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Music For Weddings And Funerals to open Haugesund
The highly anticipated new drama from Unni Straume, Music For Weddings And Funerals (Musikk For Bryllup Og Begravelser), will be the opening film of this year's Norwegian film festival in Haugesund (Aug 18-25).Norwegian-born writer-director, Straume has lived in Italy since the early 1990s and is best known for her 1994 ...
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Sun Cybernetworks in Chinese distribution move
Rapidly expanding Hong Kong media group, Sun Television Cybernetworks Holdings, plans to acquire a 50% stake in mainland Chinese film producer and distributor Beida Huayi.Owned by Chinese producer Dong Ping, Beida Huayi was one of the minority investors in Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and held ...
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Bergman donates archives to new Foundation
The Swedish filmmaking legend Ingmar Bergman has donated his manuscripts, notebooks, plot summaries, sketches, photographs and behind-the-scenes films to the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) and the newly-established Ingmar Bergman Foundation. 'With his vast knowledge and commitment, nobody has made a greater contribution to the preservation of Sweden's film heritage than ...
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Italian producers told to get professional - or die
Italian producers should seek private financial partners - or risk extinction. That was the thunderous message delivered this weekend by Giampaolo Sodano, head of UNIDIM, Italy's national distributors' union at a conference near Rome. He revealed that more than 70% of Italian film companies have equity capital of less than ...
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Warner lines up Vanzina remake as second Italian pic
Warner Bros Pictures' has started production on its second Italian-language film, a sequel to 1970s cult movie La Febbre Del Cavallo starring Italy's Gigi Proietti, who also played the lead in the original comedy.The new picture, entitled La Febbre Del Cavallo - La Mandrakata is directed by popular filmmaker Carlo ...
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Blue Magic Pictures unveils five including new films from Rebecca Miller, Alejandro Springall,
New New York-based production outfit Blue Magic Pictures, which was formed at the beginning of the year by Lemore Syvan, has unveiled five new films including the next project from director Rebecca Miller and a co-production with Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson's Cosmic Entertainment.Syvan is partnered with senior ...
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Fox takes double top at UK box office
20th Century Fox scored double top at the UK box office this weekend with two films counter-programmed to draw in different audiences.Holding the top spot for the fourth week in succession, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones dropped off a mere 16% from the previous weekend, grossing ...
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Korean comedy scores during World Cup fever
Despite huge competition from the World Cup, South Korean comedy Bet On My Disco has scored triumphantly for new distributor A-Line, drawing over half a million admissions ($2.8m) in its first four days.Released on 160 prints nationwide, the film drew a robust screen average of $10,670 and looks set to ...
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Monica Bellucci to star in Muccino's Remember Me
Hot on the heels of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, Monica Bellucci is set to star in Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino's (The Last Kiss) upcoming movie, Remember Me (Ricordati Di Me).Local production outfit Fandango confirmed that Bellucci will star alongside popular Italian actors Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Hotel, Holy Tongue) and Laura Morante, who ...
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Norwegian hit Elling to get prequel and sequel
Following its latest triumph at Spain's Peniscola international comedy film festival, Norway's Maipo Film is preparing two further films based on the Elling franchise, now that the comedy has become one of the most successful Norwegian films ever.Theatre director Peter Naess' second big screen effort Elling became the biggest local ...
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Village Roadshow stock continues to tumble
Shares in Village Roadshow continued to dive following an announcement last Friday that it would suspend payment of its stock dividend.At the close of trading on Tuesday (June 11) the shares stood at A$1.17, down 32% compared with their A$1.72 prior to the announcement. In a statement the company said ...
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Czech arthouse flourishes during mainstream boom
With a boom in multiplex building and cinema admissions rising over the 10 million mark for the first time in half a decade, mainstream film is more popular than ever in the Czech Republic. And yet it is experimental film making that is grabbing most of the attention.Of all the ...
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Bac Majestic to seek $12.2m cash lifeline
Bac Majestic, arguably France's most admired distribution group, is to raise $12.3m (Euros13m) in a bid for survival.In a statement to the Paris stock-market yesterday, Bac revealed that it has teamed up with an unnamed "European investor" with a view to "rebuilding its equity capital". The company, which put out ...
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Italian directors team for Israeli-Palestinian conflict documentary
Eleven Italian filmmakers, including celebrated veterans Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli and Francesco Maselli are currently on location in Palestine shooting a documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The group of directors, from Italy's Cinema del Presente Foundation have visited parts of Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and are currently examining ...
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Russian films return to Moscow film festival
Three Russian titles feature in this year's Moscow International Film Festival competition line-up, after last year's total lack of any local films in competition at all. The Festival, which runs June 21-30, this week unveiled its competition programme of sixteen feature films including, Alexander Rogozhkin's Cuckoo, Roman Pregunov's Solitude Of ...
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8 Femmes, 8 1/2 open Bangkok film festival
The Bangkok International Film Festival (Nov 15 - 26) will open with a double bill of Federico Fellini's classic 8 1/2, followed by Francois Ozon's 8 Femmes - to introduce this year's theme of 'From Masters To Present'.The 11-day event expects to present 50 international features, including movies from South ...
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Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dir: Callie Khouri. US. 2002. 116 mins. With millions of loyal readers waiting eagerly to see their fictional heroines made real on screen, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, based on Rebecca Wells' 1996 international best-seller, is primed to become the must-see chick flick of the 2002 summer. Fans will ...
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Collapse of Germany's Kirch empire now complete
The collapse of German media mogul Leo Kirch's empire was sealed on Wednesday with the filing for insolvency of two more divisions of the KirchGroup Management holding TaurusHolding and the KirchBeteiligung unit which holds shareholdings in other companies such as Axel Springer Verlag and Formula 1, both sought protection from ...
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Spider-Man sets yet more international records
The release of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man set yet more records following a host of new openings.In Paris, the June 12 opening saw a massive 10,645 admissions from 27 prints for its first screening. This beat French film Asterix and Obelix : Mission Cleopatra (8,818 tickets sold from 28 screens ...
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India scraps $2m limit on bank financing for films
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has withdrawn the $2m ceiling on banks for film financing, opening the way for much-needed boost to industry investment.The RBI stated that banks should fix an overall exposure limit to the film industry and ensure that advances are distributed over a number of films ...