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I, Robot embarks on biggest international weekend yet
Columbia's Spider-Man 2 should swing past $300m at the international box officethis weekend, while Fox International's I, Robot embarks on its biggest weekend yet,buoyed by an estimated $1.2m opening day on 770 prints in France this week.The sci-fi thriller, which headlines Will Smith, is expected to boost its $10.3minternational running ...
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Regas joins Premier Public Relations in Los Angeles
Beve Regas hasjoined the Los Angeles offices of Premier Public Relations (PPR), where shewill oversee international theatrical marketing and publicity campaigns for thecompany's roster of clients.Regas willreport to PPR president Pamela Godwin-Austen, who said the new arrival'sexpertise in film and television across the independent and mainstream marketsmade her a "valuable ...
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Simonds signs first-look deal with Panther studio MGM
The PinkPanther producer RobertSimonds, who began his career as a production trainee at MGM, has returned tothe studio with a first-look deal.First up will be a remake of the 1968 family comedy Yours,Mine & Ours, which originally starredLucille Ball and Henry Fonda.Simonds has justwrapped production on The Pink Panther, which ...
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MGM staunches red ink, stays mum on 007
Dropping no hints about sales talks or the identity of the nextJames Bond actor, MGM announced second quarter results that revealed adrastically reduced net loss and $33.6m in net cash from operating activities.Second quarter revenues fell from $487.7m for the sameperiod last year to $406.1m.Second quarter 2003 results were boosted ...
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Payne to receive Vision Award from Film-makers Alliance
Academy award nominatedwriter/director Alexander Payne will receive the Film-makers Alliance's 5thAnnual Vision Award at the Directors Guild of America headquarters in LosAngeles on Aug 18."Alexander Payne is afilm-making humanist who allows us to experience his joyously idiosyncraticstories and characters from a compassionately humorous and distinctlyinsightful perspective," Jacques Thelemaque, co-founder of ...
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Holm, Broderick, Hoffman, Parker round out Candy cast
A glitteringsupporting cast has been finalised for the currently-shooting big screenversion of US TV comedy hit Strangers With Candy. Called, not surprisingly, StrangersWith Candy: The Movie,the film is a prequel to the series about a 46 year-old former junkie andprostitute who returns to high school in a bid to start ...
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Sundance Documentary Composers Lab kicks off next week
The Sundance Institute hasnamed the five documentary film-makers and six composers who will take part inits second Documentary Composers Lab.Participants will spend fivedays from Aug 1-5 at the Lab, a convergence of the Institute's Documentary FilmProgramme and Film Music Programme in which composers and film-makerscollaborate under the guidance of industry ...
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Saved! team sets up next picture at Sobini Films
Brian Dannelly is attachedto direct Sobini Films' romantic comedy The Guided Man, which is being fast-tracked for an early 2005start.Based on L. Sprague DeCamp's 1952 novel, the story centres on a timid social speaker who enlists theaid of a revolutionary service that allows another person to speak through him.Mark Amin ...
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I, Robot has powerful $3.3m opening in Australia
Fox International's sci-fithriller I, Robot continued its100% number one opening record at the weekend as a major bow in Australia drove$5.5m in ticket sales from 916 screens in nine territories.I, Robot opened on $3.3m on 346 screens Down Under for thedistributor's seventh biggest ever opening there, while Singapore produced$538,000 on ...
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Courteney Valenti promoted to evp, production, at Warner Bros
Courtenay Valenti (pictured) has been promoted to executive vice president ofproduction at Warner Bros. Valenti joined the studio in 1989 as a creative executive and roseto vice president of production two years later, eventually moving up to seniorvice president of production in 1996. She has overseen the development and production ...
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Spyglass to co-finance Geisha, Zorro with Sony
SpyglassEntertainment, which has a first-look, non-exclusive production agreement withColumbia Pictures, will co-finance the eagerly awaited Memoirs Of A Geisha and action sequel The Legend Of Zorro.Spyglass holds all international rights to bothpictures and Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) willdistribute in select markets for Spyglass. Both films are scheduled for ...
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Spider-Man 2 has $31.6m weekend on 9,000 screens
Sony's Spider-Man 2 continued its international dominance at the weekend as it addedan estimated $31.6m from 9,000 screens through Columbia Tri-Star FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) for a $267m international cumulative score.A $1.6m opening in India was the highlight of this weekend'ssmaller bows. Spideywent out on 303 screens in the sub-continent and ...
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Fahrenheit makes history as first $100m documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 fulfilled its destiny and became the first documentary in historyto pass $100m at the US box office at the weekend, reaching the milestone onSaturday (24), its 32nd day of release.Michael Moore's anti-Bush polemic grossed an estimated $5m in1,855 theatres and dropped 30% for a $103.4m running total, going ...
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Harry adds $11m, flies past $450m for Warner Bros
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban added an estimated $11m on approximately5,000 screens at the weekend to raise its international running total to$458.6m.The family picture added $2.2m on 302 screens in its secondweekend in South Korea, where it was expected to hold on to the number one ...
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Thunderbirds are so-so at UK box office
Universal-Working Title's Thunderbirds remake opened third in the UK throughUIP at the weekend - its first launch anywhere in the world - on an estimated$2.4m (£1.3m) including previews on 433 screens.The live-action family adventure version of Gerry Anderson'spuppetry and pyrotechnics television series of the 1960s trailed Spider-Man2, which was in ...
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Look At Me to open, Sideways to close New York Film Festival
Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me will open the 42nd New York Film Festival, whilePedro Almodovar's Bad Educationhas been named the Centerpiece screening and Alexander Payne's Sideways will close the event, which runs from Oct 1-17.Look At Me (Comme Une Image), Jaoui's second picture and follow-up to her 2000sex comedy The ...
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Fine Line takes English-speaking world on Out To Sea
Fine Line Features has acquired North American and allEnglish-speaking territory rights from Spain's Sogepaq to Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Alejandro Amenabar's eagerly awaitedfollow-up to The Othersthat stars Javier Bardem as real-life euthanasia campaigner Ramon Sampedro.The company plans aplatform release in the US before the end of the year and ...
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Universal is supreme with $53.5m for Bourne sequel
Universal's thriller sequel TheBourne Supremacy stormed to the topof the charts at the weekend on an estimated $53.5m, vying for attention with Fahrenheit9/11, which as expected became thefirst documentary in history to pass $100m.Paul Greengrass' $75mfollow-up to Doug Liman's 2002 hit The Bourne Identity almost doubled that picture's $27.1m bow, ...
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Universal has Supremacy over Warner's Catwoman
Universal's thriller sequel TheBourne Supremacy stormed to the topof the charts at the weekend on an estimated $53.5m, vying for attention with Fahrenheit9/11, which as expected became thefirst documentary in history to pass $100m.Paul Greengrass' $75mfollow-up to Doug Liman's 2002 hit The Bourne Identity almost doubled that picture's $27.1m bow, ...
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Thunderbirds ready to go on 600 prints in UK
Universal-Working Title'slive action version of the hit 1960s television series Thunderbirds gets its global launch in the UK this weekend,opening through UIP on 600 prints on Jul 23.Universal executives havehigh hopes for the family-friendly adaptation, and it will be intriguing to seehow diehard fans of the series receive this radically ...