All articles by Mary Scott – Page 4
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Loews Cineplex gets Village's Riches
A further management shake-up at Village Cinemas International (VCI) has taken place with the announcement that Loews Cineplex International (LCI) has appointed Ian Riches as senior vice president, commencing May 1. Riches, formerly regional director - Europe for VCI based in the London office, will initially be working in Rome, ...
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Kevin And Perry goes large at UK cinemas
The opening three day gross of Kevin And Perry Go Large has given Icon Film Distribution its first box office hit and number one film in the UK. The comedy teenage duo took $3.2m (£2m) over the Easter weekend (April 21-23). Playing on 336 screens, the British adaptation of ...
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UK box office jumps 21% in first quarter
Fuelled by Toy Story 2, box office revenue for the UK and Eire during the first three months of this year has risen by an impressive 21% compared to the same period last year. The $258m (£163m) taken from January to March also exceeds the blockbusting period in 1998 when ...
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Pokemon grabs pole position at UK box office
Pokemon: The First Movie jumped into the UK box office chart at number one with an opening three day gross of $3.5m (£2.2m). Playing at 481 sites, this gave the Japanese animation a considerable site average of $7,257 (£4,574) and the film wiped the floor with fellow opening animation The ...
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American Pie outstrips domestic gross overseas
The high-school comedy American Pie which recently passed the $100m mark at the international box office has now scored more overseas than at the domestic box office. The $11m Universal title has become one of the studio's most profitable films after taking $102.5m at the North American box office since ...
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Odeon, Warner Village link up with BFI
EU culture ministers have voted unanimously to accept a budget of Euros400m for the European Commission's audiovisual programme MEDIA Plus. The UK, Germany and the Netherlands had initially opposed the budget which is already Euros150m lower than the sum proposed by the European Parliament. MEDIA Plus' predecessor, MEDIA II, had ...
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Otto 5 opens at top of German box office chart
Germany has spawned another locally-produced hit as the Tobis release of comedy Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm opened at the top of the German box office chart last weekend. Attracting 368,214 admissions from a huge 820 screens, the film's four-day gross came to almost $2m.This latest Otto film, starring well-known stand-up ...
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Beauty blossoms on Oscar buzz
Zoolander led a formidable pack of films launching in the UK at the weekend, but Harry Potter and Spy Game remained the true box office winners.The latest comedy from Ben Stiller won the battle of the openers this week landing in second place with a respectable performance of $965,076 ...
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Magnolia flowers overseas
Three times Academy Award nominee Magnolia is finding niche audiences as it opens up across international territories, despite its three-hour plus running time. Its most successful release to date is surprisingly in Japan where the New Line Cinema picture has attracted $5m at the box office in two weeks. In ...
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Clockwork Orange fails to wind up UK box office
Despite this weekend being one of the best in terms of well-reviewed cinema product and the high-profile re-release of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, the UK box office recorded its lowest aggregate gross so far this year. The total tally of all films on release this weekend came in at ...
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Marlene disappoints in Germany
After a glitzy premiere on March 9, the highly-anticipated German biopic Marlene failed to ignite either the critics or the box office in its home territory. Released on 420 prints, Joseph Vilsmaier's Marlene grossed $0.7m in its opening four days falling into fifth place below the release of Oliver Stone's ...
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Toy Story 2 conquers final frontier in Japan
Winding up its global roll-out, blockbusting computer-generated animation Toy Story 2, scooped $3.8m on its opening weekend in Japan (March 11-13). The film's performance gives Buena Vista International the highest-opening US animated film in the territory, but was not enough to beat the distributor's record for Armageddon. It also ...
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Next Friday opens well as top four hold strong
With Toy Story 2 still rooted in the UK's number one slot and Three Kings, The Green Mile and The Talented Mr Ripley holding over for the second week in second, third and fourth place, competition for box office dollar among the weekend's openers was intense. But it was Entertainment's ...
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Kodak to co-develop digital projection system
Eastman Kodak has etched itself firmly in the digital cinema arena with the announcement yesterday (March 8) that it has forged an alliance with QUALCOMM Inc. and JVC in developing a prototype digital projection system.QUALCOMM's expertise in the compression and encryption techniques together with JVC's advanced projection chip technology will ...
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Six US exhibitors team up in internet ticketing co
A start-up North Amercian internet ticketing company founded by six major exhibitors was unveiled at ShoWest yesterday. With an initial investment of $30m, the landmark venture is expected to be the leading internet portal for remote ticketing as well as providing comprehensive movie information, reviews and trailers.The alliance between Loews ...
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ShoWest: Exhibitors forecast digital revolution
International exhibitors at this week's ShoWest convention in Las Vegas (March 6-9) are talking of a global revolution in the cinema industry where projectionists and box office cashiers will be a thing of the past. New technology - such as digital projection and e-commerce - is driving the next generation ...
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Three Kings storms into UK chart
Warner Bros' Gulf war epic Three Kings charged into the UK box office with £1.4m from 307 sites (including previews of £187,186) reaping a solid site average of £4,687. This placed the film at number two in the chart below record-breaking champ Toy Story 2 which held over at number ...
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Blair Witch hits $100m internationally
The gang-busting opening of The Blair Witch Project in Italy has pushed the release of the spook-fest to $100m on the international circuit. This brings the micro-budgeted production to a huge worldwide total of $240m and confirms its position as the most profitable film ever.The film's opening three-day weekend in ...
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UGC to invest $300m in European cinema expansion
France's UGC Cinemas, the new owner of Virgin's UK cinema circuit, has pledged $300m to expand its cinema network across Europe.The French exhibition giant, which spent $343m (£215m) to acquire Virgin's 36 UK sites last October, plans to invest more than $80m (£50m) to build eight new UK cinemas - ...
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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 ...