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Runners gets greenlight again
On-again, off-again British heist film Red Light Runners got another greenlight yesterday when sales and financing operation IAC Film stepped in to rescue the troubled production.Shooting had ground to halt four weeks into principle photography when an investor pulled out, but IAC's Mike Ryan said production would resume this weekend ...
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NORTH AMERICA
Focus Features opened Sylvia, a biopic about the troubled poet and suicide Sylvia Plath, in 45th place last weekend on $57,819. Christine Jeffs' film stars Gwyneth Paltrow and averaged $19,647 from three venues - by far the biggest of the top 60.Focus' current triumph Lost In Translation dropped 33% and ...
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Arclight takes international on Jackie Chan backed films
Australia's Arclight Films has picked up international rights to another two Asian productions Kenneth Bi's Hainan Chicken Rice and Stephen Fung's Enter The Phoenix (working title) both of which are backed by Jackie Chan's new company JCE Movies. Hainan Chicken Rice, a co-production between Hong Kong's Kenbiroli Films and ...
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Five to sponsor UK Women In Film and Television Awards
UK broadcaster Five is to be the title sponsor of the 2003 Women in Film and Television (WFTV) Awards. The annual awards ceremony, which celebrates the achievements of women in all aspects of the British film and television industry, will take place this year on Dec 5 at the Hilton ...
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Indian cinemas call off protest strike
Cinemas in India's Maharastra state - which encompasses Bollywood capital Mumbai - have re-opened after a strike over entertainment taxes was called off after three days.Cinema owners called off the strike after the state government reduced its entertainment tax from 55 per cent to 45 per cent in Mumbai. In ...
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Cork names short film prize winners
The Cork Film Festival saw the The Jameson Award for best Irish short film go to director Simon Fitzmaurice for Full Circle. The debut director's film was cited by the jury for 'its ability to tell a story with tenderness and humour, managing to create an entire world through very ...
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Rothman tells HFPA that the MPAA has made no decisions
Tom Rothman, the co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, yesterday denied that the MPAA has reached any conclusion on the screener ban which has divided Hollywood.Addressing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) before a screening of his studio’s big Oscar hope Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, Rothman ...
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DENMARK
School holidays boosted SF Film's massive 105 print rollout of the new Danish children's film Moegunger (Brats), which didn't quite perform to expectations last weekend. During the week and over this weekend the film saw an impressive 221.5% increase to reach 232,154 admissions in its first 10 days. This ...
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HUNGARY
Although released on an impressing 32 copies Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 failed to make a huge impact at the Hungarian box office. Although opening in the top spot, it took less in admissions than Bad Boys II on its second weekend, although it out-grossed the cop comedy in ...
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LXG scores another $10.6m for Fox
Fox International's TheLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG)continued to chase down the magical $100m mark as a $10.6m weekend haul from3,860 screens in 35 territories raised the film's running total to$85.1m.The fantasy-adventure openedthird in the UK on $3.3m from 365 screens and scored number one openings inGreece and Finland, grossing $370,000 ...
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Moses, King get added responsibilities at Nielsen EDI
Box officetracking company Nielsen EDI is expanding the roles of two key executives as itcontinues to develop its data support services.Senn Moses willexpand his responsibilities, as president of Nielsen cinema and homeentertainment to oversee domestic business and operations, while Nick King,president of Nielsen Entertainment International, will now also overseeday-to-day international ...
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Runners hits Red Light again
Going full throttle to become the most calamitous British production of the last 12 months, Red Light Runners is battling to patch together its financing so shooting can resume this week.The UK-based car chase heist film, starring Michael Madsen and Harvey Keitel, was about a month into its shoot when ...
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Bad Boys II tops international box office
Bad Boys II was the number one international film at the weekendas it grossed $16.2m from 4,640 screens in 55 markets and raised itsinternational running total to $85.2m.Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) confirmed its action sequel opened top inFrance on $3.9m from 700 screens, effectively overruling Universal'sclaim yesterday based on ...
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Germany mulls plans to boost film exports
Germany's State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss has proposed increasing the German Export Union's budget from Euros 3.5m to Euros 5.8m and revamping it as central service agency to promote German films abroad.The new agency would be called German Films - Service and Marketing and would be part of a ...
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River runs strong for Warner Bros in France, UK
Warner BrosPictures International released Mystic River in its first international markets atthe weekend, grossing $2.7m and 366,313 admissions from 504 screens in sixterritories.The murder mystery opened third in France on an estimated$1.7m and 254,000 admissions from 320 prints nationwide. In Paris it grossed$640,000 and 88,500 admissions from 40.It was director ...
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BSkyB revamps Sky Movies service
BSkyB has unveiled plans to revamp its Sky Movies service, which include the addition of a World Cinema strand to showcase films such as Y Tu Mama Tambien and Good Bye, Lenin!The weekly World Cinema strand will play on the Sky Cinema channel where it will present films from around ...
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Creep cranks up in London
Shooting began yesterday (Oct 20) on Creep, a horror film set in subterranean London starring Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, The Bourne Identity).The debut feature of Chris Smith, Creep is produced by Julie Baines and Jason Newmark of Dan Films (The Cat's Meow, Summer Things, Butterfly Kiss) and will shoot ...
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Film industry 'little to fear from internet piracy'
According to a new report from the Informa Media Group titled ‘Film on the Internet’, peer-to-peer piracy and CD/DVD burning will result in relatively limited losses for the film industry - and in fact, Hollywood will thrive from the internet.As global internet access spreads, the value of relatively underused ‘soft’ ...
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Paramount plans Japanese theme park
Paramount Pictures is planing to build a theme park in Hisayama - a town on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu. Hisayama mayor Katsushige Saeki announced the plan at a special town assembly session on October 16. According to the mayor, Paramount intends to build on a 50 hectare site ...
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Saucers flies onto Sogepaq's MIFED 2003 slate
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has added forthcoming title Flying Saucers (Platillos Volantes) to its Mifed line-up.The film, a tragedy with elements of black humour, is based on the true story of two men in a bleak industrial town in 1972 who commit suicide in the hope of being united with ...