All articles by Robert Mitchell – Page 9
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UK/IRELAND 10 August
A well placed pieceof counter-programming proved effective for Columbia TriStar in the UK thisweek as the company launched 13 Going On30 against Fox's I, Robot.While it wasinevitable that the Will Smith sci-fi vehicle would triumph, the Jennifer Garnercomedy held its own to take second place. Aimed largely at the female ...
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SWITZERLAND 6 August
Hot weather had a detrimental effect on Swiss cinemas lastweekend as the overall market saw week-on-week figures down 35% despite thelaunch of Fox's I, Robot in theGerman and French-speaking regions.However, the country's open air cinemas benefitted from theweather. This resulted in films such as LesChoristes, The Last Samurai and TheReturn ...
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International box office has a new champion
As predicted by ScreenDaily.comlast week a new international chart champion was crowned this week.20th Century Fox's I,Robot opened in multiple territories in Latin America, Asia and Europe,including Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong, France and Spain, to take the leadwith a $20.8m weekend.The film should be able to retain the lead ...
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INTERNATIONAL 5 August
As predicted by ScreenDaily.comlast week a new international chart champion was crowned this week.20th Century Fox's I,Robot opened in multiple territories in Latin America, Asia and Europe,including Mexico, South Korea, Hong Kong, France and Spain, to take the leadwith a $20.8m weekend.The film should be able to retain the lead ...
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UK/IRELAND 3 August
Local legend KingArthur was crowned UK box office champion over the weekend.A largely British cast, led by Clive Owen and KeiraKnightley, star in Antoine Fuqua's drama which dethroned Spider-Man 2. The film grossed $3.5m (£1.9m) including previews,which accounted for $603,466 (£331,864) of the gross.Marketing featured Knightley most prominently given herrising-star ...
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Sci-fi spoof shakes up international rankings
Stellar openings in three territories saw sci-fi spoof comedy (T)RaumschiffSurprise - Periode 1 gain second place on the international chart - thehighest placing a non-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen Internationallaunched its exclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria ...
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UK/IRELAND 28 July
The advertising may announce that Thunderbirds Are Go! butthe box office results suggest they aren't going very far.In need of its own international rescue, Jonathan Frakes'film grossed a so-so $2.5m (£1.35m) over its opening weekend includingpreviews. Without the previous weekend previews, which represented $0.5m(£0.29m) of the total takings, the actual ...
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INTERNATIONAL 28 July
Stellar openings in three territories saw interstellar spoofcomedy (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1gain second place on the international chart - the highest placing anon-Hollywood film has achieved since Screen International launched itsexclusive international chart at the end of March this year.Going out through Constantin Film in Germany and Austria thelatest ...
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Spider-Man 2 finally dethrones Shrek 2
The Asian marketplace onceagain showed its strength this week while the Hollywood blockbuster sequelscontinued to battle for pole position.Spider-Man 2 finally took the lead from Shrek 2 inits third week after launching in a slew of European and Middle Easternterritories including the UK and France. In the process the webslinger ...
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UK/IRELAND 21 July
Spider-Man2 easily claimed the lead at the UK box office taking$13.5m (£7.2m) over the Fri-Sunday weekend, a 22% improvement on the original2002 film's first three-day take.Thesequel benefited from a PG certificate compared to its predecessor's 12 certificate.Theholdovers took a beating at Spider-Man's hands with the top fifteenplaced holdovers recording an ...
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Strong showing for UK box office in first half of 2004
The first six months of theatricalbusiness in the UK saw a 5% rise year-on-year thanks largely to a stellarperformance in June. Box office revenues compiled by Nielsen EDI showUK/Ireland figures stood at $728.5m (£393.02m) as of July 1, up from $691.8m (£373.2m)for the same period last year.The launch of Harry ...
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Surging Korean industry powers into int'l chart
The strength of the South Korean market is well reflected in this week'sinternational box office chart.Representing five of the top 30 positions this week, South Koreanreleases playing well enough at home to make the international chart were ledby comedy sequel Hi, Dharma 2 at number ten.So far this year, the ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 July
With the major studioskeeping their big releases away from Shrek 2 in the UK this week it wasleft to the independents to make the headlines in the chart.Headlines were certainly madeby Optimum Releasing. The distributor released Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit9/11 on 132 screens setting records for best documentary opening ever ...
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Fahrenheit fires up European box office
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit9/11 received a mighty international debut this weekend in Europe.In the UK the film shatteredthe record for the best ever opening for a documentary, taking a colossal $2.4m(£1.3m) on 132 screens including previews through distributor OptimumReleasing. Moore's own Bowling For Columbine previously held the record,opening on $292,680 (£157,898) ...
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Shrek 2 crosses $250m international mark
Shrek 2 added approximately $50.5m this weekend, despiteadding only one new territory, to pass the $250m international mark.A week of stellar holdovers saw thefilm take $49.1m from UIP territories over the weekend. UIP also opened theanimated hit in the Czech Republic where it grossed $354,795 from 26 screens.Shrek 2 also ...
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UPI president calls for DVD discipline
"The DVD successstory is really just beginning, but we are goingto have to be very intelligent about how we manage this story," said PeteSmith, president of Universal Pictures International, giving the keynoteaddress at Screen International's DVD: The Home Cinema Summit in Londonyesterday (July 8).Smith's speech, TheFuture Of Digital Entertainment: Consumers, ...
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SPAIN 7 July
The latest figures from industry data tracker Nielsen EDIshow that contrary to early figures from UIP Shrek 2 has actually recorded the highest ever three-day opening inSpain.The animated sequel claimed Euros 6.1m, finishing ahead oflast year's The Lord Of The Rings: TheReturn Of The King which set the previous three-day ...
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Shrek 2 sparkles in UK
Shrek 2 added $76.7mto its international gross last weekend headed by record-breaking performancesin the UK and Spain.The UK/Ireland launch on July 2 yielded theterritory's biggest ever three-day opening weekend, excluding previews,with $19.4m (£10.6m) taken from 512 locations. This included theterritory's biggest ever Saturday gross taking $8.2m (£4.5m), aheadof Harry Potter ...
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Potter, Shrek 2 continue international reign
Family titles Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Shrek 2 continued to reign internationally this week.Shrek 2 may haveexpanded its run into France and a handful of territories but HarryPotter's Japanese launch easily kept PrisonerOf Azkaban at the top of the internationalchart.Both Potter and 20thCentury Fox's The Day ...
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UK/IRELAND 30 June
Although six new titles made the UK top 20 this weekend thereal star was Shrek 2 despite being aweek from launch. The animated sequel raked in $10m (£5.5m) of previews overSaturday and Sunday which will be included in next week's opening weekendgross.The presence of Shrek2 had a devastating effect on ...