All articles by Blanka Elekes Szentagotai – Page 3
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Julie Delpy to bring Sunset to Transylvania
Actress Julie Delpy has confirmed her participation in this year's Transylvania International Film Festival in the Romanian town Cluj between May 28 and June 6.Delpy is currently developing a film about the blood-drinking countess Elisabeth Bathory, a serial killer whose pet hobby was bathing in the blood of virgins. It ...
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ROMANIA
In one of the few territories not yet hit by the Passion-fever, Clint Eastwood's Mystic River is performing strongly, pulling together nearly 1,500 admissions over the weekend from a single print.InterComFilm's new release, Peter Pan proved something of a disappointment and so did New Film's How To Deal and Ro-Image ...
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Sofia Meetings develop second film projects
One of the highlights of the recent Sofia International Film Festival was a session of second films pitching as part of the Sofia Meetings.Twelve projects were invited to the event, which was attended by such decision-makers as Renate Roginas from Eurimages, The Coproduction Office's Philippe Bober, Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, ...
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BULGARIA
Clearly not content with her double-whammy at the Italian box office last weekend, Penelope Cruz achieved the same feat in Bulgaria, albeit with a different headliner.Fanfan La Tulipe, which opened last year's Cannes Film Festival, launched into the top spot for distributor Van Kris on five screens. Gerard Krawczyk's remake ...
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ROMANIA
In the third week of its release Cold Mountain has finally been pushed off the top of the Romanian box office chart. Welcome To The Jungle and Duplex both made strong starts but the momentum certainly belonged to the Ben Stiller-Drew Barrymore comedy which produced an amazing 5,000 admissions on ...
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Reconstruction takes top prize at Sofia film fest
Danish director Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction won the top prize of Euros 5,000.at the 8th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival.The five-member jury led by director Jerry Schatzberg, awarded a special mention to a production from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srdjan Vuletic's Summer In The Golden Valley - which also won ...
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HUNGARY
Five new releases hit the Hungarian cinemas last weekend including multi award-winning The Return and Vadim Perelman's House Of Sand And Fog but once again it was only the action flicks and comedies that made it into the box office top ten.Torque starring Ice Cube and Martin Henderson landed the ...
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ROMANIA
Cold Mountain kept its leading position at the Romanian box office for the second week running despite a hefty 44% fall-off compared to its opening weeks' performance.Same can't be said about The Last Samurai which is still making a strong 5,000 each weekend despite running for six weeks already.Of last ...
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ROMANIA
Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain shot in the spectacular Carpathian mountains in Romania was received extremely well in the land of its birth.Released on a not so strong six copies by Glob Com, the film made over 12,000 admissions in its opening weekend. Scary Movie 3 released by InterComFilm on seven ...
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HUNGARY
As was expected following its Oscar-success, The Return Of The King fared strongly at the Hungarian box office last weekend, performing a mere 1% weaker than the week before taking nearly 10,000 admissions in the ninth week of its release.The French comedy Mauvais Espirit and the latest John Grisham adaptation ...
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Sofia film festival launches 8th edition
Director Takeshi Kitano's highly-praised Zatoichi opens the 8th Sofia International Film Festival today.The festival boasts some 100 features, 10 documentaries and 60 shorts as well as a feature competition comprising 14 titles including Karlovy Vary audience favourite, Buddy, Camera D'Or winner, Reconstruction, Locarno award winner, Maria and 16 Years Of ...
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HUNGARY
Most likely nobody would've thought that in the fourth week of its release Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond will still be such strong competition for Tom Cruise's Last Samurai. The Japan-set epic debuted on top of the chart with over 47,000 admissions, a mere 15,000 more than Herendi's historical comedy which ...
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ROMANIA
On a list heavily dominated by the releases of InterComFilm, The Last Samurai is still the name of the game, the Tom Cruise epic is nearing the impressive one hundred thousand admissions at the Romanian box office.Newcomers Paycheck and Big Fish opened decently on six and five screens, respectively. James ...
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HUNGARY
Even though both UIP-Duna Film's new release, Paycheck and InterCom's Farrelly offering, Stuck on You had decent openings at the Hungarian box office with over 14,000 and 12,000 admissions respectively, the momentum still belongs to Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond (Magyar vandor) which in just under three weeks has passed the ...
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ROMANIA
New Hollywood comedies, the Farrelly brothers' Stuck On You and David Zucker's My Boss's Daughter were no match at the Romanian box office for The Last Samurai which, released on an impressive fifteen copies, still managed nearly 12,000 admissions in its second week.Local film production and distribution company, Media Pro ...
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HUNGARY
Hungary's new distributor, Intersonic which debuted with the release of Snowboarder and with the help of well established Mokep, failed to pick the right film to make an impact on the audiences, Snowboarder didn't even attract one thousand admissions.Meanwhile SPI's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre achieved a decent opening for a ...
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HUNGARY
A Kind Of America director Gabor Herendi's second feature, Hungarian Vagabond has taken the Hungarian box office by storm. The film attracted over 65,000 admissions over its opening weekend - finally pushing the final installment of the LOTR trilogy off the top spot, in the fifth week after its release.Herendi's ...
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HUNGARY
Nimrod Antal's Control and Tamas Sas' Dad Goes Nuts (Apam Beajulna) got another push at the Hungarian box office with the extra attention both received at the annual Hungarian Film Week running between January 27 and February 3.The only new release making the top ten list was The Rock and ...
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Awards and festival invitations galore for Attila Janisch film
The new feature by Attila Janisch was the big winner at last night's awards' ceremony that closed the 35th edition of the Hungarian Film Week.His film, After The Day Before received the jury's main prize as well as awards for best cinematography going to Gabor Medvigy, best actor for Tibor ...