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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
The Robbery Of The Third Reich, Serbian buddy-comedy about two petty thieves trying to make it in WW2 Berlin has practically robbed the market. Its 55,178 admissions for the three-day weekend is the biggest opening since Zamfir's Zona in November 2002, the highest-ever grossing film in the territory.The two local ...
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Arthouse legends set for Cannes contention
A look down thelist of festival-friendly films likely to be ready for Cannes (12-23 May)suggests that Thierry Fremaux and his selection team have an embarrassment ofriches to pick from - and that Quentin Tarantino's jury will be weighingup the reputations of numerous art-house legends (see below for full list).At least ...
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ROMANIA
On a list heavily dominated by the releases of InterComFilm, The Last Samurai is still the name of the game, the Tom Cruise epic is nearing the impressive one hundred thousand admissions at the Romanian box office.Newcomers Paycheck and Big Fish opened decently on six and five screens, respectively. James ...
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Master looks to command Japanese market
Buena Vista International (BVI) has two major openings thisweekend, with the adventure picture Master And Commander: The Far Side OfThe World going out wide in Japan on Feb 28and Scary Movie 3 opening wide aday earlier in Germany.Japan is a notoriously difficult market to predict. However,a strong bow seems assured ...
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Cold Light (Kaldaljos)
Dir: Hilmar Oddsson. Ice-Ger-UK-Nor. 2004. 92mins.There must be a law in Iceland stipulating that local films should contain one or more of the following: a) a weird and lonely hero; b) an avalanche; c) cod fishermen vs the cruel sea; d) magical powers, especially the ability to predict the future. ...
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Crimson Rivers 2: The Angels Of The Apocalypse (Rivieres Pourpres 2: Les Anges De L'Apocalypse)
Dir: Olivier Dahan. Fr-UK-It. 2004. 100mins.No, he's not the real thing, courtesy of Mel Gibson, but France still has its own screen Jesus figure this week, courtesy of Crimson Rivers 2: The Angels Of The Apocalypse. Here, the apostles all get killed off while 'the Christ' himself (or rather a ...
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Making Love (Canone Inverso)
Prod co: Cecchi Gori. Domestic dist (It): Cecchi Gori. Int''l sales: Cecchi Gori (Farouk Alatan (+39 06 324721). Prod: Vittorio Cecchi Gori . Exec prod: Mario Cotone for Pacific Pictures. Scr: Graziano Diana, Simona Izzo, Ricky Tognazzi, from the book Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig. DoP: Fabio Cianchetti. Prod des: ...
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Italy faces film industry 'labour dispute'
Notwithstanding Italy's brand new cinema law, the Italian film industry is once again asking the government to urgently address a series of problems that are crippling the local film industry, including poorly distributed funds, and the lack of antitrust laws or financial incentives.During an emergency, self-described "labour dispute" held in ...
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Tartan, Arclight full of Grace with Killer
Tartan Films and ArclightFilms have teamed up with New York-based Killer Films to co-produce andco-finance the $12m Savage Grace,the first film from director Tom Kalin since his 1992 indie classic Swoon, which will star Julianne Moore.The film is currently inpre-production, and is scheduled to start shooting in July in the ...
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DEJ acquires domestic rights to Employee Of The Month
DEJ Prods, the acquisitionand distribution arm of Blockbuster Entertainment, has bought domestic rightsto Employee Of The Month, Bull's Eye Entertainment's heist comedy starring MattDillon, Christina Applegate and Steve Zahn.Directed by Mitch Rouse andproduced by Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari and Tom Nunan of Bull's Eye, the filmworld premiered at this year's ...
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Hanway enters Land Of Plenty
Hanway Films has picked uprights outside North America and the UK to Wim Wenders' Land Of Plenty, the low-budget film he made for digital filmmakingcollective InDigEnt.The movie, which is currently inpost-production, stars Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek, The StationAgent) and John Diehl. The story, which takes placein post-9/11 America, tells the ...
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Buyers sink teeth into Open Water
Lions Gate Films Internationalhas sold key territories on Chris Kentis' low-budget shark thriller OpenWater, which it acquired from PlungePictures at Sundance and Lions Gate Releasing plans to release domesticallythis summer.All rights to the picture havegone to Universum Film in Germany, Movie Eye Entertainment and Presidio inJapan, and Gussi in a ...
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Lost In Translation in healthy Spirits
FocusFeatures' Lost In Translation emerged as the key winner at the IFP Independent Spirit Awardson Saturday, winning awards for best feature, best director, best male lead forBill Murray and best original screenplay.A jubilant SofiaCoppola accepted three of those awards.Oscar favouriteCharlize Theron took home the female lead prize for Monster and ...
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US channel opens up for Asian films
The chances of Asian films getting North Americandistribution are set to increase with the launch later this year ofImaginasianTV, one of the US' first dedicated Asian entertainmentchannels.The company was set up last year at the initiative ofMichael Hong, a former Spelling Television and Paramount executive. Backed by aconsortium of asset ...
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Japanese arthouse market consolidates
Japanese productionand distribution group Artist House has acquired Cinema Parisien, themicro-distributor that has specialised in French and other foreign-languagefilms in Japan.Artist House, whichoperates the Artist Film distribution company, says the deal is a horizontalexpansion that will complement its video distribution strengths.Its 2004 video slateincludes art-house titles including 21 Grams, Lost ...
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AFM: Fortissimo backs rising art-house stars
Fortissimo Films hasgreenlit investments in upcoming productions by rising art-house directorsPierre Paul Renders and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.Belgium's Renders,who previously made Venice 2001 film Thomas In Love, is to direct Mr Average, a French-language satirical romantic comedy thatshoots later this year.The producers are innegotiation with a major French star for the role ...
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Top international buyers hold Grudge
Senator International has soldout Ghost House Pictures' The Grudge,a remake of the hit Japanese horror thriller Ju-On, in all major territories following deals with UIPfor the UK, Constantin for Germany, Metropolitan for France and VillageRoadshow for Australia.The project began shooting inTokyo in January and is being directed by Takashi Shimizu, ...
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Railroad Man sweeps Japan Academy Awards
Railroad Man, a comeback film for Japanese screen legend Ken Takakura which cleaned up at the Japanese box office last year, swept all major prizes at the 1999 Japan Academy Awards. In addition to selecting the film as best picture and veteran Yasuo Furuhata as best director, Academy voters named ...
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AFM: Tartan Films in horror double bill
The UK's Tartan Films has picked up The Park, the 3D horror film by Hong Kong director AndrewLau, better known for co-directing the sensational Infernal Affairs police trio with Alan Mak.Tartan has also picked up TheLast Horror Movie, the third feature fromWelsh director Julian Richards who shot the thrillers Silent ...