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Elektra adds $2m for Fox as Sideways builds momentum
Elektra grossed an estimated $2m on 1,172international screens through Fox International at the weekend, raising itsinternational cumulative total to $18.9m.The comic bookadaptation opened in Italy on $626,088 on 215 for an unconfirmed ranking, andopened in fourth place in each of Peru and Ecuador.The Aviator, which the distributor handles only inSpain, ...
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Universal/UIP scores $2.7m weekend for Ray
Universal's Ray grossed an estimated $2.7m through UIPon 1,250 screens in 27 territories at the weekend, raising the internationalrunning total to $13.5m.Highlightsincluded a decent second weekend hold in Australia that raised the total by$550,000 on 205 to $1.6m. The picture added $390,000 on 198 in the UK for $2.7mafter three ...
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Closer passes $50m for Sony with $6.5m weekend
Continuing itssuccessful international run, Closer added an estimated $6.5m on its peak level of 2,405international prints through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) atthe weekend to raise its running total to $55.2m.The drama stayedtop in its second weekend in Australia on $830,000 for $2.9m, and added $1m on330 in its fourth ...
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The Incredibles passes ET in all-time international pantheon
The Incredibles became the 20th biggest international release of all time at theweekend as it pushed ET out of the top 20.The Buena Vista International(BVI) release added an estimated $3.2m for a $359m international running total,powered by a $700,000 number one debut in Hong Kong, its final market.National Treasure grossed ...
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Ocean's Twelve passes $200m at international box office
Ocean's Twelve passed $200m at the international boxoffice for Warner Bros International at the weekend as it raised its runningtotal by an estimated $11.2m to $201.1m.The key driver was the picture's $6.6m second place debut in 450 UK theatres, astrong launch that still wasn't enough to beat Meet The Fockers ...
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Foxx, Swank, cast of Sideways seal SAG Award victories
Jamie Foxx and Hilary Swank won top individual Screen Actors Guildhonours at the 11th Annual SAG Awards in Los Angeles at the weekend (5), while Sideways won the ensemble cast award.Foxx followed up on his recent Golden Globe win and Academy Awardnomination for his portrayal of the late Ray Charles ...
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Boogeyman makes it two for two for Ghost House
Boogeyman, Ghost House Pictures' follow-up to lastyear's debut release The Grudge, capitalised on horror's mass appeal with anestimated $19.5m number one opening.Trailing some way behind in second place on $11m was GoldCircle's romantic comedy The Wedding Date,released in domestic theatres through Universal.Boogeyman stars Barry Watson and Emily Deschaneland concerns the ...
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Boogeyman is the new king of horror at US box office
Boogeyman, Ghost House Pictures' follow-up to lastyear's debut release The Grudge, capitalised on horror's mass appeal with anestimated $19.5m number one opening.Trailing someway behind in second place on $11m was Gold Circle's romantic comedy TheWedding Date, released in domestic theatres through Universal.Boogeyman stars Barry Watson and Emily Deschaneland concerns the ...
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Producing nominees finalised for best picture Oscar race
The Academy ofMotion Picture Arts And Sciences has issued its final roster of producersassociated with each of the five best picture nominees.Michael Mann andGraham King are nominated for The Aviator; Richard N Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower for FindingNeverland; ClintEastwood, Albert S Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg for Million Dollar Baby; Taylor ...
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Battle of sequels: Ocean's goes head to head with Fockers in UK
Ocean's Twelve has the unenviable challenge of trying to knock MeetThe Fockers off its perch when itgoes out in the UK through Warner Bros Pictures International on Feb 4.Strong results areanticipated bearing in mind that Ocean's Eleven opened second in the UK in February 2002 on $7.3m in433 theatres, a ...
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Hoffman joins star-studded cast of Forster's Fiction
Dustin Hoffman has joinedthe cast of Marc Forster's upcoming comedy Stranger Than Fiction, which will also star Will Ferrell, MaggieGyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah.Written by Zach Helm, StrangerThan Fiction centres on a taxauditor who hears an inner voice that foretells his death. Hoffman will playProfessor Jules Hilbert, who helps ...
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Chen Kaige's Chinese epic enters 10 months of post
Chen Kaige's Wuji - ThePromise has completed principalphotography in its multitude of Chinese locations and the China Film Group setin Beijing.The epic fantasy romance, aco-production between China Film Group, Shengkai Films and worldwide salesagent Moonstone Entertainment, now enters approximately 10 months ofpost-production as the visual effects are created.Touted in the ...
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Focus to launch Jet Li actioner at Berlin
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights excluding Asia to Jet Li's upcoming martial artsproject and will launch it to buyers at Berlin.The latest producing venturefrom veteran producer Bill Kong, the as yet untitled film will be directed byRonny Yu and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon choreographer Yuen Wo Ping will orchestrate ...
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Worldwide rights to Sex, Politics & Cocktails go to here!
Los Angeles-based productionand distribution company here! Films, has picked up worldwide rights from KUBAPictures to Sex, Politics & Cocktails and scheduled the US release for Apr 1.Written, directed, producedby and starring Julien Hernandez, the picture chronicles the sexual odyssey ofa Cuban filmmaker.Other key cast includesMarisa Perturb, Paul Lekakis, Don Max, ...
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Dougray Scott joins powerhouse female trio in Mermaids Singing
Dougray Scott has joined thecast of The Mermaids Singing,Robin Swicord's adaptation of Lisa Carey's family epic that already stars thepowerhouse female trio of Jessica Lange, Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.Scott will play an estrangedfather who is forced to come to terms with his past or lose his teenagedaughter. He ...
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Milestone gets worldwide on lost Valentino/Swanson classic
New Jersey-based Milestone Film & Video has picked upworldwide rights excluding the Benelux countries to Sam Wood's 1922 silentclassic Beyond The Rocks, which untilrecently was believed to be lost and stars Rudolph Valentino and GloriaSwanson.Milestone vice-president Dennis Doros negotiated the dealwith Jan Rofekamp of Films Transit International on behalf of ...
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Contagious teams with Yari to co-finance three films a year
Entertainmentfinancing and production company Contagious Entertainment has launched in LosAngeles with a deal to co-produce and co-finance at least three featureprojects a year in association with Bob Yari and the Yari Film Group.The commerciallyoriented titles will be budgeted from $2m-$6m and will be available for domesticand international release.Founded by LosAngeles-based ...
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Tango staffs up in LA with Fisher, Elizalde
Paul Levinson and WarrenGoldberg's fledgling Los Angeles-based home entertainment distributor TangoEntertainment has hired Evan Fisher as senior vice-president of sales andmarketing and Victor Elizalde as senior vice-president of finance and administration.Fisher's overall task willbe to set up a broad range of distribution channels and new retail outlets. Hepreviously ran his ...
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German fund Academy pitches $42m into three Inferno projects
Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel's production and financing houseInferno Distribution has received $42m to finance three projects in 2005 fromGerman film fund, Academy.The first of the projects is Southland Tales, Richard Kelly's follow-up to DonnieDarko that centres on aheatwave that culminates in a huge July 4 party in the Los ...
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Alexander takes $4m in 51 territories over the weekend
Alexander grossedan estimated $4m on 2,200 screens in 51 territories at the weekend, raising theinternational running total to $112.5m.The picture added $1.3m for a $10.1m running total in its thirdweekend in Italy through Warner Bros International and was expected to ranksecond behind The Aviator.In its third weekend in Australia, Alexander ...