All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1501
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Reloaded swipes another $14.7m for Warner
The MatrixReloaded kept up itsfine international form over the weekend as it grossed an estimated $14.7m from6,700 international screens and drew 2.5m admissions.The sci-fisequel's international running total is now $377m.The film held onto its number one position for the third consecutive week in Japan, adding$6.4m (Yen 763m) from 630 ...
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Williams to get career achievement award at Chicago Film Festival summer gala
Robin Williams will be presented with a career achievement awardat the 40th Chicago International Film festival's annual summer gala on Jul 17.Organisers plan a retrospective of Williams' work, which includesan Oscar winning turn in Good Will Hunting and acclaimed performances in Dead Poets Society and Good Morning, Vietnam."There are only ...
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Cinemark opens three new multiplexes in Latin America
CinemarkInternational, one of the leading Latin American exhibitors, has opened threenew stadium-seating theatres in Southern Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica.The Galerias Boulevardsite in Southern Mexico's Tuxtla Gutierrez region is an eight-screen, 1,850-seatcomplex and the first to open in the city of Chiapas.It was built incooperation with the existing Liverpool site, ...
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My Architect wins feature prize at new US doc festival
NathanielKahn's My Architect won the inaugural Sterling Award for a feature film at theSilverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival.More than 70films screened at the festival, a joint venture between the American FilmInstitute and the Discovery Channel, which ran from Jun 18-22 at the SilverTheatre And Cultural Centre in Silver Spring, Maryland.My ...
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The Hulk explodes with five number one openings in Asia
The Hulk grossed an estimated $3.1m from 325 theatres in fivenumber one Asian openings over the weekend, complementing Universal'stable-topping bow in the US.In Hong Kong it took$700,000 from 39 venues, which Universal claimed was roughly twice as much asthe opening for Gladiator andjust ahead of X2: X-Men United.Universal scored its ...
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Break A Leg wins audience prize at CineVegas
Monika Mitchell's drama Break A Leg won the Audience Award for best featureat the fifth CineVegas Film Festival, which ran from Jun 13-21. In Break A Leg, John Cassini stars as a frustrated actor who decides to takematters into his own hands and make his dreams of success come true. ...
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Eliasoph named new head of Warner China
Ellen R Eliasophhas been appointed to the new post of managing director of China at Warner BrosPictures International.Eliasoph willset up and run a company office in Shanghai, from where she will oversee thesubsidiary's Beijing office as well as its Hong Kong-based productionsand acquisitions staff.Herresponsibilities will include supervising the studio's theatricaldistribution ...
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Sony revamps worldwide financial services dept
As part of itsongoing drive to consolidate marketing and distribution, Sony PicturesReleasing's (SPR) financial services department is expanding to handleservices including accounts receivable and worldwide collection.Eileen Lomis,senior vice president of worldwide theatrical financial administration for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, will oversee the division'sexpansion.Lomis, a 25-yearveteran of Columbia, TriStar and ...
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Scott Caan's Dallas 362 wins top prize at CineVegas
Scott Caan's Dallas 362 took the Critics Award and Juliette Marquis, the star of ThisGirl's Life won aspecial Newcomer Actor Award at the fifth annual CineVegas International FilmFestival, which closed on Saturday (Jun 21).Dallas 362is a semi-autobiographical account exploring the dynamics of the modernAmerican family and the search for belonging. ...
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Crude, Magdalene Sisters win honours in LA
Paxton Winters' sardonic road movie Crude won the Target Filmmaker Award for BestNarrative Feature at the ninth IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, which ran fromJun 11-21.The festival jury gave the Target Documentary Award for BestDocumentary Feature to Tracy Droz Tragos' Be Good, Smile Pretty, a personal tribute to the film-maker'sfather ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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The Hulk rampages to $62.6m for Universal
Universal's The Hulk turned its studio rivals green with envy over the weekend as thenumber one comic book adaptation clobbered the June opening record with anestimated $62.6m.Ang Lee's film sees Eric Bana as the troubled research scientistprone to unseemly temper tantrums. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star,while the Hulk himself ...
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It's Initial from now on, IEG is out, says Los Angeles company
Following its recent adoption of a new company logo,Graham King's independent finance, production and distribution companyInitial Entertainment Group has announced that it will no longer be known asIEG.Hereafter, the company has said, it will be known by itsfull name or as Initial but no longer by the acronym IEG.Recent creditsfor ...
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William Fraker to receive special honour at Lodz
Pioneering cinematographerWilliam A Fraker is to receive the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award at the11th Annual International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, whichruns in Lodz, Poland, from Nov 29-Dec 6.Born in Los Angeles in Sep1923, Fraker graduated from the University of Southern California with a degreein film-making and eventually ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious revs up in international second week
Going into itssecond week Universal's 2 Fast 2 Furious added $5.2m from 840 theatres in sixterritories over the weekend to raise its international running total to $9.9m.In a slew ofstrong bows the street-racing sequel opened number one in Mexico on $1.8m from363 sites, registering 39% market share for Universal's seventh ...
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LA Cinema Libre unveil ambitious plans for film-making collective
In a bid to nurture artisticfreedom among "politically charged and socially conscious" film-makers a groupof independent LA-based directors, producers and investors has formed a newmovement called Cinema Libre.Cinema Libre's ambitious plans include a production slate,international distribution network, the non-profit Cinema Libre Foundation -due to open later this year - and ...
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Vitagraph, American Cinematheque take on US rights to Bubba
American CinemathequePresents and Vitagraph Films have acquired US distribution rights to DonCoscarelli's comedy-horror film Bubba Ho-Tep which they will release in New York on Sept 26 andLos Angeles on Oct 2.Bruce Campbell, who starredin Sam Raimi's seminal horror film The Evil Dead, stars as an elderly Elvis who drives out ...
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Picture This takes US rights on Girod's Gender Bias
Picture This!Entertainment has acquired all US rights and Canadian video/DVD rights toFrancis Girod's transsexual thriller Gender Bias, with theatrical release set for summer2004.Based onBrigitte Aubert's novel Transfixions, the film was released through Pyramide SA in France as MauvaisGenre and this weekreceived its US premiere at San Francisco's (Frameline) InternationalLesbian and ...
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Yari teams with Ovation for Duchovny's directorial debut
Ovation Entertainment and Bob Yari Productions haveteamed up to finance and produce David Duchovny's writing and directorialdebut House of D, a magical fable set ina New York that no longer exists.The storycentres on a man's attempts to make peace with his past and present andstars Duchovny, Robin Williams, Tyler Hoechlin ...
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IFSI sells horror House to Metropolitan, Redbus, others
Interactive Film Sales International (IFSI) closed a raft offoreign sales at Cannes on House Of The Dead, the horror feature from Germanproduction and finance fund Boll KG and Mindfire Entertainment. IFSI, the exclusive sales agent for Boll KG, sold the zombie storyto Metropolitan in France, Manga in Spain, Redbus (formerly ...