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All Features articles – Page 511
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Market focus - Two heads good'
Plans for the international distribution of Grindhouse are being re-evaluated in English-speaking territories following the film's performance in its first few weeks in the US.Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double-bill, composed of a feature from each director - Tarantino's Death Proof segment and Rodriguez's horror flick Planet Terror - opened ...
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Canada - This time it's personal
In 2005, Risa Morimoto learned her late uncle was a kamikaze, one of the suicide pilots of Imperial Japan during the Second World War. For an outside observer, the more startling aspect of her discovery is that her uncle only died 20 years ago - he survived the war.If there ...
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Editorial - Screen says The future calls
There's an otherwise rather ordinary individual working at Screen's London offices whose telephone ringtone is a snippet from Captain Beefheart's relatively obscure 1967 debut album Safe As Milk. That's the long tail in action. It's a fair guess the person concerned is one of a statistically small group who serendipitously ...
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Mr Bean feasts as 300 holds firm
Universal's hit comedy Mr Bean's Holiday kept the international top spot this weekend, grossing $17m from 45 territories and bringing its total to $125.9m after four weeks. 300 continues to battle in second place and generated $13.5m from 55 territories in its sixth week. A handful of new thrillers dot ...
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United States - A man of the world
When Catherine Hardwicke's The Monkey Wrench Gang hits the screens in 2008, it will be the result of 15 years of careful nurturing for its veteran producer Edward R Pressman.The story of environmental activists fighting over-development in the American West has just been waiting for the right time to find ...
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United Kingdom - Re-animated
When Bristol-based Aardman ended its deal with DreamWorks in late January 2007, the early dissolution of the pact did not come as a surprise - there had long been talk of culture clashes between the UK animation company and its publicly traded Hollywood partner.Aardman remained quiet at the time because ...
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Japan - Secrets and lives in modern Tokyo
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the few modern Japanese film-makers with worldwide recognition, both as a genre director and as an auteur. With films such as Cure, Pulse and Retribution (which screened at Venice last year) Kurosawa's name is synonymous with J-horror.Yet his filmography offers much more than scares. ...
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Industry moves
STAMBLER JOINS THINKFILM FROM MAGNOLIABen Stambler has left Magnolia Pictures and joined ThinkFilm's New York office as director of acquisitions. Stambler served for three years as manager of acquisitions at Magnolia and played a key role in the acquisitions of The Host, The Signal and Jesus Camp. He will jointly ...
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United States - India meets Hollywood
Los Angeles-based Christina Marouda had always enjoyed Indian cinema. But it was only when she worked at the city's two biggest film festivals, Afi Fest and the Los Angeles Film Festival, that she realised Indian films needed a better platform in the world's movie capital."Apart from Cannes and Berlin, Indian ...
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Taiwan's Gay Pride
Taiwan can stake its claim as the gay movie capital of Asia in 2007. Internationally, its position was crowned in February when lesbian drama Spider Lilies won the Teddy Award for best feature at the Berlin International Film Festival. At home, the three local releases of the year to date ...
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Distribution - TV and film sales - Two's company
Not so long ago, film and TV markets were different worlds. Independent film sales agents who attended the American Film Market (AFM) and Cannes might attend events such as Miptv and Mipcom to exploit their library, but theatrical buyers were rarely seen. That position is now changing as film-makers and ...
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Mr Bean wins epic battle
UK comedy Mr Bean's Holiday kicked action epic 300 from the top spot after expanding in an additional 16 territories including Italy and Mexico; Bean took $30.7m at the weekend. But the Spartans fought on as 300 generated $29.9m from 54 territories, bringing its international total to $173.3m after just ...
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China - The balance of power
Inspired by the Chinese classical novel Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, multiple award-winning Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung (The Soong Sisters, An Autumn's Tale) is putting together a project, Red Rose And White Rose, based on the story of two women caught up in male power plays.The first is Princess ...
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United States/United Kingdom - Arcane Worlds
Producer Meg Thomson has had an interesting journey since growing up in Pennsylvania. At Harvard University, she met her UK-born future business partner in Arcane Pictures, George Duffield. She worked in the Los Angeles film production world before moving to the UK eight years ago to work on Arcane's first ...
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Spartans still on the warpath
The Spartan army conquered a further 12 territories at the weekend as 300 reeled in $30.8m, bringing its total international spoils to a ferocious $126.4m after four weeks. UK comedy Mr Bean's Holiday jumped up to number two and generated $29.2m in the three-day period after opening in a further ...
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United States - Moving movies
Since it was launched in 2002 by Larry Meistrich, New York-based Film Movement has released more than 100 foreign-language and independent features and shorts from 27 countries through its website, where members and non-members can buy a DVD of the month and peruse the ever-expanding catalogue."We choose good titles that ...
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United Kingdom - Studio Tour
No-one knows what caused the fire that burned down the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in July 2006, but its rapid rebuilding symbolises the upturn in fortunes at Pinewood Shepperton.The $15.7m (£8m) new stage was finished in March. Now, even before an official launch, the 007 stage is back ...
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Industry moves
Fox's Robert Harper to head RegencyFox Filmed Entertainment vice-chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company. Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New ...
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Industry moves
Fox's Robert Harper to head RegencyFox Filmed Entertainment vice-chairman Robert Harper has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Filmed Entertainment. He replaces David Matalon who left the company earlier this month to return to his own production company. Harper will oversee Fox-based Regency's film production unit, New ...
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Market focus - Fighting fit
UK box office could see its strongest year in four years in 2007 as first quarter reports show a 10% year-on-year increase. After 12 weeks, UK cinemas have generated $379.4m (£193.7m) from 166 films, compared to $346.1m (£176.7m) in the same period of 2006, according to Nielsen EDI.Recent years have ...