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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 ...
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Primer claims Alfred P Sloan prize at Sundance
First-time director ShaneCarruth collected the Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance on Saturday (24) for histhriller Primer.The prize carries a $20,000award and goes to a film that either focuses on science or technology as atheme or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.This year's jury, comprisingNeil LaBute, ...
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Along Came Polly opens top in Australia for Universal
Universal's comedy AlongCame Polly got its international campaign off to a strong start inAustralia through UIP at the weekend, opening top on an estimated $1.9m from193 sites.The film will open in therest of the world over the next three months, starting with Portugal on Feb 6.The dance drama Honeyraised its ...
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Homework, Monster Road among top Slamdance honorees
KevinAsher Green's sensual drama Homework has won the 2004 Slamdance GrandJury Sparky Award for best narrative feature, while Brett Ingram's profile oflegendary animator and Frank Zappa collaborator Bruce Bickford in MonsterRoad won the equivalent documentary prize.Inother awards at the weekend ceremony, the Grand Jury Sparky Award for bestnarrative short went ...
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Nemo to swim past $500m barrier
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives are saying Finding Nemo should pass $500m at the international box office by Friday (Jan 23) after last weekend's $7.3m haul raised its total to $496.9m.The animated hit had a chance of reaching the half-billion milestone last weekend but ultimately it was New Line International's ...
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US box office revenues to pass $10bn by 2006, says report
Box officerevenues in the US are predicted to pass $10bn for the first time ever in 2006,according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.This figurecompares with $8.7bn in ticket revenue for 2003 and is expected to grow to$11bn by 2008. Most of the gains will come from higher ticket ...
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WGA announces ten screenplay nominees
The Writers Guild of America(WGA) nominees for best original screenplay have been announced as GurinderChadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra for Bend It Like Beckham, Steven Knight for Dirty Pretty Things, Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridanfor In America, Sofia Coppola forLost In Translation and TomMcCarthy for The ...
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Cabin Fever's Roth steps into The Box for Camelot
Following the acquisition of its Sundance hit Garden State, Camelot Pictures is to finance and produce The Box, a psychological thriller written by Richard Kelly (Donny Darko) and Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) that Roth is set to direct.Kelly and Sean McKittrick's fledgling Darko Entertainment will produce with Camelot founders Gary ...
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Russia's Cinema Park opens its first multiplex in Moscow
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, got its ambitious two-year theatreexpansion underway yesterday (22) with the opening of a nine-screen Moscowmultiplex.More than 600 peopleattended the opening of Cinema Park at Kaluzhskaya, which coincided with therelease of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.The ...
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LA manager D'Andrea joins Edmonds Entertainment
LA-based manager/producerAlex D'Andrea has joined Edmonds Management, bringing with him a client rosterthat includes Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Young (who appears in the upcoming featureThe Girl Next Door) and director Gillies Mackinnon (Hideous Kinky).D'Andrea most recentlyserved with ADA Entertainment and prior to that was a manager at Seven SummitsPictures and Management, ...
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Nemo takes another $7.3m for BVI, poised to cross $500m
Finding Nemo is closing in on $500m at the international boxoffice following a $7.3m weekend haul in all its territories that raised thefilm's running total to $496.4m.Executives at Buena VistaInternational expect the smash hit to pass the half-billion mark by Saturday(24).Elsewhere for BVI, BrotherBear continued its impressive runwith a record-breaking ...
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Skyy Vodka names finalists in contest to shoot short in 72 hours
Ian Harrington, Chris Lopataand Abdallah Omeish have been named as finalists in the inaugural Skyy Short FilmProject: One Script, Three Different Film-makers, Three Very Different Films toshoot in New York City this spring.The trio beat off pitchesfrom hundreds of aspiring film-makers following the event's launch at Sundancelast year and must ...
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2004 Sundance/NHK winners unveiled
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia, Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know and Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand have won the 2004 Sundance/NHK InternationalFilm-makers Awards.Each winner will receive$10,000 and a guarantee from Japanese public broadcaster NHK to buy theJapanese television rights upon completion of the project, as well asyear-round financing ...
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Fox's Dozen lifts international haul to $8.4m
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2m at the weekend from 610 screens in five markets, raising its international running total to $8.4m.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World added $1m from 877 in 25 markets to elevate its total in Fox markets to $67.2m. Including ...
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Return Of The King crosses $500m overseas
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King was due to pass $500m in international ticket sales yesterday, a littleover a month after the film began its blockbusting run on Dec 17.The final part of PeterJackson's Tolkien adaptation grossed $23.1m from 8,104 screens in 54territories at ...