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Toy Story 2, Beach and Beauty show legs
The triumvirate at the top of the record-breaking UK chart last weekend maintained eye-popping screen averages for the three days Feb 18-20. Despite Toy Story 2's unprecedented $12.4m (£7.8m) gross last weekend, the computer-generated animation fell just 16% this weekend, with a 3-day gross of $10.4m (£6.5m). This ...
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Odeon, ABC merge to form UK's largest circuit
The Rank Group has confirmed the sale of Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, which plans to combine the circuit with its own ABC Cinemas to create the UK's largest cinema chain.Cinven paid $450m (£280m) for Rank's 75 cinemas following several weeks of speculation. Odeon chief Richard Segal has ...
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Toy Story 2 propels UK to all-time high
Toy Story 2 not only shattered UK box office records over the weekend but also broke the boundary of the animation genre. The Walt Disney/Pixar computer-generated animation scooped an unprecedented £7.8m ($12.4m) in the UK over three days (Fri 11-Sun 13), becoming the country's all-time highest weekend gross. This surpasses ...
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Toy Story 2 opens on digital high
The exclusive digital screening of Toy Story 2 at the Odeon Leicester Square, London raked in an impressive £150,000 ($240,000) in its opening three days. The highly-anticipated Walt Disney/Pixar animation, billed as one of the few sequels that is better than the original, is being projected using Texas Instruments' ...
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Fantasia 2000 conjures up $20m worldwide
Walt Disney's animated Fantasia 2000: The Imax Experience has taken over $20m after its first month of exclusive screenings in Imax theatres. Distributed by Buena Vista around the world, Fantasia 2000 has been updated from the original masterpiece over a period of 10 years and at a cost of about ...
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Beauty scores with limited UK release
UK cinema-goers gave a hero's welcome to the release of the Sam Mendes-directed American Beauty when it opened on 23 prints over the weekend. The limited London release pulled in £425,558 ($687,700), registering a blistering £18,503 ($29,900) screen average. The three times Golden Globe winner widens to over 300 sites ...
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Toy Story 2 set for digital release
Five European exhibitors plan a digital release of Toy Story 2 from February 2, which will mark the first time a major studio film has been released digitally outside North America. The unprecedented venture is co-sponsored by Disney and Technicolor's digital projection company Real Image.France's Gaumont and Bert/Claeys Group will ...
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Sixth Sense now in all-time worldwide top ten
The Sixth Sense, the supernatural thriller starring Bruce Willis and critically acclaimed youngster Haley Joel Osment, is still raking in box office revenue from around the world. After a spectacular opening in Spain last week and a third week at the top of the French box office, the film's tally ...
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Sleepy Hollow keeps Stigmata off UK top spot
Competition for the number one slot was as intense as ever over the weekend (Jan 21-23) at the UK box office, with the top three films all grossing within £100,000 ($165,000) of each other. Stigmata (pictured), the supernatural thriller starring Patricia Arquette and Gabriel Byrne, broke into the UK chart ...
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Cinven clinches Odeon deal
Private equity financier Cinven is understood to have sealed its previously reported (Screen International, Jan 21) deal to acquire Odeon Cinemas from UK leisure company Rank Group for £325m ($534m), according to industry sources.The deal is likely to spawn one of Europe's largest cinema circuits if the Cinven-funded Associated British ...
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Bond reaches $300m worldwide
The World Is Not Enough has already scooped $300m worldwide and now lies just $40m away from becoming the most successful Bond film ever at the global box office. Just two months after its debut in Singapore and Malaysia - a day before its release in the US - Bond ...
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