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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Despite its continuous decline (56% this weekend), Robbery Of The Third Reich is still taking up most of the Serbian-Montenegrin box office. After this weekend's 9,907 admissions, the local blockbuster has now grossed a total of $754,596 for Mirius.The following three positions belong to Tuck's Something's Gotta Give, Runaway Jury ...
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SWEDEN
Little changed at the top of the Swedish chart except for local coming of age drama The Ketchup Effect moving down fifth. However, the best performer was 21 Grams which on its just nine screens had an impressive $7,331 average, more than twice any other film.Less impressive was the other ...
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EU cinema admissions fall 5% in 2003
Cinema attendance in the European Union's 15 member states dropped by 5% in 2003, according to first estimates from the European Audiovisual Observatory.Provisional data shows that admissions in eight of the biggest EU states fell to 890.5m last year. Germany registered the steepest drop of -9.1% to 149 million. The ...
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Crossroads acquires Acts Of Charity script for Winter to direct
New York-based commercials,music video and movie producer Crossroads Films has optioned rights to thescreenplay Acts Of Charity by UKscreenwriter Chips Hardy and Alex Winter, the London-based film-maker who isalso attached to direct the film.Alan Rickman is attached toplay the role of British ex-pat journalist in the film which follows the ...
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Daskalakis named as acting head of MEDIA Programme
Costas Daskalakis, the MEDIA Programme's head of Administration, Finance and Pilot Projects, is to become acting head of the unit when Jacques Delmoly leaves the post at the end of the month.Originally, Dr. Alain Dumort, head of the communication and youth department at the European Commission's Education and Culture Directorate ...
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Mar del Plata chief postpones Village shoot
Argentine film-maker and Mar del Plata festival chief Miguel Pereira has postponed principal photography on his next feature, The Man Who Came To A Village, for six months, citing last month's changes to the UK tax rules as being the catalyst for the decision. The film's financial package is to ...
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Myriad promotes Rappaport, Chiu, Chordia
Los Angeles- and London-based MyriadPictures has made three promotions, according to a statement from presidentKirk D'Amico.JC Rappaport has beenpromoted from manager of acquisitions to director of acquisitions anddevelopment in the company's LA office; Linda Chiu, also in the LA office, hasbeen promoted to creative executive, international production. Both will reportto ...
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Winterbottom signs on to shoot Goal!
Michael Winterbottom is set to direct Goal!, the first film in a trilogy that follows a Latino soccer player as he moves to the UK to play for one of the territory's top-flight Premiership teams.The second and third films in the trilogy will follow the player as he moves to ...
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Williams-Jones re-surfaces at Miramax International
Michael Williams-Jones, theveteran distribution executive who left United International Pictures (UIP) totake a self-imposed sabbatical, is back in the picture and has taken thepresident job at Miramax International.Based out of the company'sLondon offices, Williams-Jones will oversee the marketing and distribution ofMiramax's films outside North America and will report to co-chairmen ...
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Spring, Summer proves a winner at Las Palmas
Kim Ki-Duk's South Korean festival favourite Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...And Spring won best film and cinematography prizes at Spain's fifth annual Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 12-20).Recuperating from the shock of the March 11 Madrid bombings, which saw opening night festivities cancelled, the festival picked up steam during the ...
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Starsky & Hutch claim top spot in UK on $8.2m
Starsky & Hutch claimed the number one spot inits second weekend in the UK on an estimated $8.2m from 429 screens followingwide expansion through Buena Vista International (BVI).The 1970s television adaptation opened on platform releaselast weekend and has taken $8.6m in the early stages of its international run.It opens in ...
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Valenti: Hollywood's global ticket take passes $20bn
The worldwidetheatrical marketplace was worth an unprecedented $20.5bn in ticket sales forthe US studios and their affiliates, declared MPAA chief Jack Valenti on theopening day of ShoWest exhibitors' convention in Las Vegas.With worldwideadmissions dropping 5% last year, Valenti also acknowledged that thisrecord-breaking dollar figure came as a result of rising ...
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Disney's Brother Bear claws in $200m
An estimated $10.1m international weekend haul propelled Disney's BrotherBear past $200m inworldwide ticket sales, making it Disney's 16th animated title to reach themark.The picture raised its international running total to $115.5m andhas taken more than $85m at the domestic box office.Weekend business was fuelled chiefly by a $4.7m number one ...
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Viacom extends TV accords in China
Viacom, the media conglomerate that owns Paramount, Blockbuster, MTV and CBS, announced that it had reached several new agreements with Chinese partners covering programming, production and information technology.The agreements follow a week-long tour of China by veteran Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone. However, Redstone failed to obtain the extension to the ...
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Almodovar enjoys career-best Spanish opening
Pedro Almodovar scored his best ever opening in Spain at theweekend when Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) grossed an estimated $1.6m and 245,000 admissions from 158prints in his home country.The El Deseo production, which will open this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, was released through Warner BrosPictures International and ...
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Newmarket goes Bush-whacking with Sayles
Indie hothouse NewmarketFilms has acquired North American rights to John Sayles' Silver City, a star-studded political satire about the state ofAmerican democracy that will be released this autumn to coincide with the final weeks of this year's USpresidential race.Written, directed and editedby John Sayles, Silver City wasproduced by Maggie Renzi ...
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IMAX signs deal with Showplace Cinemas to open theatre in Indiana
IMAX Corp has signed a dealto open an IMAX theatre in one of Indiana-based Showplace Cinemas' multiplexesin Evansville, Indiana.The opening is expected totake place in November at a specific location to be announced shortly and willemploy the company's unique MPX theatre system.The MPX technology allowsmultiplex operators to instal an IMAX ...
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Film journalist named new director of Sydney film fest
Film journalist for The Australian newspaper, Lynden Barber, is the new director of the 2005 and 2006 Sydney Film Festival, taking over from Gayle Lake on July 1 after the completion of this year's event.Announcing the appointment, festival president Cathy Robinson said there had been "an exhaustive search in Australia ...
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Fuse secures US distribution
The Global Film Initiative, the US organisation set up to promotecross-cultural understanding through cinema, has picked up Pjer Zalica'saward-winning Bosnian comedy-drama Fuse, which has been selected for the 33rd New Directors/NewFilms series in New York.Set in the devastated Bosnian settlement of Teanj twoyears after civil war has ravaged the former ...