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Film News: Country’s film factory churning out diverse pics — Argentina’s humming film factory is churning out diverse drama, comedies, thrillers and animated pics – many of them with strong fest potential and box-office promise.

Film News: Market share strong, even as Hollywood fare scores — Two years after Italian movies made a double splash at the Cannes Film Festival with Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “Il Divo” — a feat dismissed by Italo industryites as a fluke — prospects for cinema Italiano are looking pretty perky, on both the domestic and international fronts.

Film News: ‘Misfortunates,’ ‘Barons’ broke through in ’09 — In Belgium, the local hits tend to be Flemish thrillers, comedies or children’s films, with French-speaking pics rarely troubling the top 10. But 2009 was a little different.

Film News: Oscar-nommed writer of ‘Il Postino,’ ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ — Oscar-nominated Italian screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, whose credits include spaghetti western classic “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” but who is best known for scores of the finest postwar Italo comedies penned in tandem with writing partner Age, died Wednesday in Rome. He was 90.

Film News: Constantin revs up slate of its hottest B.O. genres — Comedies and family movies are not only a staple at Constantin, they’re also some of the group’s biggest box office draws.

Film News: Prod’n topper has track record with comedies, genre material — Universal Pictures has upped Scott Bernstein to exec VP of production.

Film News: ‘Summer’ breeze, that is, or ‘Julia’ or ‘Hangover’ — Golden Globes: Comedy/Musical: Picture