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Germany, Brazil sign co-production treaty
Germany and Brazil have signed a treaty to formalise theco-production of films between the two countries. Films co-produced by German and Brazilian companies under thetreaty will qualify as 'national films' and consequently have access toreciprocal benefits such as the German public funds as well as equivalentsources in Brazil.A co-production will ...
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Eastern European Acquisition Pool adds Slovenian partner.
Berlin-based Eastern European Acquisition Pool (EEAP) has expandedits influence in the Central and East European market with the Slovenian mediacompany Cinemania Group coming onboard as a new shareholder with a 26% stake.The agreement was signed by Cinemania's general manager SretenZivojinovic with EEAP's other shareholders, Berlin-based A Company Consulting& Licensing and ...
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Half A Confession tops 28th Japanese Academy Awards.
Half A Confession(Hanochi), Kiyoshi Sasabe'scourtroom drama about a man who confesses to murdering his wife, has been named2004 Best Picture at the 28th Japan Academy Awards. Based on a best-sellingnovel by Hideo Yokoyama, the film was also one of 2004's biggest domestic hits,grossing $18.1m (Y1.9 bn) for distributor Toei. Half ...
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Sixth Lanzarote Screenings attracts buyers from 20 countries
Fifty buyers from more than20 countries are expected to attend the sixth annual Spanish Film Screenings ofLanzarote (Feb 24-26).Newly dubbed the WinterScreenings - due to a move from lateNovember to February, Lanzarote offers buyers the opportunity to see more than30 new Spanish films from the last year.Three premieres will getgala ...
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NonStop makes host of acquisitions at Berlin
NonStop Entertainment hasannounced the following acquisitions at the recently closed Berlin FilmFestival.From Celluloid Dreams:The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which was awarded the Silver Bear for BestMusic at the Berlinale 2005. NonStop will distribute The Beat in Sweden,Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Me And You And EveryoneWe Know, the US ...
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De Laurentiis re-affirms Alexander project with DiCaprio and Kidman, to be directed by Luhrmann.
Dino De Laurentiis has announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to shoot his Alexander the Great project, which is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman and will be directed by Baz Luhrmann. "We will shoot the film in one year's time, and it will be the ...
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Atlas picks up Constantin's Harte Jungs
Germany's Atlas International has picked up worldwide sales rights to Constantin Film's latest German box office hit, Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs), directed by Marc Rothemund.The comedy, about a teenage boy's sexual awakening, is being unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival where it will be screened with English subtitles. ...
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Angola's Hero to open New Directors/New Films in NYC
Zeze Gamboa's Angola-Portugal-France civil war drama The Hero will open the upcoming 34th NewDirectors/New Films 2005 event, which is set to run in New York from Mar 23-Apr3.The picture recently won the inaugural world dramatic competitionat Sundance and takes its place among a varied line-up that includes otherSundance entries Junebug, ...
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ShoWest awards watch: Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston has been named ShoWest 2005 Female Star of the Year and will collect her award at the closing night ceremony on March 17.Aniston's upcoming roles include the romantic comedy Rumor Has It oppposite Kevin Costner, and the thriller Derailed opposite Clive Owen.Her previous credits include Bruce Almighty, Along ...
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Rank to exit British film industry
Rank, the UK leisure groupand former pillar of the British film industry, will reportedly announce itsexit from the film business this week when it unveils plans to de-merge filmservices division Deluxe Films and sell Deluxe Media.The group, which backed astring of films such as the Carry On comedy series, will ...
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HONG KONG 22 February
Pixar animation TheIncredibles was the undisputed winner over the Chinese New Year holidayperiod racking up US$1.9m from 54 screens in it second week for a cumulativegross of US$3.5m.Warner Bros' Constantinetook second place in the chart with US$1.5m from 38 screens in the week to Feb16 for a nine-day cumulative gross ...
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Fockers maintains int'l box office lead
DreamWorks International'scomedy sequel Meet The Fockers got the better of Warner Bros'supernatural thriller Constantine over the weekend to maintain itsstatus as the leading international picture, adding an estimated $27.5m throughUIP to raise the cumulative total to $152m.Opening highlights included$5.7m on 611 screens in Germany, $4.5m on 604 in France, $1.2m ...
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Spain's lazonafilms, Telespan back Serrano projects
Two young Spanish productioncompanies, lazonafilms and Telespan 2000, have joined forces to back twofeature films from hot writer-director David Serrano.The mastermind behind theenormously successful comedies The Other Side Of The Bed, which hescripted, and Football Days, which he wrote and directed, Serrano iscurrently at work on scripts with an eye ...
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Memoires Affectives shares Jutra riches with Cinemascope
MemoiresAffectives won four awards, including best picture,and Ma Vie En Cinemascope won five asQuebecois filmmaking celebrated its own at the Prix Jutra in Montreal on Sundaynight. Memoiresproducer Barbara Shrier accepted the Best Filmprize while director Francis Leclerc took Best Director, lead Roy Dupuis BestActor and Glenn Berman earned Best Editing. ...
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Films Distribution lives well with Live And Become
Radu Mihaileanu's LiveAnd Become (Vas Vis Et Deviens) which screened in Panorama was a bigseller for Films Distribution. The film, about Jews airlifted from Africa byIsrael, was sold to Golem for Spain, Seville for Canada, Cinestar for Austria,Telepool for Germany, Artfilm for Brazil, Cine TV Y Video for Mexico, Hopscotchfor ...
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GERMANY 22 February
Last weekend Germany's boxoffice received a welcome shakeup with the arrival of three new releases MeetThe Fockers, Constantine and the local family film Die Wilden Kerle 2- at the top of the chart, toppling the local animation feature Felix - EinHase Auf Weltreise which had itself pushed The Aviator off ...
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Sokurov plans 'free fantasy' version of Faust
Having tackled Hitler, Leninand Hirohito, Russian director Alexander Sokurov is to round off his four filmproject on "Men Of Power" with his own version of Faust. The new film, loosely basedon works by Goethe and Thomas Mann, promises to be in a very different registerto its dark and brooding predecessors, ...
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UPI to set up operations in Russia
Universal PicturesInternational (UPI) is taking its home entertainment operations into Russia, acountry widely seen as one of the major sources of video piracy.It has set up a wholly-ownedaffiliate covering Russia and the CIS that will handle all the titles that werepreviously distributed through licensees. The operation is headed bymanaging director ...
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Italian production start-up to shoot controversial erotic drama
Cameras will start rollingon March 7 on the controversial adaptation of an erotic diary written by a17-year-old Sicilian schoolgirl, which is being produced by Italian actressFrancesca Neri.The literary sensation,entitled Cento Colpi Di Spazzola Prima Di Andare A Dormire (literally,one hundred brushes before bed time), was written by a student known ...
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Korean film industry mourns Lee Eun-ju
South Korean actress LeeEun-ju was found dead in her apartment on Tuesday morning. She is believed to have committed suicide.Born in 1980, Lee starred innine feature films since her debut in 1999, including Virgin Stripped BareBy Her Bachelors (2000) by Hong Sang-soo, Bungee Jumping Of Their Own(2001), Lovers Concerto (2002), ...