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Veronica Guerin gains ground in Ireland
Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin has crossed the Euros 2m mark in Ireland for distributor Buena Vista International.Ireland marks the first phase of BVI's international roll out for the film, which goes on to launch in the UK this weekend. Helped by poor weather, Veronica Guerin took an extraordinary Euros 99,000 ...
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Young Adam's Mackenzie starts Asylum shoot
Young Adam director David Mackenzie has started shooting his new film, Asylum, which co-stars Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson.Based on a novel by David McGrath, Asylum was scripted by Patrick Marber and is set in a mental hospital for criminals. The picture focuses on a woman (Richardson) who moves with ...
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Ullmann woos Blanchett for star-studded Ibsen adaptation
Norway's great film diva, the 64 year-oldactress-turned-filmmaker Liv Ullmann, is in talks with a bevy of top Hollywoodacting talents, including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, with aview to casting them in yet another big screen version of A Doll's House, her countryman Henrik Ibsen's classic dissection ofmarriage.Dinamo Story, ...
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Kitano's Dolls wins at Era New Horizons film festival
Takeshi Kitano's Dolls won the Grand Prix at the third Era New Horizons Film Festival (July 17 - 27) in Cieszyn, southern Poland.Among other competition entries which received high scores, voted by the audience, were Patrice Cherau's Son Frere, Rolf de Heer's Alexandra's Project, Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark and Samira ...
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Reloaded slows down with $3.1m over weekend
Approaching theend of its international run, Warner Bros Pictures International's TheMatrix Reloaded grossedan estimated $3.1m over the weekend with 547,284 admissions from 1,645 screens.The sci-fi sequel's estimated international total todate is a stellar $437.8m.Second weekendfinal figures from China will not be available until Tuesday (Jul 29). Elsewhere WhatA Girl Wants ...
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BVI's Bruce takes another $9m for $145m total
BruceAlmighty raised itsinternational total to $145.5m with a $9m weekend haul that was driven by somedecent holdovers.Going into thecomedy's fifth week in the UK, distributor Buena Vista International(BVI) reported a 5% drop for $1.2m to raise the running total there to $34.6m.The secondweekend in Mexico added $1.8m for a $6.9m ...
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Hulk, 2 Fast 2 Furious both pass $80m for Universal
Universal's TheHulk enjoyed several good holdoversat the weekend to add $5.1m from 3,076 theatres in 28 countries and raise itsinternational running total to $81.5m.With no new openings thecomic book adaptation remained number one in its second week in the UK,grossing $2.3m from 499 sites and dropping 37% for a $10.8m ...
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MGM's Legally Blonde 2 opens at the top in Germany for Fox
LegallyBlonde 2: Red, White & Blonde grossed around $2.7m on 961 screens at the weekend as FoxInternational unleashed the MGM comedy sequel in its first wave of majorinternational releases.It opened numberone in both Germany and Austria, grossing $1.6m from 551 screens and $188,000from 58 respectively.In Switzerlandand Taiwan the film ranked ...
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Global acquires four more for US distribution
The Global FilmInitiative, the US charitable foundation launched earlier this year to promotecross-cultural understanding through cinema, has completed its inaugural2003/04 slate with the acquisition of four acclaimed festival titles.DjamshedUsmonov's Tajik thriller Angel On The Right was culled from the official selectionin Rotterdam and Cannes and concerns a gangster who returns ...
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IFP announces Gotham nominees for new actor, director
Jesse Eisenberg,the young co-star of Roger Dodger, Judy Marte and Victor Rasuk from Raising Victor Vargas, and Paul Schneider from All The RealGirls are among thenominees for Breakthrough Actor Award at this year's IFP Gotham Awards.Others vying forthe honour, which was won last year by Maggie Gyllenhaal for her acclaimedperformance ...
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MGM loses court case against Cecchi Gori
MGM has lost its legal battle against the Cecchi Gori Group in a Rome court, according to Italian press reports.The US studio had accused the Italian group of failing to stand by its production and distribution agreements. As such, MGM sued the Fin.Ma.Vi holding group which controls the Cecchi Gori ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! star in demand
Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl has been reunited with director Hans Weingartner on his new feature Jan Jule Peter and has joined the cast of actor Charles Dance's directorial debut Ladies In Lavender which is set to roll in September.Bruehl and Weingartner both came to prominence last year through ...
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Neeson parts company with 20th Century Fox International
Scott Neeson, president of 20th Century Fox International Theatrical, is stepping down from his position at the end of the month.In a statement, 20th Century Fox said he had "elected to re-direct his interests."Neeson began his association with 20th Century Fox International Theatrical in 1989 as general manager of the ...
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Bengali cinema triumphs at Indian Film Awards
A revived Bengali cinema was the focus of attention at India's 50th National Film Awards on Saturday with Mr And Mrs Iyer and Mondo Meyer Upakhkhan taking the top prizes.Filmmaker Aparna Sen was named best director for her English-language feature Mr And Mrs Iyer, while Sen's daughter, Konkona Sen Sharma ...
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UK says Hello! to Good Bye, Lenin!
While the UK's top three films remained unchanged this weekend and children's films stormed cinemas, a German comedy was making waves on limited release.Wolfgang Becker's critically acclaimed Good Bye, Lenin! - which has drawn over six million admissions and $41.6m (Euros 36.1m) in Germany - launched in the UK for ...
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Carlton takes over at UK's Film Four Lab
Peter Carlton has been appointed as head of Channel 4's experimental film division, Film Four Lab.Carlton joins Film Four Lab having set up and run regional film fund EM Media Investments (EMMI) based in the East Midlands. Joining in mid-September and reporting to Film Four head Tessa Ross, he will ...
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Dodona reveals mixed picture of European cinemagoing
The fastest growing European cinema market in 2002 was Estonia, according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research. The report, Cinemagoing Europe, which covers the market in 28 countries, says that 1.03bn Europeans visited cinemas in 2002, 6.5m more than in the previous year. While most markets continued to ...
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Marie Trintignant undergoes emergency surgery
French actress Marie Trintignant has undergone two emergency operations and remains in a coma after a violent argument with her boyfriend Bertrand Cantat, a singer with the rock group Noir Desir.Trintignant was in Lithuania filming Colette, a TV movie she co-wrote with her mother Nadine who is also directing the ...
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European films line up for Toronto premieres
Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom's Evil will make its world premiere at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival. The festival has also announced the North American premiere of Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, signaling that the film will world premiere at Venice. As previously reported in Screendaily, Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam's ...
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Minimal Stories scoops LA Latino fest prize
Carlos Sorin's Minimal Stories (Historias Minimas), which made a sweep of Argentina's Oscars, the Condors, just last week (Screen Daily July 21), has won another major prize: the best picture nod from the 7th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (July 18-Aug 2).A jury led by Mexican director Arturo Ripstein ...