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All Features articles – Page 516
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Production - co-productions - Forming partnerships
Aside from Bollywood projects coming to the UK solely for location work, there is now a new generation of Indian film-makers interested in working more closely with UK producers and technicians and even considering the benefits of the new tax relief."Although the treaty obviously isn't having an effect yet, the ...
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In focus - Critical round-up - Potsdamer clamour
This may prove to have been the biggest Berlinale ever - in everything but film quality. The patchy selection of films in competition failed to ride the wave of success, and left critics muttering that the Berlinale would do better to refocus on its core business.True, there was a last-minute ...
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Market focus - Calling on the neighbours
The performance of European films outside their home markets remains one of the thorniest issues for the EU's policy-makers. Last year's box-office recovery in many European territories was largely built on the success of local films in local markets and a number of Hollywood blockbusters. There were high-profile exceptions: Pedro ...
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In focus - Digital rights sales - The fight for bytes
The spectre of digital rights haunted this year's Berlinale."It's a difficult market in general because of anxieties over VoD (video on demand)," admitted Celluloid Dreams' Charlotte Mickie.The potential of new platforms is a mainstream issue but quantifying the value of downloads, VoD and online distribution is tough. Smaller content owners ...
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Production - International Locations - The travel bug
If Western audiences turn to Hindi movies for exotica and spectacle, Bollywood film-makers too have returned the favour by shooting on foreign soil. Although Bollywood's footprint has grown considerably beyond Indian borders in the last decade, Hindi movies have been locating sequences, songs and even whole movies in foreign locations ...
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Production - UK shoots - The brit factor
GoalDir: Vivek AgnihotriThis Bollywood production from major Indian conglomerate UTV - about a group of Indians playing football in the UK - starts shooting in London this month. Starring real-life couple John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, director Agnihotri will use mostly Indian crew.Dance Baby Dance (Jhoom Barabar Jhoom)Dir. Shaad AliThis ...
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So long, Bombay
Bollywood will pick up its traveling bags several times this year. A portion of Anurag Kashyap's No Smoking, which opens in April, has been shot in Uzbekistan. Two Yash Raj Films productions are being shot in different parts of the globe, Shimit Amin's Chak De India and Siddharth Anand's Ta ...
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Production - Bollywood in the UK - Passage from India
When UK chancellor Gordon Brown made a government visit to India last month it was telling that he made a bee-line for Bollywood, taking in a tour of the YRF Studios in Mumbai and speaking of the need to provide further incentives for Indian film-makers to shoot in the UK.This ...
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Think's big picture
ThinkFilm went on a bit of a shopping spree at last month's Sundance Film Festival. The five-year-old independent US and Canadian distributor, not known for high-profile purchases, paid a reported $2m for North American rights to space-programme documentary M, wrote another big cheque for North American theatrical rights to spoof ...
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Production - The big pull
Italy's government has designated India as its trade target for 2007. Speaking at a press conference earlier this month in Mumbai, minister for international trade Emma Bonino said: "We want to invite Indian film-makers to shoot in Italy. After all, we too have some of the most picturesque locales."India has ...
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In focus - Berlinale round-up - Bear's market bullish
This year's Berlinale and European Film Market (EFM) was the most successful ever, at least in statistical terms: more industry visitors, more festival-goers, even the branded teddy bears sold out.So this year's expansion of market floorspace and new programmes looks to have been justified. Indeed, the unprecedented arrival of 430,000 ...
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Brazil - The away game
Brazilian film-maker Cao Hamburger first began to think about The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, which just played in Competition at Berlin, while living in London in 2001."All the cab drivers I spoke to knew by heart the Brazilian soccer team that won the World Cup in 1970," says ...
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Austria/Germany - Seeing double
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky must have been the right man for The Counterfeiters, a drama about a Nazi-organised forgery scam in a German concentration camp - he was independently approached by two production companies for the same project within the space of three weeks.With a resume including two successful horror ...
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Production - Argentina - The funds of others
Since Argentina's economic crash, the territory's film industry has been fighting its way back to health. But while the industry has been weathering the storm - 90 films were produced last year and directors such as Daniel Burman, Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel are drawing plaudits around the world - ...
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Editorial - But is it any good'
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." Henry Louis Mencken's aphorism springs to mind because there are times when belief in one's open-mindedness is challenged. This week, Dieter Kosslick, Berlinale festival director offered a flower-sniffing test par excellence.The critics pretty much universally ...
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Foreign affairs
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an editorial that put forward an argument for the elimination of the foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. Its point was that "foreign film-making talent is represented in record numbers" in all categories and therefore in no need of special support.The argument from the ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 16-18 - Ghost's arrival spooks Night
Comic-book fantasy Ghost Rider knocked Night At The Museum off the top spot, taking more than $16.6m internationally in its opening weekend. Luc Besson's Taxi 4 also showed impressive first-weekend results, grossing $14.1m in Belgium and France. Meanwhile, UK audiences flocked to see Edgar Wright's cop spoof Hot Fuzz - ...
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The showman
The omission of Bill Condon from the list of directing Oscar nominees was a shock to the growing legions of Dreamgirls fans across North America. Condon's DreamWorks and Paramount-backed production, which won the best picture (musical or comedy) Golden Globe, also faced a crushing shutout in the best picture Oscar ...
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Outsider's view
Fans of David Mackenzie's earlier films The Last Great Wilderness, Young Adam and Asylum will not be too surprised by his new feature Hallam Foe, he predicts. "I thought it was an opportunity to do something that goes with the general flow of my work," he says of the project, ...
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Industry moves
Wolf to leave Peace ArchPenny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective March 16. Wolf is attending the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.New Kofic US office headSun-young Moon ...