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'There's only a handful of banks now that are willing to do the smaller deals' - Adrian Ward on film financing
The global film business is being revolutionised as billions of dollars of bank finance pours into the sector. Adrian Ward, vice-president of the entertainment, sports and media group, Israel Discount Bank, gives Richard Brass his assessment.Not every film financier is abandoning the single-picture deal and piling into multi-picture slate deals ...
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Bourne to run
The Bourne series was one of the first major productions to put its international financing structure on screen. As Universal gears up for the global roll-out of The Bourne Ultimatum, John Hazelton explores the benefits of such globe-trotting. Even for an international man of mystery, Jason Bourne really gets around. ...
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Bollywood box-office: for better or for worse
Why are Bollywood distributors optimistic despite recent local flops' Udita Jhunjhunwala reports.India has seen a slow start to 2007 despite earlier predictions from the Indian film industry of a buoyant first six months. 2006 was the most successful year in a decade for Hindi films in the territory and while ...
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Features
Crowds flock to Bart exhibition
The Simpsons Movie raked in the international doh! this weekend as Fox's much-awaited film opened with $82.5m over the three-day period. The Springfield gang amassed a total of $96.8m across 71 territories on 5,527 screens for a whopping $14,925 average. The fifth Harry Potter instalment slipped by 51% to second ...
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Bergman and Antonioni: through a lens darkly
Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both challenged audiences and understood the power of film, saysLen KladyEarlier this week a US television commentator, in marking the passing of Ingmar Bergman, referred to him as the greatest film-maker of all time. He didn't use any qualifiers and his tone evinced not the ...
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Marketing: The Bourne Ultimatum
For the latest in the Bourne franchise, Universal is underlining character, story and action in its marketing. John Hazelton reports.The Bourne Ultimatum opens wide in the US on August 3 and then, much like its predecessors, rolls out internationally through August and September. Universal Pictures International (UPI) opens the film ...
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Sarajevo to host tribute to Ulrich Seidl
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will be honoured with the Sarajevo Film Festival's Tribute this year. The Tribute programme includes features and documentaries Animal Love, Dog Days (Hundstage), Fun Without Limits, Jesus, You Know, Losses To Be Expected, and three Seidl segments from State Of The Nation : Austria In Six ...
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Malaysian box-office boom continues as Transformers sets new record
Transformers has emerged as the biggest film of all-time in Malaysia, raking in a total of $4.9m (RM16.9m) as of July 29. This is the third new box-office record being set in Malaysia within a three-month period, a testament to the country's extraordinary performance in an unprecedented record-breaking year. First, ...
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Carlos Saura among Spanish directors invited to San Sebastian
Iciar Bollain, Gracia Querejeta and Carlos Saura are among the Spanish directors invited to screen films this year at the upcoming 55th annual edition of Spain's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29).Bollain will screen her new feature Mataharis in the official competition four years after her domestic abuse drama ...
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Grierson trusts partners for new awards at Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Sheffield Doc/Fest has partnered with the UK 's Grierson Trust to launch three new UK documentary awards. The Grierson: Sheffields are in the categories of The Green Award, The Youth Jury Award and The Innovation Award. The partnership kicks off this year at the November festival, with the new ...
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Rainbow/IFC buys 5% stake in website IFILM
Rainbow Media Holdings Inc, the Cablevision-owned outfit which manages US cable channel The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired a 5% equity stake in entertainment website IFILM. Rainbow will provide IFILM with on-air promotional time on IFC and the two will exchange content and cross-promote through their web, television and ...
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London International Animation Festival to host 200+ films
The London International Animation Festival will host its fourth event Aug 21-26 at the Curzon Soho, Renoir Cinema, the Horse Hospital and the Rio Cinema.The programme includes more than 200 films over six days, including work from 28 countries. The international competitive programmes include films such as Don Hertzfeldt's Everything ...
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Goldfinger UK re-release draws $85,561 on one night
Continuing the strength of the UK box office, Park Circus' re-release of 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger grossed $85,561 (£42,000) on Tuesday, July 31 as a one-night-only special presentation. The film, newly digitally restored by Lowrey Digital, showed digitally in 136 cinemas across the UK. Goldfinger was the opening film ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
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Mia Bays joins Film London's micro-budget Microwave scheme
Film London's Microwave low-budget scheme has recruited a new production executive, Mia Bays, who takes over from Sol Gatti-Pascual. Bays recently produced Scott Walker - 30 Century Man and the Oscar-winning short Six Shooter. Microwave, which is producing 10 features with budgets under $202,000 (£100,000), is gearing up to start ...
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Locarno gets 10% funding increase from Swiss government
Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture (BAK) will increase its annual support for the Locarno Film Festival by more than 10% from the current $1m (CHF 1.2m) to $1.13m (CHF 1.35m) for the next three years (2008-2010). Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com after the BAK announcement, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire commented ...
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Reviews
I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster (J'ai Toujours Reve D'etre Un Gangster)
Dir/scr: Samuel Benchetrit . Fr. 2007. 110minsCheerful absurdity, hangdog humour and a sober recognition that, when you come down to it, provincial France just isn't the wild frontier of American crime cinema - all this makes Samuel Benchetrit's downbeat farce a distinctively offbeat pleasure. A set of linked crime vignettes, ...
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Summit Circle (Contre Toute Esperance)
Dir/scr: Bernard Emond. Can. 2007. 89mins.Having regained faith in God, against all odds, in La Neuvaine, Canadian anthropologist-turned-film-maker Bernard Emond, sets out, in the second part of his trilogy Faith-Hope-Charity, to retrieve hope where there is none. No wonder the original French, and much more suitable, title for Summit Circle ...
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India's Adlabs lines up multi-territory release for Marigold
Indian studio Adlabs has lined up an Aug 17 day-and-date release in the US, UK and India for Hollywood/Bollywood romantic comedy Marigold. The long-gestating fusion pic, starring Ali Larter and Bollywood star Salman Khan, will be rolled out on 80-100 prints in the US, around 50 in the UK and ...
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Thieves (Ladrones)
Dir. Jaime Marques Olarreaga. Sp. 2007. 101mins.Sombre mood and stylish visuals lend a mysterious atmosphere to Jaime Marques Olarreaga's feature debut Thieves, a film which attempts to explore more avenues than it is willing to actually venture down, leaving the audience, by the end, with a work that amounts to ...