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Nemo dazzles with $9.6m weekend in UK for BVI
Finding Nemo raised its international running total to $123.7m thanks to a $10.1mweekend haul that was driven by a stunning second weekend in the UK.The animated hit added $9.6mand remained number one in the UK for the second weekend in a row. To dateBuena Vista International's (BVI) family film has ...
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Lions Gate tipped to complete Artisan takeover deal
Lions Gate Entertainment is expected to close a deal to acquire Artisan Entertainment this week, according to Canadian and US press reports.The deal is reported to be worth $165m in cash, with Lions Gate also taking on more than $50m in debt from Artisan.According to the New York Post, The ...
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Baltic Storm stirs up Swedish press
Reuben Leder's controversial film Baltic Storm had its world premiere in Berlin last week - and, according to Swedish reports, Swedish journalists were banned from the screening. The film - which stars Donald Sutherland, Greta Scacchi and Jurgen Prochnow - tells the story of a young German journalist who discovers ...
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Copenhagen doc fest unveils first line-up
Copenhagen's first international documentary film festival cph:dox (Nov 7-17), has announced its programme of 83 films including such international hits as Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American Splendor, Errol Morris' Fog Of War and Werner Herzog's Wheel Of Time.Four new Danish documentaries are also in the line-up: Lars von ...
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Saucers flies onto Sogepaq's MIFED 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 ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
Milos Radovic's Small World (Mali Svet) opened this prolonged weekend with 15,757 admissions, grossing $48,547 from Thursday to Sunday for distributor Delta Video, thanks to a high average admission price. The local road comedy, featuring some of the most popular Serbian actors, and winner of several awards at the Sarajevo ...
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SWEDEN
The resilience of Mikael Haafstroem's Evil was proved this weekend when the massive 109 print release of Anders Nilsson's action-thriller The Third Wave was unable to unseat it from the top spot. The Third Wave is the third instalment in the writer-director's trilogy following the box-office hits Zero Tolerance ...
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UK/IRELAND
Irish co-production Song For A Raggy Boy got off to an excellent start in Ireland at the weekend. The $147,000 (Euros 126,512/ £88,324) opening weekend was enough to get the drama 11th place in the UK/Ireland chart despite playing on just 36 prints in the Republic Of Ireland.With a screen ...
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New European Market being created for January 2005
As if there weren't already enough international film and television markets, yet another new event has been created to entice programme acquisition executives away from their offices with news of the European Programmes Market (EPM) in France's Deauville from January 28-30, 2005.Although the event will be running simultaneously with the ...
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9-hour Chinese documentary wins Japanese festival
West Of Tracks, (pictured) an acclaimed 9-hour documentary about the decay of an industrial city in Northeast China, emerged a triumphant winner at the 2003 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan. Well-received US documentary Stevie by Steve James, director of the Oscar-nominated Hoop Dreams (1994), took home the ...
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Alan Parker issues statement on European cinema
Next week's promotional launch of his new novel has forced the UK Film Council's chairman Sir Alan Parker to decline the invitation to participate in the European Film Summit at the Munich Media Days on October 22, but he has nevertheless taken the time to issue a personal view on ...
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Weeping Camel trots into THINKFilm fold
North American independentdistributor THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to ByambasurenDavaa and Luigi Falorni's The Story Of The Weeping Camel, Mongolia's first official foreign languageAcademy Award entry that was one of the surprise hits of Toronto.THINKFilm plans a spring2004 release for the film, which has just been nominated for ...
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Cucinotta wraps two Italian features
Italian star Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who shot to fame in Il Postino, has just finished shooting two Italian features.The Sicilian actress stars alongside Brooke Shields and Chevy Chase in Mariti In Affitto (Husbands For Rent), a comedy about a man who leaves his his wife and children and home on ...
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German private TV offers to double film funding
Germany's private broadcasters have offered to more than double their annual voluntary contributions to the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to Euros 12m over the next five years until 2008.Juergen Doetz, president of the commercial television interest group VPRT, indicated during a public hearing on the revised German Film Law ...
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France increases film, television funding
Elaborating on culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon's presentation of France's 2004 cultural budget in late September, France's National Cinema Center (CNC) has issued its funding details for the coming year.As previously noted on ScreenDaily.com the overall budget for film and television jumps to Euros 504.3m for 2004. That figure represents a ...
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Pie sequel makes it five $100m grossers for Universal International
Universal became the first studio to release five $100m-plusinternational grossing films in a single year as American Pie: The Wedding reached the mark over the weekend.The comedy sequel grossed $6.5m from 1,730 sites in 32 countriesfor an estimated $100m running total.8 Mile, Johnny English, The Hulk and 2 Fast 2 ...
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Streep to receive AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Meryl Streep will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 32ndLife Achievement Award at a tribute gala in Hollywood on Jun 10, 2004."Meryl Streep is one of the great artists in the history ofAmerican films," Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, saidin a statement."Her talent, range and ...
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LA critics cancel annual awards following screener ban
Bringing pressure to bear onthe screener ban issue to boiling point, The Los Angeles Film CriticsAssociation has announced that it will cancel its annual awards this year"unless there is a timely rescinding of the ban on screeners."The group of critics met onSaturday and approved a motion which put forward the ...
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Haifa names No Longer 17 as best film
Itzhak 'Tzeppel' Yeshurun's No Longer 17 won the best Israeli film prize at the 19th Haifa Film Festival (Oct 11-18), with Yoav Kosh taking top honours for the cinematography of Life Is Life by Michal Bar Adam. Hallelujah, a satire on the 1979 Eurovision song contest, was elected best TV ...
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NORDIC Production Listings - October 20 2003
DENMARK - October 20PRE-PRODUCTIONBOELLE BOB OG SMUKKE SALLY(Grasten Film) Family musical based on popular characters from the 1980s. Prod: Regner Grasten. Dir: Martin Schmidt. Scr: Gunnar Geertsen. Shoots in 2004.Contact: Regner Grasten, Grasten Film, (45) 39 63 44 24EUROTRH(Wise Guy Productions) Co-prod: Zentropa Productions. Budget: Euro1.1m. Dist: Sandrew Metronome (Den). ...