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Local films help buck doward admissions trend
With cinema attendance down in the three leading European territories for the first quarter of 2003 (Screendaily.com April 7) and figures showing that Belgium and Switzerland have followed suit, some of the smaller European territories are defiantly bucking the trend.Where local product like Chouchou and Good Bye, Lenin! has been ...
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A Big Girl Like You (Une Grande Fille Comme Toi)
Dir: Christophe Blanc. France. 2003. 91mins.This insider study of a mixed-up adolescent girl identifies so utterly with its main character that it risks appearing as stroppy and directionless as she is. But in the end there is something mesmeric about the camera's obsession with the face of first-time, pulled-off-the-street actress ...
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Hong Kong gets film financing and production guide
The Hong Kong film industry has taken another step towards building a professional film financing infrastructure with the release of a legal documentation guide, sponsored by the Hong Kong government's Film Development Fund.The "Legal Documentation Guide on Film Financing and Production" was drawn up a Hong Kong law firm, Fong ...
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iCraveTV close to settlement with studios
Canada's iCraveTV, the web-site that has raised the ire of the US and local entertainment industries, is understood to be close to reaching a settlement with its powerhouse adversaries. The site had been web-casting feeds from US and Canadian channels without permission; but was forced to cease web-casts last Friday ...
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Constantin prepares big-budget Hitler feature
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger (pictured) is producing a film on the last days of Adolf Hitler with director Oliver Hirschbiegl in his first feature outing since the award-winning Das Experiment.The screenplay for Der Untergang - Hitler Und Das Ende Des 3. Reichs (The Downfall - Hitler And The End Of ...
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Polish producer hopes for new blockbuster with Old Tale
While the Polish film industry is still waiting for promised funding from new minister of culture Waldemar Dabrowski to revive the stalled industry, some producers are still managing to make films. Director Jerzy Hoffman who ushered in the era of the Polish blockbuster in 1999 with With Fire And ...
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CS Leigh's Process hopeful for a Cannes slot
Recently having completed shooting in Paris, CS Leigh's Process is currently being prepped for a possible Cannes slot. The film is a somewhat existential look at a woman's trajectory towards suicide. Starring Guillaume Depardieu and Beatrice Dalle, Process is an almost entirely silent film.Mark Westaway and Humbert Balsan are producing ...
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21 young European producers selected for Cannes showcase
Germany's Jakob Claussen (Distant Lights, Anatomie), the Czech Republic's Pavel Strnad (Year Of The Devil) and Antonio Saura (Semana Santa) are among 21 young European producers selected by the member organisations of the pan-European promotion body European Film Promotion (EFP) to take part in the "Producers On The Move" showcase ...
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Austria mulls Luxembourg-style tax scheme
Austria's federal government has been urged to adopt Luxembourg's Audiovisual Investment Certificate Programme in a reform of national film policy to introduce tax incentives for private investment in film production.Luxembourg's tax scheme has been held up as an example to emulate by Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vienna's city councillor for arts, as ...
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Gurinder Chadha finds her leading man
Pathe UK's white-hot Bollywood musical version of Pride And Prejudice has finally found its Darcy.Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has cast rising New Zealand star Martin Henderson (pictured), who played opposite Naomi Watts in The Ring, to appear alongside Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai.Pathe is likely to fly Henderson ...
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Miami Lesbian & Gay Fest showcases best of queer international cinema
Mark Rucker'sSundance competition entry Die Mommie Die has been named the opening night film of the fifth annualMiami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival which takes place from April 25 to May 4.Richard Day's GirlsWill Be Girls, whichalso played in the Sundance Film Festival, will the centerpiece gala screening,while Brad Fraser's ...
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Lorie, Vasquez get promotions in international publicity at New Line
New Line Cinemahas promoted Tracy Lorie to senior vice president, international publicity, andTrish Vasquez to director, international publicity, at the company. Inaddition, Kristi Foreman has joined the international publicity team asmanager, international publicity.The promotions come in thewake of New Line's biggest ever year in international markets with a gross ofover ...
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Cannes Market adds shorts programme, video library, digital facilities
The CannesMarket has introduced three new initiatives for this year's event being heldconcurrent with the film festival May 14 to 24.- A videolibrary will be launched for buyers to view recent films on VHS and DVD to beopen from 9am to 10pm. Located in the Palais des Festivals, level 01, ...
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Neal Block leaves IDP for theatrical distribution at Palm
Neal Block hasjoined Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures as manager of theatrical distribution toserve the company's newly busy domestic theatrical department.Block will beresponsible for all theatrical sales and exhibitor relations for upcoming Palmreleases. Reporting directly to Ryan Werner, head of theatrical distribution,he will also work with the film team on an ...
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Sweden's Mother, Knockout share Goteborg prize
Lars Lennart Forsberg's My Mother Had 14 Children and Agneta Fagerstrom-Olsson's Knockout shared the Goteborg-Posten Nordic Competition Award at this year's Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 28-Feb 6).The directors of the two Swedish films were awarded SEK50,000 each. Knockout also won the Kodak NordicVision award - also worth SEK50,000 - for ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! - Hello Lolas!
Wolfgang Becker's box-office triumph Good Bye, Lenin!, which is now approaching 5 million admissions (Euros 28.4m), received six nominations for Germany's Oscars, the Lolas - for Best Film, Best Direction and in four acting categories.Meanwhile, Zueli Aladag's Elefantenherz and Eoin Moore's Pigs Will Fly both received nominations in three categories ...
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Anger Management is career best opening for Sandler
The first quarter of 2003 has seen several strong comedy openingsand the baton passed to Columbia/Revolution's Anger Management over the weekend, which opened numberone on $44.5m - the highest bow of the year so far.The combination of ShoWest Male Star of the Year recipient AdamSandler and this year's Oscar nominee ...
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Anger Management is career best opening for Sandler
The first quarter of 2003 has seen several strong comedy openingsand the baton passed to Columbia/Revolution's Anger Management over the weekend, which opened numberone on $44.5m - the highest bow of the year so far.The combination of ShoWest Male Star of the Year recipient AdamSandler and this year's Oscar nominee ...
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Fat Pizza
Dir: Paul Fenech. Australia. 2003. 97mins.If there was an international festival for the grossest, most politically incorrect films of 2003, Fat Pizza would definitely be Australia's submission, and short-priced favourite for top honours. A spin-off from two seasons of a cult sitcom on SBS, Australia's multi-cultural television channel, and a ...
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Impressive opening for gross-out Australian comedy
The politically incorrect Australian comedy Fat Pizza grossed $702,000 from 101 screens over its opening weekend, putting it in second place in the national chart and giving it the best screen average of the top 20.A highly impressive result for distributor Roadshow, Fat Pizza is the micro-budget big screen version ...