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Fox strikes 'visionary' deal with Russia's Channel One
TwentiethCentury Fox has picked up worldwide rights excluding Russia and the Balticstates to Channel One's Russian-language horror sensation Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch.FoxSearchlight Pictures will release both titles and the studio's main divisionwill co-develop, co-finance and release a third, English-language instalmentwith Channel One, Russia's leading film and television ...
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Eleven filmmakers receive Sundance doc grants
TheSundance Institute Documentary Fund has announced its second round of grantsfor 2004, with 11 feature-length documentaries from more than 400 submissionsset to receive a total of $435,000.Thefund was established at the Sundance Institute in 2002 by a grant from the OpenSociety Institute, principally to support US and international pictures thatfocus ...
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Catwoman raises int'l total to $15.5m for Warner Bros
Catwoman grossed an estimated $3.6m on more than2,300 screens at the weekend, raising the international cumulative total forWarner Bros to $15.5m.Key markets wereGermany, where the picture opened on $1.1m including previews on 510 prints,and Holland, where it opened third on $249,700 on 50.Harry PotterAnd The Prisoner of Azkaban added $3m ...
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Spider-Man 2 passes $360m for CTFDI
Spider-Man 2 passed $360m at the international box officefollowing a $5.8m weekend haul on 3,620 screens through Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI).The action sequel has openedtop in all its 69 markets to date and has amassed a $361.7m internationalrunning total.Elsewhere the live actioncomic book adaptation Hellboy added$2.8m on 1,061 for ...
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King Arthur is top international weekend release
King Arthurwas the number oneinternational picture at the weekend, grossing $12.6m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) to raise its cumulative total to $92.4m.Thehighlight was a first place $3.7m debut in Germany on 752 screens.Elsewhere BVI's MNight Shyamalan mystery The Village added $11.7m for an early $14.4minternational running total, driven by number ...
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Garfield, I, Robot do the business for Fox Int'l
Fox International'slive action comedy Garfieldcontinued to perform well at the box office at the weekend, adding $10.7m on3,151 screens for a $49.7m international running total.Key drivers were a$2.5mnumber three debut in Germany on 604 screens, a strong $622,000 first placeopening in Austria on 75, and a $186,000 table-topping launch in ...
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New York Film Critics Circle sets awards date
TheNew York Films Critics Circle (NYFCC), which celebrates its 70th anniversarythis year, will unveil its winners on Dec 13 at the Muse Hotel in New York. Theawards dinner takes place on Jan 9.'Thoughit has not been an especially good year for film so far - with someobvious exceptions like Eternal ...
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HatcH festival to launch with Dahl's The Great Raid
Theinaugural HatcH Audiovisual Arts Festival in Bozeman, Montana, will featureadvance previews of John Dahl's The Great Raid and RickSchroder's directorial debut Black Cloud when it runs from Sept9-12.Miramaxis scheduled to release The Great Raid, a second world war POW drama starringBenjamin Bratt and James Franco, on Dec 2. Black Cloud ...
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Philadelphia Film Society sets festival dates
ThePhiladelphia Film Society has set the 14th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) for April 7-20 and the 11th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian FilmFestival (PIGLFF) for Jul 7-18 2005.The2004 Philadelphia Film Festival featured 295 screenings of 133 features and 114short films from 43 countries. Mary-Louise Parker received the ArtisticAchievement Award and ...
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Bourne Supremacy holds well in UK, raises total to $11.2m
Universal'sthriller sequel The Bourne Supremacy added an estimated $5.2m on 698screens in five territories through UIP at the weekend for a $13.6minternational running total.The result was fuelled by a strong second weekend hold in the UK, where thepicture added $2.8m on 414 and dropped 35% for $11.2m. It remained secondbehind ...
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Exorcist turns heads with so-so $18.2m debut
Warner Bros' ill-fatedhorror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning opened top at the weekend on anestimated $18.2m, exceeding expectations at the studio, which was so afraid ofa critical mauling it refused to schedule previews.The picture, whose chequeredproduction history entailed a re-shoot and three directors, stars StellanSkarsgard as a young Father Lankester Merrin ...
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Exorcist rides horror train to the top
Warner Bros' ill-fatedhorror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning opened top at the weekend on anestimated $18.2m, exceeding expectations at the studio, which was so afraid ofa critical mauling it refused to schedule previews.The picture, whose chequeredproduction history entailed a re-shoot and three directors, stars StellanSkarsgard as a young Father Lankester Merrin ...
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New York Film Festival reveals line-up
Lodge Kerrigan's psychological drama Keane, about aschizophrenic father searching for his kidnapped girl, Zhang Yimou's epic HouseOf The Flying Daggers and David Gordon Green's thriller Undertow areamong the line-up at the 42nd New York Film Festival, which runsfrom Oct 1-17.As previously announced (Screendaily, Jul 16), Agnes Jaoui'srelationship drama Look At ...
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Freeman to be honoured in PGA's 3rd Celebration of Diversity
MorganFreeman will be among recipients of honorary awards at the Producers Guild ofAmerica's (PGA) third Annual Celebration of Diversity in Los Angeles onOct 7.Freeman'sexecutive producing credits include Along Came A Spider, Levity, and the in-production drama Colours Straight Up.Previoushonorees include Salma Hayek, John Singleton, Phil Roman, Ang Lee, DannyGlover, and ...
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The Village gears up for first major launches through BVI
M NightShyamalan's latestmystery The Village launches in its first major markets in the UK and France this weekendthrough Buena Vista International (BVI).While thepicture's domestic performance has been below par by Shyamalan'sstandards, international prospects should be promising. The picture opened in Franceon Aug 18 and goes out in the UK on ...
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CMG takes international rights to Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya
Los Angeles-based CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up exclusive international distributionrights to Elia Schneider's Venezuelan drama Punto Y Raya, which recently won best picture at the Los AngelesLatino International Film Festival.CMG will seek to licensethe picture immediately and plans market screenings in Los Angeles and in SantaMonica at the upcoming ...
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Universal, Focus strike multi-year deals with Vertigo
UniversalPictures and specialty division Focus Features have signed multi-yearagreements with Roy Lee and Doug Davison's dynamic production outfitVertigo Entertainment.Specifically, Universal Pictures has entered into afirst-look agreement with Vertigo, arguably Hollywood's leading Asiangenre remake specialists, for feature development and production, with Vertigoretaining the option to co-finance certain projects.Focuswill act as Vertigo's ...
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Zhang, Yeoh, Watanabe, Gong sign up for Memoirs Of A Geisha
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe and Gong Li and are to star in the long-gestating Memoirs Of AGeisha adaptation, which RobMarshall will direct and Columbia Pictures is co-financing with DreamWorks andSpyglass Entertainment.Productionis set to begin in Los Angeles and Japan in September. Spyglass, which has afirst-look,non-exclusive deal with ...
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Sabatini named svp physical production at MGM
Veteranproduction executive Diane Sabatini has been named senior vice president ofphysical production at MGM.Sabatinihas worked for the past decade as production supervisor orproductioncoordinator on a dozen movies and her credits include Armageddon, Batman & Robin, The Rock, 21 Grams, and Anchorman: TheLegend Of Ron Burgundy.Executivevice president of production Andy Davis ...
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Bigfoot strikes global partnership with Filmmakers Alliance
Fledgling Hong Kong-based production and distribution companyBigfoot Entertainment has signed a worldwide production and distribution dealwith Los Angeles-based collective Filmmakers Alliance.The deal, which was negotiated by Bigfoot president James Hoffmanand Filmmakers Alliance president Jacques Thelemaque and announced last night(18) in Los Angeles, paves the way for the joint creation of ...