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28 Days
Dir: Betty Thomas. US. 2000. 103 mins.Prod cos: Tall Trees, Columbia Pictures. US dist: Sony Pictures. Int'l dist: Col TriStar. Prods: Celia D. Costas, Jenno Topping. Scr: Susannah Grant. DoP: Declan Quinn. Prod des: Marcia Hinds. Ed: Peter Teschner. Music: Richard Gibbs. Main cast: Sandra Bullock, Dominic West, Steve Buscemi, ...
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Cellular opens in seven European markets for NLI
New Line International's Cellular raised its international running totalto $5.3m after launching in seven European markets at the weekend.The highlight was a sixth place debut in Spain throughTri-Pictures that yielded $753,979 on 246 screens.Elsewhere the thriller grossed $357,782 on 133 Russian screens,$91,779 on 27 in the Netherlands, $49,925 on 16 ...
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GERMANY 16 November
Germany is still in 7Dwarves fever as the comedy held onto the top spot for a third week runningdespite a 33% week-on-week drop in takings. The film has now sold over 4.6mtickets and grossed over $34.2m.Buena Vista's Shall WeDance', meanwhile, swapped places with Fox's Alien vs. Predator whose takings dropped ...
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FRANCE 16 November
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's AVery Long Engagement remained in the top spot this week with a still strongper screen average of $9,088, however the film did drop off by 45%.Shark Tale alsoheld its position at number 2 with a steep drop of 75% which was likely down tothe fact that kids returned ...
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AUSTRALIA 16 November
UIP opened BridgetJones on 370 screens on Thursday and soaked up A$5,588,507 of the cinemaspend of Australians over that and the next three days. The screen average wasa highly impressive A$15,104. Cinemagoers spent more to see the film then theydid to see the other 19 in the chart combined.Another opener, ...
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DENMARK 16 November
Pixar's incredibly successful The Incredibles easily took over the box-office crown this weekendwith a stellar DKK5m gross from its high 109 prints. Though Hella Joof's gospelcomedy drama Oh Happy Day dropped tosecond after just one week, it only fell back 7%, and thus wasn't hit as hardas other local films, ...
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DENMARK 16 November
Pixar's incredibly successful The Incredibles easily took over the box-office crown this weekendwith a stellar DKK5m gross from its high 109 prints. Though Hella Joof's gospelcomedy drama Oh Happy Day dropped tosecond after just one week, it only fell back 7%, and thus wasn't hit as hardas other local films, ...
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Eastern European film industry enjoying bumper year
With a production boom in progress in Russia, commitmentsfor increased government funding in Poland and a major new player in theBaltics entering the field the film industry in the east is seeing its bestyear in a decade.While Latvia produces only one or two feature films a yearproducer Andrejs Ekis who ...
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EASTERN EUROPE Prod lists - November 16
EAST EUROPEAN LISTINGS -November 16RUSSIAPRE-PRODUCTIONBLIND-MAN'S-BUFF(ZMURKI)(STV Film Company). Dist: NasheKino. Comedy. Prod: Sergei Selyanov.Dir: Alexei Balabanov. Scr: Stas Mohnachev, Alexei Balabanov. Cost des: TatyanaPatrahaltseva. Main cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Panin, Dmitry Duzev, SergeiMakovetskiy, Victor Suhorukov.Contact: Mikhail Maltsev, STV Film Company, (7) 095 684 5817ESCAPE (POBEG)(Central Partnership) Action.Eugenii is accused of murdering ...
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Consortium develops tool to predict financing models
Some of the millions of dollars spent developing films thatnever go into production could be saved if a group of researchers succeed indesigning a tool that can reliably assess the value of what have previouslybeen regarded as intangible assets.The Securities Industry Research Centre Asia-Pacific, theUniversity of New South Wales and ...
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NEW ZEALAND 16 November
Hero knockedBVI/Miramax stablemate Shall We Dance'off the top of the chart with an opening gross for the four-day weekend ofNZ$203,246 from 23 screens. The result gave the Zhang Yimou action pic a screenaverage more than three times that of any other film in the top 20.Shall We Dance'had been leader ...
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Hong Kong group to invest in Chinese production company
Hong Kong's TomGroup is in talks to acquire a 20% stake in Beijing-based production companyHuayi Brothers - currently the largest private film producer in mainland China- according to local press reports.The move followsthe introduction of new regulations, issued by China's State Administration ofRadio, Film and Television (SARFT), which allow foreign ...
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More foreign productions choosing to shoot in India
Hollywood-based production company 8X Entertainment has begun shooting historical epic One NightWith The King, in the Indian city of Jodhpur.The cast includes Peter O'Toole (the Prophet Samuel), OmarSharif (Prince Memucan), John Rhys-Davies as Mordecai and John Noble as PrinceAdmanthaOne Night With TheKing is a multi-million dollar epic which chronicles the ...
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Bergman's Saraband to get theatrical premiere in France
France's Rezo Films will be the first distributor to give IngmarBergman's Saraband a theatrical outing when it releases the film nextmonth (Dec 15). The release is hedged with conditions and marks the end of adance of seduction for the film which was once tipped to appear in Cannes orVenice 2003.In ...
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Buyers court Warner Bros' Spanish Queens
Spanish film Queens(Reinas), Warner Bros' Pictures first 100% Spanish production, has sold toa raft of European territories while the film is still in post-production.International sales handler Fortissimo Films has closeddeals to France (ARP), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Prooptiki), Israel(Orlando Films) and Hungary (Mas Kepp Foundation).An offer is on the table for ...
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Balaban, Mitchell to host Gotham Awards in NYC
Film and stageveteran Bob Balaban was announced yesterday as host for the 14th Annual GothamAwards on Dec 1 in New York City.Balaban'snumerous feature credits include Gosford Park, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind,Midnight Cowboy, Close Encounters and the upcoming Marie And Bruce."We are thrilledto have Bob Balaban hosting the awards ...
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IMAX opens Mexico City screen with Polar Express in 3D
Mexico City'snew Cinepolis Perisur IMAX theatre opened yesterday (16) and will screen ThePolar Express in 3D onNov 19, the first time a Hollywood title formatted for IMAX will screen beforethe picture's conventional 35mm release."Through partnerships with leading exhibitors likeCinepolis, we are bringing IMAX theatres to moviegoers around the world - ...
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Global Peace Film Festival kicks off on Friday in Orlando
Nobel PeacePrize Laureate Betty Williams will take part in a panel discussion about peacewhen the second annual Global Peace Film Festival runs in Orlando, Florida,from Nov 19-24.Paneldiscussions are one of the highlights of the festival, which includes 18 features,documentaries and shorts.Titles includeMarkus Imhoof's 1981 Swiss drama The Boat Is Full, ...
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Palm Pictures gets Clean for North America
Palm Pictureshas acquired US and Caribbean rights to Olivier Assayas' drug addiction drama Cleanstarring Maggie Cheung.Palm, whichdistributed Assayas' Demonlover last year, plans an autumn 2005 US release with DVD to follow in2006.TVA Films holds Canadian rights and released the picture in Quebec in October, with select cities in English-speaking Canada ...
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Wellspring takes world on Yu's Oscar-shortlisted doc
Wellspring hasacquired worldwide rights to Jessica Yu's Oscar shortlisted documentary InThe Realms Of The Unreal: The Mystery Of Henry Darger.The picture, which premiered at Sundance earlier thisyear, will open at New York City's Film Forum and San Francisco's CastroTheatre on Dec 22. It centres on the renowned artist who is ...