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Oh Schuks, The Passion create S.A. BO bonanza
South African cinemagoers were out in force this past weekend to check out two major icons - and the result was a combined box-office bonanza.Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ had an opening weekend of $600,000 (R3,758,025) (including premieres), on 35 prints representing a print average of $16,000 (R102,229), ...
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Passion tops UK, thanks to extra previews
Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ launched in the UK this weekend to see churches block-booking screenings and offering tickets to interested parties for free in some areas of the country.Despite this enthusiasm the film was unable to top the UK/Ireland chart over the three-day weekend landing in second ...
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Independent producers and MPAA settle over screeners
The Coalition of IndependentFilmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles and IFP/New York have dropped their antitrustlawsuit against the MPAA following the Hollywood lobby group's de factorevocation of the screener ban.All parties have agreed todismiss the pending Antidote Int'l Films Inc et al v MPAA litigation in aconfidential settlement.The case was originallyfiled last November ...
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ITALY
Filmauro's Crimson Rivers 2: The Angels Of The Apocalypse opened at number one at the Italian box office, grossing $1,795,12, making it the second film to be released by Aurelio De Laurentiis's company in a month to reach the top four.Filmauro, which co-produced Crimson Rivers 2 (together with Studio Legende, ...
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UK/IRELAND
It was a complicated picture this weekend for the UK and Ireland chart as three films vied for the lead while BVI saw vastly different receptions for two new releases.Entertainment's Dawn Of The Dead figures included previews figures of $544,425 (£299,434) without which it would rank third over the three-day ...
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Nordisk Film parent sees profits soar in 2003
Danish media group Egmont - parent company of NordiskFilm - had its best ever year in 2003, posting a pre-tax profit of Euros 59m -up from Euros 20m in 2002.However, Nordisk Film revenues dropped back to Euros 345mcompared to 2002's Euros 432m.In August 2002 the company merged its two sister ...
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Wellspring acquires US rights to Fontaine's Nathalie
USindependent distributor Wellspring, which was recently acquired by AmericanVantage Media Corporation, has picked up all US rights to Anne Fontaine'serotic drama Nathalie, starringGerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emanuelle Beart.Thepicture will receive its West Coast premiere at the City of Lights, City ofAngels Film Festival in Los Angeles on Mar 30 ...
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ContentFilm hits the acquisitions trail
ContentFilm is on theacquisitions trail. The London and New York based company, which formallycompleted its takeover of Winchester Entertainment on Friday (March 26), hasconfirmed it is now looking to buy distribution companies and libraries."It's part of the general strategy of trying tobuild an integrated film company...it's definitely the intention to ...
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Bavaria looks to cook up sales for Dresen's Willenbrock
Bavaria Film International (BFI) is to handle internationalsales on Andreas Dresen's latest feature film Willenbrock, which finished shooting on location in Magdeburglast week.BFI previously handled sales on Dresen's Berlinalecompetition films Grill Point (Halbe Treppe) and Nightshapes (Nachtgestalten).Produced by UFA Filmproduktion, the Euros 3m project wasadapted by Dresen's longtime collaborator Laila ...
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Capitol racks up Big sales on high profile slate
Capitol Films is racking up sales on the high profile, threepicture slate - comprising Mark Mylod's The Big White, Robert Towne's Ask The Dust and Robert Altman's Paint - that it is co-financing with German media fund VIP.The Big White, aFargo-style comedy drama starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, James Woods ...
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Tunnell promoted, Franklin & Siegel retained at Deutsch/Open City
JasonKliot and Joana Vicente's New York production outfit Deutsch/Open City haspromoted Tory Tunnell to vice president and retained the New York literaryagency Franklin & Siegel Associates to scout books for the company.Themoves come as Deutsch/Open City grows to fulfill its mandate to develop andproduce quality, mid-to-higher budget range pictures."We'rethrilled with ...
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Return star signs for Polish Master
Russian actor Konstantin Lavronenko, who played the fatherin Andrei Zvyagintsev's award-winning The Return, has been cast to play the lead in Polish filmmakerPiotr Trzaskalski's next feature The Master.Trzaskalski's last film Eddie (Edi) registered over 400,000 admissions in Poland and wasthe official Polish submission for the Oscars in 2002 as well ...
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Scooby dooby does it again with $30.7m weekend
Warner Bros' family sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ushered in a new number one at theweekend - not to mention another film featuring a colon and a lengthy title -as it opened on an estimated $30.7m.Buena Vista's remake The Ladykillers opened second on $13m, a record bow fora film directed ...
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Polly adds another $5.7m over weekend for Universal
Universal's Along Came Polly boosted its international running total by an estimated$5.7m to $62m through UIP at the weekend.The romantic comedy played on 2,300 screens in 27 markets andstill has 21 markets to open including Russia, Sweden, Turkey and Korea nextweekend.Highlights were a 44% drop-off in its fourth week in ...
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Passion continues to burn for Fox in Latin America
The Passion Of The Christ continued its surging run in Latin America through FoxInternational at the weekend as it added $9m for a $25m running total inthe region.The picture finished top in all its markets and set new recordsfor the distributor in all its opening Latin American markets.It opened on ...
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BVITV closes raft of deals at MIP-TV
Buena Vista International Television, the rights sales arm of Walt Disney, has announced a string of deals at this week's MIP-TV programmes market (29 Mar-2 Apr).With Russian broadcaster CTC it concluded a multi-year deal covering feature films, series and TV movies. Films covered by the deal hail from the Walt ...
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DENMARK
The fact that Viggo Mortensen is half Danish paid off this weekend as he easily raced Hidalgo into the top spot in front of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.Despite only having 19 prints, Hidalgo's impressive screen average was more than twice that of the sequel's high 50 prints.Surprisingly the directing debut ...
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... but faces opposition in France
French exhibitor MK2 has refused to program Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ when it is released by Quinta Distribution on Wednesday. Marin Karmitz, president of the successful cinema circuit, told Agence France Presse that he considers the film "fascist, antisemitic and of an unheard violence.""To watch a man ...
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FRANCE
The Jacques Perrin produced Les Choristes opened in the number one spot scoring nearly 1 million admissions in its first week. The film is a sort of Mr Holland's Opus starring Gerard Jugnot which Miramax will handle stateside. Malabar Princess jumped to number 2 from the third spot last week ...