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Universal's Along Came Polly scores table-topping Mexico bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly grossed an estimated $8.2m from 1,600 sites in 14 markets through UIP at theweekend to raise its international running total to $24.3m.The highlights were a firstplace $1m bow in Mexico from 233 sites including previews and second place inGermany on $2.9m from 469.The picture remained ...
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Kinnear, Davis join Brosnan black comedy Matador
GregKinnear and Hope Davis will join Pierce Brosnan in the black comedy Matador, which is being financed by Bob Yari and Mark Gordon's Stratus FilmCompany and is due to go into production in Mexico City in April.RichardShepard wrote the screenplay and will direct, with Irish DreamTime principalsBrosnan and Beau St ...
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Gothika opens top for CTFDI in Brazil, Philippines
Fired up by number oneopenings in Brazil and the Philippines, Columbia's horror picture Gothikacontinued to score steady international business at the weekend.The picture is releasedthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and grossed anestimated $410,000 from 140 screens in the Latin American market and a powerful$200,000 from 10 in the ...
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filmBUZZ claims festivalgoers are key arthouse audience
A report published yesterday(March 4) by the independent film research and tracking specialist filmBUZZreveals that festival-goers are a core constituent of arthouse audiences andplay a key role in those pictures' box office success."In our exit surveys at filmfestivals we discovered that audiences members' demographics closely mirrorthose of arthouse patrons," filmBUZZ ...
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Berlinger signs two-book deal on career, Metallica
Award-winningdocumentary film-maker Joe Berlinger has signed a two-book deal with StMartin's Press for the worldwide publishing rights to Metallica: ThisMonster Lives andBerlinger's memoirs Murder, Music & Mayhem: A Filmmaker's Mid-Career Report.Metallica:This Monster Lives isbased on Berlinger's experiences filming the legendary heavy metal band in Metallica:Some Kind Of Monster,which IFC Films ...
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Berry named ShoWest female star of the year
Halle Berry, whowill next appear as the lead in Warner Bros' Catwoman, has been named ShoWest female star ofthe year."Halle Berry is a classic," Mitch Neuhauser, co-managingdirector of the Las Vegas event, said in a statement."From theexcitement of the worldwide smash X2: X-Men United to the torment of this past ...
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CTFDI, Edko reconfigure Hong Kong partnership
Columbia TristarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) has dissolved its joint distributionventure in Hong Kong with Edko Films and named Edko its sole agent anddistributor in the market.Edko/Columbiageneral manager Li Chow will relocate to Beijing to oversee mainlanddistribution of the studio's pictures, while Edko chief Bill Kong will overseedistribution activities in Hong ...
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Coen, Redler team up on prison thriller Breakback for Millennium
Chris Coen of Halcyon Entertainment and Dan Redler of Dan Redler Entertainment are teaming up to produce the $20m prison thriller Breakback for Avi Lerner's Millennium Films.Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Peter Wetherell will serve as executive producers on the picture, which is based on a screenplay developed by ...
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Mabius, Ironside prey upon Payne's Reeker
Eric Mabius and Michael Ironside have signed on to thehorror film Reeker, which was writtenand is being directed by David Payne for Payne and Tina Illman's TheInstitution and Amanda Klein and Michael Nash's Primal Pictures.Mabius featured in Resident Evil and the upcoming Resident Evil: Apocalypse, while Ironside had a role ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Disney crisis: Eisner gets 43% no-confidence vote from shareholders
Disney chiefMichael Eisner defended his 20-year record in front of shareholders atyesterdayC;s stormy annual meeting in Philadelphia as calls for his departuregathered pace.According toreports, 43% of shareholders withheld their support for Eisner - who is bothchairman and chief executive officer - representing a strong no-confidence voteand something of a coup ...
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Batman Begins begins in Iceland for Warner Bros
Gary Oldman hasjoined the cast of Warner Bros' Batman Begins, which began shooting in Iceland thisweek and is being directed by Christopher Nolan.Oldman will play Lieutenant James Gordon, a detective onthe Gotham police force, and joins an illustrious cast that includes ChristianBale as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Michael Caine as his ...
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Universal's Polly set for big openings in Germany, Mexico
Universalexecutives will be hoping the stars continue to shine on Along Came Polly this weekend when the romantic comedygoes out wide in Germany and Mexico through UIP.The picture, which opened top in the UK last weekend andremained number one in its second weekend in Brazil, opens in Germany on Mar ...
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Turner to script BloodRayne for Uwe Boll
AmericanPsycho co-writerGuinevere Turner is writing the screenplay for Uwe Boll's adaptation of BloodRayne, based on the bestselling video gameabout a human-vampire hybrid who hunts down supernatural enemies.Shooting on the$15m production is due to kick off in the Greater Vancouver area and EasternEurope in late summer.Turner, whoseother writing credits include Go ...
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Rentrak hires Springer for global box office tracking system
RentrakTheatrical, a subsidiary of Oregon-based information management companyRentrak, has hired industry veteran Rob Springer to head up the expansion ofits global box office tracking system Box Office Essentials.Springer, whomost recently served as executive director of sales administration atParamount, will be based in Los Angeles and is a key appointment as ...
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Eisner stripped of chairman's title
Walt Disney's powerful chief executive officer Michael Eisner was forced last night to hand over the chairman's title to George J. Mitchell, in order to placate a rising tide of shareholder resentment over what they see as his imperious management style and a poor company performance.The embattled Eisner was put ...