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All Features articles – Page 501
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Piracy - 'Internet piracy is far and away our biggest threat'
The rise of internet file-sharing has opened a whole new front for piracy of all films - not least independents. The availability of films for download on the internet even before their initial theatrical release makes the prospect of profitable licensed distribution of independent films in some territories even more ...
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International - Lissi animates the tills
Germany's animated adventure Lissi Und Der Wilde Kaiser was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $6.9m from 905 screens across three territories.The comedy, released through Constantin Film, opened to number four in the chart and enjoyed a $7,609 screen average - the fourth highest ...
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Brazil - Amazon green
Lionel Chouchan has launched many film festivals in his native France, including the Deauville Festival of American Cinema, the Festival International du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz (now based in Gerardmer) and the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac. But for the director of Paris-based communications agency Le Public Systeme none of ...
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Start-ups - The Newcomers
Although notoriously one of the most risky sectors of the global film industry, it is easy to see why so many want to be in North American distribution. Choose the right personnel, secure financial backing, build a strong pipeline, commit a sensible amount to p&a, get the marketing right - ...
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United States - Ehud Resurrected
Changes are afoot at Bleiberg Entertainment, where effervescent company founder Ehud Bleiberg is already plotting his next big move as a hugely successful year draws to a close.A familiar face on the foreign sales circuit for many years, Bleiberg knew it was time to make a bold move two years ...
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United Kingdom - Early light
When asked about her taste in films, Tanya Seghatchian points to the wall behind her desk, and two very different posters for her past productions: one for Pawel Pawlikowski's low-budget award-winner My Summer Of Love and another for megahit franchise Harry Potter.Seghatchian - previously best known as the development executive ...
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Editorial - Screen says - The ideas business
The fear that one day the money might just dry up is a permanent fact of life even for established film-makers. This year's Screen International UK Film Finance Summit was a fine opportunity to take the temperature of a major international business and that underlying concern was tangible.There's a general ...
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Asian tigers show their claws
Two very different Korean openers hit the international chart this week: Ra Hee-chan's comedy Going By The Book, and Kim Mi-jung's historical murder mystery Shadows In The Palace. Going By The Book is a broad comedy about a traffic cop and a bank robbery gone wrong, while Shadows In The ...
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The Critical view - The art of war
The autumn epidemic of films dealing with the US's entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan has launched dozens of features and op-ed pieces but predictably, most of these were written before many of the films had surfaced. So pundits were limited to commenting on the fact that, whereas most of 1970s ...
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Germany - All's fair
The topic on most people's lips at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair (October 15-19) was not the latest literary sensation, but rumours about the extraordinary saga at London talent agency Peters Fraser Dunlop (PFD).Caroline Michel, the company's beleaguered chief executive, cancelled her visit to Frankfurt at the last minute, still ...
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New Line Cinema at 40 - The Ringleaders
Some 40 years after Bob Shaye formed New Line Cinema in his Greenwich Village apartment, the company is a bona fide Hollywood studio, sitting alongside Warner Bros in the Time Warner family. And it has some of the biggest franchise properties in the business under its belt - The Lord ...
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2008: The New Line Highlights
Jan 25: Be Kind RewindMichel Gondry's latest offbeat comedy features Jack Black as a video-store employee who accidentally erases all the tapes, so re-enacts and refilms them. Mos Def co-stars.Feb 29: Semi-ProWill Ferrell plays a former benchwarmer who returns to his basketball team in an attempt to take them to ...
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International - Land of opportunity'
The following glass half full/half empty debate has been going on for as long as I can remember. On the one hand is the argument that there's never been a worse time for independent and alternative film to get access to the North American marketplace. On the other hand, the ...
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Editorial - Peer pressure
There's an interesting survey out this week that demonstrates how gossip influences human behaviour. Boffins (or possibly eggheads) at the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology have spent large amounts of time and public money showing that humans give an extraordinary amount of credence to word-of-mouth references.The methodology involved ...
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A good news day
The Egyptian film industry is ruled by a clutch of players that typically act as producers, distributors and exhibitors, churning out comedies that dominate the local box office. Adel Adeeb, managing director of indie Good News Group, can add a fourth arm - directing - to the list. He is ...
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Ratatouille still cooking
Disney/Pixar animation Ratatouille held the top international slot this weekend, with more than $21m from 39 territories. The family film was up 9% at the weekend, thanks to a $9m opening in the UK, and now boasts a $271.8m international tally. Resident Evil: Extinction was up by 18%, holding on ...
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Festival - Asian talent - The stars come out at Pusan
Korean actor Yang Jin-woo was the proud winner of the first ever Screen International/Star Summit Asia best new actor award, which was presented during the Asian Film Market in Pusan last week.Screen presents the award to a participant in the Casting Board section of the Asian Film Market's Star Summit ...
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United Kingdom - Life After Death
Death At A Funeral was written as a spec script by London-based writer Dean Craig to direct himself for around $200,000 (£100,000). But a friend, US writer-director-producer Laurence Malkin had bigger ambitions."He said, 'No, we'll do it for $20m,'" Craig remembers. "I said, 'Are you nuts' It's a little film ...
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World Premieres at the LFF
LIONS FOR LAMBSSection: The Times GalaRobert Redford's new film is a contemporary thriller with a political undertow. The cast includes Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, all of whom are expected to attend the LFF to support the launch. Twentieth Century Fox releases in the UK on November 9.THE ENGLISH ...
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In Focus - Q&A: Talking shop
VINCENT MARAVAL, CO-CHIEF, WILD BUNCHWhich co-production markets do you attend'We go to CineMart to find co-producers for our own projects and to co-produce some other projects. We did The Magdalene Sisters, Carnages and some others that way. We use Pusan in the same way. It has the best knowledge of ...