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JAPAN
The Last Samurai continued to dominate the Japanese box office in its fourth week on release, followed closely by Finding Nemo. Boosted by their strong showings in the peak New Year's season, the two films are expected to gross a collective Y20 billion ($189m).Samurai's fifth weekend (Jan 3-4) proved the ...
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AUSTRALIA
Australian box office contenders bowed before the all conquering concluding episode of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Return Of The King. Its A$7,686,250 weekend on 453 screens boosted total takings past A$26.6m on only its second week.The two films that challenged the King's A$16,967 screen average were newcomer Welcome ...
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NEW ZEALAND
As expected, The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King dominated the local New Year holiday box office charts, selling a further NZ$1.1m worth of tickets from 114 screens. With a total of NZ$7.5m by its third week it has sailed well clear of the NZ$6.5m reached ...
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Fandango buys into UK's Civilian Content
Italian production and distribution outfit Fandango, headed by Domenico Procacci, has acquired a 29% stake in Civilian Content, parent company of lottery franchise the Film Consortium and sales company The Works.Procacci, who paid around £830,000 for the stake, has bought out Civilian founder Richard Thompson who no longer holds a ...
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DENMARK
The Return Of The King remained magestic at the top of the Danish box-office chart, but the new release of Scary Movie 3 performed impressively on its 36 prints and picked up a 1,035 admissions screen average for second.Both Finding Nemo and Mystic River managed to climb the chart 18.2% ...
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Antena 3 wipes out debt; posts 75% rise in profit
Private Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has eradicated its debt and posted its best ever financial results, according to CEO Juan Jose Nieto. The broadcaster reported year-end profits of $131m (pts20,887m), a whopping 73% rise over the previous year's results.Celebrating its ten-year anniversary this year, Antena 3's remarkable success is attributed ...
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The Card Player (Il Cartaio)
Dir: Dario Argento. Italy. 2003. 107mins.Italian horror-maestro Dario Argento will alienate many of his loyal cult followers with this surprisingly conventional ripper-flick, which revolves around a serial killer's challenge to police investigators to play online video-poker if they want to save the life of his trussed and webcammed victims. But ...
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NORWAY
Distributor SF Film's massive roll-out of the local animated feature, Stig Bergqvist's Captain Sabertooth, on 71 prints wasn't able to match the performance of its own The Return Of The King, and after two weeks on release it has now dropped 46% but has still amassed 88,749 admissions.Freaky Friday's 25 ...
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UK/IRELAND
The UK saw a strong start to 2004, despite a lack of new openers willing to go up against Return Of The King, with results for the first weekend of the year up 17% against the first weekend of 2003.The top three titles remained unchanged with the third part of ...
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Besson voices fears for French cinema
In a rare interview, Luc Besson went on the record in French daily Le Figaro last week to voice his fears about the current state of French cinema."I can't help but be worried about French film," he said, "It's evident that American film attacks from every end intending to annihilate ...
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Veteran Blanco to step down from Spain's DeA Planeta
Veteran Spanish executive Adolfo Blanco will step down from his position as director of distribution at DeA Planeta.Blanco has been with publisher Grupo Planeta for five years since it first began setting up its media division under the name Planeta 2010 prior to merging its media interests with Italy's DeAgostini ...
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Local hits fuel Dutch box-office in 2003
Cinema-attendance in the Netherlands rose again in 2003, despite fears of a fall because of the state of the economy.Admissions rose 2.5% to a total of 24.7m, while box office rose 3.5% to Euros 162.5m according to national cinema body NFC.NFC-chairman Wilco Wolfers told ScreenDaily.com that the good results were ...
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Eurimages names Niehuus as vice-president
Kirsten Niehuus, deputy board member at the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin, has been unanimously elected as Vice-President of Eurimages by all of the 29 national delegates of the pan-European co-production fund."I am very pleased about the decision, particularly in view of the forthcoming EU enlargement and the ...
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French blame first half for poor 2003 result
France's exhibition watchdog, the FNCF, has announced a 5% fall in admissions for 2003 - most of which was concentrated in the first half of the year.With 175.5m tickets sold, first half numbers were down by 9.1% compared to 2002 while the second half of the year showed only a ...
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Deneuve, Depardieu reteam for Techine's Temps
Paolo Branco and his company Gemini Films are preparing two new high-profile projects, one from veteran Andre Techine and the other a third film from Rodolphe Marconi.Techine's project is titled Le Temps Qui Passe and reunites legendary actors Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. This marks their fifth dramatic collaboration and ...
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German arthouse exhibitors attack cinema levy
Germany's arthouse and repertoire exhibitors have criticised the introduction of increases to the cinema levy in the new Film Funding Law (FFG) which came into effect on 1 January.The new cinema levy envisages an average 2.6% of a cinema's annual gross turnover of tickets flowing to the German Federal Film ...
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Mother selected to kick off Istanbul fest
Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother has been selected to open the International Istanbul Film Festival (Apr 15-30), the region's premiere film event.The festival will close with Turkish-UK title Mozart In Turkey, while the UK is also represented by an eight-film spotlight including East Is East, The War Zone and ...
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Polanski's Twist wins European support
Roman Polanski's upcoming Oliver Twist is gaining steam in Europe with partners in place and casting underway.The film, an adaptation of the Dickens novel, will be produced by Polanski, Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde - the same team behind Oscar winner The Pianist - for Polanski's company RP Productions, the ...
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Marchand confirmed as chief of UK's Momentum
Xavier Marchand has been confirmed as the new managing director of UK distributor Momentum Pictures with a mandate to expand the company into Europe and boost its UK presence.The appointment, which was predicted by ScreenDaily.com (Dec 2003), became effective January 1.Marchand will report to Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution LP ...
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Rotterdam line-up underlines festival's global accent
Sixteen films have been selected for this year's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition in Rotterdam (Jan 21-Feb 1), among them eight world premieres.The films come from all corners of the world, including Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Japan and Macedonia (see full list below).International Film Festival Rotterdam director Simon Field said ...