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T3 continues to rule international roost, raises total to $141m
Terminator 3: Rise Of TheMachines dominated the internationalmarkets over the weekend as it maintained its perfect record of opening numberone in every territory and added an estimated $40m for a $141m running total.The weekend haul, whichincludes Japan and Korea where T3 is not being released by ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International ...
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American Wedding opens number one but Gigli bombs
Universal's AmericanWedding took an irreverent bite out of the box office pie at the weekend asit opened number one on $34.3m, according to studio estimates to be confirmedon Monday.As the only other top 10opener of the session Columbia/Revolution's crime caper Gigli was verymuch the bridesmaid with a dire joint seventh ...
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T3 looks to storm key European markets
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines will again be the one to watch this weekend as openings in the key UK, Germany and Spain markets look set to push the sci-fi epic past $100m.Directed by Jonathan Mostow, the third instalment in the hit series has grossed $92m at the international ...
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Insomnia director readies Ibsen adaptation
Erik Skjoldbjaerg, who made his international breakthrough with his debut feature Insomnia (1997), will return to his native Norway to direct an updated screen version of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play An Enemy Of The People. To be produced by the recently restructured Norwegian arm of Nordic major Nordisk Film, producers ...
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France helps propel English box office haul
Working Title's Johnny English continued to demonstrate Rowan Atkinson's audience-pulling power in Europe last week when it launched in France through Mars Distribution, it's final European territory.The only international territory not handled by distribution giant UIP, France saw 428,079 admissions taken in its first full week on release from 557 ...
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Warner Bros' Engagement stirs French debate
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next film, A Very Long Engagement, is stirring up controversy in France even before the first images have been shot. The film is to be produced by a new outfit, 2003 Productions, which was set up and is run by Warner Bros France president Francis Boespflug and is ...
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Cinecitta targets UK producers with London office
In a continuing drive to raise its international profile, Rome's Cinecitta Studios is opening a new office in London, after opening branches in New York and Los Angeles.The office will be headed by Joshua Andrews, fomerly head of worldwide sales at Icon Entertainment and head of production at Odyssey Entertainment.Andrews ...
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ARGENTINA Production Listings - August 1 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalARGENTINA - August 1PRE-PRODUCTIONALTERNATE THERAPIES(Verbum) Budget: $625,000. Backer: Incaa. Drama. A psychiatrist turns his patients' stories into best-selling novels. Exec prods: Eduardo Montes Bradley, Rodolfo Duran. Prod/dir/scr: Duran. Main cast: Daniel Rabinovich, Manuel Callau, Diego Peretti, Claudia Fontan, Noemi Frenkel. Shooting from Feb 15, 2004.Contact: Eduardo Montes Bradley, ...
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Kodak adds Laser-Pacific to digital imaging stable
Eastman Kodak has acquiredthe Los Angeles-based Emmy Award-winning post-production company Laser-PacificMedia in a deal worth $30.5m.Kodak will run the companyas a wholly owned subsidiary headed up by Laser Pacific president andco-founder Emory Cohen, who will report to Kodak's Entertainment Imagingproducts and services operation.Laser-Pacific and Cinesite,Kodak's visual-effects and digital restoration and ...
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LA's Filmmakers Alliance lauds Anders
Director Allison Anders, whose films include Things Behind TheSun, Gas Food Lodging and the Hispanic drama Mi Vida Loca, will receive this year's 4th AnnualVision Award from the Filmmakers Alliance.Anders is the first woman to collect the honour that recognisesestablished directors who have maintained a distinct artistic vision throughouttheir career. ...
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Montreal secures Elephant for North America premiere
Gus Van Sant's Palme d'or winner Elephant will have its North American premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. The festival announced a selection of titles from its various programmes including some Official Competition titles and some of those screening Out of Competition, including Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore's Io Non ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch Oz film fund
Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films International and prolific UK production company Spice Factory are to launch an Australian film fund. The news was revealed by Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton and Spice Factory joint director Michael Cowan on July 31 during the final outing of a two-city road show that ...
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Zipser takes investment role at Australia's FFC
Deborah Zipser is returning to Australia from LA to become an investment manager in the Sydney headquarters of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC).For the last four years she has worked as a lawyer at The Motion Picture Bond Company, most recently as head of business and legal affairs. She joins ...
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Berlin Talent Campus secures major sponsor, sets deadline
"Let's get passionate about film" is the motto for the Berlinale's second Talent Campus which will be held during next year's film festival from February 7-12.Campus organisers have also revealed that Volkswagen has joined Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the UK's Film Council and the House of World Cultures as one of the ...
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Indican digs for emeralds with Colombian gem-trading biopic
Los Angeles-basedindependent distributor Indican Pictures will release Andrew Molina's EmeraldCowboy - Esmeraldero, the firstAmerican film to shoot in the Colombian capital of Bogota in 26 years and thefirst time cameras had entered the region's emerald mines. Emerald Cowboy -Esmeraldero chronicles the truestory of the famed adventurer and emerald trader Eishy ...
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Cinecitta lines up Soderbergh, Anderson shoots
Rome's Cinecitta studios are continuing to attract a slew of Hollywood productions, the latest of which are Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic, and Steven Soderbergh Ocean's Twelve.The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson's new project, The Life Acquatic, is a comedy adventure that centres around an oceanographer, who was inspired by ...
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Cowgirl lines-up Jewish circus artiste co-production
Mark Schlichter and Nicole Kellerhals' Berlin-based production outfit Cowgirl Pictures has acquired the film rights to the journalist Ingeborg Prior's book Der Clown Und Die Zirkusreiterin for Schlichter to direct in summer 2004.Currently under the working title of Circus Girl (Das Leichte Maedchen), the Euros 6m project is being structured ...
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Stuttgart regional body awards film funding
New films by Didi Danquart, Michael Hofmann and Simon Aeby are among the projects supported with a total of Euros 3.1m by the Stuttgart-based regional body MFG Baden-Wurttemberg in its latest round of funding.Euros 500,000 production support was granted for Sophieee!!! filmmaker Hofmann's "impossible love story" Eden, which will be ...
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Warner Bros France to distribute Fechner's L'Incruste
A new French production company, Zig Zag Productions, has joined up with veteran producer Christian Fechner for the upcoming L'Incruste which Warner Bros will distribute in April 2004.According to French weekly trade Le Film Francais, former agent Jean-Michel Stazzu, who created Zig Zag, has been developing L'Incruste over the past ...
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Warner Bros strikes Russian TV output deal
Warner Brothers International Television Distribution has concluded a landmark deal with three Russian television networks which have agreed to the joint purchase of a package of the studio's top films. The deal was concluded by Russian channels NTV, CTC and Russia (RTR) who will take turns airing the package which ...