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NETHERLANDS
After a strong first three quarters of the year for local films (when Dutch films boasted a 13% market share on the way to a projected 14.5%), recent months have seen a series lacklustre performances from local titles such as Grimm and Kees De Jongen.Last weekend did not buck this ...
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NORWAY
The top of the Norwegian chart remained unchanged for another weekend, and only saw Once Upon A Time In Mexico and Underworld swap places at fifth and sixth positions. While Matrix Revolutions continues to gross enough for eighth position on the box-office chart due to its 25 prints, the film ...
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SWEDEN
Nothing changed at the Swedish box-office over this weekend, where Love Actually and Kill Bill maintained the best screen averages in the top ten. Good Bye, Lenin! moved up one place to 11th past another Triangelfilm release, Daybreak (Om Jeg Vander Mig Om). The new release of Ridley Scott's Matchstick ...
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CTFDI takes $8.1m from S.W.A.T., bringing total to $68.1m
The police action thriller S.W.A.T. raised its cumulative total to $68.1mover the weekend.Released by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI), it grossed $8.1m from 3,700 sites.Opening figuresand ranking for Russia were unavailable on Dec 14, although the distributorreported good holds throughout most of Europe on Friday and Saturday.
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$10m more for Love Actually as international gross soars to $87m
Universal's Love Actually grossed an estimated $10m from 2,800theatres in 28 countries through UIP at the weekend, raising its internationalrunning total to $87m.The total excludes France,where the film is distributed by Studiocanal and has taken $3m to date. Theromantic comedy is looking good to pass $100m with 13 countries still ...
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Samurai continues to wow in Japan with $4.6m weekend
Warner Bros International's The Last Samurai continued to slice through thecompetition in its second weekend in Japan, adding an estimated $4.6m (Yen511.9m)from 538 screens.The action epic, in which TomCruise plays a disillusioned Civil War veteran who undergoes a spiritualawakening in Japan, has now grossed $19.2m (Yeb2.1bn) in the territory.The runningtotal ...
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Irish minister fires tax abuse broadside
The Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, has issued a stern warning to producers about abusing the film industry's Section 481 tax break.Speaking at the launch of the Irish Film Board's Annual Review, O'Donoghue said: "No-one is suggesting that the majority, or anything close to it, of ...
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Miramax reaches accord with Spain's Lauren
Miramax Filmshas reached an agreement with Spain's beleaguered Lauren Films whereby Laurenwill continue to handle the 18 as yet unreleased Miramax titles it had acquiredfor Spain and also exploit the library of Miramax titles it has amassed overthe last decade in business with the US company.Miramax COO RickSands told ScreenDaily ...
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Audiovisual/Ster acquires Europlex in Greece
Greekentertainment media group Audiovisual has acquired the two-site Europlex-GreeceCineplexes chain through its subsidiary, Ster Cinemas.The acquisitionof the two sites - an eight-screen 1,996-seater venue in Patras and aneight-screen 1.764-seater venue in Larissa - positions Ster Cinemas-Greece asthe country's second largest exhibitor with a total of 35 screens and 8,185seats.Ster willshortly ...
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AFI top ten list omits Mountain, Grams
The American Film Institute(AFI) announced its 10 best films of 2003 today (Dec 14), unveiling a heavilydramatic roster of mainstream and independent titles that is also distinguishedby several notable omissions.After deliberating for twodays the 13-person jury comprising academics, critics and trustees named thefollowing titles: American Splendor, Finding Nemo, The Human ...
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Bigas Luna readies female coming-of-age tale for Alquimia
Spanish producer Alquimia Cinema has unveiled its slate for 2004 including new films from directors Bigas Luna (Golden Balls), Marcelo Pineyro (Kamchatka) and Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup).The untitled coming-of-age tale scripted by Luna for an October shoot follows a twenty-something girl as she sets out to discover the world. With ...
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Revolution controversy hits IDA awards ceremony
Kim Bartley and DonnachaO'Briain's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised shared top feature honours at the 19th InternationalDocumentary Association (IDA) awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday (Dec13), despite an eleventh hour request by Venezuelan protestors to withhold theaward until the facts of the film had been investigated.Protestors handed outleaflets ...
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Bolton launches US online one-stop-shop Really Good Films
Technology veteran Rick Bolton has launched Really Good Films, anonline one-stop shop that offers US film-goers services, editorial content andproducts and provides the company's commerce partners with a cost-effectivemarketing service.Visitors to the website will be able to read reviews andinterviews, check screening times and buy DVDs, books and soundtracks, amongother ...
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Global Film Initiative gives grants to films from Uruguay, Turkey, Brazil
US-based charitable foundation The Global Film Initiative hasnamed the award recipients for its second annual granting programme. Threerecipients selected from 33 submissions representing 19 countries will eachreceive completion funds of between $20,000 and $40,000.The titles are: Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's siblingrivalry drama Whisky(Uruguay), Reha Erdem's anarchic look at ...
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Parent & Stuber promoted to production vice chairmen at Universal
Mary Parent and Scott Stuber have each been appointed to the newpositions of vice chairman of worldwide production for Universal Pictures.In their new jobs they will continue to oversee worldwideacquisition, creative development and production of all Universal's films, aswell as overseeing the studio's original made-for-video productions and creativedevelopment and production ...
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Cold Mountain partners Mirage, Miramax warm up to new deal
Miramax Films has signed a three-year-first-look dealwith Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella's Mirage Enterprises, kickingoff with the adaptation of Allison Pearson's comic bestseller IDon't Know How She Does It, the first part of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy fantasy, The Amulet Of Samarkand, and the family drama The MarryingGame.The deal, announced ...
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Warner co-production Thief Lord wins Hamburg funding
Richard Claus' adaptation of Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's book The Thief Lord has been awarded Euros 600,000 by German funding body FilmFoerderung Hamburg.The film, which will be produced by Warner Bros. Filmproductions with Dutch-based Comet Films, will star Janet McTeer and Jim Carter.Funke's magical bestsellers have been billed as the ...
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Two Wellspring executives move over to Koch
FormerWellspring Media executives Janet Baker and Kathy Gilbert have joined US musicand video distributor Koch Entertainment Distribution, with Baker coming onboard as director of sales - video and Gilbert as regional video sales manager.Effectiveimmediately, Baker will be based in Chicago where she will oversee thecompany's expanding video sales efforts, supervise ...
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...as festival honours Man Without A Head
With Taiwanese film production at a record low, there was some speculation whether this year's Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards would even take place. The success of Hong Kong and Chinese movies at recent Awards has embarrassed the Taiwan government, with tensions further strained over the festival's position on ...