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Fox's I, Robot top in Japan for fifth weekend
Fox International's sci-fi thriller I, Robot continued its mighty rampage through Japan at theweekend, remaining number one for the fifth weekend in a row and adding anestimated $1.3m on 359 screens for a $29m running total.Overall thepicture added $1.6m on 616 international screens to raise the internationalcumulative score to $187.3m.2046, ...
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Germany mulls sale and leaseback scheme
Germany's State Minister for Culture and MediaChristina Weiss has called for the introduction of a tax incentive system onthe lines of the British sale and leaseback model.Speaking to the German weekly magazine DerSpiegel, Weiss criticised the current situation where the US film industryhad been the prime beneficiary of the country's ...
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GERMANY 19 October
After four weeks at the top, The Downfall had to make way for the new Dreamworks animationfeature Shark Tale which dived in atNo. 1 with a $3.5m opening weekend and a $5,139 screen average from its 684prints.However, this was only the third best screen average for theweekend behind Oskar Roehler's ...
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DENMARK 19 October
The massive 90 print roll-out of My Sister's Kids In Egypt at the start of the children's week-longfall holiday made the local film even more successful than the two previousinstalments, as it scooped up a impressive DKK19.5m and 351.454 admissions injust 10 days.However, Danish audiences also found time for Kings' ...
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Diaries, Sea win Screen-sponsored Hollywood Awards
Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries won the HollywoodWorld Award and Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside won the Hollywood European Award, both sponsored byScreen International, at a gala ceremony last night (18).The gala awards ceremony atthe Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles marked the culmination of the Hollywood FilmFestival, which opened on Oct ...
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THINKFilm, MGM sign Canadian home video pact
MGM Home Entertainment Group has agreed todistribute eight THINKFilm theatrical titles in Canada. The home-video and DVDdistribution pact kicks off this December with rockumentary Festival Express, a two-disc specialedition featuring unreleased concert footage not contained in the theatricalrelease. The deal includes three other documentaries: Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist, Mongolia-Germany sleeperThe ...
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Romania's MediaPro takes on London
Romanian film studioMediaPro Pictures has opened a representative office in London. The new branchis expected to increase the flow of footloose productions that make use ofRomania's low cost base and fast improving skills base.The branch will be housed atthe London office of UK independent producer Box TV. "Working with Box ...
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Bourne adds another $2.3m to cross $80m for Universal/UIP
Universal's spy sequel The Bourne Supremacy added an estimated $2.3m on 1,200screens in 31 territories through UIP at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $80.4m.The picture opened in five territories including South Africa andthere are 10 to go including Germany next weekend.There were no debuts for Universal/Working Title's ...
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Lucas to receive 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award
George Lucas will receivethe 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles in June 2005,one month after the global release of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge OfThe Sith."George Lucas is a masterstoryteller, but he is first and foremost a moving image pioneer," AFI board oftrustees chair ...
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White Chicks adds $4.5m for CTFDI, second in UK, fifth in Spain
Revolution Studios' comedy White Chicks added an estimated $4.5m throughColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend on1,685 screens in 21 markets for a $16.3m running total through all distributorsand $15.9m through CTFDI.The highlights were a second place debut in the UK behind SharkTale on $1.6m on 340screens, and ...
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Fuse lights up Athens Panorama
Bosniandirector Pjer Zalica's Fuse was awarded the main prize in thecompetition section at the 17th Panorama of European Cinema (Oct 1-14) inAthens which wrapped with a gala presentation of Ken Loach's Ae FondKiss.The award, offered by the organiser of the event,Athens daily newspaper Elefterotypia, includes apurse worth Euros 6,000 to ...
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Spanish, Swiss partners go to Boarding School
Spain's Morena Films and Switzerland's ZodiacPictures have agreed to develop two new feature films together, starting withEnglish-language comedy Swiss Boarding School.School (workingtitle) is set in an uppity institute in the Swiss Alps which is turned upsidedown by the arrival of an outrageous Spanish student. Morena regular writerJuan Carlos Rubio (Slam) ...
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Warner Bros wraps first solo Spanish shoot
Warner Bros Pictures has wrapped shooting on its first soloSpanish production, Manuel Gomez Pereira's Reinas.The Euros 4.5m filmheadlines a star-studded ensemble cast in a comedy turning on the first gaywedding in Spain.Reinas is the first100% Warner production since the company opened its local production arm inSpain with plans to produce, ...
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Kontroll, Turtles take top honours at Chicago Film Festival
Nimrod Antal's Hungarian thriller Kontroll won the Gold Hugo award in internationalcompetition at the 40th Chicago International Film Festival over the weekend,while Bahman Ghobadi's wartime drama Turtles Can Fly took the Silver Hugo.Further Silver Hugos were awarded to:Day and Night / Dag og nat (Denmark), directed by Simon Staho, ...
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Hopkins in the saddle for World's Fastest Indian
Anthony Hopkins plays a motorcycling legend in TheWorld's Fastest Indian, whichwriter/director Roger Donaldson has been shooting for three weeks on the Utahsalt flats and moves shortly to New Zealand for a further 11 weeks.The New Zealand Film Commission and New Zealand FilmProduction Fund are the financing partners on what is ...
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Miramax springs for Roundabout rights
Miramax Films has acquiredNorth and South American rights to Pathe's animated feature Sprung!The Magic Roundabout.The announcement was made byFrancois Ivernel, managing director of Pathe UK, and Harvey Weinstein,co-chairman of Miramax Films. Weinstein met with the animators and workedclosely with Agnes Mentre, executive vice presidentof acquisitions and co-productions, and Maeva Gatineau, ...
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FRANCE 18 October
Seven newfilms broke into the top twenty this week led by Gaumont's L'Enquete Corse, starring Gerard Depardieu and Christian Claver.The film took 679,754 admissions for an average of $9,477 per screen.Resident Evil: Apocalypse landed in the number 2 spot with atake of just over $3m. Michael Mann's Collateralfought off other ...
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AUSTRALIA 18 October
It is highly unusual to see the first three spots in the top20 chart occupied by openers but that is exactly what happened on the four-dayweekend to October 17. And there were no other new faces in the chart.Leading the charge was the Collateral, starring Australia's one-time adopted son Tom ...
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NEW ZEALAND 18 October
Homegrown film In MyFather's Den sold less tickets than the previous weekend but still managedto jump up from third to second spot in the chart. It took NZ$152,273 from 22screens, or 17.6% less than the previous NZ$184,793, but this was the lowestdrop shown by any film in the chart.At the ...
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SWEDEN 18 October
Though catering to younger audiences and offering completelydifferent thrills, the new release of teenage horror flic Drowning Ghost from hitmaker Mikael Haafstroem (Evil) failed to usurp As In Heaven from the top of the Swedishchart.Instead it was last week's other local release, family film Max & Josef - Double Trouble, ...