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Sales veteran Aguilar leaves Spain's Aurum
Salesveteran Mocha Aguilar has left her position as director of international salesat Spanish distibutor Aurum Producciones to launch her own El DoradoInternational.Aguilar, who was with Aurum from its launch in 1995, willcontinue to represent Aurum's catalogue of Spanish films and is also looking toindependently pick up third-party titles in advance ...
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Sin City is the leading destination at North American box office
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's film adaptation of Miller'sgraphic novel Sin Cityopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, grossing an estimated$28.1m for Dimension Films.The ultra-violent film noir tale opened to enthusiastic reviewsand averaged $8,706 on 3,230 screens. The strong ensemble cast includes BruceWillis, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, ...
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Sin City is top destination at North American box office
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's film adaptation of Miller'sgraphic novels Sin Cityopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, grossing an estimated$28.1m for Dimension Films.The ultra-violent film noir tale opened to enthusiastic reviewsand averaged $8,706 on 3,230 screens. The strong ensemble cast includes BruceWillis, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, ...
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Dimension and Rodriguez score another number one with Sin City
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's film adaptation of Miller'sgraphic novel Sin Cityopened top of the North American charts at the weekend, grossing an estimated$28.1m for Dimension Films.The ultra-violent film noir tale opened to enthusiastic reviewsand averaged $8,706 on 3,230 screens. The strong ensemble cast includes BruceWillis, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, ...
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Studio Babelsberg plans initial stock market float
Germany's Studio Babelsberg plans to go public and begintrading on Frankfurt's Stock Exchange on April 29.The company said it will offer 10% of a total of 15million shares. The remaining shares will be held by Carl Woebcken and co-proprietorChristoph Fisser as well as financial investors and employees. Studio Babelsberg is ...
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Italian box office slumps in wake of Pope's death
The Italian box officeslumped 37% over the weekend as Italians and the world mourned the passing ofPope John Paul II. The government has decreedthree days of national mourning starting from Monday April 4 and a day ofmourning on Friday April 8, when the Pope's funeral will be held in St. ...
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The Ring Two leads international box office
DreamWorks' TheRing 2 grossed anestimated $17.4m in 36 territories in 3,079 venues through UIP over theweekend, distinguished by four number one debuts in major markets.The horrorsequel opened top in the UK on an estimated $3.3m ($3.9m including previews)from 419 sites, roughly 15% ahead of 2002's The Ring.In Spain TheRing Two ...
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Goldman honoured at Monaco Cinema and Literature Forum
The fourth edition of theInternational Cinema and Literature Forum wrapped up Sunday night in Monacowith producer Alain Goldman picking up his second producing award in twostraight years at the event. Last year,Goldman was named producer of the year and this year took home a statue for hishand in L'Enquete Corse ...
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Robots, Hitch continue to dominate international markets
Fox International's Robots grossed an estimated $10.8m over the weekend on 5,900screens, raising the animated family title's international running total to$69.2m.Robotsopened number one in Taiwan on $562,000 on 166 screens, and stayed top in itssecond weekend in Australia after a $1.4m haul on 387 screens raised the totalthere to $4.7m, ...
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Downfall gains Momentum in UK
Germanhit Downfall (Der Untergang) continued its strong international run overthe weekend, claiming the highest opening ever for a German-language film inthe UK through Momentum Pictures.Thecritically-acclaimed drama, about the last days of Hitler, took $308,495(£163,336) from 49 locations over its opening weekend in the UK. This put itahead of 2003's Good ...
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Ring Two opens top in UK
TheRing Two won over UK audiences on another hot weekend taking$3.9m (£2.1m) from 419 sites including $558,783 (£295,853) of previews.UIP'shorror sequel finished top ahead of 20th Century Fox's Be Cool which expandedinto wide release (336 sites) after a single-week single-site platform releaseat the UCI Empire Leicester Square in London's West ...
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Lions Gate mulls $1bn bid for HIT Entertainment
Independent film and television studio Lions GateEntertainment is considering a roughly $1bn bid for children's media companyHIT Entertainment, according to reports over the weekend.Lions Gate, which is based in Vancouver Canada, but has mostof its staff in Santa Monica, California, would gain London-based HIT's popularcharacters, including Barney the purpledinosaur, Bob ...
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TLA gets North America, UK and Ireland video rights to Ethan
TLA Releasing has acquiredhome entertainment rights in North America, UK and Ireland to Quentin Lee'ssatirical thriller Ethan Mao, andplans a DVD/VHS release on Sept 21.The story centres on an18-year-old boy who is thrown out of his parents' house for being gay andreturns on Thanksgiving night to take them hostage. Newcomer ...
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2004 French Soficas hit maximum allowable sum
France's Sofica tax sheltersraised Euros 46 million in 2004, the country's central film body CNC announced yesterday.The figure is the maximum allowable and outdid 2003's total of Euros 41million.Soficasare tax shelters werecreated to help diversify the financing of film and television productions andoffer a tax break to individual investors. The ...
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Multiplex boom set to boost Irish admissions
Six new multiplexes will open in Ireland this year, in aconstruction boom that is tipped to boost Irish cinema admissions by 20% thisyear.The Ward/Anderson Group, Ireland's biggest cinemaoperator with over 32 sites, last week opened the 13 screen Omniplex at theMahon Point retail centre in Cork city. Omniplexis also opening ...
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Angelopoulos replaced as Thessaloniki president
Thessaloniki International Film Festival president TheoAngelopoulos and artistic director Michel Demopoulos have been removed fromtheir posts. The move follows a series of sweeping changes to state subsidisedfilm institutions announced today by The Greek Ministry of Culture. Withinfilm circles, the move is regarded as political one that comes just over a ...
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Australia's Palace goes on shopping spree
Australian distributor Palace Films has acquiredseven new pictures, including Greek blockbuster Brides by directorPantelis Voulgaris.Brides,acquired from Britol Media International, is part of the first significant batch ofpurchases since Palace founder and managing director Antonio Zeccola - and hisson Benjamin - resumed responsibility for acquisitions. Buying was previouslyhandled by Tait Brady, ...
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MPD takes Fast Runner follow-up for Canada
Alliance Atlantis' MotionPicture Distribution has acquired Canadian rights to The Journals Of KnudRasmussen, Zacharias Kunuk andNorman Kohn's follow-up to Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. The film, which beginsprincipal photography on April 4 in the high Arctic, is an epic tragedy ofInuit culture lost in the tide of European civilization. The context ...
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Ring Two circles the globe for UIP
With no majormarket debuts scheduled this weekend for either Fox International's Robots or Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational's (SPRI)'s Hitch, the time looks right for The Ring Two.DreamWorksInternational's horror sequel gets its biggest splash to date with openingsthrough UIP scheduled for France on Mar 30, Germany on Mar 31, the UK and ...
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Vaughn to star in Russell's next at Universal
Vince Vaughnwill star in The Untitled David O Russell Project at Universal, playing a know-all radiotalk show host whose life is turned on its head when he starts to become hiscallers.MandalayPictures, which has a term deal with the studio, will produce with Russell andGregory Goodman, who produced the director's 2004 ...