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Scandal erupts at South Korean box office
South Korean feature Untold Scandal has become the first local film ever to draw one million viewers in its opening weekend. Released on October 2, the film has attracted 1.13 million admissions ($6m) nationwide in its first four days. An adaptation of French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses which sets ...
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Cronenberg takes Canadian Directors Guild prize
David Cronenberg won the best direction prize for Spider at the Directors Guild of Canada awards in Toronto on Saturday. The UK-Canada co-production also won the DGC's Team Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film, a prize which reflects the job categories represented by the guild, including assistant director, ...
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Serious films win Copenhagen children's fest prizes
Two children's films with serious topics took top honours at the Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival BUSTER, which wrapped this weekend for the first time in collaboration with the industry event New Nordic Children's Film.Dominique Standaert's Belgian Hop about illegal refugees in Europe was chosen as the best feature by ...
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Lombardo says ciao to Miramax Italia
Miramax'stop executive in Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, will now switch to a "bigger-picturerole" for the company, serving as a personal European investment advisor toco-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Lombardo'snew role means that London-based senior vice president of production GinaGardini will now become Miramax's primary executive liaising with the Italianfilm and television ...
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CJ's Yoon moves over to Kang Je Gyu Films
One of Korea's best known sales agents Mark Yoon has joined Kang Je Gyu Films, the production and sales boutique that is currently making the $13m war picture National Flag (Tae Guk Gi).Yoon becomes head of international business at Kang Je Gyu, having for the last several years been vice ...
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Russia names Return as Oscar contender
As expected, the Venice Film Festival's recent Golden Lion winner The Return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, has been selected as the Russian entry for the upcoming Oscars. The film, produced by Moscow based Ren Films, won worldwide critical acclaim in Venice and is considered a hot contender for a slot ...
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Stone, Farrell push on in fierce Morocco desert
Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell made an appearance at the MarrakechInternational Film Festival today (Oct 6) to talk up Stone's Fidel Castrodocumentary Comandanteand his $150m historical epic Alexander, which has now entered the third week of production at asite 35km south of Marrakech.The pair were on ebullient form at a ...
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MTM, Key Entertainment partner on Riot rights
As part of an ongoing internationalisation of its activities, the Oscar-winning German production outfit MTM Medien & Television München (Nowhere In Africa) has joined forces with the Los Angeles-based Key Entertainment to acquire the film rights to Indian writer Shashi Tharoor 's best-selling novel Riot: A Love Story.The tragic love ...
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Rio festival strikes populist note
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival has taken on a more populist stance this year, expanding its reach to open air theatres (Lonas Culturales) in the impoverished suburban areas and even in the city's famous hilltop slums, known as favelas.Among the festival highlights was a Mickey Mouse tribute held ...
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UK proves perfect platform for Finding Nemo
In an exclusive digital presentation at just two cinemas in the UK, Buena Vista International's (BVI) Finding Nemo has platformed to stunning figures in the territory.The Pixar Animation Studios' title, which is already the highest grossing animated film of all time in North America, launched at London's Odeon Leicester Square ...
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Bad Boys 2 tops Spanish, UK charts
Bad Boys 2 grossed$9.8m at the weekend for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI), raising its international running total to $43.4m.The action sequel opened film number one in the UK on $4.5m from619 venues ($5.2m including previews), while Spain produced an estimated $3.1mnumber one bow in Spain from 403.Bad Boys 2is ...
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Cinema Park secures $20m for Russian multiplex chain
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, has secureda $20m loan from World Bank Group member The International Finance Corporation forits ongoing theatre-building project.At a time ofmassive growth in the country's exhibition sector, Cinema Park plans to build achain of 20 multi-screen cinemas at a cost of ...
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BVI hits milestones with Pirates, Bruce Almighty
In a milestone weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), PiratesOf The Caribbean passed$300m and Bruce Almighty crossed $200m at the international box office.Piratesadded $11.1m from all territories and raised its cumulative score to $310.1m,becoming the distributor's third title to reach that threshold after TheLion King and Armageddon and its second ...
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BVI hits milestones with Pirates, Bruce Almighty
In a milestone weekend for Buena Vista International (BVI), PiratesOf The Caribbean passed$300m and Bruce Almighty crossed $200m at the international box office.Piratesadded $11.1m from all territories and raised its cumulative score to $310.1m,becoming the distributor's third title to reach that threshold after TheLion King and Armageddon and its second ...
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AUSTRALIA
Australia's weekend chart was based on five days instead of the usual four because half of the country was treated to a holiday Monday. Cinema attendance was also high because of welcome wet weather and continuing school holidays.The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen did quite extraordinary business for 20th Century Fox ...
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Lieberfarb makes noise on DTS board
In his first appointment since exiting Warner Home Videoin December 2002 DVD evangelist Warren Lieberfarb has joined the board ofdigital audio technology specialists Digital Theater Systems (DTS).Lieberfarb is one of three new arrivals alongside fellow industryveterans Joerg Agin and Joseph Fischer.Agin, who has held top executive roles at Eastman Kodak ...
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LXG tops weekly international box office
Fox International's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) was the number one internationalperformer of the weekend after grossing $14.6m from 3,327 screens in all itsterritories.In its first wave of major European openings, LXG scored a sensational $5.1m from 706screens in Germany for star Sean Connery's biggest ever bow in a ...
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DreamWorks puts Oscar faith in extra House screenings
The trickle-down effect of the MPAA's ban on screener tapescontinued this week as DreamWorks SKG announced it has booked one month ofprivate screenings in Los Angeles for its awards contender House Of Sand AndFog.Vadim Perelman's drama, which is being handled forinternational sales by Winchester's Cobalt Pictures, will play twice a ...
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JAPAN
S.W.AT. opened at the top of the Japanese nine-major-cities box office with a strong $60,011 screen average on 22 screens - despite a free ticket giveaway. To attract the target young male demographic, distributor Sony launched a nationwide campaign offering free admission to anyone in the first year of junior ...