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France's EuroPalaces maintains market dominance
EuroPalaces held on to its status as top French exhibitor last year. The company, a marriage between Pathe and Gaumont's cinema circuits, attracted 40.6 million visitors in its multiplexes across France for the year - out of total national ticket sales of 185 million.The strong showing helped EuroPalaces' balance ...
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Sundance Channel launches US theatrical initiative
TheSundance brand will make its theatrical debut in the US, as The SundanceChannel announced yesterday that it will launch a film series that will seefour features released in at least ten major US markets from August throughNovember 2003. Similar in spirit to the film series launched by now-defunct TheShooting Gallery ...
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Sony Pictures signs up Garnett to production deal
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has entered into a first-look production deal in the UK with Tony Garnett and John Heyman's London-based World Productions, a further move in its expansion into non-US film production. Garnett and Heyman co-founded World in 1990 and have focused principally on TV series with a ...
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UK leads host of strong openings for 8 Mile
A stunning $7.2m launch for 8 Mile in the UK and Ireland is the latest box office triumph for US rapper Eminem's acting debut.The UIP-released film, which is directed by Curtis Hanson, claimed a powerful $7.2m (£4.4m) over the weekend in the UK - including $771,995 (£477,093) of previews. The ...
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Sundance: Women Make Movies acquires domestic rights to Love & Diane
30 year-old film non-profitorganization Women Make Movies (WMM) has acquired North American distributionrights to the documentary Love & Diane which world premiered at the Locarno Film Festival last year, winningthe Golden Leopard, and played at the New York Film Festival before itsAmerican Spectrum screenings at this week's Sundance Film Festival.Directed ...
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Entera appoints int'l production & acquisitions team
New international production-distribution company Entera has appointed three executives to form its cross-Atlantic production and acquisitions team. Los Angeles-based Keith Resnick will act as head of production for the US; Christopher Brough, head of production in Canada; and Madrid-based Margaret Nicoll, director of international production. Entera was formed by US ...
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Soft Money - Australia
AustraliaAustralia's new 12.5% tax offset is designed to encourage footloose productions to spend more of their budgets in Australia. Sandy George reportsIt was an e-mail that was never meant to be made public. It described a Los Angeles telephone call, now 18 months ago, from angry Warner Bros executive Bob ...
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Sundance teen drama Thirteen baits Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures isin final negotiations to take all worldwide distribution rights outside the UKto Thirteen, one of only a smallhandful of dramatic competition films to have excited buyers during the firstfew days of this year's Sundance Film Festival.Although no distributiondeals had been formally announced by the end of the ...
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Sundance teen drama Thirteen baits Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures isin final negotiations to take all worldwide distribution rights outside the UKto Thirteen, one of only a smallhandful of dramatic competition films to have excited buyers during the firstfew days of this year's Sundance Film Festival.Although no distributiondeals had been formally announced by the end of the ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Disney and Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on$17.7m and $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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Kangaroo Jack hops to the top for Warner, Bruckheimer
With so many class acts in contention for the Golden Globes today(Jan 19) it was little surprise that audiences craved some throatier laughsover the weekend, propelling Warner Bros' Kangaroo Jack and Columbia's National Security into first and second places on $17.7mand $15.7m respectively. The two openers shunted last week's topper, ...
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Chicago, The Hours strike Gold at the Globes
Miramax Films' Chicago was the big winner at the 60th annual Golden Globe, picking up three statuettes at last night's ceremony that was held amid tight security and wildly divergent Oscar predictions at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The musical, which grossed a stunning $8m over the weekend, ...
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Miracle debut wins Max Ophuels Prize
Writer-director Anne Wild's feature debut My First Miracle (Mein Erstes Wunder) (pictured) has won this year's $38,500 (Euros 36,000) Max Ophuels Prize The prize, for up-and-coming German language cinema, was awarded at the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival (January 13-19) in Saarbruecken, Germany.The story about a friendship between an eleven ...
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Family films take top honours at Bavarian film awards
The makers of the family films Bibi Blocksberg and Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer shared top honours at this year's Bavarian Film Awards Presenting the Euro 250,000 award to producers Uschi Reich, Karl Blatz and Peter Zenk, Bavaria's prime-minister Edmund Stoiber said "the success of both of these productions confirms the welcome ...
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Spanish Film Academy predicts 'The Crisis to Come'
Titling its annual report on the state of the national film industry 'The Crisis to Come,' the Spanish Film Academy has warned that '2003 will be a critical year' for Spanish cinema.The report, which analyses statistical data on the industry (official year-end figures have not yet been released by the ...
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Breillat starts phase two of Anatomie d'Enfer shoot
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (pictured) heads out to Portugal this weekend to begin shooting phase two of her latest film, Anatomie d'Enfer. The film is based on her book Pornocratie and will once again examine the depths of sexual compulsion.Working with porn star Rocco Siffredi for the second time since ...
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World premieres and directing debuts topline Berlin's Kinderfilmfest
Berlin's 26th Kinderfilmfest has announced that its 2003 edition will boast 14 feature films and 16 shorts, including six directing debuts and a large number of world premieres.The Kindfilmfest opens on Feb 7 with the Danish film, Someone Like Hodder (En Som Hodder) (pictured). Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz ...
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Pathe takes world sales on Broken Wings
Pathe International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Broken Wings, Israel's foreign-language Academy Award entry.The feature debut of Nir Bergman will make its European premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival before a market premiere at the AFM. 'This is a very beautiful and moving, ...
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Capitol Films takes world sales rights on I'm Not Scared
Capitol Films has acquired world sales rights on Academy Award-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared (Io No Ha Paura), which will screen in competition at next month's Berlin International Film Festival.Medusa will release the film in Italy in March, followed by 20th Century Fox in Spain. Jane Barclay, joint ...