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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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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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Music seeks film support for joint anti-piracy attack
The music industry isbelieved to be close to asking the film industry to join forces in the fightagainst piracy.According to a report in theFinancial Times senior music executives have asked Jay Berman, formerchairman and chief executive of the International Federation of thePhonographic Industry (IFPI), to meet with Dan Glickman, who ...
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BVI readies National Treasure in trio of major markets
BuenaVista International's (BVI) adventure National Treasure is in line for a holiday boost this upcoming weekendwith a handful of openings including South Korea, Mexico and Brazil on Dec 31.The picture has amassed $54.5m to date and executives anticipate typicallystrong holiday business to raise the international running total even further.The Incredibleswill ...
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Celluloid dreams of local distribution
Paris-based sales house Celluloid Dreams will add theatricaldistribution to its sales and finance activities beginning in February 2005.According to Le Film Francais (an EMAP stablemate of Screen International) thesales outfit run by Hengameh Panahi has created a subsidiary to be known asCelluloid Dreams Distribution to be run by Stephane Auclaire.The ...
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Alexander climbs to $32.7m on 1,345 international screens
Anumber two opening in Germany helped to raise Alexander's international running total to an estimated $32.7mfollowing a $3.8m weekend haul through I.S. Film Distribution on 1,345 screens in 25 territories.Figures are incomplete due to the holiday season, with particularly lengthy reportingdelays expected in many parts of Asia following the weekend's ...
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Bourne Supremacy on cusp of $100m for UIP
Universal'sthriller sequel The Bourne Supremacy is on the cusp of passing $100m and has grossed $99.1m through UIP todate. The final territory of Japan will open on Feb 5 2005.Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reasonadded an estimated $4m through UIP on 2,260 screens in 21 territories at theweekend for a ...
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Ocean's, Polar Express march on for Warner Bros Int'l
Ocean's Twelve grossed an estimated $22.6m through Warner BrosPictures International at the weekend on 5,183 prints in 46 markets, raisingthe cumulative total to $67.8m.The picture continued to rank number one in several markets and opened top inBelgium on an impressive $1.2m on 75 that recorded the second biggest opening thisyear ...
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Meet The Fockers is top for Christmas on $44.7m
Universal's Meet TheFockers trounced the competition at the weekend, opening top on a three-dayestimated $44.7m gross that included the biggest Christmas Day take of alltime.The comedy sequel took $68.5m since it opened last Wednesday, while the $19.1mChristmas Day haul overtook last year's $14m record set by The Lord Of TheRings: ...
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Kung Fu Hustle smashes Asian records through SPRI
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia's action comedy Kung FuHustle embarked upon a blistering record-breaking trail at the weekend as it amassed an estimated $15.1m on 730 screens in fivemarkets through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Stephen Chow's comicalgangster tale opened to a massive $7.8m on a record 492 screens in China ...
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Meet The Fockers romps to the top
Universal's Meet TheFockers trounced the competition at the weekend, opening top on a three-dayestimated $44.7m gross that included the biggest Christmas Day take of alltime.The comedy sequel took $68.5m since it opened last Wednesday, while the $19.1mChristmas Day haul overtook last year's $14m record set by The Lord Of TheRings: ...
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2004: A taxing year in the UK
It has been a taxing year. The Treasury's February'bombshell' outlawing tax partnerships such as Ingenious'Inside Track and Grosvenor Park's First Choice knocked a hole through thefinancing of many productions.In the wake of that decision, the emphasis was on damagelimitation. Though few could work out how the government's much-vaunted20% tax credits ...
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2004: Almodovar, Vega lead Spanish crusade
In March, the Socialist party ousted the ruling PopularParty in a surprise upset in Spain's national elections. Thepredominantly left-leaning film industry was jubilant with the win, temperedonly by the fact that it was preceded three days earlier by a series of deadlyterrorist bombs set off on commuter trains in Madrid.The ...
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2004: Japan toasts samurai, love and Miyazaki
The three main themes of the Japanese box office in 2004were samurai, love and Miyazaki. Unlike most Hollywood films set in Japan, TheLast Samurai was embraced by localaudiences as one of their own. The film outpaced Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban, Finding Nemo and TheReturn Of The King at ...
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2004: Farce and Passion in France
The year started brightly with the implementation of atax-credit scheme meant to bolster production at home - and ended bleaklywith the ruling that a film French to its Tricolore core, Jean-PierreJeunet's A Very Long Engagement,did not qualify for state subsidies.The pedigree of its production company, 2003 Productions,was considered American given ...
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2004: New Zealand on a roll
The country is on a roll. Producers are financing localfilms at unprecedented budget levels, footloose productions are arriving fromHollywood with great frequency and audiences are swarming into cinemas to watchthe pick of the local crop.Moreover, film-maker Peter Jackson is pumping money intoinfrastructure and skills development that can be accessed by ...
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2004: Russia comes in from the cold
This year was dominated by the boom in Russian film-making.Some 120 features have been shot in 2004 and every week Moscow sees thepremiere of at least one or two new local titles.The big winner on both the production and distributionfronts was Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch, which broke all box-office records ...
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2004: All eyes on South Korean cinema
In 2004, Korean cinema saw two films, Silmido and Taegukgi, pass the hitherounscaled 10 million admissions mark.The industry also made key strides in its most importantoverseas market - Japan. However, moves by Korea's major studiosled to fears of a 'monopolistic' accumulation of power.CJ Entertainment won a bitter struggle for exhibition ...
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2004: Clouds on horizon for Swedish film
Two major wrangles defined the year for the Swedish filmindustry: the renewal of the Swedish film agreement, and the proposed sale ofSandrew Metronome's exhibition business to rival chain SF Bio.The renewal of the Swedish film agreement, which is designedto generate money for local production, has been delayed until 2005. The ...
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2004: Italy racked by Venice, Mifed and funding troubles
2004 began with a serious case of deja vu, as a questionmark once again hung in the air over who would head up the Venice filmfestival.In April, the Italian government ousted Venice artisticdirector Moritz de Hadeln, and picked the popular Marco Mueller. But despite arich selection and a glitzier line-up ...