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Focus lures ex-Miramax marketing chief Brooks
David Brooks,the former executive vice president and co-head of marketing at Miramax Films,has joined Focus Features as its president of marketing. Brooks will be based in New York, where he will be responsiblefor overseeing the company's worldwide marketing activities as Universal'sspecialty arm. His appointment is effective immediately.Announcing themove, Focus co-presidents ...
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Woo presents first US showing of Melville's uncut Le Cercle Rouge
Director JohnWoo is to present the new restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's LeCercle Rouge, theclassic 1970 heist thriller that will be seen in US theatres for the first timein its complete and original French-language version early next year.Rialto Pictures,which enjoyed considerable success in the US with the re-issue of Jean LucGodard's ...
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Bangkok Int'l film festival announces line-up and new competition
The 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) has announced a line-up of more than 70 films from more than 35 countries and a new award, the Golden Kinnaree. In addition, event organisers said yesterday (Dec 2) that there would be five world premieres and 15 Asian premieres. Gangs of New ...
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Fox takes $31.6m over weekend from 19 countries with Die Another Day
Fox International's Die Another Day continued its record-breaking worldwide march over the weekend with a phenomenal $31.6m haul from 19 markets. After 13 days on release the twentieth James Bond instalment has grossed a powerful $65.4m internationally and $100.6m in the US for a $165.9m worldwide tally. In Germany it ...
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Sundance announces 2003 Premieres, World Cinema titles
Sundance 2003'sstar-studded festival programme will officially open in Salt Lake City on Jan16th with Levity, thedirectorial debut of Hollywood screenwriter Ed Solomon that headlines Billy BobThornton as a released murderer on the road to redemption. The festival endsten days later.Other highlights in thePremiere section, which was announced yesterday alongside the ...
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SPE notches up the biggest studio gross record
Sony PicturesEntertainment (SPE) has broken the industry's all-time record forworldwide box office receipts in a calendar year with $2.75bn in sales, thestudio said today (Dec 2). The performance beats the previous mark of $2.68bnset by 20th Century Fox in 1998, when that studio distributed Titanic internationally.In a statementissued today SPE ...
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The world is wild about Harry: 11.2 million admissions over the weekend
The records continued to tumble for Warner Bros as Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets passed $200m in international ticket sales over the weekend, amassing an estimated $56.8m from 11.2 million admissions on 8,201 screens in 32 territories. The sequel has an estimated $208m international and $408m worldwide total ...
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Signature Theatres' Harris named 2003 ShoWester
Philip Harris III, the founder of Signature Theatres and current vice chair of the finance committee at the National Association Of Theatre Owners (NATO), is to be named ShoWester of the Year at next year's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas running March 3 to 6."Phil Harris has quickly emerged as ...
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Sundance unveils 'challenging' 2003 selections
Sundance Film Festivalprogramming director Geoffrey Gilmore promised next year's influentialevent would feature "among the most provocative and challenging films wehave ever seen at the festival" even in the face of all the commercial hardships that independent filmmakers are currently confrontingUnveiling the Dramatic andDocumentary Competitions, as well as the films that ...
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Submissions from 54 countries named eligible for foreign Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted its list of submissions for the Foreign Language Film Award category after eligibility concerns forced committee members to delay publication by one week. While the 54-strong list - a record number of submissions that beats last year's mark by three ...
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Harry and 007 clean up over Thanksgiving
Several tried but ultimatelyno newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber OfSecrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over thethree-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions overthe full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released today, ChamberOf Secrets took ...
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Potter and 007 clean up at Thanksgiving box office
Several tried but ultimately no newcomer could topple the might of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and Die Another Day, which combined for a one-two ranking over the three-day portion of a solid Thanksgiving Weekend and switched positions over the full five-day holiday. According to studio estimates released ...
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Anomalies delay foreign language Oscar announcement
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has delayed naming its list of official entries for the 2003 foreign language Oscar category in order to clear up anomalies over submissions from Afghanistan, Palestine, Hong Kong and the UK. The list was expected to go up on the Academy's official ...
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XXX continues its run, with $2m over weekend
The action picture XXX, which is being distributed internationally byColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), added another $2mover the weekend to raise its international cumulative score to $122.5m. TheVin Diesel starrer held well in Belgium and Holland in spite of bows by HarryPotter And The Chamber Of Secrets inboth territories ...
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Chamber Of Secrets conjures up another $58.7m
Harry Potter And TheChamber Of Secrets raised itsinternational cumulative score to $128m after 10 days with a mighty $58.7m haulover the weekend, according to studio estimates released today. The secondinstalment in the Potter franchise recorded 8.632m admissions from 5,249screens in 20 territories and established another set of records along the ...
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Adam Bialow promoted in international dept at Lions Gate
Adam Bialow has been promoted to vice president ofinternational business and legal affairs at Lions Gate Entertainment in a movethat highlights the distribution and production company's expandingworldview. Bialow will beresponsible for business and legal affairs for Lions Gate's internationaltheatrical, home video and television arms and will continue to report to ...
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Lucas to be honoured by the National Board Of Review
The National Board of Review (NBR) is to present GeorgeLucas with a special award in honour of his 'visionary cinematicachievements', the film body announced today (Nov 25).The presentation will take place at the annual awards galaon Jan 14, 2003, at Tavern on the Green in New York. A full list ...
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Miramax swoops on MDP's The I Inside
Miramax Filmshas acquired all distribution rights for North America, Italy and Australia/NewZealand to MDP Worldwide's psychological thriller The I Inside. The film will be released in NorthAmerica under the Dimension Films label.Starring RyanPhillippe, Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea and directed by Roland Suso Richter,the picture centres on an amnesiac's journey ...
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Bond lives another day with killer $47m opening
Reports of the demise of James Bond have been greatly exaggerated of late and the superspy struck back over the weekend as MGM's Die Another Day opened top of the table with a record-breaking $47m haul, according to studio estimates.The 20th Bond may have divided the critics but there was ...
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Callas Forever to open Palm Springs festival
Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever will receive its North American premiere when it opens the 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 9, 2003. The director, a longtime friend of the legendary opera singer, and lead actors Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons are expected to attend. The picture takes ...