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ContentFilm in talks to acquire First Look Media in LA
ContentFilm is in talks to acquire the US' First Look Media, marking Content's first major strategic step since joining London's AIM stock-market via its takeover of Winchester Entertainment.The move, announced to the stock market on Friday, gives Content a North American home video and DVD distribution business, plus a film ...
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Artificial Eye takes Holy Girl for UK
Artificial Eye has acquired TheHoly Girl for the UK.Artificial Eye bought thefilm from HBO London, which is handling worldwide sales. The Spanish-languagefeature played in last month's Cannes competition.Directed by Lucrecia Martel,it tells the story of a young girl trying to save a man from sin.
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Azkaban breaks UK three-day opening record
HarryPotter And The Prisoner Of Azkabanhas beaten the three-day record for a picture in the UK with £11.5m ($20.1m) inticket sales, passing the £10.8m November 2002 opening weekend of HarryPotter And The Chamber Of Secrets.Addedto projected grosses for Jun 3, the picture has taken an estimated £14.3m ($25.2m)in its first ...
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Burnt Orange cranks up with King, Babbit, Carrera projects
Fledglingproduction outfit Burnt Orange Productions is in development on its first threeprojects due to shoot this summer from directors Zalman King, Jamie Babbit andCarlos Carrera.Headedup by producer and former AFI Conservatory vice chair Carolyn Pfeiffer, BurntOrange plans to produce eight or nine low budget titles in its first threeyears.WMAIndependent, William ...
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Outfest lineup opens with D.E.B.S., closes with Home
Outfest, the Los AngelesInternational Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, has unveiled its lineup for its 22ndevent which takes place July 8 to 19.Angela Robinson's lesbianspy romp D.E.B.S., whichpremiered at the Sundance Film Festival, will open the festival which is thelargest festival in southern California and one of the largest gay ...
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Italy mourns death of Nino Manfredi
Nino Manfredi, one of Italy's most prolific and popularactors, has died in Rome after a long illness. He was 83.Manfredi was often described as one of Italy's four greatacting musketeers, the other three commedia all'italiana legends being the lateUgo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman.The Roman actor appeared in more ...
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Fox scores slew of Asian rights on Cannes hit 2046
Fox International has acquired a slew of Asian rights to WongKar-wai's Cannes hit 2046, building on a relationship established by the recent partnershipbetween the director and Fox Searchlight Pictures.The distributor picked uprights in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, thePhilippines, Indonesia and India."We are very proud to be ...
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Magnolia takes Ong Bak for US
Thai action film Ong Bak has been acquired for the US byMagnolia Pictures.The film was a smash success in its native country beforebeing released by EuropaCorp in France in April. In its first week of release,Ong Bak averaged $10,000 per screen and has now amassed $6.4 million inreceipts.The film is ...
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Yari takes on sales for big budget Oz feature
Bob Yari Productions is tohandle international sales on an ambitious $US 26.7m (A$32m) Australian film, ClancyOf The Overflow, a story about a quintessential bush hero to be directed bySimon Wincer.The producers are Yari, afinancier and partner in the Stratus Film Company, Wincer and Mark Pennell.Patrick Edgeworth has written the script ...
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Tomorrow, Troy feast at international box office
It was no surprise that 20th CenturyFox's The Day After Tomorrow swept across the box office landscape thisweekend as it saw the biggest ever simultaneous release for a non-sequel.The film seized a colossal52% of the weekend's international gross and combined with Troy to net77% of all receipts. If the UK's ...
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Spanish broadcasters pledge to invest in film
Spain'sregional public broadcasters have signed a pact to invest Euros 30m over thenext three years in the acquisition, production and co-production of Spanishfeature films, TV movies, pilots, animated series, pilots and short features.The dealis a renewal of the accord struck in 1999 between FORTA, an umbrellaorganisation for eight regional public ...
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Shanghai fest selects sixteen for international competition
Sixteen features have been lined up to compete for the ShanghaiInternational Film Festival's (June 5-13) main international competition.The event will also have a special focus on Nordic, UK, Irish, Spanishand New Zealand cinema. 1200 guests from 51 countries are expected to attendthe festival.This year's competition jury is presided over by ...
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HBO Films racks up Van Sant sales
HBO Films has pre-sold itsnew Gus Van Sant production, Last Days, to a string of European buyers,most of which bought the director's previous Palme d'Or winner, Elephant.MK2, which racked up 750,000admissions on Elephant, which was also sold by HBO, took France on thegrunge rock story, which stars Michael Pitt, Asia ...
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Warner set to take the world Prisoner with Harry Potter
Warner Bros Pictures International will unload its second majorrelease in three weeks when the eagerly anticipated Harry Potter And ThePrisoner Of Azkabanopens in 24 countries this weekend.The third instalment in thelucrative franchise sets sail on the back of enthusiastic reviews and hasalready shown a taste of things to come with ...
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INTERNATIONAL 3 June
It was no surprise that 20th Century Fox's The Day After Tomorrow swept across thebox office landscape this weekend as it saw the biggest ever simultaneousrelease for a non-sequel.The film seized a colossal 52% of the weekend'sinternational gross and combined with Troyto net 77% of all receipts. If the UK's ...
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GERMANY 3 June
German-born director Roland Emmerich's disaster epic The Day After Tomorrow became the secondrelease this year after Wolfgang Petersen's Troyto clock up over 1m admissions on its opening weekend as it entered at No. 1.The 20th Century Fox release, which was the only new entryinto the weekend's Top 15, posted over ...
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DENMARK 3 June
Mimicking the situation in the rest of the region the Danishbox-office this weekend was all but swept away by Roland Emmerich's ecologicaldisaster extravaganza, The Day AfterTomorrow. However, with just an admission screen average of just 770 on itshigh 87 prints, it might not have been quite the phenomenon hoped for.But ...
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ITALY 3 June
20th Century Fox Italia's ice age fantasy The Day After Tomorrow swept into theItalian box office at number one, grossing $3,675,270 from 543 screens for astrong screen average of $6,768.The weekend's four other new releases paled in comparison:Istituto Luce's Argentinian film, LostEmbrace (El Abrazo Partido) opened in seventh position, grossing ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 3 June
Unlike in themost of the international territories, TheDay After Tomorrow has not managed to open at number one in Serbia andMontenegro. Roland Emmerich's disaster monster sold 14,565 admissions to gross$60,776 for Tuck. The same distributor's Troyhas held the pole position in its third weekend, adding 19,081 admissions tothe total of ...
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London cinema claims int'l record haul for Day After Tomorrow
London Leicester Square cinema Vue West End says it hasbroken the record for the biggest single cinema premiere in the West End for TheDay After Tomorrow, with 2350 guests filling eight screens for the event.Inthe first five days after film opened, Vue West End also says it was thebiggest grossing ...