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Pirates makes away with $38.5m in stunning weekend for BVI
Pirates Of The Caribbean was the runaway international champion at the weekend as itgrossed $38.5m to raise its running total to $189.9 for Buena VistaInternational (BVI).The film opened number one in Germany on a staggering $11.2m from958 screens, scoring the distributor's and producer Jerry Bruckheimer's biggestever bow there.In Italy it ...
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American Pie: The Wedding has $7m weekend for Universal
Universal's American Pie: The Wedding was the number two international film atthe weekend, grossing $7m from 2,069 sites in eight countries for a $56.6mrunning total.The comedy sequel opened number one in Mexico on a mighty $1.1mfrom 271 and 31% market share.It was 22% behind the opening of 2001's American Pie ...
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Carmichael, Gardini, Minghella made creative executives at Miramax
Miramax Films has appointed Kelly Carmichael, Carla Gardini andHannah Minghella as creative executives while David Greenbaum and Eric Robinsonhave been promoted to directors of production and development.Carmichael will continue to be based in New York and will focusher efforts on casting, while Gardini will work from Miramax's Los Angelesoffices and ...
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LXG is number one in Spain, Hong Kong for Fox
Fox International's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) raised its international running totalto $14.6m at the weekend, thanks to number one bows in Spain and Hong Kong.In Spain the fantasy-adventure grossed $3.9m from 374 screens,while Hong Kong yielded $368,000 from 32.Overall LXG took $4.5m from 542 screens in nine markets ...
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Liegen Lergen opens at three for Warner in Germany
Warner Bros Pictures International opened Hendrik Handloegten'slocal language production Liegen Lernen at number three in Germany at the weekend, grossing anestimated $555,674 (Euros 507,544) and 88,000 admissions from 137 prints.The film is an X-Verleih presentation of an X-Film Creative PoolProduction - the same team that produced this year's smash hit ...
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Dali/Disney short among 15 selected for New York Film Festival
Salvador Dali's mythical abandoned project for Walt Disney will beamong a series of 15 international shorts to screen at the 41st New York FilmFestival, which runs from Oct 3-19.The surrealist Spanish painter never finished Destino, which finally comes to the screen afterit was completed by director Dominique Monfrey and a ...
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Germany's Boll gets film rights to video game BloodRayne
Fledgling German production company Boll KG has picked uptheatrical and merchandise rights to the popular video game BloodRayne from games developer and publisherMajesco.Executive producer and director Uwe Boll plans to begin filming in2004 with Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures set to produce.The production will be in the $30m range and ...
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Dickie leads moribund week at the box office
The autumn season began with a whimper at the weekend asParamount's Dickie Roberts: Child Star opened top on $7m while Fox's The Order flopped in sixth place on $4.3m.The weekend after Labor Day is noted for its lack of sparkle. Evenso, Paramount's first chart topper since How To Lose A ...
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Macdonald, Spence reteam to run Palm Springs Film Festival
The board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival hasnamed former Seattle InternationalFilm Festival mainstays Darryl Macdonald and Carl Spence as executive directorand director of programming respectively.The appointees arrive withthe full endorsement of the festival board after a global search for a management team to raise the profile of both ...
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...and behind the camera for InDigEnt
Wim Wenders will direct the 12th, as yet untitled, project forInDigEnt, the digital video collective created by New York-based IFCProductions' Jonathan Sehring and Caroline Kaplan, producer-director GaryWinick and Cinetic Media's John Sloss.Principal photography is scheduled to begin later this month inLos Angeles.This is the first time InDigEnt has teamed up ...
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BVI passes the $1bn mark in 2003 - already
Buena Vista International (BVI) passed $1bn in internationaltickets sales at the weekend, the ninth consecutive time it has achieved thefeat - a record for any studio international arm. Fuelled by the success of Bruce Almighty, Pirates Of TheCaribbean, Jungle Book 2and Finding Nemo, BVIreached the milestone in record time.The chief ...
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Hugh Grant named 2003 Britannia Award winner by BAFTA/LA
Hugh Grant is to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick BritanniaAward for Excellence in Film at the 12th Annual Britannia Awards in Los Angeleson Nov 8"We are pleased to behonouring Hugh Grant, who is an accomplished stage and screen actor both in theUK and the United States," BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said ...
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Slamdance 2004 to expand films, add screening rooms
More films, new and improved screening rooms and a new jury formatare on the cards at the 10th Slamdance Film Festival, which will take placefrom Jan 17-24 2004 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.Headquartered at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Park City's MainStreet, the event will boast four ...
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Antidote plots Macbeth, Sarah
Jeff Levy-Hinte and Mary Jane Skalski's New York productioncompany Antidote Films has unveiled two new projects: Todd Louiso's Macbeth, which is to star Philip Seymour Hoffman, and StevenShainberg's Sarah, based on J TLeroy's acclaimed debut novel about West Virginia lowlifes.Louiso directed Love Liza, which starred Hoffman and earned the actor's ...
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Menemsha takes Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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Menemsha takes festival premieres Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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LA launches new horror/sci-fi fest with world premiere of Monster Man
The world premiere ofLions Gate's Monster Man and theWest Coast premiere of Beyond Re-Animator are among the highlights of the inaugural ManiaFest sci-fi, fantasy andhorror festival, which runs in Santa Monica from Sept 18-21.The four-day event features classic screenings, panel discussions,a competition strand and panel discussions with Friday The 13th ...
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Miercourt moves from Myriad to Miramax as svp
David Miercort has joined Miramax Films as senior vice presidentof acquisitions and business affairs.Based in the company's Los Angeles offices, Miercort will beinvolved in day-to-day acquisitions activities from a business affairs andlegal perspective and will also work on Miramax's worldwide promotions.He will report to both Agnes Mentre, head of Miramax's ...
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Pirates aims to haul more international gold
Pirates Of The Caribbean looks set to continue its international dominance this upcoming weekend with releases in the key territories of Germany, Italy and Korea.Buena Vista International's family adventure has been a late summer arrival outside the US and has wasted little time in making waves.Pirates boosted its international running ...
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Hayek, Sundance among PGA diversity honorees
Salma Hayek, writer-director John Singleton, Hawaiian film-makerChristine Walker and the Sundance Institute's Native American InitiativesProgramme are to be honoured for their diverse producing work by the ProducersGuild of America (PGA).The 2nd Annual Celebration of Diversity is due to take place inLos Angeles on Oct 1 and recognises producers whose work, ...