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Bruce Almighty topples The Matrix Reloaded with $86.4m opening
Universal'scomedy Bruce Almighty toppled The Matrix Reloaded from top spotover the four-day weekend as it opened on an estimated $86.4m.Itis the second biggest Memorial Day bow of all time behind The Lost World:Jurassic Park, which took $90.2m in 1997.JimCarrey stars as a jaded reporter who is granted God's powers for ...
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Bruce Almighty topples The Matrix Reloaded with $86.4m opening
Universal'scomedy Bruce Almighty toppled The Matrix Reloaded from top spotover the four-day weekend as it opened on an estimated $86.4m.Itis the second biggest Memorial Day bow of all time behind The Lost World:Jurassic Park, which took $90.2m in 1997.JimCarrey stars as a jaded reporter who is granted God's powers for ...
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Miramax swoops for Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions
MiramaxFilms has acquired US rights to Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions (LesInvasions Barbares), which won best actress and best screenplay awards atCannes yesterday (May 25).TheFrench-language film is a sequel to Arcand's 1986 Decline Of The AmericanEmpire and centres on a man who spends the last days of his life making ...
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Five world premieres at SF Lesbian & Gay Film Fest
Jennifer Kroot's Orwellian tale Sirens Of The 23rd Century and Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary People Like Us: Making Philadelphia, are among five world premieres at the upcoming 27th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. With notable emphasis on queer youth and AIDS, the festival will screen 77 films ...
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Samy Boy Entertainment appoints Kevin Riley as CFO
Former New Regency director of operations Kevin Riley has joined Los Angeles-based financing and production company Samy Boy Entertainment as chief financial officer.In his new role, Riley will oversee daily operations of the company's film division and supervise the development and production departments.Prior to joining the company, Riley held senior ...
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Chen Kaige named guest director at IFP LA film festival
Chen Kaige, the acclaimed Chinese director of Together and Farewell My Concubine, will be guest director at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, executive director Dawn Hudson has announced. The 9th annual event runs from Jun 11-21.Kaige's duties will see him host a two-day film-maker retreat, programme a sidebar ...
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Schenz promoted to senior VP at Intermedia
Greg Schenz has been promoted to senior vice president of business and legal affairs for Intermedia, Jon Gumpert, vice-chairman and head of motion picture operations, announced.Continuing to report to Gumpert, Schenz will expand his role in negotiating deals with above-the-line talent and in financing and co-production transactions.In addition, he will ...
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Johnny English passes $100m in international ticket sales
Universal/Working Title's smash spy spoof Johnny English passed $100m at the international box office over the weekend.The comedy grossed $3.3m at 2,276 venues in 24 countries for a $102.7m running total after 39 days on release.British comic Rowan Atkinson stars as the bungling junior intelligence officer forced by circumstances to ...
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X2 hits $150m at international box office
Fox International's sci-fi sequel X2: X-Men United reached $150m in international ticket sales over the weekend.The comic book adaptation grossed $18.5m in its third weekend on release and was the second biggest international film of the weekend behind Warner Bros' The Matrix Reloaded.X2 fared best in those territories where The ...
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Party Monster to open 21st Outfest
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's paean to 1980s excess Party Monster will open Outfest 2003, the Los Angeles-based lesbian and gay film festival that celebrates its 21st anniversary this year.The event, which runs from Jul 10-21 and is lining up 188 films from 26 countries, will close with Emile Gaudreault's ...
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Samuel Goldwyn takes US on Anything But Love
Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up US distribution rights to Anything But Love (formerly Standard Time), a throwback to the 1950s Technicolor musicals that is set for theatrical release this autumn.The film was co-written by director Robert Cary and Isabel Rose, who stars plays an aspiring nightclub singer who becomes ...
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Rainstorm, Uncharted Territory team for Juggernaut
Steven Kaplan, Gregg Daniel and Richard Katz's fledgling LA-based production company Rainstorm Entertainment is teaming up with Volker Engel and Marc Weigert's Uncharted Territory on the second world war drama Juggernaut.The film concerns the fate of two brothers and is set in the North African desert as the Allies battle ...
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CTFDI's Anger Management raises international total to $14.8m
Anger Management grossed $2.8m-$2.9m over the weekend as a series ofexcellent second week holds raised the comedy's international running total to$14.8m.In its second week inGermany the film, which is being released by Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI), remained number one and dropped a mere 8% on $2m for a$4.9m cumulative ...
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Matrix Reloaded takes $31.9m in first international releases
Opening in 13 territories over the weekend The MatrixReloaded dominated the charts with an impressive $31.9m internationalbow.on 2,629 screens In a string of number one openings, the sci-fi sequel took$12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screens in what was the sixth biggest USopening weekend ever.Figures represent three-day grosses and ...
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Matrix Reloaded scores in strong international bow
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow on 2,629 screens In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes $93.3m three-day opening weekend
The Matrix Reloaded scored the biggest domestic opening ever for anR-rated film and the second biggest domestic bow of all time at the weekend,delivering a mighty $93.3m according to Warner Bros estimates.Factoring in Thursday's$42.5m opening day and $5m from Wednesday previews, The Matrix Reloadedgrossed $135.8m over four days. The sci-fi ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes $93.3m three-day opening weekend
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow. In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and not the usual ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes second biggest opening ever
Opening in 13 territoriesover the weekend The Matrix Reloaded dominated the charts with animpressive $31.9m international bow. In a string of number oneopenings, the sci-fi sequel took $12m in France (Euros 10.3m) from 894 screensin what was the sixth biggest US opening weekend ever.Figures represent three-daygrosses and not the usual ...
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Matrix Reloaded unleashes second biggest opening weekend ever
The Matrix Reloaded scored the biggest domestic opening ever for anR-rated film and the second biggest domestic bow of all time at the weekend,delivering a mighty $93.3m according to Warner Bros estimates.Factoring in Thursday's$42.5m opening day and $5m from Wednesday previews, The Matrix Reloadedgrossed $135.8m over four days. The sci-fi ...
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Israeli film fest to screen thirty-three titles
Thirty-three films representing some of the most recent offerings from Israeli cinema will screen in Los Angeles at the 19th Israeli Film Festival, including Erez Laufer's documentary Mike Brant: Laisse Moi T'Aimer, a profile of the celebrated Paris-based pop singer that receives its world premiere at Cannes.The event, which runs ...