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2001 European box office charts
UK Top 20 20011. Harry Potter /UK-US$78.8m*2. Bridget Jones's Diary/UK-US$60.6m3. Shrek/US$41.8m4. The Lord Of The Rings/NZ-US$37.2m*5. Cats & Dogs/US$33.2m*6. Hannibal/US$31.1m7. The Mummy Returns/US$29.4m8. Jurassic Park III/US$26.4m9. American Pie 2/US$26.3m10. Moulin Rouge/Aus-US$26.2m*11. What Women Want/US$24.9m12. Planet Of The Apes/US$24.6m13. Cast Away/US$21m14. Pearl Harbor/US$18.6m15. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider/US$18.5m16. The Others/Sp-US$16.5m*17. Rush Hour ...
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Berlin reveals competition, world premiere titles
The first round of competition titles to be announced for the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (6 - 17 February) includes six world premieres and a strong European slant.The world premieres lined up for the official competition section include:Heaven by Tom Twyker (opening film)Amen by Constantin Costa-GavrasDer Felsen (A Map ...
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Afghanistan to host Indian film festival in Kabul
The Indian Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Directorate of Film Festivals have announced that they will be hosting an Indian Film Festival in Kabul in late January. Up to 10 films will be screened at the festival with likely contenders including Satya, Lagaan and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. ...
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Czech cinema admissions pass 10m in 2001
Homegrown hit Ali G IndaHouse topped the chart in the UK over the weekend. Grossing an impressive $4.6m (£3.2m) from 396 sites, including $352,649 of previews from 338 sites, the comedy vehicle for Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G character triumphed over an onslaught of children's and family titles. Ali G, ...
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Untitled Great War project wraps in Prague
The as-yet untitled World War I thriller starring Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell wrapped in the Czech Republic in December, a UK-German co-production and the first from UK-based Film & Music Entertainment Ltd. The $5 million shoot finished on time and on budget, according to producer Mike Downey, who explained that ...
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French production & exhibition enjoy record 2001
2001 has been a record-breaking year for both the French production and exhibition sectors, with local titles attracting a hefty 41% (up from 28.5% in 2000) of the 185 million tickets (up 11.4%) sold last year, according to the latest CNC estimates, the highest attendance figure since 1984.Last year, French ...
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Germany's Red Beat announces 10-picture slate
Berlin-based production house Red Beat Pictures has announced an ambitious slate of ten feature projects after almost two years dedicated to project development since its launch in April 2000 by partners Herbert Gehr, Michael Helfrich and Ali Eckert.This year should see a May start on production at locations in Berlin, ...
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British Telecom to be broadcaster within two years
UK phones giant British Telecom (BT) is aiming to become a major power in Britain's television sector and seems on course to be a broadcaster within two years. Newly installed chairman Sir Christopher Bland says that by distributing television content over its own landlines, satellites and microwave networks it could ...
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AFI Awards go for Lord Of The Rings, Sopranos
The inaugural American Film Institute (AFI ) Awards took place on Saturday night in Los Angeles, awarding its top prizes to The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring for film and The Sopranos for television. Few winners (eight out of 20) actually attended the ceremony - yet ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 ...