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Warner Bros signs first volume TV deal in China
Marking its first-evervolume programming distribution deal with a Chinese broadcaster, Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-yeartelevision deal with China Movie Channel (CCTV-6).The deal calls allows CCTV-6to broadcast selected current and library feature films as well asmade-for-television movies and was negotiated by WBITD's director of strategicdevelopment and sales ...
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Oscar names its 2005 dates: Feb 27 is the big night
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has setits key dates for next season with the 77th Academy Awards scheduled to takeplace on Feb 27 2005 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Nominationballots will be mailed on Dec 27 2004, the polls will close at 5pm PST on Jan15 2005 ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed scampered to the top of the US charts with $29.4m at the weekend, averaging a healthy $8,888 from 3,312 sites. Family specialist Raja Gosnell's follow-up to his 2002 original didn't come close to that picture's $54.1m opening weekend, although it didn't open in a lucrative summer ...
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Scooby Doo 2 races out of the gate with $4.1m
The family sequel Scooby-Doo2 grossed an estimated $4.1m in ninemarkets through Warner Bros Pictures International at the weekend.Highlights of the limitedday-and-date release with the US, where the picture opened top on an estimated$30.7m, included a superb $369,016 from 35 screens in Singapore (includingpreviews) and $267,285 from 105 in Sweden. Both ...
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King continues to rule, takes $5m over weekend
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King added $5m from 2,225 screens in 57 markets at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $717.9m.Combined with its $374.6mdomestic gross, The Return Of The King has racked up $1.1bn in worldwide ticketsales.The picture added $1m in ...
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50 First Dates scores big in Australian debut for CTFDI
A$2.2m number one Australian opening for Fifty First Dates was the highlight of Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International's (CTFDI) weekend.Theromantic comedy recorded the biggest ever opening in the market for AdamSandler and overall grossed $2.6m in its markets, raising its early internationalrunning total to $4.7m.PeterPan grossed $2.2m for a $50.3mindustry-wide cumulative ...
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BVI's Bear hugs on to top spot in Spain, Germany
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Brother Bear added $10.2mat the weekend to raise its international running total to $129.8m.Key drivers in the picture'sbountiful haul were a number one $2.6m bow in Spain on 401 screens for theindustry's biggest ever spring release and the third biggest animated bow everbehind Finding Nemo and Tarzan.It ...
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Gaiss promoted to director of publicity at Fox International
Martin Gaiss has beenpromoted to director of publicity at Fox International, where he will continueto devise and implement strategy and events and develop his responsibilities innew media and creative online publicity.Gaiss, whose campaigncredits include Titanic, The Full Monty, the X-Men franchise andthe upcoming The Day After Tomorrow,is based in Los ...
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Nina's Tragedies to open US Israel Film Festival
Savi Gabizon's Nina'sTragedies will open the 20th annualIsrael Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US that runsin Los Angeles from Apr 29-May 13 and this year focuses on coming-of-agestories and the decay of the kibbutz system.All in all 37 Israelinarrative features, documentaries and shorts will screen ...
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Beloved, Oscar-winning Ustinov dies in Switzerland aged 82
Sir Peter Ustinov, the double Oscar-winning British actor, writer,raconteur and humanitarian, has died aged 82.According to reports, Ustinov passed away on Sunday aftersuffering a heart attack at his Swiss home.Over the course of an acting career spanning seven decades heimbued a variety of roles with his trademark wit and irascible ...
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Independent producers and MPAA settle over screeners
The Coalition of IndependentFilmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York have dropped their antitrustlawsuit against the MPAA following the Hollywood lobby group's de factorevocation of the screener ban.All parties have agreed todismiss the pending Antidote Int'l Films Inc et al v MPAA litigation in aconfidential settlement.The case was originallyfiled last November ...
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Wellspring acquires US rights to Fontaine's Nathalie
USindependent distributor Wellspring, which was recently acquired by AmericanVantage Media Corporation, has picked up all US rights to Anne Fontaine'serotic drama Nathalie, starringGerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emanuelle Beart.Thepicture will receive its West Coast premiere at the City of Lights, City ofAngels Film Festival in Los Angeles on Mar 30 ...
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Tunnell promoted, Franklin & Siegel retained at Deutsch/Open City
JasonKliot and Joana Vicente's New York production outfit Deutsch/Open City haspromoted Tory Tunnell to vice president and retained the New York literaryagency Franklin & Siegel Associates to scout books for the company.Themoves come as Deutsch/Open City grows to fulfill its mandate to develop andproduce quality, mid-to-higher budget range pictures."We'rethrilled with ...
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Scooby dooby does it again with $30.7m weekend
Warner Bros' family sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ushered in a new number one at theweekend - not to mention another film featuring a colon and a lengthy title -as it opened on an estimated $30.7m.Buena Vista's remake The Ladykillers opened second on $13m, a record bow fora film directed ...
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Polly adds another $5.7m over weekend for Universal
Universal's Along Came Polly boosted its international running total by an estimated$5.7m to $62m through UIP at the weekend.The romantic comedy played on 2,300 screens in 27 markets andstill has 21 markets to open including Russia, Sweden, Turkey and Korea nextweekend.Highlights were a 44% drop-off in its fourth week in ...
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Passion continues to burn for Fox in Latin America
The Passion Of The Christ continued its surging run in Latin America through FoxInternational at the weekend as it added $9m for a $25m running total inthe region.The picture finished top in all its markets and set new recordsfor the distributor in all its opening Latin American markets.It opened on ...
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Bosnian crime movie gets top prize at Bermuda Film Festival
Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletic's Sarajevo-set crime caper SummerIn The Golden Valley haswon the jury prize for best narrative feature at the seventh Bermuda InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)."The film is very lyrical, but also very tough," narrativefeatures jury chair Willem Dafoe said in a statement. "It is poetic but notsentimental. Even though ...
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Tribeca unveils May festival lineup, 30 world premieres
30 world premieres willscreen at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from May 1-9 in NewYork City and for the first time includes the NY, NY Features and NY, NYDocumentaries sections among the five competition strands.Overall 65 films from around the world have been culled from arecord 3,300 submissions, ...
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Directors Ratner, Craven, Toback attend Brown's Ivy Film Fest
Students on thecampus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, have put together animpressive array of guests and films for their upcoming Ivy Film Festival whichruns Apr 9 to 11.Directors Wes Craven, Brett Ratner and James Toback and AmericanSplendor icon HarveyPekar will speak alongside CAA agent Roy Ashton, Greenfield Productions'director ...
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Myriad takes on Meltdown, Evel for MIP
Continuing a move into TV distribution, Myriad Pictures has beenretained as international sales agent on the telefilms American Meltdown for ApolloScreen and Evel for sister company ApolloProScreen.American Meltdown is set for broadcast on the FX Network this summer and tells thestory of a gang of ex-US Marines who commandeer a ...