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Focus Features opened Sylvia, a biopic about the troubled poet and suicide Sylvia Plath, in 45th place last weekend on $57,819. Christine Jeffs' film stars Gwyneth Paltrow and averaged $19,647 from three venues - by far the biggest of the top 60.Focus' current triumph Lost In Translation dropped 33% and ...
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Pathe UK to send out screeners to BAFTA members
Pathe UK has become the first major UK independent to say that it will send out screener tapes to BAFTA members this year.Pathe UK is distributing two highly fancied awards contenders: The Girl With A Pearl Earring and In The Cut. The company will send out screener tapes for both ...
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Berlinale reveals co-production market details
Further details of the first Berlinale Co-Production Market (BCM), which will be held during next year's festival from Feb 8-9, emerged this week.Producers have until Dec 12 to submit feature film projects for consideration for the market, which will be held at the Talent Campus venue Haus der Kulturen der ...
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Stockholm unveils festival line-up
With three weeks to go until the 14th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival, festival director Git Scheynius and her team have unveiled the full line-up for this year's event (Nov 13-23).The festival will present around 140 films divided into ten different categories.Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill will open the ...
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Saban 'bullish' about German market
The expectations were high when it was revealed that Haim Saban was to give the keynote speech at the opening of this year's Munich Media Days on Oct 22. Would he spill the beans on the future strategy for ProSiebenSat.1 Media'As it was, he neatly manoeuvred himself out of revealing ...
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Five to sponsor UK Women In Film and Television Awards
UK broadcaster Five is to be the title sponsor of the 2003 Women in Film and Television (WFTV) Awards. The annual awards ceremony, which celebrates the achievements of women in all aspects of the British film and television industry, will take place this year on Dec 5 at the Hilton ...
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Valladolid lines up 21 Spanish premieres of international titles
Spain's Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1), kicks off this weekend with an official selection featuring the Spanish premieres of 21 top-notch international titles, including opening film Dogville from Lars von Trier and closing film Anything Else from Woody Allen, both screening out of competition.The line-up boasts several foreign-language ...
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Indian cinemas call off protest strike
Cinemas in India's Maharastra state - which encompasses Bollywood capital Mumbai - have re-opened after a strike over entertainment taxes was called off after three days.Cinema owners called off the strike after the state government reduced its entertainment tax from 55 per cent to 45 per cent in Mumbai. In ...
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Cork names short film prize winners
The Cork Film Festival saw the The Jameson Award for best Irish short film go to director Simon Fitzmaurice for Full Circle. The debut director's film was cited by the jury for 'its ability to tell a story with tenderness and humour, managing to create an entire world through very ...
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Sweden's TV3 strikes BVITV deal
Entertainment channel TV3, part of Sweden's Modern Times Group, has struck a licensing deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) for series, animated programming and a package of feature films. The deal, which covers Sweden, Norway and Denmark, includes Armageddon and Pretty Woman, Die Hard With A Vengeance and While ...
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Europe's film sector to grow at 7%
Growth of the market forfilmed entertainment in Europe is set to more than double the average for thewider entertainment and media sectors over the next five years. According to management consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers in its annual Entertainment and Media Outlook:Europe report, compound annual growth for the entertainment sector willaverage 3.4% to ...
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KWA takes over Comandante sales
Spain's Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up international rights on Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary Comandante.Sales were previously handled by MediaPro, one of the film's co-producers alongside Spain's Pentagrama Films and Morena Films. The controversial title, which paints an amicable, grandfatherly portrait of the Cuban leader, premiered at last ...
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Ripley, Green Mile open well against Toy power
Toy Story 2 has confirmed its status as a true phenomenon grossing over $10m for its third consecutive weekend at the UK box office. The running total of the Disney/Pixar animation is now $53m after just 17 days on wide release. But the weekend openers The Talented Mr Ripley ...
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UK box office edges close to record year in 2003
Despite a slow start to the year, the UK could once again see its annual box office record broken in 2003.With a host of high profile titles including the final instalments of The Matrix and The Lord Of The Rings franchises still to debut this year, 2003 could become the ...
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Gary Smith resigns from Winchester
Gary Smith, who foundedWinchester Entertainment in 1996, has resigned from the company to pursue otherinterests following the purchase earlier this year of Cobalt Media Capital fromAlton Irby and John Muse.Smith told Screendailyyesterday that he was glad to have the flexibility to pursue interests in andout of the film business and ...
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MPAA launches second anti-piracy trailer
The embattledMPAA will launch the second theatrical trailer of its anti-piracy campaigntomorrow (24), buoyed by claims that July's opening spot raised awarenessamong one in five 13 to 24-year-olds.Three monthsafter launching the Respect Copyrights campaign, a new trailer called'Movies. They're Worth It.' is going out in approximately5,000 theatres nationwide.The trailer isproduced ...
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DPS teams with Germany's BAF on 3-D animated Happily
Digital Production Studios (DPS), the New Jersey-based 3Danimation subsidiary of IDT Media, has signed a services agreement with Germanproduction company BAF Berlin Animation Film.Under the terms of the deal DPS will act as the single sourceanimation company for Happily N'Ever After, a 3-D animated revisiting of classic Brothers Grimm fairytales.Work ...
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Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic join EU Film Festival lineup in US
Pupi Avati will introduce his Italian romance Incantanto (The Heart Is Elsewhere) as the opening film of the upcomingannual EU Showcase festival, which runs in Washington DC from Oct 29-Nov 9.Organised by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the EuropeanCommission Delegation in Washington, the event features a host of festivalwinners ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
In their second weekend at the chart, the latest local release Small World and Pirates Of The Caribbean held onto the two top positions in spite of SWAT opening. The Farrell/Jackson vehicle sold 4,991 tickets for the three-day weekend, making $12,706 for distributor Tuck. Small World proved to be ...