All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1398
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Hitch, Constantine close in on $100m
Hitch remained the top international picture for the thirdweekend in a row and should pass $100m on Monday after adding an estimated $23mon 5,160 prints in 48 markets for a $98m running total through Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Highlights were a number one $4.4m debut in France on 569 prints despite ...
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New Line announces Final Destination 3 leads
RyanMerriman and Mary Winstead have been cast in the leads for New Line's upcomingthriller franchise instalment Cheating Death: Final Destination 3.An Apr 1 production start has been slated for the story, which takes place sixyears after the events of Final Destination 2 and centres on a high school senior who ...
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The Ring Two scares off the competition
DreamWorks' horror sequel TheRing Two dominated the NorthAmerican box office over the weekend, opening top on an estimated $36m.Fox's animated champion of last weekend, Robots, fell to second place on $21.8m for a $66.9m runningtotal, while Buena Vista's family hit The Pacifier fell one to third on $12.5m and has ...
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The Ring Two dominates the field
DreamWorks' horror sequel TheRing Two dominated the NorthAmerican box office over the weekend, opening top on an estimated $36m.Fox's animated champion of last weekend, Robots, fell to second place on $21.8m for a $66.9m runningtotal, while Buena Vista's family hit The Pacifier fell one to third on $12.5m and has ...
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HDNet Films readies drama One last Thing
HDNet Films has greenlightedthe drama One Last Thing, whichrecounts the struggle of a terminally ill young boy and his mother and willstar Cynthia Nixon and Michael Angarano.Barry Stringfellow wrote the screenplay and Alex Steyermark will direct, withHDNet Films co-presidents Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente serving as producersalong with Susan Stover.Todd ...
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Robots set to storm across major markets
Fox International gives itsanimated picture Robots a massivepush this weekend, with major debuts scheduled for a number of leading marketsahead of the Easter break.Blue Sky/Fox's follow-up to 2002's Ice Age was due to open in Germany on a huge 900 prints and Russia on 279 onMar 17, followed a day ...
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Hooligans dominates SXSW narrative prizes
Lexi Alexander'sadrenaline-charged drama Hooligans starringElijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani and Marc Warren won both thenarrative jury prize and narrative feature audience award at the 2005 SXSW FilmFestival at the weekend.US distributors are circling the picture, which stars Wood as a Harvarddrop-out who visits his sister in London and endears ...
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ThinkFilm snaps up Protocols Of Zion
ThinkFilm has picked up US rights to Marc Levin's stirringSundance documentary Protocols Of Zionand plans an autumn release.The picture premiered in the Special Screenings programme in Park City back inJanuary and screened in Berlin last month, and explores anti-semitic claimsthat the Jews were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.In particular Levin ...
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Aniston joins Universal comedy The Break-Up
Jennifer Aniston has joined Vince Vaughn inUniversal's comedy The Break-Up,which is set to begin production in early June and is scheduled for release onFeb 17 2006.Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick are writing the screenplay, which is based onan original idea by Vaughn, who brought the project to the studio and ...
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ThinkFilm prepares launch of international division
ThinkFilm has announced itwill launch its new international sales division at Cannes headed up by veteraninternational executive Mark Horowitz.Horowitz and his team will arrive on the Croisette with a slate that includesthe Sundance documentaries Murderball, about quadriplegic rugby players, The Aristocrats, which focuses on stand-up comedians, and LieWith Me, an ...
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Landmark-Sony Electronics deal ushers in digital age
Landmark Theatres has signeda deal with Sony Electronics whereby every theatre in the chain will be equipped withSony's new digital SXRD projectors, the first commercially available 4Kprojectors on the market.The arthouse chain will begin its digital cinema roll-out this summer with sixSXRD projectors, and plans to fully enable all its ...
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Singapore moves ahead on digital delivery plans
Delegates from theSingaporean government's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) are negotiatingwith Hollywood studios for the first cross-continent digital transmission (CCTx)of a full-length feature.IDA officers and a host of partners including projection pioneer Christie,Dell, Texas Instruments, University of Southern California's EntertainmentTechnology Centre, Thomson Technicolor, and 1-Net recently transmitted digitaltrailers for Elektra, The ...
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Echo Bridge picks up US rights to Bailey's Billion$
Los Angeles-baseddistributor Echo Bridge has bought all US rights from Devine Entertainment toDavid Devine's family comedy Bailey's Billion$ starring Tim Curry, Jennifer Tilly, Dean Cain andLaurie Holden.The picture centres on a talking dog voiced by Jon Lovitz that inherits abillion dollar fortune and sparks extreme envy among his ...
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International markets reach $14.9bn high in 2004
The combined box officegrosses from all pictures released in international markets in 2004 faroutstripped the domestic revenue from MPAA-affiliated releases according tofigures released at ShoWest earlier today [15], as the global box office passed$25bn for the first time.MPAA president Dan Glickman, who has been addressing delegates in Las Vegasthis week ...
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Int'l grosses overtook US in 2004, says Glickman
MPAA president Dan Glickmansounded a determined note in his first address to ShoWest internationaldelegates yesterday [March 14] as he exhorted them to join a global partnershipin the war on piracy, while acknowledging their superior contribution to Hollywood's bottom line.Glickman, a formeragriculture secretary who served under former President Bill Clinton andsucceeded ...
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Megastar announces first Vietnamese multiplexes
Megastar Complex, the joint venture between EnvoyMedia Partners and Vietnam's Phuong Nam Corporation, has announced plans on thefirst two multiplexes in Vietnam, a bustling South-East Asian country whose populationof 82million is served by only 100 screens.Envoy Media Partners is the joint venture between industry veteran J EdwardShugrue, Mekong Leisure and ...
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Campbell joins cast of Partition
NeveCampbell is in final negotiations to star opposite Jimi Mistry and KristinKreuk in the India-set epic romance Partition, which is being co-produced byLos-Angeles based Myriad Pictures and Canada's Sepia Films.Campbell, whose credits include the Scream franchise, Wild Things and BlindHorizon, will play the passionate but lonely Margaret Stilwell, who helps ...
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Clooney rounds out Good Night cast
RobertDowney Jr, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels and Tate Donovan have joinedDavid Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson and George Clooney in Good Night. AndGood Luck, which Clooney is directing for Section Eight, 2929 Entertainmentand Participant Productions.Thepicture, which has commenced principal photography, tells the story of renownedbroadcaster Edward R Murrow and his ...
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Robots scores strong opening in Mexico
Fox International releasedthe animated picture Robots inMexico over the weekend, day-and-date with the number one North Americanrelease.The picture opened top on anestimated $2.4m on 753 screens, a strong result that accounted for the bulk of Robots' $3m weekend business in its first internationalouting. It also opened number one in Malaysia ...
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Hitch romances $30.1m out of 42 markets for Sony
Hitchremained the top international picture over the weekend as the romantic comedyadded an estimated $30.1m on 4,640 screens in 42 markets for a $65.5minternational running total.Key drivers were a powerful $8m number one debut in the UK on 709screens including previews that raised the total after last weekend's exclusivedebut to ...