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All Features articles – Page 503
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United States - The English track
Louis Belanger is sitting in a tent deep in the Quebec wilderness, 700km north-east of Montreal. The location is doubling for Canada's Northwest Territory, 2,000km to the northwest. "This is the closest we could get to the real thing while making the logistics possible," he says. Twenty-one days into principal ...
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International - The Russians are coming
Russian films made their mark this weekend as three titles from the territory collectively accounted for 4.7% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period. Two new entries - Mongol and 12 - both made the top 30 this weekend while Day Watch, the follow-up ...
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China - A new dawn
The Sun Also Rises, the third film by Chinese maverick director Jiang Wen, adopts an entirely different narrative and visual style to his previous films, the semi-autobiographical In The Heat Of The Sun and satirical drama Devils On The Doorstep.Gone is the stark realism of those films, replaced by a ...
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Chasin' Jason
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 21-23(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$14,159,7173,902$145,587,801492(New)Resident Evil: Extinction (US)$7,878,375992$8,144,67043(9)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$5,099,7801,661$26,864,423284(2)The Simpsons Movie (US)$5,035,2741,544$332,055,644115(11)Superbad (US)$4,981,3311,043$9,908,56186(7)Ratatouille (US)$4,656,0002,535$216,416,000277(8)No Reservations (US)$4,603,5662,199$30,348,573458(3)Hero (Jap)$4,418,753475$39,168,88019(New)The Mafia, The Salesman (S Kor)$4,236,119442$4,970,196110(4)Hairspray (US)$3,968,5961,794$48,521,4783011(5)Shrek The Third (US)$3,285,3321,107$464,034,6491612(New)A Love (S Kor)$3,266,741388$3,862,268113(6)Rush Hour 3 (US)$3,071,3882,150$74,081,4293214(14)Disturbia (US)$2,868,1271,594$31,928,5223015(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,833,663594$13,897,057216(New)Mongol (Rus-Ger-Kaz-Mon)$2,776,244356$2,776,244317(12)Run, Fat Boy, ...
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Box office: data - Shining example
One of the world's largest-scale experiments has suggested strong audience demand for digitally restored archive material.The UK Summer of British Film season, organised by the UK Film Council and the BBC, showed classic films at 136 theatres signed up to the National Digital Cinema network. Audiences across the country were ...
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Spain - Place at the top table
Gracia Querejeta was born in Madrid into a film family. Her father, Elias, has produced more than 40 films and has taken an active role in supporting Gracia's own film career, including her latest work, Seven Billiards Tables, which makes its world premiere at San Sebastian this week.Querejeta is no ...
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United Kingdom - Joy Ride
Without any A-list stars or red-carpet posing, one of the hottest titles to emerge from the recent Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) was music documentary Joy Division, which had its world premiere in Tiff's Real to Reel section (Endeavor is handling North American sales while Katapult is handling international).The band's ...
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United Kingdom - Looking to the Future
UK outfit Future Films was created in 2000 to help producers put together financial packages for their films. That remit was soon expanded to include working as co-producers, and now the company is looking to be involved at every stage of a film's progress from development to international sales."I'm trying ...
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United States - The Focus Puller
It is a matter of pride for James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features, the specialised division of Universal Pictures, that he never misses a class at Columbia University, where he teaches film courses full-time in the autumn.Schamus paints a comic picture of himself this month, rushing back and forth from ...
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Festival - Latin lovers
With its beautiful horseshoe bay, old-town tapas bars and laid-back Basque atmosphere, San Sebastian is a popular industry stop-off on the festival circuit. Despite the increasingly busy autumn calendar, the 54-year-old event is this year expecting more than 1,700 delegates, plus a further 1,500 press and a smattering of international ...
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Festival - World premieres in Horizontes Latinos
Grandmother's Trip (El Viaje De La Nonna) (Mex)Dir: Sebastian SilvaSilva's directorial debut is a story about a forgetful grandmother whose family try to convince her that she has travelled to Italy. Silva has already worked on more than 20 films as assistant director or second unit director, including Babel, Before ...
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Festival - Remaining films in Official Selection
Eastern Promises (US-UK, opening film)Dir: David CronenbergInt'l sales: Focus Features International, (44) 207 851 6500A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers (US)Dir: Wayne WangContact: CAA, (1) 212 277 9000Battle For Haditha (UK)Dir: Nick BroomfieldInt'l sales: HanWay Films, (44) 20 7290 0750Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame (Iran-Fr)Dir: Hana MakhmalbafInt'l sales: Wild Bunch, ...
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Exhibition - Middle East - Gulf starts to widen
A new US-style mall opens every couple of months in the Gulf, most of them complete with a multiplex. Exhibitors in other territories, including Egypt and Lebanon, have ambitious plans to expand their reach but all battle with censorship and piracy and, outside the Gulf, with political and economic uncertainty."Last ...
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Spain - Dangerous minds
Julio Medem is back with his first film in four years, Chaotic Ana, which is screening at San Sebastian this week. Charlotte Rampling (speaking Spanish) and newcomer Manuela Velles star in the film, which ventures into the troubled, psychotic world of a young woman named Ana.Following its world premiere at ...
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Festival - Building up a buyers' market
While San Sebastian director Mikel Olaciregui admits it can be difficult to attract major US buyers so soon after Toronto, the festival remains a busy sales event, with almost 100 international buyers scheduled to attend in 2007. These include Lionsgate, HBO, Warner Bros, DeA Planeta and Rezo Films."San Sebastian is ...
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Bourne keeps on running
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 14-16(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$20,837,5364,124$125,058,805452(11)The Simpsons Movie (US)$10,004,8882,324$321,298,437133(3)Hero (Jap)$7,152,343475$26,027,93414(15)Hairspray (US)$5,825,6231,824$43,634,146305(4)Shrek The Third (US)$5,695,4151,445$459,311,955206(5)Rush Hour 3 (US)$5,691,5742,443$69,713,201317(2)Ratatouille (US)$5,481,0002,499$210,047,000258(12)No Reservations (US)$4,489,5632,137$24,171,338409(6)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$4,047,2081,574$20,495,4242410(25)Surf's Up (US)$3,159,0772,261$42,837,4383211(New)Superbad (US)$3,140,750471$3,140,750212(8)Run, Fat Boy, Run (UK-US)$3,097,707411$9,046,628113(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,737,143402$8,796,118114(14)Disturbia (US)$2,707,3451,275$28,014,4912815(23)1408 (US)$2,480,405810$17,595,8451316(9)Knocked Up (US)$2,365,0021,318$48,655,3272217(New)Kidnapping Granny K (S Kor)$2,207,699420$2,737,547118(7)Die ...
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Festival - Buzz from the Basque country
Mataharis (Sp)Dir: Iciar BollainSpanish actor-turned-director Bollain returns to San Sebastian after winning several awards at the festival in 2003 for domestic violence drama Take My Eyes. Mataharis is a $4m drama that tells the stories of three female detectives trying to juggle their working and private lives.Bollain admits the "expectation ...
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International - Korea ambitions
Three Korean films made a big impact on the international chart this weekend, and their collective total accounted for 5.4% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period.Three new Korean openers - Kidnapping Granny K, Two Faces Of My Girlfriend and The Happy Life ...
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United states - Mumble-Mania
Joe Swanberg never wanted to change the world or rewrite the rules of cinema. He simply wanted to make movies, preferably on his own terms with a group of friends and collaborators.A Chicago-based independent film-maker, Swanberg has not only staked out a niche identity that has attracted a modicum of ...
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Spain - Investigating women's lives
It was a role in Ken Loach's 1995 Spanish Civil War film Land And Freedom that inspired Iciar Bollain to become a director. With a CV of local productions under her belt, Bollain impressed Loach at auditions for the film, so much so that he created a part for her."Ken ...