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ITALY 16 September
01 Distribution's TheHouse Keys (Le Chiavi di Casa) opened on a wide 239 screens in Italy andearned Euros 726,000 - an all-time record for an Italian film launched at theVenice Film Festival.Three other Venice titles also opened in Italy last weekend,albeit less impressively: 20th Century Fox's Man On Fire, which ...
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NORWAY 16 September
Thehighly anticipated release of actor Aksel Hennie's directing debut UNO lived up to its expectations thisweekend, where it took the top spot with a impressive NOK77,07 average on its37 prints. The film had highly favorable reviews and screened at the filmfestival in Toronto this week. Hennie also plays the lead ...
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SWEDEN 16 September
It was anunusually uneventful weekend at the Swedish box-office this weekend as all thefilms on the top six kept their position. That meant Kay Pollak's Saa Som IHimmelen stayed second after Shrek 2, but it actually improved its alreadysolid run taking a this weekend's best screen average of $5,496 from ...
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UK Production Listings - 16 September 2004
UK LISTINGSPRE-PRODUCTIONBITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact: Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 20 7494 1400DOA (DEAD OR ALIVE)(Impact Pictures) Budget: $20m. Backers: Constantin Film(Ger). Action/adventure. Based on Tecmo's best-selling video game franchise.Exec prod: Robert Kulzer. Prods: Jeremy Bolt, Paul WS Anderson. Dir: CoreyYuen. Scr: JF Lawton.Contact: Impact Pictures, (44) 20 7419 ...
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INTERNATIONAL 16 September
Day-and-date launches in Japan and Denmark saw action-horrorsequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse thehighest new entry on the international chart this week at sixth. The 2002original outperformed its domestic gross internationally with 61% ($62m) of its$102m worldwide total coming from international territories.It was not enough, however, to dethrone BVI's The Village from ...
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Palm seizes To's Breaking News for US
Renewing its relationship with Hong Kong director Johnnie To, PalmPictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to To's BreakingNews.Palm plans a theatrical release sometime in 2005 followed by a DVDrelease on the Palm Pictures label later in the year.Produced by Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd. and sold by Media Asia, ...
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French pin Oscar hopes on Les Choristes
France'sfilm council (CNC) has announced that Christophe Barratier's Les Choristes will represent the country as this year's submissionfor best foreign language Oscar.Budgetedat Euros 5.5m, the film is something of a phenomenon in France having garnerednearly eight million admissions since it was released in March of 2004.StarringGerard Jugnot as a music ...
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UK film investment company enters Australian market
UK tax financing outfit Future Film Group (UK) has joinedforces with investment bankers Goldstream Capital Group (Australia) to launchFuture Film Australia Pty Ltd.The company aims to finance and produce Australian-sourcedfilm projects for the international market.Future Film Group's Tim Levy commented: "This marks aserious and carefully considered investment by Future Film ...
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...as Australian Labor Party pledges industry funds
The Australian Labor Party today pledged that if it wins theOctober 9 election it will provide one-off cash injections of $35m (A$50m) for theFilm Finance Corporation (FFC) and $14m for the Australian Film Commission(AFC), half of which will be for a low budget feature fund.The FFC got $43m in taxpayer ...
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Pinewood confirmed for Malick's New World
In recent years, severalbig-name US auteurs have beaten a path to Britain. Robert Altman shot Gosford Park in the Home Counties. WoodyAllen has recently completed a film in London. Now, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Badlands, Days Of Heaven)is UK-bound.A spokesperson forPinewood Studios has confirmed that Malick has booked ...
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Kadokawa Pictures launches film fund for local product
Japan's Kadokawa Pictures, together with its corporatepartners, has launched a film fund expected to raise as much as Y3.5 billion($32m) for the production of Kadokawa films.The total investment period is for seven years, thoughpartners may opt to withdraw after five. Including Kadokawa, the partners areKadokawa Shuppan Kikin, Konami, Imagica, Development ...
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DENMARK 15 September
Shrek remaineduntouchable on the top spot with its high 119 prints taking a strong DKK44.350screen average. This week's best average was, however, the new release of Resident Evil: Apocalypse's DKK51.962 onits 12 prints putting it on fourth, two slots higher than Around The World In 80 Days on seventh, which ...
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London cherrypicks festival favourites for 2004 line-up
"They don't openthe London Film Festival with films like Vera Drake...but they donow!" Mike Leigh, fresh from his Golden Lion triumph in Venice, quippedyesterday at the official launch of this year's Festival programme.Speaking on the stage ofthe Odeon West End in Leicester Square, Leigh said he had been coming to ...
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Senator saved as creditors agree restructuring plan
The future of SenatorEntertainment has become much brighter after the producer-distributor's100-plus creditors agreed unanimously at a meeting in Berlin today (Wednesday)to accept the insolvency restructuring plan drawn up by the court-appointedreceiver Rolf Rattunde.Rattunde said that the plan meant that the filmconcern's existing range of services - encompassing production, distributionand world ...
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Wild Bunch wraps up Howl load of deals
Frenchsales house Wild Bunch has secured a couple of high profile Japanese and UKsales and a raft of Italian deals for its bulging Toronto slate.WildBunch closed a deal with Gaga Communications for Arnaud Desplechin's Rois Et Reine and with Comstock forMarziyeh Yeshkini's Afghanistan-set StrayDogs in Japan.Rois was also soldto Artificial ...
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Moore's Sicko gathers buyer heat
An outline of Michael Moore's next documentary has been sentout to international distributors by Moore's agency Endeavor - and isgenerating heat amongst major buyers at the Toronto Film Festival.Entitled Sicko, it is his much-discussed study of thehealthcare system in the United States and Moore recently explained his agenda in making ...
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Evil enters international chart
Day-and-datelaunches in Japan and Denmark saw action-horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse the highest new entry on theinternational chart this week at sixth.The 2002 originaloutperformed its domestic gross internationally with 61% ($62m) of its $102mworldwide total coming from international territories.Its weekend grossof $4.7m was not enough, however, to dethrone BVI's The ...
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Fortissimo sells Kidd's Love to Germany
Fortissimo secured its first everlicence deal with leading German indie distributor Tobis Filmkunst with thesale of Dylan Kidd's romantic comedy PS ILove You.The film, which premiered in Venicelast week, was also sold to Dendy for Australia and New Zealand and SandrewMetronome in Scandinavia.PS, which starsLaura Linney and Topher Grace, received ...
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Filmax adds Deadly Cargo to sales slate
Following its pick-up this week of Hypnos, FilmaxInternational has acquired worldwide distribution rights to another Spanishthriller, Deadly Cargo (Camara Oscura).Judging by Filmax's two new pick-ups in two days, theSpanish industry looks to have a dynamic new sales house to go to, particularlyfor genre product. Filmax is best known internationally for ...
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Media Luna picks up four to launch at MIFED, AFM
German sales house MediaLuna has picked up a quartet of new pictures which it will take to market atMifed and AFM later this autumn.Atlast week's Montreal festival it boarded Metallic Blues, a tragicomic road movie about a couple ofdim-witted Israeli car dealers. Directed by Danny Verete, it won best actor ...