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DENMARK
The Return Of The King remained magestic at the top of the Danish box-office chart, but the new release of Scary Movie 3 performed impressively on its 36 prints and picked up a 1,035 admissions screen average for second.Both Finding Nemo and Mystic River managed to climb the chart 18.2% ...
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Eurimages names Niehuus as vice-president
Kirsten Niehuus, deputy board member at the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin, has been unanimously elected as Vice-President of Eurimages by all of the 29 national delegates of the pan-European co-production fund."I am very pleased about the decision, particularly in view of the forthcoming EU enlargement and the ...
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JAPAN
The Last Samurai continued to dominate the Japanese box office in its fourth week on release, followed closely by Finding Nemo. Boosted by their strong showings in the peak New Year's season, the two films are expected to gross a collective Y20 billion ($189m).Samurai's fifth weekend (Jan 3-4) proved the ...
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NEW ZEALAND
As expected, The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King dominated the local New Year holiday box office charts, selling a further NZ$1.1m worth of tickets from 114 screens. With a total of NZ$7.5m by its third week it has sailed well clear of the NZ$6.5m reached ...
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NORWAY
Distributor SF Film's massive roll-out of the local animated feature, Stig Bergqvist's Captain Sabertooth, on 71 prints wasn't able to match the performance of its own The Return Of The King, and after two weeks on release it has now dropped 46% but has still amassed 88,749 admissions.Freaky Friday's 25 ...
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UK/IRELAND
The UK saw a strong start to 2004, despite a lack of new openers willing to go up against Return Of The King, with results for the first weekend of the year up 17% against the first weekend of 2003.The top three titles remained unchanged with the third part of ...
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New Nordic films line up for Gothenburg
Eight new Nordic features have been selected for the Nordic Film Award at Sweden's major film festival in Gothenburg (Jan 23 - Feb 2).The films come from all over the region, and include a number of first time directors. The festival will open with the international premiere of Hilmar Oddsson's ...
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Refn to revisit Pusher
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn will return to his roots with a follow-up to his 1996 debut and breakthrough film Pusher.Shooting from late January, Pusher II will see the local heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen (Open Hearts, The Green Butchers, King Arthur) reprise his role from the first film, but this time ...
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Nemo rises to number 11 of all time after bonanza Christmas
Finding Nemo added a little over $22m at the weekendto raise its international cumulative score to more than $440m, according toearly estimates from Buena Vista International (BVI).The latestfigures elevate the animated hit to the 11th biggest ever internationalperformer ahead of Spider-Man, which managed $418m. Nemo's $780m global box office ranks ...
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Towne teams with Carlton for another remake of The 39 Steps
The Oscar winning writer and director Robert Towne (Chinatown,Shampoo) has signed adeal with Carlton International Media to remake The 39 Steps, John Buchan's classic thriller that wasfirst filmed, famously, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.Towne will write and direct thestory about a man who becomes embroiled in a complex murder plot ...
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Love Actually nears $55m in UK, scores big in Korea
Love Actually has become Working Title's second biggest and Universal's thirdbiggest film ever in the UK as it climbed 25% in its seventh week on anestimated $2.1m for a mighty $54.1m running total, ranking third.The romantic comedy - released by Universal through UIP in mostcountries - also ranked third in ...
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Splendor gets best film vote from National Critics
American Splendor was voted best film of 2003 at the 38th NationalSociety of Film Critics Awards on Saturday (Jan 3), while Bill Murray won bestactor for Lost In Translation andCharlize Theron took actress honours for her acclaimed performance in Monster.Clint Eastwood was namedbest director for Mystic Riverand best foreign film ...
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Watts, Johansson, Ferretti and Sheldon join Palm Springs Film Festival honours list
Naomi Watts, Scarlett Johansson, production designer DanteFerretti and writer Sidney Sheldon will receive special honours at the upcoming15th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's awards gala on Jan 11.Watts, who has already been nominated as best lead actress of 2003by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and other bodies for her ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates of up to 20%
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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Tax-driven film financing develops funding alternatives
For the latest UK production listings click HEREWith the UK's film tax funding in flux, financiers, producers and even two US studios are flocking to a new breed of fund that is not reliant on the current regulations under Section 48.The latest fund devised under general accountancy principles rather ...
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Return is still king of the box office
New Line's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is expected to pass $300m any day now in North Americafollowing an estimated $30.8m third weekend haul that boosted its domesticgross to $291.9m.Internationalresults are even more impressive as the fantasy finale raised its tally to astaggering $385m, which combines ...
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Hungary passes new film law, offers new tax rebates
The HungarianParliament has passed a new film law which should position the country as oneof the most attractive in the world for incentive-hungry internationalproductions.The law, which passed justbefore Christmas on Dec 22, offers two kinds of incentives. The first is astraight rebate system for productions shooting in Hungary which offers ...
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UK Production Listings - January 2 2004
UNITED KINGDOM - January 2 2004PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE AMERICAN(CTB Film Company, Tartan Films) Prods: Sergey Selyanov, Hamish McAlpine. Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Cast: Michael Biehn. Shooting in New York and Siberia.Contact Camilla Summers/David Freed, Tartan Films, (44) 207 494 1400BATMAN - INTIMIDATION GAME(Warner Bros) Exec prod: Larry Frankau. Prod: Emma Thomas. Dir: Christopher ...