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Steen's Aftermath to open Copenhagen's NatFilm
The 15th edition of Copenhagen's NatFilm Festival willkick off with the premiere of acclaimed actress Paprika Steen's featuredirecting debut, Aftermath, on Mar 25.The drama about a couple trying to recover from the death oftheir child has already picked up considerable buzz and expectations are high.Aftermath is writtenby Kim Fupz Aakeson ...
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Foxtel launches Oz pay per view movie service
Australia's Foxtellaunched its new digital pay TV service on Sunday (March 14), givingsubscribers access to 27 pay-per-view near-video-on-demand channels of moviecontent.Each movie will costconsumers $4.4 (A$5.95), although those households which opt to pay $70(A$94.95) per month for the top pay TV tier, will get two per month included.Foxtel Box Office, ...
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Something's Gotta Give crosses $100m for Warner
The romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give passed $100m at the international boxoffice at the weekend as it raised its total by an estimated $6.6m to $101.6mfor Warner Bros Pictures International.Figures released by thedistributor reveal the picture has taken a total of $72.6m in Europe, $19.4m inthe Asia-Pacific region and $9.6m ...
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Universal's international marketing structure takes shape
Universal Pictures vice president of international distributionJack Ledwith is taking on the added role of managing director of Los Angelesoperations as the studio restructures its international theatrical marketingand distribution business to coordinate London and Los Angeles operations.Ledwith, who has been with the studio since 1996, will be the mostsenior member ...
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Dash directs State Property II for Lions Gate
Production has begun in New York on Dash Films/ROC Films' StateProperty II, the sequelto Abdul Malik Abbott's crime drama about an ambitious group of gangsters thatwas released by Lions Gate in 2002.Damon Dash will direct based on a screenplay by Adam Moreno, withwhom he collaborated on last year's hip-hop satire ...
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Secret Window opens with $19m, but can't touch The Passion juggernaut
The Passion Of The Christ passed the quarter-billion dollar mark at the weekend as itstayed top on an estimated $31.7m for $264m after 19 days.The picture is predicted to fare better than was thought possiblea week ago, with US distributor Newmarket Films' head of distribution RobSchwartz reportedly foreseeing a $350m-$400m ...
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Polly takes $11m for top international title over weekend
Spurred by top berths in Italy, France and Spain at the weekend,Universal's romantic comedy Along Came Polly added an estimated $11m through UIP fora $39m international running total.Pollyopened top in Italy ahead of five local language releases on $1.6m from 225sites and opened on the same amount in France from ...
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Coens back in Cannes competition with The Ladykillers
Joel & Ethan Coen's latest black comedy The Ladykillers is heading to the Cannes Film Festivalin May, with a May 18 slot reserved for the film in main competition.Although the selection is not absolutely finalised, the Coens andthe film's star Tom Hanks were freely talking about the Cannes trip in ...
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Screeners war is over: MPAA will let individual distributors decide
It'sopen season for awards screener tapes in 2004. It emerged late last week thatthe MPAA has decided to leave screener policy up to individual distributorsfrom now on and will not enforce its members to limit mailouts of tapes orDVDs.Thenew policy was made known to Screendaily.com in a letter MPAA president ...
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AUSTRALIA
In its third weekend in cinemas The Passion Of The Christ had to suffer being pushed down into second place by another Icon film, The Butterfly Effect, but not much separated them.The Butterfly Effect's first four-day cinema outing took A$1,341,092 from 172 screens while The Passion took A$1,301,464 from 158 ...
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NEW ZEALAND
For the fourth consecutive weekend The Passion Of The Christ has held its position as the most popular film in NZ cinemas. It grossed NZ$192,008 for Hoyts/Icon from 29 screens. UIP's challenger was Paycheck but the NZ$164,695 worth of ticket sales for 38 screens was only enough for it to ...
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Telefilm Canada suspends Cinar's federal funding
Cinar''s current production activities could be at risk as financing from federal funding body Telefilm Canada has been suspended pending the results of investigations into the company''s activities. Canadian Television has also cut off its funding to Cinar.Once a stock market darling with a wholesome family image, Cinar has been ...
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IRELAND Production Listings - March 15 2004
Ireland - March 15Pre-ProductionAURORA ISLAND(Magma Films [Irl] Art Oko Film [Ger]). Co-Prods: Future Film [UK]. Budget: Euros 5m. Backers: Buena Vista [Ger]. Dist: Buena Vista (Germany). Genre: Thriller. Exec. Prods: Ralph Christians, Stephen Margolis, Michele Berk. Prods: Karel Dirka, Clodagh Freeman. Dir: Peter Medak. Scr: Agatha Dominik, Robert Newton. DoP: ...
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Irish production industry in low budget regime
For full Irish production listings, click HEREAdam And Paul, Man About Dog, Freeze Frame, Timbuktu, The Halo Effect, Cowboys And Angels, Headrush, Dead Meat, Bite, Starfish, Inside I'm Dancing, The Honeymooners, Jonjo Mickybo. It's a long list, a veritable catalogue of recently made Irish films, some of them just completed ...
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Jersey Girl
Dir: Kevin Smith. US. 2004. 103mins.It's theoretically possible, of course, that director Kevin Smith has not used every cliche associated with the domestic genre featuring guilty yuppie parents and guilting kids, but audiences will be hard-pressed to find anything missing in Jersey Girl. As attested to in an egregious 'director's ...
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Secret Window
Dir: David Koepp. US. 2004.Johnny Depp is beloved among moviegoers for his outrageous screen characters whose exaggerated physical attributes have included wigs, facial tics and garish attire. In the tepid psychodrama Secret Window, based on a novella by Stephen King, Depp dons a frayed bath robe, big spectacles and a ...
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DENMARK
With a big 62 print release behind it the release of local veteran Erik Clausen's Villa Paranoia managed to oust Something's Gotta Give from the top spot, as it opened with 24,075 admissions.It is the 10th feature film from the 62 year-old actor, writer and director. The Keaton-Nicholson pairing did, ...
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FINLAND
Little changed at the top of the Finnish chart this week where the new release of Along Came Polly grabbed Something's Gotta Give's third place, leaving Brother Bear as number one, local hit Dog Nail Clipper on second and last week's new local film Beyond The Front Line fourth.For the ...
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Irish box office shock: Starsky & Hutch vs The Passion
BVI's Starsky & Hutch squared up to Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ and took the round one opening weekend in cinemas in the Republic of Ireland.Given the reported demand for The Passion in the territory - Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the local release of ...
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Germany, UK step up anti-piracy operations
Anti-piracy operations in both Germany and the UK say they are making increasing inroads against DVD and video pirates.In its annual report for 2003, the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU) revealed that the fines German courts imposed in copyright cases increased to more than Euros 500,000.Even though proceedings were ...