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Naked Weapon
Dirs: Tony Ching, Siu Tung. Hong Kong. 2002. 92mins.It has been exactly 10 years since Naked Killer's man-killing vixens attained cult status, a decade in which Hong Kong cinema has seen more than its share of ups and downs, mostly downs. Producer-writer Wong Jing's much-awaited English-language follow-up demonstrates that the ...
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Soft Money - The Netherlands
The NetherlandsThere is still money to be had by canny international producers, but new government restrictions have taken the sheen off The Netherlands as a hub for tax-sheltered productions. Patrick Frater reportsThe Netherlands has been one of the world's hot locations for film producers. In the space of just a ...
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Polly opens top in Brazil for Universal
Universal's Along Came Polly opened top in Brazil through UIP at the weekend on anestimated $300,000 from 144 sites. The romantic comedy has grossed $8.2m fromAustralia, Brazil, Portugal, Singapore and Thailand and has a further 45countries to open.Focus Features' drama LostIn Translation held fast in Spain in itssecond week for ...
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Translation, Splendor take top screenplay prizes from WGA
Sofia Coppola won best original screenplay for Lost InTranslation and ShariSpringer Berman and Robert Pulcini took adapted honours for AmericanSplendor in the 56thAnnual Writers Guild Awards at the weekend.Saturday's (21) galaceremonies were split between the body's West and East divisions in Los Angelesand New York.Coppola won thebest screenplay Golden Globe ...
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Samurai soars with new grand total of $310m for Warner
Warner Bros' The Last Samurai added an estimated $8.4m with 1.4madmissions from 3,361 screens in 57 territories at the weekend for a $310.6minternational running total.This makes the Japan-set epic the third biggest R-rated picture ofall time, the second biggest Tom Cruise title ever behind Mission Impossible2 and fourth in theWarner ...
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Czech Television renews production vows
State broadcaster Czech Television (CTV) has confirmed that it will continue in its role as the Czech Republic''s biggest backer of local features, despite management changes and political disputes that have recently rocked the channel. "We will remain a major producer of Czech films," said Denisa Strbova, head of CTV ...
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Depp is surprise SAG winner for Pirates
In a surprise turn attonight's Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, Johnny Depp won the prizefor best film actor for his comic performance in Pirates Of The Caribbean:The Curse Of The Black Pearl,defeating frontrunners Bill Murray and Sean Penn.The upset adds an element ofintrigue to next Sunday's Academy Awards ...
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Tykwer's Perfume noses its way to Summit
Patrick Wachsberger's salespowerhouse Summit Entertainment has lined up a slate of five high profile newpictures for buyers at AFM headed by Tom Tykwer's film adapatation of PatrickSuskind's bestselling 1985 German novel Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer.Summit is selling allinternational rights to the English-language movie which is being produced byBernd ...
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MPAA hails court order blocking DVD copying software from 321
Motion Picture Associationof America (MPAA) chief Jack Valenti has hailed a court order blocking UScompany 321 Studios from making, distributing or selling its DVD-copyingsoftware.The Burbank-based MPAA, aninfluential congressional lobbyist that represents the global interests of theUS majors and other affiliates, sought legal action in keeping with itspro-copyright philosophy.Judge Susan Illston ...
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Grosvenor Films turns to EIS scheme for Messages
Grosvenor Films, a new UK production company, aims to raise up to £2m through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), a tax-based funding mechanism unaffected by this month's clamp down.The cash raised is to finance supernatural thriller Messages, which is scheduled to begin shooting this year at Ealing Studios. Grosvenor Films ...
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Cannes firms up closing weekend changes
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its schedule for the closing weekend of May 22 and 23.As previously reported, the awards ceremony will be moved from its traditional slot on Sunday to Saturday evening.Following the prizes, a premiere screening will be held although it is not yet known what the ...
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Diagonale festival unveils Austrian premeries
Pjer Zalica's Silver Leopard-winner Fuse (Gori Vatra), the documentaries Virtual Borders by Manu Luksch, Accordion Tribe by Stefan Schwietert, Fucking Freedom by Chris Krikellis and the avantgarde film WAR by Thomas Steiner are among 66 Austrian premieres at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema in Graz which will ...
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Bollywood specialist Eros joins UK distributor body
Eros Group, which specialises in distributing Bollywood films in the UK, is to become a member of UK trade body the Film Distributors' Association on March 1It will be the first Bollywood distributor ever to join the FDA.Established in the 1970s, Eros has library of approximately 1,500 titles, and ...
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UK government lambasts 'abusive' film financing schemes
Facing a PR backlash over its changes to tax rules this month, the UK government has sought to justify the move by saying that financiers were drawing up "abusive" schemes "at the expense of honest taxpayers."Although the threatened collapse of major productions such as The Libertine, Man To Man and ...
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Spain's Manga sues Miramax over Kill Bill
Spanish distributor Manga Films has filed a suit against Miramax in a Barcelona court claiming non-completion of a distribution agreement for Quentin Tarantino's two-volume Kill Bill.According to Manga president Luis de Val, the two companies signed an agreement last November for theatrical and video/DVD rights in Spain on both volumes ...
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Kal Ho Na Ho dances off with eight Indian Oscars
Nikhil Advani's debut film Kal Ho Na Ho has emerged as the main winner at India's Oscar equivalent, the 49th Filmfare awards.The film, which was screened in the International Forum of New Cinema section at this month's Berlin Film Festival, won eight awards including best actress for Preity Zinta, best ...
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Thomas The Tank Engine movie racks up sales
With a head of steam at the AFM, family film Thomas And The Magic Railroad has been sold by Kathy Morgan International to a raft of territories including Germany where it has been picked up by Telemunchen.Other sales include South Africa (New Metro), Portugal (Eco Filmes) and the Middle East ...
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EasyCinema drafts in veteran exhibitor as CEO
Exhibition veteran Charles Wesoky has been appointed chief executive of no-frills UK exhibitor EasyCinema.Wesoky's appointment is part of a move by EasyCinema to win over film distributors, many of which have cold-shouldered the exhibitor by refusing to supply it with first run films.Wesoky was chairman and CEO of London-based EuroPlex ...
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...as Isle Of Man Film steps in to rescue The Libertine
The Libertine, one of the high-profile productions caught up in the UK's tax financing crisis, has secured replacement funding through a deal with Isle of Man Film.The Isle of Man typically provides around 25% of the budget as a direct equity investment, which would plug most of the 35% gap ...