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All Features articles – Page 508
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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 ...
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Woods to leave ausfilmAusfilm chief executive Mark Woods will leave the government partnership when his two-year contract expires in August. Woods, who was previously chief executive of the Irish Film Board, said he has achieved the two-year plan he had in mind when he took the top job at Ausfilm.Overture ...
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United Kingdom - Youth movement
Four years ago, as students at Bournemouth University, Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer knew they wanted to find a film project to work on together. And what a project it turned out to be: their first documentary, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) is backed by HBO and the Channel 4 ...
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Three join ParticipantFormer ICM chief financial officer Robert Murphy has joined the US's Participant Productions as chief financial officer and executive vice-president. Bonnie Abaunza and Liana Schwarz have joined as vice-presidents of social action, campaign development and operations.Auffret to head AAM's new Paris officeDigital film services company Arts Alliance Media ...
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Eastern Europe - Festival watch - Karlovy vary
This year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 29-July 7) in the Czech Republic boasts a diverse range of more than 200 films, including nine world premieres.Competition titles from the region include Zoltan Kamondi's Dolina, a tale of an isolated town in the Eastern Carpathians, that picked up an award ...
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Seasons of change
Vin Bhat, the founder of fast-growing New York-based Indian pay-TV service Bodvod, has been celebrating a successful year for Bollywood movies at the North American box office.Hits in 2006 included Kriish - India's first action superhero film - and Dhoom 2, about a malicious gang of Bombay bikers, which grossed ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend June 1-3
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End continues to hold on to the top spot despite a 52% drop - it raked in $103.2m from 103 territories bringing its total to a whopping $406.4m in its second weekend. Spider-Man 3 remains firmly in second place, generating $12.6m in its fifth ...
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Industry moves
CONI TAKES HELM AT 01Adriano Coni has been named the new president of Italy's 01 Distribution, the distribution arm of RAI Cinema. Coni previously acted as chief of both RAI Cinema's marketing and human resources divisions.MEDIA 8 INTERNATIONAL ROLE FOR ANISIThe US's Media 8 Entertainment has hired Tannaz Anisi as ...
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In focus - Festival Buzz - Cannes Talent Watch
Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu, actors, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 DaysThe understated, emotionally nuanced performances from the two young stars of Cristian Mungiu's abortion drama helped propel the Romanian title to the Palme d'Or. "The leads never put a foot wrong, giving remarkably controlled and unaffected performances," is ...
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Thailand - Whirlwind Affair in Bangkok
After two high-profile international co-productions, Invisible Waves and Last Life In The Universe, Pen-ek Ratanaruang has returned to his Thai roots with the $2m Ploy, a riff on The Seven Year Itch. The film played in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, where critics described it as dark, erotic and funny.Ploy follows ...
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Distribution - A shorts story about talent
Ask any new film-maker why they made a short and they will likely say they wanted to tell a story and to explore their craft. But it is also true shorts act as a commercial for a film-maker's talent - and in the age of YouTube, getting a calling card ...
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Industry moves
Dubinet to head myriad pictures financing armRevelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm, Global Revelations. The new venture will nurture a "talent-inspired" consortium of equity and hedge-fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to ...
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United Kingdom - Good times
If I wasn't a Jew I'd be a Nazi," says UK producer Miriam Segal. It is a forthrightness designed to make you sit up and pay attention. Her debut film, Good, starts shooting in Budapest this week and Segal is determined it will have a shocking appeal - for all ...
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New Goals
Tristan Whalley and Nicki Parfitt first met while working for Portman Entertainment on the comedy Saving Grace in 2000. Both saw the potential of the film, originally made for TV, to go larger. Of course, it did.Whalley and Parfitt are now using that approach with their new company Goalpost Film. ...
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Spidey gets into full swing
Spider-Man 3 continues to dominate the international box office despite a 52% drop over its second weekend. Sony's web-slinger generated $84.2m from 73 territories, bringing its total to a whopping $385.4m. Zombie-sequel 28 Weeks Later trailed far behind in second place, and took $4.9m in its opening weekend from 11 ...
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India - Mother figure
Fresh from The Namesake, prolific Indian director Mira Nair is working on two very different projects. She is set to direct the epic $100m Shantaram on four continents for Warner Bros. An adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel, it is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and ...
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The festival treasure hunt
Back in 1992, Canadian distributor Jim Murphy was on the prowl, as ever, for new, unheralded movies to acquire. On the opening day of the Cannes film festival, he trudged off to the Olympia Cinema for the first market screening of the day. It was a debut effort by an ...
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United States - Prairie Days
Jennifer Lynch's philosophy of film-making' When you're surrounded by fertiliser, "there's got to be a pony".The 39-year-old director knows something about dealing with adversity. Her new $5.5m feature Surveillance, produced by Lago Film and being sold by Arclight Films, is her first since the now-notorious Boxing Helena, which was greeted ...
