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Korea's M&FC makes market debut with Sword Of Zen
Korean film and music company M&FC is making its debut as a seller at the AFM with a varied slate including Park Heung-sik's action epic A Sword Of Zen. Set during the Goryeo Dynasty, the film follows a female contract killer who is wracked with guilt after accidentally killing the ...
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Better Than Sex
Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky. Australia. 2000. 85 mins.Prod cos: Better Than Pty Ltd. Int'l sales: President Films (+33 1 4562 8222). Dist (Australia): Newvision Films Distributors. Producers: Bruna Papandrea, Frank Cox. Scr: Jonathan Teplitzky. DoP: Garry Phillips. Prod des: Tara Kamath. Ed: Shawn Seet. Music: David Hirschfelder. Main cast: David Wenham, ...
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Phat Phishteams up with Morgan for international push
Start-up Indian production company Phat Phish has brought on board veteran sales agent Kathy Morgan as a consultant in its aim to secure international distribution for a slate of independent Indian features. Morgan will be helping the company pre-sell some of its upcoming projects and will advise on finding a ...
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Editorial - It's a booty call
"It will never be harder than it is today to pirate a movie," a blogger told a film conference last year. It's one of those phrases that sticks in the mind. It was certainly intended as a warning but for him it was also a statement of the bleeding obvious.It's ...
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In focus - Will war films win in the gulf'
The Middle East is having its 'Vietnam moment', in celluloid terms at least: the slew of Iraq- and terrorism-themed films coming out of Hollywood is drawing comparisons with the rash of war pictures in the late 1970s.'In The Valley Of Elah, and others like it, are a reaction to 9/11 ...
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Brazil - Amazon green
Lionel Chouchan has launched many film festivals in his native France, including the Deauville Festival of American Cinema, the Festival International du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz (now based in Gerardmer) and the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac. But for the director of Paris-based communications agency Le Public Systeme none of ...
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Canada - Community service
Contemplating the conclusion of another successful edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff), Alan Franey, the festival's director since 1988, is a happy man.Once again, paid admissions to the 300-plus films screened - among them She's A Boy I Knew, winner of the Vancity People's Choice Award for Most ...
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Fresh heir: Director Jean-Marc Vallee and producer Graham King on the set of The Young Victoria
It is an unseasonably warm mid-October day at Blenheim Palace and under a cloudless blue sky in one of the courtyards of the Oxfordshire stately home, French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee prepares for his next shot. He is in the final week of the 10-week shoot of The Young Victoria, a ...
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United Kingdom - Shoot The Moon
David Sington has landed, so to speak. The 20-year veteran of the TV documentary world has generated great interest (not to mention high-profile deals) with his first theatrical documentary, In The Shadow Of The Moon.The film, about the Apollo space programme, won the World Cinema audience award at Sundance in ...
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Gerald McMorrow takes on parallel worlds in Franklyn
Franklyn proves to be a tricky film set to visit. The project, which wraps principal photography in mid-November, is not only hard to describe, it is hard to observe without learning so much that the plot twists are spoiled.Early reports had pegged Franklyn as a 'futuristic thriller' but first-time feature ...
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Awards Countdown - High class of 2007
A glut of English-language movies, probably caused by the flood of equity into the production market over the last two years, will make for an unusually competitive awards season this year.
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Awards Countdown BAFTA - BAFTA/LA - Star quality
'Evolution not revolution' is how Bafta/LA chairman Peter Morris describes the climate at Bafta's sister organisation in Los Angeles.Morris, a board member for four years, is presiding over his second term as chairman. Nobody acquainted with the personable Scotsman would deny that under his tenure Bafta/LA has further cemented its ...
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Awards Count Down BAFTA - A night at the opera
Bafta has become a master of reinvention. In just a few years, it has elevated the UK's prime awards show into a global attraction. Anyone looking for evidence of its importance as a bellwether for the Oscars should note that eight of this year's major winners went on to repeat ...
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Awards Countdown - Best Animated Feature - Year of the Rat
He made the beloved hand-drawn Iron Giant in 1999, he won the Academy Award for The Incredibles in 2004 and this year he delivered one of the best reviewed animated films in the last two decades with Ratatouille. He is probably the most exciting animation director at work today. But ...
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Piracy - Deep Impact
When Los Angeles-based independent film sales agent Barbara Mudge was in Russia recently trying to sell a film, she ran into a barrier that was starkly different from the usual distributors' objections about weak plots, lack of stars or price.'The man said: 'I can't buy your movie because it hasn't ...
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Piracy - 'Internet piracy is far and away our biggest threat'
The rise of internet file-sharing has opened a whole new front for piracy of all films - not least independents. The availability of films for download on the internet even before their initial theatrical release makes the prospect of profitable licensed distribution of independent films in some territories even more ...
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Piracy - Awards Piracy - Screeners: a calculated risk
When it comes to screeners, distributors are having to square the potential piracy risk with the benefits of getting their film in voters’ DVD players.
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International - Lissi animates the tills
Germany's animated adventure Lissi Und Der Wilde Kaiser was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $6.9m from 905 screens across three territories.The comedy, released through Constantin Film, opened to number four in the chart and enjoyed a $7,609 screen average - the fourth highest ...
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A strong rat run
Analysis: International box-office - Weekend October 26-28(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)Ratatouille (US)$22,611,0004,271$348,162,311292NewSaw IV (US)$12,413,1331,642$12,413,133153(2)Stardust (UK-US)$10,905,8102,789$60,551,073434NewLissi Und Der Wilde Kaiser (Ger)$6,885,826905$6,885,82635(31)Surf's Up (US)$4,344,9692,230$63,944,881356(5)The Orphanage (Sp)$4,022,917369$20,497,89617(3)Resident Evil: Extinction (US)$3,619,9972,087$56,554,424318NewLe Coeur Des Hommes 2 (Fr)$3,611,486535$3,611,48629NewCrows: Episode 0 (Jap)$3,479,025259$3,479,025110(16)The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (US)$3,150,1761,982$11,033,3193011(9)Going By The Book (S Kor)$3,014,715343$8,326,427112(4)Shadow Boxing 2 (Rus)$2,889,874646$10,151,290313(6)Rush Hour 3 ...
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Box office: data - The Critical view - Malick magic
It was the major coup of the second Rome Film Festival: Terrence Malick, the great recluse of US cinema, would be appearing on stage for one of the high-calibre 'conversations' about film. Malick is the JD Salinger of the film world: he's famous for not giving interviews (the last was ...