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BBC World Cinema nominees include Climates, Lives Of Others
BBC Four World Cinema Award has announced the nominees for its 2008 prize, sponsored by Pioneer.The nominees are Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others, Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century.The award, now ...
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Nordisk launches new production arm Neo Film under Aaberge
Danish major Nordisk Film's Norwegian subsidiary, which has become a market leader in local film and television production during Stein-Roger Bull's reign, will launch a new production outfit, Neo Film, to be headed by current head of production Aage Aaberge. At Nordisk he will be succeeded by producer Cornelia Boysen.Aaberge ...
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MMG takes Flemish, French remake rights to Dutch hit Love Is All
Dutch production company Motel Films has sold the remake rights to its hit romantic comedy Love Is All to Belgian film producer MMG.MMG, which previously worked on Ben X and Winky's Horse, plans two different remake versions, one each for the Flemish and French markets. COO Peter Bouckaert found the ...
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Toho set for record annual box office, announces 2008 lineup
Japan's largest distributor, Toho Studios, has surpassed box office earnings of $442m (Y50b) for the fourth year in a row, the company announced. The company's releases during the lucrative Christmas/New Year's period are set to break Toho's record-setting year in 2006.Earnings up until the end of November totaled $476.4m (Y53.63b). ...
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Canadian province Ontario to boost production tax credit to 25%
The province of Ontario is proposing to increase the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit, available to foreign-financed productions shooting in the province, from 18 per cent to 25 per cent. The province also says it will increase its locally-oriented Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit, for which official Canadian coproductions ...
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Screen opinion - Wave building
There's no technical definition of a 'wave' in cinema. Mostly it's just a convenient and somewhat patronising way of lumping together three or more films that happen to come from a small territory. It matters little whether there's anything other than coincidence to these films' success.The wide variations in style ...
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International Box Office review 2007
By December 9, the six US majors - Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Sony and Walt Disney Studios - had recorded a total box office of more than $8.6bn in the international marketplace, surpassing their combined international gross for the whole of 2006 ($8.5bn). Last year ...
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United States - Quarterlife change
I don't watch TV, I make TV," says Marshall Herskovitz. "I don't do what other people do. I do what I do and I do it the same way, whether it's film or TV or the internet."Herskovitz and partner Ed Zwick - who between them have writing, producing and directing ...
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United States - Slings and arrows
Writer-director Alex Holdridge has been on Hollywood's radar for several years, yet circumstances led him to shoot his third feature, In Search Of A Midnight Kiss, for just $12,000.Holdridge, who attended the University of Texas, was living in Austin when he was inspired to move into film by the early ...
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United Kingdom - Off The Record
EMI has a long history as a record label - everyone from the Beatles to Coldplay - but its burgeoning film business owes much to two men and their motorcycles."Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to meet with us about a soundtrack, and we ended up doing the DVD release ...
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Blair Witch kicks off Jugendfilm re-release drive
German distributorJugendfilm is to handle all re-releases of parent company Kinowelt, starting with another outing for The Blair Witch Project ahead of rivaldistributor Highlight's premiere of Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows.The re-release of the horror phenomenon will open on October 19 on more than 150 prints three weeks ...
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Profile:Adulthooddirector Noel Clarke
It is mid-November and almost four weeks into the five-week shoot of his debut feature, actor-writer-director Noel Clarke is a man in his element. He is shooting on the west London streets where he grew up and today's council flat location is 250m from the gym where he was working ...
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Awards Countdown - Screenwriting - Keeping To The Script
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY1. Tony GilroyMichael ClaytonGilroy, who wrote all three Bourne films, came up with one of the year's smartest original scripts in Michael Clayton, which also marked his directorial debut. If he is pushed out of the director category by heavyweight veterans, he will likely be the front runner for ...
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Screenwriters vying fortop awards
The Coen brothers tell Geoffrey Macnab about the process of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For OldMen.
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Marketing - The Social Revolution
Last December, Bettina Sherick, executive vice-president of international digital marketing at Twentieth Century Fox, sat down with her team and said: 'This is the year we figure out how to make all our content portable.' Aware that web browsers are no longer drawn automatically to a film's official website and ...
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Marketing - How to win friends
The rise of MySpace has propelled social-networking communities into the web stratosphere. Launched in 2003 and sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m two years later, MySpace's early symbiosis between indie-rock bands and their fans - and the ability for users to personalise their pages - earned it a ...
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Production - Joined up writing
In the beginning was the word. Then there was the motion picture. And now it is increasingly difficult to tell the difference.The film industry is going through a book adaptation frenzy. While this has been an important part of the inspiration for films since the industry began, today books are ...
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International - Compass points up
While The Golden Compass was largely responsible for the 14.5% week-on-week increase in the international top 40, two new entries from France made their presence known taking a collective $4.3m.Roissy Films' comedy L'Auberge Rouge was the second highest new entry, coming in at number nine with a $3.1m take. The ...
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The critical eye - Tolly good show
I have a suspicion we're on the verge of a sub-prime crash in commercial film style. It's a crash that has been postponed by Hollywood's traditional strengths in the script and acting departments, not to mention the studios' marketing muscle and distribution leverage. But it seems to me that in ...
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Dubai's top Muhr award goes to Lebanese drama Under the Bombs
Lebanese cine-verite drama Under the Bombs, and Soneaa Fi Masr (Made in Egypt), French director Karim Goury's first-person story of his search for his Egyptian biological father, picked up the Muhr Gold awards for best narrative feature and best documentary at this year's Dubai International Film Festival, which ran from ...