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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 ...
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Sundance Institute unveils first documentary grants for 2004
Eleven feature-length documentaries covering subjectsas diverse as women prisoners in Yemen to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocidewill receive a total of $395,000 in the first round of grants awarded by theSundance Institute Documentary Fund for 2004.The fund was set up in 2002 as a result of a gift by ...
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Magnolia acquires US rights to Al-Jazeera doc Control Room
Magnolia Pictures has acquired domestic rights to Jehane Noujaim'sControl Room, abehind-the-scenes look at the Al-Jazeera network's coverage of the recent Iraqwar and the criticisms it faced for its coverage.Magnolia will open the documentary in New York in mid-May followedby a nationwide release. Control Room premiered at Sundance earlier this year.The ...
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Cheaper goes up against Starsky in Germany
Germany is shaping up to be the comedy battleground this upcomingweekend as Fox International's Cheaper By The Dozen goes up against Buena Vista International's(BVI) Starsky & Hutch.Cheaper By The Dozen opens on a wide 605 prints and executives will be looking tobuild on the comedy's $40m international running total.Starsky & ...
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ContentFilm follows up Never Die Alone with Daddy Cool
ContentFilm has greenlit the screen adaptation of cult 1970swriter Donald Goines' hitman drama Daddy Cool.The New York-based company announced it would finance and producethe project just days before Friday's release (26) through Fox Searchlight ofits other Goines adaptation, Never Die Alone.Never Die Alone director Ernest Dickerson is expected to direct ...
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Antonellis gets top anti-piracy job at Warner Bros
Darcy Antonellis has been named senior vice president of worldwideanti-piracy operations at Warner Bros Entertainment, a new post that puts theveteran entertainment technician in charge of protecting the company'sintellectual property.Reporting to executive vice president of corporate businessdevelopment and strategy Kevin Tsujihara, Antonellis will lead the studio'sIntellectual Property Council and coordinate ...
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Organisation relaunches as Australians In Film
The non-profit Australians In Film (formerly The Los AngelesAustralian Film and Television Association) has relaunched boasting celebrityambassadors including Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, a new board of advisorsand a slate of events.The new-look organisation kicked off 2004 by co-presenting theJurlique Australian Film Festival in January and hosting a sold-out screeningof ...
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THINKFilm acquires Boston Red Sox movie for North America
New York-based THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to TheBoston Red Sox Movie,which chronicles the highs and lows of the legendary baseball team set againstthe tumultuous 2003 season and is scheduled to open in Boston on May 7.Produced by sports filmproduction house Bombo Sports & Entertainment, the film covers lastyear's ...
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Hollywood costs go through the roof
The average cost to MPAA-affiliated studios of making andmarketing a film crossed $100m for the first time in 2003, outgoing MPAApresident Jack Valenti announced at ShoWest yesterday (23).Combined US box office for MPAA films was the second highestin history, dropping 0.3% against last year's $9.5bn record tally for $9.47bn,while the ...
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Starsky & Hutch claim top spot in UK on $8.2m
Starsky & Hutch claimed the number one spot inits second weekend in the UK on an estimated $8.2m from 429 screens followingwide expansion through Buena Vista International (BVI).The 1970s television adaptation opened on platform releaselast weekend and has taken $8.6m in the early stages of its international run.It opens in ...
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Valenti: Hollywood's global ticket take passes $20bn
The worldwidetheatrical marketplace was worth an unprecedented $20.5bn in ticket sales forthe US studios and their affiliates, declared MPAA chief Jack Valenti on theopening day of ShoWest exhibitors' convention in Las Vegas.With worldwideadmissions dropping 5% last year, Valenti also acknowledged that thisrecord-breaking dollar figure came as a result of rising ...
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Disney's Brother Bear claws in $200m
An estimated $10.1m international weekend haul propelled Disney's BrotherBear past $200m inworldwide ticket sales, making it Disney's 16th animated title to reach themark.The picture raised its international running total to $115.5m andhas taken more than $85m at the domestic box office.Weekend business was fuelled chiefly by a $4.7m number one ...
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Almodovar enjoys career-best Spanish opening
Pedro Almodovar scored his best ever opening in Spain at theweekend when Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) grossed an estimated $1.6m and 245,000 admissions from 158prints in his home country.The El Deseo production, which will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, was released through Warner BrosPictures International and ...
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IMAX signs deal with Showplace Cinemas to open theatre in Indiana
IMAX Corp has signed a dealto open an IMAX theatre in one of Indiana-based Showplace Cinemas' multiplexesin Evansville, Indiana.The opening is expected totake place in November at a specific location to be announced shortly and willemploy the company's unique MPX theatre system.The MPX technology allowsmultiplex operators to instal an IMAX ...