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All Features articles – Page 507
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United Arab Emirates - Gulf of opportunity
Jon Fitzgerald's career has taken him from Park City to Santa Barbara via the Bahamas and Florida - and now to the Gulf, where he has been appointed director of Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Meiff).Invited by the Abu Dhabi Film Commission's Abed Awad, Fitzgerald was initially ...
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Locations - 'I've always tried to enjoy wherever I go'
When it comes to hardened veterans of international film production, they don't come much more experienced than Anthony Waye.Executive producer of Casino Royale, he has worked on no fewer than 10 Bond films, and his remarkable record includes working as assistant director on the original Star Wars, The Elephant Man, ...
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MWFF 2007: World competition
WORLD PREMIERES1 Day (Une Journee) (Switz-Fr)Dir Jacob BergerSales Vega Film, (41) 44 384 80 90The Other Side (A Outra Margem) (Port-Br)Dir Luis Filipe RochaSales Madfilmes, (351) 21 325 58 00Ben X (Bel-Neth)Dir Nic BalthazarSales MMG NV, (32) 2 453 03 04The Other Boy (Der Andere Junge) (Ger)Dir Volker EinrauchSales Josefine ...
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United Kingdom - Straight to Market
In contrast to major film studios, book publishers have been reluctant to use consumer research to trial content or marketing approaches. But that is changing and the new properties emerging through such research could be fertile ground for TV and film producers seeking proven formulas.Children's publishers, with their closely defined ...
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Is the summer market flooded'
The summer box office is an unforgiving battlefield. This year, the pre-season war cry was more aggressive than ever: 2007 would be the summer to beat all summers. Major worldwide releases such as Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Harry Potter And The ...
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Ecce Homer
The Simpsons Movie held the top spot for a second week as it continues to lay siege to the international box office, driven by a robust $6.9m top slot in Mexico. Transformers, closing fast on $300m overseas, added $30m from 6,118 venues in 53 territories to move into second. Ratatouille ...
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United Kingdom - Capture the zeitgeist
Film4 is grabbing headlines as its biggest film yet, Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones, gears up to shoot this autumn. It is just one of 12-14 films that Channel 4's film division is making this year - even more that the usual six to eight per year.Peter Carlton ...
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Canada - A catalogue of innovation
An Oscar, two prizes at Cannes, two top feature awards at the Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto, the GSM Award for original mobile content and a nomination for an International Interactive Emmy Award: Tom Perlmutter reels off the successes of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the ...
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Why buy British'
UNITED STATES'I'm a huge fan of British film' - Tom Quinn, head of acquisitions, Magnolia Pictures"Acquiring films is about what's available on the circuit and giving ample priority to our native tongue. I've always been a huge fan of British film. There's traditionally been a typical type of British film, ...
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Belgium - Sacrifices made for the gods
The news their debut feature Small Gods has been selected for Venice's Critics' Week will have come as a huge boost to the Karakatsanis brothers. Dimitri and Nicolas, who come from a Greek-Belgian background, have not had an easy ride with their movie, which took three years to complete. Like ...
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Best of British: the Michael Powell Award
Named in honour of one of Britain's most original film-makers and judged this year by an international jury, including Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore and author Jonathan Coe, the Michael Powell Award carries a cash prize of £5,000. Since its inception in 1993, it has singled out some of ...
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Alternative view - Which local films have withstood the blockbusters'
In North America, the vast majority of non-blockbuster product has not lasted more than two weeks on screen this summer. There have been exceptions, including Universal's Knocked Up and MGM's horror 1408. And there was good news for a few niche movies including Waitress, La Vie En Rose, Sicko, Once ...
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Industry moves
MURRELL ELECTED TO HEAD BENEVOLENT FUNDThe UK-based Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (Ctbf) has elected David Murrell as its president. He joined the Ctbf council in 2000 and had been vice-president since last year.WAILES MOVES TO VERTIGO SALESVertigo Films has hired Michael Wailes in its head of sales post. He ...
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Canada - Ten years in the making
On September 14, Jan Miller's baby turns 10. Strategic Partners (SP), the co-production market she founded in 1998 will begin a new decade.Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada as an adjunct of the Atlantic Film Festival, the three-day event has developed a reputation as a no-nonsense destination for producers ...
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Crowds flock to Bart exhibition
The Simpsons Movie raked in the international doh! this weekend as Fox's much-awaited film opened with $82.5m over the three-day period. The Springfield gang amassed a total of $96.8m across 71 territories on 5,527 screens for a whopping $14,925 average. The fifth Harry Potter instalment slipped by 51% to second ...
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Vietnam - Stepping Into The World
In 1981, Fay Kanin, the then president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Ampas), took Cyd Charisse and other Hollywood luminaries on a trip to China.Films including Charisse-starrer Singin' In The Rain were screened and meetings were held with representatives of the Chinese film industry. The trip ...
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Promotional feature - Locarno - Open doors is open for business
"The Middle East is hot right now," says Nadia Dresti, the director of the industry office at the Locarno international film festival. "This year's Open Doors is going to be particularly interesting."Supported by the Swiss Foreign Ministry's Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC), Open Doors is described by festival director ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend July 20-22 - Harry Potter's new world Order
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has cast its spell on the international box office, raking in a whopping $100.4m across 56 territories. The fifth instalment of the children's series has made an impressive $353.5m to date in only its second weekend. Transformers lagged far behind in second ...
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Transformers take over the world
Robots ruled the international box office this weekend as Transformers took the number one spot with $47.1m, for a total of $97.2m to date. Michael Bay's blockbuster was up 30% after expanding in an additional 19 territories. A second weekend also proved helpful for Die Hard 4.0, which was up ...
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Industry moves
Yari veteran Katz joins Gill and Sacker ventureRobert Katz has joined Mark Gill and Neil Sacker in their new independent venture The Film Department as president of production. He had been vice-president of production for The Yari Film Group.Purnell takes UK Culture Secretary roleAs new UK prime minister Gordon Brown ...