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Matrix Revolutions gets off to storming start
The global day-and-date release of The Matrix Revolutions got off to a storming start yesterday (Nov 5), according to unofficial early estimates compiled by ScreenDaily.com.UK and Ireland estimates show the final instalment in the Wachowski Brothers' trilogy performing well ahead of the previous film The Matrix Reloaded, which opened in ...
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Russian director cranks up The American
Production got underway this week on acclaimed Russian director Alexei Balabanov's new film The American (Amerikanets).A week of filming in New York started on Monday (3 Nov, 2003) before the production uproots and moves to Siberia for a further month. The thriller is a co-production between Russia's CTB Film Company ...
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South Korean censors kill Bill's roll out plans
South Korea's Media Ratings Board has slapped an effective ban on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1, causing uproar among the film community and throwing local distributor CJ Entertainment's plans for a November 21 release into doubt.Cited by the board for its excessive violence and gore, the film was given ...
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American Beauty leads the pack in BAFTA nods
Once again, American Beauty has proved its modern classic status by leading the race for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs) which take place on April 9.Following its eight Academy Award nominations, the Dreamworks production received 14 BAFTA nominations in all the major categories, including best ...
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Nielsen boards Bier's Brothers
Connie Nielsen has boarded Susanne Bier's highly anticipated Brothers, which starts shooting on Monday Nov 10. The 38-year-old Danish actress, who has recently enjoyed a successful Hollywood career, had her breakthrough in Gladiator, and has appeared in One Hour Photo and The Hunted.Nielsen will play alongside Danish actors Ulrich Thomsen ...
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Soda takes Reconstruction for the UK
Hot newcomer Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction, which has picked up a slew of awards since winning the Camera D'Or and Label Regards Jeunes in Cannes, has been picked up for the UK by equally young outfit Soda Pictures. Reconstruction is the Danish candidate for the Academy Awards and recently secured the ...
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Arau wraps Mexican Zapata epic
Director Alfonso Arau has just wrapped an ambitious $10m biopic of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata - the most expensive Mexican film ever shot.It's been a long and tortuous effort for Arau to get the film off the ground. Arau - whose magic realism drama Like Water For Chocolate was a ...
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Increased film funding ahead for Slovenia, Bulgaria
Filmmakers in Slovenia and Bulgaria could benefit from increased funding for film and television production in the future according to new audiovisual legislation in preparation.Speaking at this year's Connecting Cottbus co-development market at the Cottbus Film Festival, Tanika Sajatovic, Head of Promotion and Sales at the Slovenian Film Fund, said ...
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Dutch DVD market on track for record year
DVD sales in The Netherlands' are expected to hit record of Euros 495m in 2003, surpassing revenues from music CD sales for the first time. The CD market will be worth Euros 340 million. The video-market, however, is collapsing, falling 59% in 2003 to 40 million Euro. The figures are ...
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Film financiers zero in on Belgium
International productions are zeroing in on Belgium, the latest European hotspot for tax-driven production finance.Movision, the UK tax fund, is thought to be the first overseas operation to set up a fund in Belgium since it launched tax shelter regulations that can provide up to 50% of a budget. Movision, ...
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FACT appoints UK operations director
UK anti-piracy body FACT has appointed of Jim Angell as director of operations.Angell has been acting director of operations since the departure of Spencer Mott in August 2003. He joined FACT in 2001 after a long career in the Metropolitan Police.A Director General post will be filled in early 2004.
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Homerun is a non-starter in Malaysia
Raintree Pictures' Homerun - which has picked up two nominations from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards this year - has been banned in Malaysia.The Chinese-language drama was nominated for best new performer for Megan Zheng as well as best original song - the lyrics of which are penned by director Jack ...
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Inheritance has windfall in Lubeck
Per Fly's Danish drama Inheritance was awarded the main NDR Promotion Prize of Euro12,500 at the 45th Nordic Film Days in Lubeck, the world's largest showcase of Nordic and Baltic cinema.Norwegian films dominated all other categories. The audience award from Lubecker Nachrichten went to Gunnar Vikene's feature debut Falling Sky, ...
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Osama wins London's Sutherland prize
Days after illegal immigrant dramas Dirty Pretty Things and In This World won at London's British Independent Film Awards, a film directed by an exile from Afghanistan has triumphed at the London film festival.Osama, billed as the first film from post-Taliban Afghanistan, won this year's prestigious Sutherland Trophy, which is ...
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Backroads
Dir: Shirley Cheechoo. US. 1999. 82 mins.Prod Co: Girl From The Backroads. Prods: Shirley Cheechoo, Phyllis Ellis, Christine K Walker. Exec prods: Henri Kessler, Ezra Swerdlow, David Pipers, Steve Gottlieb. Scr: Shirley Cheechoo. DoP: Jonathan Brown. Ed: Lee Percy. Main cast: Renae Morriseau, Sheila Tousey, Shirley Cheechoo, Greta Cheechoo, Maximilian ...
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European Film Award nominations announced
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2003. The winners will be announced during the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on Saturday, December 6. European Film 2003Dirty Pretty Things, UK, Dir: Stephen FrearsDogville, Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden/France/UK/Germany Dir: Lars von TrierGood Bye, Lenin!, Germany, Dir: Wolfgang BeckerIn This ...
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The Matrix Revolutions - Day 2
With official first day figures in and second day figures starting to be reported The Matrix Revolutions looks set to follow previous instalment Reloaded with international earnings out performing domestic revenues.Indeed, a $24.3m first day gross in North America, where it launched at 06:00 in Los Angeles and 09:00 in ...
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Irish tax authorities to chase Euros 17m
The Irish tax collection service, the Revenue Commissioners, has told a parliamentary committee that 6.4% of Section 481 tax relief over ten years had gone into non-compliant productions.The Irish Joint Parliamentary Committee on Finance spent nine hours yesterday (Nov 6) hearing presentations on the future of Section 481 tax relief ...
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Bradley is appointed FFC chair
The Australian Government has named Graham Bradley as the new chair of the Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) board, effective from January 1 next year.For the eight years to September last year he was chief executive of Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd, a publicly listed funds management and financial services group, ...
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Mambo Italiano becomes 2nd best Canadian performer
Canadian comedy Mambo Italiano has moved into second place among all-time Canadian box office performers, having earned $3.8m (C$5.1m) on release through Equinoxe Films. Its gross surpasses The Art Of War, which earned C$4.5m in 2000 but remains well short of top-placed Porkies, a 1981 release which earned C$11m. Produced ...