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In the limited release arena Fox Searchlight's NC-17 drama The Dreamers grossed $511,207 for a $714,458 total in its second week. It climbed nine places to 27th and expanded by 61 sites into 66.Sony Pictures Classics opened Francois Dupeyron's acclaimed drama Monsieur Ibrahim in 52nd place on $65,696, which translated ...
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First Look beefs up US home entertainment arm with two key hires
First Look HomeEntertainment, a division of First Look Media, has hired two key members ofLions Gate Home Entertainment's sell-through team, with Michael L Katchmanjoining as vice president of sales, sell-thru, and Marty Dattilo as salesmanager, sell-thru.Katchman will reportdirectly to Bill Bromiley, senior vice president of First Look HomeEntertainment, and Dattilo ...
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Indican buys US rights to Carlos Castaneda doc
Los Angeles-based IndicanPictures has acquired US rights to Ralph Torjan's documentary CarlosCastaneda: Engima Of A Sorcerer,which charts the life and legacy of one of the founders of New Age philosophy.Through interviews withfollowers, friends and members of Castaneda's inner circle, the film traces theMexican's cult following and assesses his impact on ...
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Shadow acquires US rights for Lost Boys Of Sudan doc
US independent distributorShadow Distribution has acquired Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk's acclaimeddocumentary Lost Boys Of Sudan,which was shortlisted for the Academy Award and has been nominated for anIFP/Independent Spirit Award.The story follows twoSudanese orphaned refugees who overcome lion attacks and militia gunfire toreach America, where they are confronted with suburbia ...
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De Luca to step down at DreamWorks after two-and-half years
DreamWorks head ofproduction Michael De Luca is set to vacate his post in June and will bereplaced by the studio's longtime production executive Adam Goodman."Michael has been anextremely positive force at DreamWorks," company co-head Walter F Parkes saidin a statement."He is an extraordinarycreative executive and a wonderful collaborator and we ...
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Ornstein Carter named executive director of Global Film Initiative
Holly Ornstein Carter hasbeen named executive director of the Global Film Initiative (GFI), the NewYork-based non-profit organisation set up to promote cross-culturalunderstanding through cinema."Following the tremendoussuccess of our first-year, 14-city, major cultural institutional tour, it is apivotal time in our history as we look to expand and increase the impact ...
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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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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 ...