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Studio slates gear up for key Euro weekend
An eclectic slate this upcoming weekend sees key European bows for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life and American Pie: The Wedding, both of which should do well based on previous form.Elsewhere two of the summer's more successful performers - 2 Fast 2 Furious and 28 Days Later ...
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Hammer, TriggerStreet contribute to New Orleans festival
Hammer FilmProductions and Kevin Spacey's online film-makers' collectiveTriggerStreet.com are lending their support to The New Orleans MediaExperience, an inaugural arts festival set to run from Oct 26-Nov 1.Hammer willprovide prints for the Breakfast With Hammer Films series, a daily screening ofclassic horror from the company's vaults such as Dracula Prince ...
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UA options the rights to Snake Hips
United Artists has optionedthe rights to Anna Thomas Soffee's memoir Snake Hips and will develop the project with Hart SharpEntertainment.Published in 2002, SnakeHips is a comic account of the30-year-old authoris life as a relationship ends and she moves back homewith her parents in Virginia, where she reconnects with her Lebanese ...
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Eagle is top in Italy with New Line's Final Destination 2
New Line'shorror-thriller Final Destination 2 opened number one in Italy through Eagle Pictures at the weekend,grossing $524,377 from 248 screens.The sequelscored a per-screen average of $2,114 and now has an international runningtotal of $39.4m, compared to the original's $59.2m.When Final Destination opened in Italy in Aug 2000 it took$526,231 from ...
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Publicity veteran Teri Kane joins Rogers & Cowan in New York
Teri Kane has joined Rogers& Cowan as executive vice president of the US entertainment publicrelations and marketing agency's film & digital entertainment group.Based in New York, Kane willbe responsible for the development and implementation of creative mediastrategies for the agency's domestic motion picture business. She takesover from Jeanne Berney who ...
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Spinotti gets Palm Springs retrospective in Nov
Dante Spinotti,the veteran cinematographer who earned two Oscar nominations for The Insider and LA Confidential, is to be the subject of a retrospectivein Palms Springs, California, from Nov 1-2.The two-daystand-alone event features screenings, on-stage discussions, a masterclass bySpinotti and a keynote speech by the acclaimed cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs.The Art OfCinematography: ...
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T3 vaults past $200m, CTFDI cracks $150m
With no majoropenings at the weekend, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines added $16.1m from approximately 6,400screens in 50 territories to raise its international running total (alldistributors) to $219.2m.In territories handled by Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) the sci-fi sequel has grossed $150.3m todate. The film will open in China ...
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Tomb Raider 2 opens top in Germany for Concorde
Paramount's Lara CroftTomb Raider: The Cradle Of Lifecontinued to show good legs on its international roll-out this weekend,launching in nine territories, including a number one bow in Germany throughConcorde.Germany and Switzerland,where the film is handled by Ascot Elite, provided the Jan de Bont film itsfirst non-UIP international launches, taking pole ...
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Warner posts number two in Japan with $5.3m for Hero
ZhangYimou's action film Hero scored an excellent Japanese bow through Warner EntertainmentJapan at the weekend, grossing an estimated $5.3m from 360 screens.The epic drew433,786 admissions and ranked second behind holdover local title, BaysideShakedown 2.According to thedistributor Hero'sopening was 158.6% better than Die Another Day and 289.4% better than The Sum ...
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Pirates seize audiences across the world
Pirates Of The Caribbean ran riot at the weekend, plundering $24.1m in internationalbox office treasure including four European number one openings.The film grossed $5.5m on646 screens in France and scored a superb $4.3m on 343 in Spain for Buena VistaInternational's biggest ever opening there.The distributor said the Spanishbow was also ...
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Andreen, Kim swell Warner Independent senior ranks
Warner Independent Pictureshas named Michael Andreen as executive vice president of production andpublicity veteran Laura Kim as executive vice president of marketing andpublicity.Andreen's appointment iseffective immediately. He most recently served as senior vice president ofproduction at 20th Century Fox and returns to Warner Bros Pictures, where hepreviously served as vice ...
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Universal's Wedding tops UK chart, stays top in Australia
Universal'sAmerican Pie: The Wedding enjoyed a strong number one UK opening through UIP at theweekend, grossing $6.9m from 432 theatres including paid previews.The comedysequel scored the eighth best opening for a Universal film in the UK, accordingto the distributor, taking double the opening gross of American Pie ($3.3m in 1999) ...
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Bruno promoted to vice president at CTFDI
Steve Bruno hasbeen promoted to vice president of distribution at Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).'Steve hasspent his entire career at Sony, and he is a valued member of our internationalteam,' CTFDI's senior executive vice president of distribution MarkZucker said in a statement.'He isrespected by his co-workers and industry peers and ...
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LXG has powerful opening for Fox in South Korea
FoxInternational's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) cut a swathe through Asia at theweekend with a several number one bows, the highlight of which was an excellent$2.6m in South Korea.The Korean takeon 140 screens was Fox's fourth biggest bow ever in the territory andcontributed to the bulk of the film's ...
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Jarre gets honorary award at Flanders soundtrack awards
Oscar-winning composerMaurice Jarre is to receive an honorary award at the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival-Ghent's 3rd Annual World Soundtrack Awards ceremony.Jarre, who won three AcademyAwards for Lawrence Of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India, will collect the Joseph Plateau Award inrecognition of his distinctive achievements in film.The ceremony is ...
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Strangler wraps for Tartan, New Horizon
The Hillside Strangler, the horror-thriller collaboration between HamishMcAlpine's UK-based Tartan Film and actor Alexa Jago and property tycoonJohn Stienfield's Los Angeles-based New Horizon Pictures, is due to wrap in LosAngeles on Aug 17.C Thomas Howell (TheHitcher, Gods & Generals) andNicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)star in the true-life story of Kenneth Bianchi ...
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Freddy Vs Jason is the top match at US box office
New Line's Freddy Vs Jasonscored a dazzling surprise opening of $36.4m at the weekend, scaring off lastweek's champion S.W.A.T. intosecond place with its $18.6m.Kevin Costner's western, OpenRange, opened third on a respectable$14.1m for Buena Vista, while MGM's chick flick Uptown Girls debuted on a feisty $11.2m in fifth place.Warner Bros' ...
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T3 rises up to $200m international take
With no major openings this weekend, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines will again be the one to watch as it prepares to pass $200m in international ticket sales.The sci-fi sequel has been the dominant performer since its campaign began on Jul 2 and has an international running total of ...
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30,000 pirate DVDs and VCDs seized by MPAA in Malaysia
More than 30,000 pirate copies of DVDs and VCDs as well asmanufacturing and computer equipment have been seized in raids on an onlinemail-order syndicate in Malaysia.The raids were carried out on three sites in Penang on Aug 11 byMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) staff and a 20-person team fromMalaysia's ...
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Universal declares record summer with $667.8m to date
With three summer box office weekends still to come, UniversalPictures announced yesterday it had passed its all-time season record with$667.8m in domestic ticket sales.The new milestone includes business up to Aug 13 and overtakes theprevious mark of $665.9m set in 2001. So far this year the studio has grossed$693.1m.The record ...