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Another $4.7m gross for Alexander from 21 smaller territories
Intermedia/Warner Bros' Alexander grossed an estimated $4.7m from 21territories at the weekend to raise its international running total to $24.7m.The picture opened top in Hungary on $261,957 from 29 screens overfour days, grossing more than double the opening weekends of Master AndCommander and KingArthur.Alexanderweathered government change in Greece to stay ...
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DiCaprio, Winslet, Bacon to receive honours at Santa Barbara
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Bacon and Kate Winslet will be honouredfor their artistic achievements at the 20th Annual Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 28-Feb 6.DiCaprio received a Golden Globe nomination yesterday (13) for hisrole as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and receives the Platinum Award, which was ...
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Films from Iran, France take top prizes at first Bahamas film festival
Mania Akbari's 20 Fingers (20 Angosht) from Iran was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the Spirit ofFreedom International Film Competition at the close of the inaugural BahamasInternational Film Festival (BIFF).The Modern Maverick Award went to France's Yann Samuell for LoveMe If You Dare andindustry veteran Roger Corman was presented ...
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Six film-makers selected for Cannes 'Residence'
The Cannes festival hasselected six young film-makers to join the next round of its "Residence"intensive training course.The interns, who will spendfour months from the end of February to July developing their next features,include Hernan Belon of Argentina, Noam Kaplan of Israel, Jeffrey St Julesfrom Canada and Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa from Finland. ...
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Slamdance will open and close with documentaries in Jan
Documentaries booked the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival, whichruns from Jan 21-28 in Park City. Opening night film is Marilyn Agrelo's childballroom dancing saga Mad Hot Ballroom and closing night film is Michael Franti's war documentary I KnowI Am Not Alone.All in all the festival will screen a record 23 world ...
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New York critics honour Sideways
Sideways won four awards and was named best picture of 2004 bythe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) today (13), with best director goingto Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, best actor going to Paul Giamatti for Sideways and best actress going to Imelda Staunton for VeraDrake.The 33-strong NYFCC selectedMichael ...
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UK piracy market worth £1bn within three years
The value of the blackmarket in pirate DVDs in the UK is expected to be worth more than £1 billionwithin three years, according to a new report on film piracy launched today.
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UIP promotes Spielberg's War around the world
Few films come with as big names or expectations as nextsummer's The War Of The Worlds.Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise and based on H.G. Wellsscience fiction classic, which already spawned a popular cult film version in1953, getting early teaser images and trailers right for the 2005 version wasvital.American ...
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UIP promotes Spielberg's War around the world
Few films come with as big names or expectations as nextsummer's The War Of The Worlds.Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise and basedon H.G. Wells' science fiction classic, getting early teaser images and trailersright was vital.American audiences had a chance to judge the result intheatres on Friday (Dec 10), ...
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UK indie exhibitor wins first Europa Cinemas award
UK independent exhibitioncompany City Screen and its directors Tony Jones and Lyn Goleby have beenhonoured with the first ever 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award by EuropaCinemas.The award celebrates theirachievements in developing a platform for European film in the UK and waspresented to Jones at a ceremony in Paris by Claude ...
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Major budget hike for Irish Film Board
Arts, Sport and Tourism Minister John O'Donoghue hasannounced an 18% increase to Euros 14m in the Irish Film Board's budget for2005.The move, funded out of a budget reallocation withinminister's departments, means that the Board's resources for production,development, and training will rise from Euros 10m to Euros 12m.O'Donoghue said, "The very ...
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French parliament improves film tax credit scheme
The French parliament has amended the country's taxcredit scheme for cinema, boosting the maximum credit available to Euros 1m perfilm.The tax credit system was put into place in January thisyear and allows productions and co-productions, which qualify as French underFrench film board (CNC) guidelines, to write off between 10% and ...
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Fragil deal for new Spanish distributor
On Pictures, the new distributor-producer launched bySpanish media conglom the Zeta Group, has picked up distribution rights inSpain to director Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Fragil.The film marks the return of Bajo Ulloa, whose award-winningdebuts Butterfly Wings and TheDead Mother were followed by commercial boxoffice hit Airbag (1997).Screening this week in both ...
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AUSTRALIA 13 December
Ocean's Twelve was the most popular film at the box office on theweekend, grossing A$4,580,657 from 378 screens for Roadshow, which equated to avery strong screen average of A$12,118. By way of comparison, only four filmshave exceeded this result in the last six months - Spider-Man 2 (A$7.13m), Bridget Jones: ...
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NEW ZEALAND 13 December
Bridget Jones -- The EdgeOf Reason continues to show greatresilience in New Zealand. For the fourth consecutive weekend it has lead thechart, helped by being on more screens then any other film. It grossedNZ$270,540 from 65 screens for UIP.Using the measure of screenaverage, however, it was beaten by both the ...
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SWEDEN 13 December
The new release of ThePolar Express only managed to swap places with Alexander on thirdplace at the Swedish box-office.While the epic dropped tofifth, the animated Express couldn't even match the box-office averageof chart topper Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, local hit As It IsIn Heaven (aka As In Heaven) ...
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Milestone to distribute 1994 Ophuls doc in North America
Milestone Film and Video hasacquired all North American rights to Marcel Ophuls' 1994 documentary TheTroubles We've Seen: A History Of Journalism In Wartime (Veillees d'Armes)Milestone co-founders DennisDoros and Amy Heller said they planned to release the film theatrically in40-50 cities with DVD to follow, and are in talks with the ...
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Ocean's Twelve steals the top spot with $40.9m opening
Warner Bros' Ocean'sTwelve swaggered to thetop of the charts at the weekend with an estimated $40.9m opening that pulledoff the fourth biggest December debut of all time.The$110m crime caper follows on from the 2001 picture Ocean's Eleven by Steven Soderbergh and reunites George Clooney,Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts, ...
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Bridget continues to prosper, with $8m French opening
Universal/WorkingTitle's Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason added an estimated $13.5m through UIP at the weekend andgrossed roughly $8m in France through Mars, raising the international runningtotal to $139.7m.The romanticcomedy sequel scored Working Title's biggest ever and Universal's fourthbiggest ever opening day in South Korea (9), opening top on $2m ...
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Immerman joins Yari Film Group to oversee business and legal affairs
Veteran entertainmentproducer, executive, and attorney Bill Immerman has joined the Yari Film Groupas senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer overseeinglegal and business affairs.Immerman will also serve onthe company's executive committee charged with setting key company policies andstrategies.Immerman began his career asdeputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, and ...