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Euro buyers swoop for Japanese samurai action feature
European buyers have snapped up Japanese samurai action feature Azumi.Buyers include CTV in France, Optimum Releasing in the UK, Manga Films in Spain, Lusomundo in Portugal, A Films in Benelux, Laser Paradise in Germany and Smile/Noble Entertainment in Scandinavia. The film has also been popular among Asian buyers and has ...
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Woody Allen's Anything Else finally finds UK home
Woody Allen's Anything Else has at last found a home with a UK theatrical distributor, it was announced yesterday.The comedy is to be released on 40 prints in late July by Optimum Releasing, who acquired the film from Capitol Films in a joint acquisition deal with MGM Home Entertainment. Anything ...
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Weinstein to be awarded honorary CBE by Queen
Harvey Weinstein has been awarded an honorary CBE for outstanding contribution to the British film industry.The award is conferred by the Queen to those who have made an important contribution to British interests. Miramax Films, the company Weinstein founded with his brother Bob, said it has invested more than £600 ...
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Head-On favourite for German Film Awards
Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On is the favourite for this year's German Film Awards after it received four nominations in the categories for best film, direction, actor and leading actress.Three nominations each also went to Sönke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern, Leander Haussmann's Berlin Blues and Christian Petzold's Wolfsburg.The fact ...
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Digital cinema poised for screen boost
The digital cinema market could be worth more than $100 million a year to projector manufacturers by 2005 according to a new report, Digital Cinema Factbook from industry analysts Dodona Research.By 2008, the number of digital cinema screens is forecast to rise to more than 5,000 worldwide in response to ...
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New Line takes Vera Drake off the table
New Line Cinema has acquired North American rights to MikeLeigh's latest film Vera Drake for apurported price tag of well over $2m. The deal was personally initiated by NewLine co-chairman and co-CEO Michael Lynne himself with the Leigh camp.It is not yet clear whether the film will be released byNew ...
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Rotterdam, IDFA expansion plans quashed by Dutch review
There were mixed fortunes for the Dutch film industry yesterday as the Government's advisory council, the "Raad voor Cultur", announced its spending recommendations for 2005 to 2008.Events such as The Rotterdam Film Festival, the Dutch Film Festival and IDFA received a qualified thumbs up, but while their funding will remain ...
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DENMARK 20 April
The new release of stuntman-turned-filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen's action comedy The Good Cop fared better with audiences than critics, but with an admission screen average of 476 on its high 60 prints, it was unable to topple Nordisk Film's hit animated film Terkel In Trouble from the top spot.Olsen's previous ...
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GERMANY 20 April
While BVI's Brother Bear held on to the top spot for the fifth week in a row based on admissions, it was a different matter as far as box-office takings were concerned. The animation feature was pushed down to second position by the new entry of UIP's The Dawn Of ...
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SWEDEN 20 April
After three weeks at the top of the Swedish box-office chart even Mel Gibson's Passion had to give in to the unholy teaming of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and their revival of 70s cool in Starsky & Hutch as it sped into pole position with a strong $5,253 screen ...
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ITALY 20 April
The Passion Of The Christ has grossed a massive $18,859,373 at the Italian box office, less than two weeks after its Easter release. Distributed by Eagle Pictures on 538 screens, Mel Gibson's picture shed 42% of its earnings on its second weekend, but still registered the weekend's highest per screen ...
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UK Production Listings - April 20 2004
UK PRODUCTION LISTINGS APRIL 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE AMERICAN(CTB Film Company, Tartan Films) Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Cast: Michael Biehn. Shooting in New York and Siberia.Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400BITTEN(Tartan Films) Dir: Meloni PooleContact Camilla Summers, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400CARRY ON LONDON(Black ...
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Miramax's Starsky & Hutch takes $7m through BVI
Miramax's Starsky & Hutch grossed an estimated $7m through Buena Vista International(BVI) at the weekend to raise its international running total to $42m.The picture opened fourth in Spain on $1.3m and scored a trio ofstrong bows in Scandinavia, where the highlight was top billing in Finland on$100,000 and a huge ...
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BVI's Brother Bear stays top in Germany for fifth week
Buena Vista's animated hit BrotherBear grossed $3m through Buena VistaInternational (BVI) at the weekend, raising its international running total toa superb $156.7m.The picture remained top in Germany for the fifth consecutive weekand is the first picture to do so since local hit Goodbye, Lenin! last year. Final figures were unconfirmedat ...
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Whore goes to US through Screen Media
Screen Media Films haspicked up North American rights from Dolores Pictures to Maria Lidon's Whore, starring Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards and Joaquimde Almeida.Whore will get its USpremiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in May, where it plays in thefeature competition. The company is planning a theatrical release ...
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New script partnership results in Project Tiptree
European development and training outfit The Script Factory has joined forces with new production company Mute Marmalade to establish Project Tiptree - a search for new screenwriting talent.Screenplay submissions are invited within specific genres on a quarterly basis, with selected scripts offered development with The Script Factory and an option ...
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Scooby has $11.2m weekend, holds at top in UK for third weekend
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed lapped up an estimated $11.2m at theweekend, raising its international running total to $65m.The highlight was a first place $2.8m hold from 490 screens in itsthird weekend in the UK for a $23.5m running total there and an unconfirmedthird place in Italy on $1.2m from 300 ...
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Dawn takes $2m over the weekend in Universal territories
Universal's horror remake Dawn Of The Dead grossed an estimated $2m through UIP atthe weekend, where the highlight was second place in Germany behind BrotherBear on $1.1m from 347screens.The promising start grossed 92% more than the Texas ChainsawMassacre and 18% morethan House On Haunted Hill.The picture opened top in Austria ...
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Alta strikes Bad Education truce with Warners
One of Spain's leading independent exhibitor-distributors,Alta Films, has agreed to put Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education back up on eight screens nationwide after pullingthe film from 13 earlier this month over a programming dispute with itsdistributor Warner Bros.Alta announced on April 1 it would pull all Warner filmsfrom its screens in ...
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Spanish box office sensation cranks up Amazing World
Spain's box office Midas, Santiago Segura, is co-producing andstarring in new comedy The Amazing World Of Borjamari Y Pocholo.A kind of Spanish Dumb And Dumber, the action turns on twothirty-something brothers who still believe they are living their heyday ofcool despite that period having come - and definitively gone - ...