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Pirates makes away with $38.5m in stunning weekend for BVI
Pirates Of The Caribbean was the runaway international champion at the weekend as itgrossed $38.5m to raise its running total to $189.9 for Buena VistaInternational (BVI).The film opened number one in Germany on a staggering $11.2m from958 screens, scoring the distributor's and producer Jerry Bruckheimer's biggestever bow there.In Italy it ...
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Final Destination 2 up to $3.1m in Italy for Eagle
New Line's Final Destination 2 raised its Italian running total to $3.1min its fourth weekend after a $252,827 four-day haul.Released through EaglePictures, the film dropped off 50% following a 44% screen count reduction. Ithas already taken 96% of the final gross of the 2000 original.Freddy Vs Jason added $44,492 from ...
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Carmichael, Gardini, Minghella made creative executives at Miramax
Miramax Films has appointed Kelly Carmichael, Carla Gardini andHannah Minghella as creative executives while David Greenbaum and Eric Robinsonhave been promoted to directors of production and development.Carmichael will continue to be based in New York and will focusher efforts on casting, while Gardini will work from Miramax's Los Angelesoffices and ...
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American Pie: The Wedding has $7m weekend for Universal
Universal's American Pie: The Wedding was the number two international film atthe weekend, grossing $7m from 2,069 sites in eight countries for a $56.6mrunning total.The comedy sequel opened number one in Mexico on a mighty $1.1mfrom 271 and 31% market share.It was 22% behind the opening of 2001's American Pie ...
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Liegen Lergen opens at three for Warner in Germany
Warner Bros Pictures International opened Hendrik Handloegten'slocal language production Liegen Lernen at number three in Germany at the weekend, grossing anestimated $555,674 (Euros 507,544) and 88,000 admissions from 137 prints.The film is an X-Verleih presentation of an X-Film Creative PoolProduction - the same team that produced this year's smash hit ...
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Festival means business: Miramax, Newmarket start the buying
MiramaxFilms beat out all-comers to Takeshi Kitano's Venice prize winner Zatoichi yesterday, buying rights in the US, Latin America andAustralia in Toronto over the weekend from Celluloid Dreams.Thedeal was the only festival title clinched at Toronto but two other domesticdeals were closed: Newmarket Films acquired US theatrical rights to the ...
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Alliance takes international rights to festival-bound Moon
Alliance Atlantis hasacquired international rights to writer-director Robert Lepage's Far Side ofthe Moon. Adapted from Lepage'seponymous stage play, and starring Lepage in two roles, as competitive twinbrothers, the film explores the notion of duality against the backdrop of theUS-Soviet space race. The film makes its world premiere at the TorontoInternational ...
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Record-breaking previews for Australia's Wog Boy
Australian comedy The Wog Boy has grossed a highly impressive A$1.2m from just three days of preview screenings (Feb 18-20), which would have placed it at number three in the chart had it been included. Previews are traditionally excluded from box office charts. Only two films performed better than this ...
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Menemsha takes festival premieres Weeping Camel, What The Eye...
Menemsha Entertainment's world sales division has acquiredworldwide rights to Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's drama The Story OfThe Weeping Camel andFrancisco Lombardi's Peruvian thriller What the Eye Doesn't See (excluding Peruvian rights).Both films will premiereat Toronto and The Story Of The Weeping Camel has already been sold to German distributor ...
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Altman confirms he will be Toronto Maverick
Robert Altman has confirmedhis participation in the Maverick programme, part of the events taking place atthe Toronto International Film Festival's Rogers Industry Centre (RIC). Among the array ofindustry-focused events are panel discussions on current issues facing theindustry, personality interviews with innovators such as Altman and seminars onissues ranging from how ...
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Venice festival is classy Toronto prequel
The main competition jury managed to shirkoff local pressure and pre-release publicity for Marco Bellocchio'slocal favourite Buongiorno, Notte and indoing so proved wrong detractors who have warned that Venice is becoming parochial. Alerted to a lesserprize than the Golden Lion, Bellocchio returned to Rome to work off his anger.It would ...
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Euro directors lined-up for Toronto EFP event
European Film Promotion is to present a European directors panel at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.Titled 'Cinema in the 'new' Europe: Does European filmmaking have a renewed creative edge and sense of purpose'', panellists include France's Solveig Anspach, Spain's Cesc Gay, Austria's Ruth Mader, and the UK's Peter ...
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UK strong, Brown Bunny redux at TIFF
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has unveiled its complete line-up, which includes a raft of worldpremieres from film-makers as diverse as Richard Linklater, Jacques Rivette andMike Hodges in addition to those already announced from Robert Altman, JaneCampion and Carl Franklin.And North American audiencesare in for their first viewing of Vincent Gallo's ...
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In The Cut
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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In The Cut review
Dir: Jane Campion. US/Fr. 2003. 113 mins.Describing Jane Campion's latest opus In The Cut as a serial killer thriller is as simplistic as calling The Piano a coming-of-age story. Yes, the skeleton of the film is a genre thriller about a woman caught among a string of suspects in a ...
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Girl With A Pearl Earring
Dir: Peter Webber. UK/Luxembourg. 2003. 95 mins Crafted with all the delicate judgement and fine brushstrokes of an Old Master, Girl With A Pearl Earring is an exquisitely understated period drama rich in atmosphere and emotion. A faithful adaptation of the Tracey Chevalier best-seller, this marks an auspicious feature debut ...
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HUNGARY
A true winner at last weekend's Hungarian box office was local feature Happy Birthday! (Boldog Szuletesnapot!). The debut film from local director Csaba Fazekas (pictured), it tells the story of a young man who turns 30, and realizes he doesn't have a wife, a house, a car, children and has ...
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DENMARK
After a couple of uneventful weeks at the Danish box-office, Jannik Johansen's Stealing Rembrandt lived up to its high expectations and brought life back to the box-office.A solid if not quite spectacular 28,821 admissions on 67 prints, easily secured it the top spot in front of Dreamworks' Sinbad: Legend Of ...
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Hollywood returns to Serbia
Serbian distributor Vans, which handles UIP's slate in the region, is opening The Mummy on February 24, marking the third studio distributor to return to Serbia since Hollywood ceased distribution activity in the region in March 1999.All but one studio - 20th Century Fox - is now active in the ...
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Girl With A Pearl Earring
Dir: Peter Webber. UK/Luxembourg. 2003. 95 mins Crafted with all the delicate judgement and fine brushstrokes of an Old Master, Girl With A Pearl Earring is an exquisitely understated period drama rich in atmosphere and emotion. A faithful adaptation of the Tracey Chevalier best-seller, this marks an auspicious feature debut ...