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BKN International raises $60m from IPO
Children''s animation producer and distributor BKN International raised $59.5m (euros61.2m) from its IPO on Frankfurt''s Neuer Markt last week. The German subsidiary of US concern BKN Inc will use a portion of proceeds from the sale to increase its European production capacity by opening a European studio with facilities in ...
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Disney's Brother Bear claws in $200m
An estimated $10.1m international weekend haul propelled Disney's BrotherBear past $200m inworldwide ticket sales, making it Disney's 16th animated title to reach themark.The picture raised its international running total to $115.5m andhas taken more than $85m at the domestic box office.Weekend business was fuelled chiefly by a $4.7m number one ...
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ITALY
Penelope Cruz has scored an impressive double whammy, starring in the top two films at the Italian box office: Medusa's Italian-language picture Don't Move, and Columbia Tristar Italia's Gothika.Actor-director Sergio Castellitto's Don't Move took the number one spot on its second weekend, grossing an extra $1,769,784 which brings the Italian-Spanish ...
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NORWAY
While the top three spots remained in the hands of Spykids 3D: Game Over, Brother Bear and The Young Olsen Gang Rocks, a fourth family oriented film, Cheaper By The Dozen, managed to push Something's Gotta Give from fourth to sixth.Disappointingly, despite a solid screen average and highly favourable reviews, ...
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Film journalist named new director of Sydney film fest
Film journalist for The Australian newspaper, Lynden Barber, is the new director of the 2005 and 2006 Sydney Film Festival, taking over from Gayle Lake on July 1 after the completion of this year's event.Announcing the appointment, festival president Cathy Robinson said there had been "an exhaustive search in Australia ...
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Viacom extends TV accords in China
Viacom, the media conglomerate that owns Paramount, Blockbuster, MTV and CBS, announced that it had reached several new agreements with Chinese partners covering programming, production and information technology.The agreements follow a week-long tour of China by veteran Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone. However, Redstone failed to obtain the extension to the ...
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Starsky & Hutch claim top spot in UK on $8.2m
Starsky & Hutch claimed the number one spot inits second weekend in the UK on an estimated $8.2m from 429 screens followingwide expansion through Buena Vista International (BVI).The 1970s television adaptation opened on platform releaselast weekend and has taken $8.6m in the early stages of its international run.It opens in ...
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UK/IRELAND
Three new films impressed in the UK this week while three more were left out in the cold. It was little surprise after it opened top in the Republic of Ireland and took $2.6m (£1.4m) in UK nationwide previews last weekend that Starsky & Hutch would top the table this ...
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Raindance, BIFA announce 2004 events
Raindance and The British Independent Film Awards have announced their programme of events for 2004.Raindance also announced its move into UK home entertainment distribution with the formation of the Raindance Distribution Company, a joint venture with Anchor Bay Entertainment to create a new DVD label which will release six to ...
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De Posch is new CEO at ProSiebenSat1
Following last winter's management reshuffle ProSiebenSat.1 Media's CEO Urs Rohner is leaving the company on April 30 to take up "a new professional challenge" at a multinational corporation in his native Switzerland. He was appointed CEO of ProSieben Media in 2000 and then became the CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media ...
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Israeli actors form breakaway union
A group of Israeli actors, which includes local stars such as Gila Almagor, Amos Lavi, Sami Houri and Shmil Ben Ari, has formed a breakaway actors'' union.Called Screen Actors Union (SAU), the organisation competes with existing union EMI (the initials stand for "Artists Union" in Hebrew), which SAU''s founding members ...
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Norwegian film fund backs eight new features
Eight new features from newcomers and experienced filmmakers like Petter Naess, Erik Skjoldbjaerg and Paal Sletaune have been awarded funding from the Norwegian Film Fund.Elsk Meg I Morgen (literally Love Me Tomorrow) is the third and final instalment in the successful trilogy about Elling, and it will be directed by ...
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Reconstruction takes top prize at Sofia film fest
Danish director Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction won the top prize of Euros 5,000.at the 8th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival.The five-member jury led by director Jerry Schatzberg, awarded a special mention to a production from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srdjan Vuletic's Summer In The Golden Valley - which also won ...
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Italian producer Seregni lines up Corpses
Rosanna Seregni, the independent Italian co-producer behind Vodka Lemon, has boarded a new French-Slovenian film that is being produced by No Man's Land's Dunja Klemenc and Cedomir Kolar.Set in Sarajevo in 2001, the film, whose working title is Well Tempered Corpses, tells the story of four corpses who are brought ...
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Lescure to head Equinoxe workshop
Former Canal Plus chief Pierre Lescure will act as president of the upcoming Equinoxe screenwriters' workshop in Marrakech from April 26-May 3. Former president Jeanne Moreau will take up the role of honorary president.Since its inception 11 years ago, the twice yearly event has generated 64 films which have won ...
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Valenti bids tearful farewell to ShoWest
Hollywood figurehead JackValenti bade a tearful farewell this morning to ShoWest, the assembly oftheatre-owners that he has addressed as chief executive of the Motion PictureAssociation of America (MPAA) for the past 37 years.A packed room of exhibitorsin Las Vegas put side any differences they may have had with their sometimenemesis ...
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Hollywood costs go through the roof
The average cost to MPAA-affiliated studios of making andmarketing a film crossed $100m for the first time in 2003, outgoing MPAApresident Jack Valenti announced at ShoWest yesterday (23).Combined US box office for MPAA films was the second highestin history, dropping 0.3% against last year's $9.5bn record tally for $9.47bn,while the ...
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THINKFilm acquires Boston Red Sox movie for North America
New York-based THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to TheBoston Red Sox Movie,which chronicles the highs and lows of the legendary baseball team set againstthe tumultuous 2003 season and is scheduled to open in Boston on May 7.Produced by sports filmproduction house Bombo Sports & Entertainment, the film covers lastyear's ...
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Valenti on the screener ban: 'I would have done it differently'
MPAA chairman and CEO JackValenti expressed regret at how he handled the awards screener ban at his pressbriefing yesterday morning for the opening of ShoWest in Las Vegas.When asked why he had leftthe imposition of the ban till so late in the year last year, he said that withthe wisdom ...