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AUSTRALIA 7 June
There are four newfilms in the top ten but Fox's The DayAfter Tomorrow, in its second week on release, and Roadshow's Troy, in its fourth week, have held onto the two top spots.The best of theopeners, BVI's Raising Helen, took$1,353,609 from 199 screens to claim the third spot and Columbia ...
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ITALY 7 June
Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban stormed into the Italian box office at number one,earning a massive $6,283,045 on its opening weekend for Warner Bros Italia. TheAlfonso Cuaron film, released during the normally quiet Italian summer seasonon a wide 637 prints, pulled the crowds in to gross a huge $9,863 ...
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Aaltra takes Transylvania audience prize
Belgian road movie Aaltrawas the most popular film with audiences at the Transylvania Film Festival (May28-June 6), the growing Romanian event now in its third year.The festival's officialfirst prize went to Dias De Santiago, a Peruvian film directed by JosueMendez about a young soldier who has difficulty adjusting to real ...
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Raggy Boy wins top Emden festival prize
Aisling Walsh's Song For A Raggy Boy was presented with theEuros 10,000 Bernhard Wicki Prize at this year's Emden-Aurich-Norderney FilmFestival in the north-western corner of Germany.Second and third prizes in this competition for feature films fromthe German-speaking countries and North-Western Europe went to Ben Sombogaart'sTwin Sisters and Paul Morrison's Wondrous ...
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Canal Plus sells off Studio Expand companies
CanalPlus has sold off five companies that previously made up the lightentertainment division of its Studio Expand, TV production group.ProductionsDMD, KM and CALT are being sold back to their founders; Adventure LineProductions is being taken over by JAP, a company representing Teleimages and agroup of private investors. The fifth company ...
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Eisner 'willing to consider' Miramax sale
Walt Disney chief executiveMichael Eisner is willing to consider selling its Miramax division back tofounders and co-chairmen, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, according to a report yesterday in The New York Times.Quoting "close associates"and "friends and executives who have discussed the issue" with Eisner, thepaper says that the Disney chief is ...
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Munich fest to open with Pearl Earring
Peter Webber's Oscar-nominated Girl With A Pearl Earringwill be the opening film at this year's Munich Film Festival which begins onJune 26.The eight-day festival, which is the first under the management ofAndreas Stroehl, will also include screenings in of such films as WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries, Ivan Fila's King Of ...
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$114m international opening for Harry in 24 territories...
Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkaban cast a spell over theinternational box office at the weekend, conjuring up a superb $114.1m from7,804 screens in 24 countries for Warner Bros.The figure includes the UK's Monday-Thursday $26.3m opening hauland Warner is claiming the third biggest international opening ever behind TheLord Of The ...
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...while Day After Tomorrow sweeps up a further $55m
Fox International's The Day After Tomorrow followed up last weekend's record bowfor a non-sequel with an impressive $55m, raising the picture's internationalrunning total to $178.5m.Without Japanese previews the weekend haul was $53.3m. Opening topin Japan, the picture grossed $8m including previews on 631 screens for Fox'sthird biggest ever bow excluding ...
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Spring, Summer surprise winner at Korean awards
Kim Ki-duk's Spring,Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring was named the surprise winner of the 41st Grand Bell Awards, SouthKorea's oldest awards ceremony.This marks the second major local honour for the film after it won BestPicture at the rival Blue Dragon Awards held last December.The Korea-Germanco-production beat out popular favorite and ...
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Azkaban a critical and box office triumph for Warner Bros
Warner Bros' decision to release Harry Potter And The PrisonerOf Azkaban in the summerpaid off handsomely as the third instalment in the children's series opened topat the weekend on a franchise record $92.7m estimated gross.Despite opening in more theatres than its predecessors, this was atriumphant bow for the studio as ...
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Swedes agree to extend $30m government film deal
Aftermonths of conflicts, the Swedish Film Agreement - which sees $30m of governmentsupport channelled into local film-making - has been extended for another year,until the end of 2005.Theagreement was due for renewal at the end of this year - but looked as though itwould be blocked following complaints from American ...
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Babelsberg studio sale nears conclusion
Thelong-drawn out process of selling the historic Babelsberg studios near Berlincould be drawing to a conclusion.VivendiUniversal, the debt laden French group which has owned the facility since 1992,has fielded bids and is understood to have whittled these down to two or three.The likely favourites are Studio Hamburg - the production ...
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Pathe, BBC finalise deal for Frears' Mrs Henderson
Pathe and BBC Films havefinalised their long-anticipated deal to board Mrs Henderson Presents,Stephen Frears' hotly-awaited upcoming production.The Heyman HoskinsProductions title is to start principal photography in September starring JudiDench and Bob Hoskins.Pathe Distribution willdistribute in the UK and France, while Pathe Pictures International will sellthe film worldwide.This script is written ...
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Billy Elliot tops poll of most popular films on British TV
The TV premiere of Billy Elliot on BBC1 was the mostviewed film shown on the UK's main five terrestrial channels last year. Threeother recent UK-made features including The Full Monty made thetop ten, the UK Film Council has revealed.Theratings success came despite only a tiny 2.8 per cent of the ...
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Dutch cinema hits record box office highs
Dutch films have taken a record 15.3% share of their localmarket in the first quarter of 2004.Inthe first three months of this year, 952,000 people went to see a Dutchproduced film. Dutch films took Euros 6.7m at the box office, out of a total ofEuros 43.4m.Two titles are largely responsible ...
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Toronto revamps focus on Canadian film-making
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 9-18) haslaunched two new programmes designed to spotlight Canadian film-making talent.Canada First! will showcase Canadians making their featuredebut or presenting a feature at the Festival for the first time, and willannually screen eight to 15 feature films.Short Cuts Canada will programme 30 to 40 ...
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German distributors take Les Choristes, Kontroll
Germany's Constantin Film has acquired thetheatrical and DVD/video rights for Germany and Austria for ChristopheBarratier's French box-office sensation Les Choristes from veteranproducer Arthur Cohn.Constantin will release Les Choristesunder the German title of Die Kinder Des Monsieur Mathieu on August 26.Meanwhile, German rights trader Tiberius Filmhas picked up all German language ...
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Civilian blames late Skull delivery for $2m loss
Civilian Content hasposted a $2m (£1.1m) pre-tax loss for the year ended December 31, 2003.The AIM-listed UKproduction and sales company cited production and delivery delays for draggingit into the red after posting a small profit the year before of $190,000(£103,000). The late delivery of John Boorman's Country Of MySkull,Civilian's South ...
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IFC Films buys racing documentary for spring 2005 theatrical release
IFC Films hasacquired North American rights to Dana Brown's off-road racing documentary DustTo Glory, whichchronicles the legendary annual desert race in Mexico's Baja peninsula. Thecompany plans to release it in spring 2005.The productionreunited Brown with Step Into Liquid producers C Rich Wilson and Scott Waugh of Bronwa Pictures.Baja champion Mike ...