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Korean box office hit may be the last of the blockbusters
New Korean gangster comedy, For The Glory Of Our Family (pictured) looks like it could be a contender for the new local all-time box-office crown. But the relative success of its performance pales in comparison with the recent disastrous failure of local mega-budget title: Resurrection Of The Little Match Girl.One ...
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China becomes new base for runaway productions
As Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill wraps the Chinese portion of its shoot at Beijing Film Studio, another Chinese production powerhouse, Shanghai Film Studio, is gearing up to house another Miramax movie - John Dahl's The Great Raid, starring Benjamin Bratt and Joseph Fiennes.Set builders at the studios are constructing Manila ...
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Japan's film industry to get boost from cultural affairs agency
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs is to raise $20m (Y2.5bn) for a range of activities to support the local film industry and promote Japanese films abroad.In its proposal for the fiscal 2003 budget, the agency detailed a number of new schemes with which to boost national film production and export ...
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Danish Film Institute greenlights first-time directors
Four new Danish films have been green-lighted after receiving funding from the Danish Film Institute (DFI). Among them are the highly anticipated new film from Annette K. Olesen (Minor Mishaps) as well as new films from three feature debutantes Malene Vilstrup, Jannik Johansen and Christoffer Boe. Olesen (pictured), who received ...
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Japan's Toei to produce Battle Royale sequel
Japan's leading distributor/exhibitor Toei, is to produce a sequel to the smash-hit feature Battle Royale. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Battle Royale earned $25.8m (Y3.1bn) in Japan from 2,150,000 admissions and went on to sell more than 29,000 video and DVD copies. The film's violence became an issue at the ...
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Norwegian film fund banks on Elling prequel
The Norwegian Film Fund is to back Maipo Film's follow-up to last year's local box office phenomenon Elling. The new film, Mother's Elling is a prequel, dealing with the title character's adventures at a Spanish holiday resort with his elderly mother. As with the first film, the script is by ...
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Tony Blair unwittingly boosts Thornton Wilder adaptation
When Tony Blair chose the closing paragraph of an obscure 1927 novel called The Bridge Of San Luis Rey to read at a memorial service last year for the victims of September 11, he did not know that UK producer Pembridge Pictures had already spent close to ten years prepping ...
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Croupier team re-unite for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the film which sees the re-teaming of Croupier director Mike Hodges and its acclaimed star Clive Owen, started production on location in the UK and Wales yesterday (Monday 23 Sept).The contemporary thriller, billed as Hodges' first exploration of the world of crime since his 1971 ...
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Hungary's porno-music drama Mix wraps in Budapest
"Music, love, porn", is how writer-director-producers Steven and Robert Lovy describe their latest film, Mix, that has just finished shooting in Budapest. The film's main character is a talented, American teenager who, following his father's wish, is preparing to become a pianist while secretly cherishing plans to become a DJ. ...
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Gibson's biblical Passion story will unscroll in ancient tongues
Seven years after winning two Oscars for his epic battle movie Braveheart, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson is going behind the camera for a highly ambitious picture about the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.After cartwheeling into a press conference at Rome's Cinecitta Studios with Neapolitan dwarf actor ...
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El Deseo links with MediaPro for production expansion
The Almodovar brothers' El Deseo company has signed a wide-ranging co-production pact with Spanish media group MediaPro which will allow both companies to expand their current production activities. The deal was announced this weekend at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28), which celebrated its 50th anniversary with a ...
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Hopper, Griffith will do it their way in Sinatra Down Under tale
Screen legend Dennis Hopper will play Frank Sinatra, Melanie Griffith his girlfriend and David Hemmings his lawyer in new film The Night We Called It A Day, which goes into production in Sydney on Oct 21 directed by Paul Goldman.The core of the story, however, belongs to Joel Edgerton. He ...
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Critical acclaim boosts Irish film industry
After languishing in the doldrums for several years, things are beginning to look up for Irish film. Several local productions are about to start shooting and a slew of Irish helmed projects are hitting the world's cinema screens.Neil Jordan's latest film, The Good Thief, is getting raves. Similarly Jim Sheridan's ...
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$20m Edgardo Mortara bites the dust
Edgardo Mortara, one of the most ambitious productions at the UK's FilmFour, has collapsed only weeks before it was due to start principal photography.The $20m period epic starring Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem appeared to have survived Channel 4's decision to close down FilmFour as a stand alone operation and ...
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TVA takes local rights to Rhombus Media's current slate
TVA Films has picked up Canadian rights to new films from three major Canadian filmmakers, Francois Girard, Don McKellar and Guy Maddin, representing the entire production slate of Toronto-based Rhombus Media.Rhombus produced Girard's films The Red Violin and 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould as well as McKellar's debut ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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France's Haut Et Court takes two from Trust
Denmark's Trust Film Sales rounded a busy Toronto off with further sales on their two hot titles, Susanne Bier's Open Hearts and Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever, to France's Haut Et Court. The French company also handled Moodysson's Together with great success.Austria's Stadtkino also secured Moodysson's Russian-based drama, which like Bier's ...
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Hong Kong's film industry appeals for government assistance
Hong Kong's leading film organisations plan to appeal to the government for help following a sharp downturn in both production levels and box office for domestic films in the first eight months of the year.The Federation of Hong Kong Film Workers, an alliance of nine industry associations, is holding a ...
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Indian industrial giant Tata Group moves into film production
Indian industrial giant Tata Group has entered the Bollywood film production sector, signing up Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan to star in its first film, Aitbaar.Tata is the latest in line of new entrants into the Indian film industry: in July 20th Century Fox announced plans to produce its first Bollywood ...
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Valli to direct Tibet Project for German Friends
French director Eric Valli, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his feature Himalaya in 2000, has been signed up by Munich-based production house Friends Production to direct the ethnological road movie The Tibet Project (working title).Based on a screenplay by Valli, the Canadian-based, Oscar-nominated Chinese screenwriter and ...