All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1370
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Stop motion animation rules international box office
Fired by seven openings and a strong UK hold, DreamWorksInternational's Wallace & Gromit added an estimated $15.8m on 3,72 sites in 32 marketsthrough UIP over the weekend for a $63.7m international running total.Aardman's animated romp dropped a mere 31% in its secondweekend in the UK to stay top on $8m ...
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Disney signs up to Cinea's anti-piracy plan
Heralding a significantdevelopment on the awards season horizon, Disney has become the first US majorto adopt Cinea's anti-piracy technology.The studio will send out itsscreener DVDs for awards contenders Shopgirl and The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The WitchAnd The Wardrobe on discs encryptedby Cinea.The discs can only beplayed on Cinea's ...
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Weinsteins appoint Deep Focus as online media planner
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/50991B13/deepfocus.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"The Weinstein Company= hassigned Deep Focus as its online agency of record, overseeing all of thecompany's online media planning and buying, creative advertising, andpublic relations.Deep Focus chief executive officer Ian Schafer previously served as vicepresident of new media at Miramax and Dimension Films from 1999 ...
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Doom blazes to the top in slow weekend
Universal's video gameadaptation Doom met with futileresistance as it smashed its way to the top of the charts on an estimated$15.4m in a weekend that saw ticket sales plunge for the fourth consecutive weekend.Andrzej Bartkowiak directedthe high-octane story in which Karl Urban and The Rock lead a Marine unit on ...
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Deep Focus named Weinstein Co online media strategist
The Weinstein Company hassigned Deep Focus as its online agency of record, overseeing all of the company's online media planning and buying, creative advertising, and public relations.Deep Focus chief executive officer Ian Schafer previously served as vice president of new media at Miramax and Dimension Films from 1999 to 2002.The ...
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Doom tops US in slow weekend
Universal's video gameadaptation Doom met with futileresistance as it smashed its way to the top of the charts on an estimated$15.4m in a weekend that saw ticket sales plunge for the fourth consecutive weekend.Andrzej Bartkowiak directedthe high-octane story in which Karl Urban and The Rock lead a Marine unit on ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.None of the major international distributors is firing off a significantvolley, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running total.The picture ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.None of the major international distributors is firing off a significantvolley, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running total.The picture ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.No particular title is launching in a significant number of markets this weekend, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running ...
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Eisner to revisit Creature From The Black Lagoon
Breck Eisner hassigned to direct Universal Pictures' remake of the horror classic CreatureFrom The Black Lagoon.Gary Ross willproduce through his Larger Than Life production company and has written a draftscreenplay, which may not end up as the final version.Ross' fatherArthur A Ross wrote the screenplay to the 1954 original, in ...
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Tree crosses 600,000 admissions in Iran
Majid Majid'sfeature The Willow Treehas passed 600,000 admissions to become the highest grossing drama of all timein Iran.Majidi's earlierrelease The Color Of Paradise totalled 250,000 admissions in Iran. The director's other filmsinclude Children Of Heaven and Baran.The WillowTree, which is beingsold to international buyers through GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI),tells of ...
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Sony to back first Hindi film with Leela Bhansali
Sony PicturesReleasing India is teaming up with Sanjay Leela Bhansali to co-produce Sony'sfirst Indian feature Saawariya (Beloved)in Hindi."India hasa rich and a prolific film history," Michael Lynton, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), said."We at Sony Picturesrecognise the potential and importance of the Indian market and welcome ...
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Lucas to accept Hollywood Movie Of The Year award for Episode III
George Lucas will bepresented with the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Movie of the Year Awardon Oct 24 after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith was voted best film.More than 70,000 people casttheir votes on Yahoo and ETonline, which together reported more than 20millionimpressions throughout the poll.The sixth ...
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Lelouch, Japanese cinema to get tribute programmes at Denver
Organisers at the 28th StarzDenver International Film Festival have announced tributes to Claude Lelouchand Japanese cinema at next month's event.Lelouch will be interviewedon stage following a screening of his latest drama The Courage To Love on Nov12. Lelouch's Les Miserables and AMan And A Woman will also screen.The Japanese spotlight ...
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Media 8 brings Persuasion to AFM buyers
Los Angeles-based productionand sales house Media 8 Entertainment has added Pretty Persuasion to its AFM slate after picking up all internationalrights from Prospect Pictures.The company will screen thepicture for buyers after the market kicks off in Santa Monica on Nov 2.Marcos Siega's high schoolsatire stars Evan Rachel Wood and received ...
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Gold Circle, Vertigo team up for Eye 2 remake
Gold Circle Films andVertigo Entertainment have teamed up to co-produce In-Utero, an adaptation of the Pang brothers' Hong Konghorror title Jian Gui 2 aka TheEye 2 that will be released throughNew Line.Gold Circle is financing theproject and Mandate Pictures will handle international sales. Gold Circle Filmspresident Paul Brooks will produce ...
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Voltage has rights to American Standard
LosAngeles-based sales company Voltage Pictures has acquired international rightsfrom Eleven Eleven to Matthew Cole Weiss' psychological thriller TheAmerican Standard andwill begin selling at AFM.Eleven Eleven, whichproduced the eagerly awaited thriller Unknown, plans to begin shooting next week inLos Angeles on the story of a woman who comes between two male ...
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IFC aqcuires UK hangman story Pierrepoint
IFC Films hasacquired US rights from Capitol Films to Adrian Shergold's true-life drama Pierrepoint (formerly The Last Hangman) following its recent world premiere inToronto.The distributorplans a 2006 release on the picture, which stars Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint,Britain's last Chief Hangman and arguably the country's best-known publicexecutioner.Pierrepoint wassingly responsible for ...
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Lions Gate acquires Redbus in the UK
Lions Gate Entertainment hasacquired the UK's Redbus Film Distribution in a combined cash and stocktransaction valued at approximately $35m.The move gives theburgeoning US independent studio a vital distribution outlet in the UK, one ofthe leading markets outside North America, and brings in a library of more than130 titles including Bend ...
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Fox follows Disney in signing digital deal with Christie
TwentiethCentury Fox has become the second US major to sign a non-exclusive deal tosupply its features to digital cinema projection systems deployed by Christie.Christie willinstall between 2,500 and 4,000 systems in North America over the next twoyears in a development that has taken a long time to reach fruition.The announcementfollows ...