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Parents holds off Bedazzled, Pay It Forward
Neither 20th Century Fox's comedy Bedazzled nor Warner Bros' Pay It Forward could unseat Universal's Meet The Parents from the top slot at the domestic box office. The popular Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro fell just 23% in its third weekend to take $16.3m and bring its total to $81m - ...
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Greece - In search of Eden
It was the subject matter of Eden Is West that lured Costa Gavras back to Greece. A drama about the impact of illegal immigration on Western Europe, the film is a road movie of sorts, starring Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio."Shooting in Greece seemed appropriate," says Gavras from his set in ...
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France - The film Fan-ancier
In April 2008, Yann Le Quellec was named managing director of Continental Entertainment Capital's (CEC) European operation based in Paris. A former banker with JP Morgan, Le Quellec is no stranger to the film industry, nor to CEC.As head of EWB Finance, an affiliate of Wild Bunch, Le Quellec was ...
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Profile: Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures
If producers look for the quickest way to expand their businesses, the usual first step is to move into sales.But Chris Coen, who has produced Wristcutters: A Love Story, Deepwater and Michael Haneke's recent US remake of Funny Games, has taken a different sideways step, into distribution.His London-based Halcyon Pictures ...
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Independent launches digital unit
UK sales and production outfit Independent has launched a digital distribution and marketing arm - Independent Digital.The new venture will run alongside CEO Luc Roeg's existing business to explore new-media opportunities.Eric Stevens will lead the unit, which is financed by the Living Capital Group.The initial aim is to exploit the ...
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Festival preview: Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema
Now the Indian film industry is making more noise on the world stage, its film festivals are also starting to attract a more international crowd. One of the best known outside India is Mumbai-based Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema, which this year takes place July 10-20 in ...
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Karlovy Vary - Bohemian Rhapsodies
This month's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12) in the Czech Republic boasts a diverse line-up of more than 200 local and international films.The diversity is most evident in the main competition where titles battling for the Crystal Globe include the world premieres of Michaela Pavlatova's Czech drama Night ...
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Buzz Films - Sneak preview
Night Owls (Czech Rep)Dir: Michaela PavlatovaPavlatova is one of the Czech Republic's best-known animation directors, winning an Oscar nomination and prizes at Berlin, Cottbus and Montreal for her short films. Night Owls - her second live-action feature - is a drama about a young girl working in a 24-hour convenience ...
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Production - Czech Republic - Prague gets a reality Czech
What Prague needs, as everyone knows, is a tax incentive," says Mark Johnson of Gran Via Productions, the US producer of the first two Chronicles Of Narnia films. "Outside of London, it's one of the only places in Europe that could handle a movie like Narnia. But now it is ...
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International - Japanese romcom flies
Japanese romantic comedy Boys Over Flowers: Final was the highest non-US entry in this weekend's chart, generating $9.5m in its home territory.Toho released the film, based on characters from the original shojo manga (girl's comic), on 400 screens in Japan, and it earned a very strong $23,686 screen average - ...
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Cinema Expo - 3D cinema in depth
The big topic at this year's Cinema Expo was 3D cinema. As studios have started to throw their weight behind three-dimensional films, European exhibitors were encouraged to pick up the pace of 3D installation in cinemas in order to "save" the cinematic world.Around a dozen 3D films are scheduled for ...
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Good Machine plays hard to get
Good Machine is once again being courted by several corporate suitors interested in marrying up with the decade-old New York production and sales operation that is currently enjoying its most successful year yet. So far, however, Good Machine's three partners are resisting that final walk down the wedding aisle. "There ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with De Niro lined up for Crystal Globe
Robert De Niro will this evening receive a Crystal Globe forOutstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 43rd Karlovy Vary InternationalFilm Festival, which opens today.The actor will be on hand for the opening screening of his latest film, What Just Happened'Before the festival, De Niro told the local daily Hospodarske ...
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BritDoc UK competition includes Man On Wire, Starstruck
BritDoc, the Oxford-based documentary festival now hosting its third-annual event, has announced this year's competition films.The British Competition will include:Blood Trail - dir. Richard Parry A young war photographer ventures to Sarajevo in 1993 and tries to make a name for himself. Chosen - dir. Brian Woods Middle class men ...
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European Commission firms up plans for global film cooperation
The details of how a global film cooperation programme might work have become clearer following a recent public hearing on the international film industry in Brussels.The hearing is the latest step in a series of public consultations and studies that will help define the new MEDIA MUNDUS programme and offered ...
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Metrodome promotes Sara Frain to General Manager of Distribution
Metrodome Group has promoted Sara Frain is to be promoted from General Manager - Theatrical & Broadcast to the newly created position of General Manager of Distribution.This move follows the departure of the current General Manager of Home Entertainment Tom Stewart who will be leaving the company at the end ...
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New Polish partners board Agnieszka Holland's 15.7m War My Love!
Polish Television and Polish Telecommunications have boarded SPI Film Studio's upcoming production War My Love!, directed by Agnieszka Holland.The project was pitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings as Christine, a drama based on the life of Krystyna Skarbek, a woman Winston Churchill described as the most outstanding British spy of ...
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Alliance Films reverses Globe and Mail screening ban
Distributor Alliance Films has reversed its decision to ban critics from the Globe and Mail newspaper at its preview screenings.The Toronto-based distributor had told the paper its reviewers were no longer welcome following a negative review and a negative column of Sex And The City as well as a front-page ...
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Beeban Kidron joins UK Film Council board
Director Beeban Kidron has joined the UK Film Council's Board of Directors.The appointment was made by Margaret Hodge MP, Minister for Culture, today. Kidron will serve on the board for four years until 1 July 2012.Kidron is currently in post-production on her next film, Hippie Hippie Shake, for Working Title. ...
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Karlovy Vary and Locarno premieres unveiled at Previews in Cologne
World premieres at this week's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Locarno's forthcoming Piazza Grande open-air programme are among 23 films being presented at the German Films Previews in Cologne from July 10-13.Tom Schreiber's Dr Aleman, which has been invited to Karlovy Vary's international competition, will have its market premiere ...