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Two Towers running 6% higher than Fellowship in Japan
New Line's The LordOf The Rings: The Two Towersremained number one in its fourth weekend in key cities in Japan, dropping amere 19% and adding $3.4m from 349 screens for a $37.7m cumulative score.The picture averaged $9,729and has grossed 6% more than Peter Jackson's first instalment, TheFellowship Of The Ring, ...
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Maid In Manhattan sweeps up $8.7m in second weekend
Maid In Manhattan continued to clean up at the international boxoffice, grossing $8.7m over the weekend for Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).The romantic comedy fromRevolution Studios was the number one international picture for the second weekin a row and has amassed just under $25m after two major weekends. No romanticcomedy ...
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Wellspring acquires international rights to two US docs
US independentWellspring has acquired international rights to two hard-hitting documentaries,Billy Corben's Raw Deal and Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Horns And Halos.Raw Deal, which was produced by Spellman/CorbenProductions, screened at Sundance 2002 and focuses on the alleged rape byFlorida university students of a 27-year-old exotic dancer. Wellspring hassecured international rights ...
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Palm gets Bunny doc in North America, UK, Caribbean
Palm Pictures has acquiredall North American, UK and Caribbean rights to How To Draw A Bunny, John W Walter's award-winning documentaryprofile of artist and Andy Warhol contemporary Ray Johnson which is executiveproduced by John Malkovich's production company Mr Mudd.The picture is the secondafter Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle to be ...
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Amigo heads up Warner's Spanish local production
Ana Amigo has been namedWarner Bros' director of local production in Spain in a newly createdrole that demonstrates the studio's production ambitions in theterritory.The appointment wasannounced today (Mar 20) by Simona Benzakein, vice president of Europeanproductions at Warner Bros. Based in Madrid, Amigo will report directly toBenzakein, who operates out ...
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Restored Hired Hand to Sundance Channel for US home video, DVD and pay-TV
Sundance Channelhas acquired US home video/DVD and pay television rights to the restoredversion of Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand, the channel's senior vicepresident of film programming Paola Freccero announced today (Mar 20).Following alimited theatrical run, the film will be released on home video and DVD underthe Sundance Channel Home Entertainment ...
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Focus closes North American deal on Love
Focus Featureshas acquired North American rights to Thomas Vinterberg's It's All AboutLove from Denmark'sNimbus Film. As reported earlier in Screen International negotiations have beenongoing since the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "Ever sinceThe Celebration,we've been seeking to work with Thomas," commented Focus co-presidentsDavid Linde and James Schamus ...
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Blind Shaft sweeps awards at Deauville's Asian fest
The 5th annual Deauville Festival of Asian Film wrapped last week with a slew of prizes going to German/Chinese/Hong Kong co-production Blind ShaftThe film, directed by Li Yang, took home five awards: Best Film, Best Director, the audience award, the critics' prize and Best Actor for Wang Baoqiang. Currently banned ...
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Tobis, Blue Star sign on for Duigan's Head In The Clouds
Tobis in Germany and Blue Star in Italy are the newest territorialbuyers of John Duigan's Head In The Clouds, which began principal photography yesterday in Montreal.The film, which is being sold internationally by Arclight Films, was previouslysold to Gaga Communications in Japan and Manga Films in Spain.The film, which moves ...
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Nominated Kaurismaki boycotts Oscars in protest at war
Oscar-nominated Finnishdirector Aki Kaurismaki is boycotting Sunday's Academy Awards in protest overthe imminent war with Iraq.In a strongly worded letterto Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Frank Pierson,Kaurismaki said he and his production company Sputnik Ltd refused to attendwhile "the United States is preparing for a crime against ...
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EU regulators suspend Canal Plus investigation
The European Union's competition watchdog has suspended its investigation into French pay-TV group Canal Plus' deals with the Hollywood studios. Mario Monti, the Commissioner whose responsibilities include competition, internal markets and the information society, has put on "indefinite hold" its long-standing probe into the pay-TV company, following changes in the ...
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Diller resigns from VUE post as Vivendi moves to sell
Barry Diller has resignedfrom his interim role as co-chief executive officer of Vivendi UniversalEntertainment (VUE) as Vivendi Universal steps up efforts to sell theentertainment division and slash debts of more than $13bn.Under the leadership ofchairman Jean-Rene Fourtou, who takes over as full chief executive officer,Vivendi Universal is considering an offer ...
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Alliance Atlantis cuts 33 jobs, relocates Sussman
Alliance Atlantis is cutting 33 jobs from its production arm and relocating its main Los Angeles-based executive to Toronto. Peter Sussman, CEO of the company's Entertainment Group, who has been in Los Angeles since 1991, will continue to oversee the Los Angeles operation and, according to a release, "manage key ...
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Bille August gets Hans Christian Andersen Award, prepares biopic
Danish expatriate filmmaker Bille August will receive The Hans Christian Andersen Award 2003 from the city Odense, where the world famous author was born 198 years ago, on April 2. August has just returned from Hollywood after financing collapsed on his Without Apparent Motive with Oscar-darlings Richard Gere and Julianne ...
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Culture Minister increases German Film Award prize money
Germany's State Minister of Culture Christina Weiss will increase the total prize-money allocated to the German Film Awards (Lolas) by Euros 310,000 to Euros 3.125m this year.An additional Euros 250,000 is being made available for a seventh title to be nominated in the "Best Feature Film" category, and a total ...
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Pleasant Days wins Sofia Festival's first international competition
Hungary's Pleasant Days has been awarded the Grand Prix at The Sofia International Film Festival's first ever competitive event.The seventh edition of the Bulgarian Film Festival had a total of 12 films were competing for the prizes awarded by a five member jury including Bulgarian actress Ani Valchanova, Croation director ...
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New Italian-Spanish co-production market planned
The Italian Institute for Foreign Commerce (ICE) is organising a new Italian-Spanish co-production market to take place in Madrid.The first Professional Meetings for Italian Media in Spain (May 6-8) aims to promote co-productions and consolidate relationships between companies from the two countries, as well as to boost the profile of ...
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Delayed Medusa-Cecchi Gori films finally get Italian release
My Name Is Tanino and L'Anima Gemella, two Italian films which screened at Venice last year before being caught up in the financial storm currently gripping local mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori, are finally set to be released in Italy, after Medusa sealed a joint distribution deal with the Cecchi Gori ...
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Facing Windows leads Italian Oscar race
Italian-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek's drama Facing Windows (La Finestra di Fronte) has scored the biggest number of nominations at the Donatellos, Italy's Oscars, winning 11 nods in all the main categories. But competition for the awards on April 9 is set to be the strongest it has been in recent ...