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Exhibitors - Norway - Historic D cinema rollout deal with US studios
2009-06-30 09:00:05In an historic move, the five biggest Hollywood studios have signed a Virtual Print Fee (VP) agreement with the Norwegian cinema association Film & Kino, paving the way to the world's first non-commercial national digital (D) cinema rollout. The agreement was signed last week by Norway's Film & Kino, with Twentieth Century Fox, United International Pictures (local distributor for Paramount...
Festivals - Italy - Cinema rediscovered in Bologna
2009-06-30 09:00:05Acknowledged as one of the top international events dedicated to the memory of early cinema, Il Cinema Ritrovato (“Cinema Rediscovered”) - held by the Bologna Cinematheque from June 27-July 4) - hosts film lovers from the world over. Despite this year's budget cuts, impassioned audiences will still, however, find a programme worthy of the festival's fame. The event's opening...
Funding - Italy - Cinema vs. government for entertainment industry cuts
2009-07-03 09:00:04The entertainment industry is up in arms against the government for the fact that it will not recover FUS (Entertainment Fund) monies. Filmmakers associations AGIS, ANICA, ANAC and Centoautori openly critise that "as the government prepares to host G8, presenting Italy as a country of culture and art, it is striking a fatal blow to Italian culture and art by refusing to adopt the partial...
Distribution - UK - UKFC backs Rural Cinema scheme
2009-07-07 09:00:07The UK Film Council (UKFC) is funding a Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme to the tune of £1.2m. The Scheme will initially run in North Yorkshire, Shropshire and Wiltshire and its neighbouring Test Valley authority - all mapped as high cinema deprivation areas according to UKFC research. The research also shows that rural cinema operators usually use DVD projection and therefore have little or no...
Box Office - Italy - Local cinema experiences 8% drop in first half of 2009
2009-07-08 09:00:04Italian cinema is losing audiences while US films are at full sail according to results for the first half of 2009 in the movie theatres monitored by Cinetel, compared to the same period in 2008. January 1-June 30 of this year registered approximately one million overall admissions less than in 2008 (-2%,), a loss that was contained thanks to North American titles, with their 32 million...
Box Office - Netherlands - Cinema-going up in 2009, but local films don't profit
2009-07-10 09:00:04In the first half of 2009, the total number of paid cinema admissions in the Netherlands went up significantly, from almost 10m in 2008 to over 11m this year, an increase of 12.3%. The most visited film of the first six months was Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, which sold over 635,000 tickets. The movie based on the bestseller by Dan Brown is followed by Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire...
Festivals - Croatia - Motovun celebrates European cinema and Miika Kaurismaki
2009-07-14 09:00:06The 11th edition of Croatia's most important film event, the Motovun Film Festival, will take place from July 27-31. Twenty-two films will compete for the main Propeller of Motovun Award; the A to A prize, for the best film from the region from Austria to Albania; and Audience, Amnesty International and FIPRESCI Awards. This year's partner country is Finland so Motovun will present ten...
Funding - Italy - Minister Bondi fights to save cinema funds
2009-07-22 09:00:05In a letter in this morning's daily paper Corriere della Sera, Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi says he will fight to decrease the cuts to the FUS Culture Fund (see news). "I am certain that my friend and colleague [Minister of the Economy] Giulio Tremonti will be sensitive to the pleas of an industry that has rendered Italy famous throughout the world and which contributes significantly...
Ghislain Barrois - Director General of Telecinco Cinema: How to make quality films with commercial appeal, out of obligation
2009-07-22 09:00:05Cineuropa met with Telecinco Cinema's Director General Ghislain Barrois in Ronda, where the 9th Marketing and Distribution 2009 course, organised by the Media Business School, was held from July 7-11. “Spain is different”. So went a famous 1960s advertising slogan, which still applies today when talking about film. This is the only way to explain why Telecinco Cinema, the most...
Festivals - Poland - Cinema pays homage to art at Era New Horizons
2009-07-24 09:00:06At the Era New Horizons Festival, which kicked off yesterday in Wroclaw, 14 films unreleased in Poland will vie for the Grand Prize (worth €20,000) in international competition (see news). The event also feature several other competitive sections. For the first time at this ninth edition, the Grand Prize in the main New Horizons competition will be awarded by an international jury...
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