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Nielsen NRG and Arts Alliance form research alliance
NielsenNRG and Arts Alliance Media have formed a strategic alliance to offer newresearch services to film distributors.Theresearch will use databases from Arts Alliance's consumer online DVD rentalservice LoveFilm and its cinema management service Newman.Forexample, film distributors will be able to see consumer behaviour andpreferences from the 400,000-plus UK households that ...
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Stranger top at North American box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Stranger tops US box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Stranger top at North American box office
Screen Gems' horror-thriller When a StrangerCalls was the box office champion in North America over the traditionallyslow Super Bowl weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $22m.Fox's Big Momma's House 2, last week'sleader, dropped to second, with an estimated $13.4m, and Universal's NannyMcPhee came in third with an estimated $9.9m. ...
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Munich leads international box office field
Major Oscar nominees dominated the international box officethis weekend, with Munich holding on at the head of the pack, Memoirsof a Geisha expanding well and Walk the Line making a good start.Over the second weekend of its international rollout,Universal's Munich - which got five Academy Award nominations last week,including a ...
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AV Pictures to handle sales for thriller Played
AV Pictures has taken on sales for featurefilm Played and will be showing apromo reel of the project at Berlin's European Film Market. Sean Stanekdirects and co-wrote with Mick Rossi. Producers are Stanek,Rossi, John Daly, Nick Simunek, and Casper von Winterfeldt. The crime thriller stars Val Kilmer, GabrielByrne, Anthony LaPaglia, ...
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Minghella, Craig to judge UK's youth shorts
The UK Film Council has recruited some high profile judges for its FirstLight Film Awards: actors Daniel Craig, Martin Freeman and Martin Clunes,director Anthony Minghella, TV presenter David Attenborough, comedienne Jenny Eclair.The awards ceremony willbe held on February 28 at London's Odeon West End. Prizes will be given in10 categories. ...
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Hungary's Mafilm Studios seeking private investors
The MotionPicture Public Foundation of Hungary (MMK) is preparing to invite investors toenter into a partnership to renovate and develop the MafilmStudios in Budapest, MMK general secretary Erzsebet Toth told ScreenDaily.com."Overthe past few years, every studio has come to Budapest looking for stages. They've lovedthe crews and the city," Toth ...
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UIP's Pilowsky seals pact with Axiom
In Marion Pilowsky's first move as head of international acquisitions and development at United International Pictures (UIP), the distribution powerhouse and UK and Australian-based production company Axiom are partnering to release a slate of indie pictures in the UK.The partners will initially release four titles over two to three years. ...
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Dagur Kári wins the Nordic Prize at Gothenburg Film Festival
Icelandic director Dagur Kári (Noi the Albino) won the Nordic Prize atthe Gothenburg Film Festival for his new film Dark Horse, a black and white slacker comedy shot in Denmark whichKári describes as a 1960s pastiche. The cast features a number of new Danishfaces such as Jakob Cedergren and Tilly ...
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Anders Thomas Jensen wins Robert award for Best Film
The Danish Film Academy handed out its annualRobert awards in Copenhagen last night. Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples scored four awards withPer Fly's Manslaughter taking homethree. The winning films were also two of the big commercial successes at theDanish box office in 2005 with 355.689 and 393.239 tickets sold.Although Anders ...
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Films Distribution heads to Berlin with strong sales slate
French sales house Films Distribution will debut promo reelsof some of its latest projects at the upcoming EFM in Berlin.On the slate is Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory.Set during World War II, the film is the story of four Muslim soldiers enlistedin the French army to fight against the Nazis. ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Paddy Breathnach's Shrooms
London-basedCapitol Films is handling worldwide sales for Paddy Breathnach'sShrooms, set to start shooting this spring.MichaelDouglas's son Cameron stars alongside Lindsey Haunand Jack Huston, nephew of Anjelica and grandson ofJohn.Thehorror film is about five American college students camping in Ireland. Alone in the woods,they partake of magic mushrooms and see ghostly ...
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Paul Smith gets top international theatrical job at Sony Pictures
Paul Smith has been namedpresident of worldwide theatrical operations for the Columbia Tristar MotionPicture Group.Effective immediately,Smith (pictured) will oversee Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) andwill continue overseeing worldwide administrative operations for the studio'smarketing and distribution divisions. "Paul has been mychief lieutenant in managing the day-to-day administration of the internationaldivision for ...
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Media 8's Lovewrecked swims into Weinstein Co fold
The Weinstein Company hasacquired North American rights to Media 8's romantic comedy Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes and Chris Carmack.Randal Kleiser directed thestory of a teenager who finds herself stranded on a desert island with a rockstar and in order to win his heart neglects to tell him that she works ...
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THINKFilm steps in for worldwide rights to Candy
THINKFilm has moved in forall worldwide rights to Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy and plans a limited summer release for the filmwhich is based on a cult TV series from US cable channel Comedy Central.Warner Independent Pictureshad originally acquired domestic rights to the film at Sundance 2005, butreturned it to ...
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Bomb threat interrupts 37th Hungarian Film Week
A bomb threat interrupted Monday evening's programme at the 37th HungarianFilm Week in Budapest. Officials atthe Mammut Shopping and Entertainment Centre near Moscow Square [Moskva ter] in Budapestasked festival attendees and all others in the two buildings of the103,000-square-metre facility to evacuate the premises shortly after 7 p.m. local ...
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Rogers & Cowan launches London film office
Entertainment PR and marketing companyRogers & Cowan has opened a UK filmdivision in London. The office will concentrate on UK filmrelease campaigns, European film festivals, and international publicitycampaigns. Janine Azern will lead the new office as VPof film, reporting to LA-based executive vice presidents Nikki Parker andMichael Dalling. Emma McCorkell ...
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JULIA VON HEINZ - The Preserver
JULIA VON HEINZProject: The Preserver Scr: Julia Von HeinzEstimated budget: $2.7m (Eu2m)Love and how to overcome social barriers are the themes of the second film by Berlin film-maker Julia Von Heinz. The Preserver (working title) is about a 35-year-old woman brought up in the German aristocracy who is a staunch ...
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ILMAR RAAG - One More Croissant
ILMAR RAAGProject: One More CroissantScr: Ilmar RaagEstimated budget: $2.2m (Eu1.6m) Funds in place: $131,000 (Eu96,000)Produced by Estonia's Amiron Productions, Ilmar Raag's second project, One More Croissant, is about a woman called Anne who puts her elderly mother in a nursing home and moves to Paris. Ironically, she takes a job ...