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The Day After Tomorrow thunders across the world
Fox International's TheDay After Tomorrow grossed an estimated $82.7m at the weekend internationalbox office, thundering across the globe with the kind of elemental ferocitythat defines Roland Emmerich's effects-laden story.Executives at the distributorsaid the amount was the biggest international opening of all time for anon-sequel, adding that the figure included some ...
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Taiwan authorities bust underground piracy lab
Taiwanese authorities have uncovered a massive illegal optical disc lab andmore than a quarter of a million pirate discs in the biggest raids yet to bestaged in the country.Officers from Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB)swooped on three sites in Changhua City and the Taichung area on May 25 ...
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High def DV trio kicks off HDNet film slate
HDNet Films, the high-definition production division ofTodd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment, has given the greenlight tothree low-budget movies to be shot this year on high definition digital video.* Quid Pro Quo is a dark comedy written and to be directed by Carlos Brooks andproduced by Midge Sanford and ...
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Touch Of Pink, D.E.B.S. bookend Frameline 28 festival
Frameline28, the 28th San Francisco International Lesbian &Gay Film Festival, will open on Jun 17 with Ian Iqbal Rashid's romantic comedy TouchOf Pink and close on Jun 27 with Angela Robinson's action comedy D.E.B.S.Overall the festival will screen more than 80 features including10 world premieres and more than 180 shorts ...
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IDP, MTV at odds over Super Size Me ad spot
Weeks after Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me wonan MTV documentary prize at the Full Frame Film festival the network has reportedlyrefused to carry an advertising spot, claiming it would be disparaging to fastfood restaurants.The picture's distributors Roadside Attractions and Samuel GoldwynFilms were preparing to place television ads before the ...
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Global markets braced for The Day After Tomorrow
Thespectacle of climatic mayhem will be writ large in the world's theatresthis weekend as Fox International launches The Day AfterTomorrow in 100countries alongside a saturation Memorial Weekend bow in the US.Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster picturehas inspired the biggest ever day-and-date release (and the only true one ofthe season) and plays ...
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Stepford Wives scoops two Golden Trailer awards
Adam Agard's trailer for Paramount's upcoming release of TheStepford Wives won the most original and summer 2004 blockbuster awards atthe fifth annual Golden Trailer Awards in Los Angeles (25).Dave Parker work on New Line's Elf won the best comedyprize while Jennifer A Horvath's trailer for New Line's The Lord Of ...
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Picture This! readies Same Sex Parents DVD bow
Picture This! will release Laurence Katrian's French teen drama SameSex Parents on DVD on Jul 27.The story centres on a young girl's convoluted personal life witha gay father, lesbian mother and confused boyfriend. When she returns home oneday to find her mother in bed with her girlfriend, all hell breaks ...
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Bynes signs on for Lovewrecked
Amanda Byneshas signed to star in Media 8 Entertainment's Lovewrecked, a familycomedy in the vein of Freaky Friday that Randal Kleiser will direct.The picture isdue to begin shooting in the Caribbean in June and centres on two teenagers whovie for the affections of a rock star at a vacation resort.Nancy ...
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TLA picks up three more for video from Cannes
TLA Releasing has picked up three more pictures for domestic videodistribution from Cannes, bringing its tally of festival acquisitions to seven.The titles are Alain Guiraudie's surreal Austrian-French roadmovie No Rest For The Brave, Gael Morel's French sibling drama ThreeDancing Slaves and Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen's landmark 1978 Danishfilm about ...
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MGM Channel prepares for Spanish launch
MGM Networks andMedia Park will re-launch and re-brand Media Park's existing canalstar channelin Spain as the MGM Channel this summer.The channel willbe dubbed into Castilian Spanish and augments Media Park's current offering ofseven channels to Spanish multi-channel subscribers.The MGM Channelin Spain will transmit from Media Park's facilities in Barcelona, presentinground-the-clock ...
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Searchlight, Paramount, MTV team up on Napoleon Dynamite
Fox Searchlight has teamed up with Paramount Pictures and MTVFilms on the release of Jared Hess' comedy Napoleon Dynamite.The picture will open domestically through Fox Searchlight inselect cities on Jun 11, while Paramount and MTV Films will handle internationaldistribution.Fox Searchlight picked up worldwide rights to the picture atSundance, where the ...
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Mattison signs to The Third Wish
Jenna Mattison is set to star in the romantic comedy The ThirdWish, which will be directed by Shelley Jensen and is due to beginproduction in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Jun 8.Cinema Libre Studio has picked up domestic distribution rights andwill release the picture theatrically in October.Based on a ...
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Sundance names first Annenberg Film Fellows
The SundanceInstitute has named the first five Annenberg Film Fellows, the film-makers whowill receive support on their projects from the recent $5m Annenberg Foundationgrant.Aditya Assarat,Sterlin Harjo, Emily Hubley, Kazuo Ohno and Alex Rivera will receive acombination of stipends, residencies and creative assistance with theirprojects.Their storiesinclude an animated feature about a ...
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DeMoulin named marketing evp at Anschutz FIlm Group
Industry veteranChris DeMoulin has been named executive vice president of marketing for theAnschutz Film Group (AFG), where he will oversee integrated marketing andmerchandising on pictures produced by Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions.DeMoulin will report directly to AFG president Cary Granat andmore specifically will be responsible for marketing, publicity, promotion,product ...
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The Film Source picks up Bollywood And Vine
AlexMassis' New York-based marketing and licensing company The Film Source has picked up worldwiderights in all media to Edward Jordon and Donald Farmer's romantic crimecaper Bollywood And Vine.Setin Hollywood, the picture centres on an Indian tour-bus driver who gets morethan he bargained for when he writes a comeback vehicle for ...
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Troy plunders $70m international weekend haul
Warner Bros enjoyed its third biggest international weekend of alltime as Troy added an estimated $71m from 10,272 screens in 58 marketsfor a $146.9m running total.Driven by mighty bows in the UK, Japan, Italy, Korea and Russiaand solid domestic business the action epic has now amassed $233.2mworldwide.Second week holdovers were ...
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Koch Lorber acquires Lipstick & Dynamite
Koch Lorber Films has picked up all US and Canadian rightsexcluding pay television to Ruth Leitman's acclaimed documentary Lipstick& Dynamite, Piss And Vinegar: The First Ladies Of Wrestling.The company plans an autumn 2004 or early 2005 release for thepicture, which premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival and played at Tribecaearlier ...
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TLA Releasing acquires A Loving Father, Moon Child
TLA Releasing's International Film Festival label has added JacobBerger's emotional drama A Loving Father and Takahisa Zeze'scrime-horror hybrid Moon Child.Real-life father-and-son pairing Gerard and Guillaume Depardieu teamup on screen for the first time in A Loving Father, in which the formerplays a Nobel prize recipient who encounters his estranged son ...
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The Ladykillers launches with strong bows in Spain, Japan
Touchstone's The Ladykillers enjoyed two strong openings in its debut markets ofSpain and Japan through Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend.The remake opened third in Spain and grossed $1m on 208screens, while Japan produced $700,000 from 140. The picture's earlyinternational running total therefore stands at $1.7m.BVI executives confirmed that ...