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All Features articles – Page 491
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International - Mangas draw audience
Japanese animated sequels came up trumps this weekend with two entries from Toho entering the top 15 and generating a combined $6.5m in their home territory.Detective Conan: Full Score Of Fear came in at number seven with a $4m take over 335 screens for an enormous $12,087 screen average - ...
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United Kingdom - Three Of A Kind
Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver Simon of K5 International offer the film industry version of a selective boutique rather than a mass retailer.The three set up K5 International in January 2007 but did not announce their first title - Tom McCarthy's The Visitor - until November 2007 at the ...
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United Kingdom - Myspace Invader
"Faintheart is about men standing up for themselves," says Vito Rocco. "I'm very fond of losers and I love stories about people trying to better themselves."Tagged as the 'first user-generated feature film', Faintheart is a romantic comedy set in the world of Viking battle re-enactments that follows weekend warrior Richard ...
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Tribeca Film Festival
JAMES MOTTERN - TRUCKER WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITIONA chance encounter at a truck-stop cafe inspired James Mottern's debut feature Trucker, the story of a California woman (Michelle Monaghan) whose freewheeling career screeches to a halt when she has to care for her 11-year-old son.Living in Riverside, California, in 2001, Mottern ...
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Italy - Faith in home-grown talent
Italy's first-quarter box-office results show that while overall box office is lagging compared to the same period last year, local product has remained strong. The data is important to the industry as 2007 saw local films boom, making a significant contribution to raising last year's overall box office to levels ...
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Distribution - In search of a crossover hit
Hindi-language films account for around 10% of all UK releases and all the major cinema circuits play Bollywood product.A mid-range Bollywood release in the UK will go out on 25-30 prints. "On the biggest ones you'd go 40-plus - it depends if there's crossover potential," says Cineworld's film buyer Andreas ...
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International - Krazzy for Bollywood
Eros International had an impressive weekend as two new Indian films became the highest non-US entrants in the international top 40, with a combined total of $4.6m.Krazzy 4, the highest entry from the distributor, came in at number 14 with a $2.6m take across 16 territories. The romantic comedy played ...
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Film hub - Has the big apple started to bruise'
"I came to New York because of the films of Martin Scorsese and the Velvet Underground," says New York producer Ted Hope, whose credits include the debut features of Ang Lee, Todd Field and Michel Gondry. "But New York City has now become the island of the super-rich. It's hard ...
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Tribeca 2007 - Where are they now'
With more than 150 features screening last year, many criticised the sixth Tribeca Film Festival for offering a line-up that was too eclectic and of mixed quality, as well as for sky-rocketing ticket prices.Nonetheless, by the end of the 12-day event, a number of films had caught the attention of ...
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Germany - Rom-com lights up Q1
Box-office takings and cinema admissions in Germany are up 30% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2008, according to figures collated by Nielsen EDI.In the period January 3-March 23, German cinemas have been experiencing an unexpected, but welcome, revival in popularity after the disappointing results of last year. They posted ...
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United Kingdom - Wolf man
In an age when short-form content can seem as disposable as a mobile-phone video, Peter & The Wolf is something of a lesson in longevity.The 30-minute stop-motion animated film, adapted from Prokofiev's classic and directed by Suzie Templeton, premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2006 and continues to roll ...
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France - Canal dreams
In February, French pay-TV giant Canal Plus announced its long-time head of cinema, Evi Fullenbach, would step down, to be replaced by Manuel Alduy.Alduy is no stranger to Canal, having joined the group in 1994 and working with Fullenbach as head of French film acquisitions since 2005.Now, he oversees the ...
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United States - Selling Britain
When she moved to Los Angeles two years ago to become executive director of the UK Film Council's US office, Claire Chapman quickly discovered she was in a new film-making world."I learnt overnight how different the industry is in terms of how it operates and how it's treated in Hollywood," ...
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United States - Young people filming
"I directed a feature film when I was 17 years old," says Jesse Harris, 22, "and this is a thousand times harder. This is insane.""This" is the National Film Festival for Talented Youth whose quasi-nerdy nickname is Nffty and whose youngest film-maker is nine. The Seattle-based festival will make its ...
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International - Flame burns bright
More than 100,000 Danes flocked to cinemas to watch Ole Christian Madsen's war epic Flame & Citron, which at $10m is one of the region's most expensive local productions.In its first three days on release, the two-hour-plus project boasted an impressive screen average of $19,118 from 73 screens for a ...
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Upcoming Projects - In the works
PLANET 51With a budget of $60.7m (EUR41m), Ilion Studios' alien invasion animation is billed as the most expensive Spanish project of all time. It is the feature debut of director Jorge Blanco and is scripted by the Oscar-nominated Shrek writer Joe Stillman. "(Stillman) loved the project," says Ilion founder Ignacio ...
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International - India joins the race
The highest new entry, and only newcomer in Screen International's top 10, was India's Race, which opened across 16 territories.Akshaye Khanna and Saif Ali Khan play brothers in the slick thriller involving a life-insurance policy worth millions that pays out to one brother in the event of the death of ...
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In focus - Closing the deal
Although box office is still booming in many parts of the region, the Asian film market presents unique challenges to Western sales companies. Local product has a market share of at least 40% in the major territories, and as US studio product is also strong, there is little room for ...
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Reaction - Brother, poet and 'realistic romantic'
The news of Anthony Minghella's death, on March 18, aged 54, the result of a haemorrhage following surgery, brought a flood of tributes.HARVEY WEINSTEIN, THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY"I am shocked and heartbroken that we have lost Anthony. He was my mentor, my partner and, most of all, my brother. The grace, ...
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Spain - On Location - Studio could be breakthrough
Spanish locations earned the attention of Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Steven Soderbergh (The Argentine and Guerrilla) in 2007. This year Universal and Working Title's Iraq-set The Green Zone, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon, is shooting on location around the country.Now the Spanish capital of Madrid ...