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NORWAY
While everyone's money was on local low-budget digital feature Buddy, Buena Vista's blockbuster Pirates Of The Caribbean raced past Morten Tyldum's romantic feature over the weekend at the Norwegian box-office. Buddy received rave reviews when it had its premiere at the Norwegian International Film Festival and local media have hyped ...
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AUSTRALIA box office 01/09/2003
Finding Nemo's extraordinary Australian opening is believed to be the ninth biggest opening weekend ever, although this has yet to be confirmed by distributor BVI. Over the four-day weekend to August 31 it took A$8,038,861 and, despite being on a massive 399 screens, its screen average was A$20,148. Besides the ...
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NETHERLANDS
Lars Von Trier's Dogville impressed in The Netherlands over the weekend claiming the second highest screen average, behind chart leader Pirates Of The Caribbean. The drama played on just 15 prints for A-Film Distribution, the country's biggest independent distributor.Elsewhere in the chart, children's films saw a boost with local favourite ...
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DENMARK
Not much changed at the Danish box-office this week where Tomb Raider 2 managed to stay on top with Bruce Almighty, and new releases Hollywood Homicide and Buffalo Soldiers failed to attract Danish audiences. Overall the weekend saw a massive 46.9% drop in box office gross from last year. Only ...
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Everett, Watson dive into The Woods with Fellowes
Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Rupert Everett will lead the cast in Julian Fellowes' directorial debut, A Way Through The Woods.Watson, who starred in Lars Von Triers Breaking The Waves, takes the role of Anne, happily married to James( Wilkinson,) until the arrival of Bill (Everett) turns their idyllic village ...
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SWEDEN
The successful run of Daniel Lind Lagerloef's romantic comedy Miffo was halted after two weeks in the top spot by Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean, which blasted its way to the top with an impressive screen average of $12,162 from its high 87 prints. However, Reza Bagher's Capricciosa proved ...
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MPAA brings first UK lawsuit
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) widened its fight against movie pirates yesterday by mounting its first legal action in the English High Court against DVD copying firm 321 Studios.The MPAA, which has been involved in a series of legal claims and couter claims against 321 Studios in the ...
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Toshiba moots link-up with AOL-Time Warner
In a bid to boost its low profile in the Internet business, Toshiba has announced plans to enter into talks with AOL-Time Warner about the distribution of content in Japan."We have long had a strong relationship with Time Warner. Since the merger with AOL they have been emphasising their Internet ...
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ITALY
The Hulk grossed a huge Euros 2.8m for UIP on its opening weekend in Italy, taking an impressive screen average of Euros 6,345 from 441 screens.The second highest new entry last weekend was Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran, whose release distributor Lucky Red timed to coincide with the ...
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Miramax is top priority says new Lauren chief
Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren Films has appointed Francesc Guardans as its new CEO to run the day-to-day operations of the company, whose financial difficulties have led to takeover talks in recent months.Guardans' most pressing task will be to ask for time and support from creditors, banks and suppliers - including Miramax, ...
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Italian job for Spain's Family
In what is set to become the second Spanish film to get an Italian make-over, Lucky Red's Andrea Occhipinti has acquired Italian remake rights to Fernando Leon's comedy Family (Familia).The Mondays In The Sun director's 1996 movie, Family, tells the story of a lonely man who hires professional actors to ...
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The Return and Zatoichi light-up Venice
Two films in the Venice competition have been logging strong buyer interest and notching sales even before their world premieres later this week. Russian first film The Return by directed by Andrey Zvyagantsev, has added deals with France's Ocean Films and The Netherlands' Contact Films to previous licence agreeements signed ...
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EU calls for co-ordination not cash
Better co-ordination of the public money available to European film, rather than a need for more cash, was one of the main conclusions to emerge from a four-day meeting that concluded in Venice this weekend.The other major policy proposal was for Europe's television broadcasters to make air-time available for promotion ...
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RAI bags hot US trio
Italy's Rai Cinema has pre-bought Italian distribution rights to a trio of hotly anticipated US pictures: Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Lakeshore's upcoming Philip Roth adaptation, American Pastoral, and Miramax's major new Jennifer Lopez vehicle, Shall We Dance.Sold by Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) and written by John Logan, The Aviator follows ...
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MIFED announces market premieres
MIFED has announced that its 70th edition, which runs from November 9 - 13, will screen the market premieres of a host of highly-anticipated films, including Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Infernal Affairs 2, and Robert Altman's The Company. Also receiving a market screening in MIFED are Venice and Toronto titles ...
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T3 opens well in China, crosses $250m milestone
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines passed $250m at the international boxoffice at the weekend when it scored the second biggest opening of the year inChina behind The Matrix Reloaded.Columbia TriStar FilmDistributors International (CTFDI) opened the sci-fi sequel at number one inChina on an impressive $1.3m.The film added $8.2m from ...
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MPAA piracy chief meets Thailand prime minister
Continuing itsefforts to stamp out intellectual property violation, the Motion PictureAssociation of America's (MPAA) chief anti-piracy officer held talks with theprime minister of Thailand last week. Ken Jacobsen,the MPAA's senior vice president and director of worldwide anti-piracyoperations, told Thaksin Shinawatra that while the number of pirate copiesavailable on the street ...
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Argentina and Brazil sign co-distribution pact
Argentina and Brazil have signed a historic cross-distribution andpromotional pact that will pave the way for more releases of their product ineach other's markets. Gustavo Dahl, head of Brazil's fledgling national film agency Ancineand Jorge Coscia of Argentina's film institute, Incaa signed the pact lateAugust. The accord, which calls for ...
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Giffoni children's fest gets cash boost
The Giffoni Film Festival has had a $1m budget increase (70% from public organisations, 30% from private sponsors) for this year's event which runs from July 15-22.Sharon Stone and Oliver Stone and expected to be among the guests at the event which celebrates its 30th birthday this year. The festival, ...
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Jeepers Creepers 2 ends summer with a bang
United Artists' JeepersCreepers 2 ruled over the long LaborDay weekend, opening number one on an estimated $18.5m as the summer seasonofficially ended with a flourish and four titles passed $100m.The top 12 films grossed anestimated $101.2m, up 11% on the same period last year and the third successiveweekend rise.Overall the ...