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EFA nods reward box office heavy-hitters
Four of Europe's biggest homegrown hits of 2000 - the UK's Chicken Run and Billy Elliot, Italy's Bread And Tulips and France's Le Gout Des Autres - have been nominated for best European Film at the European Film Awards which take place December 2 in Paris.Also competing for the prize ...
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United States - Social partners
When Social Capital launched three years ago, headed by musician and real-estate entrepreneur Martin Shore and production and finance specialist Christopher Tuffin, its goal was to make two to three films a year in the $15m-$35m range.The company quickly sealed a partnership with The Steel Company, the veteran buyers' representation ...
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United States - Hard Times In Rio
Even though Bruno Barreto is one of Brazil's most celebrated film-makers, he had trouble finding finance to complete his latest film, Last Stop 174, a well-received drama which had its world premiere at Toronto and two weeks later opened the Rio International Film Festival.The irony was not lost on Barreto ...
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Denmark - Madsen burns bright
Ole Christian Madsen, director of Danish smash Flame & Citron, is modest about the remarkable success of his Second World War epic which has grossed more than $9m at the local box office, and is the most popular Danish film for 10 years."I'm surprised it did so well in Denmark," ...
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Spain - Speeding bullet
Award-winning Spanish director Jaime Rosales has sparked huge controversy with his latest film, Bullet In The Head (Tiro En La Cabeza). It follows the everyday life of an ETA member, with no dialogue within earshot and little action until the explosive closing scenes.During the film's world premiere in competition at ...
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United Kingdom - Quantum leap
A London hotel a month before the worldwide roll-out of Quantum Of Solace, the 22nd James Bond movie, from October 31, and Marc Forster is looking exhausted. He signed on to direct the film in the summer of 2007 - in other words, he had a little over a year ...
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Promotional Feature - New Cinema Network - The right direction
One of the most exciting aspects of the three year-old International Film Festival Rome is the New Cinema Network - Fabbrica Dei Progetti (NCN), which runs this year from October 23-27. A two-tier event, the NCN's Focus Europe fosters emerging directors from the continent, while the NCN International section promises ...
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Promotional Feature - Focus Europe
Illegal (Bel)Dir/scr: Olivier Masset-DepasseBudget: $3m (EUR2.2m)Funds raised: $1m (EUR750,000)Tackling one of the world's most challenging issues, Illegal looks at immigration. "It's the first time we will see how an immigrant holding centre functions on the inside," claims Olivier Masset-Depasse. He says he wants to inform audiences of what he calls ...
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Promotional Feature - NCN International Projects
The Invisible Collection (Braz)Dir: Bernard AttalScrs: Attal, Sergio Machado, adapted from the short story by Stefan ZweigBudget: $1.1m (EUR800,000)Funds raised: $438,000 (EUR320,000)The Invisible Collection is an adaptation of a short story by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig about a young man whose life changes dramatically when he tries to get his ...
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Rome opens on a high
Being the new kid on the block may have its challenges but the three-year-old Rome International Film Festival is rising to them with aplomb. In its first two editions, Rome's ability to squeeze its 10-day festival into the logjam of the autumn calendar raised eyebrows, as did its ability to ...
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Festival Talk - 'Be brave in the selection and close to the business'
Which festivals do you particularly rate and enjoy'Detassis: "I love Cannes above all the other festivals because it's like breathing cinema day and night; even if you happen not to go to a film for two days, cinema is in the air. I love mixing up seeing the films in ...
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Daldry renews pact with Working Title
Hot UK director Stephen Daldry, whose debut Billy Elliot has become both a critical and box office sensation on home turf, has signed a three-year deal with Working Title Films to direct a minimum of two films. The pact follows on from Working Title's previous first-look arrangement with Daldry which ...
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International - Sea Change at the top
Russia's Admiral sailed to the top of the international chart this week, following its world premiere on October 6, amassing $12.5m from 1,223 engagements in two territories and ending the reign of Universal's dancing queen, Mamma Mia! The Movie, which dropped 41% to $8.4m.With Twentieth Century Fox distributing, the Channel ...
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United Kingdom - Girl uninterrupted
Berlin competition title Julia is to be released simultaneously in the UK in cinemas and on Sky television. Chelsea Films and Sky will open Erick Zonca and Camille Natta's film in theatres and to 9 million Sky subscribers via Sky Box Office (SBO) on December 5.Plenty of other titles have ...
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Editorial - Stuck in the middle
There's an old saying that if you stand in the middle of the road, you'll get knocked down from both directions. It's looking like an extremely relevant piece of advice for the film industry.At the top end of the scale, the current economic conditions are uncomfortable and in recent weeks, ...
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In focus - Reasons to be cheerful
A nagging question underpinned this year's UK Film Finance Summit - why wasn't everyone more miserable' Goodness knows there was plenty to worry about: a crashing economy, collapsing pre-sales and a depressingly complicated digital switch which threatens the future of exhibition.The packed audience at London's Waldorf Hotel did not lack ...
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USAID helps put Serbia back on map
The news that River Road Entertainment had selected Serbia as the location for shooting Coriolanus, a $10m project to star and be directed by Ralph Fiennes, surprised many in Serbia. While this is perhaps the most tangible indication that Serbia is re-emerging as a cost-effective destination for international production, it ...
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On Set: Christian Alvart's Pandorum
German director Christian Alvart could not believe his eyes when he was given an early draft of Pandorum to read by UK producers Jeremy Bolt and Paul WS Anderson of Impact Pictures and Robert Kulzer of Germany's Constantin Film: Travis Milloy's spec script was similar to a project Alvart had ...
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Richard Jobson reignites the spirit of '77
The notion of punk cinema has been kicking around for a few years, based on the idea that a new generation of film-makers pick up a camera and take distribution into their own hands.Scottish film-maker Richard Jobson is an undisguised champion of the 'spirit of 1977' for film and he ...
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United Kingdom - Dodge the doom-mongers
In a credit crunch, necessity must be the mother of invention. That is the view of a growing number of industry players, including Mark Herbert and Barnaby Spurrier, who called on film-makers to innovate their way out of the present economic difficulties, at Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit last ...