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Yet another political doc gets US theatrical exposure
THINKFilm hasacquired US domestic rights to George Butler and White Mountain's Toronto worldpremiere documentary Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry and plans to open it on limited releasebefore the Presidential Election on Oct 1.The latest addition to the left-leaning politicaldocumentary canon focuses on key influences in Kerry's life, ...
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Logan, Newman, Rosen named in Hollywood Film Awards honour list
Composer Thomas Newman andscreenwriter John Logan will both be honoured at the upcoming Hollywood FilmAwards ceremony on Oct 18 at the Beverly Hilton.Hollywood Composer of theYear Award recipient Newman has earned six Oscar nominations in his career todate for the recent phenomenon Finding Nemo, American Beauty and Road To Perdition, ...
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Universal & Toshiba claim number one slot in Japan with Riddick
Universal executives claimedtheir action sequel The Chronicles Of Riddick opened top in Japan through Toshiba at the weekendon an estimated $1.9m on an unconfirmed number of screens.Overall the picture grossed$2.8m on 835 screens in 18 territories and raised its international runningtotal to $10m from all distributors, $7.3m of which comes ...
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UK sports docs get US distribution through Hart Sharp
Domestic DVD distributorHart Sharp Video has partnered with Bombo Sports & Entertainment todistribute a new line of specialised sports documentaries.Upcoming releases willinclude Liverpool FC - No Heart As Big, Manchester United: Beyond The Promised Land, Roy Keane, As I See It, and the rugby picture Sweet Chariot. Each of these ...
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Echelon takes US rights to dog mayor doc
Echelon Entertainment hasacquired US domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of the current crop ofpolitical documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash: The Centre Of TheUniverse.The picture focuses on anelectoral race in the Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as townmayor.The filmmakers profile thetown's ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 grossed an estimated $12.1m on6,430 screens in 55 territories through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising the international cumulativetotal to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the $2.6m debut on 300 screens inChina, which included previews and set a new record for an MPAA release in ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2grossed an estimated $12.1m on 6,430 screens in 55 territories through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising theinternational cumulative total to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the$2.6m debut on 300 screens in China, which included previews and set a newrecord for an MPAA release in the ...
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First Independent Pictures acquires Mail Order Wife
Gary Rubin's fledgling distribution outfit First IndependentPictures has picked up domestic rights to Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland'scomedy Mail Order Wife (formerly Mail Order Bride) and plansto release it in theatres on Feb 11 2005.The picture stars Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, and Gurland, whoco-wrote with Botko, and follows the misadventures ...
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Collateral cruises to the top with $24.4m
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Collateral tops box office as North American summer starts to fade
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Limelight buys worldwide rights to 21st Century library
Kiera Chaplin'sLos Angeles-based production, financing and distribution company Limelight Films hasacquired all worldwide distribution rights to the 21st Century library from theMotion Picture Company of Australia.The 112-titleresource boasts such titles as Roger Vadim's Don Juan 73,George Lacombe's Female And The Flesh, and Peter Sykes' To The Devil ADaughter.Featured talent includes ...
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Tartan USA to launch with Bush's Brain
Nearly threemonths after announcing US distribution plans, Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Filmsis gearing up to make Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob's Bush's Brain its first theatrical release later thismonth.McAlpine negotiated US rights to the picture with CassianElwes of the William Morris Agency and plans a home entertainment release onOct 12. Mealey ...
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Robot invasion spreads to UK, Germany, Brazil
FoxInternational's I, Robot looks set to continue its international dominance this weekendthrough major debuts in Germany, the UK, Brazil and Russia.The sci-fi thriller, which has amassed $35.2m to date,opens in Germany and Russia on Aug 5 on 925 and 302 prints respectively, the UKon Aug 6 on 750, and Brazil ...
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Shoreline takes on sales for The Limb Salesman
Shoreline Entertainment hassecured worldwide sales rights to The Limb Salesman from production outfits punk Films and Darius Filmsand will be representing the film in Toronto, where the film is playing in thefestival.pUNK Films andDarius Films have announced a deal making Shoreline Entertainment theirworldwide sales agent, beginning with The Limb Salesman ...
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Fiennes signs on as Potter arch-villain
Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter's arch-enemy Lord Voldemortin Warner Bros' upcoming Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, while Miranda Richardson joins the castas the muckraking reporter Rita Skeeter.The production, which is being directed by Mike Newell andproduced by David Heyman, has seen several other recent cast additions.Brendan Gleeson ...
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Hollywood studios dismayed over TiVo ruling
The MPAA expressed disappointment yesterday over the FederalCommunications Commission's decision to permit TiVo's new content sharingtechnology TiVOToGo.The FCC ruling will allow TiVo users to record programmingand send it via the internet to up to nine other TiVo devices or computers, allof which will be linked to the same customer account ...
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Hubble goes from Big Bang to big screen
Fledgling Los Angeles-based finance and production company SyntaxEntertainment has licensed the movie rights to Gale E Christianson's book EdwinHubble: Mariner Of The Nebulae, based on the father of the Big Bang theory.The film version, which is being produced with Los Angelesbased production outfit Persistent Entertainment, will be called Hubble and ...
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Santa story gets bi-sexual twist
Paul Colichman's pioneering gay and lesbian cable network here! TVhas begun production in Vancouver on separate gay and straight-themed versionsof the same Christmas family story.Too Cool For Christmas stars George Hamilton as a local Santa who teaches afashion-conscious teenager about the merits of spending the holidays with hertwo fathers, rather ...
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Turtle Crossing takes out Redford's Spin
Spin,the prize-winning dramatic debut by Robert Redford's son James Redford, willembark on a limited domestic release beginning in Salt Lake City and Tucson onOct 15.The picture will be distributed through Mark Borde's SantaMonica-based Innovation Film Group, the theatrical releasing partner of SusanJackson's producers representative Turtles Crossing.The picture will receive its ...
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UK opening helps redeem King Arthur
King Arthur raised its international running total by $11.3m to $31.9mthrough Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend, powered by a strongnumber one opening in the UK.Boasting three British leads in Clive Owen, KeiraKnightley and Ioan Gruffudd, the Arthurian legend grossed $3.5m from 400screens in the UK.It recorded several other ...