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Love Actually Universal's sixth $100m international title of 2003
Love Actually became Universal's sixth title of the year to pass$100m at the international box office at the weekend, marking the first timethis has happened at the studio and only the second time in industry historyafter Buena Vista International in 1997.The romantic comedy added$5.9m from 2,650 sites in 31 UIP ...
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Rings round opposition: Return Of The King scores $121m int'l bow
New Line International's TheLord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ruled them all in 28 territoriesat the weekend, opening on a sensational $121m international box office in itsfirst five days and smashing numerous records.The international gross combinedwith the $125.1m US tally for what the studio is claiming to ...
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Nemo reaches $365m international total, sets sights on $500m target
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Finding Nemo added $25m at the weekend for an internationalrunning total of $365m.The latest figures combinewith the film's US tally for a worldwide total of more than $700m. Studioexecutives are now tentatively setting their sights on a possible internationalfinal tally of more than $500m.The animated hit is ...
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Return Of The King reigns supreme on $73.6m three-day opening
New Line's J R R Tolkientrilogy finale The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King obliteratedthe opposition at the weekend, opening top on an estimated $73.6m from itsfirst three days on 7,205 screens and a staggering $125.1m from its first five.The third and final episodein Peter Jackson's acclaimed ...
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Sliding Dice wraps after Romanian, Irish shoot
Production wraps today (19 Dec) on Sliding Dice, a caper movie with a serious subject set in Romania and Ireland.The film is directed by Canadian-born John Ketchum and John Riley of the UK. It describes a real-life immigration scam in which 41 Romanians obtained tourist visas for Ireland purporting to ...
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Andersson embarks on Second Floor follow-up
Following the success of his last film, Songs from the Second Floor -winner of the Cannes' Jury Prize three years ago - Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson has started shooting his latest feature after receiving $673,000 (SEK5m) from the Swedish Film Institute this week.Roy Andersson told ScreenDaily.com that he expected ...
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Rings embarks on global weekend box office assault
New Line International's fantasy trilogy has begun its final global assault this weekend as The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King opens in 28 territories.The third and final instalment in Peter Jackson's acclaimed J R R Tolkien adaptation went out on a total of 5,475 screens in ...
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StudioCanal bows to audience demands
Abstracted from this week's Screen International France's StudioCanal has tightened up its production policy, and is putting a fresh accent on popular comedy films.Former concert promoter Frederic Sichler - who replaced Studio Canal chief executive Richard Lenormand in February - has made a number of key changes since taking over.In ...
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Australia's John Curran signs on with Endeavor
Award-winning Australianwriter and director John Curran, whose latest film is the drama We Don'tLive Here Anymore, hassigned for representation with Endeavor.The film starsLaura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Watts and will premiere in competition atSundance in January.Curran's creditsinclude the relationship drama Praise, which won the best director award from the ...
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Millimages comes riding to Bac's rescue
Following weeks of speculation, ailing French distributor Bac Majestic has seen French animation studio Millimages come to its financial rescue. Filen, the company personally owned by Millimages president Roch Lener, will pump Euros 3m into the company and will thus change the shareholding structure of Bac. A meeting of Bac's ...
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Dutch immigration comedy wins Berlinale Panorama slot
A Dutch comedy that deals with the contentious issues of immigration and cultural identity has been selected for the Panorama-section of the upcoming 54th Berlinale (Feb 5- 15). Shouf Shouf Habibi, written by first-time director Albert ter Heerdt, tells the story of 20-year old Ap, a Moroccan boy born in ...
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Luminaries to spill secrets at Berlinale's Talent Campus
Legendary production designer Ken Adam, The Lord Of The Rings cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, Indian film critic Aruna Vasudev and Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni are among the film industry luminaries lined up for five discussion events open to the general public at the Berlinale Talent Campus (8-12 Feb).The programme will kick ...
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Budapest Film nails Hungarian rights to Passion
Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of Christ will get a Hungarian release one month after its US debut courtesy of the country's premiere art house distributor, Budapest Film which yesterday announced most of its 2004 distribution slate. The company hopes the contentious film will outperform its most successful foreign ...
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Warner prosecutes German man with camcorder
In a move that demonstratesstudio resolve to stamp out piracy, Warner Bros Entertainment has begun legalaction against a cinema-goer for illegally camcording The Matrix Reloaded.A German man wasdetained while copying the film with a personal camcorder at a cinema in Munichafter he was spotted by cinema staff wearing night goggles.The ...
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Frameline & Horizons name four gay and lesbian grant-winners
San Franciscoorganizations Frameline and Horizons have announced recipients of the 2003Horizons/Frameline Completion Fund, established more than 10 years ago to helplesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media artists with the final stages ofproduction.This year, thefund received more than 80 submissions and awarded $15,000 in completion fundsto the following four projects:Screaming Queens: ...
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Third Harry Potter to get simultaneous IMAX release next summer
Harry Potter is heading tothe really big screen. The third installment of Warner Bros' franchise,Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, will be released on Imax screens simultaneous with the conventional theatricalrelease in June 2004.The decision is a vote ofconfidence from Warner Bros, in the wake of successful Imax releases ...
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$57.6m in opening day for the King in 18 territories
With Friday andthe weekend still to come, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has already broken a slew ofinternational opening day records as the New Line International title grossedan estimated $23.5m in its first day in 17 territories and $34.1m in the US.All in all thefinal ...
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Another Mulisch novel set for feature treatment
French production company Nord-Ouest has bought the film rights to the novel The Procedure, written by Dutch author Harry Mulisch.Previous books by Mulisch have resulted in features such as The Discovery of Heaven (2000), directed by Jeroen Krabbé, and the Oscar winning The Assault (1984), directed by Fons Rademakers. The ...
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Berlinale unveils first Panorama titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has unveiled the first films to play in its programme at next year's festival (Feb 5-15).Almost a third of next year's selection has now been confirmed, following screenings in Asia, North and South America, as well as Europe.According to the Panorama organisers, this year's main programme ...
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Golden Harvest readies China multiplex
Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Entertainment has signed a deal with developer China Resources Holdings to open a 12-screen cinema in the MIXc shopping mall in Shenzhen, southern China.The first phase of the development, including seven screens and around 1,200 seats, is expected to open by Christmas next year. The second ...