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BVI's Brother Bear stays top in Germany for fifth week
Buena Vista's animated hit BrotherBear grossed $3m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend, raising its international running total toa superb $156.7m.The picture remained top in Germany for the fifth consecutive weekand is the first picture to do so since local hit Goodbye, Lenin! last year. Final figures were unconfirmedat ...
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Whore goes to US through Screen Media
Screen Media Films haspicked up North American rights from Dolores Pictures to Maria Lidon's Whore, starring Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards and Joaquimde Almeida.Whore will get its USpremiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in May, where it plays in thefeature competition. The company is planning a theatrical release ...
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Scooby has $11.2m weekend, holds at top in UK for third weekend
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed lapped up an estimated $11.2m at theweekend, raising its international running total to $65m.The highlight was a first place $2.8m hold from 490 screens in itsthird weekend in the UK for a $23.5m running total there and an unconfirmedthird place in Italy on $1.2m from 300 ...
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Dawn takes $2m over the weekend in Universal territories
Universal's horror remake Dawn Of The Dead grossed an estimated $2m through UIP atthe weekend, where the highlight was second place in Germany behind BrotherBear on $1.1m from 347screens.The promising start grossed 92% more than the Texas ChainsawMassacre and 18% morethan House On Haunted Hill.The picture opened top in Austria ...
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Hungary presents benefits of new film law to LA studios, producers
The extent to which US and international producers can benefitfrom Hungary's new film laws was outlined at a special presentation hosted bythe Hungarian Consul General in Los Angeles late last week.As of Apr 1 productions shooting in Hungary will be eligible for a20% tax rebate on the Hungarian spend. Alternatively, ...
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Loggia, Harmon, Feore join cast of The Deal
Robert Loggia, Angie Harmon, Colm Feore and John Heardhave joined the cast of Front Street Films, Milestone Entertainment and MyriadPictures' Wall Street thriller The Deal,which has started shooting in Vancouver.Christian Slater and Selma Blair star in a story of covertgovernment business, illegal oil trading, blackmail and the Russian mafia.Harvey Kahn ...
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Desi Del Valle leaves Frameline Distribution
FramelineDistribution director Desi del Valle has announced she is leaving the SanFrancisco-based non-profit distributor of gay and lesbian cinema to pursue otherinterests including her acting career.Del Valle joinedFrameline, which also presents the San Francisco International Lesbian &Gay Film Festival, in 1992 as a distribution assistant, taking overdistribution two years later.Maura ...
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Bill kills competition at the box office
Vengeance was the ticket atthe weekend as Miramax's Kill Bill Vol 2 opened on a company record estimated at $25.6m while Lions Gate'sMarvel Comics adaptation The Punisher came in second on $14m.The concluding part ofQuentin Tarantino's revenge saga opened to superb reviews and averaged $8,604from 2,971 theatres.Uma Thurman continues whereshe ...
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MK2 snares rights to restore, release Keaton collection
Sherlock Jr,The Navigator and GoWest are among a rosterof Buster Keaton pictures to be restored for digital theatrical releasefollowing an agreement between The Douris Corporation and MK2.Under the terms of the deal Douris, whose 700+ Rohauerlibrary includes rights to the silent star's films, has agreed that Paris-basedMK2, the worldwide distributor ...
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Massis picks up Spook for The Film Source
Alex Massis' NewYork-based marketing and licensing company The Film Source has picked up rightsfor worldwide representation in all media to Barry Levy's supernatural thiller Spook.Based on the memoirs of an unidentified former CIAoperative, the film follows a Vietnam veteran's bid to expose Canada's covertrole in the South-East Asian war.Levy, who ...
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Secret Window looks to prise open Euro markets
The thriller Secret Window goes on its first international rampage this weekend with openings inFrance on 400 (Apr 14) and Spain, Italy and Brazil two days later on 254, 250and 61 prints respectively.Executives at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) will be hoping for some strong bows to propel the picture ...
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Millennium extends deal with Emmett/Furla for ten new films
Avi Lerner's MillenniumFilms has extended its non-exclusive international distribution deal to handlea further ten pictures for Emmett/Furla Films.The partners' most recentundertaking is David Burke's $25m journalism thriller Edison starring Justin Timberlake, Morgan Freeman, KevinSpacey and L L Cool J that began shooting in Vancouver last month.Emmett/Furla is in postproduction with ...
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Theron, Ricci among Outfest gay and lesbian Screen Idols 2003
Monster and Angels In America dominated LA Outfest's fourth annual Screen Idolawards in honour of the best four performances in a gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered role in a feature film or movie for television.Charlize Theron won the leadactress award for her Oscar winning performance as the serial killer AileenWuornos in ...
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TV4 signs long-term deal with MGM for Nordic market
MGM Networks has signed adeal to provide an MGM-branded film block every Monday night on the new NordicTV4 Film Channel, as well as a long-term supply of pictures that will airacross the channel.The TV4 Film Channel isscheduled to debut this month and will be available to cable, satellite and DTTsubscribers ...
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Horizon acquires Proteus to launch at Cannes
Vancouver-based productionand international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to John Greyson and Jack Lewis' 18th century interracialgay love story Proteus.The South African-Canadianco-production will receive its first market screening at Cannes and will screenas part of a South African retrospective at the festival to mark the 10thanniversary of ...
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Horizon acquires Proteus for Cannes launch
Vancouver-based productionand international sales company Horizon Entertainment has picked upinternational rights to John Greyson and Jack Lewis' 18th century, interracialgay, love story Proteus.The South African-Canadianco-production will receive its first market screening at Cannes and will screenas part of a South African retrospective at the festival to mark the 10thanniversary of ...
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Israeli box office hit goes to Wellspring in North America
US distributor Wellspring hasacquired all North American rights to Savi Gabizon's Israeli box office hit Nina'sTragedies.Wellspring plans an early2005 US release for the picture, which won 11 Israeli Academy Awards andrecounts a turbulent year in the life of a Tel Aviv family through the eyes ofa sensitive teenage boy.Marie Therese ...
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Miramax score best ever openings in Spain, Australia
Miramax's Scary Movie 3 opened top in Spain through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend on a superb $3.8m for the fifth biggest BVIlive-action bow ever and the best opening for a Miramax title.Overall the sequel grossed$5.3m at the weekend to raise the international running total from BVI marketsto $70.4m.Starsky ...
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Restored Wang movie to kick off VC Film Festival in LA
A newly restored print ofWayne Wang's 1982 crime drama Chan Is Missing will kick off the 20th anniversary edition of theVisual Communications (VC) Film Festival 2004, which runs in Los Angeles fromApr 29-May 6.The annual showcase of Asianand Asian-American films will screen more than 100 features and shorts,including the US ...
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Scooby Doo 2 is top of the heap in UK, Mexico
Powered bystrong holds in parts of Europe and Latin America, Scooby-Doo 2: MonstersUnleashed grossed anestimated $15m at the weekend to raise its international running total to$44.2m.The familysequel, which is distributed through Warner Bros Pictures International, stayedtop in its second weekends in the UK and Mexico on $4.2m for $16.5m and ...