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Wise Girls, new Pennebaker/Hegedus join Sundance
The Sundance Film Festivalhas announced several special screenings at this year's event which takesplace from Jan 10-20 in Park City, Utah.They include Wise Girls starring Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey, Only TheStrong Survive directed by DAPennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Love The Hard Way directed by Peter Sehr and Alfonso Cuaron'sMexican ...
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Rings sparkle for New Line: $350m in 14 days
Shaping up as the fastestgrossing film in history, New Line Cinema'sThe Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in its Lord Of The Rings trilogy, has crossed the $350m barrier at the globalbox office in just two weeks on over 8,000 prints.At the end of Tuesday (NewYear's Day), the film had ...
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Japan's DVD penetration to hit 50% by 2005
Penetration of DVD players in Japanese households rose to 22% by September 2001, a gain of 10.5% from July 2000, according to a survey by the Japan Video Association. The Association calculates that 25% of Japan's nearly 44 million households owned a DVD player by the end of 2001 and ...
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Indian film breaks UK box office record
While box office titans The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone were dominating the nation's screens over the festive break, another titan in its own right was setting box office records elsewhere.After just three weeks on release, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie ...
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France's TFI boosts stake in loss-making TPS
Leading French broadcaster TF1 has acquired France Television's and France Telecom's 25% stake in Television Par Satellite (TPS) for Euros 195m.Following its acquisition of France Telecom's16.5%, and public broadcaster France Television's 8.5% stake, TF1 will hold 50% of the loss-making digital satellite operation, along with private broadcaster M6 and cable ...
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Danish films hit 20-year high at home
Danish films hit the box-office jackpot at local cinemas last year, with a 20-year high of 3.6m admissions.The Danish Film Institute reported that local productions accounted for 3.6m of the territory's 12m total tickets sold - a 30% market share and a 75% increase on 2000. Over the past five ...
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New Line's Fellowship is New Year box office champ
New Line Cinema championed the box office for the second weekend in a row as The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring brought in an estimated $37.4m in the Friday to Sunday period Dec 28 to 30. The 178 minute epic played at 3,359 theatres for a ...
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Wenders, Scorsese support 1st Int'l Frankfurt fest
Wim Wenders and Martin Scorsese have been recruited as supporters of the 1st Frankfurt International Film Festival which is launched on January 9 with Herve Le Roux's comedy On Appelle Ca ... Le Printemps.While Wenders has agreed to serve as the patron for this year's event (January 9-16), which builds ...
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Parker, Kingsley knighted in UK honours list
Alan Parker, the veteran film director, and actor Ben Kingsley were named as Knights Bachelor in the UK's New Year's honours list.Other awards for the film and drama industries included Orders of the British Empire, officer class (OBEs) for actresses Miraim Margolyes and Lynn Redgrave and to actor Dennis QuilleyParker, ...
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Minoes to open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
Belgian director Vincent Bal's Minoes will be the opening film of the Berlinale's children's film sidebar, the Kinderfilmfest, which will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2002.Among the other films already confirmed for the competition lineup of films for 4-14 year-olds are the feature debut A Passage To Ottawa by ...
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Nordic distrib SF Norge acquires Monster stake
Norway's leading distributor, SF Norge, subsidiary of Nordic major Svensk Filmindustri (SF), has acquired a substantial stake in local start-up production outfit Monster Media. Headed by veteran feature film, TV and commercials producers, Edward A. Dreyer, Olav Oen and Trond Kvernstrom, Monster Media is now set to become a major ...
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Internationalmedia buys 100% of IEG
Internationalmedia has signed a deal to take over 100% of the US-based Initial Entertainment Group, (IEG) (see Screendaily, Oct 26). IEG is an independent Hollywood film company specialising in the distribution of film rights obtained through license agreements or co- productions. IEG owns the international rights to over 20 films, ...
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Senator sells 29 titles to Universal Germany
Germany's Senator Entertainment has sold a package of some 29 video/DVD titles, including: America's Sweethearts, The Others, Black Hawk Down, Lammbock and Mondscheintarif to Universal Pictures Germany.The deal, which covers the German language market, is valued at a double-digit million Euros amount, according to both partners, and Senator is looking ...
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$133.3m in five days for Lord Of The Rings
It was one of the biggest financial risks in the history of the movies, but The Lord Of The Rings has so far paid off handsomely for New Line Cinema. Since Wednesday, The Fellowship Of The Ring, the first in the trilogy of films, grossed $133.3m in 23 territories including ...
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Lord Of The Rings a triumph: $73.1m in five days
It was a spectacular launch, as expected, for New Line Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring in the domestic market, taking $73.1m in the five day period from Wednesday to Sunday. In the three day weekend (Fri to Sun), it took $45.25m - a record ...
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End of Year Box Office
The end of the year shouldbring some more success to the international box office
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Black Hawk Down
Dir Ridley Scott. US 2001. 148mins.Although visually awesome in its gritty, ultra-realistic portrait of men in combat, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down highlights what's wrong with most Hollywood pictures even when they're superbly realised. Too many films suffer from a lack of coherent narrative and an absence of emotionally engaging ...
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Elstein takes over as lottery franchise struggles
Former Channel 5 chief David Elstein is replacing Richard Thompson as chairman of Civilian Content, the publicly listed company that owns UK lottery franchise the Film Consortium.Thompson is exiting the company after it issued a profit warning and signalled plans to cut overheads, citing a delay in receiving payments from ...
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Guy East & Nigel Sinclair set to depart Intermedia
Intermedia co-chiefs Guy East and Nigel Sinclair are understood be leaving the indie powerhouse they co-founded, taking the first opportunity to cash in their shares following the company’s flotation.The two executives, who are currently negotiating their exits, could earn up to $60 million each before any deductions by selling their ...
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Sundance launches second online film festival
The second Sundance Online Film Festival started online yesterday at www.sundanceonlinefestival.org, showcasing a selection of new work designed specifically for the web.21 projects are being presented featuring animation, live-action, documentary, interactive, new form and selected shorts from the Sundance Film Festival shorts programme. The festival will run online, sponsored by ...