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Miramax buys North American rights to Samsara
Miramax Films has bought US rights to Samsara (pictured), the German-Tibetan romantic drama that premiered at Toronto last year. Orfeo Films, which is handling world rights, sold other North American rights to Odeon Films for Canada.Orfeo also added to the Asian release of Mira Nair's Golden Lion winner Monsoon Wedding, ...
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Kinepolis abandons cinema box office
Belgian cinema group Kinepolis, is planning to replace box office ticket desks in all of its multiplexes with public-access computers to allow patrons to buy tickets via the internet. The company also intends to install terminals in local bars and restaurants. In addition to on-line ticket sales, film-goers will ...
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Beauty & The Beast scores on the large screen
Buena Vista International scored a sizable hit at the UK box office this week with its large screen format release of 1991's Beauty And The Beast.Taking position 15 in the chart despite playing at just three sites (BFI Imax South Bank, Warner Village Cheshire Oaks, Filmworks Manchester) the animated title ...
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Harry Potter is number three int'l hit of all time
Warner Bros' HarryPotter & The Philosopher's Stone has passed the $500m mark in international grosses, bringing its worldwidetotal to date to an estimated $811.1m. Its international gross tips it past IndependenceDay and Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace to becomethe third biggest international hit in history after Titanic and ...
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$40m international weekend for Lord Of The Rings
New Line International hadanother rousing weekend at the international box office withThe Lord Of TheRings: The Fellowship Of The Ring,taking $40m from 34 territories to bring the film's total internationalgross to $236m.Latest major territory toopen is Korea where it took $5m since Jan 1, and $2.4m over the weekend. ...
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Robert Wise to receive PGA Milestone Award
Oscar-winning producer,director and editor Robert Wise will receive this year's Producers GuildOf America (PGA) Milestone Award at the 13th annual PGA Awards on March 3 inLos Angeles.Wise, who both produced anddirected classics such as West Side Story and The Sound Of Music,joins past Milestone winners who have included Alfred Hitchcock, ...
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Freccero, Iwanowski promoted at Sundance Channel
Paola Freccero and KirkIwanowski have been promoted to senior vice presidents at The Sundance Channel.Freccero is now senior vice president, film programming, and Iwanowski issenior vice president, marketing.In her new position,Freccero, who was formerly vice president, international, will oversee theacquisition, programming and scheduling of all acquired films on SundanceChannel, as ...
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Vortex to sell Cage-directed Sonny, two more
Vortex Pictures, the newlyformed financing and sales outfit run by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, hasacquired three more films for international sales including NicolasCage's directorial debutSonny.The company is at Sundanceand Slamdance later this week with 13 Moons, the latest film from director Alexandre Rockwell,which opens the Slamdance Film Festival, and ...
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ApolloProMedia fund to back Borderline
Evelyn Purcell's psychological thriller Borderline, starring Gina Gershon (Driven) and Chris Noth (Sex And The City), is to be backed by the German ApolloProMedia private film fund.This is the second feature to be backed by the new fund after it committed to back Michael J. Bassett's Untitled Great War Project ...
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Argentina slashes cinema ticket prices again
Reeling from its worst economic crisis ever, Argentina has moved to slash ticket prices to local films once again. Last November, admissions leapt 1,000 % compared with the previous week as a result of a two-day national campaign. Regular ticket prices of up to $8 were cut to $2 with ...
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Catherine Buresi named chief exec of EAVE
Catherine Buresi has been named the successor to Raymond Ravar as chief executive of the MEDIA Programme-supported, Brussels-based European producers training programme EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs De L'Audiovisuel Europeen).A graduate herself of EAVE's 1995 session, Buresi was in charge of the audiovisual policy of the City of Strasbourg and head of ...
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Danish Film Institute appoints Geertsen
The Danish Film Institute has appointed 45-year-old Anders Geertsen new area manager for distribution and marketing. Geertsen comes from a job as MD of publisher Munksgaards Forlag, and takes the long-vacant seat left by former DFI manager Peter Wolsgaard from April 1. "Anders Geertsen has a very interesting and diverse ...
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Local film releases on the rise in Europe
The number of locally-produced films released annually is on the increase across Europe, with homegrown films now accounting for an average 16% of new releases, according to new figures from Screen Digest. This compares to just 12% a decade ago.Unsurprisingly, France is Europe's strongest market for domestically produced films. In ...
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Japan BO passes $1.5bn for first time in history
According to figures compiled by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, Japanese box office passed the $1.5bn (Y200 billion) mark in 2001 for the first time since records began in 1955.At the same time, Japan's cinemas recorded a total of 160 million admissions in 2001 - the highest figure in fifteen ...
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Local industries boost world film production
Global film production totalled some 3,540 films in 2000, an increase of 76 films from 1999, according to research by industry periodical Screen Digest.With some of the smaller territories still to release production data for 2000, the figures are not exhaustive, but the trend is unmistakable: world-wide film production is ...
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Rotterdam fest unveils competition titles
The 31st International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23 - Feb 3) has selected sixteen features (all world, international or European premieres) for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. First- or second-time directors from around the world will compete for three equal prizes, the VPRO Tiger Awards, each worth Euro 10,000 plus ...
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Apted wins filmmaker prize at Palm Springs
Michael Apted will receive the International Filmmaker Award at the Nortel Networks Palm Springs International Film Festival on Jan 12. The award, which is given to an actor or director who has "broken through the barrier of language and crossed over the borders of culture to become a film-maker of ...
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Lord Of The Rings strides past $200m
The Lord Of The Rings continued to dominate the North American box office crossing the $200m barrier with a $23m take in its third weekend, while Warner Bros' Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone crossed the $300m mark after eight weeks on release.Playing at 3,381 theatres, the epic three hour ...
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Navarre gets DVD/VHS rights to three from Halicki
Navarre Corporation, a US distributor of PC software, music and home video, has acquired domestic rights to distribute three more action films made by the late HB Halicki on DVD and VHS following its successful re-release of Gone In 60 Seconds last year. The films are The Junkman, Deadline Auto ...
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Mulholland Drive is National Critics' choice
Mulholland Drive was named best picture of 2001 by the influential National Society Of Film Critics on Saturday, completing a remarkable run of success for David Lynch's film which began with a best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The National Society which comprises 52 of the country's leading ...