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UK's per-screen revenue points to cinema growth potential
UK revenue per screen is the best in the world but there is still room for admissions growth.Speaking at the UK Cinemas Conference in London last week, leading industry consultant Simon Rumbold dismissed claims that the exhibition market in the UK was over-screened and on the verge of a meltdown. ...
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Hong Kong distributor moves into production finance
Hong Kong distributor Panorama Entertainment has unveiled plans to co-finance up to five Chinese-language movies this year, starting with comedy-drama Ho Qing (Erotica), a co-production with China Star Entertainment. The $2.5m film, which started shooting today (March 24) in Hong Kong, stars Louis Koo and Eason Chan as a pair ...
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Foreign-language Oscar contenders could be the biggest winners
Recognition for this year's best foreign-language Oscar contenders will help increase market share for indigenous films and boost government support for local industries. That, at least, was the hope expressed by makers of three of the nominated foreign-language films at a packed public symposium in Los Angeles on the eve ...
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The Quiet American wins at Valenciennes
France's Valenciennes Action and Adventure Film Festival handed its top prize to Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American on Sunday night. Noyce, who has been enjoying critical praise for his efforts on last year's Rabbit Proof Fence and The Quiet American, also took the best director statue for the film based ...
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Austrian, Slovenian industries get together at Diagonale fest
Austrian filmmakers will meet their counterparts from neighbouring Slovenia for the first time, at an industry get-together on March 28 during the Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema, which started yesterday.While representatives from the Austrian Film Instiute (OFI), Slovenian Film Fund and broadcasters ORF and RTV-Slovenija will discuss the ...
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Asian Pictures Int'l announces first Bollywood projects
London-based Asian Pictures International has announced its first Bollywood productions.Producer Sevy Ali told Screendaily.com, "the trend in Bollywood is to make international quality co-productions and we are already working with Troika Productions of Mumbai for our first two films". The first film, titled White Noise is to be directed by ...
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Mehta's Water off again following suicide attempt
Production on Deepa Mehta's Water has been halted again in the Indian city of Varanasi following a suicide attempt and further protests by local government. The controversial film, the third instalment in Mehta's Fire, Earth and Water trilogy, resumed filming last Thursday after India's federal government over-ruled protests by local ...
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MIP-TV celebrates muted 40th anniversary
MIP-TV, the television programmes market, celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday with Champagne and a towering cake in front of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. But inside the Palais and the new Riviera complex the market was wearing a very gap-toothed smile. Corridor traffic was down on previous events and ...
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Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group sets out its stall
The changing face of Chinese media is one that looks increasingly familiar to Western eyes. But it will be some time before it is one that is fully open to outside investors.That was the message yesterday from Li Ruigang, the youthful president and CEO of the newly amalgamated Shanghai Media ...
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Warner deal helps TPS' share of kids market
TPS, the French satellite broadcaster controlled by TF1, yesterday launched three new children's channels.TPS spokesman, Guillaume de Posch said that it had planned to launch two channels under its own steam, but that the recent output deal with Warner Bros. (see Screendaily) permitted it to launch a third, effectively allowing ...
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TV-Loonland goes for Pettson & Findus hat-trick
TV-Loonland, the German TV outfit that controls UK theatrical distributor Metrodome, is ramping up production of the third film in its successful Pettson & Findus children's franchise.The animated film, which goes into production in the next three months, is set to be directed by Torbjorn Janssen, who has co-written the ...
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Fox pulls in $11.3m over the weekend with Daredevil
Fox's Daredevil grossed $11.3m over the weekend, setting a couple ofrecords along the way and raising its international cumulative score to $36.3m.Leading off a raft of mostlynumber one openings, the comic book adaptation grossed $1.9m on 304 screens inAustralia for the second biggest industry March opening ever. It took $2.8m ...
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BVI opens The Recruit at number one in Spain
Buena Vista International's TheRecruit grossed $3m at theinternational box office over the weekend for a $6.5m international runningtotal.Opening number one in Spain,the spy thriller grossed $1m on 229 screens. Opening in China, ittook $400,000 on 180 screens and was the top grossing US picture of theweekend. The Mexican bow yielded ...
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Harry passes $600m for Warner, local hits flourish
Warner Bros' Harry PotterAnd The Chamber Of Secrets hasbecome only the third picture in history to pass $600m at the international boxoffice.The family sequel, based onJ K Rowling's best-selling book series, has conjured up an estimated $604m. Thetwo biggest international pictures are Titanic ($1.2bn, Fox 1997) and Harry Potter And ...
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Dans Ma Peau gets into the US via Wellspring
New York-based independentWellspring has acquired US rights to Dans Ma Peau, the controversial directorial debut of Marina deVan which world premiered at last year's San Sebastian Film Festival.De Van, who co-wrote 8Women and Under The Sand with Francois Ozon and starred in his films Sitcom and See The Sea, also ...
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DVD market overtaking VHS
Representing more than 50% of total European video sales, 2002's European DVD sales are estimated to be 20% ahead of 2001 at some Euros 11bn, according to the International Video Federation.In addition, the number of DVD players doubled last year, going from 13.5 million in 2001 to approximately 28 million ...
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Reviews
Yossi And Jagger
Dir Eytan Fox. Israel. 64mins.Just a sketch, but highly perceptive and remarkably sensitive one at that, this compact gay love story, set in a remote Israeli military outpost on the Lebanese border, has already gone down a storm at home. Produced for cable television, shot in DV and first unveiled ...
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Primedia restructure separates content, delivery
South African media group Primedia has announced the completion of a major 18-month restructuring programme that included the creation of two new divisions to separate content and delivery.Ferdi Gazendam, a former director of South African television hire company Teljoy, will head Primedia's newly created Media division, which includes the Ster-Kinekor ...
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Silverscreen Films launches in New Zealand
Sydney-based producer Don Reynolds, who made a raft of New Zealand films in the 1980s, has created Silverscreen Films, a feature film and television production company with Geoff Dixon, a giant of the New Zealand commercials production scene. Already on the company slate is Spooked, which Reynolds and Dixon hope ...
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Two novel adaptations to launch Arclight's Australian production slate
A literary adaptation looks certain to kick off Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films' career as a producer of Australian films but which one is the question. Arclight has announced it has started selling distribution rights to the schoolgirl teen comedy Hating Alison Ashley, from the children's classic of the same ...