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All Features articles – Page 522
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North America - Shining example
When Danny and Jack Fisher made their first film, 1984 feature documentary The Generation Apart, they thought it would remain a family affair."We made a film and thought we'd show it in our basement to 12 people," says Danny Fisher, CEO of New York-based City Lights. The film, which explores ...
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Project market - CINEMART 2007 project focus
One of the surprises about the line-up of projects in the 24th CineMart (January 28-February) is the number of high-profile directors - Stephan Elliott and Kim Ki-duk, for example - scattered among the more traditional CineMart arthouse fare. Therefore budgets overall look higher, capped by Elliott's Black Oasis at $7m ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend January 12-14 - Happyness pursues Museum
Family extravaganza Night At The Museum continues to be an international crowd pleaser, passing the $150m mark in 39 territories and grossing more than $20m in its fourth weekend to remain rooted to the top spot. Inspirational bio-drama The Pursuit Of Happyness, starring Will Smith, was this weekend's highest new ...
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US stars of tomorrow
Over the past two decades, the Sundance Film Festival has developed into two distinct events. The festival, as started by Robert Redford, has actually changed very little over the last 20 years. Despite the new programmes and categories, and the increasing number of submissions - 1,852 US features this year ...
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United Kingdom - The TV Set
Publishers and film scouts were given a late Christmas present from Richard & Judy this week, as the TV chat show hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan - the UK's answer to Oprah - unveiled their 2007 book club selections.Last year's picks dominated the bestseller lists, with Kate Mosse's Labyrinth ...
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Stuck at home
There is a kind of gold-rush mentality attached to the holiday season in just about every part of the globe. The Hollywood majors unleash dozens of fun rides and the rest of the world follows suit.Italy literally has its annual holiday movie in the form of the Nataleseries and France ...
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Poland - Home for the holidays
Seven years after his directorial debut, New Line's horror Lost Souls, Janusz Kaminski has begun filming on Hania - a contemporary Polish-language drama the director is co-producing with Zebra Film Studio, Gremi Film Production and OTO Film Studio.Kaminski is best known for his cinematography on Steven Spielberg's films, having ...
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Editorial - Tear up the calendar
What is it about the switch of a year that brings out the pundit in us all' Endless column inches are expended on retrospective analysis of what is in fact an arbitrary period of time. It is a pain but the international market has not been evolving in the last ...
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Domestic box office - Story behind the numbers
Figures only tell so much. The domestic market generated slightly more than $9.23bn ticket sales during 2006. It represented an increase of 3.8% in box office but as is said of some horse races, admissions were too close to call.Representatives of both Regal and AMC Theaters - with a combined ...
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North America - Natural selection
National Geographic Films (NGF) burst into the spotlight in 2005 when it partnered Warner Independent Pictures on March Of The Penguins, which grossed more than $77m in North America and won last year's best documentary feature Oscar. But NGF, under the guidance of former Disney senior vice-president of production Adam ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend Jan 5-7
Museum exhibits its attractionsFantasy-comedy Night At The Museum holds on strong to the top spot after the holiday season, grossing more than $30m in the three-day weekend and bringing its total to nearly $119m. Mel Gibson's Mayan-language action-adventure Apocalypto shot up 11 places and took $7.7m at the weekend after ...
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In focus - The view from 2007
The raw figures for the 2006 box office point to a widespread recovery. In the context of the last few years, however, it is perhaps more a case of steady advance than a big leap forward. That in itself may be exactly the kind of stability needed in a period ...
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Round-up of Berlin's European Film Market
Sales of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Mortal Transferto Japan’s Amuse Pictures and Greece’s Rosebud are among a raft of deals sealedby Bavaria Film International at the European Film Market in Berlin last week.