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You Got Served races ahead over Superbowl weekend
Screen Gems' hip-hop drama You Got Served took advantage of the quiet Superbowlweekend, opening top on an estimated $16m.Paramount's high school drama The Perfect Score opened fifth on $5m while WarnerBros' crime caper The Big Bounce flopped in 12th place on $3.3m.You Got Served stars Omarion, Marques Houston and Omarion'sfellow ...
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Pixar files for divorce from Disney, relationship to end in 2006
Pixar and Disney broke off talks to extend their existingfive-film deal yesterday (29), leaving the animation cash-cow free to enterdiscussions with other studios competing to distribute its titles beginning in2006.After completing the final two films under the current agreementwith Disney - The Incredibles in 2004 and Cars in 2005 - ...
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Newmark/Echelon acquires A Tale Of Two Pizzas
Production, financing,international sales and distribution house Echelon Entertainment has acquired Vincent Sassone's romantic comedy A Tale Of Two Pizzas.Newmark/Echelon Entertainment Group plans a domestic releasebefore the summer.Set in Yonkers, New York, the story centres on two families whofeud over a secret pizza sauce recipe and stars Vincent Pastore (TheSopranos) and ...
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Oscar nominees set to capitalise on recognition led by King
New Line International's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return OfThe King shouldcapitalise on its 11 Academy Award nominations in all its markets and nowherewill this be felt more acutely than in Italy, where the film scored a record$12.2m opening last weekend.The fantasy finale has grossed $548.5m at the international ...
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Picture This! teams with Forbidden City on Latter Days sales
In an unprecedentedalignment of gay niche companies, Doug Witkins' Picture This! Entertainmentwill handle international sales on Funny Boy Films' Latter Days in association with Forbidden City International.Beverly Hills-basedForbidden City co-produced writer-director C Jay Cox's film with Funny BoyFilms and acquired foreign rights prior to production. It will begin acting asthe ...
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WHV reshuffles senior global personnel
Warner Home Video (WHV) hasshuffled several key personnel in a bid to reallocate its global resources tomeet the changing demands of the marketplace.Mark Horak becomes executivevice president and general manager for Canada, Latin America and Australia,Jeffrey M Brown becomes senior vice president of worldwide marketing, PhilippeCardon is named senior vice ...
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Davis, Ginsburg & Morris join BAFTA/LA board
Periscopepresident J Alan Davis, Passport Entertainment president David R Ginsburg andwriter-producer Peter Morris have been elected to the board of BAFTA/LA.Theboard has re-elected Gary Dartnall as chairman, Antony Root as deputy chair,Rebecca Segal as secretary and Pamela Godfrey as treasurer."It'sbeen gratifying for all of us to watch BAFTA/LA become one ...
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Senator takes on worldwide rights to 3D CGI Moebius movie
SenatorInternational has picked up worldwide sales rights from digital contentproducer GDC Holdings to celebrated French artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud'ssci-fi fantasy adventure Thru The Moebius Strip.Themove marks the first foray into animation for both companies and is also thefirst full-length CGI feature for GDC Holdings subsidiary GDC Productions andthe first 3D ...
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Intermedia's epic to be named Alexander
Intermedia'sAlexander The Great project currently coming to the end of its epic shoot underdirector Oliver Stone will be titled Alexander, a title which has been cleared and approved by theMPAA.IlyaSalkind's film about the great emperor is titled Macedonia's Alexander TheGreat.Alexander is set to open at the end of the year ...
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South Africa to host shoot for UA/Lions Gate picture Hotel Rwanda
Production is set to begin in Johannesburg this month on TerryGeorge's true-life rescue story Hotel Rwanda, which stars Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte andSophie Okonedo.United Artists has North American distribution rights for thedrama and Lions Gate Films International will handle internationaldistribution.Based on a script by George and Keir Pearson and produced ...
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Newcomer Heughan to star as Alexander in Salkind's rival epic
21-year-old newcomer Sam Heughan has signed to play the title rolein Jalal Merhi's Macedonia's Alexander The Great, the first of a trilogy that isscheduled to start filming in Greece and Egypt on Feb 7 for release in October.Heughan was discovered afterproducer Ilya Salkind and UK producing partner Jeffrey Taylor tested ...
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Wils named chief of De Niro's Tribeca Film Institute
Madelyn Wils, chairperson of Community Board 1, has been namedpresident and chief executive officer of the Tribeca Film Institute and will assumeher new post in February.In her role, Wils will oversee the institute's year-round,non-festival-related programming and educational activities.Her appointment means the institute will expand its mandate toinclude performing arts and ...
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And the reactions are...
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The KingProducer Barrie Osborne partnered with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh on the entire Lord Of The Rings trilogy and has been nominated for all three episodes. As part of a select band that includes Jackson, he wears a tattoo bearing the ...
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King rules with 11 Oscar nominations
New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has emerged as the frontrunner for Academy Award glory with 11 nominations including best picture and a second best director nod for Peter Jackson following The Fellowship Of The Ring in 2002.Twentieth Century Fox's naval adventure Master And ...
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King lords over Italy with $12.2m in four days
Powered by a new industryrecord for an opening weekend in Italy, New Line's The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The King boosted itsworldwide cumulative total to $876.5m at the weekend to become the sixth biggestgrossing title of all time.Peter Jackson's trilogyfinale added an estimated $28.7m from 7,187 screens in ...
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Nemo finds its place in the half a billion dollar club
Finding Nemo passed $500m at the international box office overthe weekend, becoming the 10th title in history and the first animated filmever to cross the half-billion threshold.Nemo added $5.2m at theweekend for $504.2m, featuring $2.3m in its eighth weekend in Japan for astunning $93m running total. It is set to ...
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Fox comedies Stuck and Cheaper continue rollouts
Fuelled by a decent openingin Spain at the weekend, Stuck On You added $2.5m from 1,166 international sites to raise its running totalto $17m.Fox International opened thecomedy in second place in Spain on $1.4m. It also scored good bows in Belgium,grossing $210,000 from 35 screens, and Greece, where it took ...
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The Butterfly Effect opens top for New Line on $17.1m
New Line's thriller TheButterfly Effect opened top at the weekend on an estimated $17.1m, provingstar Ashton Kutcher has the chops for more serious acting away from the comedyroles and his former incarnation as a professional prankster.Kutcher plays a man with theability to travel through time who uses his power to ...
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The Last Samurai races past $200m at int'l box office
The Last Samurai added an estimated $30.5m for Warner Bros PicturesInternational at the weekend, raising its cumulative score from all itsterritories to an excellent $205.3m.Inthree first-place finishes, the drama took $428,000 from 50 in Norway, an outstanding$459,000 from 111 (including previews) in the Philippines and $278,000 from 62in Argentina.Ittook $643,000 ...
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CTFDI scores success abroad with Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile grossed $8.6m on 2,065 screens for Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend.It opened number one inGermany on a notable $2.8m from 601 screens, and also secured top berths inAustria ($335,000 from 78) and Switzerland ($550,000 from 85).The drama opened second inFrance behind The Last Samurai ...