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New films from high-profile Italian directors
For full Italian production listings click HEREMarking the first concrete steps in Vittorio Cecchi Gori's long-awaited comeback, the troubled film mogul currently has two films lined up for 2004.Currently in post-production is a new project by popular Roman actor-director Carlo Verdone entitled Love Is Eternal - For As Long ...
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HONG KONG
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King continued its domination of the Hong Kong box office in its third week, grossing $734,789 from 47 screens for a cumulative total of $4.06m. Distributed by Deltamac, the film has overtaken local blockbuster Infernal Affairs III, now in its fourth week, as ...
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NEW ZEALAND
It was a steady January holiday weekend, with total box office takings up 17%. Still number one, The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King pressed on towards the NZ$9m mark, though its NZ$7,007 screen average (from 113 screens) was beaten for the first time by teen ...
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ITALY
Leonardo Pieraccioni's Italian comedy, Il Paradiso All'Improvviso confirmed its position as the festive season's top blockbuster last weekend, as it grossed a further $2,578,778 bringing its total earnings to a massive $28,934,933.The Medusa comedy, about a bachelor searching for his soul-mate, recorded an impressive screen average of $6,399 on its ...
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My Architect
Dir: Nathaniel Kahn. US. 2003. 116mins.One of the 12 films shortlisted for the best documentary feature Academy Award and a healthy box office performer to the tune of $0.4m in its first two months of domestic release through New Yorker Films, My Architect is yet another theatrically marketable documentary to ...
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Multiplex building continues apace across Europe
More than 1,000 multiplex screens a year are still being added to the European total, according to a report by industry analysts Screen Digest.25,306 multiplex screens were in operation across the EU in 2002 - up 4.6% year on year.The report predicts that within two to three years half of ...
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Loews, Israeli Theatres expand into Poland
Poland has become the latest hot spot for multiplex development with two international cinema chains - the US' Loews Cineplex International and Israel's IT International Theatres - unveiling plans to expand into the territory.IT, known in its home territory as Israeli Theatres, is using the proceeds from its recent IPO ...
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Investors sue Village Roadshow for Matrix profits
A group of unhappy Australian investors are suing Village Roadshow Limited over their US$17.9m (A$23m) worth of tax leveraged investments in the first of the high-earning Matrix trilogy.The group, hardly beginners, are current and former partners of KPMG in Australia, the leading business and taxation advisory firm. They including the ...
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Tykwer sniffs out Perfume possibilities
Tom Tykwer (Heaven, Run Lola Run) may direct the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's internationally bestselling novel Perfume (Das Parfuem) for Germany's Constantin Film.Constantin's board member Thomas Peter Friedl confirmed to ScreenDaily.com that the director has been working with screenwriter Andrew Birkin (The Concrete Garden) and producer Bernd Eichinger ...
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Hotel Rwanda checks in for South African shoot
United Artists' thriller Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George, began shooting in Johannesburg on Monday (Jan 12).Based on true events, the film is set in Kigali during Rwanda's genocidal civil war and tells the story of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina who saved the lives of thousands of helpless Rwandans.Don Cheadle plays ...
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Sweden's Daybreak set for Berlin competition
Writer-producer-director Eleanor Bergstein, sound designer/film editor Walter Murch and director-producer-screenwriter Anthony Minghella, whose latest film Cold Mountain will open this year's Berlinale, have been announced as the celebrity hosts for the second edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (7-12 February).Bergstein was responsible for the production and screenplay of the box ...
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Kirishima 1945 wins prestigious Japanese prize
Kazuo Kuroki's Kirishima 1945 has been named the best Japanese film of 2003 by the Kinema Jumpo magazine's critics poll.The film, an autobiographical drama set in rural Japan in the closing days of World War II, is currently on domestic release.Compiled annually by leading critics and scholars, the Kinema Jumpo ...
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Minghella, Murch named as Berlinale Talent Campus guests
Writer-producer-director Eleanor Bergstein, sound designer/film editor Walter Murch and director-producer-screenwriter Anthony Minghella, whose latest film Cold Mountain will open this year's Berlinale, have been announced as the celebrity hosts for the second edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus (7-12 February).Bergstein was responsible for the production and screenplay of the box ...
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Lost In Translation riding high in Europe after trio of spectacular bows
FocusFeatures' Lost In Translation scored a trio of sensational European openings at theweekend that far exceeded expectations and sets it up for large expansions thisupcoming weekend.Sofia Coppola'sacclaimed account of a brief-ish encounter in Tokyo opened through MomentumPictures in the UK and Ireland on 96 prints and grossed $1.47m, reportedly thebiggest ...
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Lost In Translation scores trio of spectacular Euro bows
Focus Features' Lost In Translation scored a trio of sensational European openings atthe weekend that far exceeded expectations and sets it up for large expansionsthis upcoming weekend.Sofia Coppola's acclaimed account of a brief-ishencounter in Tokyo opened through Momentum Pictures in the UK and Ireland on 96prints and grossed $1.47m, reportedly ...
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Love Actually passes $200m at global box office
Universal'sromantic comedy Love Actually took $4.7m from 1,819 sites in 25 countries at the weekend,raising the cumulative score in the territories where it is distributed by UIPto $139.2m.Including France ($6m), Russia ($2m) and the US ($58m), it hasgrossed $205m worldwide and has eight countries to open including Japan on Feb7.Weekend ...
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Love Actually passes $200m worldwide
Universal's romantic comedy Love Actually took $4.7m from 1,819 sites in 25 countries at theweekend, raising the cumulative score in the territories where it isdistributed by UIP to $139.2m.Including France ($6m), Russia ($2m) and the US ($58m), ithas grossed $205m worldwide and has eight countries to open including Japan onFeb ...
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Something's Gotta Give opens second in Australia on $1.9m
The romanticcomedy Something's Gotta Give opened in Australia in second place at the weekend on anestimated $1.9m from 235 screens through Warner Bros Pictures International(WBPI).By way ofcomparison, box office tracked 34% ahead of Cold Mountain, 25% ahead of As Good As It Gets, 25% ahead of First Wives Club and ...
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Cheaper By The Dozen scores solid Australian bow
Driven by a $1.2m bow on 177screens in Australia, family comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2.2m from 607 in five territories at theweekend to raise its international running total to $5.1m.Elsewhere, Fox Internationalreported a fourth consecutive number one weekend for The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The King ...
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Seven battle for Oscar make-up nod
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has namedseven films for consideration in the best make-up category at the upcoming 76thAcademy Awards.The films are Cold Mountain, The Last Samurai, The Lord OfThe Rings: The Return Of The King, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of TheWorld, Monster, Peter Pan ...