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Animation trio benefit from German funding
Three animation productions including the sequel to the animation box office hit Der Kleine Eisbaer (The Little Polar Bear) are among the projects backed by Filmstiftung NRW with over Euros 4.8m in its latest round of funding.New features by Wim Wenders, Petra Katherina Wagner and Hannes Stoehr have also received ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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AFM: HBO Asia signs five-picture deal with J&M
HBO Asia has licensed five pictures from London-based production and sales outfit J&M Entertainment, including House On Haunted Hill which was distributed in the US by HBO sister company Warner Bros.The other movies in the deal are The Guilty and History Is Made At Night, both starring Bill Pullman, Bruno, ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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SPC strikes licensing deals with Canadian distributors
Montreal-based Seville Pictures has taken all Canadian rights to Wolfgang Becker's international hit Good Bye, Lenin! and has acquired all French Canadian rights to Pedro Almodovar's upcoming Bad Education, currently in post-production. Both deals are through Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), which holds North American rights on the pictures. Meanwhile, Toronto-based ...
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BVI's treasure chest spills over with Pirates, Girls
Pirates Of The Caribbean stayed atop the international charts at the weekend despiteno major openings, adding $20m for a $270.5m running total.In its third weekend in Germany, the Buena VistaInternational (BVI) swashbuckler added $3.6m, dropping 42% for a $25.9cumulative score.Elsewhere, the UK dropped 23% and added $1.4m for $39.5m in ...
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Wellspring pins docu Oscar hope on Girlhood
US distributor Wellspring has acquired all worldwide rights excludingUS television to Liz Garbus' coming-of-age documentary Girlhood and will immediately begin to license thefilm internationally.The film charts the livesof two Maryland girls as they attempt to put their violent past behind them andwill begin its theatrical release in New York on ...
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Witkins launches new 'boy' video label
Doug Witkins' US gay and lesbian boutique distributorPicture This! Entertainment has launched It's All About The Boy, a new videolabel catering to stories with wider appeal.First up is Denis Langlois' acclaimed French-Canadian drama DannyIn The Sky, which willbe released on DVD and VHS on Nov 25.Newcomer Thierry Pepin stars as ...
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AFMA board undergoes international makeover
AFMA says its new board of directors is the most internationalyet, with eight of its members from companies headquartered outside the US.Yesterday, at the organisation's annual membershipmeeting, five executives were elected to the board for the first time.They are: Wouter Barendrecht from Fortissimo Sales(Netherlands/Hong Kong), TF1's Patrick Binet (France), Nicolas ...
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Melissa Gilbert re-elected president of SAG
Melissa Gilbert has been re-elected president of the US actors'union Screen Actors Guild (SAG) following a national poll that saw her romphome with 50% of the vote."It is an honour and a thrill to be re-elected," Gilbert said in astatement. "I said at the beginning of the campaign that I ...
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French directors embark on US educational programme
Seven illustrious Frenchdirectors are embarking upon a new US initiative entitled On Set With FrenchCinema in which they will give aspiring US film-makers a series of lectures ontheir professional experience.The series kicks off inLos Angeles on Oct 6 with Regis Wargnier, while the New York events will startwith Claude Miller ...
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Besson's Europa takes on Thai boxing drama
Luc Besson's Europa Corp has acquired a slew of territories, including North and South America and most of Europe, to Thai action title Ong-Bak - Muay Thai Warrior, starring hot new action hero Tony Jaa (aka Panom Yeerum). Directed by Prachya Pinkaew for Thai studio Sahamongkol Film International, the film ...
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UK's Warriors, Kid scoop Nymphs at Monte Carlo
UK productions dominated the mini-series category of the 40th Monte Carlo Television Festival (Feb 17-23) with the BBC's Warriors walking away with the top award and Channel Four's Kid In The Corner scooping three of the four remaining prizes.Peter Kosminky's Warriors - which focuses on a group of British UN ...
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AUSTRALIA
The very strong screen average of A$11,206 for the opening weekend of Columbia TriStar's Bad Boys II wasn't quite enough to push BVI's Pirates Of The Caribbean off the top of the mast. The Boys grossed A$3,059,117 and the Pirates grossed A$3,476,680, but it was only Pirates' second weekend and ...
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NORTH AMERICA
DreamWorks' latest Woody Allen title, Anything Else, flopped into 12th place on $1.7m. Dividing critics, the comedy which stars Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci was both the weakest and widest of DreamWorks' Allen releases suggesting that a marketing campaign that relied heavily on promoting Biggs and Ricci and downplaying Allen's ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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Grimm
Dir. Alex van Warmerdam. The Netherlands, 2003. 104mins.Looking both grim and Grimm (as in the Brothers), this modern nightmarish fairytale has nevertheless enough weird humour in it to legitimately qualify as a comedy, though there is nothing funny going on throughout. The way Dutch director Warmerdam applies his wicked touch ...
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Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran (Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Koran)
Dir. Francois Dupeyron. France, 2003. 94mins.Screened out of competition at Venice to celebrate Omar Sharif's Golden Lion, Francois Dupeyron's new film isn't the kind of stuff festivals dream of, and looks much better suited for commercial than art house distribution. Based on a short best-selling, auto-biographical novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ...