leipzig-based Intuit Pictures and Jenö Habermann's Filmart in Budapest.Described by Söth to Screendaily.com as 'a morally complex story about age, loyalty and betrayal' between two strong women, a famous writer ...
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Italian culture minister to run for mayor of Rome
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has announced he will run for mayor of Rome, a position he has twice held in 1993 and 1997.Rutelli's announcement comes on the heels of the recent shake up in the Italian government, which saw Prime Minister Roman Prodi resign after 20 months in office: ...
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NonStop seals EFM sales on Gnomes And Trolls
Scandinavian-based NonStop Sales is continuing to cultivate deals on its animated features, Gnomes And Trolls I and Gnomes And Trolls II. Following the European Film Market in Berlin, the films have now gone to 14 territories.Further deals on both titles confirmed yesterday include Media Film (Slovenia + Croatia), P.C.V (Greece ...
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Beta Cinema announces deals on Heart Of Fire, presales
Beta Cinema has concluded deals for Luigi Falorni's Berlinale competition film Heart Of Fire for France (Ocean Film), Italy (BIM Distribuzione) and Greece (Seven Films) and is currently 'in final negotiations' with distributors on the title for North America, the UK and Japan.According to Andreas Rothbauer, Beta Cinema's head of ...
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Bavaria Film International unveils more Berlin sales
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has announced additional deals on competition film and other titles at this year's Berlinale.All rights to Doris Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms have been picked up by Jour 2 Fete for France, Wanda Vision for Spain, Fidalgo for Norway, and Alfa Films for Argentina. These are in addition ...
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New Berlin deals on James Marsh's Man On Wire
The Works International has concluded four new distribution deals for James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire. Diaphana has acquired distribution rights for France, Madman has taken Australia and New Zealand, Cineart will distribute in Benelux, and Arsenal in Germany and Austria. A deal is close to completion for Spain. The ...
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Shoreline bolsters sales slate with double acquisition
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Marius Balchunas' drama The Elder Son starring Shane West, Leelee Sobieski and Rade Serbedzija and international rights to Dave McLaughlin's comedy On Broadway starring Eliza Dushku and featuring Will Arnet and Amy Poehler.The Elder Son tells the story of a Russian clarinetist living ...