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Lions Gate reports $94.2m loss
Lions Gate Entertainment recorded a $94.2m net loss for the fiscalyear ended March 31 2004 compared to $1.1m net income a year before, due inlarge part to the costly acquisition of Artisan and marketing expenses on aslew of fourth quarter releases.Revenue for the year amounted to $384.9m compared to $293.1m ...
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NORTH AMERICA 30 June
There must have been much pulling of hair and gnashing ofteeth at the neophyte right-wing outfit Move America Forward this weekfollowing the stunning number one opening of Fahrenheit 9/11. The conservative activists' were left with egg ontheir faces after a spectacularly ill-judged strategy unwittingly helpedMichael Moore and the "coalition of ...
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Day After Tomorrow flies past $300m for Fox
The Day After Tomorrow has reached $302.7m at the international box officeafter adding $13.7m from 6,447 screens in 56 territories through FoxInternational at the weekend.Roland Emmerich'seco-disaster picture added $2.7m in its fourth weekend in Japan for a $34.6mcumulative score and second place behind the record opening of Harry PotterAnd The ...
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Dawn nears $20m in Universal/UIP territories
Strike Entertainment/Universal'sDawn Of The Dead remake isapproaching $20m at the international box office after adding $388,000 from 293screens in 11 territories through UIP at the weekend.The $19.5m internationalrunning total rises to $36m for all distributors. Dawn Of The Dead has seven more UIP markets to open, starting withBelgium on Jun ...
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Japan's Short Shorts festival gets Academy accreditation
The Short Shorts FilmFestival, Japan's largest short film showcase, has received accreditation fromthe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Beginning with this year'sShort Shorts Award winner Redd Barna by Norwegian film-maker Terje Rangnes, the film that receives thefestival's top prize will be eligible for Oscar nomination."This is a great honour ...
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New Line teams with Samsung for two-year promotional alliance
New Line Cinema has signed atwo-year non-exclusive promotional alliance with Samsung Electronics, whichkicked off earlier this month with an integrated online campaign for the studio'snew romance The Notebook.The comprehensive agreementencompasses product placement and theatrical and home entertainment promotionsthat will see the studio incorporate Samsung products into its pictures, andoffer exclusive ...
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Kearey gets key marketing post at United Artists
Rebecca Kearey has been hired as vice president of marketing forUnited Artists, and moved from London to take up her Los Angeles-based postearlier this month.Kearey will be responsible for overseeing all of the division'stheatrical marketing campaigns and will report directly to UA president DannyRosett and MGM president of worldwide marketing ...
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Brother To Brother, Drag Kings get audience vote at Frameline
Frameline28, the 28th SanFrancisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, closed on Jun 27 witha gala screening of Angela Robinson's D.E.B.S. and a raft of awards.The audience award for bestfeature went to Rodney Evans' Harlem Renaissance drama Brother To Brother, while audience award for top documentary was awardedto Sonia Slutsky ...
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PGA Awards to take place on Jan 22, 2005
Next year's Producers Guildof America (PGA) awards will take place in Los Angeles on Jan 22, 2005.Nominations will beannounced on Jan 5 and both the nominations and awards ceremonies will takeplace at the Century plaza Hotel.For the first time next year'sevent will include the Producer of the Year in Variety ...
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Schalah Mitchell joins Denmead Marketing as account manager
Schalah Mitchell has joined Denmead Marketing's Los Angelesoffices as an account manager handling international theatrical publicitycampaigns.Reporting directly to Denmead Marketing president Nikki Parker,Mitchell will oversee campaigns for the company's roster of clients thatincludes Initial Entertainment Group, Senator International and Lions Gate FilmsInternational, among others.Upcoming pictures for Denmead include Initial's The ...
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Azkaban scores third biggest industry opening in Japan
Fuelled by a massive Japan bow at the weekend, Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkabanadded an estimated $40.9m from more than 9,200 screens in 50 countries to raiseits international running total to $321.7m.Alfonso Cuaron's acclaimed third episode in the hit children'sfranchise took a staggering $17.5m (Y1.9bn) from 782 screens in ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 makes box office history
Fahrenheit 9/11 opened top on $21.8m at the weekend according to studioestimates, a stupendous result for the Palme d'Or winner as it became the firstdocumentary ever to debut at number one.The result already appears to have passed the total theatricalgross of Michael Moore's previous work, the Oscar winning Bowling ForColumbine, ...
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9/11 beats White Chicks to the top of US box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 followed up its Palme d'Or triumph andcritical adulation with a stunning US box office victory at the weekend as itopened top on an estimated $21.8m.No documentary has ever opened number one here until now, and thepicture's opening salvo may already have passed the $21.6m final gross ...
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Unknown Soldier, Tarnation win top prizes at LAFF
Ferenc Toth's Unknown Soldier won the Target Filmmaker Award for bestnarrative feature and Jonathan Caouette's Cannes hit Tarnation won the Target Documentary Award at theweekend as the tenth Los Angeles Film Festival came to a close.JoshuaMarston's Maria Full Of Grace wonthe audience award for narrative feature and Mike Wranovic's Up ...
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Shrek 2 set for massive French weekend
Two wide releases have ashot at passing $300m this weekend as Warner Bros' Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban and FoxInternational's The Day After Tomorrow both approach the milestone.Studio executives will behoping that Prisoner Of Azkabancan boost its $282.2m international running total with a strong Japanese bow onSaturday (26).The signs ...
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Greenpoint Media steps in to finance African American family saga Cherrys
Greenpoint Media is to produceand finance the family drama Cherrys,which is being directed by Harry Knapp and will star Eartha Kitt, LynnWhitfield and Jurnee Smollett.The multi-generational story is based on a screenplay by DeborahGoodwin about the coming of age of an African-American teenager and the familysecrets she uncovers in the ...
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Databases merge: Hollywood Media Corp buys Studio Systems
Entertainment news outlet Hollywood Media Corp has agreed to buyLos Angeles-based database and information services Studio Systems.The new company will be called Baseline StudioSystems, integratingHollywood Media Corp's Baseline/Filmtracker subsidiary with the new acquisitionto create a database of worldwide film and televisiondata.Subject to regulatory approval, the acquisition includes HollywoodMedia Corp's aggregate ...
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Levinsohn is now president of digital media and worldwide pay TV at Fox
Peter Levinsohn has beenpromoted to president of digital media and worldwide pay television at FoxFilmed Entertainment.Levinsohn will lead effortsto set up robust content protection measures and assumes responsibility foridentifying distribution opportunities, pursuing partnerships with technologymanufacturers and maximising opportunities in emerging digital platforms.He will work closely withthe company's strategic planning unit ...
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Hollywood Film Festival launches horror, fantasy and sci-fi side-fest
Hollywood FilmFestival organisers have teamed up with underground website Film Threat to setup the Hollywood Horror, Sci-fi and Fantasy Festival, which will run alongsidethe main event.The festivalwithin a festival will screen work from emerging and established film-makersand present a range of special attractions."We are honouredto have Chris Gore and Film ...
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Lidschin named marketing manager at image.net
Cory Lidschin has been named marketing manager for North Americaat image.net, effective immediately.Based in the company's Santa Monica offices, Lidschin willimplement promotion, advertising, and public relations programmes aimedspecifically at the entertainment industry and will report to executive vicepresident for North America, Bruce Feldman.With two million annual downloads and more than ...