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Punisher takes $1.9m from openings in eight territories for CTFDI
The Punisher, the latest in a growing line of Marvel Comicsadaptations, grossed $1.9m on 600 screens in eight territories in its firstinternational outings at the weekend.Released through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), the vigilante saga took$913,000 on 350 in Spain and $601,000 on 145 in Australia.Latest cumulative totalsreleased by CTFDI ...
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Sony unveils 4k digital cinema projection system
Sony Electronics last week unveiled a new digital cinemaprojection system - offering four times the resolution of the current projectordeveloped by market leader Texas Instruments.The move by Sony comes at a time when the industry isincreasingly embracing the need for new technology, both in a bid to counterrampant piracy and ...
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Berlinale calls on film-makers to shoot football films
The Berlinale Talent Campus has launched a shortfilm competition - Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies! - for film-makers toillustrate their passion for the game of football as well as the fans and theculture it generates in their respective countries.According to the guidelines of the competition,submissions in either dramatic, documentary or animated ...
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Market for on-demand film surges worldwide
Morethan 100 million homes worldwide now buy on-demand films, according to a newreport.InformaMedia Group's On-Demand TV - ThirdEdition forecasts that this number will triple to 327 million homes by2010, or about a third of the world's total TV households.Thesehomes will generate revenues of $12bn. This compares with 91 million homes ...
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Shochiku names Sakomoto as new president
Junichi Sakomoto has been appointed president of Shochiku,one of Japan's Big Three film companies, with interests in production,distribution and exhibition.Formerly vice president, Sakomoto replaces Nobuyoshi Otani,who served as president since emerging victorious in a boardroom coup in 1998.The grandson of Shochiku mega-producer Shiro Kido, who ranthe studio during its postwar ...
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Helen raises $1m in first international opening in Australia
The comedy Raising Helen enjoyed a decent first international foray at theweekend as it opened through Buena Vista International (BVI) in third place inAustralia on a very strong $1m on 205 screens.The distributor also opened HomeOn The Range in Colombia last week,where it scored the biggest ever bow for a ...
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SWEDEN 8 June
After RolandEmmerich blew all competition down the chart last weekend, hardly anythingchanged in the top 10 this week. Though all the films placed one to six on thechart dropped some 50%, they kept their places with The Day After Tomorrow achieving the best screen average of $5,126on its high 96 ...
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FINLAND 8 June
Despite his hometerritory advantage, local boy Renny Harlin's latest US action flick Mindhunters was no match for thedominance of The Day After Tomorrowand Troy, though they dropped 45% and38%.However, RolandEmmerich's ecological disaster extravaganza retained the chart's strongestscreen average with Euros 3,412 on its 52 prints compared to Harlin's Euros1,201 on ...
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DENMARK 8 June
Despite ravereviews Jim Carrey-starrer EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind's 10 prints couldn't overthrow the dominanceof The Day After Tomorrow and Troy, though both films had a lowerscreen average and fell back 43% and 35% respectively.Overall it was allbut impossible to spot why this weekend's gross was up some 58% from ...
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JAPAN 8 June
The strongest opener for the week of May 29 to June 4 wasNigel Cole's Calendar Girls, whichrecorded a $36,964 average on two major cities screens.Meanwhile, the Luc Besson-produced Crimson Rivers 2 opened at number four on the nine-major-citieschart, with a $26,340 average on 16 screens.Despite a massive publicity build-up by ...
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Harry confirmed as third biggest international opener ever
Official figures released byWarner Bros put the international opening of Harry Potter And The PrisonerOf Azkaban at $113.5m from 7,885screens in 24 countries, which combines with the $93.7m domestic haul for a$207.2m worldwide opening.The international bow wasthe third biggest of all time behind The Lord Of The Rings: The Return ...
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THINKFilm buys wine documentary Mondovino
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Jonathan Nossiter's Cannes competition entry Mondovino, a documentary about the conflict between artisansand commerce in the contemporary wine-making world.The company said it isreadying a re-edited version for presentation during the autumn festival seasonand theatrical release. The deal also includes DVD rights to the film ...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 to open Paris Cinema festival
The organisers of Paris Cinema unveiled plans Friday for thefestival's second run from June 30 to July 13 in the capital. Thefestival is supported by the city of Paris and organized by formerDirectors' Fortnight artistic director Marie-Pierre Macia and filmmakerCosta-Gavras.At a press conference at City Hall Friday afternoon,filmmaker Oliver Stone, ...
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UIP box office on Van Helsing reaches $140m
Universal's Van Helsing raised its international running total by $4m through 2,600screens in 37 UIP markets to $130m, with the total from all distributors risingto $139m.The picture added $670,000 from303 in the UK after a 56% drop to rank fourth on $26.2m, and overtook the finalgrosses of Jurassic Park and ...
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Chabrol's Flower to blossom with UK's CineFile
Edinburgh-based CineFile has picked up the UK rights to TheFlower Of Evil, venerable French auteurClaude Chabrol's 50th feature, and will be releasing the film next monththrough its subsidiary, CineFrance. This is the second Chabrol picture thecompany has acquired. (It also released The Colour Of Lies.)CineFileis one of an increasing number ...
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Dutch broadcasters pledge to boost film spend
Dutch public broadcasters have pledged to invest Euros 9m ayear on Dutch films from 2005.The money will be spent on 18 to 19 feature lengththeatrical films and six telefilms: films produced for television but with achance of a theatrical release as well.Another Euros 2.5m will remain available for so-calledtelescoop-films: 2 ...
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Top Cannes titles find Hungarian home
Hungary'spremiere art house distributor Budapest Film has acquired local rights forseveral high profile Cannes titles, including Pedro Almodovar's BadEducation, EmirKusturica's Life Is A Miracle, Wong Kar Wai's 2046 and Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me.Budapest Film alsopicked up Hungarian rights to three other competition titles: Korean directorPark Chan-Wook's Old Boy, Hirokazu ...
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Jailbait wins top feature prize at Lake Placid Film Festival
Brett C Leonard's prison two-hander Jailbait won the best feature prize at the 2004Lake Placid Film Festival, while Gretchen Berland and Mike Majoros' Rolling won the best documentary award for itsexploration of wheelchair-bound people's fight for dignity.A special jury prize went to Brant Sersen's paintball mockumentaryBlackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story.Novelist ...
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Von Trier pulls out of Wagner opera project
Despite already spending more than two years onpreparations, Danish director Lars von Trier has decided to pull out of theopera production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Opera Festival inSouthern Germany.Von Trier's adaptation of Richard Wagner's mammoth 15hour opera cycle was meant to premiere in 2006 and would ...
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Tchenguiz offers $644m for UK's Odeon cinemas
Robert Tchenguiz has offered $644m (£350m) to buy the Odeoncinemas in a move to prevent the company being auctioned, according to the UK'sSunday Times.The deal has the support of German bank WestLB, whichcontrols 43% Odeon and whose stake was set to be auctioned, according to theSunday Times.Tchenguiz, who already owns ...