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Serbia and Montenegro faces film piracy challenge
The weekends ofAug 16-18 and 23-25 were the worst in terms of admissions and revenues inSerbia and Montenegro since 1997. The first saw ticket sales of 11,872($31,249) for the whole territory, while the latter had even less: only 11,120spectators who spent $29,145. Spider-Man2 sold only 4,744 tickets in its second ...
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Universal & Toshiba claim number one slot in Japan with Riddick
Universal executives claimedtheir action sequel The Chronicles Of Riddick opened top in Japan through Toshiba at the weekendon an estimated $1.9m on an unconfirmed number of screens.Overall the picture grossed$2.8m on 835 screens in 18 territories and raised its international runningtotal to $10m from all distributors, $7.3m of which comes ...
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First Locarno deals concluded
After only two days, Locarno had already seen its firstdeals concluded by Friday (August 6) before the festival's first weekend.Celluloid Dreams picked up international distribution rightsfor German director-cinematographer Thomas Riedelsheimer's (Rivers And Tides) new documentary Touch The Sound which had its worldpremiere in Locarno's Critics' Week on Sunday evening (Aug ...
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UK sports docs get US distribution through Hart Sharp
Domestic DVD distributorHart Sharp Video has partnered with Bombo Sports & Entertainment todistribute a new line of specialised sports documentaries.Upcoming releases willinclude Liverpool FC - No Heart As Big, Manchester United: Beyond The Promised Land, Roy Keane, As I See It, and the rugby picture Sweet Chariot. Each of these ...
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Echelon takes US rights to dog mayor doc
Echelon Entertainment hasacquired US domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of the current crop ofpolitical documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash: The Centre Of TheUniverse.The picture focuses on anelectoral race in the Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as townmayor.The filmmakers profile thetown's ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 grossed an estimated $12.1m on6,430 screens in 55 territories through Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising the international cumulativetotal to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the $2.6m debut on 300 screens inChina, which included previews and set a new record for an MPAA release in ...
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Spider-Man 2 swings past $325m for CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2grossed an estimated $12.1m on 6,430 screens in 55 territories through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend, raising theinternational cumulative total to $328.2m.The chief highlight was the$2.6m debut on 300 screens in China, which included previews and set a newrecord for an MPAA release in the ...
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FRANCE 9 August
As in theprevious week, four newcomers broke into the top 20 this time around. I, Robot came in at number one thisweek, bringing in nearly $5.3m during its first six days, more than one and ahalf million dollars less than Spider-Man2 earned the week before in that movie's second week.The ...
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SWEDEN 9 August
The past had to bow to the future at the Swedishbox-office this weekend as the new release of Will Smith's science-fictionouting I, Robot's 82 prints downed King Arthur's 95 prints by61%. While Smith secured a strong $3,943 screen average, the presence of mostof the top local acting talent in Dane ...
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First Independent Pictures acquires Mail Order Wife
Gary Rubin's fledgling distribution outfit First IndependentPictures has picked up domestic rights to Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland'scomedy Mail Order Wife (formerly Mail Order Bride) and plansto release it in theatres on Feb 11 2005.The picture stars Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, and Gurland, whoco-wrote with Botko, and follows the misadventures ...
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Dembo begins shoot on Maison De Nina
Richard Dembo,director of L'Instinct De l'Ange and La Carpe Dans La Baignoire among others,has begun shooting his next feature film, LaMaison De Nina.The story takesplace just after the liberation of France at the end of World War II, a time atwhich children were placed in homes whose goal was to ...
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Hong Kong, Chinese Locarno titles picked up
Hong Kong's Golden Network has picked up world sales rightsfor Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's second feature Black Friday which screens in Locarno's International Competitionsection this year.Based on a book of the same name by S. Hussain Zaidi, the filmcentres on the terror blasts of 1993 inMumbai, the business capital of ...
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Six linked Swedish films to shoot simultaneously
Six new Swedish features based on author Hakan Nesser'sbest-selling detective stories will all begin shooting on the same day - August14Two of the films will be made for theatrical distribution in2005, while all of the films in theseries will be broadcast on television all over the Nordic region in 2006 ...
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Lindon takes on The Moustache
French actorVincent Lindon (Chaos, My Little Business)will begin shooting in Paris on August 23 for The Moustache, the first feature-length fiction film by the authorEmmanuel Carrere.Lindon will staralongside Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips,Petites Coupures), who will play his wife. The actress worked previouslywith Carrère during the shooting of the film ...
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Collateral cruises to the top with $24.4m
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Collateral tops box office as North American summer starts to fade
A $24.4m estimated openingfor DreamWorks-Paramount's thriller Collateral produced the second lowest number one debut of thesummer, as overall box office for the top 12 titles fell to $97.7m - the lowestamount since the first weekend of May.Despite a high profile starin Tom Cruise - playing a redoubtable villain, to boot ...
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Limelight buys worldwide rights to 21st Century library
Kiera Chaplin'sLos Angeles-based production, financing and distribution company Limelight Films hasacquired all worldwide distribution rights to the 21st Century library from theMotion Picture Company of Australia.The 112-titleresource boasts such titles as Roger Vadim's Don Juan 73,George Lacombe's Female And The Flesh, and Peter Sykes' To The Devil ADaughter.Featured talent includes ...
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Venice to host amfAR benefit on September 3
The Venice festival will once again play host to a majoramfAR AIDS-research benefit evening, to be held on Sept 3.The event, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island ofSan Giorgio Maggiore, will be co-chaired by Jeremy Irons and ScarlettJohanssen.The evening is presented by upmarket jewellery firm Bulgari,and co-sponsored by ...
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Korea's Kim Jee-woon unveils 'action noir' feature
Rising Koreandirector Kim Jee-woon (A Tale Of TwoSisters) has lifted the veil on his highly anticipated fourth feature, an"action noir" that is set to start shooting in mid-August.Dalkomhan Insaeng (English title to be decided) is produced by b.o.m.Film Productions, and tells the story of a gangster whose boss asks him ...
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Avelleneda's Moon tops one million admissions in Argentina
La Luna De Avelleneda(Avelleneda's Moon), Juan JoseCampanella's latest drama starring Ricardo Darin, passed the 1m admissionsbarrier in Argentina this week, becoming his second smash hit after SonOf The Bride.The box office score is even more impressive bearing inmind the current economic crisis in the country, not to mention the fact ...