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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands to open Newport
The East Coast premiere of Shane Meadows' drama Once Upon A Time In The Midlands will open the sixth annual Newport International Film Festival (NIFF), which runs from Jun 10-15.The line-up includes more than 60 American and international films, including Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's Sundance Grand Jury Prize ...
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Johnny English closes on $100m in international BO
Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English grossed $3.9m from 2,679 sites in 29 countries over the weekend, raising its international running total to $98.6m.Holding firm in second place in the UK behind X2, Johnny English took $1.1m from 418 sites in its fifth week, dropping 41% from last weekend.The film ...
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X2 powers to $120.3m in international box office
Fox's X2: X-Men United was still the top international film in its second weekend, grossing $30.9m on 7,462 screens in 94 territories for a superb $120.3m international running total.Russia was the only new market following last week's sprawling day-and-date global release. The sci-fi sequel grossed just under $2.1m on 175 ...
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George Lucas launches digital animation unit
Seventeen years after selling Pixar to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for $10m, George Lucas has launched his own digital animation unit called Lucasfilm Animation.These days Pixar is riding high on a market capitalisation of $3.3bn, fuelled by the wolrdwide success of titles like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Its films ...
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X2 storms to $149m in second week
TwentiethCentury Fox's X2: X-Men United stayed top in its second session with anestimated $41.4m weekend haul that puts the sci-fi sequel on a mighty $149mafter 10 days.Thefilm is unlikely to extend its reign next week when Warner Bros opens TheMatrix Reloaded, but will now set it sights on putting as ...
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Anger, Darkness score abroad for CTFDI
Anger Management grossed $3.5m over the weekend ,scoring several number one openings to raise its international running total to$10.5m.The comedy, which is being handled by Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI), opened top of the table in Germany on $2.3mon 870 screens, beating X2 in its second week.In the German-speaking parts ...
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Anger, Darkness score in foreign openings for CTFDI
Anger Management grossed $3.5m over the weekend, scoring severalnumber one openings to raise its international running total to $10.5m.The comedy, which is beinghandled by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), opened topof the table in Germany on $2.3m on 870 screens, beating X2 in itssecond week.In the German-speaking partsof Switzerland ...
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Sundance acquires Die Mommie Die for US release
The Sundance Channel has acquired all US rights to Mark Rucker'sdirectorial debut Die Mommie Die with a theatrical release through the Sundance Film Series slatedfor autumn.An ode to the Ross Hunter-style cinema soaps of the 1960s, DieMommie Die deals withthe fall-out from a two-timing pop diva's attempt to murder her ...
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Fireworks acquires Nola for US release
Fireworks Pictures has acquired US theatrical rights to theromantic comedy Nola,which premiered at the second Tribeca Film Festival this week and will bereleased in theatres in the autumn.The deal was negotiated by Andrew Herwitz of The FilmSales Company and Bob Aaronson, vice president of acquisitions andco-productions at Fireworks Pictures.Based on ...
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Myriad beefs up London operation with double hire
Bolstering its London operation, production and distribution company MyriadPictures has hired former Winchester executive Christine Howard as head of international business affairsand Alice Weston, formerly at Universal, as sales executive. Both appointments come asthe London office expands its role as a stand-alone production and acquisitionsentity led by Marion Pilowsky, head ...
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Monarch targets drug-free 'urban' titles for US video
Monarch Home Video (MHV) has signed a four-film deal with Tim Reid's Obsidian Home Entertainment to supply four urban comedies, all of them purposefully free of drug references or excessive violence.The deal starts on June 24 with the release of Tim Reid's For Real, a romantic comedy set in the ...
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Miami Gay & Lesbian festival names winners
Mark Rucker's murder comedy Die Mommie Die and Geoff Sax's nineteenth century lovestory Tipping The Velvet took top honours at the Fifth Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian FilmFestival, which ran from April 25-May 4.The best documentary award went to Even Benestad's profile of histransvestite father in All About My Father, ...
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Ford spearheads beefed up Miramax International
Miramax co-chief of acquisitions Stuart Ford (pictured) will now wear a new corporate hat as head of a bolstered Miramax International. Three other New York executives have also been promoted at the international division, all in an effort to keep up with the complexities of selling and distributing films overseas.As ...
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Lions Gate digs up 1000 Corpses sequel
Rob Zombie is preparing to write and direct a sequel to his breakoutdebut feature House Of 1,000 Corpses for Lions Gate Films, which wants to lay the foundations fora cult franchise.The original House of 1,000 Corpses, which centres on a couple that stumble upona family of psychotics, was released through ...
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Ridley reopens Black Dahlia murder case for Lions Gate
John Ridley, whose writing credits include Undercover Brother and U-Turn, is to direct the thriller Let MeTake You Down for LionsGate Films, the company announced Based on an original screenplay by Ridley, the projectcentres on a Hollywood coroner's office worker who attempts to reopen thelegendary 1947 Black Dahlia murder case.Ridley ...
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Ex-Miramax buyer Dreyer joins Sperry's Paris office
Elizabeth Dreyer, who most recently served as Miramax'sLondon-based film buyer, has joined Stephane Sperry's Liaisons Films as vicepresident of development and acquisitions.Dreyer will work out of Liaisons' Paris office and her duties willinvolve coordinating with the company's Los Angeles office, Canal Plus,StudioCanal and parent company Universal Pictures. Liaisons has a ...
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Spyglass hires Sortito to tap corporate sponsors
Marketing veteran Karen Sortito has joined Spyglass Entertainmentin the new position of executive vice president of worldwide marketing,Most recently she served as an entertainment consultant forHollywood studios and production companies, where her clients included SonyPictures Entertainment, Revolution Studios and IMAX.Prior to that her previous appointments have included, amongothers, executive vice ...
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Johnny English holds up strongly against X2
Universal's smash spy spoof Johnny English has hoisted its international runningtotal to $90.5m after 25 days on release, adding $8.2m from 3,000 theatres in37 countries over the weekend, according to estimates.The comedy placed second in the international market behind Fox's X2:X-Men United and managedseveral decent holds despite the global mutant ...
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X2 global rampage keeps pirates at bay
20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United grossed an emphatic $69,270,300 outside North America this past weekend in what was the most ambitious - and most lucrative - day-and-date global release ever staged by a studio.Adding in the simultaneous $85,558,731 taken in domestically, the global total of $154,829,031 for X2 represents ...
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Euro cinema classics set for US re-issue
New York-based Rialto Pictures has acquired US theatrical, videoand DVD rights to seven classic titles from the StudioCanal library vaultsincluding works by Jean-Luc Godard, Vittorio De Sica, Alain Resnais andJean-Pierre Melville.A theatrical run of the restored films will kick off withGodard's romantic comedy A Woman Is A Womanat New York's ...