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POLAND
While local hit Nigdy W Zyciu continued to dominate the Polish chart in its third week local distributor SPI Poland were pleased with their second week figures for Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning Lost In Translation, which slipped just 3% from its launch weekend.After 10 days on release the comedy drama has ...
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Return Of The King adds $11m to bring gross to $663.1m
On the weekendthat The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King won all 11 of the Oscars for which ithad been nominated, Peter Jackson's trilogy finale leapfrogged 2001's HarryPotter And The Sorcerer's Stone to become the second biggest international picture of all time.It added $11mfrom 3,148 screens in ...
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10% more buyers at this year's AFM than last year, says market
Total attendance at thismonth's AFM climbed by 5% to 7,212 compared to 6,834 last year, while thenumber of buyers rose 10% from 1,309 to 1,434, organisers said yesterday (2).There were 642 registeredcompanies compared to 598 last year and the number of individual exhibitorsrose from 3,419 in 2003 to 3,672, a ...
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Scary 3 has a monster opening in Germany
Scary Movie 3 enjoyed a massive $7.4m number one bow in Germany on626 screens through Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend for thebiggest release of the year there so far this year.It was also the biggest everbow opening for a Miramax production and contributed to a $12m weekend haulfrom ...
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Channel 4, Senator play the blame game
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has defended itself against legal proceeding from Senator Films over its closure of its stand alone film unit FilmFour, saying that it made a claim first against the German company.Senator, which had an output deal with FilmFour, filed a lawsuit this week against Channel Four for ...
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Italian film set for Euros 70m emergency funding
Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani is to present on Friday an emergency decree to the Italian Parliament to pour extra funds into the local cinema industry, after the Italian bank that manages the film industry's funds announced that its coffers are almost emptyAccording to Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, ...
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Forman to receive lifetime award from San Francisco
Milos Formanwill receive the Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing atthe 47th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 15-29.The Award willbe presented by Danny DeVito on Apr 22 at a black tie gala in honour of Formanand Oscar winning actor Chris Cooper, who will receive ...
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Japan's Movie Television files for bankruptcy protection
Japan's Movie Television, a leading seller of Hollywood films and TV programmes to Japanese TV, has filed for protection from its creditors after its debts climbed to $345m (Y38bn) at the end of January.Launched in 1984, Movie Television acquires broadcasting rights to TV series and films from five major studios ...
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Ebeling, Behring complete management buyout of MCOne
Sven Ebeling and HagenBehring, co-chief executive officers of Media Cooperation One (MCOne), one ofGermany's largest independent video and DVD distributors, have completed amanagement buyout of the company.Ebeling and Behring,co-founders and shareholders of MCOne, last month acquired the remainingmajority shares of the company previously owned by DBI, the equity division ofDeutsch ...
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Bellochio's latest joins Kahn at Wellspring
Followingyesterday's news that it has acquired all US rights to Cedric Kahn's Berlintitle Red Lights (FeuxRouges), New York-basedindependent Wellspring has taken US rights to Italian director MarcoBellocchio's Good Morning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte).The deals forboth pictures were negotiated by Wellspring's head of acquisitions MarieTherese Guirgis and head of theatrical distribution Ryan ...
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Chinese box office to triple within five years
China is forecast to be the fast growing cinema market in the Asia Pacific region over the next five years according to a new report, Cinemagoing Asia Pacific by Dodona Research.Chinese box office is expected to more than triple to reach $380m by 2008, compared to $120m last year. The ...
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New Spanish distributor starts to build slate
New Barcelona-based distributor ABL Augusta has closed its first two all-rights acquisitions for Spain with Morgan Spurlock's hit Sundance documentary Super Size Me and Takashi Miike's Japanese thriller One Missed Call.Veteran executive Adolfo Blanco launched ABL after leaving his position as director of distribution at DeA Planeta in January. His ...
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Walk On Water is joint Roadside/Goldwyn domestic buy
RoadsideAttractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointly acquired North Americanrights to Eytan Fox's political thriller Walk On Water.The picture, a hit at Berlin this year, is the follow-upto Fox's worldwide success, Yossi And Jagger.The story centreson an Israeli assassin who goes undercover as a tour guide in order to trackdown ...
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Irish exhibitors clamour for Passion prints
Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the Irish release of The Passion Of The Christ for Icon UK, has had to secure an additional 10 prints for the Irish release, such is the demand for the picture from exhibitors.Of the 60 prints now available, approximately 50 will play ...
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Gothika starring Cruz opens top in Spain for CTFDI
The horrorpicture Gothikastarring local star Penelope Cruz opened top in Spain at the weekend on $2.5mon 262 screens through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI).The decent debutwas part of a $4.1m weekend haul for the picture, which raised itsinternational running total to $23.9m.Elsewhere, thedrama Big Fishgrossed $2.7m for a $19m running ...
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HUNGARY
Most likely nobody would've thought that in the fourth week of its release Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond will still be such strong competition for Tom Cruise's Last Samurai. The Japan-set epic debuted on top of the chart with over 47,000 admissions, a mere 15,000 more than Herendi's historical comedy which ...
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Passion's domestic weekend tally tops out at heavenly $125.2m
Confirmed figures releasedtoday (March 1) reveal The Passion Of The Christ grossed an astonishing $125.2m in its first five days, making it thebiggest Wednesday-to-Sunday five-day US opening of all time.Released through NewmarketFilms, Mel Gibson's self-financed crucifixion epic took $26.6m on its openingWednesday (25) and added $22.9m on Friday (27), $33.1m ...
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Polly is top in UK and Brazil, scores $4.3m weekend
Universal's AlongCame Polly opened top inthe UK through UIP at the weekend on an estimated $1.8m from 369 sites.The opening was15% bigger than that of Meet The Parents in 2000 and 21% bigger than American Pie in 1999.Polly held on to number one in its second weekin Brazil, adding $300,000 ...
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Paltrow gets decade of achievement award at ShoWest
Gwyneth Paltrow is to behonoured with the ShoWest 2004 Distinguished Decade of Achievement in FilmAward at the 30th anniversary film expo in Las Vegas later this month."For the past decade,Gwyneth Paltrow has delivered one sensational performance after another," MitchNeuhauser, co-managing director of the event, said in a statement."With such varied ...