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Golden Flower has record-breaking opening...
Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower grossed$12.3m (RMB96m) on its four-day opening weekend in mainland China, breaking the record for the opening of a domesticfilm. The film opened on Thursday,Dec 14 on 826 prints, jointly distributed by Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ChinaFilm Group and Beijing New Picture Films.The number ...
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Skillset and Film London launch bursary scheme
UK agencies Skillset and Film London have launched a bursary scheme providing up to 80% of the cost of short course training for film professional.The initiative covers training in business, technical and craft skills as well as related issues like health and safety.The bursaries are funded by Skillset's Film Skills ...
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AFC continues support for low-budget pictures
Two low-budget thrillers, Cactus and Cedar Boys, have received production funding from the AustralianFilm Commission (AFC), while a third film, TheBullet Boy, was promised money for post-production.Writer/director JasmineYuen-Carrucan, producer Paul Sullivan and executive producer Bryan Brown, whois best known internationally as an actor, are behind Cactus. The film tells the ...
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Golden Flower triggers dispute in mainland China
Chinese distributor Beijing PolybonaFilm Distribution has issued an open letter accusing the local distributors of Curse Of The Golden Flower ofmonopolising China's digital cinema chains. The company claims that analleged exclusive screening agreement to screen Golden Flower for one month has blocked other domestic films frombeing released on the country's ...
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Senator acquires Weinstein films for Germany
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has acquired a package of six films from The Weinstein Company, including the latest films by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.'I am awfully pleased that we can release these films in the cinemas for Dimension in Germany,' commented Marco Weber, Senator's board member responsible for production ...
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Miss Potter
Dir: Chris Noonan. UK-US. 2006. 93mins.A period feature about a popular children's writer enduring a traumatic life, Chris Noonan's Miss Potter may follow in the footsteps of Shadowlands (about CS Lewis) and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (about JM Barrie), but it lacks the emotional depth of either. Very handsomely crafted, ...
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Berlin World Cinema Fund receives extra funding
The German Federal Culture Foundation has agreed to extend funding for the Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF) for another two years.Support will now run for 2008 and 2009, having initially been planned for just three years from 2005-2007. But there will be a reduction in contributions to $395,000 (Euros 300,000) ...
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Yelmo buys out Loews' stake in Spanish theatrical chain
The Yelmo Group has bought out its partner Loews Cineplex's 50% stake in Spanish exhibition chain, Yelmo Cineplex.The joint venture between the two was signed in 1998 to ramp up Yelmo Films' theatre interests. It has since grown from 108 screens to the current 329, making it Spain's third largest ...
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Spanish production surges as b.o. reaches new high
The Spanish film sector had one of its strongest years in over a decade in 1999 according to Spanish producers association FAPAE's annual report. Spain produced 82 features during the year - the second highest number in 15 years. Of these, 74 obtained theatrical distribution, the second highest level in ...
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Maltes plans movie for comic book hero Captain Thunder
Young Spanish production house Maltes Producciones has taken a three-year option on rights to popular local comic book series Captain Thunder and is developing a $30-40m (Euros 25-30m) English-language feature.Under the working title The Adventures Of Captain Thunder, Maltes founder Pau Vergara says he aims to follow the production model ...
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Norwegian debut director Eva Sorhaug prepares $2.3m Lunch
Norwegian director Eva Sorhaug is working on her feature debut, the $2.3m (Euros 1.8m) Lunch.The film, scripted by Per Schreiner, who won an Amanda, the local Oscar, for The Bothersome Man has the backing of the Norwegian Film Fund which will pick up $1.5m (Euros 1.1m) of the budget.Lunch, which ...
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Hudson of Dreamgirls to get breakthrough performance award at Palm Springs
Jennifer Hudson, the star ofDreamgirls, will receive the BreakthroughPerformance Award at the 18th annual Palm Springs International FilmFestival awards gala on Jan 13, 2007.Hudson, a runner-up on TV's AmericanIdol, will also perform at the galaevent. The newcomer, who plays Effie White in the film, recently won a GoldenGlobe nomination for ...
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Dafoe joins Goldblum in Schrader's Adam Resurrected for Bleiberg
WillemDafoe has joined Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama AdamResurrected whichis being financed and produced by Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg'schairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing the film with Werner Wirsing, headof German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producer.Based onthe novel by Yoram Kaniuk, the film tells ...
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Atlantic Overseas, EuroCo set US/Hungarian co-production slate
New York-based AtlanticOverseas Pictures and Budapest-based EuroCo Productions are partnering up toco-produce a slate of films kicking off with Holocaust love story The FlowerOf The Fence starring RichardDreyfuss and Maia Morgenstern.Written by Atlantic Overseaspresident Harris Salomon and Matt Salzberg, the film tells the real story ofHerman Rosenblat who found his ...
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Toronto critics bow to The Queen
Toronto's filmcritics showed their former colonial colours this year by heaping awards on TheQueen. The Englishfavourite won Best Picture, Peter Morgan won for Best Screenplay, Helen Mirrenfor Best Female Performance and Michael Sheen for Best Supporting MalePerformance (as British prime minister Tony Blair) while Stephen Frears tiedfor Best Director alongside ...
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Wolfhound (Volkodav)
Dir/scr: Nikolai Lebedev. Russ. 2006. 136mins.Russia's first proper foray into Tolkien-style fantasy film-making, Nikolai Lebedev's Wolfhound proves to be something of a mixed bag. On the one hand this holiday release feels formulaic, derivative and uneven in terms of acting and pacing; on the other it has enough novelty in ...
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4 Elements
Dir/scr: Jiska Rickels. Neth. 2006. 89mins.Jiska Rickels' makes an impressive debut with feature-documentary 4 Elements, a self-consciously poetic film essay that has limited narration and little in the way of dialogue. Consisting of four self-contained segments, each representing one of the four elements - fire, water, earth and air - ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate (Lung Fu Mun)
Dir: Wilson Yip. HK. 2006.94mins.Adapted from a popular comic book, Dragon Tiger Gate is a slick butsuperficial martial arts adventure that boasts tremendous fight sequences(choreographed by co-star and co-producer Donnie Yen), colourful productiondesign and appealing central performances that cannot mask the flimsy andderivative storytelling.The film has already openedrobustly in Asia ...
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Happy Feet crosses $10m on IMAX screens
Warner Bros' animated featureHappy Feet has passed the $10mmark on IMAX screens. The film opened November 17 on 79 IMAX screens in NorthAmerica and will eventually expand to a further 28 IMAX screensinternationally. Total worldwide gross in both conventional and large-format isapproaching $200m. 'We arevery pleased with the film's strong ...