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GERMANY 12 October
Takings may have slipped week-on-week by 20%, but OliverHirschbiegel's The Downfall stillreigns supreme at the German box office for the fourth week in a row - just.The World War II drama received serious competition from Steven Spielberg's The Terminal which grossed $3.3m from502 screens and had the weekend's best screen ...
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UK/IRELAND 12 October
British director Gurinder Chadha scored another hit at theUK box office this week as her take on Jane Austen, Bride And Prejudice, opened top of the chart.The romantic comedy's excellent $3m (£1.7m) launch may notquite have matched the debut of Bend It LikeBeckham, the director's 2002 smash which launched the ...
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AFM reports record numbers of films, exhibitors
A record 435films including a record 278 market premieres are confirmed for the 25th AFMwhich takes place Nov 3 to 10 in Santa Monica, said organizing body IndependentFilm & Television Alliance (IFTA) yesterday.The line-upincludes 38 titles in official selection at the AFI FEST, the annual event withwhich AFM teams up ...
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Bac launches foreign sales arm
Frenchdistributor Bac Films has officially launched a new sales outfit to be calledBac Films International, the company announced Monday.Thedepartment will be run by Silvere Moreau, who will work to sell theatrical, TVand video rights to foreign distributors. Bac said the objective would be tohandle international sales on six films per ...
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Eternal Sunshine opens strongly in France with $0.88m for UIP
Focus Features' romance Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind became writer Charlie Kaufman's biggestinternational hit at the weekend as it opened in France through UIP on a strong$880,000.The picture has amassed $24.2m from all its territories to date,passing Kaufman's previous record of $23.5m set by Being John Malkovich, with openings ...
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CTFDI passes $1bn total gross for third consecutive year
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), theinternational distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), passed$1bn in ticket sales on Saturday (9) for the third consecutive year and the fifth in total.Combined with the domestic division, which has also passed themilestone this year, SPE has grossed more than $2.043bn in 2004.CTFDI ...
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'Judgement of Solomon' settles 9 Songs dispute
The three month-long disputeover UK distribution of Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicitrelationship drama 9 Songs hasbeen settled with what aggrieved distributor Tartan Films described as "ajudgement of Solomon".9 Songs, which had its market debut in Cannes and screenedin the Venice festival, will now be handled in the UK by Tartan's rivalOptimum ...
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PPP shares top prizes between Butter and Help
Projects byKorean-American director Grace Lee and Taiwanese actor/director Lee Kang-shengwill share the top award bestowed by the 7th Pusan Promotion Plan(PPP).Held inconcert with the Pusan International Film Festival, Asia's biggestproject market showcased 23 films this year from directors throughoutAsia.Other filmsto receive awards include Korean film Thou Shall Cut Off A ...
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Lack of leading lady puts Eucalyptus, Crowe on hold
The producers behind Jocelyn Moorhouse's Eucalyptus, which was to have gone into production this year,are gearing down because they have not been able to find an Australian leadinglady to star alongside Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.They say Crowe and Fox Searchlight, which is fully financingthe film, remain very supportive of ...
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Phillippe linked to Korea-set thriller Expats
American actor Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions) is in active discussions to take the lead role in the first ever NorthAmerican production to shoot entirely in Korea.Unveiled on Saturday at the Pusan International FilmFestival, Expats tells the story of ayoung American who comes to Korea on an English teaching contract, looking ...
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Multicultural Import-Export takes off in Norway
More than a year after receiving $1m (NOK7.3m) in productionsupport from the Norwegian Film Fund, Pakistani-Norwegian filmmaker KhalidHussain has finally got his new film Import-Export off the ground with $330,000 from Eurimages.It is the first film to be set in the Pakistani community inOslo, and shoots from Oct 11 with ...
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FRANCE 11 October
MichaelMann's Collateral opened in firstposition with a strong per screen average of $8,203 for a total take of$4,093,181 over its first seven days.Comme Une Image, Agnes Jaoui's Cannes winner for bestscreenplay, dropped to second place with a drop of 36% for a cumulative take of$6.7m over two weeks.Other newfilms in ...
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Australian 24-hour film-making festival launches first event in the US
The creators of Australian 24-hour filmmaking festival The ShootOut are launching their first American version in Colorado on Oct 22.Shoot Out Boulder entrants will have 24 hours in which to write,cast and shoot a short film without any editing that must be no longer thanseven minutes. Prizes will be awarded ...
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Shark Tale adds $31.7m at North American box office
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated movie added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first ...
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Machuca wins audience award, Seven Times Lucky jury prize at Vancouver
Andres Wood's Chilean drama Machuca has won the AGF People's Choice Awardfor Most Popular International Film at the Vancouver International FilmFestival.Fran'ois Prevost and Hugo Latulippe's Tibetan refugee documentary WhatRemains Of Us (Quebec)shared the Federal Express Award for Most Popular Canadian Film with LeanneAllison and Diana Wilson's Being Caribou (British Columbia).The ...
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Shark Tale continues to thrash the competition
DreamWorks' Shark Tale raised its total to an estimated $87.7m at Columbus Day Weekendas it beat off Imagine/Universal's American football drama Friday NightLights to stay top inits second weekend.The animated added $31.7m, falling a restrained 33%, ensuring thatDreamWorks will have two $100m animated hits in one year, a first for ...
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PriceWaterhouse highlights UK intellectual property concerns
UK media companies have made little progress inthe last five years in their exploitation of intellectual property (IP) rights.Most problems identified by accountancy andconsulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) five years ago remain concernstoday and, with the exception of piracy, are even ranked the same.In a new study Embracing The Challenge of ...
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Dead Man's Shoes wins top Dinard prize
Dead Man's Shoes won the top prize in a unanimous jury decision atthe 15th Dinard Festival of British Film (Oct 7-10). As directorShane Meadows was awarded the Hitchcock d'Or he claimed he had "made the filmout of pure instinct rather than technical ability".The prize includes an awardof Euros 3,000 to ...
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Focus strikes first-look deal with UK's Priority Pictures
Focus Features has struck atwo-year first-look deal with Marion Pilowsky and Colin Leventhal's UKproduction company Priority Pictures.The deal also calls forLeventhal, who continues to act as a consultant for tax financier GrosvenorPark, and Trea Hoving, the former Miramax buyer who is now a Priorityconsultant, to act as advisors on acquisitions ...
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Sellers gear up for smaller scale MIFED
A significantly smaller scale MIFED kicks off on Tuesday(Oct 12), but sellers who are in Milan say they are determined to conduct goodbusiness at the Fiera.On Monday, a day before the market started, MIFED'sreduced size was plain for all to see. With the number of exhibitors down fromlast year's 223 ...