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Banger Sisters continues Searchlight run of success
MGM's Ice Cube comedy Barbershop remained a cut above the rest in its second week, holding on to top spot with a $13.3m haul according to studio estimates released today. The picture's 36% drop-off, impressive for an urban comedy, and $38.9m cumulative score was more good news for beleaguered studio ...
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Antwone Fisher to open AFI FEST, Talk To Her to close
Thisyear's AFI FEST in Los Angeles will open on Nov 7 with the gala screeningof the psychological drama Antwone Fisher, the long awaited directorial debut of Denzel Washington, whichpremiered at the weekend in Toronto. The festival will also screen the USpremiere of Atom Egoyan's Araratas its Centerpiece Gala on Nov ...
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Jeff Wadlow wins the Chrysler Film Festival $1m prize
Emerging film-maker JeffWadlow has been awarded a $1m production deal with online independent Hypnoticand Universal Studios as winner of the 2002 Chrysler Million Dollar FilmFestival. The year-long festival produced five finalists and culminated in aceremony at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. Wadlow, agraduate of USC School of Cinema-Television, ...
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Ken Burns to receive IDA career achievement award
Ken Burns will receive theInternational Documentary Association (IDA) 2002 Career Achievement Award atthe 18th annual IDA awards gala benefit at the Directors Guild OfAmerica Theatre on Dec 13. Burns has produced 19 documentaries including theOscar nominated Brooklyn Bridgeand the epic miniseries Jazz and TheCivil War.'Ken Burns is in arelatively early ...
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Laura Ivey joins Infinty in legal & business affairs dept
Laura Ivey has beenappointed vice president of business and legal affairs at the LA-based filmproduction and financing company, Infinity International Entertainment. Iveywill be responsible for negotiating and structuring licensing and productionsdeals with domestic and international parties for all Infinity productions andall productions by Cinerenta, Germany's largest film fund, which are ...
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BVI's Signs flies high in UK, Germany, Mexico
BuenaVista International (BVI) scored its biggest ever live-action opening in the UKover the weekend as it continued the international roll-out of Signs, M Night Shyamalan's domestic sci-fi hit. Thepicture grossed $5.7m from 443 screens in the UK, including previews, which wasalso the biggest UK opening for star Mel Gibson. In ...
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Chen Kaige leads Chinese delegation to Denver
Together director Chen Kaige will be part of a Chinesedelegation attending next month's 25th Starz Denver International Film Festival(DIFF) as part of a tribute to Chinese cinema. The festival, which runs fromOctober 10-20, will present a 'Salute To Chinese Cinema' as part of its annualfocus on a country or region ...
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Sony rebrands its TV units, dropping Columbia TriStar
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE) has renamed its domestic and international television concerns, removingthe Columbia TriStar moniker and rebramding them with the Sony name. ColumbiaTriStar Domestic Television and Columbia TriStar International Television willnow operate as Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Sony Pictures TelevisionInternational (SPTI).The move is calculated tocapitalise on the strength of ...
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MGM celebrates with Barbershop's $21m opening
After a string of flops MGM had some long overdue good news this weekend as Barbershop cut through the competition to open top of the charts on $21m, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. The situational comedy stars Ice Cube as the patron of the eponymous salon and received ...
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XXX opens at number one in Australia
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) secured the number one spot in Australia with the release of XXX, grossing a terrific $1.7m from 300 prints. The movie is expected to enjoy a strong run in the territory as school holidays begin next week. XXX also opened in South Africa, Turkey ...
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Columbia TriStar hits international billion dollar gross mark
Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) says it has passed $1bn in internationalticket sales this year, the third time the Sony Pictures Entertainment divisionhas crossed over that billion-dollar threshold overseas. The totalworldwide box office gross for parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment nowstands at $2.4bn, already the fifth highest annual total on ...
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Swimfan dives head-first into domestic theatres
Ushering in whatis traditionally a quiet month while the studios fine-tune their end-of-yearslates, the teen thriller Swimfan opened top of the charts over the weekend with a $12.4m estimatedhaul. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and wasproduced by New York's GreeneStreet Films, best known until now for ...
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Mendes gangster picture on Road to Fox profits in Germany, Spain
TwentiethCentury Fox rolled out Road To Perdition in a number of key territories over the weekend, scoring anumber one opening in Germany with $1.67m from 520 screens and a terrific$1.49m opening in Spain, where the picture played on 280 screens and trailedbehind Men In Black II.Sam Mendes' sombre gangster picture, ...
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Columbia TriStar rolls out with XXX, dominates Europe with MIIB
Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) embarked on its second wave of internationalroll-outs for XXX over theweekend, scoring $1.2m in total with openings in Taiwan, Estonia and CentralAmerica. The Vin Diesel action movie grossed $388,000 from 18 screens inTaipei, faring slightly better than studio stablemate Vertical Limit managed in that territory ...
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Phenomenal Greek Wedding is now number two
Disney's Signs held off IFC Films's sprightly My Big Fat GreekWedding to retain top spot with anestimated $16.5m haul over Labour Day weekend as the summer season officiallycame to a close. M Night Shyamalan's crop circle chronicle averaged $4,805 from3,437 theatres and has a cumulative total after five weeks of ...
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First Look launches Rolling Rez tour of Skins
US independent First LookPictures will take Native American Chris Eyre's drama Skins on a nationwide trip around Indian Reservations andcommunities ahead of the picture's theatrical release on September 27.The Rolling Rez Tour 2002 will present free screenings and take place in theCinetransformer, a trailer-like exhibition platform that expands laterally onsite ...
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Scooby-Doo heads for $100m in international territories
Scooby-Doo is poised to break the $100m barrier at theinternational box office for Warner Bros after steady weekend takings across 38territories raised its cumulative score to $99m last weekend. The pictureopened at number one this weekend in Sweden, where it took an estimated$235,000 from 100 screens. Overall the live action ...
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DreamWorks refinances, accelerates animated output schedule
DreamWorks has announced a$1.5bn refinancing package that will enable it to double its animated featureoutput to two or three pictures a year by 2004 and increase by around 30% itsannual live action slate to 10-12 titles by 2005. The deal, unveiled on Friday,comprises a $1bn securitisation and a $500m revolving ...
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Palm buys worldwide DVD rights to doc American Mullet
Palm Pictures has acquiredworldwide DVD rights to Jennifer Arnold's American Mullet. The film explores the history and evolution of theMullet haircut, which is distinguished by a short front and long back. Theproject started out as The Mullet Chronicles, a web-based series that premiered at the SundanceOnline Festival, and eventually became ...
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Columbia TriStar takes XXX out in Asia, Yugoslavia
Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) launched the first internationalroll-outs of Revolution Studios' XXX over the weekend, scoring modest success in several smallerAsian territories and landing the seventh all-time highest opening inYugoslavia. The Vin Diesel action picture grossed $380,000 in The Philippineson 50 screens; $400,000 including previews from 38 screens in ...