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AUSTRALIA
Along Came Polly held on to the top spot in its second weekend on release despite its gross dropping by over half, although admittedly the original result was for a five-day holiday weekend and the figures have now reverted to the usual four days.The UIP release did A$1,436,260 from 202 ...
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Warner Bros wins trio of distributor awards in Japan
Warner BrosPictures Japan (WBPJ) has been awarded three top honours from Japan's MotionPicture Exhibitors Association, capping its position as the territory'sdominant foreign distributor of the last three years.Thecompany picked up the Grand Prix Award for Best Foreign Film Distributor of theYear as well as awards for Harry Potter And The ...
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Upswing tops Finnish Jussi awards
At this year's Finnish film awards, the Jussi, held in Helsinki on Sunday night, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's popular comedy drama Upswing (Nousukausi) took top honours including best film as well as best script for Mika Ripatti and best music for Kerkko Koskinen.However, the Lasse Saarinen production didn't take more awards than ...
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Indian filmmakers boycott film festival
MIFF 2004, the Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentaries, Shorts and Animation, which runs from February 3-9, has run into trouble with 12 Indian filmmakers withdrawing their films from the festival in protest against censorship and the selection process.In addition, playwright and filmmaker Girish Karnad resigned as chairman of the ...
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DENMARK
Annette K. Olesen's In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) retained its second spot after The Return Of The King, falling just 12% after its first week in release and has so far had 37,989 admissions.However, this week's best admission screen average belonged to Lost In Translation on just nine prints in fifth ...
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Hopscotch pounces on documentaries
Hopscotch has picked up all Australian and New Zealand rights to 2004 Academy Award documentary nominee My Architect from the Film Sales Company, hoping that again loading the slate with non-fiction will prolong last year's winning streak.The film is already showing in the US and is directed by Nathaniel Kahn, ...
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ITALY
Pupi Avati's Italian comedy sequel La Rivincita Di Natale, opened at number six at the box office, grossing $550,673 for Medusa Film seventeen years after the original film's release.Rivincita Di Natale, which features the same cast as Avati's 1980 comedy Regalo Di Natale including Diego Abantatuono, was released on ...
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NETHERLANDS
The massive opening of social comedy Shouf Shouf Habibi! in the Netherlands even surprised distributor Independent Films "This is beyond our expectations," Niels Swinkels, head of marketing told ScreenDaily.com. "We were aiming for 100,000 admissions, but in the first weekend we already reached 50,000, much better than we were hoping ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Return Of The King continues to reign supreme at the New Zealand box office. In its seventh weekend it took NZ$384,449 from 86 screens, which was just 6% down on the previous week. As was the case last week, The Last Samurai is in second position with NZ$301,379 from ...
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Japanese 2003 box office lifted by Shakedown effect
Bayside Shakedown 2, Katsuyuki Motohiro's comic thriller about feuding cops in Tokyo's trendy bayside district, topped the Japanese box office in 2003, according to figures from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren).BS2 grossed $163.7m (Y17.35bn) following its July 2003 release -- a record for a Japanese live-action film.The ...
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Bangkok has teething troubles but shows potential...
The Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF), which ended today (Feb 2), still has a long way to go to fulfil its ambitious remit, but this year's event was a spirited affair that promised greater things for future editions.Organised for the second time by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the ...
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...as Barbarian Invasions takes top prize
Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions was awarded the Golden Kinnaree for best film in the International Competition at this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Jan 22-Feb 2) while the best director prize went to Jim Sheridan for In America.The Golden Kinnaree for best actor was shared by the three leads ...
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Odyssey to sell One Perfect Day
UK sales company Odyssey Entertainment has taken on worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to One Perfect Day.A portrait of dance party culture, the film is directed by first time director Paul Currie and produced by Australia's Lightstream Films.One Perfect Day tells the story of Tommy Matisse, a gifted ...
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Hiding emerges as Gothenburg winner
The overall theme of Sweden's major film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, was the blues, but after its 27th edition, there was nothing to be blue about but the weather.Early estimates indicate an increase in the already impressive admission numbers, and so did the number of attendees for the festival's ...
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Take My Eyes takes Spanish prize
Director Iciar Bollain's domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes fulfilled expectations as the big winner at Spain's 18th annual Goya Awards this weekend, taking home seven of nine nominations including best film, director, original script, actor, actress, supporting actress and sound.The uncompromising film was an appropriate mascot for a ceremony ...
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Samurai is still first with $22.4m weekend in 45 markets
The Last Samurai has passed $350m in worldwide ticket sales accordingto Warner Bros Pictures Int'l following an estimated $22.4m weekendinternational gross from 5,907 screens in 45 markets.With mostly smaller bowsincluding Finland and four in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the actionadventure raised its international cumulative total to a mighty ...
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Dembia joins Denmead as account manager
Former Artisan Entertainmentdirector of corporate communications Dennis Dembia has joined Denmead Marketingas account manager.Dembia will work withcompany president Nikki Parker and will be based at Denmead's headquarters inHollywood, reporting directly to Parker.Besides day-to-day publicityand maketing duties, he will work closely with Parker overseeing corporateaccounts and handling international marketing and publicity ...
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Polly stays top in Australia, Grams is hot in Spain for Universal
Universal's Along CamePolly stayed top in Australia as itgrossed an estimated $1.1m and fell 44% in its second weekend for a $3.9mrunning total.The romantic comedy is dueto roll out in the other major markets over the next two months and its nextbow will be Portugal on Feb 6.21 Grams had ...
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Crombie resigns from South Australian Film Corp
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is without both a contracted chief executive and a chair following the resignation of chief executive Judith Crombie during Friday's board meeting, effective immediately. The State Government had earlier decided not to reappoint David Minear as chair.Some mystery surrounds Crombie's decision to leave four ...