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The Butterfly Effect opens top for New Line on $17.1m
New Line's thriller TheButterfly Effect opened top at the weekend on an estimated $17.1m, provingstar Ashton Kutcher has the chops for more serious acting away from the comedyroles and his former incarnation as a professional prankster.Kutcher plays a man with theability to travel through time who uses his power to ...
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The Last Samurai races past $200m at int'l box office
The Last Samurai added an estimated $30.5m for Warner Bros PicturesInternational at the weekend, raising its cumulative score from all itsterritories to an excellent $205.3m.Inthree first-place finishes, the drama took $428,000 from 50 in Norway, an outstanding$459,000 from 111 (including previews) in the Philippines and $278,000 from 62in Argentina.Ittook $643,000 ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Production listings - Jan 26 2004
RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONELIZABETH AND KLODIL (ELIZAVETA I KLODIL)(Krug Film Studio) Co-prod: Mosfilm (Russia) Backer: Service of Cinematography of the Russian Ministry of Culture. Adventure film about two 15-year old girls - Russian and French - who run away from their families and go to one of the resorts in the South of ...
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CTFDI scores success abroad with Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile grossed $8.6m on 2,065 screens for Columbia TriStarFilm Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekend.It opened number one inGermany on a notable $2.8m from 601 screens, and also secured top berths inAustria ($335,000 from 78) and Switzerland ($550,000 from 85).The drama opened second inFrance behind The Last Samurai ...
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Primer claims Alfred P Sloan prize at Sundance
First-time director ShaneCarruth collected the Alfred P Sloan Prize at Sundance on Saturday (24) for histhriller Primer.The prize carries a $20,000award and goes to a film that either focuses on science or technology as atheme or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.This year's jury, comprisingNeil LaBute, ...
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Along Came Polly opens top in Australia for Universal
Universal's comedy AlongCame Polly got its international campaign off to a strong start inAustralia through UIP at the weekend, opening top on an estimated $1.9m from193 sites.The film will open in therest of the world over the next three months, starting with Portugal on Feb 6.The dance drama Honeyraised its ...
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Homework, Monster Road among top Slamdance honorees
KevinAsher Green's sensual drama Homework has won the 2004 Slamdance GrandJury Sparky Award for best narrative feature, while Brett Ingram's profile oflegendary animator and Frank Zappa collaborator Bruce Bickford in MonsterRoad won the equivalent documentary prize.Inother awards at the weekend ceremony, the Grand Jury Sparky Award for bestnarrative short went ...
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Sundance jury passes over audience favourites
If the Sundance FilmFestival has drifted to the mainstream from the margins, no one has told thejuries of the 2004 event. In the keystone Dramatic Competition, the juryawarded its prizes to films that generated little buzz through the course ofthe festival while ignoring the films that caused the greater stir. ...
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Chapman rewarded in Australian honours list
Veteran Australian film producer Jan Chapman has been named in this year's Australia Day honours list.She has been created an Officer in the Order of Australia , perhaps equivalent to a pre-1975 Damehood, "for service to the Australian film industry as a producer, and as a contributor to organisations providing ...
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Holy Cross leads sweep of FIPA prizes by Brit shows
British productions swept the floor at the awards ceremony of the 17th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz, run by former Cannes Quinzaine des Realisateurs director Pierre Henri Delleau.BBC Northern Ireland production Holy Cross, Mark Brozel's debut film about the story of two Belfast families, received the Golden ...
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Keene promoted to chief executive at Premier PR
Sara Keene has been appointed to the newly created post of chief executive of Premier PR, the international entertainment PR agency.The move follows the company's recent expansion into several new arenas.Keene has been promoted from the position of co-managing director. She will lead the senior management team and focus on ...
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Traechslin launches new Swiss distribution company
A new Swiss distribution company - Basle based Cineworx - has been launched by Pascal Traechslin, the head of distribution at Fama Film for the past six years.Traechslin told ScreenDaily.com on the eve of Rotterdam's CineMart at the weekend that he has set up Cineworx with partners Waltraud Wesselmann (finance) ...
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Return Of The King, Lost In Translation dominate Golden Globes
The 61st Golden Globes awards onSunday (25) were dominated by New Line's The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kingwhich took home four prizes including best picture (drama) and director for Peter Jackson andFocus Features' Lost In Translation which won three including best picture (musical orcomedy).Sean Pennwas named ...
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Video Island partners with MSN for DVD rentals
UK online DVD rental service Video Island has unveiled a partnership with leading UK website MSN.co.uk.The move sees the launch of MSN DVD Rental within the MSN Entertainment Channel, which will be serviced by Video Island.MSN's 16.2 million users will now have access to Video Island's 15,000 titles on DVD. ...
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Eastern Europe production overview
For full Eastern European production listings click HEREMost production outfits in the East have hunkered down to complete post-production during the cold, dark winter months after the short and frantic shooting season of summer and autumn.In Russia 2003 was the best year for film production since 1991 with more ...
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Media Luna picks up Panorama pair
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up international sales rights for Hilmar Oddsson's Cold Light and Russian directorial duo Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky's You I Love (Ya Lyublu Tebya) which are both screening in Berlin's Panorama section.Oddsson's contemporary drama, which was the opening film at Gothenburg Film Festival, will show ...
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UK/IRELAND
The UK finally saw a new box office champion last weekend as Scary Movie 3 ended the five week reign of The Return Of The King.Grossing a massive $6.4m (£3.5m) from 418 sites the new life injected into the series by director David Zucker and his cast, including spoof-comedy stalwarts ...
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Nemo to swim past $500m barrier
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives are saying Finding Nemo should pass $500m at the international box office by Friday (Jan 23) after last weekend's $7.3m haul raised its total to $496.9m.The animated hit had a chance of reaching the half-billion milestone last weekend but ultimately it was New Line International's ...
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France Television slashes film sales arm
France Television Distribution Cinema, the film sales and acquisitions arm of public broadcaster France Television, is to cease its international sales activities in the coming weeks according to sources close to the situation.France Television Distribution currently has two sales teams, one for TV and one for film. The film team ...
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Gothenburg emerges into Cold Light with record sales
When Sweden's leading film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, opened its box office earlier this month, business was brisk. It sold a record 30,000 tickets on its first day - including all the tickets to opening film Cold Light by Hilmar Oddsson as well as several other screenings.Not a bad ...