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Dawn Of The Dead crosses $95m worldwide for Strike, Universal
Universal/Strike's Dawn Of The Dead crossed $95m at the worldwide box officethis week after adding $400,000 in 13 markets through UIP at the weekend.The horror remake has amassed a$20m international running total through UIP, rising to $37m through alldistributors.Van Helsing is still active in 20 countries and has grossed$145m to ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins multiple box office records
Sony's Spider-Man 2 leapt into action over the Independence Day holiday weekend,easily ranking top as it spun an estimated $115.8m record gross for Friday toMonday and an all-time high of $180.1m in its first six days.Both marks stem from the sequel's $40.5m record opening day lastWednesday (Jun 30) and studio ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins multiple box office records
Sony's Spider-Man 2 leapt into action over the Independence Day holiday weekend,easily ranking top as it spun an estimated $115.8m record gross for Friday toMonday and an all-time high of $180.1m in its first six days.Both marks stem from the sequel's $40.5m record opening day lastWednesday (Jun 30) and studio ...
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IFP/New York moves Gotham Awards to Dec
IFP/New York has moved tobolster the awards season credibility of its annual Gotham Awards by switchingthe gala date from September to December and introducing two new awards.The 14th Annual GothamAwards will take place on Dec 1, when for the first time awards will bepresented for best feature and best documentary.In ...
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LA-based Blacklight Films launches stock footage library
Industry veteran LouisSchwartzberg, whose directorial debut America's Heart And Soul is due to go on limited release through Buena Vistaon Jul 2, has launched a stock footage library within his production companyBlackLight Films.The new resource includesmore than 4,500 scenes of natural beauty and indigenous peoples from around theworld, including 350 ...
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Six composers named for Sundance Lab in July
The Sundance Instituteyesterday (29) named the six participants in its 7th Annual Sundance InstituteComposers Lab, which is due to run from Jul 20-Aug 4.This year's Composers LabFellows are Peter Fitzpatrick, Aiko Fukushima, Joseph Julian Gonzalez, GaryLouris, Raz Mesinai and Michael Torke.The two-week lab falls underthe aegis of the Institute's Film ...
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Sony, IMAX to remaster Spider-Man 2 for large screen format
IMAX Corp and Sony are in talks to digitally remaster and convert Spider-Man2 for the big screenformat, with a release scheduled for mid-July.If the deal is truck, this would be the first time the studio haspartnered with IMAX Corp, which teamed up with Warner Bros on the last two Matrix ...
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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 ...