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Fox's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) held onto the lead in Spain for a second week, despite a 55% drop-off from its debut weekend. New releases, launching on a smaller scale than LXG, were unable to trouble the action adventure, which has grossed Euros 6.9m and sold 1.4m tickets ...
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Pie 3 could be sixth international $100m hit for Universal
With 38countries still to open American Pie: The Wedding is in the early stages of itsinternational release and is bearing down on a sixth $100m score for Universalthis year after raising its running total to $64.8m.It grossed $5.1m from 2,046 sites in 11 countries at theweekend, the highlights being strong ...
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BVI scores a rousing $29.7m from Pirates
Pirates Of The Caribbean grossed $29.7m and elevated its internationalrunning total to $238.1m at the weekend, becoming the second release of 2003after The Matrix Reloaded to stayat the top of the charts for the fifth consecutive weekend.In a series of number onebows it took $3.4m from 245 screens in Australia ...
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LXG opens top through Latin America for Fox
A string of number one bowssaw The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) gross $6.6m from 1,749 screens in 21 markets at the weekend.Fox International'sfantasy-adventure opened top in all its markets (unless otherwise indicated)and produced several strong holdovers to raise the international cumulativetotal to $23.3m.It grossed $1.6m from 489screens in Mexico, ...
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Barclays to bankroll 'Valleywood'
Barclays Bank has emerged as the lead funder of Dragon International Film Studios, the planned international studio complex in Wales being championed by Lord Attenborough.The deal with Barclays is still subject to due diligence and a formal announcement of the bank's involvement is expected within a fortnight.Dubbed 'Valleywood', the £140m ...
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Pathe banks on UK production future
Pathe Pictures has secured a $32m (£20m) revolving facility deal with banks SG Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) and Natexis Banques Populaires. The move signals Pathe's ambitions to continue backing big budget productions out of the UK after the expiry of its National Lottery franchise in Spring 2004, which ...
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Bergman's Saraband to premiere on Swedish TV
Despite being tipped at one time to world premiere at Cannes or Venice, Saraband - the new film from legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman - will make its debut on Swedish broadcaster SVT on Dec 1. The film, which stars Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt and Julia Dufvenius, reunites ...
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Calendar Girls' first date with UK is strong, but not spectacular
This weekend saw a new champion at the top of the UK/Ireland chart. Buena Vista International's Calendar Girls dethroned stablemate Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl to take the lead with $2.8m (£1.76m).The result provided a strong $6,124 (£3,815) location average from its 462 sites. However, ...
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Halcyon's Deepwater kicks off in Canada
Chris Coen's LA-basedHalcyon Entertainment has commenced production on its first film in Canada. Theproject Deepwater is apsychological thriller about a drifter who happens upon the town of Deepwaterwhere he is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.Lucas Black plays thedrifter with Peter Coyote, Mia Maestro, Lesley Ann Warren, ...
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Spanish outfits mastermind de la Iglesia's Crime
Spanish sister companies Sogecine and Sogepaq are set to co-produce and handle worldwide sales respectively on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's next film, Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto).The Spanish-language black comedy about the far-from-perfect crime perpetrated by a department store sales executive will be a three-country co-production with de la ...
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Toronto restores faith in festival experience
There are times this year when Toronto must have felt like a city under siege - the combination of SARS, a strong Canadian dollar and a power blackout had a devastating effect on the city's allure. The film festival circuit has been suffering from a similar cocktail of misfortune with ...
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Warner hits in Hong Kong with Turn Left, Turn Right
Warner Bros' firstMandarin local-language co-production Turn Left Turn Right enjoyed a strong Hong Kong bow at the weekend, whenit scored the biggest ever opening for a local production distributed by a USmajor.The romantic comedy openednumber one on an estimated $808,398 (HK$6.3m) from 38 prints overthe mid-autumn festival session, drawing 132,073 ...
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Messier wins again in quest for severance from Universal
Former Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Marie Messier scoredanother round of victory in his ongoing battle to secure a severance payment onMonday in New York. Following an arbitration court's decision that Messier was owed$23.5 million in exit monies and Vivendi Universal's appeal against thefindings, state supreme court justice Marilyn Shafer said the ...
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ITALY
BVI's Johnny Depp vehicle Pirates Of The Caribbean continued its stellar performance at the Italian box office on its second weekend, grossing a massive screen average of $6,056 from 531 screens, which brings its running total to $11,968,867.Medusa's newcomer Confidence, a thriller starring Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and ...
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SWITZERLAND
Buena Vista International scored a hit in the German region of Switzerland this weekend with its release of UK film Calendar Girls. The first territory outside the UK to receive the film (on the same weekend it went wide at home) Switzerland proved a good start for the comedy which ...
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UK/IRELAND
Optimum Releasing saw a strong debut for its Oscar-winning Japanese animated feature Spirited Away this weekend. Hayao Miyazaki's blockbuster fantasy opened in 13th place in the UK/Ireland top 20 with a good $4,800 (£2,990) average.In Ireland alone, it placed 15th but scored a powerful average of $6,710 (Euros 5,939) after ...
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What Alice Found delights Polanski-led jury at Deauville
In a surprise turn of events, A Dean Bell's What Alice Found took home the trophy for best filmSunday night at the Deauville Festival of American Film. The festival iscentered around independent American cinema and saw ten films compete for theprize. The main jury was presided over by Roman Polanski.The ...
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Merchant Of Venice shoot pushed back
Shooting on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice has been pushed back until the 10 November.Set to star Al Pacino as Shylock opposite newcomer Lynn Collins as Portia, the $20m-$30m Shakespeare adaptation had been scheduled to begin filming last week.Roughly half of the film will shoot in Luxembourg on a ...