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GreeneStreet to tackle New York Cosmos documentary
New York-based financing andproduction house GreeneStreet Films is teaming up with Passion Pictures andCactus Three on its first documentary Once In A Lifetime, which charts the rise and fall of the New YorkCosmos soccer team.Principal photographyrecently began in New York and filming will continue in Florida, London andother international locations.John ...
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Translation takes $1m in Spain, Actually is top in Taiwan for Universal
Universal's Love Actually opened top in Taiwan on a strong $235,000 from 60 prints,which includes $62,000 from previews.The romantic comedy had a strong holdover in its second weekend inJapan, adding $1.6m from 234 sites for $5.7m.Overall the picture has grossed $161m at the international boxoffice.Focus Features' Lost In Translation scored ...
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Something's hot for Warner with $16.1m weekend
The romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give grossed an estimated $16.1m throughWarner Bros Pictures International at the weekend, raising its early cumulativetotal to an impressive $38.6m.It opened top on Germany on$3.7m from 536 screens and top in Spain on $1.8m from 232.The UK dropped 4% on $2.1m for $5.6m in its ...
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Mona Lisa Smile adds $3.3m for Columbia TriStar
Mona Lisa Smile grossed an estimated $3.3 from 1,920 screens for Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising its CTFDI totalto $39.9m and $48.6m industry-wide.The drama fell to second place in Germany, slipping 37% on $1.2mfor a $10.7m total there.The drama Big Fish opened second in New Zealand ...
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Sandler's back at number one for Valentine's Day
Columbia's romantic comedy Fifty First Dates was the emphatic box office winner atthe weekend as it opened top on a superb estimated $41m - another smash hitopening for its star Adam Sandler.Estimatesput it at the second biggest February bow ever behind Hannibal in 2001 ($58m) and a pinch above Daredevil, ...
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Rings set for final theatrical outing in Japan
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King will notch up another milestone thisupcoming weekend when it passes $600m at the international box office.Spurred on by its final major market opening in Japan on Feb 14 on750 prints and what should be another batch of decent holdovers in ...
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Sundance programme alumnus Hartsfield wins Maryland Fellowship
Caran Hartsfield's drama Bury Me Standing will receive the 2004 Producers Club ofMaryland Fellowship, set up to help a Sundance Institute Feature Film Programmealumnus with a feature project.The annual fellowship provides a $10,000 grant to help fund afilmmaker's post-Sundance Lab and pre-production expenses, which may includecasting, budgeting, and location scouting.Caran ...
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In America and Eternal Sunshine bookend Bermuda fest
Jim Sheridan's award-winning drama In America will open the 2004 Bermuda InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF) on Mar 19 while Michael Gondry's romantic comedy EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind and David Mackenzie's Young Adam will close the event on Mar 25.Seventy-two pictures willscreen at the event, which includes competition feature and documentarycategories ...
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Fox plans movie based on BRATZ fashion dolls
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned live-action/animation featurefilm rights for MGA Entertainment's best-selling BRATZ fashion dolls while 20thCentury Home Entertainment has already started production on a direct-to-videospin-off."The BRATZ dolls are a true phenomenon that has taken the toy dollindustry by storm," Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Jim Gianopulos said in astatement.He added: ...
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Senator takes on sales of Gold Circle comedy starring Chris Klein
Senator International will handle international sales on GoldCircle's high concept comedy The Long Weekend, which stars Chris Klein (AmericanPie) and Brendan Fehr (BikerBoyz, Final Destination).Currently shooting in Vancouver, the film has already been pickedup by Entertainment Film Distributors for UK distribution and HoytsCinemas/Universal have jointly acquired distribution rights in Australia.Written ...
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John Davis named producer of the year at ShoWest 2004
Veteran producer John Davis, whose credits include The Firm,Predator and Heartbreakers, is to receive the ShoWest 2004 Producerof the Year at the annual exhibitors convention in Las Vegas next month."With such box office winners as Paycheck and Daddy Day Care as his most recent releases and theupcoming Garfield andI Robot, ...
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Echo Bridge to launch at AFM, armed with PM library and 94 CineTel titles
Veteran entertainment industry executives Michael Alexander, DougHamilton, Michael Rosenblatt and Lucie Salhany have teamed up to form the worldwidesales and distribution company Echo Bridge Entertainment.The company, which will get its official launch at the upcomingAFM, operates with a mandate to acquire "commercially driven" pictures forworldwide distribution and to target and ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Opening off the chart in 37th place this week, with $142,632, was Fox Searchlight's The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci's heady tale of sexual awakening at the time of the 1968 student riots in Paris.It opened in five New York and Los Angeles theatres for a superb $28,526 per-site average that defied ...
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Ariel Veneziano joins Greene Street as sales head
Ariel Veneziano has joined GreeneStreet Films International (GFI)as vice president, where his chief duties will include supervising thedivision's marketing, distribution and administrative functions andselling all GreeneStreet Films and Raw Nerve productions in select territories.Veneziano will report to Cedric Jeanson, GFI president andGreeneStreet Films partner, with whom he will work to ...
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Tom Cruise serves as honorary chair at Independent Spirits
Tom Cruise will serve as honorary chair for the 2004 IFPIndependent Spirit Awards, which are set to take place in Santa Monica on Feb28."We are so pleased to honour Tom Cruise and his ongoing commitmentto independent film," IFP/Los Angeles executive director Dawn Hudson said in astatement."He has used his position ...
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Tupperware! movie in the works at Crossroads
Crossroads Films has optioned film rights to Laurie Kahn-Leavitt'sdocumentary Tupperware!and plans to turn it into a narrative feature charting the history of therevolutionary kitchenware design.Narrated by Kathy Bates, Tupperware! made its national debut on PBS'sAmerican Experience strand; it traces the rise of reclusive inventor Earl Tupper'shumble plastic bowls to the ...
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BAFTA/LA founding member Males dies suddenly in LA
William J Males, a director and founding member ofBAFTA/LA, has died aged 46.Males startedwork in the entertainment industry as a studio make-up artist and moved intoindependent production on such pictures as Family Reunion and Aftershock.While at Universal Pictures he worked in marketing,audience research and new media and played an integral ...
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Fox's Grass moves up to executive vice president
Christian Grass (pictured) has beenpromoted to Fox International's executive vice president of Europe, Middle Eastand Africa, effective immediately.Grass will continue tooversee the theatrical distribution, sales and marketing operations for all FoxFilmed Entertainment pictures in Europe as well as European co-productions andacquisitions as part of the distributor's ongoing strategy to partner ...
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ACI sells Locarno prize-winner Maria and actioner Der Clown at AFM
Independent producer and distributor ACI has announced two titles itwill be selling at AFM, the action adventure Der Clown and the Romania-set drama Maria.ACI chief executive officer George Shamieh has partnered withHermann Joha's German production company Action Concept on Der Clown, a tale of vengeance featuring aprotagonist who pursues his ...
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UK, Canada companies team to make animated feature of Monster Club
Montreal-based production and distribution house H2VEntertainment's Manga Latina Productions, along with UK-based UKFS as afinancing co-producer, have teamed up with the UK's Treehouse Productions toturn AP Comics' first full-colour comic book Monster Club into an animated feature film.Additionally, Manga Latina will team up with Treehouse Productionsto turn its property Alien ...