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Potsdam animation festival to present 41 films
The Cartoon Movie 2007 business forum will present 500 participants with a selection of 41 features with an overall budget of almost $391m (Euros300m) in an attempt to boost finance and distribution for European animated films.In its ninth year, the festival convenes at Germany's Babelsberg Studio from March 7-9 and ...
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Dreamgirls leads Oscar nominees but shut out of Best Picture race
Dreamgirls led the Oscar race with eight nominations this morning but the hit musical was shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also took three nominations in the best song category, meaning that it could only win five Oscars at most. Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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Grbavica tops Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2006 box office
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a particularly difficult market for analysis because until recently there have been no BO reports compiled exclusively for the region. Instead, the box office results were split between Serbia and Croatia.Since the end of the war in 1996, Serbian and Croatian distributors contracted to Hollywood majors ...
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Pirates tops 2006 Slovenian box office
Healthy box office figures reveal 10 percent growth in Slovenia Box office figures for 2006 show Slovenia is the most gratifying territory in the region in terms of revenues. With a population of two million, 96 active screens, low piracy levels and the fact that it is the only country ...
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Kidz In Da Hood sweeps Sweden 's national film awards
Kidz In Da Hood raided the Guldbagge awards - Sweden 's national film awards - which the Swedish Film Institute presented at a ceremony Monday (22 Jan) in Stockholm 's Circus, televised by Swedish public broadcaster SVT1. A 2006 update of Guttersnipes, filmed in 1944 and 1974, the contender for ...
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Berlinale completes Competition with additions including Ozon's Angel
The line-up for the Berlinale's Competition has now been finalised with a total of 26 titles, including 19 world premieres, six international premieres and one European Premiere. Among the latest titles to be unveiled are the Argentine director Ariel Rotter's second feature The Other (El Otro) which deals with the ...
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Celtic Media nominees include The Flying Scotsman
The short list of nominees has been announced for the Celtic Media Festival 2007, which will be held in Skye from March 28-30. The event recognises work from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. The festival has 17 categories across film, radio and TV. Among the film nominees are feature-length ...
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Scalpel takes rights to Berlin-bound In Memory Of Myself
Pierre Menahem's Paris-based sales label Scalpel Films has picked up worldwide rights to Berlin competition title In Memory Of Myself (In Memoria Di Me), by Italy's Saverio Costanzo.Scalpel will also handle German title Hotel Very Welcome, by Sonja Heiss, at Perspective Deutsches Kino and Panorama title The Bubble, by Israel's ...
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Fox's Museum remains top in international with $14.4m gross
Night At The Museum continued to dominate the overseas arena as the family film added an estimated $14.4m from 3,400 screens in 35 markets through Fox International to raise the tally to $173.2m.The film scored the fifth biggest industry opening in Uruguay to take $38,000 from only 13 screens. It ...
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Grave Decisions and Four Minutes top Bavarian awards
Marcus H. Rosenmueller's Bavariancomedy Grave Decisions and Chris Kraus' prison drama Four Minutes werethe big winners at the weekend's Bavarian Film Awards in Munich. This year's top honour, the $260,000 (Euros200,000) Producers Award, went to Roxy Film, the producers of 2006'sbest film Grave Decisions, while feature debutant Rosenmueller - whosesecond ...
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French DVD sales saw 2006 slide
France's video publishers union (SEV) says piracy played a big role in the fall in sales of DVDs last year. Although no dollar values were given in the initial report on last year, the SEV says 2006 saw a drop in sales in DVD sales in France of roughly 7% ...
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Posner launches YaYa! Films in Spain
Enrique Posner, former general manager of Warner Bros in Spain, has set up new production outfit YaYa! Films with three feature films in the works. Posner is currently executive producing 3D animated feature The Missing Lynx, with Manuel Cristobal of Perro Verde Films and Granada-based Kandor Graphics. The $10.4m (Euros ...
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Eight major territories, led by Italy, show box-office increases this week
Eight major territories collectively saw box-office increases compared to the same week last year, due to the success of big-name studio films this week, according to Screen International's own Screen Index. Italy leads the increase - the territory was up 43% after The Pursuit Of Happyness grossed $4.7m in its ...
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam in numbers(2006 numbers in brackets)367,000 Visitors to the festival (358,000)2,940Festival guests (2,814)1,960International festival guests: 1,960 (1,788) 841CineMart guests (850) 495Journalists attending (476)390Attending film-makers (379) Award Winners VPRO Tiger AwardsLove Conquers All (Tan Chui Mui, Malaysian)The Unpolished (Die Unerzogenen) (Pia Marais, Germany)Bog Of Beasts (Baixio Das ...
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Spanish 2006 admissions drop 2.2% in 2006 but grosses rise
Spanish admissions dropped 2.2% last year, while a rise in ticket prices sent grosses up almost the same percentage. Admissions were down to 124m, while ticket sales were up to $839m (Euros 648m), according to figures from Nielsen EDI. 'The reality is that it was a 'good' year for Spain,' ...
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Filmax starts development of Blind Man Of Seville
Spain's Filmax is developing new feature The Blind Man Of Seville, a crime thriller based on the novel by award-winning UK writer Robert Wilson. A screenplay is currently being written by Will Conroy, co-writer on Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, a $15m train-set mystery now shooting for Filmax. A director will be ...
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French production falls in 2006 after 2005 boom
France's CNC has released initial production figures for the year 2006. In total, 203 films received the stamp of approval from the CNC - which is equal to 2004, though down from last year's exceptional crop of 240 films. Production investment stood at $1.49bn (Euros 1.15bn) compared to $1.66bn (Euros ...
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Local market is key toglobal success,Warner Bros' international chief
Any film aspiring to international successmust first conqueritshome market, says Richard Fox, executive vice president international atWarner Bros.Speaking at the Screen International-backed Media Summit in London, Fox said the studio had come to understand the importance of national markets to any distribution strategy. A 'one-size-fits-all' US production won't cut it ...
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Local market key toglobal success,says Warner Bros' international chief
Any film aspiring to international successmust first conqueritshome market, says Richard Fox, executive vice president international atWarner Bros.Speaking at the Screen International-backed Media Summit in London, Fox said the studio had come to understand the importance of national markets to any distribution strategy. A 'one-size-fits-all' US production won't cut it ...