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Singapore set as host for Indian International Academy Awards
The 2004 InternationalIndian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held on May 22 in Singapore.The IIFA presentationceremony launched four years ago at London's Millennium Dome and is thehighlight of a three-day show honouring the best of Indian cinema.The IIFA Weekend will runfrom May 20-22, culminating in the fifth IIFA Awards ...
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Brother Bear has huge openings in Italy, Israel for BVI
Buena Vista International's (BVI) animated picture Brother Bear is closing in on $100m at theinternational box office thanks to a record-breaking $6.6m weekend haul thatraised its running total to $95.8m.The picture opened top in Italy on $2.7m from 439 screens, whichwas the second biggest animated bow ever behind BVI's Finding ...
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Emily Olsen named corporate PR head for Samy Boy
Emily M Olsen, the founder of StellarQuest Public Relations andConsulting, has been named director of corporate communications for Samy BoyEntertainment and its affiliated companies.Olsen, with the support of fellow new hire Shannon Loughead, willoversee branding and marketing for Samy Boy Entertainment, Element Films,Shelter Supper Club, The Gate, Sam Nazarian's personal ...
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Dead, Lives get extended sneak peaks in US
Demonstrating a new twist on the theatrical marketing model,Universal and USA Network are teaming up to screen an unprecedented telecast ofthe uncut first 10 minutes of the forthcoming horror remake Dawn Of The Dead in the US.Meanwhile Warner Bros and Village Roadshow are preparing to air the firstnine-minutes of the ...
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Movision, Spice Factory step in to rescue The River King
UK-based production and financing companies Movision and SpiceFactory have stepped in to join Myriad Pictures as co-financiers onsupernatural murder mystery The River King, which is due to begin production in Canada later thismonth.The film is the latest to be rescued after the UK tax clampdownlast month left it on the ...
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Something's Gotta Give closes in on $100m international
The romantic comedy Something'sGotta Give added an estimated $8.3m from 2,400 screens at the weekend,raising its international cumulative total to $91.1m.Released internationallythrough Warner Bros, the picture grossed $6.9m in European markets for a $64.6mregional total there.It has amassed $18.5m in theAsia-Pacific region and $8m in Latin America.
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Passion stays top, races past $200m in second weekend
Newmarket Film's ThePassion Of The Christ streaked past $200m in its second weekend, holding onto top spot and adding an estimated $51.4m for $212m.Newmarket president BobBerney said Mel Gibson's picture fell only 39% - a very strong hold bearing inmind releases of this scale typically fall 50% in their second ...
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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 ...