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Mirren to be honoured with Britannia Award by BAFTA/LA
Helen Mirren will receiveBAFTA LA's Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in InternationalEntertainment at the 2004 Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 4.Mirren can currently be seenopposite Robert Redford in Fox Searchlight's kidnap drama The Clearing, and is filming the contract killer thriller Shadowboxer opposite Cuba Gooding Jr.A veteran of ...
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Azkaban, Troy now in Warner's top five international hitlist
Warner Bros confirmedyesterday (12) that Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Troywere the studio's fourth and fifth biggest international releases of all timerespectively.Azkaban reached $405.3m at the international box officefollowing a $21.7m weekend haul and lies behind the first two Harry Potterinstalments and The Matrix Reloadedin Warner Bros' ...
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Mythos Studios starts production on Poetry Slam doc
Mythos Studios, the filmmaking arm of Austin, Texas-based advertising agency GSD&M, has begunproduction on the poetry slam documentary Slam Channel.Executive producer TimMcClure is collaborating with producer and co-directors Mike Henry and KyleFuller of Confessions Multimedia and producer Chris Ohlson of 824 Pictures.Scheduled to open nextspring, the picture follows a team ...
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Years takes up European marketing job at WBITD
Chandra Yearshas been promoted to vice president of European marketing at Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The Burbank-based Years will relocate to London to overseeWBITD's marketing, publicity and servicing executives and staff throughoutEurope, and support WBITD's European sales executives on marketing campaigns.She willcontinue to report to Lisa Gregorian, senior vice president ...
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Walden ties up five family pictures with Fox
Twentieth Century Fox andWalden Media have signed a five-picture production and distribution deal inwhich Fox will handle worldwide releasing on all titles.The slate includes threepreviously announced adaptations of acclaimed children's novels - Wendy Orr's Nim'sIsland, Katherine Paterson's BridgeTo Terebithia and Lois Lowry's TheGiver - and Kate DiCamillo's BecauseOf Winn-Dixie and ...
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Spider-Man 2 scores $53m haul in 50 territories
Spider-Man 2 smashed through $100m during its secondinternational weekend as it grossed an estimated $53m on 6,754 screens in 50territories for a $115.7m running total.The arachnid spun superbopenings through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) inJapan, Germany and Scandinavia and enjoyed several strong holds including aremarkable performance in Brazil.It opened ...
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Harry cracks the $400m barrier for Warner International with $20.3m weekend
Warner Bros' Harry PotterAnd The Prisoner Of Azkaban passed$400m at the international box office at the weekend after an estimated $20.3mhaul on more than 6,700 screens in 51 countries.The family picture's grossis now an estimated $403.8m and weekend magic was driven by a mighty $8.9mthird weekend haul on 757 screens ...
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MPAA survey concludes that one in four internet users has downloaded film illegally
A survey of internet use in eight countries conducted by the MPAAand online research company OTX has revealed that nearly one in four users haveillegally downloaded a film at some point.Researchers interviewed respondents in the US, UK, Germany,France, Italy, Australia, South Korea and Japan, and found that on average 24%of ...
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IFC Films takes US rights to Nobody Knows, Edukators
IFC Films has picked up USdistribution rights to two award-winning pictures that screened in competitionat Cannes this year, Kore-eda Hirokaza's Nobody Knows and Hans Weingartner's The Edukators.International sales for bothtitles are being handled by Celluloid Dreams.Nobody Knows is styled as a heartbreaking and humorous account ofthe daily lives of four ...
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Spider-Man 2 fends off strong attack from Anchorman
Sony's Spider-Man 2 was too strong for the opposition at the weekend,beating off the challenges of Anchorman and King Arthur to staytop on an estimated $46m for $257.3m after its second weekend.The arachnid passed $200mafter a record eight days last week and is roughly $20m ahead of its 2002predecessor at ...
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Spider-Man 2 continues to dominate US box office
Sony's Spider-Man 2 was too strong for the opposition at the weekend,beating off the challenges of Anchorman and King Arthur to staytop on an estimated $46m for $257.3m after its second weekend.The arachnid passed $200mafter a record eight days last week and is roughly $20m ahead of its 2002predecessor at ...
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Empire launches US video arm with 9/11 shorts
Arthouse distributor Empire Pictures is set to launchvideo arm Empire Pictures Home Entertainment this autumn with September 11(11'09"01), the composite work featuringthe responses of 11 film-makers to 9/11.The divisionwill be headed up by executive vice president and industry veteran StevePennie, who most recently served as director of national accounts for ...
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Spider-Man 2 to get IMAX treatment
IMAX andColumbia Pictures have struck a deal whereby Spider-Man 2 will be digitally remastered for releaseon IMAX screens around the world beginning Jul 23."When you have amovie like Spider-Man 2,it makes sense to offer audiences an opportunity to experience the film in thisincredible format," Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony ...
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du Toit named programming director at Palm Springs shorts fest
Helen du Toit has been nameddirector of short film programming at the tenth Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films, which is scheduled to run from Aug 31-Sept 6.Du Toit was oneof the programmers for the 2004 Palm Springs International Film Festival andhas worked for film festivals including Seattle and Toronto ...
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Global Film Initiative takes US rights to Whisky
US-basedcharitable trust the Global Film Initiative has picked up Juan Pablo Rebellaand Pablo Stoll's Cannes award-winning drama Whisky for its Global Lens touring filmsseries.The Initiative is also partnering up with the Museum ofModern Art for the New York premiere, which is expected some time in Decemberas part of MoMA's 10-week ...
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Spider-Man 2 prepares for second wave attack
Barely one week into release, Sony's Spider-Man 2 has already spun such a solid international platformthat a raft of second wave releases in several major markets and strongholdovers elsewhere could take it past $100m this weekend.The comic book sequel has amassed $60.5m to date and was dueto open in Germany ...
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Dirty Pretty Things script wins top Humanitas prize
Steven Knight's screenplayfor the drama Dirty Pretty Thingswon the feature film category in the 30th Humanitas Prize ceremony in LosAngeles yesterday (8), earning $25,000 as judges praised its "stark andrealistic depiction of the life of undocumented workers".Jacob Estes claimed the$10,000 Sundance Feature Film honour for the screenplay to his directorialdebut ...
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Harry Potter flies high in Japan with $11.5m in second weekend
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban grossed an estimated $26.2m from morethan 8,460 screens in 50 countries at the weekend, raising its internationalrunning total to $369.4m.In its second weekend in Japan the family picture took a superb$11.5m and remained top with a $38.2m cumulative score.Azkabanraised its UK total by ...
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...while industry opening records broken in 12 international territories
Sony's Spider-Man 2 launched its international run with a powerful $43m haul from morethan 28 territories at the weekend, fuelled by a spectacular Asian blitz thatdefied a typhoon and beat all-time records in seven out of eight markets.All in all the sequel brokeopening records in 12 markets and set the ...
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North American box office basks in Spider-man 2's holiday glory...
Sony executives have estimatedfour and six-day opening records for Spider-Man 2 in a triumphant Independence Day holiday weekend, tempered only by thefact that the original picture's legendary three-day mark remained unbeaten.Sam Raimi's sequel opened topin the US charts and grossed $180m from Wednesday to Monday and $115.8m fromFriday to Monday, ...