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War of the Worlds reaches $113.2m in US
War of the Worlds captured the top spot on the NorthAmerican box office chart for the July 4 Independence Day holiday weekend withan estimated gross for the four days from Friday to Monday of $77.6m from 3,908theatres, for a powerful per-theatre average of $19,857.Having opened on Wednesday, the Tom Cruise-Steven ...
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War of the Worlds reaches $113.2m in US
War of the Worlds captured the top spot on the NorthAmerican box office chart for the July 4 Independence Day holiday weekend withan estimated gross for the four days from Friday to Monday of $77.6m from 3,908theatres, for a powerful per-theatre average of $19,857.Having opened on Wednesday, the Tom Cruise-Steven ...
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Yellow Dog snaps up Munich audience prize
Afterbeing named Best Director at this year's German Film Promotion Awards (ScreenDaily, July 1 2005), Byambasuren Davaa has now seen her latest feature TheCave Of The Yellow Dog chosen by festival goers at the Munich Film Festivalfor the Bayern 3 Audience Award.AlthoughMunich is not a competitive festival, the nine-day event ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with Stone, Redford awards
The 40th KarlovyInternational Film Festival got underway over the weekend with a flurry ofawards going to veteran filmmakers. Saturday saw a Crystal Globego to Sharon Stone for outstanding contribution to world cinema. The actressalso presented a newly re-edited version of Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. "Jim Jarmusch was notsatisfied after the ...
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Robbins, Luke to star in Noyce's Hot Stuff
Tim Robbins and Derek Lukewill head the cast in Working Title's production of Phillip Noyce's HotStuff, a political thriller set in South Africa.Based on the true story ofPatrick Chamusso, an ordinary man forced to resort to terror, the film is setin a turbulent and divided South Africa in the nineteen ...
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Kadokawa breaks sales records with Samurai Commando
Kadokawa Pictures has confirmed sales of SamuraiCommando Mission 1549 - a science fiction fantasy about aJapaneseSelf-Defence Forcesunit time-travelling back to the days ofthe samurai - to 31 international territories. This breaks a modern-day recordfor a domestic live-action film held by Hideo Nakata's Ringu, with 30.The film is scheduled for theatricalrelease ...
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London Film Focus closes on a high
The second London UK Film Focus (LUFF) has closed on a generally upbeat note.Screenings were well attended and buyers clearly supported the event, which nowlooks set to become an annual fixture in the calendar"I do think we've stepped up a rung this year. The quality of the filmswas better by ...
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War of the Worlds makes $102.5m international debut
War of the Worlds blasted into the internationalmarketplace this weekend with an estimated five-day gross of $102.5m from 8,000prints running in 78 countries. It was by far the biggest international opening weekend everfor international rights owner Paramount Pictures and international distributorUIP. And in several major markets the film became the ...
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Surprise restructure for Irish Film Board
In a surprise move, theIrish Film Board has radically restructured, abolishing two senior positions inadvance of the appointment of a new CEO.It is believed that the Headof Production and Development, Brendan McCarthy, andHead of Marketing, Moira Horgan, have already been told that their contractswill not be renewed in September.Speaking to ...
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PRE-PRODUCTION Las Vidas De Celia(Oberon Cinematografia, TAU [Mex], Altavista [Mex]) A woman trying to makesense of her life finds her own unsuccessful suicide attempt interweaves withthe investigation of a young girl's murder on the same night. Dir: AntonioChavarrias. Main cast: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Gimenez Castro, AlexCasanovas, Aida Folch, ...
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Statham leads charge in Boll's Dungeon Siege
Jason Statham, LeeleeSobieski, Ron Pearlman, John Rhys-Davies, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken andBurt Reynolds have all signed on to star in Uwe Boll's latest video gameadaptation Dungeon Siege.The film, which startsshooting next week in Vancouver, Canada, is again produced by Shawn Williamsonof Brightlight Pictures, the Vancouver production outfit which produced Boll'sBloodRayne.Boll ...
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Tom Tykwer leads Eurimages Euros 3.9m grant share out
New feature films by TomTykwer (Perfume), Roy Andersson (Du Levande) and Alain Berliner (GeneAstaire) are among 12 projects awarded a total of Euros 3.9m by the Councilof Europe's pan-European co-production fund Eurimages.The largest amount - Euros600,000 - went to Tykwer's adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestseller Perfume- The Story Of A ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stakein India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary companyReliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production,post-production,distribution and exhibition with several multiplexesand 52 digital exhibitioncinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns productioncompany Entertainment One (India) Ltd, ...
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Billionaire businessman snaps up India's Adlabs
Anil Dhirubhai AmbaniEnterprises has bought an $80.2m controlling stake in India's largest filmcompany Adlabs through subsidary company Reliance Capital.The publicly-listed Adlabsis a leading player in film production, post-production, distribution andexhibition with several multiplexes and 52 digital exhibition cinemas. The deal is one of thebiggest in Indian entertainment history.Adlabs also owns ...
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Almodovar leads Spanish production boom
Pedro Almodovar cranks up filming July 18 on his new movieVolver, a black comedy starring Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura, just one of aslew of new projects in the works from Spain's leading international talents.The $11m Volver, has not yet closed adistributor in Spain but has been pre-sold to several ...
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Working Title hops on board Australian thriller
Working Title is to come inon British commercials director Ringan Ledwidge's directorial debut, MiddleOf Nowhere. Co-produced by Sydney-based Deborah Balderstone WBP outfit and London-based Nira Park, it will start shooting in September in Australia.Middle of Nowhere is a psychological thriller about young Britishtravellers who encounter a charismatic American with ulterior ...
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Cine-Expo: Exhibitors waiting for Christmas punch
Cinema Expo should have been a celebration with recordnumber of international films topping $100m international takings and a packedtrade show promising a host of new technology innovations.But as the Amsterdam event closes today, there was adistinctly glass half-empty atmosphere among many exhibitors that contrastedwith the enthusiasm of the studio executives ...
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Cine-Expo: Exhibitors waiting for Christmas punch
Cinema Expo should have been a big celebration, with a recordnumber of films topping $100m in international takings and a packedtrade show promising a host of new technology innovations.But as the Amsterdam event closed there was a distinctly glasshalf-empty atmosphere among many exhibitors that contrasted with the enthusiasmof the studio ...
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Cine-Expo: Top industry figures honoured at closing ceremony
'This is the film that is going to turn around the summer boxoffice,' UIP president and COO Andrew Cripps told guests at a screening of WarOf The Worlds, at this year's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam.As if to underline the importance to exhibitors, the showingwas delayed as delegates were made to ...
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Cine-Expo: Top industry figures honoured at closing ceremony
UIP chairman and chief executiveStewart Till was named distributor of the year as Cinema Expo in Amsterdam drewto a close today.The honour concluded a successfulweek for the company, which earlier picked up a record nine Gold Reel awardsfor films earning more than $100m outside the US. The company topped the ...