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Meet The Fockers reigns supreme
Universal's Meet TheFockers stayed atop the US charts with a mighty second weekend's businessthat propelled the comedy past $150m and helped set a new annual domestic boxoffice record.The picture grossed an estimated $42.8m over three days, raising its runningtotal to $163.4m, which means Fockers should pass Meet The Parents'$166.2m lifetime ...
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North American box office scales new heights in 2004
Early estimates today (2)declared 2004 a record year at the North American box office, spurred on by asuperb opening 12 days for Universal's Meet The Fockers that saw the comedy race past $150m (seeseparate story).According to industry calculations annual ticket sales amounted to $9.4bn, a 1.4%rise from $9.27bn in 2003 ...
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Palms Springs to honour Payne
Alexander Payne will receivethe Director of the Year award at the 16th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival (PSIFF).Payne, whose latest picture Sideways has garnered a host of best pictureawards from North American critics groups and picked up seven Golden Globenominations, will collect the honour at the annual awards gala on ...
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ShowBIZData.com appoints Wells, Kean, Hernandez
ShowBIZData.com, the online industry database service, has made three new staff appointments. John T Wells has been named senior vice president, acquisitions and strategic partnerships, Jan Kean has been named senior vice president, publicity and media relations and Marc Hernandez has been named director of development.Wells comes to ShowBIZData having ...
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Ocean's Twelve, Polar Express pass $100m international
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Ocean's, Polar Express pass $100m at International box office
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Ocean's Twelve, Polar Express pass $100m international
Ocean'sTwelveand The Polar Express both passed $100m at the international box officein a bumper weekend for Warner Bros Pictures International.Ocean's Twelve added an estimated $20.9m haul on 4,900 prints in 49countries to raise its total to $107.3m. The picture is scheduled to open inJapan on Jan 21 and the UK ...
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Alexander approaches $50m in international ticket sales
Alexander added an estimated $7.5m on more than 1,400 screensin 29 territories through I.S. Film Distribution at the weekend to raise its international running total to$43.5m.The picture opened well in South Korea, ranking number one on justover $4m on 270 screens and 801,000 admissions. Results for India wereunavailable at time ...
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Kung Fu Hustle continues strong run for SPRI
KUNGFu Hustleadded anestimated $10.1m on 1,095 screens in sixmarkets at the weekend through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) toraise its international cumulative total to $31.1m.Key highlights were a $3.2m second place debut on 368 Japanese screens behindHayao Miyazaki's reigning champion, Howl's Moving Castle. SPRIexecutives expect strong results going into the ...
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Polar Express maintains 3D heat in North America
Warner Bros' The Polar Express: An Imax 3D Experiencecontinued its record-setting running at the North American holiday box office,earning $7.18m on 62 screens during the 10-day holiday period from Dec 24 toJan 2 for a per-screen average of $116,000.The picture's three-day gross on the ultimate weekend of 2004 was $2.1m, ...
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Sands confirmed as DreamWorks president
Miramax chief operating officer Rick Sands has joined DreamWorksSKG as president and chief operatingofficer. Sands' long anticipated departure comes as Miramax grapples withrecent layoffs and an ongoing contract dispute between parent company Disney andMiramax co-chief executives Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein. Sands will be primarily responsible for day-to-day management ofDreamWorks ...
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Berlinale gets new perspective
The fourth PerspektiveDeutsches Kino section of the Berlinale has revealed its first five films to beselected."The breadth of themesand characters in these films covers everything from social hardships under thecurrent wave of reforms to the tenderness of heartfelt moments. What's beingdealt with is always authentic - no matter whether it ...
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French box office hits 20-year high
The French box office for2004 was released Tuesday by France's exhibitors federation (FNCF). In what isthe best year of the past twenty, 196 million tickets were sold, a 12% increaseon 2003. The first half of the yearproved the engine for the growth, with a 19% increase over the first six ...
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Wild Bunch sets out stall for Rendez-Vous
French sales anddistribution outfit Wild Bunch has announced a slew of new titles which arelikely to be the talk of the upcoming French Film Rendez-Vous organised byexport body Unifrance.Along with three films fromnew directors, Wild Bunch will handle the latest films from Bertrand Blier andNicole Garcia. Wild Bunch chief Vincent ...
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Israeli cinema grows on all fronts
While Israel's overallcinema attendance figures for 2004 shows no significant increase over the lastcouple of years (approx. 9.5 million admissions), the local industry has made amajor leap forward, recording its best results for the last 20 years. Less than 1% of the localaudience went to see home-grown films five years ...
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Italian producers take legal action against cultural ministry.
Some members of the Italianfilm industry have taken legal action against the Italian government afterwaiting for over a year for public funds that had been awarded to theirprojects.Producers of 20 emergingwriters and directors who won a public competition at the end of 2003, have nowtaken legal action to freeze the ...
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Controversy sparked by exit of Puchon Film Festival director
Kim Hong-joon, the popular director of Korea'sPuchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), has been removed from hisposition due to lobbying by the city's mayor.The decision wasmade at a meeting of the festival's board of directors on December 29, and Kimwill be replaced by Jung Hong-taek, a former president of the ...
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Fourteen films to compete for Rotterdam Tiger awards
The InternationalFilm Festival Rotterdam has selected fourteen films for the Tiger AwardsCompetition of its 34th edition. The Competitionline-up includes four world premieres, four international premieres and fourEuropean premieres. Two titles were supported by the IFFR's Hubert Bals Fundand one title was previously selected as CineMart Project.The jury memberschoosing the winning ...
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Seven films shortlisted for sound editing Oscar
The Academy Of MotionPicture Arts And Sciences has named seven pictures for consideration forachievement in sound editing for the 77th Annual Academy Awards.Ten-minute clips from eachof The Aviator, Collateral, The Day After Tomorrow, The Incredibles, ThePolar Express, Ray and Spider-Man2 will screen for the sound editingaward committee on Jan 18.Committee ...
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World premiere of The Moguls closes Santa Barbara
The SantaBarbara International Film Festival will kick off with a special preview ofWoody Allen's Melinda And Melinda starring Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell on Jan 28 and closes onFeb 6 with the world premiere of Michael Traeger's comedy The Moguls starring Jeff Bridges.Overall nine world premieresand 11 US premieres will ...