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Slamdance winner Living bought for US by Cowboy
New York-based distributor Cowboy Pictures has acquired ElliotGreenebaum's comedy Assisted Living, this year's grand jury prizewinner at the Slamdance FilmFestival that also won the jury prize and audience award for best film at the2003 GenArt Film Festival.Greenebaum's debut featuretells the story of stoner who strikes up an unlikely friendship with ...
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Universal's The Hulk breaks $100m barrier
Universal's The Hulk became the 15th film to pass $100m at the international boxoffice this year with a $3.1m weekend gross powered by a mighty number oneItalian bow.Released through UIP, the film took $2.8m from 255 sites in Italyfor Universal's and UIP's biggest opening weekend of the year in the ...
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NORTH AMERICA
The 2003 summer season ended in grand style over the long Labor Day weekend as Jeepers Creepers 2 set a record for the holiday weekend and four films passed $100m to raise to a record 14 the number of titles that have reached the milestone this season.The new arrivals at ...
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Phone Booth opens third in France for Fox
Fox International's thriller Phone Booth opened in third place in France at theweekend, grossing $1.8m from 276 screens.The decent bow raised the film's international cumulative score to$41.9m.Elsewhere the romantic comedy Down With Love opened fourth in Mexico on $288,000 on150 screens, raising its international running total to $2.5m.Overall the film ...
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Lawson, Libby promoted, Lewis rehired at US PR firm MPRM
Publicity veteran Michael Lawson has been promoted to senior vicepresident at mPRm Public Relations and Chris Libby to director as part of arestructuring of the company's film practice.James Lewis will also be returning to the company as a senioraccount executive in film."Michael Lawson's elevation to head of the film practice ...
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Jeepers Creepers 2 ends summer with a bang
United Artists' JeepersCreepers 2 ruled over the long LaborDay weekend, opening number one on an estimated $18.5m as the summer seasonofficially ended with a flourish and four titles passed $100m.The top 12 films grossed anestimated $101.2m, up 11% on the same period last year and the third successiveweekend rise.Overall the ...
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T3 opens well in China, crosses $250m milestone
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines passed $250m at the international boxoffice at the weekend when it scored the second biggest opening of the year inChina behind The Matrix Reloaded.Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) opened the sci-fi sequel at number one inChina on an impressive $1.3m.The film added $8.2m from ...
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MPAA seeks to stop UK DVD software outfit 321 Studios
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is seeking aninjunction from the High Court in London preventing the sale and distributionof 321 Studios' DVD-pirating software.MPAA president Jack Valenti said in a statement, 'Companies thatstand to profit from the violation of copyright laws should be brought to book.'No-one should be under ...
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MPAA piracy chief meets Thailand prime minister
Continuing itsefforts to stamp out intellectual property violation, the Motion PictureAssociation of America's (MPAA) chief anti-piracy officer held talks with theprime minister of Thailand last week. Ken Jacobsen,the MPAA's senior vice president and director of worldwide anti-piracyoperations, told Thaksin Shinawatra that while the number of pirate copiesavailable on the street ...
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Lipshy leaves Intermedia to become financial controller at Myriad
Former Intermedia Films' financial executive Amy Lipshy has beenhired for the newly created position of financial controller at financing,production and worldwide sales house Myriad Pictures.Based in Los Angeles, Lipshy will report directly to Myriad chieffinancial officer Jon Shiffman and will oversee general accounting functions,production accounting, quarterly financial reporting, financial planning ...
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IFC Films steps into the Void
IFC Films has acquired all North American rights to TouchingThe Void, Oscar-winningdirector Kevin MacDonald's true-life mountaineering drama that will screen atthe Telluride and Toronto festivals.Based on the memoir of the same name by the renowned mountaineerJoe Simpson, the film recounts a 1985 attempt by Simpson and Simon Yates toscale the ...
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Shorts from Wong Kar-Wai, Apted, Linklater at Palm Springs festival
Films from Wong Kar-Wai, Richard Linklater and Michael Apted areamong 265 titles that will screen at this year's 2003 Palm SpringsInternational Festival of Short Films, which runs in its new late slot of Sept16-22.The opening night will feature six award-winning shorts includingEric Armstrong's best animated Oscar winner The ChubbChubbs! (US), ...
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Hulk looks to cross international milestone
After a summer-long campaign Universal's The Hulk will be looking to break through the $100m barrier this weekend when it opens through UIP in its final major territory of Italy.The comic book adaptation has amassed $96.3m at the international box office to date and Aug 29's Italian job is a ...
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Demme doc goes to THINKFilm
THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to JonathanDemme's The Agronomist,a documentary profile of the assassinated Haitian journalist and national heroJean Dominique that receives its world premiere in Venice and North Americanpremiere in Toronto.The film will open in the US in 2004 and charts Dominique's careeras operator of the country's ...
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Demonlover opens LA's Silverlake Film Festival
The Silver Lake Film Festival will kick off its fourth annualfestival on Sept 10 with the West Coast premiere of Olivier Assayas' internetthriller Demonlover.Connie Nielsen stars as acorporate mole who uncovers an online torture club. Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershonand Charles Berling also star.The screening will also mark the launch of ...
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Telluride unveils lineup for this weekend's festival
Sofia Coppola's Tokyo-based drama Lost In Translation, Oscar-winning British film-maker KevinMacDonald's true-life mountaineering drama Touching The Void and Billy Ray's Shattered Glass, based on the life of the disgracedformer journalist Stephen Glass, are among the line-up of North Americanpremieres to screen at the 30th Telluride Film Festival, which runs from ...
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Dimension's Spy Kids 3 gets special family screening at Venice
Director Robert Rodriguezand Salma Hayek will present a family screening of Dimension Films' Spy Kids3-D: Game Over at the Venice FilmFestival on Aug 28 that Miramax has offered to mark the event's 60thanniversary. Rodriguez and Hayek arealready scheduled to be in Venice for the world premiere of Once Upon A ...
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The Human Stain to open Chicago Film Festival
RobertBenton's eagerly awaited drama The Human Stain will open the 39th Chicago InternationalFilm Festival on Oct 2, after which there will be a tribute to the celebratedwriter-director.In addition someof this year's most acclaimed festival titles from around have beenunveiled as a selection of films that will screen at the event, ...
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Palm/Arthouse kicks off new production drive
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures and its in-house label Arthouse Films haveacquired the remake rights to Jimmy Wang Yu's classic 1975 martial artsfilm, Master Of The Flying Guillotine.The acquisitionheralds a partial shift back into development and production for Palm Pictures,which made several films in 1998 and plans to unveil a 2004 slate ...
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T3 adds $10m for CTFDI in 52 markets
With no openingsin major territories at the weekend the sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise OfThe Machines added anestimated $10m from 52 markets to raise its international running total to$236.1m.The film, whichis being handled by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International in allterritories except Japan and Korea, looks likely to pass $260m ...